as amended or supplemented, or as otherwise provided. Chorrera and Rio Hato Road, Republic of Panama: To enable the United States to cooperate with the Republic of Panama in connection with the construction of a highway between Chorrera and Rio Hato, in the Republic of Panama, as authorized by the Act approved July 20, 1939 (Public, Numbered 200, Seventy-sixth Congress), $1,500,000, fiscal year 1940, to remain available until expended. Approved, August 9, 1939. CONSTRUCTION OF INTER-AMERICAN HIGHWAY [55 Stat. 860] AN ACT To provide for cooperation with Central American republics in the construction of the Inter-American Highway. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum not to exceed $20,000,000 to enable the United States to cooperate with the governments of the American republics situated in Central America-that is, with the Governments of the Republics of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama-in the survey and construction of the proposed Inter-American Highway within the borders of the aforesaid republics. Expenditures of such sums in any such country shall be subject to the receipt of a request therefor and of satisfactory assurances from the government of that country that appropriate commitments have been made by such government to assume at least one-third of the expenditures proposed to be incurred henceforth by that country and by the United States in the survey and construction of such highway within the borders of such country. In no such country shall the expenditures of this Government from the appropriations herein authorized exceed two-thirds of the total expenses henceforth incurred for said survey and construction in that country. No expenditures shall be made hereunder for the construction of said highway until the government of each of the above-named countries shall have given satisfactory assurance to the United States that it will assume at least one-third of the expenditures proposed to be incurred henceforth by that government and by the United States in the survey and construction of such highway within the borders of such country, or has given other assurances satisfactory to the President that it has made appropriate arrangements to complete such survey and construction within a reasonable period. All expenditures by the United States under the provisions of this Act for material, equipment, and supplies shall, whenever practicable, be made for products of the United States or of the country in which such survey or construction work is being carried on. SEC. 2. The survey and construction work authorized by this Act shall be under the administration of the Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency, which shall consult with the appropriate officials of the Department of State with respect to matters involving the foreign relations of this Government, and such negotiations with the governments of the American republics named in section 1 as may be required to carry out the purposes of this Act shall be conducted through, or as authorized by, the Department of State. SEC. 3. The provisions of this Act shall not create or authorize the creation of any obligations on the part of the Government of the United States with respect to any expenditures for highway construction or survey heretofore or hereafter undertaken in any of the countries enumerated in section 1, other than the expenditures authorized by the provisions of this Act. Approved, December 26, 1941. PHILIPPINE REHABILITATION ACT OF 1946 [60 Stat. 128] AN ACT For the rehabilitation of the Philippines. TITLE III-RESTORATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC PROPERTY AND ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SERVICES SEC. 301. As a manifestation of good will to the Filipino people, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, (1) the sum of $120,000,000, to be allocated from time to time, but not later than the fiscal year 1950, by the President of the United States among the various programs set forth in sections 302, 303, 304, and 305, and (2) such additional sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 306 to 311, inclusive. PUBLIC ROADS SEC. 302. (a) As recommended in a report based upon an investigation made in the Philippines by the Public Roads Administration of the Federal Works Agency and to the extent that the findings in such report are approved by the President, the Public Roads Administration is authorized, after consultation with the Philippine Government, to plan, design, restore, and build, in accordance with its usual contract procedures, such roads, essential streets, and bridges as may be necessary from the standpoint of the national defense and economic rehabilitation and development of the Philippines. (b) The Commissioner of Public Roads is authorized, under such regulations as he may adopt, to provide training for not to exceed ten Filipino engineers, to be designated by the President of the Philippines from the regularly employed staff of the Philippine Public Works Department subject to the provisions of section 311 (c), in the construction, maintenance, and highway traffic engineering and control necessary for the continued maintenance and for the efficient and safe operation of highway transport facilities. Approved April 30, 1946. APPROPRIATION FOR CARRYING OUT THE PHILLIPINE [60 Stat. 600] AN ACT Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, to provide appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, and for other purposes. Philippine rehabilitation: For all expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of titles III and V of the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946 (hereinafter called the Act), without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, and employment of personnel outside the continental United States without regard to civil-service and classification laws; temporary services of experts or consultants by contract or otherwise; purchase (not to exceed sixty-nine passenger automobiles), hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled and animal-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase (not to exceed four), hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of aircraft; not to exceed $4,000 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of handling penalty mail as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364); printing and binding without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C. 111); purchase of lawbooks, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; travel expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the furtherance of the purposes hereof; compilation, printing, and distribution, in the Philippine Islands or the United States, of charts, reports, and publications pertaining to the various programs set forth in the Act; acquisition of sites for the construction of additional bulidings, and furnishing and equipping of bulidings acquired or constructed, under section 501 of the Act; and acquisition of quarters in the Philippines to house employees of the United States Government, including military personnel, by purchase, rental (without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a)), lease, or construction and necessary repairs and alterations to and maintenance of such quarters; amounts as follows: (a) For carrying out the provisions of sections 302, 303, 304, and 305 of title III of the Act, $33,000,000; (b) for carrying out sections 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, and 311 of said title III, $10,918,000; and (c) for carrying out the provisions of title V of the Act, $4,000,000; in all, $47,918,000, to be available on July 1, 1946, and to remain available until June 30, 1950: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for engaging in any phase of activity or for undertaking any phase of activity authorized by the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946 that would result in obligating the Government of the United States in any sense or respect to the future payment of amounts in excess of the amounts authorized to be appropriated in such Act, nor shall any part of this appropriation be available for expanding any public works project authorized by law to be replaced or rehabilitated beyond such as may be justified by sound engineering practice and which can be accomplished within the amount authorized to be appropriated: Provided further, That the total amount that may be obligated for the entire accomplishment of section 307 (a) of title III of such Act shall not exceed $8,000,000: Provided further, That the Secretary of State, or such official as he may designate, is authorized to transfer from any of the foregoing amounts to any department or independent establishment of the Government for participation in the foregoing programs, sums for expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes hereof, and sums so transferred shall be available for expenditure in accordance with the provisions hereof and, to the extent determined by the Secretary of State, in accordance with the law governing expenditures of the department or independent establishment of the Government for ther, That transfers of funds to participating agencies for the programs set forth in sections 302 to 305 of the Act shall be approved by the President prior to such transfers: Provided further, That sums from the foregoing applicable appropriation may be transferred directly to and merged with the appropriations contemplated in section 306 (b) of the Act to reimburse said latter appropriations for expenditures therefrom for the purposes hereof: Provided further, That the construction of diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States in the Philippine Islands shall be without regard to the proviso contained in twenty-two United States Code 295a. Approved July 23, 1946. MISCELLANEOUS LEGISLATION AUTHORIZATION OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN NATIONAL PARKS [43 STAT. 90] An Act Authorizing the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and monuments under the jurisdic tion of the Department of the Interior Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior, in his administration of the National Park Service, is hereby authorized to construct, reconstruct, and improve roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior. SEC. 2. That for such purposes, including the making of necessary surveys and plans, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, to be available until expended: The sum of $2,500,000 for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1924, and June 30, 1925; the sum of $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928; and the sum of $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927. SEO. 3. That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to reserve from distribution to the several States, in addition to the 10 per centum authorized by section 5 of the act of November 10, 1921 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 213) not exceeding 5 per centum of the material, equipment, and supplies hereafter received from the Secretary of War, and to transfer said material, equipment, and supplies to the Secretary of the Interior for use in constructing, reconstructing, improving, and maintaining roads and trails in the national parks and monuments: Provided, That no charge shall be made for such transfer except such sums as may be agreed upon as being reasonable charges for freight, handling, and conditioning for efficient use. 42 Approved, April 9, 1924. ACT AUTHORIZING MAINTENANCE OF GALLUP-DURANGO HIGHWAY [43 STAT. 606] An Act Authorizing annual appropriations for the maintenance of that portion of Gallup Durango Highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation and providing reimbursement therefor Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for each fiscal year, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for maintenance of that portion of the Federal aid highway from Gallup, New Mexico, to Shiprock, New Mexico, across the Navajo Indian Reservation, reimbursable from the tribal funds of the Indians of said reservation: Provided, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable: Provided further, That if no funds are available, no expenditure shall be made." Approved, June 7, 1924. 42 Amended by the act approved Aug. 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 885), authorizing use of appropriations for certain designated roads; and by secs. 8 and 9 of the act approved Sept. 5, 1940 (54 Stat. 867), requiring joint approval of regulations for road construction and improvement by the Secretary of the Interior and the Federal Works Administrator. Amended by the act approved May 28, 1941 (55 Stat. 207). 48 |