300 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 258-JUNE 28, 1941 [55 STAT. UNITED STATES COURT FOR CHINA Salaries and expenses: For salaries of the judge and other officers and employees of the United States Court for China; allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the 46 tat. 818. Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C . 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any one person and in no event to exceed the amount actually and reasonably expended by the recipient of such allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light; court expenses, including reference and lawbooks, printing and binding, ice and drinking water for office purposes, traveling expenses of officers and employees of the court, and, under such regulations as the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts may prescribe, of their families and effects, in going to and returning from their posts, including travel expenses of said officers and employees and their families for travel performed from their posts to their homes in the United States and return to their posts while on authorized leave of absence; preparation and transportation of remains of officers and employees who may die abroad or in transit while in the dis- charge of their official duties to their former homes in the United States, or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment; including traveling expenses of officers and employees of the court and of their dependents, while en route to or from places of temporary refuge in time of war, political disturbance, earthquake, epidemic, or similar emergency and for per diem in lieu of subsistence of such officers, employees, and Travelexpeses. their dependents, while in a refugee status, $28,000: Provided, That 54Stat. 209. the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1941 shall be available for travel expenses for travel performed by the officers and employees of the court, and their families, between their posts and their homes in the United States and return to their posts while on leave of absence authorized or approved by the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF EXPENSE Retired judges. 28U. (. S.. 375. 4f Stat. 737. 28 U.S.C. 0§296,297. Proviso. Post, p. 830 . 46 Stat. 503. Provisos. Salaries. Right of district judges to appoint pro- bation officers, etc. Compliance with or- ders of Attorney Gen- eral. Salaries of judges: For salaries of circuit judges; district judges (including two in the Territory of Hawaii, one in the Territory of Puerto Rico, four in the Territory of Alaska, and one in the Virgin Islands); and judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended, and section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1930; in all, $3,115,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States justices and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto, whether active or retired. Salaries and expenses, clerks of courts: For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, and expenses of conduct- ing their respective offices, $2,418,000. Probation system, United States courts:. For salaries and expenses of probation officers, as authorized by the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act of March 4, 1925, chapter 521, and for other pur- poses", approved June 6, 1930 (18 U. S . C. 726), $860,000: Provided, That the salary of no probation officer shall be less than $1,800 per annum nor more than $3,600 per annum: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to abridge the right of the district judges to appoint probation officers, or to make such orders as may be necessary to govern probation officers in their own courts: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any probation officer who,
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