58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CHI. 294-JUNE 28, 1944 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 Interprter- 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 tem- porary employees as are required from time to time) where competent citizen interpreters are not available. FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prisons: For salaries and travel expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in connection with the supervision of the maintenance and care of United States prisoners, $400,000: Provided, That not to exceed $3,500 of this amount shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings con- cerned with the work of the Bureau of Prisons when incurred on the written authorization of the Attorney General. Salaries and expenses, penal and correctional institutions: For salaries and and expenses for the support of prisoners, and the main- tenance and operation of Federal penal and correctional institutions and the construction of buildings at prison camps; expenses of inter- ment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their relatives or friends in the United States; expenses of transporting 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 clothing and, in the discretion of the Attorney General, an amount of money not to exceed $30, regardless of length of sentence; purchase of not to exceed fourteen passenger-carrying automobiles; purchase of one bus at not to exceed $2,000; maintenance and repair of passenger-carrying auto- mobiles; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Federal Prison System when authorized in writing by the Attorney General; traveling expenses, including traveling expenses of members of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the discharge of their official duties; furnishing of uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the perform- ance of their official duties; newspapers, books, and periodicals; fire- arms and ammunition; purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock, $12,800,000: Provided, That any part of the appropriations saiO"l. commls* under this heading used for payment of salaries of personnel employed in the operation of prison commissaries shall be reimbursed from commissary earnings, and such reimbursement shall be in addition to the amounts appropriated herein: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be construed to apply to any "U.. C . IS purchase or service rendered under this appropriation when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $500: Provided further, That not to exceed $35,000 of this appropriation shall be available Acquistion ofland. for the acquisition of land adjacent to any Federal penal or correc- tional institution when, in the opinion of the Attorney General, the additional land is essential to the protection of the health or safety of the institution. Medical and hospital service: For medical relief for inmates of penal and correctional institutions and appliances necessary for patients including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and furnishing and laundering of uniforms and other dis- tinctive wearing apparel necessary for the employees in the per- formance of their official duties, $1,035,000: Provided,That there may TrSsfer o funds. 413
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