§ 361. Appropriations for expenses and activities of local veterans' service agencies. Each county and each city of the state in which is established a county veterans' service agency or a city veterans' service agency, as the case may be, is hereby authorized to appropriate and make available to the veterans' service agency of such respective county or city, such sums of money as it may deem necessary to defray the expenses and activities of such agency, and the expenses and activities of such agencies are hereby declared to be proper county and city purposes for which the moneys of the county or city may be expended. Each city in and for which there is not established a separate city veterans' service agency, and each village and town of the state is hereby authorized to appropriate and make available to the deputy local director heading the branch office in and for such city, village or town, if any, of the county veterans' service agency having jurisdiction within such city, village or town, such sums of money as it may deem necessary to defray the salary, expenses and activities of the deputy local director heading such branch office in and for such city, village or town and his office, including the salaries of persons employed in such office, and such salaries, expenses and activities are hereby declared to be proper city, village and town purposes for which the moneys of such cities, villages and towns may be expended. Each village and town is also authorized to appropriate and make available to the deputy local director heading the consolidated branch office, if any, for such village or town and any adjoining village or villages, or town or towns, as the case may be, of the county veterans' service agency having jurisdiction within such village or town, such sums of money as it may determine to defray in part the salary, expenses and activities of the deputy local director heading such consolidated branch office for such village or town and any adjoining village or villages or town or towns, as the case may be, including the salaries of persons employed in such consolidated branch office, and such salaries, expenses and activities are hereby declared to be proper village and town purposes for which the moneys of such villages and towns may be expended.