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Volume 50

Public Law 75–125

To authorize an increase in the annual appropriation for books for the adult blind.

Approved April 23, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize an increase in the annual appropriation for 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 section 1, as amended, of the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the adult blind”, approved March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., 1934 ed., Supp. II, title 2, sec. 135a), is amended to read as follows:

Annual appropriation for, increased.

“That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to the Library of Congress, in addition to appropriations otherwise made to said Library, the sum of $275,000, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Librarian of Congress to provide books published either in raised characters, on sound-reproduction records, or in any other form, for the use of the adult blind residents of the United States, including the several States, Territories, insular

Proviso.

Division of amount.

possessions, and the District of Columbia: Provided, That of said annual appropriation of $275,000, not exceeding $100,000 thereof shall be expended for books in raised characters, and not exceeding $175,000 thereof shall be expended for sound-reproduction records.”

Sec. 2.

This Act shall be applicable with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for each fiscal year thereafter.

Approved, April 23, 1937.

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