57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 115-JUNE 2, 1943 UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' HOME For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers' Home, to be paid from the Soldiers' Home Permanent Fund, $975,000. THE PANAMA CANAL For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, and construction of additional facilities, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; lawbooks; textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; personal services in the District of Columbia; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger- carrying vehicles; claims for damages to vessels, cargo, crew, or pas- sengers, as authorized by section 10 of title 2, Canal Zone Code, as amended (54 Stat. 387); claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, and construc- tion of additional facilities; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assem- bling, assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sale; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus: expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by food, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; travel expenses when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business; transportation of house- hold goods of civilian officers and employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty in accordance with the Act of October 10, 1940 (5 U. S. C. 73c-1); not to exceed $2,000 for travel and subsistence expenses of members of the police and fire forces of the Panama Canal incident to their special training in the United States; transportation, including insurance of public funds and securities between the United States and the Canal Zone; pur- chasel construction, repair s replacement, alteration, or enlargement of buildings, structures, equipment, and other improvements; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, and construction of additional facilities, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal: Salary of the Governor, $10,000; contingencies of the Governor, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $3,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of materials, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales; payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts author- ized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916 (5 U. S . C. 793), to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal; and relief payments authorized 97 PoW, p.u. Maintenance, etc. Damage claims. 48 U.S .. C. 1319. 37 Stat. 660. 48U. .c. 1301; Supp.II, §1314f-1371k . Emergencies. 54 Stat. 1105 . U. .C., upp. II, § 73c-1 note. Buildings and Im- provements. Maintenance and operation. 39 Stat. 750. U.S . C., Supp. n, si3. 81077-44 - PT. I--7
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