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[70 Stat. 311]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 311]

70 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 60a-JUNE 20, 1956

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GENERAL PROVISIONS—THE JUDICIARY

SEC. 302. Sixty per centum of the expenditures for the District Court Reimbursement of the United States for the District of Columbia from all appropriations under this title and 30 per centum of the expenditures for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from all appropriations under this title shall be reimbursed to the United States from any funds in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia, SEC. 303. The reports of the United States Court of Appeals for the p^u.s. court of ApDistrict of Columbia shall not be sold for a price exceeding that approved by the court and for not more than $6.50 per volume. This title may be cited as the "Judiciary Appropriation Act, 1957". citation of title. TITLE IV—UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to enable the United States Information Agency, as authorized by Reorganization Plan Numbered 8 of 1953, and the United States Information and Educa- |^usc**i^3 3*z-i5 tional Exchange Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.), to carry note. out international information activities, including employment, vrith- ^^ ^*^** ^ out regard to the civil-service and classification laws, of (1) persons on a temporary basis (not to exceed $120,000), (2) aliens within the United States, and (3) aliens abroad for service in the United States relating to the translation or narration of colloquial speech in foreign languages (such aliens to be investigated for such employment in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary of State and the Attorney General); travel expenses of aliens employed abroad for service in the United States to and from the United States; salaries, expenses, and allowances of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 801-1158); ^o Stat. 999. expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with activities provided for under this appropriation (not to exceed $6,000); entertainment within the United States (not to exceed $1,000); hire of passenger motor vehicles; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by the law of such countries; purchase of space in publications abroad, without regard to the provisions of law set forth in 44 U.S.C. 322; services as authorized by section 15 of the 20 Stat. 216. Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); payment of tort claims, in 6° Stat. sio. the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672, as amended, of title 28 of the United States Code when such claims arise ^^ Stat. 983. in foreign countries; advance of funds notwithstanding section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; purchase of caps for personnel 3° u^c 5^29.* employed abroad; dues for library membership in organizations which issue publications to members only, or to members at a price lower than to others; employment of aliens, by contract, for service abroad; purchase of ice and drinking water abroad; payment of excise taxes on negotiable instruments abroad; cost of transporting to and from a place of storage and the cost of storing the furniture and household and personal effects of an employee of the Foreign Service who is assigned to a post at which he is unable to use his furniture and effects, under such regulations as the Director may prescribe; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of persons, not United States Government employees, who may die away from their homes while participating in activities authorized under this appropriation; radio activities and acquisition and production of motion pictures and visual materials and