PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 186 -JULY 1, 1947
48 Stat. 1231 .
31U.S.C . 725q.
18 Stat. 110 .
48 Stat. 1230.
31 U. S. C. §725p.
40 Stat. 288.
31 T.S. C . §774 (2).
from Railroad Retirement Board, "Conservation and use of agricul-
tural land resources, Department of Agriculture," and from available
corporate funds of Government-owned or -controlled corporations,
such sums as may be necessary to cover the expense incurred in per-
forming the function of disbursement therefor.
Printing and binding: For printing and binding, Division of Dis-
bursement, including the cost of transportation to field offices of
printed and bound material and the cost of necessary packing boxes
and packing materials, $170,000.
Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses
under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes (31
U. S. C. 545), for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disburse-
ment of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other
securities of the United States, transportation of gold coin and gold
certificates transferred to Federal Reserve banks and branches, United
States mints and assay offices, and the Treasury, after March 9, 1933,
actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts,
and money on hand at the several depositories, including national
banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section 3649,
Revised Statutes (31 U. S . C . 548), also including examinations of
cash accounts at mints, $400,000.
Recoinage of silver coins: For expenses necessary to continue the
recoinage of worn and uncurrent subsidiary silver coins of the United
States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the
Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal
or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in
new coins, $200,000.
Relief of the indigent, Alaska: For the payment to the United
States district judges in Alaska (not to exceed 10 per centum of the
receipts from licenses collected outside of incorporated towns in
Alaska), to be expended for the relief of persons in Alaska who are
indigent and incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness, or acci-
dent, $14,000.
Refund of moneys erroneously received and covered: For meeting
any expenditures of the character formerly chargeable to the appro-
priation accounts abolished under section 18 of the Permanent Appro-
priation Repeal Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, and any other
collections erroneously received and covered which are not properly
chargeable to any other appropriation, $700.000 .
Payment of certified claims: For the payment of claims (not to
exceed $500 in any case) which may be certified during the fiscal year
1948 by the Comptroller General of the United States to be lawfully
due, within the limits of, and chargeable against the balances of the
respective appropriations heretofore made which, after remaining
unexpended, have been carried to the surplus fund pursuant to section
5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S.C. 713), $700,000.
Payment of unclaimed moneys: For meeting any expenditures of the
character formerly chargeable to the appropriation accounts abolished
under section 17 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of 1934,
approved June 26, 1934, payable from the funds held by the United
States in the trust fund receipt account "Unclaimed moneys of indi-
viduals whose whereabouts are unknown". $100.000.
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
Administering the public debt: For necessary expenses connected
with any public-debt operations authorized bv the Second Liberty Bond
Act. as amended (31 U. S. C . 760-762), and with the administration
of any public debt or currency issues of the United States with which
the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, $64,800.000, to be expended
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