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 Detail of PHS offier as Superintendent. Effective period. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 270, 271-JULY 5, 1945 [59 STAT. employee, nor, at the termination of such service as Superintendent, his right to his retired pay or retirement benefits. SEC. 2. The Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service may detail, at the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, any commissioned officer of such Service to act as Super- intendent of Gallinger Municipal Hospital, said officer to receive dur- ing the period he is so detailed the salary and commutation of living quarters provided in section 1 hereof in lieu of his salary as an officer of the United States Public Health Service. SEC. 3. This Act shall remain in force during the present war and for a period of six months following the termination of the war. Approved July 5, 1945. [CHAPTER 271] July 5, 1945 [H. R. 3579] [Public Law 132] Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945. Pages. Ante, p. 242. Postmaster. Ante, p. 242 Inquiries and In- vestigations. 44 Stat. 688 . 5U. .C. 821; Supp. IV, § 823. 56 Stat. 750. 40 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 174t-174j. AN ACT Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supple- mental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1945, and June 30, 1946, to provide appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1945, and June 30, 1946, to provide appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I-GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATIVE SENATE For payment to Julia M. Scrugham, widow of James G. Scrugham, late a Senator from the State of Nevada, $10,000. For the payment of twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, at $5 per day each, for the period July 1, 1945, to December 31, 1945, both dates inclusive, fiscal year 1946, $19,320. The Legislative Branch Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1946 hereby is amended by inserting "and $1,400 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent" immediately following the words "Postmaster, $3,600", and the necessary amount hereby is authorized to be expended from the appropriation for "Salaries of officers and employees of the Senate", beginning July 1, 1945. For an additional amount for expenses of inquiries and investiga- tions ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1945, $50,000: Pro- vtided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 approved June 3, 1926, as amended. Senate restaurants: For payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with the Act approved September 9, 1942 (Public Law Numbered 709, Seventy-seventh Congress), fiscal year 1945, $6,000.

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