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PUBLIC LAW 472-JULY 2, 1954

Retired pay of commissioned officers: For retired pay of commissioned officers, as authorized by law, and payments under the Uniformed Services Contingency Option Act of 1953, $1,141,000. Salaries and expenses: For the divisions and offices of the Office of the Surgeon General and for miscellaneous expenses of the Public Health Service not appropriated for elsewhere, including preparing information, articles, and publications related to public health; and conducting studies and demonstrations in public health methods; $2,780,000. Administrative provisions: During the current fiscal year, and with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, there may be transferred from any annual appropriation to the Public Health Service to any other such appropriation such additional amounts as may be required for pay and allowances of the active commissioned officers herein authorized, but any amounts so transferred shall not exceed 5 per centum of any such appropriation and no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 5 per centum as a result of any such transfers.

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S A I N T ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL,

Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the maintenance and operation of the hospital, including purchase of clothing for patients and cooperation with organizations or individuals in the scientific research into the nature, causes, prevention and treatment of mental illness, $2,445,000. Major repairs and preservation of buildings and grounds: For miscellaneous construction, alterations, repairs, and equipment, on the grounds of the hospital, including preparation of plans and specifications, advertising, and supervision of construction, $709,000: Provided, That any part of this amount may be transferred to the General Services Administration. Construction, maximum security building: For the preparation of tentative drawings for a maximum security building at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $110,000: Provided, That with respect to construction of new facilities hereafter authorized, and expenditures for major repairs of buildings and grounds, the per diem rate calculated for the District of Columbia pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 4, 1947 (24 U.S.C. 168a), shall include a proportionate share of repairs and of the annual increment of the depreciated total cost of such construction, such depreciation to be based on the estimated life thereof, not exceeding forty years, beginning with the fiscal year following completion of construction, and such proportionate share shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.

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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Salaries and expenses. Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance: For necessary expenses, including furnishing, repairing, and cleaning of wearing apparel and equipment used by building guards; not more than $64,400,000 may be expended from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund. Grants to States for public assistance: For grants to States for oldage assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and aid to the permanently and totally disabled, as authorized in titles I, IV, X, and X IV of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. ch. 7, subchs. I, IV, X, and X IV), $1,200,000,000, of which such amount as ^^if st«t- 620: 64 may be necessary shall be available for grants for any period in the Stat. 555. prior fiscal year subsequent to March 31 of that year. Salaries and expenses. Bureau of Public Assistance: For expenses necessary for the Bureau of Public Assistance, $1,487,500.

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