Section 2
SEC. 2. Section two thousand and forty-three of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2043. Authorization of purchase in other mode than through Bureau of Supply.—Purchases which, under section two thousand and forty-one hereof, are required to be made through the Bureau of Supply may be effected through other channel when the public interest so requires and the Secretary of Commerce and Communications shall so order. "In cases where the Secretary of Commerce and Communications exercises the power herein conferred he shall, if practicable, make provision, in the order conferring the authority, for such restrictions upon the method or methods of purchase as will secure the articles in question at the lowest prices consistent with the emergency presented and the conditions of the market, and shall require the branch of the Government making such purchase to file the proper requisition with the Bureau of Supply, the same as in other cases."