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PUBLIC LAW 218-AUG. 7, 1953 GENERAL
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SEC. 102. Appropriations in this Act for economic or technical assistance and allocations from any appropriations to the Director for Mutual Security, or the Mutual Security Agency, or the Department of State, shall be available, without limitation on any authority 65 Stat. 3 7 3. conferred by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, or any Act 22 USC 1651 note. continued in effect thereby, for rents in the District of Columbia; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of such appropriations; employment of aliens, by contract, for services abroad; examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and, in addition, passenger motor vehicles abroad may be exchanged or sold and replaced by an equal number of such vehicles; transportation of privately owned automobiles; entertainment within the United States (not to exceed $15,000); exchange of funds without regard to section 3651 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 543); loss by exchange; expenditures (not to exceed $50,000) of a confidential character other than entertainment, provided that a certificate of the amount of each such expenditure, the nature of which it is considered inadvisable to specify, shall be made by the Director or Deputy Director of Mutual Security, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein specified; insurance of Rental of quar- official motor vehicles in foreign countries; rental of quarters outside ters. the continental limits of the United States to house employees of the United States Government (without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U.S.C. 278a)), lease, necessary 4 7 Stat. 4 1 2. repairs and alterations to quarters; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes in the United States or elsewhere the remains of persons or members of the families of persons who may die while such persons are away from their homes participating in activities under the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended; purchase of uniforms; ice and drinking water for use abroad; and services of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for the purposes of providing such services the Public Health Service may appoint not to exceed twenty officers in the Regular Corps to grades above that of senior assistant, but not above that of director, as otherwise authorized in accordance with section 711 of the Act of July 1, 1944, as amended (42 U.S.C. 211a), 62 Stat. 4 7. and the Coast and Geodetic Survey may appoint for such purposes not to exceed twenty commissioned officers in addition to those otherwise Administrative authorized: Provided, That not to exceed $57,500,000 shall be available for administrative expenses of the departments and agencies concerned with the administration of the programs provided for herein, and no part of such amount shall be used to pay the salary of any civilian employee at a rate greater than that paid by the State Department for comparable work or services in the same area: Provided further, That none of the funds provided herein shall be used after September 30, 1953, to pay any employee a basic salary of $12,000 or more per annum, except that this prohibition shall not apply to two-thirds of the number of employees being paid at the basic salary of $12,000 or more per Travel expenses, auuum ou Juue 30, 1953: Provided further, That appropriations made under this Act shall be available for expenses in connection with travel of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles of such personnel when any part of such travel or transportation begins in the current fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during the current fiscal year: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation contained in this
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