Chapter 127. Making an adjustment of certain accounts between the United States and the District of Columbia February 2, 1925.[[S. 703](/us/bill/68/s/703).][[Public, No. 358](/us/pl/68/358).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Distri
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CHAP. 127.— An Act Making an adjustment of certain accounts between the United States and the District of Columbia February 2, 1925.[[S. 703](/us/bill/68/s/703).][[Public, No. 358](/us/pl/68/358).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.Adjusting certain accounts between United States and.Vol. 42, p. 670. That pursuant to the report of the Joint Select Committee appointed under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes,” approved June 29, 1922—
(a)Sums to be credited to the District. There shall be credited to the general account of the District of Columbia required under the provisions of the first paragraph of such Act to be kept in the Treasury Department the following sums:
(1)Balance due June 30, 1922. $7,574,416.90, representing the balance in the general fund in the Treasury for such District on June 30, 1922, and
(2)Adjusted errors. $665.46, representing an adjustment of certain errors; and
(b)Charges against. There shall be charged to such account the following sums:
(1)District’s proportion of unexpended balances. $2,903,219.93, representing the District’s proportion of unexpended balances of appropriations on June 30, 1922, together with certain obligations and encumbrances accruing after such date,
(2)Bonus to employees. $191,890.35, representing the District’s proportion of the annual bonus paid to certain employees of the District,
(3)Additional land for Zoological Park. $41,500, representing the District’s proportion of the cost of additional land for the National Zoological Park, and
(4)Eldred C. Davis. $317.16, representing the District’s proportion of an amount Vol. 30, p. 1407.appropriated by special Act of Congress for the relief of Eldred C. Davis. No interest allowed.Such credits and charges to the general accounts of the District of Columbia shall be made without the payment of interest thereon Amounts in full satisfaction of all claims.by either the United States or the District of Columbia; and the making of such credits and charges shall be held to be in full satisfaction of all claims and demands either for or against the 805United States or the District of Columbia in respect to the items involved therein. The sum of $4,438,154.92, representing the difference between such Use of specified difference for schools, playgrounds, and parks additional to regular, appropriations.credits and charges, is hereby made permanently available in such account of the District of Columbia for appropriation by the Congress for purchase of land and construction of buildings for public school, playground, and park purposes, other than and in addition to sums appropriated for such purposes in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926: *Provided*, *Provisos.*Additional credits not prevented.That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to deprive the District of Columbia, as of and on June 30, 1922, in addition to the sum named herein, of credit for the surplus of revenues of said District collected and deposited in the Treasury of the United States during the fiscal year 1922, over and above all appropriations and other charges for that year or of credit for the unexpended balances Unexpended balances covered into surplus fund.of District of Columbia appropriations covered into the surplus fund by warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury issued on June 30, 1922; or of credit for the proportion the District of Columbia may be Miscellaneous receipts paid into Treasury direct.entitled to of miscellaneous receipts paid directly into the Treasury during the fiscal year 1922; or of credit for the amount erroneously Erroneous charges in Third Deficiency Act, 1922.charged against the revenues of the District for the fiscal year 1922 on account of appropriations made by the third Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1922, approved July 1, 1922, as the amount of said appropriations were charged against the revenues of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1923, totaling the sum of $819,373.83, which is included in the total sum of $2,903,219.93 mentioned in line 8, page 2, of this bill, and taken into account in arriving at the net balance of $4,438,154.92, above stated. *Provided further*, That the Comptroller General of the United Determination by Comptroller General of amounts improperly charged.States shall ascertain and determine whether the items mentioned in the preceding proviso were improperly taken into account in arriving at the net balance of $4,438,154.92, and if, and to the extent that, any Items erroneously charged added to funds.or all of said items shall be so determined to have been improperly taken into account, the amount thereof shall be added to the said fund of $4,438,154.92 and likewise shall be available permanently in the general account of the District of Columbia for appropriation by the Congress for such purposes as it may from time to time provide: *And provided further*, That the Comptroller General shall submit Report.to the Congress at its next regular session a detailed report of the result of his determination and action as authorized herein. Approved, February 2, 1925.