Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 45 Part 1.djvu/621

 570 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CHs. 572, 573 . 1928 . year ending June 30, 1927, by paragraph 1 of the Act approved February 12, 1925, and $43,200,000, part of the sum of $75,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, Fl ood relief, Ver- 1928, by paragraph 1 of the Act approved June 22, 1926. mont, New Hampshire, and K entucky. FLOOD REI,TEF, VERMONT, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND KENTUCKY Aid to States as con- tri bution to dama ges For the relief of the following States as a contribution in aid to roads, etc., by floods from the United States, induced by the extraordinary conditions of Isis. of necessity and emergency resulting from the unusually serious financial loss to such States through the damage to or destruction of roads and br idges by the flood s of 1 927, im posing a pub lic ch arge aga inst t he pro perty of sai d Stat es bey ond the ir rea sonabl e capa city to bear, and without acknowledgment of any liability on the part of the United States in connection with the restoration of such local improvements, namely : Vermont, $2,654,000 ; New Hampshire, $653,300 ; Kentucky, $1,889,994 ; in all, $5,197,294, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended : Provi ded, That the sums hereby appropriated shall be expended by the State high- way departments of the respective States with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture for the restoration, including relocation, of roads and bridges so damaged or destroyed, in such manner as to give the larg est m easur e of perm anent rel ief, under rule s an d regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture Pro vided fur ther, That the amount herein appropriated for each State shall be available when such State shall have or make available a like sum from State funds for the purposes contained herein. Allotments immedi- ate ly av ailab le. Provisos. Expenditures by State highway depart- ments. Contribution from State funds required . Eighth International Dairy Congress. Participation ex- pens es. Ante, p. 148. May 16,1928. [S. 3456 .] [Public, No. 393 .] EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL DAIRY CONGRESS For the expenses of the United States in participating in the Eighth International Dairy Congress, to be held in Great Britain during June and July, 1928, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 10, Seventieth Congress, approved February 25, 1928, including the compensation of employees, transportation, subsistence, or per diem in lieu of subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), and such other expenses as the President shall deem proper, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, to be immediately available, $10,000. Total, Depar tment of Agr icultu re, $1 39,138, 793 .88. Approved, May 16, 1928. CHAP. 573 .-An Act Allowing the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel, Medical Corps, United States Army, to the medical officer assigned to duty as personal physician to the President. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Temporary r ank of United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the officer medical officer, as- of the Medical Corps, United States Army, who is now assigned to signed as personal phy- sician to the President. duty as the personal physician to the President, shall have the temporary rank and the pay, and allowances of a colonel, Medical lank,'etc ., to date Corps, United States Army, while so serving : Provided, That the from assignment, officer now assigned to that duty shall have the rank, pay, and allow- ances herein provided from the date of his assignment. Approved, May 16, 1928

�