PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 187-MAY 9, 1938 Miscellaneous ex- penses. Agricultural experi- ment station and vo- cational school. Salaries and ex- penses. Deficits of munici- pal governments. stationery, lights, water, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $5,000 for purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $4,000 for personal services, household equipment, and furnishings, fuel, ice, and electricity necessary in the operation of Government House at Saint Thomas and Government House at Saint Croix, $127,250. For salaries and expenses of the agricultural experiment station and the vocational school in the Virgin Islands, including technical personnel, clerks, and other persons; scientific investigations of plants and plant industries and diseases of animals; demonstrations in prac- tical farming; official traveling expenses; fixtures, apparatus, and supplies; clearing and fencing of land; and other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $2,000 for purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles, $38,000. For defraying the deficits in the treasuries of the municipal govern- ments because of the excess of current expenses over current revenues for the fiscal year 1939, municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John, $40,000, and municipality of Saint Croix, $35,000; in all, $75,000, to be paid to the said treasuries in monthly installments. Puerto Rican hurri- cane relief. PUEBTO RICAN HURRICANE RELIEF Administrative ex- To enable the Division of Territories and Island Possessions to penses . continue collection and administration of moneys due the United States on account of loans made under the joint resolutions approved 45 Stat. 1067; 46 December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1067), and January 22, 1930 (46 Stat. Loan adjustments. 57), and to make compositions and adjustments in any loan hereto- 49 Stat. 926,928. fore made, as authorized by Public Resolutions Numbered 59 (49 Stat. 926) and 60 (49 Stat. 928), Seventy-fourth Congress, approved Use of balances. August 27, 1935, not to exceed $20,000 of any unobligated balances of appropriations made by authority of those joint resolutions, includ- ing repayment of principal and payments of interest on such loans, is hereby made available for administrative expenses during the fiscal year 1939. Equatorial and South Sea Islands. EQUATORIAL AND SOUTH SEA ISLANDS EAdminlstrative ex- For administrative expenses of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, in carrying out the provisions of Executive Order Numbered 7368, approved May 13, 1936, relating to certain islands of the United States situate in the Pacific Ocean, namely, Jarvis Baker, and Howland Islands, including personal services outside the Dis- trict of Columbia (such employment to be by contract, if deemed 41.s 3709.. necessary without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the . S.Revse. §5.atutes Revised Statutes), rent, traveling expenses, purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers and periodicals, stationery, hire of automobiles, purchase of equipment, supplies and provisions, and all other necessary expenses, $30,000. Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Maintenance, etc. SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane of insane persons from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, insane inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, insane civilians in the quartermaster 340 [52 STAT. I)
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