52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 180-APR . 27, 1938 BUREAU OF PRISONS Salaries: For salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in connection with the supervision of the maintenance and care of United States prisoners, $245,600. VETERANS' INSURANCE LITIGATION Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses incident to the defense of suits against the United States under section 19, of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended and supplemented, or the compromise of the same under the Inde- pendent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933, including office expenses, law books, supplies, equipment, steno- graphic reporting services by contract or otherwise, including notarial fees or like services and stenographic work in taking deposi- tions at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, printing and binding, the employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and personal services in the Dis- trict of Columbia and elsewhere, $485,000. PENAL AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS For all services, including personal services compensated upon fee basis, supplies, materials, and equipment in connection with or incident to the subsistence and care of inmates and maintenance and upkeep of Federal penal and correctional institutions, including farm and other operations not otherwise specifically provided for in the discretion of the Attorney General; gratuities for inmates at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to inmates sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transporta- tion to the place of conviction or bona fide residence at the time of conviction or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their homes in the United States; maintenance and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of institution officials and employees when traveling on official duty, including expenses, in an amount not to exceed $750 for each institution of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the several institutions when authorized in writing by the Attorney General, and including expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates; traveling expenses of members of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the dis- charge of their official duties; packing, crating, drayage, and trans- portation of household effects, not exceeding in any one case five thousand pounds, of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty and uniforms for the guard force, when specifically authorized by the Attorney General; rewards for the capture of escaped inmates; newspapers, books, and peri- odicals; firearms and ammunition; tobacco for inmates; and the purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock, when author- ized by the Attorney General: Provided,That any part of the appro- priations under this heading used for payment of salaries of personnel employed in the operation of prison commissaries shall be reimbursed from commissary earnings, and such reimbursement shall be in addition to the amounts appropriated herein. Medical and hospital service: For medical relief for, and incident to the care and maintenance of, inmates of penal and correctional institutions, including personal services in the District of Columbia 261 Bureau of Prisons. Salaries. Veterans' insurance litigation. Salaries and ex- penses. 43 Stat. 612 , 1302; 48 Stat. 302 . 38U. S. C. §445. Penal and correc- tional institutions. Services, supplies, etc. Provso. Prison commis- saries. Medical and hospi- tal service.
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