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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-OCH 45-MAR. 31, 1945 pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; travel expenses when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official busi- ness; not to exceed $2,000 for travel and subsistence expenses of mem- bers of the police and fire forces of the Panama Canal incident to their special training in the United States; transportation, including insur- ance, of public funds and securities between the United States and the Canal Zone; purchase, construction, repair, replacement, alteration, or enlargement of buildings, structures, equipment, and other improve- ments; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, and construction of additional facilities, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal: Salary of the Governor, $10,000; contingencies of the Governor, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $3,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of materials, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales; payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916 (5 U. S . C. 793), to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal; relief payments authorized by the Act approved July 8, 1937 (50 Stat. 478); and not to exceed $7,200 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail for offices of the Panama Canal in the United States as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1944 (Public Law 364); in all, $4,137,000, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business opera- tions authorized by the Panama Canal Act. For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deporta- tion when practicable, the purchase of artificial limbs or other appli- ances for persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to September 7 1916, additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, and payments of not to exceed $50 in any one case to persons within the Government service who shall furnish blood from their veins for transfusion to the veins of patients in Panama Canal Hos- pitals, $1,784,200. For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, includ- ing gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged pris- oners, $1,377,000. Construction of additional facilities Panama Canal: For construc- tion of additional facilities for the improvement and enlargement of the capacity of the Panama Canal, in accordance with the Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409), including reimbursements to the appropriations for "Maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government, Panama Canal", in such amounts as the Governor of the Panama Canal shall from time to time determine to be additional costs incurred for the objects specified in said appropriations on account of the prosecution of the work; in all, $810,600. Total, Panama Canal, $8,108,800, to be available until expended. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1946 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid, without being covered into the Travel expenses Buildings and im- provements. Maintenance and operation of Panama Canal. Alien cripples. 39 Stat. 750. 5 U. S. C., Snpp. IV, 793. Post, p. 603. Relief payments. 48 U. S.C. 1372. Penalty mail costs. 68 Stat. 394. 39 U. S. C., Supp. IV, 1321d. Sanitation. Blood tranfusions Civil government. Additional facilities. 48U.S.C. 1307 note. Additional sums propriated.

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