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esp ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES FOR BEVPARTMUNT OF JUSTICE 3 Section 4 would give the Attorney General the power te investignte the official acta, regords, and accounts of certain oficers and dated boos thentioned, as lias bern provided by succeeding appropriation acts, grea would add the authority to investigate the official acts of salaried court reporiers. Section $ is designed to authorize, auder the direction (Pf ibe Attorney General, the expenditures out of appropriations for the Federal Bureau of hivestigation, not in excess of a specitied amount, to meet unforeseen emergcucies of a couliden- tiot character, ancl would permit Federal Bureau of Divesicneatien 2) copriationa to be used fer membership in the Piternational Cominission of Criuinal Polie | and for employment of Bureau personnel wilhout regard (othe ¢ivil-serviee laws, This authority has been contaiied in Departnicnt of Justice appropriatign acta fur the past several years, Section 6 would] authorize the Commissioner of Tmmipration and Naturatiza- tion to enter into contracts with ollieers and employees of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the nse of their privately owned horses on official busi- ness, Would anthorize payment of interpreters and transtators who arc uot citizens of the United States, the distribution of citizenship textbooks to aliens without eost to them, would authorize the payment of allowances to aliens for work per- formed by then while held in custody under the immigration laws, anc would authorize certain confidential expenditures for unforexcen emergencies. The next to the last mentioned authority is included at the urgent request of the Com- missioner of Immigration and Naturalization to meet a practical problem encoun- tered in the work of that Service. Section 7 is designed to afford substantive law for a provision in the current appropriation act to authorize the couliiued care of insane prisoners. Seetion 8 would constitute permanent authority for the acquisition of land adjacent to Federal penal institutigns when authorized by appropriation acts. Section 9 would permit the deposit of collections by penal institutions for meals, Jaundry, barber service, uniforin equipment, and other items, in the Treasury to the eredit. of the appropriation currently available for such items instend of to the eredit of miscciluncous receipts, Jt is purcly a matter of ac- counting provedure to make such funds available for further expenditure. Your assistance in securing the enactment of the above proposed legislation Vit be greatly appreciated, . Tho Director of the Bureau of the Budget has advised that there is no objection to the submission of this report. Yours sincerely, Perer Campne.t Brown, Acting the Assistant to the Attorney General. Special attention is directed to section 7 of the proposed bill which was eliminated by committee amendment. Since the proposed section 7 was designed to afford substantive law for a provision in a ° current appropriation act to authorize the continued care of insane prisoners, 1 is the opinion of your committee that this section is superfluous in view of the enactment of section 3 of Public Law 285, Eighty-first Congress which is as follows: Sec. 3. The Attorney General may authorize the use of any unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Suppart of United States prisoners” for carrying out the purposes of tille 18, United States Code, sections 1244 to 4248, inclusive, or in payment of any expenses incidental thercto and not provided for by other epecilic appropriations. ‘ O