5 U. S. C. § 73c. Leaves of absence. 46 Stat. 1209, 1210. Transportation of remains of personnel dying abroad. tary's orders. Proviso. porary detail. or employee or any member of his family, including automobiles as authorized by the Act of April 30, 1940 (54 Stat. 174), and storage of effects while such officers or employees are absent from their permanent posts of duty, including also not to exceed $190,000 for expenses in connection with leaves of absence; attendance at trade and other conferences and congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by the Act approved February 23, 1931 (22 U. S. C. 16, 17); preparation and transportation of the remains of those officers and employees of the Foreign Service, who have died or may die abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country or to a place not more distant for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment, and also for payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the Revised Statutes (22 U. S. C. 130) of allowances to the widows or heirs at law of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of Travel under Secre- their duties, $717,200, of which amount not to exceed $50,000 shall be available until June 30, 1943, for disbursement for expenses of travel under orders issued by the Secretary of State during the fiscal Subsistence on tem- year 1942: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available also for the authorized subsistence expenses of Consular and Foreign Service officers while on temporary detail under commission. Office and living quarters allowances, Foreign Service: For rent, heat, fuel, and light for the Foreign Service for offices and grounds, and, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a), for living quarters and for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, $2,138,000: Provided, That payment for rent may be made in advance: Provided further, That the Secretary of State may enter into leases for such offices, grounds, and living quarters for periods not exceeding ten years and without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5): Allowances for quar- Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, in an amount exceeding $3,000 for an ambassador, minister, or chargé d'affaires, and not exceeding $1,700 for any other Foreign Service officer: Provided further, That under this appropriation and the appropriations herein for "Contingent expenses, Foreign Service", and "Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service", not more than $5,000 shall be expended for heat, fuel, and light for living quarters for each ambassador or minister occupying a Government-owned building for residence or residence and office purposes, and not more than $1,700 for such purposes in the case of any other Foreign Service officer, and during the incumbency of a chargé d'affaires the limitation on such expenditures shall be the same as for the occupancy by the principal officer. Office and living quarters allowances. 46 Stat. 818. Provisos. Advance payment of rent. Leases. ters, etc. Post, p. 269. Post, p. 560. Stat. 583. Cost of living allowances, Foreign Service: To carry out the 46 Stat. 1209; 53 provisions of the Act approved February 23, 1931, as amended by the Act of April 24, 1939 (22 U. S. C. 12, 23c), relating to allowances and additional compensation to diplomatic, consular, and Foreign Service officers, clerks, and other employees when such allowances and additional compensation are necessary to enable such officers, clerks, and other employees to carry on their work efficiently, $338,500: Provided, That such allowances and additional compensaRegulation of ex- tion shall be granted only in the discretion of the President, and under such regulations as he may prescribe. Proviso. penditure. 46 Stat. 1209. Representation allowances, Foreign Service: For representation allowances as authorized by the Act approved February 23, 1931 (22 U. S. C. 12), $163,000. Foreign Service retirement and disability fund: For financing the liability of the United States, created by the Act approved February 23, 1931, as amended by the Act of April 24, 1939 (22 U. S. C. 21-21_(o)), $621,700, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "Foreign Service retirement and disability fund". Salaries of clerks, Foreign Service: For salaries of clerks in the Foreign Service, as provided in the Act approved February 23, 1931 (22 U. S. C. 23a), including salaries while under instruction in the United States and during transit to and from homes in the United States upon the beginning and after termination of service, $2,867,000. 46 Stat. 1211; 53 Stat. 584. 46 Stat. 1207. Post, p. 561. Dispatch agencies. Services to American seamen, etc. Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service: For salaries or compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, porters, interpreters, prison keepers, translators, archive collators, Chinese writers, messengers, couriers, telephone operators, supervisors of construction, and custodial and operating force for maintenance and operation of Government-owned and leased diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries, including salaries while under instruction in the United States and during transit to and from their homes in the United States upon the beginning and after termination of service in foreign countries; compensation of agents and employees of dispatch agencies at New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans; operation of motor-propelled and other passenger and nonpassenger-carrying vehicles; for allowances to consular officers, who are paid in whole or in part by fees, for services necessarily rendered to American vessels and seamen, as provided in the Act of June 26, 1884 (22 U. S. C. 89; 46 U. S. C. 101); and such other miscellaneous personal services as the President may deem necessary, $730,000 : Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for salaries or wages of persons not American citizens performing clerical ment. services (except interpreters, translators, and messengers), whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, upon request by the Secretary of State, to assign enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve as custodians, under the immediate supervision of the Secretary of State or the chief of mission, whichever the Secretary of State shall direct, at embassies, legations, or consulates of the United States located in foreign countries. Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: For stationery; blanks; record and other books; seals; presses; flags; signs; military equipment and supplies; repairs and alterations; repairs, preservation, and maintenance of Government-owned and leased diplomatic and consular properties in foreign countries, including water, materials, supplies, tools, seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects; newspapers (foreign and domestic); freight; postage; telegrams; advertising; ice and drinking water for office purposes; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and exchange, purchase, maintenance, and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles; exchange of trucks; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by the law of such countries; funds for establishment and maintenance of commissary service; uniforms; furniture; household furniture and furnishings, except as provided by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended (22 U. S. C. 292–299), for Government-owned or rented buildings; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; maintenance and rental of launch for embassy in Turkey, not exceeding $3,500, including personnel for operation; rent and other expenses for dispatch agencies at New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans; traveling expenses, including the transportation of members of families and personal effects of diplomatic officers or Foreign Service officers acting as chargés d'affaires in traveling to seats of government at which they are accredited other 23 Stat. 56. Provisos. personnel as Assignment of naval custo Contingent ex penses. Post, pp. 561, 754. Vehicles. Commissary service. 44 Stat. 403. Traveling, etc., expenses. Telephone service. 31 U. S. C. § 679. 53 Stat. 1043. Language study. ican seamen. etc. than the city of usual residence and returning to the city of usual residence; loss by exchange; payment in advance for subscriptions to commercial information, telephone and other similar services, including telephone service in residences as authorized by the Act of April 30, 1940 (54 Stat. 175); burial expenses and expenses in connection with last illness and death of certain native employees, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of July 15, 1939 (5 U. S. C. 118f); expenses of vice consulates and consular agencies for any of the foregoing objects; allowances for special instruction, education, and individual training of Foreign Service officers at home and abroad, not to exceed $7,500; cost, not exceeding $500 per annum each, of the tuition of Foreign Service officers assigned for the study of the Relief, etc., of Amer languages of Asia and eastern Europe; for relief, protection, and burial of American seamen in foreign countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Puerto Rico, and in the Virgin Islands, and for expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipConsular prisons, wreck or other catastrophe at sea; for expenses of maintaining in China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat, institutions for incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by any consular court, rent of quarters for prisons, ice and drinking water for prison purposes, and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by any consular Bringing home per- Court in China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Muscat; for every expenditure requisite for or incident to the bringing home from foreign countries of persons charged with crime as authorized by section 5275 of the Revised Statutes (18 U. S. C. 659); and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may deem necessary; Navy Department, $1,238,900: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for sons charged crime. reimbursement. Post, p. 561. with Emergency assignment of Americans holding Foreign Serv ice positions. 50i, app., prec. 1 note. reimbursement of appropriations for the Navy Department, in an amount not to exceed $40,000, for materials, supplies, equipment, and services furnished by the Navy Department, including pay, subsistence, allowances, and transportation of enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who may be assigned by the Secretary of the Navy, upon request of the Secretary of State, to embassies, legations, or consular offices of the United States located in foreign countries. During the period of the existing state of emergency proclaimed by the President on September 8, 1939, American citizens holding positions in the Foreign Service of the United States and who on account of emergent conditions abroad are unable properly to serve the United States at their regular posts of duty may be assigned to the Department of State to perform temporary services in that Department or to be detailed for temporary services of comparable importance, difficulty, responsibility, and value in any other department or agency of the United States, in cases where there is found to be a need of services for the performance of which such persons Payment of salaries. have the requisite qualifications. The salaries of such persons shall, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, continue to be paid during the periods of such assignments from the appropriations under the caption "Foreign Intercourse" in the Department of State 51-Stat. 183; ante, Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1941 and 1942. p. 267. Interchange of ap propriations. Ante, p. 267. Not to exceed 10 per centum of any of the foregoing appropriations under the caption "Foreign Intercourse" for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, may be transferred, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to any other foregoing appropriation or appropriations under such caption for such fiscal year, but no appropriation shall be increased more than 10 per centum thereby: Provided, That all such transfers and contemplated transfers shall be set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1943. FOREIGN SERVICE BUILDINGS FUND Foreign Service Buildings Fund: For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act of May 25, 1938, entitled "An Act to provide additional funds for buildings for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States" (52 Stat. 441), including the initial alterations, repair, and furnishing of buildings acquired under said Act, $450,000, to remain available until expended. Contracts entered into in foreign countries involving expenditures from any of the foregoing appropriations under the caption "Foreign Intercourse" shall not be subject to the provisions of section 3741 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 22). EMERGENCIES ARISING IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE Proviso. 22 U. S. C. § 295a. Post, p. 754. Neutrality Act ex penses. 54 Stat. 4. 22 U. S. C. §§ 441- Proviso. Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 107), $500,000; of which not to exceed $25,000 457 shall, in the discretion of the President, be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That whenever the President shall find that a state of emergency exists endangering the of funds. lives of American citizens in any foreign country, he may make available for expenditure for the protection of such citizens, by transfer to this appropriation, not to exceed $500,000 from the various appropriations contained herein under the heading "Foreign Intercourse"; and reimbursements by American citizens to whom relief has been extended shall be credited to any appropriation from which funds have been transferred for the purposes hereof, except that reimbursements so credited to any appropriation shall not exceed the amount transferred therefrom. CONTRIBUTIONS, QUOTAS, AND SO FORTH Ante, p. 267. Post, pp. 561, 754. Payments. For payment of the annual contributions, quotas, and expenses, including loss by exchange in discharge of the obligations of the United States in connection with international commissions, congresses, bureaus, and other objects, in not to exceed the respective amounts, as follows: Cape Spartel and Tangier Light, Coast of Morocco, $1,176; International Bureau of Weights and Measures, $4,342.50; International Bureau of Publication of Customs Tariffs, $1,318.77; Pan American Union, $239,458.70, including not to exceed $20,000 for printing and binding; International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration, $1,722.57; Bureau of Interparliamentary Union for Promotion of International Arbitration, $10,000; Pan American Sanitary Bureau, $58,522.75; International Office of Public Health, $3,015.63; Bureau of International Telecommunication Union, Radio Section, $5,790; Inter-American Radio Office, $6,794; Government of Panama, $430,000; International Hydrographic Bureau, $5,404; Inter-American Trade-Mark Bureau, $14,330.20; International Bureau for Protection of Industrial Property, Laboratory. $1,471.63; Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, $50,000: Provided, That hereafter, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the Act of May 7, 1928 (45 Stat. 491), the report of the operation and work of Gorgas Memorial Proviso. International TechAerial Legal Experts. nical Committee of Personal services. 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661-674. Post, p. 613. the laboratory, including the statement of the receipts and expenditures, shall be made to Congress during the first week of each regular session thereof, such a report to cover a fiscal year period ending on June 30 of the calendar year immediately preceding the convening of each such session; American International Institute for the Protection of Childhood, $2,000; International Statistical Bureau at The Hague, $2,000; International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale, $50; International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts, $6,745, including not to exceed $6,500 for the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the meetings of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts and of the commissions established by that committee, including traveling expenses, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, rent, purchase of necessary books and documents, printing and binding, official cards, entertainment, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State; Convention Relating to Liquor Traffic in Africa, $55; International Penal and Penitentiary Commission, $4,332, including not to exceed $800 for the necessary expenses of the Commissioner to represent the United States on the Commission at its annual meetings, personal services without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, printing and binding, traveling expenses, and such other expenses as the Secretary of State may deem necessary; Permanent Association of International Road ConInternational Labor gresses, $588; International Labor Organization, $152,728.54, including not to exceed $6,000 for the expenses of participation by the United States in the meetings of the General Conference and of the Governing Body of the International Labor Office and in such regional, industrial, or other special meetings as may be duly called by such Governing Body, including personal services, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent, traveling expenses, purchase of books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and charts, stationery, official cards, printing and binding, entertainment, hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State; Implementing the Narcotics Convention of 1931, $10,551.85; Internacil of Scientific Unions, tional Council of Scientific Unions and Associated Unions, as follows: Organization. 48 Stat. 1543. International Coun etc. International Council of Scientific Unions, $19.30; International Astronomical Union, $617.60; International Union of Chemistry, $675; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, $2,316; International Scientific Radio Union, $232.40; International Union of Physics, $62.72; International Geographical Union, $125.44; and International Union of Biological Sciences, $154.40; in all, $4,202.86; and Pan American Institute of Geography and History, $10,000; in Total: additional all, $1,026,600, together with such additional sums, due to increase in rates of exchange as the Secretary of State may determine and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury to be necessary to pay, in foreign currencies, the quotas and contributions required by the several treaties, conventions, or laws establishing the amount of the obligation. sums, increase in rates of exchange. 51 Stat. 178. Convention for the Promotion of Inter-American Cultural Relations: For meeting the obligations of the United States under the Convention for the Promotion of Inter-American Cultural Relations between the United States and the other American Republics, signed at Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936, including salaries, traveling expenses, tuition, and allowances for maintenance and living quarters for professors and students in accordance with the provisions of the said convention, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, $100,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of |