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 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 [62 STAT. tary conditions, and quality of subsistence and may be such as will permit and encourage the proper authorities to provide reasonably decent, sanitary, and healthful quarters and subsistence for such persons. § 4003. FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS IN STATES WIrrOUT APPROPRIATE FACILITIES If by reason of the refusal or inability of the authorities having con- trol of any jail, workhouse, penal, correctional, or other suitable institution of any State or Territory, or political subdivision thereof, to enter into a contract for the imprisonment, subsistence, care, or proper employment of United States prisoners, or if there are no suitable or sufficient facilities available at reasonable cost, the Attorney General may select a site either within or convenient to the State, Territory, or judicial district concerned and cause to be erected thereon a house of detention, workhouse, jail, prison-industries project, or camp, or other place of confinement, which shall be used for the detention of persons held under authority of any Act of Congress, and of such other persons as in the opinion of the Attorney General are proper subjects for confinement in such institutions. § 4004. OATHS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The wardens and superintendents, and associate wardens and super- intendents of Federal penal or correctional institutions may administer oaths to and take acknowledgements of officers, employees, and inmates of such institutions but shall not demand or accept any fee or com- pensation therefor. § 4005. MEDICAL RELIEF; EXPENSES (a) Upon request of the Attorney General, the Federal Security Administrator shall detail regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, pharmacists, acting assistant surgeons, and other employees of the Public Health Service to the Department of Justice for the purpose of supervising and furnishing medical psychiatric, and other technical and scientific services to the Federal penal and correctional institutions. (b) The compensation, allowances, and expenses of the personnel detailed under this section may be paid from applicable appropriations of the Public Health Service in accordance with the law and regu- lations governing the personnel of the Public Health Service, such appropriations to be reimbursed from applicable appropriations of the Department of Justice- or the Attorney General may make allot- ments of funds and transfer of credit to the Public Health Service in such amounts as are available and necessary, for payment of com- pensation, allowances, and expenses of personnel so detailed, in accordance with the law and regulations governing the personnel of the Public Health Service. § 4006. SUBSISTENCE FOR PRISONERS The Attorney General shall allow and pay only the reasonable and actual cost of the subsistence of prisoners in the custody of any marshal of the United States, and shall prescribe such regulations for the government of the marshals as will enable him to determine the actual and reasonable expenses incurred. § 4007. EXPENSES OF PRISONERS The expenses attendant upon the confinement of persons arrested or committed under the laws of the United States, as well as upon the execution of any sentence of a court thereof respecting them, shall be paid out of the Treasury of the United States in the manner provided by law. 848

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