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Crediting of receipts, etc.

Effective dates.

PUBLIC LAW 8 5 - 3 0 8 - S E P T. 7, 1957

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SEC. 5. The Board shall prescribe and collect from the lending institution a reasonable guaranty fee in connection with each loan guaranteed under this Act. SEC. 6. (a) To permit it to make use of such expert advice and services as it may require in carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Board may use available services and facilities of other agencies and instrumentalities of the Federal Government with their consent and on a reimbursable basis. (b) Departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall exercise their powers, duties, and functions in such manner as will assist in carrying out the objectives of this Act, SEC. 7. (a) Receipts under this Act shall be credited to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. (b) Payments to lenders required as a consequence of any guaranty under this Act may be made from funds which are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Board for that purpose. (c) Administrative expenses under this Act shall be paid from appropriations to the Board for administrative expenses. SEC. 8. This Act shall become eflfective upon enactment, and the authority contained in section 3 hereof shall expire five years thereafter. Approved September 7, 1957. Public Law 85-308

September 7, 1957 [S. 2434]

B o o k s for the blind. 46 Stat. 1487. 2 USC 135 a. Appropriation.

Applicability.

AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind".

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", approved March 3, 1931, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "That there is authorized to be appropriated annually to the Library of Congress, in addition to appropriations otherwise made to said Library, such sums for expenditure under the direction of the Librarian of Congress as may be necessary to provide books published either in raised characters, on sound-reproduction recordings, or in any other form, and for the purchase, maintenance, and replacement of reproducers for such sound-reproduction recordings, for the use of the blind residents of the United States, including the several States, Territories, insular possessions, and the District of Columbia, all of which books, recordings, and reproducers will remain the property of the Library of Congress but will be loaned to blind readers under regulations prescribed by the Librarian of Congress for this service. In the purchase of books in either raised characters or in sound-reproduction recordings the Librarian of Congress, without reference to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U.S.C. 5), as amended, shall give preference to non-profit-making institutions or agencies whose activities are primarily concerned with the blind, in all cases where the prices or bids submitted by such institutions or agencies are, by said Librarian, under all the circumstances and needs involved, determined to be fair and reasonable." SEC. 2. This Act shall be applicable with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for each fiscal year thereafter. Approved September 7, 1957.

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