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B-114107 1 (1953-04-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtrt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AG COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON 2S 114107 April 27, 1953 Honorable Russell B. Long United States Senate Ely dear Senator Long: Reference is made to your letter of March 5, 1953, aclknowl- edged Karch 1,3,. inquiring za to the validity of expenditures made from funds appropriated to the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Chapter IX, Title I, of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, Public Law 547, 82d Congress, approved JUly .5, 1952, 66 Stat. 6146, in view of the failure in the language to cmive sec- tions 355, 1136, or 3734 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 733, 34 id4 520, 50 id. 175; 10 id. 1339; 40 id. 259 and 267. The cited appropriation provision is as follows: For establishment and development of military installations and facilities in foreign countries, l10,OO0o, to remain avail- able until expended.' The sections of Revised Statutes referred to by you provide, in substance, respectively, for an opinion of the Attorney General as to the validity of the title of w7y land purchased by the United States for the purpose of erecting tereon any public building; that permanent structures shall not be constructed unless detailed esti- mates were previously submitted to and approved-by the Congress; and that no money shall be paid or contracts made for payment for any site for a public building in excess of the amount specifically ap- propriated therefor. The legislative history of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, discloses that the original bill before the House Armed Serv- ices Committee carried an authorization for the Office of the Secre- tary of Defense for the establishment and developaent of military installations in foreign countries in connection with the North At- lantic Treaty Organization, in a so-called Title V. The budget estimates included $650,000,000 partial funding of this proposed authorization in 1953. During the course of consideration of the bill, this Title V was stricken in its entirety and the portions of

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