PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 263-JULY 3, 1945 Certain Navy and Marine Corps person- nel. Medical, etc., treat- ment. Post, p. 637. Post, p. 637. 68 Stat. 692. 42 U. S. C., Supp. IV, 241 (d). 68 Stat. 707. 42 U. S. C., Snpp. IV, §§ 281-286. 58 Stat. 857. 57 Stat. 153. 50 U. 8. C., Supp. IV, app. 0 1451-1462 . Transfer of funds. of duty; and tobacco for patients; $15,501,300, of which not to exceed $115,514 shall be available for the furnishing by the Public Health Service to and at the request of any Federal department or inde- pendent establishment, including Government-owned corporations, of coordinating and consultative services with respect to methods and standards for operating emergency health facilities in such depart- ment or establishment, including in-service training of such emer- gency health facility personnel, and for providing employees of such agencies (1) tuberculosis and psychiatric examinations, and (2) health and nutrition instruction through lectures and demonstra- tions: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses incurred in furnishing medical and hospital treatment, including dental care, to active-duty personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps in Marine hospitals and out-patient offices. Foreign quarantine service: For the medical inspection of aliens, the maintenance and ordinary expenses of United States quarantine stations and supplementary activities abroad, and the care and treat- ment of quarantine detainees in private or other public hospitals when facilities of the Public Health Service are not available, including the purchase of not to exceed three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $1,254,000. National Institute of Health, operating expenses: For the activities of the National Institute of Health, not otherwise provided for, includ- ing the regulation and preparation of biologic products; the purchase of two passenger automobiles; the purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for the guard force; and maintenance of buildings; $1,688,000, of which $100,000 shall be available for grants-in-aid in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 410, section 301 (d). National Cancer Institute, operating expenses: To carry out the purposes of title IV of the Act, $490,000. Commissioned officers, pay, and so forth: For pay, uniforms and subsistence allowances, increased allowances for foreign service and commutation of quarters for not to exceed nine hundred and two regular active commissioned officers; for retired pay of regular and reserve commissioned officers; and for six months' death gratuity pay and burial payments for regular commissioned officers, $4,586,200: Provided, That for purposes of pay and pay period the officers appointed to grades above that of senior assistant pursuant to authority contained in the First Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1945, under the heading "Tuberculosis" shall be considered as having had on the date of appointment service equal to that of the junior officer of the grade to which appointed. Training for nurses (national defense): For carrying out the pur- poses of the Act of June 15, 1943 (Public Law 74, Seventy-eighth Congress, as amended), $59,957,000, of which not to exceed $788,255 shall be available for administrative expenses, including printing and binding; and travel: Provided, That this appropriation is hereby made available for transfer to and consolidation with appropriations of Saint Elizabeths and Freedmen's Hospitals, in such amounts as may be deemed necessary by the Federal Security Administrator, to cover the cost of items furnished to student nurses in training under plans approved for such hospitals in accordance with the Act of June 15, 1943 (Public Law 74), as amended. Service and supply fund: For the establishment of a service and supply fund, $250,000, without fiscal year limitation, for the pay- ment of salaries, travel, and other expenses necessary to the mainte- nance and operation of (1) a supply service for the purchase, storage, handling, issuance, packing, or shipping of stationery, supplies, [59 STAT.
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