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States to the credit of the Food Services Fund. Such fund shall be Expenditures used as a permanent revolving fund and expenditures therefrom shall from fund. be made only upon vouchers certified by the Superintendent of Schools or his designated agent and approved before payment by the Auditor of the District of Columbia, and shall be disbursed in the same manner as other District of Columbia funds are disbursed. The Food Services Fund shall be available for the purchase of food, supplies, and all other services and expenditures of whatever nature which are necessary for the conduct of the Department of Food Services, including personal services, the operation and maintenance of motor trucks, and the expenses of conducting the Office of Central Management.

SEC. 6. Appropriations are hereby authorized for the acquisition, Equipment. maintenance and replacement of equipment used or acquired for use Appropriation in the conduct of the Department of Food Services in the public schools authorized. of the District of Columbia.

SEC. 7. (a) All funds, whether in cash or other form, in the custody Payment and deor possession of the person or persons operating cafeterias and lunch- posit of funds. rooms in public school buildings of the District of Columbia which funds have been derived from such operations shall, on the date such cafeterias and lunchrooms are placed under the Office of Central Management, be paid to the Collector of Taxes, District of Columbia, and deposited by him in the Treasury of the United States to the credit

of the Food Services Fund, and all supplies and equipment of whatever Transfer of nature acquired for use in such cafeterias and lunchrooms shall, by supplies, etc. the person or persons having custody or possession of such supplies and equipment, be returned or transferred to the Board of Education,

together with all books and records pertaining to the same: Provided, Time limitation. That the Board of Education shall place all such cafeterias and lunchrooms under the Office of Central Management not more than one year after the Department of Food Services is established by said Board.

(b) All obligations incurred for food, supplies, and equipment used or usable in the conduct of cafeterias and lunchrooms unsatisfied on the day the respective cafeterias and lunchrooms are placed under 65 Stat. 369. the Office of Central Management, shall be paid from the Food 65 Stat. 370. Services Fund.

SEC. 8. Insofar as the Board shall conduct a school-lunch program School-lunch pro under the authority of this title, it shall be considered a "school" gram. within the meaning of the National School Lunch Act, and all funds 60 Stat. 230. to which it may thus become entitled as a participating school under 42 U.S.c. & 1751 the National School Lunch Act shall be deposited in the fund created note.

by section 5 hereof.

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the Auditor of the District of Audits. Columbia to audit at least quarterly the accounts of the Department

of Food Services and make reports thereof to the Commissioners of

the District of Columbia.

SEC. 10. This title may be cited as the "District of Columbia Public Citation of title School Food Services Act".

TITLE II-DISTRIBUTION OF COMMODITIES

SEC. 201. The Board of Education of the District of Columbia is Commodity conauthorized (a) to enter into a contract or contracts from time to time tracts. with the United States Department of Agriculture for the distribution

to schools and to public and charitable institutions of commodities

made available by said Department, and (b) to carry out, under regu- Milk program. lations of the said Board, a program or programs of furnishing milk

65 Stat. 370.

propriations thorized.

to school children in the District, including the purchase and distribution of milk under agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture: Provided, That all moneys collected under such program or programs shall be paid to the Collector of Taxes of the District of Columbia for deposit into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District.

SEC. 202. Appropriations are hereby authorized to enable the Board of Education to carry out the contracts and programs authorized by this title.

Approved October 8, 1951.

Chapter 321 2d Session

H. R. 1499

AN ACT

All 66 Stat. 89.

To amend the Act approved August 4, 1919, as amended, providing additional aid for the American Printing House for the Blind.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled American "An Act providing additional aid for the American Printing House Printing House for the Blind", approved August 4, 1919, as amended, is hereby for the Blind. amended to read as follows:

41 Stat. 272. 20 U.S.C.

101.

"That for the purpose of enabling the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to it, in addition to the permanent appropriation of $10,000 made in the Act entitled 'An Act to promote the education of the blind', approved March 3, 1879, as amended, the sum not to exceed 20 Stat. 468. $250,000; which sum shall be expended in accordance with the requirements of said Act to promote the education of the blind."

Approved May 22, 1952.

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To amend section 22 (relating to the endowment and support of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts) of the Act of June 29, 1935, so as to extend the benefits of such section to certain colleges in the Territory of Alaska.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sen- Alaska. tence of section 22 of the Act of June 29, 1935 (7 U. S. C., sec. 329), is College-aid. amended by striking out "colleges in the several States and the Terri- 49 Stat. 439. tory of Hawaii” and inserting in lieu thereof "colleges in the several States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii".

66 Stat. 135.

SEC. 2. Paragraph (a) of such section 22 is amended by striking 66 Stat. 136. out “$980,000” and inserting in lieu thereof "$1,000,000“.

SEC. 3. The first sentence of paragraph (b) of such section 22 is amended by striking out "$1,500,000" and inserting in lieu thereof “$1,501,500*.

SEC. 4. The second and third sentences of paragraph (b) of such section 22 are amended to read as follows: "The sums appropriated Annual payin pursuance of paragraph (a) shall be paid annually to the several ments. States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii in equal shares. The sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (b) shall be in addition to sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (a) and shall be allotted and paid annually to each of the several States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii in the proportion which the total population of each such State and Territory bears to the total population of all the States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, as determined by the last preceding decennial census."

date.

SEC. 5. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the Effective first day of the first fiscal year beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Approved June 12, 1952.

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Public Law 446 - 82d Congress

Chapter 566 2d Session

H. R. 7231

AN ACT

All 66 Stat. 326.

To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind".

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sentence of the Act of June 13, 1944 (58 Stat. 276), is amended by striking 2 u.s.c. out the word "adult".

Approved July 3, 1952.

135a note.

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To provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That appropriations Agricultural available for agricultural extension work in the fiscal year ending extension June 30, 1953 (except the amount apportioned pursuant to section 23 work.

(b) (2) of the Bankhead-Jones Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. 343d-1)), 59 Stat. 231. shall be paid to the States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico in the same proportions as appropriations available for such work in the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1952.

Approved July 7, 1952.

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