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[70 Stat. 444]

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PUBLIC LAW e37-JUNE 29, 1956

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DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION

Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, $147,000. COURTS

Courts, including pay of retired judges; lodging and meals for jurors, bailiffs and deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the courts; meals for prisoners; and reimbursement to the United States for services rendered to the District of Columbia by the Judiciary, General Services Administration, and the Department of Justice; $3,972,000, of which $22,200 shall be available for payment to the United States Public Health Service for furnishing psychiatric service to the Juvenile Court, including the detail of necessary medical and other personnel, and $262,200 shall be available for advances on reimbursement to the General Services Administration for one-half of the cost of operation, maintenance, and repair of the Federal Courts Building, as provided in D. C. Code 11 the Act of May 14, 1948 (62 Stat. 235): Provided, That deposits made 105. on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the Municipal Court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act 722*. ^' ^°'** " • approved March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Department of Public Health, including fees to physicians under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health and approved by the Commissioners, manufacture of serum in indigent cases, allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate of 7 cents per mile but not more than $840 per annum for each automobile, subsistence in lieu of salary for the full-time employment of persons for the purpose of securing training and experience in their future vocations; not to exceed $1,000 for attendance without loss of pay or time at specialized medical or public health training courses or institutes, tuition and entrance fees, and travel expenses and fees for visiting lecturers or experts in public health and related fields; compensation of consulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, compensation of convalescent patients to be employed in essential work and as an aid to their rehabilitation at rates and under conditions to be determined by the Commissioners (but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as conferring employee status on patients whose services are so utilized), not to exceed $1,000 for financial assistance for needy patients as determined by the Superintendent of Glenn Dale Hospital at rates established by the Commissioners, not to exceed $1,200 for fire prevention and protective services rendered to Glenn Dale Hospital under conditions to be determined by the Commissioners, purchase of passenger motor vehicles, training school for nurses, repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, reimbursement to the United States for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hospital, and for care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, Children's Hospital, Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, Episcopal Eye, E a r and Throat Hospital, Garfield Memorial Hospital, George Washington University Hospital, Georgetown University Hospital, Provi-