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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., IST SESS.-CH. 221 -JULY 12, 1943 SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL Salaries and expenses: For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital of persons who have become insane since their entry into the armed forces of the United States, insane benefi- ciaries of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, and all other insane persons whose admission to the hospital is author- ized by law, including not exceeding $27,000 for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $185,000 for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, and not to exceed $15,000 for furnishing and laundering of such wearing apparel as may be prescribed for employees in the per- formance of their official duties, $1,963,000, including cooperation with organizations or individuals in scientific research into the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of mental illness, and including maintenance and operation of necessary facilities for feeding employees and others (at not less than cost), and the proceeds therefrom shall reimburse the appropriation for the institution; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase of such books, period- icals, and newspapers as may be required for the purposes of the hos- pital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients: Provided, That so much of this sum as may be required shall be available for all necessary expenses in ascertaining the residence of inmates who are not or who cease to be properly chargeable to Federal maintenance in the institution and in returning them to such places of residence: Providedfurther, That not exceeding $200 additional may be paid to two employees to provide mail facilities for patients in the hospital: Provided further, That during the fiscal year 1944 the District of Columbia, or any branch of the Government requiring Saint Elizabeths Hospital to care for patients for which they are responsible, shall pay by check to the Superintendent upon his written request, either in advance or at the end of each month, all or part of the estimated or actual cost of such maintenance, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Superin- tendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment; proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of the care of patients paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly, as may be agreed upon between the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Ios- Dltal and the District of Columbia government, department, or estab- lishments concerned. All sums paid to the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the care of patients that he is authorized by law to receive shall be deposited to the credit on the books of the Treasury Department of the appropriation made for the care and maintenance of the patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the support, clothing, and treatment is provided, and be subject to requisition upon the approval of the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital. SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD Grants to States for old-age assistance For grants to States for assistance to aged needy individuals, as authorized m title I of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, as amended, $325 000,000, of which sum such amount as may be necessary shall be available for grants under such title I for any period in the fiscal year 1943 subsequent to March 31, 1943: Pro' ed, That payments to 509 Return of ianates not Federal charges. Mail facilities. Payments for care ofdesignated patients. Aeaoantlnl. Ante, p. lO. 49 Stat. 60. 42U. 8.C. if301- 306. - Payments with r- spet to State plan.

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