PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 275-JUNE 26, 1944 Sanitation. Blood transfusions. Post, p. 872. Additional sums ap- propriated. Waterworks, etc., Panama and Colon. 57 Stat. 74. Canal Zone. Citizenship require- ment. Employment of Panamanian citizens. 48U.8.0. i1301 note. For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, the purchase of artificial limbs or other appliances for persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to September 7, 1916, addi- tional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, and payments of not to exceed $50 in any one case to persons within the Government service who shall furnish blood from their veins for transfusion to the veins of patients in Panama Canal Hospitals, $1,854,000. For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, includ- ing gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $1,466,000. Total, Panama Canal, $9,170,000, to be available until expended. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1945 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid, without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, and to remain available until expended, all moneys received by the Panama Canal during the fiscal year 1945 and prior fiscal years (exclusive of net profits for such prior fiscal years) from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like service; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those pass- ing through the Canal, and to others unable to obtain the same else- where; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufactur- ing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the Canal and Canal Zone:and any net profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. There is also appropriated for the fiscal year 1945 for the opera- tion, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pave- ments in the cities of Panama and Colon, to remain available until expended, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid dur- ing that fiscal year as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses; and notwithstanding the transfer of the waterworks and sewer systems pursuant to the joint resolution approved May 3, 1943 (Public Law 48), any unexpended balances of the sums appropriated by this paragraph, together with the unex- pended balances of sums appropriated for the same purpose in prior fiscal years, shall be immediately available and shall remain available until expended for the purposes for which appropriated. SEC. 2 . No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employment in case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services rend- ered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, techincal, clerical? administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the Republic of Panama: Provided, however, (1) That, notwithstanding the pro- vision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409), limiting employment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of the United [58 STAT.
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