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[69 Stat. 403]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1955
[69 Stat. 403]

69

STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW

195-AUG.

1, 1955

Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic a r t s: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act of June 29, 1935, as amended (7 U.S.C. 329), $2,501,500. Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Office of Education, including surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library service; coordination of library service on the national level with other forms of adult education; developing library participation in Federal projects; fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials among libraries, interstate library coordination and the development of library service throughout the country; purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, and cataloging of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic sj'stems and methods of education, and repairing the same: $3,050,000, of which not less than $480,000 shall be available for the Division of Vocational Education as authorized: Provided, That all receipts from non-Federal agencies representing reimbursement for expenses of travel of employees of the Office of Education performing advisory functions to the said agencies shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of this appropriation. Payments to school districts: For payments to local educational agencies for the maintenance and operation of schools as authorized by the Act of September 30, 1950, as amended (20 U.S.C. 236-244), $65,000,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall also be available for carrying out the provisions of section 6 of such Act. Assistance for school construction: For an additional amount for providing school facilities and for grants to local educational agencies in federally affected areas, as authorized by title III of the Act of September 23, 1950, as amended by the Act of August 8, 1953, and the Act of August 31, 1954 (20 U.S.C. 291-301), inchiding not to exceed $750,000 for necessary expenses of technical services rendered by other agencies, $24,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for salaries or other direct expenses of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Salaries and expenses. White House Conference on Education: For carrying out the Act of July 26, 1954 (68 Stat. 532), including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 L. S. C. 55a), $200,000.

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OFFICE OF VOCATIOXAL REHABILITATIOX

Grants to States and other agencies: For grants to States and other agencies in accordance with the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as 5§ fifi- ,^". amended, $33,750,000, of which $30,000,000 is for vocational rehabilitation services under section 2 of said Act; $1,500,000 is for extension and improvement projects under section 3 of said Act: and $2,250,000 is for special projects under section 4 of said Act: Provided, That not more than $2 of the funds made available for special projects under section 4 (a)(2) of said Act shall be expended for any project for each $1 that the grantee, or the grantee and the State, expends for the same purpose: Provided further. That allotments under section 2 of said Act to the States for the current fiscal year shall be made on the basis of $36,000,000, and this amount shall be considered the sum available for allotments under such section for such fiscal year. Grants to States, next succeeding fiscal year: For making, after May 31, of the current fiscal year, grants to States under sections 2 and 3 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended, for the first ^^ "^^ ^^' ^^*