existing contract and appropriations

existing contract and appropriations Sec. 302. (a) Within two hundred and ten days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, with the concurrence of the Governor of Alaska, may either (i) assign all of his rights and duties under contract numbered 14–04–001–81, entered into on June 18, 1953, between the Secretary of the Interior on behalf of the United States, and the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, to the Territory of Alaska, such assignment to become effective on the two hundred and tenth day after the date of enactment of this Act, or (ii) terminate the said contract in accordance with the terms thereof. Upon the effective date of any such assignment, such contract shall have the same binding effect upon the Territory as it had upon the United States prior to such assignment. (b) On the two hundred and tenth day after the date of enactment of this Act, so much of all unexpended balances of appropriations as are available to the Department of the Interior for the care of the Alaska insane shall be transferred to the Governor of Alaska to be available for expenditure by him for the administration of the Acts specified in, and in part amended by, section 301 and for the administration of the laws of the Territory of Alaska enacted pursuant to section 101 of this Act, and the Secretary of the Interior shall, upon such transfer or as soon as practicable thereafter, transfer to the Governor of Alaska all papers and documents used primarily in the administration of all laws pertaining to the Alaska insane. for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior for transfer to the Governor of Alaska such additional sums as may be necessary for the care of the Alaska insane during that fiscal year. 70 Stat. 714 (c) Until July 1, 1957, expenses for the transportation to a mental institution outside of Alaska of all patients to be hospitalized pursuant to a commitment under section 8 of the Act of January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616, 619, 48 U. S. C. 47), or to be hospitalized in such a mental institution pursuant to a commitment under a law of the Territorial legislature superseding such Act of January 27, 1905, shall be paid by the Department of Justice.