Use of Appropriated Funds for Improvements to Leased Premises Which Do Not Appear to Have Been Authorised by Law

The advice of the Comptroller General is requested as to the audit action to be taken by this Division if it be found that the Bureau does not have the authority to make expenditures for construction of permanent-type buildings on leased property. Decision is also requested as to the applicability, to the expenditures described, of the 25 percent limitation contained in section 322 of the Economy Act of June 30, 1932.