PUBLIC LAWS--CS. 119, 121-MAY 10, 11, 1939 FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL Salaries, etc. Contingent expen- ses. Division of expen- ses. Field work appro- priations available for hire of work animals, etc. Pick-up trucks. Appropriations available for purchase, operation, repair, etc. Executive depart- ments, etc. Long-distance tele- phone tolls; use of ap- propriations restrict- ed. Short title. May 11, 1939 [S. 752] [Public, No. 69] Judicial Code, amendment. 36 Stat. 1109. 28U.S. C.i151. Idaho judicial dis- trict. Northern division. Central division. For officers and employees and compensation for all other pro- fessional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $318,640; for subsistence, fuel and light, not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance upon meetings of a technical nature, pertaining to hospital adminis- tration and medical advancement, when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, clothing, to include white duck suits and white canvas shoes for the use of internes, and cotton or duck uniforms or aprons for cooks, maids, and attendants, and rubber surgical gloves, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, replacement of X-ray apparatus, furniture; purchase, maintenance, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, including not exceeding $500 for the purchase of books, periodicals, and newspapers; and not to exceed $2,000 for the special instruction of pupil nurses, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $166,200; in all, for Freedmen's Hospital, $484,840, including reimbursement to the appropriation for Howard University of actual cost of heat and light furnished, of which amount of $484,840 one-half shall be charge- able to the District of Columbia and paid in like manner as other appropriations of the District of Columbia are paid. SEC. 2 . Appropriations herein made for field work shall be avail- able for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment. SEC. 3 . Appropriations herein made shall be available for the pur- chase, maintenance, operation, and repair of vehicles generally known as quarter-ton or half-ton pick-up trucks without such trucks being considered as passenger-carrying vehicles and without the cost of purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair being included in the limitation in the various appropriation items for the purchase, main- tenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles. SEC. 4 . That hereafter no part of this or any other appropriation for any executive department, establishment, or agency shall be used for the payment of long-distance telephone tolls except for the trans- action of public business which the interests of the Government require to be so transacted; and all such payments shall be supported by a certificate by the head of the department, establishment, or agency concerned, or such subordinates as he may specially designate, to the effect that the use of the telephone in such instances was neces- sary in the interest of the Government. SEC. 5 . This Act may be cited as the "Interior Department Appro- priation Act, 1940". Approved, May 10, 1939. [CHAPTER 121] AN ACT To amend section 78 of the Judicial Code, relating to the district of Idaho. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 78 of the Judicial Code (36 Stat. 1109; U. S . C ., title 28, sec. 151) be amended so as to read as follows: "That the State of Idaho shall constitute one judicial district to be known as the district of Idaho. It is divided into four divisions, to be known as the northern, central, southern, and eastern divisions. The territory embraced on the 1st day of February 1938, in the counties of Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, and Shoshone, shall constitute the northern division of said district; and the terri- 738 [53 STAT.
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