PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 348 -JUNE 11, 1938 to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as author- ized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, stor- ing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment here- tofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sale; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on Emergencies. the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; traveling expenses, when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business; not to exceed $2,000 for travel and subsistence expenses of members of the police and fire forces of the Panama Canal incident to their special training in the United Public funds and States; transportation, including insurance, of public funds and tionandisurance. securities between the United States and the Canal Zone; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal my 1 deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: Maintenance and For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal: Salary of GoPernor's salary. the Governor, $10,000; contingencies of the Governor, to be expended Supplies, equip- in his discretion, not exceeding $3,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, ent etc. handling, and storing of materials, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales; Payment to alien payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by 39 Stat. 750. the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916 (5 U. S . C . 5U.S.C.§793 793), to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction Relief payments, of the Panama Canal; and relief payments authorized by the Act 48 U. S . C. , Supp. approved July 8, 1937 (50 Stat. 478); in all, $8,149,000, together with III, §1372. all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act. Sanitation etc.in- For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support sane,lepers, etc. of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons pensoesption x- legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and the purchase of artificial limbs or other appli- ances for persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to September 7, 1916, chief quarantine and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $933,800. Civil government For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, includ- expenses. ing gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners $1,167,325. Availability. Total, Panama Canal, $10250,125, to be available until expended. Additional sums. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1939 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid, without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama So in original. 672 [52 STAT.
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