55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 26 --JULY 1, 1941 Commissioned officers, pay, and so forth: For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for not to exceed 490 regular active com- missioned officers (including the Surgeon General, Assistant to the Surgeon General and assistant surgeons general) and for pay of regular commissioned officers on waiting orders, $2,113,800: Provided, That the above limitation on the number of regular active commis- sioned officers may be exceeded by the number (not in excess of thirty) of regular active commissioned officers assigned to Federal penal and correctional institutions. Acting assistant surgeons, pay: For pay of acting assistant sur- geons (noncommissioned medical officers), $323,300. Pay of other employees: For pay of all other employees (attend- ants, and so forth), $1,017,000. National Institute of Health, maintenance: For maintaining the National Institute of Health, including the purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for the guard force, $135,000. Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals: For medical exam- inations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917 (8 U. S. C. 152), medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulaticns approved by the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency for beneficiaries (other than patients of the Veterans' Admin- istration) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hos- pitals of the Public Health Service under the quarantine or immigration laws and regulations, including necessary personnel and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wear- ing of same, reasonable fees (not to exceed $50 for each blood dona- tion) to Government employees and others for services as donors of blood to be used in transfusions, maintenance, minor repairs, equip- ment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, the maintenance, exchange, and operation of motortrucks and pas- senger motor vehicles for official use in field work (including not to exceed $3,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles) and one for use in connection with the administrative work of the Public Health Service in the District of Columbia, purchase of ambulances, transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $7,362,000: Pro- vided, That the Immigration and Naturalization Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immi- gration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be cov- ered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and money collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treas- ury as miscellaneous receipts: Providedfurther, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service (except for persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service at points where no quarantine hospital facilities are available), the prevention of epi- 278941° -42 -PT . I --31 481 Post, pp . 482,483,545. Proviso. Post, p. 83L Post, pp. 821, 831. 39 Stat. 885. Vehicles. Lepers, insane, etc. Provisos. Use of Ellis Island hospitals. Restriction on use of funds.
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