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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 472-JULY 2, 1942 Services in Alaska. or otherwise; services in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when so specifically directed by the Attorney General; travel- Transfer of prison- ing expenses, including the actual and necessary expenses incident to the transfer of prisoners in the custody of United States marshals to narcotic farms without regard to the provisions of the Act approved 46 Stat. 1086 . January 19, 1929 (21 U. S . C . 227); purchase, when authorized by the Attorney General, of ten motor-propelled passenger-carrying vans at not to exceed $2,000 each; and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the United Prasptat.ion a States marshals; $3,820,000: Provided, That United States marshals lowance. and their deputies may be allowed, in lieu of actual expenses of trans- portation, not to exceed 4 cents per mile for the use of privately owned automobiles for transportation when traveling on official business within the limits of their official station. Fees of witnesses: For expenses, mileage, and per diems of witnesses and for per diems in lieu of subsistence, including the expenses, mile- age, and per diems of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the United States Customs Court, such payments to be made on the I,2 5. °., B upp. certification of the attorney for the United States and to be conclusive as provided by section 846, Revised Statutes (28 U. S. C . 577), Authoriation by $1,210,000: Provided,That not to exceed $25,000 of this amount shall Attorney General. be available for such compensation and expenses of witnesses or infor- mants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, Limitation on at- which approval shall be conclusive: Provided further, That no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used to pay any witness more than one attendance fee for any one calendar day, which fee shall not Federal el pyees. °f exceed $1.50 except in the District of Alaska: Provided further, That whenever an employee of the United States performs travel in order to appear as a witness on behalf of the United States in any case involving the activity in connection with which such person is employed, his travel expenses in connection therewith shall be payable from the appropriation otherwise available for the travel expenses of such employee. Pay and expenses of bailiffs: For pay of bailiffs, not exceeding three bailiffs in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois; and meals and lodging for bailiffs pr1,,. "or deputy marshals in attendance upon juries in United States cases, Ilcr diem restriction. when ordered by the court, $305,000: Provided,That, except in the case of bailiffs in charge of juries over Sundays and holidays, no per diem nou shall be paid to any bailiff unless the judge is present and presiding ofa rction on in court or present in chambers: Provided further, That none of this appropriation shall be used for the pay of bailiffs when deputy marshals or marshals are available for the duties ordinarily executed by bailiffs, the fact of unavailability to be determined by the certificate of the marshal. PENAL AND CORRECIONAL INSTrIMTLUONS Salaries and expenses: For every expenditure authorized by law or by orders and regulations made in pursuance of law, not otherwise provided for, requisite for and incident to the support of prisoners, and the maintenance and operation of Federal penal and correctional institutions; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their relatives or friends in the United States Vehicles 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 automobiles; expenses of attendance at metings concerned with the work of the Prison Service when authoried in 486 [56 STAT.

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