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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 189-MAY 14, 1940 PENAL AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS Salaries and expenses: For every expenditure authorized by law Salaries or by orders and regulations made in pursuance of law, not otherwise pen ses provided for, requisite for and incident to the support of prisoners, and the maintenance and operation of Federal penal and correctional institutions; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their homes in the United States; purchase of not Vehicles. to exceed nine passenger-carrying automobiles; purchase of five busses in an aggregate amount not exceeding $17,500; maintenance and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles; expenses of attendance at nttendan meetings concerned with the work of the Prison Service when author- ized in writing by the Attorney General; traveling expenses of mem- bers of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the discharge of their official duties; packing, crating, drayage, and transportation, not to exceed five thousand pounds in any one case of household effects of employees, whether shipped by railroad or by motortruck, when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty; furnishing of uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; newspapers, books, and periodicals; firearms and ammunition; pur- chase and exchange of farm products and livestock; under the follow- ing heads: Provided, That any part of the appropriations under this Prso- Ing " , Prison heading used for payment of salaries of personnel employed in the saries. operation of prison commissaries shall be reimbursed from commis- sary earnings, and such reimbursement shall be in addition to the amounts appropriated herein. Penitentiaries and reformatories: For maintenance and operation Penitenti of United States penitentiaries and reformatories, including not to exceed $4,553,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $8,090,000. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners: For maintenance and opera- FMe e diea tion of the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri, including not to exceed $240,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $554,000. Jails and correctional institutions: For maintenance and operation Jtinsain of Federal jails and correctional institutions, including not to exceed $1,806,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $2,690,000: Provided, That not to exeed $25,000 shall be available for Acuisit the acquisition of approximately one hundred and eighty acres of Denver, (c land adjoining the Federal Correctional Institution at Denver, Colorado. Prison camps: For the construction and repair of buildings at Prson er: prison camps and for maintenance and operation of prison camps, $626,000. Medical and hospital service: For medical relief for inmates of pitalservl penal and correctional institutions and appliances necessary for patients including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and furnishing and laundering of uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for the employees in the per- formance of their official duties, $1,015,000: Provided, That there Public IH may be transferred to the appropriation "Pay, and so forth, corm- iee^ignis missioned officers, Public Health Service", such amount as may be necessary for the pay of not to exceed thirty officers assigned to the Federal Prison Service, and to other appropriations of the Public Health Service such amounts as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Attorney General, for direct expenditure by that Service for the other objects mentioned above. Construction and repair, McNeil Island: For construction and wMaN., repair of buildings and development of island area at the United etc. 205 and ex- ice at meet- commis- aries and es. Center for isoners. d correc-

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