Public Law 75–548

That pursuant to section 2 of Public Resolution Numbered 113, approved June 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1568), authorizing and requesting the President to extend to the World’s Poultry Science Association an invitation to hold the Seventh World’s Poultry Congress and Exposition in the United States in 1939, and to extend an invitation to foreign ¹¹ So in original. governments to participate

Sum authorized for expenses.

Post, p. 771.

in and be represented by delegates and exhibits in such congress and exposition, the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the expenses of such meeting, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923,

Contracts without advertising.

R. S. § 3709.

41 U. S. C. § 5.

as amended; stenographic reporting and translating services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses within the United States (and by indirect routes and by airplane if specifically authorized by the Secretary of State); purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, and periodicals; stationery; official cards; printing and binding; government exhibits; entertainment; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and such other expenses as may be authorized

Reimbursement of other appropriations.

by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of

Proviso.

Transfer permitted.

the purposes herein specified: Provided, That the Secretary of State is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government with the consent of the head thereof any part of the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes specified in this Act.