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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 Supply, Department of the Treasury, and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, or their representatives. Their decision shall be final and binding upon all parties. § 4125. PUBLIC WORKS; PRISON CAMPS (a) The Attorney General may make available to the heads of the several departments the services of United States prisoners under terms, conditions, and rates mutually agreed upon, for constructing or repairing roads, clearing, maintaining and reforesting public lands, building levees, and constructing or repairing any other public ways or works financed wholly or in major part by funds appropriated by Congress. (b) The Attorney General may establish, equip, and maintain camps upon sites selected by him elsewhere than upon Indian reserva- tions, and designate such camps as places for confinement of persons convicted of an offense against the laws of the United States. (c) The expenses of transferring and maintaining prisoners at such camps and of operating such camps shall be paid from the appropria- tion "Support of United States prisoners", which may, in the discretion of the Attorney General, be reimbursed for such expenses. (d) As part of the expense of operating such camps the Attorney General is authorized to provide for the payment to the inmates or their dependents such pecuniary earnings as he may deem proper, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. (e) All other laws of the United States relating to the imprison- ment, transfer, control, discipline, escape, release of, or in any way affecting prisoners, shall apply to prisoners transferred to such camps. § 4126. PRISON INDUSTRIES FUND; USE AND SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS All moneys under the control of Federal Prison Industries, or received from the sale of the products or by-products of such Indus- tries, or for the services of federal prisoners, shall be deposited or covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Prison Industries Fund and withdrawn therefrom only pursuant to accountable warrants or certificates of settlement issued by the General Accounting Office. All valid claims and obligations payable out of said fund shall be assumed by the corporation. The corporation, in accordance with the laws generally applicable to the expenditures of the several departments and establishments of the government, is authorized to employ the fund, and any earnings that may accrue to the corporation, as operating capital in performing the duties imposed by this chapter; in the repair, alteration, erection and maintenance of industrial buildings and equipment; in paying, under rules and regulations promulgated by the Attorney General, compen- sation to inmates employed in any industry, or performing outstand- ing services in institutional operations, and compensation to inmates or their dependents for injuries suffered in any industry. In no event shall compensation be paid in a greater amount than that provided in the Federal Employees' Compensation Act. Accounts of all receipts and disbursements of the corporation shall be rendered to the General Accounting Office for settlement and adjust- ment, as required by the Comptroller General. Such accounting shall include all fiscal transactions of the corpora- tion, whether involving appropriated moneys, capital, or receipts from other sources. § 4127. PRISON INDSTRIES REPORT TO CONGRESS The board of directors of Federal Prison Industries shall make annual reports to Congress on the conduct of the business of the cor- poration and on the condition of its funds. 852 [62 STAT.

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