PUBLIC LAWS-OH. 182-JULY 1, 1943 Mileage and fees of witnesses. 46 Stat. 818. Reimbursement of cooperating agencies. Detention of alien enemies. 41U. 8. . 16. 47 Stat. 412. Non-civil-service personnel. 22 Stat. 403; 42 Stat. 1488. 5U.S.C.§632et seq., § 661; Supp. II, 5 661 et seq. Use of privately owned horses. Interpreters. refunds of head tax, maintenance bills, immigration fines, and other items properly returnable- mileage and fees of witnesses subpenaed on behalf of the United States; stenographic reporting services by contract or otherwise; operation, maintenance, remodeling, and repair of buildings and the purchase of equipment incident thereto; and allowances (not exceeding $1,700 for any one person) for living quarters, and so forth, as authorized by the Act of June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C . 118a), $24,321,000: Provided, That the Attorney General may transfer to, or reimburse, any other department, agency, or office of Federal, State, or local governments, funds in such amounts as may be necessary for salaries and expenses incurred by them in ren- dering authorized assistance to the Department of Justice in connec- tion with the administration and enforcement of said laws: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes or section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (40 U. S . C. 278a), when authorized or approved by the Attorney General, for the acquisition of or alterations, improvements, and repairs to premises for detention of alien enemies, including the construction of temporary buildings, and for all necessary expenses, including household equipment, incident to the maintenance, care, detention, surveillance, parole, and transportation of alien enemies and their wives and dependent children, including transportation and other expenses in the return of such persons to place of bona fide residence or to such other place as may be authorized by the Attorney General, and for the payment of wages to alien enemy detainees for work performed under conditions prescribed by the Geneva Conven- tion: Provided further, That not to exceed $200,000 of this appro- priation may be expended for the employment of personnel, exclusive of attorneys, without regard to the Civil Service Act and regulations or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and not to exceed $25,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, who shall make a certificate of the amount of any such expenditure the purpose of which he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: Provided further, That the Com- missioner of Immigration and Naturalization may contract with offi- cers and employees for the use, on official business, of privately owned horses: Provided further, That provisions of law prohibiting or restricting the employment of aliens in the Government service shall not apply to the employment of interpreters in the Immigration and Naturalization Service (not to exceed ten permanent and such tempo- rary employees as are required from time to time) where competent citizen interpreters are not available. FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM Salaries, Bureau of Prisons: For salaries in the District of Colum- bia and elsewhere in connection with the supervision of the mainte- nance and care of United States prisoners, $336,700. Salaries and expenses, penal and correctional institutions: For salaries and expenses for the support of prisoners, and the mainte- nance and operation of Federal penal and correctional institutions; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their relatives or friends in the United States; expenses of trans- porting persons released from custody of the United States to place of conviction or arrest or place of bona fide residence within the United States or to such place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General, and the furnishing of suitable 288 [57 STAT.
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