78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 302-JUNE 28, 1944 FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL For officers and employees and compensation for all other profes- sional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Federal Security Administrator, $583,000. Miscellaneous expenses: For subsistence; fuel and light; not exceed- ing $500 for expenses of attendance upon meetings of a technical nature, pertaining to hospital administration and medical advance- ment, when authorized by the Federal Security Administrator; cloth- ing to include white cotton or duck suits for the use of internes and cotton or duck uniforms or aprons for cooks, maids, and attendants, and laundering thereof; rubber surgical gloves, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, elec- tric lights, repairs, replacement of X-ray apparatus, and furniture; maintenance and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles; not exceed- ing $250 for the purchase of books, periodicals, and newspapers; not to exceed $2,000 for the special instruction of student nurses; reimburse- ment to the appropriations of Howard University of actual cost of heat and light furnished, and other necessary expenses; $211,000: Provided, That there shall be transferred from this appropriation to the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, Public Buildings Administra- tion", for direct expenditure by the Federal Works Agency, $50,000 for repairs, alterations, improvement, and preservation of the build- ings and grounds of Freedmen's Hospital; and that $500 shall be transferred from this appropriation to the appropriation "Traveling expenses, Federal Security Agency", and that $2,500 shall be trans- ferred to the appropriation "Miscellaneous and contingent expenses, Public Health Service": Provided further, That 65 per centum of each of the foregoing appropriations for the Freedmen's Hospital shall be chargeable to the District of Columbia and paid in like manner as other appropriations of the District of Columbia are paid, subject, however, to adjustments from time to time to be made during and at the end of the fiscal year so that the portion of each of these appropria- tions charged to the District of Columbia shall bear the same ratio to the total of each appropriation as the number of hospital days of service to persons who have resided in the District of Columbia for over one year on the day of admission bears to the total number of hospital days of service performed. HOWARD UNIVERSITY Salaries: For payment in full or in part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the uni- versity, the balance to be paid from privately contributed funds, $750,000. Expenses, Howard University: For equipment, supplies, apparatus, furniture, cases and shelving, stationery, ice, repairs to buildings and grounds, and for other necessary expenses of the university, $158,000. OFFICE OF EDUCATION Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act approved June 29, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 343d), $2,480,000. Library service: For making surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding public, school, college, university, and other libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library service; coordinating library service on the national level with other forms of Transfer of funds. Ante, p. 368 . Post, pp . 565, 560. Amounts charge- able to D. O. 49 Stat. 439 . 58 STAT.] 553
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