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PUBLIC LAW 137—AUG. 31, 1951

facilities at institutions maintained by the Veterans' Administration; expenses incidental to securing employment for war veterans; funeral, burial, and other expenses incidental thereto for beneficiaries of the Veterans' Administration except burial awards authorized by Veterans' Administration Regulation Numbered 9 (a), as amended; aid to State or Territorial homes in conformity with the Act approved August 27, 1888, as amended (24 U.S.C. 134), for the support of veterans eligible for admission to Veterans' Administration facilities for hospital or domiciliary care; not to exceed $6,000 for newspapers and periodicals; not to exceed $45,300 for the preparation, shipment, installation, and display of exhibits, photographic displays, moving pictures, and other visual educational information and descriptive material, including the purchase or rental of equipment; $873,105,770, of which not more than $195,140,000 shall be available for personal services other than hospital, domiciliary, and out-patient care, and from which allotments and transfers may be made to the Federal Security Agency (Public Health Service), the Army, Navy, and Interior Departments, for disbursements by them under the various headings of their applicable appropriations, of such amounts as are necessary for the care and treatment of beneficiaries of the Veterans' Administration: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay in excess of seventy persons engaged in public relations work: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site for or toward the construction of any new hospital or home, or for the purchase of any hospital or home; and not more than $7,388,000 of this appropriation may be used to repair, alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several hospitals and homes under the jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees and the purchase of materials. Compensation and pensions: For the payment of compensation, pensions, gratuities, and allowances (including subsistence allowances authorized by part VII of Veterans' Regulation la, as amended), authorized under any Act of Congress, or regulation of the President based thereon, including emergency officers' retirement pay and annuities, the administration of which is now or may hereafter be placed in the Veterans' Administration, and for the payment of adjustedservice credits as provided in sections 401 and 601 of the Act of May 19, 1924, as amended (38 U.S.C. 631 and 661), $2,112,230,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. Readjustment benefits: For the payment of benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by titles II, III, and V, of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, $861,640,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. Military and naval insurance: For military and naval insurance, $6,000,000, to remain available until expended. Hospital and domiciliary facilities: For hospital and domiciliary facilities, $27,505,080, of which not more than $4,454,000 shall be available for personal services, to remain available until expended for the payment of obligations heretofore or herein authorized to be incurred under this head, including the improvement of facilities at Lake City, Florida, for extending, with the approval of the President, any of the facilities under the jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration or for any of the purposes set forth in sections 1 and 2 of the Act approved March 4, 1931 (38 U.S.C. 438 j - k) or in section 101 of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (38 U.S.C. 693a): Provided, That not to exceed 5.5 per centum of the amounts available under this head shall be available for the employment of all necessary technical and clerical personnel for the preparation of plans and specifications

38 U.S.C. note foil. I 739, p. 4276. 25 Stat. 450. 24 U.S.C. § 134. Visual education information.

Public relations work. Construction, e 11: restrictions.

57 Stat. 43. 38 U.S.C. note foil. i739.

43 Stat. 125.

58 Stat. 287. 38 U.S.C. §§ 701, note foil. § 739, 694694j, 696-696m.

46 Stat. 1.550. 58 Stat. 284. 38 U.S.C. § 693a note. Technical and clerical personnel.

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