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PUBLIC LAW 4 2 8 - J U N E 24, 1954

available for outpatient fee basis dental care: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for outpatient dental services and treatment, or related dental appliances with respect to a serviceconnected dental disability which is not compensable in degree unless such condition or disability is shown to have been in existence at time of discharge and application for treatment is made within one year after discharge or by December 31, 1954, whichever is later: Provided further, That this limitation shall not apply to adjunct outpatient dental services or appliances for any dental condition associated with and held to be aggravating disability from such other service-incurred or service-aggravated injury or disease. Maintenance and operation of supply depots: For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of supply depots, including not to exceed $4,400 for expenses of travel of employees, and purchase of two passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, $1,654,000. Compensation and pensions: For the payment of compensation, pensions, gratuities, and allowances (including burial awards authorized by Veterans Administration Regulation Numbered 9 (a), as amended, and 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 adjusted-service credits as provided in sections 401 and 601 of the Act of May 19, 1924, as amended (38 U.S.C. 631 and 661), $2,435,000,000, 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, as amended, and title II of the Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952, and for supplies, equipment, and tuition authorized by part VII and payments authorized by part IX of Veterans Administration Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, $387,000,000, together with the unexpended balance as of June 30, 1954, remaining in the appropriation for "Veterans miscellaneous benefits" to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of any appropriation to the Veterans Administration shall be available, in connection with any loan authorized by title III of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended (38 U.S.C. 694-694n), for payment to the lender by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs, or for credit on the loan, of an amount equivalent to 4 per centum of the amount originally loaned, guaranteed or insured by the Veterans Administration: Provided further, That no right to any such payment shall accrue after September 1, 1953, but the foregoing proviso shall not apply with respect to payments based on guarantees made, or certificates of commitments issued, prior to said date or commitments for loans made by the Veterans Administration. Military and naval insurance: For military and naval insurance, $4,932,000, to remain available until expended. Hospital and domiciliary facilities: For hospital and domiciliary facilities, for planning and 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. 438j-k) or in section 101 of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (38 U.S.C. 693a), to remain available until expended, $47,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provisions of existing law the Veterans Administration is authorized to advance not to exceed $2,000,000 from

291 Limitation.

38 USC ch. 12A.

43 Stat. 125.

58 Stat. 287. 38 USC 701, 694694", ch. 12A, 66 Stat. 663. 38 USC 911-984. 38 USC ch. 12A.

59 Stat. 626.

Time limitation.

46 Stat. 1550. 58 Stat. 284.

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