Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 56 Part 1.djvu/516

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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 472-JULY 2, 1942 46 Stat. 326. Per diem restriction. License require- ment for attorneys. U. S. Court for China. Traveling expenses, district attorney, mar- shal, etc. Ante, pp. 481, 486. Bringing home re- mains from abroad, etc. Travel expenses while in refugee status. Ante, p. 485. 46 Stat. 818 . Maintenance of convicts and insane persons. Reimbursement by District of Columbia. including rent, repair, alteration, and maintenance of buildings and the maintenance of prisoners therein, occupied under authority of sections 4 and 5 of the Act of May 14, 1930 (18 U. S. C. 753c, 753d); support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment and who continue insane after expiration of sentence, who have no rela- tives or friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their relatives or friends in the United States and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying, pursuing, and returning escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and for repairs, better- ments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $1,380,000. None of the money appropriated by this title shall be used to pay any witness or bailiff more than one per diem for any one days service even though he serves in more than one of such capacities on the same day. None of the funds appropriated by this title may be used to pay the compensation of any person hereafter employed as an attorney unless such person shall be duly licensed and authorized to practice as an attorney under the laws of a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia. The appropriations in this title for "Traveling Expenses, Depart- ment of Justice", and "Salaries and Expenses of Marshals, and so forth, Department of Justice", shall be available, respectively, for traveling expenses of the district attorney and of the marshal of the United States Court for China and of employees of their offices and under such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe, of their families and effects in going to and returning from their posts, including travel expenses of said officers and employees and their families for travel performed from their posts to their homes in the United States and return to their posts while on authorized leave of absence; for the expenses of preparation and transportation of re- mains of such officers and employees who may die abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties to their former homes in the United States or to a place not more distant for interment; and for the traveling expenses of said officers and employees and their dependents while en route to or from places of temporary refuge in time of war, political disturbance, earthquake, epidemic, or similar emergency, and for per diem in lieu of subsistence of such officers, employees, and their dependents while in a refugee status; and the approl)riations "Salaries and Expenses of District Attorneys, and so forth, Department of Justice", and "Salaries and Expenses of Mar- shals, and so forth, Department of Justice", shall be available, re- spectively, to the district attorney and marshal of the United States Court for China and to employees in their offices for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light as authorized by the Act of June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C . 118a), not to exceed $1,700 for any one person, in no event to exceed the amount actually and reasonably expended by the recipient of such allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light; lawbooks and other books of refer- ence; ice and drinking water for office purposes; and expenses of maintaining in China American convicts and persons declared insane by the Court; rent of quarters for prisoners; ice and drinking water for prison purposes; wages of prison keepers; and the expense of keepin feeding, and transporting prisoners and persons declared insaneby the Court. Sixty per centum of the expenditures for the offices of the United States District Attorney and the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia from all appropriations in this title shall be 488 [56 STAT.