Chapter 848. 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, 1931, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 848.— 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, 1931, and for other purposes. July 3, 1930.[[H. R. 10813](/us/bill/71/hr/10813).][[Public, No. 521](/us/pl/71/521).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in order toDistrict of Columbia.Appropriations for expenses of, fiscal year, 1931, from District revenues, and $9,500,000 from the Treasury. defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $9,500,000 is appropriated, out of any money inAdvances. the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1930, and all the remainder out of the combined revenues of theTax rate not to be decreased.
District of Columbia, and the tax rate in effect in the fiscal year 1930 on real estate and tangible personal property subject to taxation in the District of Columbia shall not be decreased for the fiscal year950Effective as of July 1, 1930. 1931, and this Act shall be effective as of July 1, 1930, and any appropriations and authority contained herein shall have the same force and effect between June 30, 1930, and the date of the enactment of this Act as though the same had become law on July 1, 1930;Acts, etc., ad interim. and the acts of any officer or employee performed during such period in anticipation of the appropriations or authority contained herein shall not be invalidated, declared ineffective, or questioned solely because of the lack of such appropriations or authority during such period, namely:
General expenses.GENERAL EXPENSES Executive office.executive office Office personnel.Additional, for Engineer Commissioner.For personal services, $49,160, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in Grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of Commissioners:*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exception.Vol. 42, p. 1488;
Vol. 45, p. 776.*Post*, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 65; Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p65/p25). *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 661–673; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 5, sec. 673), with the exception of the two civilian commissioners the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specifiedIf only one position in a grade.Advances in unusually meritorious cases. for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grades, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and*Provisos*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.No reduction in fixed salaries. then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service;
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with theVol. 42, p. 1490.[U. S. C., p. 66](/us/usc/p66).Transfers to another position without reduction.Higher rates permitted. rules of section 6 of such Act;
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit; or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law; Purchasing division.Purchasing division: For personal services, $61,660. Building inspection division.Plumbing inspection division.Building inspection division: For personal services, $155,080. Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $37,800, for temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, $5,000; two members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all, $43,100; William Tindall.Service of, continued.*Ante*, p. 468.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to continue William Tindall in the service of the government of the District of Columbia notwithstanding theVol. 41, p. 614.[U. S. C., p. 72](/us/usc/p72).*Ante*, p. 468. provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, as amended; In all, Executive Office, $309,000. 951 care of district buildingCare of District Building. For personal services, $56,054; services of cleaners as necessary,Operating force.*Proviso*.Assistant engineers or watchmen. not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $15,000; in all, $71,054: *Provided*, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Building. For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor notOperating expenses. to exceed $5,000 and miscellaneous supplies, including $10,000 for repairs to the roof of the District Building, such work to be performedRoof repairs. by day labor or otherwise, in the judgment of the commissioners, $42,700. assessor’s officeAssessor’s office. For personal services, $219,070; temporary clerk hire, $4,000; in all, $223,070. license bureauLicense bureau. For personal services, $18,820; temporary clerk hire, $1,000; in all, $19,820. For the purchase of motor vehicle identification number plates,Motor vehicle identification plates. $20,000. collector’s officeCollector’s office. For personal services, including $1,000 for temporary clerk hire, $47,890. auditor’s officeAuditor’s office. For personal services, $126,200; and the compensation of theDisbursing officer permitted other duties. present incumbent of the position of disbursing officer of the District of Columbia shall be exclusive of his compensation as United States property and disbursing officer for the National Guard of the District of Columbia. office of corporation counselCorporation counsel’s office. Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $77,640. coroner’s officeCoroner’s office. For personal services, including not to exceed $3,500 for compensationPersonal services, etc. of surgeons making autopsies, $11,340. For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor wagonExpenses of morgue, inquests, etc. for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquest, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $5,000. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and marketsOffice of Superintendent of weights, etc. For personal services, $47,080. Personal services. For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in connectionInspection, etc. with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $500. For maintenance and repairs to markets, $7,500, of which amountMarkets. $500 shall be immediately available. 952 Motor vehicles.For maintenance and repair of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $2,000. For the purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $530, to be immediately available. Eastern and Western Markets, sheds, etc.For the construction at Eastern and Western Markets of suitable sheds and facilities for the use of farmers retailing farm produce, $10,000. Farmers’ produce market.Site, etc.Farmers’ produce market: For the acquisition of squares numbered 354 and 355, including all necessary expenses for the clearing and leveling of the ground, the erection of protection sheds and suitable stands and stalls, and the installation of sanitary conveniences and heating and telephone service, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing acquisition of a site for theVol. 45. p. 1487. farmers’ produce market, and for other purposes,” approved March 2, 1929 (45 Stat., p, 1487), $300,000, to be immediately available. Highways department.highways department For personal services, $224,150. Shop construction, etc.For an additional amount for such additional construction on parcel 108/3 immediately east of the Bryant Street pumping station and at the District automobile repair shop as may be necessary to house the shops of the highways department, including the laboratory of the inspector of asphalts and cements, and for repairing, servicing, and housing the motor vehicles of the highways department, the trees and parking department, and of such other departments*Proviso*.Replacing equipment, etc. as may be economically served at this location, $150,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses of moving, installing, purchasing, and replacing equipment, the extension of steam lines, personal services, and other necessary expenses. Sewer department.sewer department For personal services, $196,600. Trees and parking department.trees and parking department For personal services, $25,100. Engineer department, office of chief clerk.office of chief clerk, engineer department For personal services, $28,060. Central garage.central garage For personal services, $5,240. Municipal Architect’s office.municipal architect’s office For personal services, $63,700. Limit for services of draftsmen, etc.All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment for the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, clerks, copyists, and inspectors, employed on construction workBasis of amount therefor. provided for by said appropriations, shall be based on an amount not exceeeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 2¾ per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000. 953 public utilities commissionPublic Utilities Commission. For two commissioners at $7,500 each; people’s counsel, $7,500;Commissioners, people’s counsel, etc. and for other personal services; in all, $92,620. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorizedIncidental expenses. by law, $2,700. board of examiners, steam engineersExaminers, steam engineers. Salaries: Three members, at $150 each, $450. department of insuranceInsurance department. For personal services, $19,760. surveyor’s officeSurveyor’s office. For personal services, $87,450. For the preparation of plats of real-estate holdings of the DistrictPlats of real estate holdings. of Columbia, $3,000. district of columbia employees’ compensation fundEmployees’ Compensation Fund. For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District ofPayment for injuries.Vol. 41, p. 104. Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performanceVol. 39, p. 742. of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $32,000. Administrative Expenses, Compensation to Injured EmployeesAdministrative expenses, compensation to injured employees. of the District of Columbia: For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for disability or deathVol. 45. p. 600. resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May 17, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 600), $63,000, for transfer to and expenditure byTransfers to Employees’ Compensation Commission. the Employees’ Compensation Commission under its appropriations “Salaries and expenses,” $60,000, and “Printing and binding,” $3,000. For financing of the liability of the government of the DistrictRetirement Act.Contribution to, from District revenues.Vol. 41, p. 619; VoL 44, p. 912.*Ante*, P. 468.[U. S. C., p. 75; Supp. IV, p. 36](/us/usc/p75/p36). of Columbia, created by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 707a), $150,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil service retirement and disability fund.” office of the director of trafficDirector of Traffic. For personal services, $32,040, and for temporary clerk hire,Personal services. $5,000; in all, $37,040. For purchase and installation of electric traffic lights, signalsNecessary expenses. and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the commissioners,*Proviso*.Not available for street-car loading platforms, etc. $53,000: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act, or that is now available shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining street-car loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. free public libraryPublic Library. For personal services, $276,040. Personal services. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at theSubstitutes, etc. discretion of the librarian, $6,000: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Library stations restrictions. money appropriated by this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations not now in operation. 954 Sunday, etc., opening.For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $3,000. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other printed material, including payment in advance for subscriptions*Proviso*.Advances for books purchased, etc. to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $54,500: *Provided*, That the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the librarian of the free Public Library, upon requisition previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not exceeding $25 at the first of each month, to be expended for the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, numbers of periodicals or newspapers, or other printed material, and to be accounted for on itemized vouchers. Binding.For binding, including necessary personal services, $15,000. Contingent expenses.For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment, care of grounds, maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, including not to exceed $700 for purchase and exchange of one motor delivery vehicle, $25,000. Chevy Chase and Woodridge branches, rent.For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy Chase and Woodridge, $4,800. Building for Northeastern branch.For a building for the Northeastern branch library, including necessary furniture and equipment, $150,000. Register of Wills.register of wills Personal services.For personal services, $73,640. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, towels, towel service, window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, $11,000. Recorder of Deeds.recorder of deeds Personal services.For personal services, $104,020. Recopying old land records, etc.For recopying old land records of the District of Columbia, including personal services, typewriting machines, and necessary supplies and equipment, $10,000. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including telephone service, printing, binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; typewriters, towels, towel service, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto; books of reference, law books and periodicals, street-car tokens, postage, not exceeding $100 for rest room for sick and injured employees and the equipment of and medical supplies for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $14,000. Rent.For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $14,000. Transfers allowed between appropriations for any bureau, etc., to meet reallocation increases.When specifically approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transfers may be made between the appropriations in this Act under the respective jurisdiction of any bureau, office, institution, or service, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under any such organization unit; any such transfers shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Contingent expenses.CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES Objects specified.For checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; purchase of laboratory apparatus and equipment, and main955 tenance of laboratory in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles, not to exceed $500; calculating and labor saving machines for the assessor’s and collector’s offices, not to exceed $14,000; traveling expenses not to exceed $3,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia;Removing unsafe, etc., buildings. expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $10 per diem to each member of Board of survey, other than the inspector of buildings, while actually employed on surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings; and other general necessary expenses*Proviso*.Printing, etc., list of supplies schedules, forbidden. of District offices, $46,500: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act or of any appropriation which may now be available shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded. printing and binding For printing and binding, $75,000. Printing and binding.Automobiles.Maintenance, etc. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, $76,000; for exchange of such passenger-carrying automobiles now owned by the District of Columbia as, in the judgment of the Commissioners of said District, have or shall become unserviceable, $18,000; in all, $94,000. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles inAllowances for privately owned motor vehicles. the performance of official duties at the rate of not to exceed $312 per year for each automobile and $156 per year for each motor cycle, $12,816. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles providedUse of public vehicles restricted. for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act:*Proviso*.Cost restriction for purchases. *Provided*, That with the exception of motor vehicles for the police and fire departments, no automobile shall be acquired under any provision of this Act, by purchase or exchange at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged exceeding $650, except as may be herein specifically authorized. No motor vehicles shall be transferredTransfers forbidden. from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the purchase,Use of other appropriations for horses, etc., forbidden. livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment ofFire insurance not permitted. premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendentTelephones allowed at residences of designated officials. of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the street-cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, Director of Public Wel-956fare, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, the superintendent of machinery, and the fire marshal, under appropriationsConnections permitted. contained in this Act. The commissioners may connect any or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia, or to both of such systems. Telephones may also be maintained in the residences of the general superintendent of penal institutions, and such other officials of the workhouse and reformatory as may be approved by the commissioners. Postage.For postage for strictly official mail matter, $23,000. Car fares, etc.The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business*Provisos*.Limitation. of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street-car and bus fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as notFiremen and police excepted. to exceed a total of $8,300: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme*Proviso*.Contracts for reporting permitted. Court of said District, $3,500: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when in their judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to contract for stenographic reporting services under available appropriations contained in this Act. General advertising.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $9,500. Taxes in arrears.Vol. 30, p. 250.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1930, as required to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $10,000. Employment service, expenses.employment service Historical tablets.For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $10,000. Emergency fund.historical places For purchase and erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the District of Columbia, $500. emergency fund Expenses under, restricted.To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners,*Proviso*.Voucher for expenses. $4,000: *Provided*, That the certificate of the commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure not to exceed $1,000 for such investigations as they may deem necessary. Refund of erroneous collections.refund of erroneous collections Payment authorized.To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, payments for lost library nooks, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into957 the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion required by law, to refund such erroneousBuilding permits.Vol. 36, p. 967. payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911 (36 Stat., p. 967),$4,000:*Proviso*.Refunds for prior years. *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners onConference on Uniform State Laws. Uniform State Laws, $250. MUNICIPAL CENTERMunicipal Center. For continuing the acquisition of squares numbered 490, 491, andAcquisition of site, etc., for.*Ante*, p. 19. 533, and reservation 10 in the District of Columbia, including buildings and other structures thereon, as a site for a municipal center, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitledVol. 45, p. 1408. “An Act to provide for the establishment of a municipal center in the District of Columbia,” approved February 28, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1408), $3.000,000, to be immediately available, and to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the*Proviso*.Rentals allowed. District of Columbia are authorized in their discretion to rent, until their removal becomes necessary, at fair rental values, buildings acquired by the District in the municipal center, and to use suchUse of receipts. part of the rentals heretofore and hereafter collected as may be necessary for expenses of collection, repairs and alterations to buildings by day labor or otherwise, expenses of moving and preservation and operating expenses of such buildings as may continue in private occupancy, the balance of the rentals to be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia. For the preparation of plans and design of buildings for thePlans and designs.Preparation of, and estimate of cost, etc. municipal center, and for a model and estimates of cost of the complete group of buildings, including supplies, equipment, and traveling and other necessary expenses, and the employment, by contract or otherwise, of such architectural and other professional servicesArchitectural, etc., services. as shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $65,000. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIRStreet, etc., Improvement and Repair. For assessment and permit work, of which not to exceed $25,000Assessment and permit work.Paving roadways. shall be available for the paving of roadways under the permit system, including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $300,000. gasoline tax road and street fundGasoline tax road and street fund. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets,Paving, etc., streets and roads from. avenues, and roads, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, and including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, as follows, to be paid from the special fund created by section 1 of the ActVoL 43, p. 106. entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved April 23, 1924, and accretions by repayment of assessments: For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and guttersImprovements designated. where necessary, the following: Southeast: Raleigh Street, Nichols Avenue to Seventh Street,Raleigh Street SE. $6,300; Southeast: Shannon Place, W Street to Chicago Street, $6,800; Shannon Place SE. 958 W Street SE.Southeast: W Street, Nichols Avenue to Shannon Place, $4,000; Chicago Street SE.Southeast: Chicago Street, Nichols Avenue Westward, $7,700; Mount View Place SE.Southeast: Mount View Place, Maple View Place to Morris Road, $3,000; Chester Street SE.Southeast: Chester Street, Maple View Place to Valley Place, $5,900; Fourteenth Street SE.Southeast: Fourteenth Street, Ridge Place to S Street, $2,600; Twenty-second Street SE.Southeast: Twenty-second Street, Minnesota Avenue to R Street, $7,700; R Street SE.Southeast: R Street, Twenty-second Street to Twenty-fifth Street, $16,000; Naylor Road SE.Southeast: Naylor Road, Minnesota Avenue to R Street, $14,200; Twenty-third Street SE.Southeast: Twenty-third Street, Q Street to R Street, $5,900; Q Street SE.Southeast: Q Street, Naylor Road to Twenty-sixth Place, $16,400; Park Place SE.Southeast: Park Place, Twenty-third Street to Twenty-fifth Street, $7,000; White Place SE.Southeast: White Place, Park Place to Minnesota Avenue, $4,700; Thirtieth Street SE.Southeast: Thirtieth Street, Pennsylvania Avenue to R Street, $8,500; Fifteenth Street SE.Southeast: Fifteenth Street, Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street, $4,400; K Street SE.Southeast: K Street, Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street, $7,500; Southeast: K Street, Eleventh Street to Twelfth Street, $3,700; C Street SE.Southeast: C Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $3,700; Twenty-fourth Street NE.Northeast: Twienty-fourth Street, Benning Road to E Street, $9,600; Twentieth Street NE.Northeast: Twentieth Street, Benning Road to H Street, $6,500; Bennett Place NE.Northeast: Bennett Place, Twentieth Street to Twenty-second Street, $7,600; Oates Street NE.Northeast: Oates Street, Montello Avenue to West Virginia Avenue, $8,500; Owen Place NE.Northeast: Owen Place, West Virginia Avenue to Montello Avenue, $4,000; Evarts Street NE.Northeast: Evarts Street, Twenty-eighth Street to Bladensburg Road, $8,100; Franklin Street NE.Northeast: Franklin Street, Thirtieth Street to Bladensburg Road, $7,200; Walnut Street NE.Northeast: Walnut Street, Vista Street to Myrtle Avenue, $9,000; Thirtieth Street NE.Northeast: Thirtieth Street, Otis Street to Perry Street, $4,400; Quincy Street NE.Northeast: Quincy Street, Twenty-first Street to Twenty-second Street, $4,100; Perry Street NE.Northeast: Perry Street, Twenty-second Street to Twenty-fourth Street, $7,600; Twenty-fourth Street NE.Northeast: Twenty-fourth Street, Otis Street to Perry Street, $7,300; Otis Street NE.Northeast: Otis Street, Eighteenth Street to South Dakota Avenue, $26,500; Urell Place NE.Northeast: Urell Place, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $6,900; Twelfth Street NE.Northeast: Twelfth Street, Upshur Street to Urell Place, $3,600; Randolph Street NE.Northeast: Randolph Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, $9,200; Fourteenth Street NE.Northeast: Fourteenth Street, Lawrence Street to Newton Street, $10,200; Jackson Street NE.Northeast: Jackson Street, west of Tenth Street, $5,600; Seventeenth Street NE.Northeast: Seventeenth Street, 250 feet south of Douglas Street to Rhode Island Avenue, $20,100; Evarts Street NE.Northeast: Evarts Street, Seventeenth Street westward, $8,000; Douglas Street NE.Northeast: Douglas Street, Third Street to Fourth Street, $5,600; 959 Northeast: Quincy Street, Twelfth Street to Fourteenth Street,Quincy Street NE. $15,700; Northeast: Vista Street, Central Avenue to Walnut Street,Vista Street NE. $13,000; Northwest: Third Street, Webster Street to Allison Street, $4,800;Third Street NW. Northwest: Allison Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Rock CreekAllison Street NW. Cemetery, $9,500; Northwest: Fourth Street, Webster Street to Allison Street,Fourth Street NW. $4,800; Northwest: Kansas Avenue, Fifth Street to Farragut Street andKansas Avenue NW.Farragut Street NW. Farragut Street, Kansas Avenue to Fifth Street, $5,900; Northwest: Gallatin Street, Ninth Street to Illinois Avenue,Gallatin Street NW. $2,000; Northwest: Fifth Street, Longfellow Street to Peabody Street,Fifth Street NW. $23,300; Northwest: Fifth Street, Sheridan Street to Tuckerman Street, $6,500; Northwest: Tuckerman Street, Fifth Street to Seventh Street,Tuckerman Street NW. $11,600; Northwest: Tewkesbury Place, Eighth Street to Ninth Street,Tewkesbury Place NW. $5,500; Northwest: Eighth Street, Van Buren Street to Underwood Street,Eighth Street NW. $7,800; Northwest: Venable Place, west of Piney Branch Road, $4,100; Venable Place NW. Northwest: Seventh Street, Dahlia Street to Fern Street, $10,000;Seventh Street NW. Northwest: Georgia Avenue, Rock Creek Church Road toGeorgia Avenue NW. Buchanan Street, $68,400; Northwest: Hemlock Street, Twelfth Street to Alaska Avenue,Hemlock Street NW. $6,300; Northwest: Twelfth Street, Alaska Avenue to Hemlock Street,Twelfth Street NW. $9,100; Northwest: Juniper Street, Morningside Drive to ThirteenthJuniper Street NW. Street, $8,600; Northwest: Thirteenth Street, Alaska Avenue to Kalmia Road,Thirteenth Street NW. $15,700; Northwest: Morningside Drive, Alaska Avenue to Kalmia Road,Morningside Drive NW. $23,800; Northwest: Eighth Street, Marietta Place to Quackenbos Street,Eighth Street NW. $16,500; Northwest: Quackenbos Street, Georgia Avenue to Eighth Street,Quackenbos Street NW. $11,800; Northwest: Van Buren Street, Sixteenth Street to alley east,Van Buren Street NW. $2,000; Northwest: Montague Street, Fourteenth Street to SixteenthMontague Street NW. Street0, $11,200; Northwest: Iowa Avenue, Piney Branch Road to Gallatin Street,Iowa Avenue NW. $6 200; Northwest: Emerson Street, Sixteenth Street to Piney BranchEmerson Street NW. Road, $5,100; Northwest: Parkwood Place, Fourteenth Street to Center Street,Parkwood Place NW. $5,900; Northwest: Clydesdale Place, Adams Mill Road to Ontario Road,Clydesdale Place NW. $3,900; Northwest: Twenty-fourth Street, Calvert Street to ConnecticutTwenty-fourth Street NW. Avenue, $7,000; Northwest: Woodley Road, Woodley Place to Cathedral Avenue,Woodley Bond NW. $4,000; Northwest: Macomb Street, east of Connecticut Avenue, $6,900; Macomb Street NW. Northwest: Thirtieth Street, Albemarle Street to BrandywineThirtieth Street NW. Street, $9,200; 960 Everett Street NW.Northwest: Everett Street, Thirty-sixth Street to Connecticut Avenue, $600; Fessenden Street NW.Northwest: Fessenden Street, Connecticut Avenue to Thirty-fourth Street, $8,400; Nevada Avenue NW.Northwest: Nevada Avenue, Rittenhouse Street to Runnymede Place, $3,000; Emery Place NW.Northwest: Emery Place, Forty-first Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $5,100; Rodman Street NW.Northwest: Rodman Street, Thirty-fifth Street to Idaho Avenue, $7,600; Thirty-fifth Street NW.Northwest: Thirty-fifth Street, Ordway Street to Quebec Street, $10,100; Thirty-ninth Street NW.Northwest: Thirty-ninth Street, Fulton Street to Garfield Street, $7,100; Norton Street NW.Northwest: Norton Street, Sherrier Place to Conduit Road, $5,100; Sherrier Place NW.Northwest: Sherrier Place, Cathedral Avenue to Norton Street (20-foot strip), $20,000; Reservoir Street NW.Northwest: Reservoir Street, Thirty-second Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $7,300; Twenty-sixth Street NW.Northwest: Twenty-sixth Street, P Street to East Place, $4,600; Bancroft Place NW.Northwest: Bancroft Place, east of Twenty-third Street to Twenty-fourth Street, $11,000; Iris Street NW.Northwest: Iris Street, from Thirteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $20,900; Dana Street NW.Northwest: Dana Street, from Conduit Road to Hurst Terrace, $4,000; Hurst Terrace NW.Northwest: Hurst Terrace, from Dana Street westward, $5,500; Twelfth Street NW.West: Twelfth Street, B Street north to B Street south, $40,600; Grading, etc.For grading, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, the following: New York Avenue NE.Northeast: New York Avenue, Florida Avenue to Bladensburg Road, $38,300; Chestnut Street NE.Northeast: Chestnut Street, Vista Street to Monroe Street, andMonroe Street NE. Monroe Street, Clinton Avenue to Eastern Avenue, $6,000; Tilden Street NW.Reno Road NW.Upton Street NW.Northwest: Tilden Street, Sedgwick Street to Reno Road; Reno Road, Tilden Street to Upton Street; and Upton Street, Reno Road to Thirty-eighth Street, $5,000; Albemarle Street NW.Forty-ninth Street NW.Northwest: Albemarle Street, Massachusetts Avenue to Fortyninth Street, and Forty-ninth Street, Massachusetts Avenue to Butterworth Place, $6,000; Nebraska Avenue NW.Northwest: Nebraska Avenue, Rittenhouse Streets to Daniels Road, $8,000; Rittenhouse Street NW.Northwest: Rittenhouse Street, Twenty-ninth Street to Daniels Road, $9,000. H Street NW.Widening, Massachusetts Avenue to Thirteenth Street.Northwest: For widening to fifty-six feet and repaving the roadway of H Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Thirteenth Street, including necessary replacement and relocation of sewers and waterContracts. mains, $133,000, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into*Proviso*.Assessment of cost on abutting property.*Post*, p. 1197. contract or contracts for this work at a cost not to exceed $191,400: *Provided*, That in widening and repaving this roadway, 40 per centum of the entire cost thereof shall be assessed against and collected from the owners of the abutting property in the manner provided inVol. 38, p. 524; Vol. 39, p. 716. the Act approved July 1, 1914 (38 Stat. p. 524), as amended by section 8 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. p. 716).Modification of vaults under sidewalks,*Post*, p. 1386. The owners of abutting property also shall be equired to modify, at their own expense, the roofs of any vaults that may be under the sidewalk or parking on said street if it be found necessary to change such vaults to permit of the roadway being widened. 961 For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction ofGrading streets, alleys, and roads. necessary culverts and retaining walls, $80,000;For surfacing block pavements and paving the unpaved centerSurfacing block pavements, etc. strips of paved roadways, $100,000;For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to beMinor changes in roadways, etc. approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, $10,000;For construction of curbs and gutters, or concrete shoulders inCurbs and gutters. connection with all forms of macadam roadways and adjustment of roadways thereto, together with resurfacing and replacing of base of such roadways where necessary, $290,000;For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt,Surfacing, resurfacing, etc., pavements. granite block, or concrete pavements with the same or other approved material, $300,000;In all, $1,807,900; to be disbursed and accounted for as “GasolineDisbursement, etc. tax, road and street improvements,” and for that purpose shall constituteProvisos.Restricted to specified improvements. one fund and be available immediately: *Provided*, That no part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street or section thereof not herein specified: *Provided further*, That assessmentsAssessment under existing law. in accordance with existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways where such roadways are paved or repaved with funds derived from the collection of the tax on motor-vehicle fuels and accretions by repayment of assessments: *Provided further*,Priority to through thoroughfares. That in the performance of the street-paving work specially provided for in this Act priority shall be given to those streets which are more in the nature of through thoroughfares or arterial highways. street repair, grading, and extension Condemnation: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads,Condemnation.Small park areas, etc. and alleys, and for the condemnation of areas less than 250 square feet at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the commissioners, $5,000. To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize theOpening streets, etc., under permanent highway system.Vol. 37, p. 95. Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension beyond the southern boundary ofFourteenth Street excepted. Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of ColumbiaIndefinite appropriation for, from District revenues. there is appropriated such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year 1931, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Repairs: For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads,Repairs, etc. alleys, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the rental of necessary garage space therefor; and including the surfacing and resurfacing, or replacement, with the same or other approved materials, of such asphalt or concrete pavements as may be done within the funds available under this appropriation,*Proviso*.Replacing asphalt plant. $1,175,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to replace the existing municipal asphalt plant at a cost not to exceed $20,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements ofStreet railways, pavements. street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5Vol. 20, p. 105. of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. 962 Changing sidewalk widths, etc.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all highways that may be improved under appropriations contained in this Act. Sidewalks and curbs.For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $20,000. Open competition for street improvement contracts.No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for repairing, resurfacing, or newly paving any street, avenue, or roadway by private contract unless the specifications for such work shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving material as well as in price. Repairs for inferior work, etc., by contractors, required for additional period.In addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractors to keep new pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date of the completion of the work, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall further require that where repairs are necessary during the four years following the said one-year period, due to inferior work or defective materials, such repairs shall be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense. Bridges.bridges Construction, etc.For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, including personal services and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $87,500. Connecticut Avenue, over Klingle Valley.New bridge.Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Klingle Valley: For construction of a bridge to replace the Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Klingle Valley, including necessary changes in water mains, and including personal services, engineering, and incidental expenses, $250,000, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for construction of said bridge at a cost not to*Proviso*.Maintenance, etc., of underground or overhead trolley. exceed $500,000: *Provided*, That any street railway company using said bridge shall install thereon at its own expense an approved standard underground system and an overhead trolley system of street car propulsion, including trolley poles of approved design, and at its own expense shall thereafter maintain such underground and overhead construction and bear the cost of surfacing, resurfacing,Payment of cost of excess construction. and maintaining in good condition the space between the railway tracks and two feet exterior thereto, and shall defray the cost of excess construction occasioned by such use. Monroe Street NE.Viaduct, etc., reconstruction over B. & O. tracks, at.For the reconstruction of a viaduct or bridge and approaches thereto to replace the existing viaduct in the line of Monroe Street northeast, over the tracks and right of way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in accordance with plans and profile of said work to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including purchase or condemnation, under chapter 15Vol. 45, p. 1437. of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia as amended (45 Stat., p. 1437), of necessary land, construction of and changes in*Provisos*.One-half cost borne by railroad company. sewers and water mains, personal services, and engineering and incidental expenses, $135,000: *Provided*, That one-half of the total cost of constructing the said viaduct or bridge and approaches shall be borne and paid by the said railroad company, its successors and assigns, to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia, to the credit of the District of Columbia, and the same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and property of the said railroad company and shall constitute a legal indebtedness of said company in favor of the District of Columbia, and the said lien may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by a bill in equity brought by the said commissioners in the Supreme Court of the963 District of Columbia, or by any other lawful proceeding against the said railroad company: *Provided further*, That no street railwayStreet railway using, to pay one-fourth cost thereof. company shall use the viaduct or bridge or any approaches thereto herein authorized for its tracks until the said company shall have paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia a sum equal to one-fourth of the cost of said viaduct or bridge and approaches, which sum shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia for deposit to the credit of the District of Columbia. For the construction of a subway and approaches thereto underChestnut Street NW.Subway construction under B. & C. tracks in vicinity of. the tracks and right of way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in the vicinity of Chestnut Street or of the intersection of Fern Place and Piney Branch Road, extended, in the District of Columbia on a line to be determined by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and in accordance with plans and profiles of said subway and approaches to be approved by the said commissioners, including the purchase or condemnation, under chapter 15 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, as amended (45Vol. 45. p. 1437. Stat., p. 1437), of necessary land, construction of and changes in sewers and water mains, personal services, and engineering and incidental*Provisos*.One-half cost to be paid by railroad. expenses, $250,000: *Provided*, That one-half of the total cost of constructing said subway and thereafter the cost of maintaining the structure within the limits of its right of way shall be borne and paid by the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia for deposit to the credit of the District of Columbia, and the same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and property of the said railroad company, and shall constitute a legal indebtedness against the said railroad company in favor of the District of Columbia, and said lien may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by a bill in equity brought by the saidGrade crossingclosed. Commissioners in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or by any other legal proceeding against the said railroad company: *Provided, further*, That from and after the completion of the said subway and approaches, the highway grade crossing over the tracks and right of way of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company at Chestnut Street shall be forever closed against further traffic of any kind. For reconstruction, where necessary, and for maintenance andWharves.Reconstruction, repairs, etc. repair of wharves under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in the Washington Channel of the Potomac River, $15,000. trees and parkingsTrees and parkings. For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen,Contingent expenses. repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, purchase and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $112,500. public convenience stationsPublic convenience stations. For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensationMaintenance. of necessary employees, $27,900. sewersSewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including theCleaning, etc. replacement of the following motor trucks: One at not to exceed $1,350; one at not to exceed $925; one at not to exceed $4,000; for964Pumping stations. operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of coal, oil, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $250,000. Main and pipe.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $210,000. Suburban.For suburban sewers, including the replacement of one motor truck at not to exceed $4,000, the purchase of one motor tractor at not to exceed $1,500, the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $675,000, including the construction by day labor or otherwise, in the discretion of the commissioners, of an addition to the garage at the sewer department yard on reservation 248, at not to exceed $9,000. Assessment and permit work.Balance available.Vol. 45, p. 1274.For assessment and permit work, sewers, $285,000; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1930 shall remain available until June 30, 1931. Rights of way, etc.For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, and of the necessary land for the purpose of acquiring sufficient area to provide for the necessaryDisposal of raw sewage. treatment of raw sewage of the District of Columbia before discharging same into Oxon Run, in the vicinity of South Capitol and Galveston Streets, $2,500. Upper Anacostia interceptor.Balance available.Vol. 45, p. 658.For continuing construction of the upper Anacostia main intercepter along the Anacostia River between Benning Road and the District line, the appropriation of $15,000 for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929 is hereby made available for the fiscal years 1930 and 1931. Upper Potomac interceptor.For continuing the construction of the Upper Potomac main intercepter, $50,000. Mosquito control.For the control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia, including personal services, purchase, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of oil, and other necessary expenses, $60,000, to be*Proviso*.Amounts for other agencies. immediately available: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated there may be transferred for direct expenditure not to exceed $16,500 to the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital and, in the interest of coordinating the work of mosquito control in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $7,500 to the Public Health Service of the Treasury Department, the amounts so transferred to be available for the objects herein specified. City refuse.COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE Personal services.Sweeping, cleaning, snow and ice removal, etc.For personal services, $142,260. For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rentVehicles, etc. of storage rooms; maintenance and repair of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; maintenance and repair of nonpassenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $540,000. Garbage, dead animals, ashes, etc.To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of965 Columbia, including inspection; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps; and incidental expenses, $990,000, including not to exceed $25,000 for repair andGarbage reduction plant.*Provisos*.Proceeds covered Into Treasury. improvement of the garbage reduction plant: *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the manner provided by law: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not beDeposit of receipts.Use restricted. available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDSPublic playgrounds. For personal services, $113,180: *Provided*, That employmentsPersonal services.*Proviso*.Employment restricted. hereunder, except directors who shall be employed for twelve months, shall be distributed as to duration in accordance with corresponding employments provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924. For general maintenance, equipment, supplies, incidental and contingentMaintenance, etc. expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance of one motor truck, $25,000; for construction of physical improvements by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the commissioners, $50,000; in all, $75,000. For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping openPublic school playgrounds during the summer. during the summer months the public-school playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners; for special and temporary services, directors, assistants, and janitor service during the summer vacation, and, in the larger yards, daily after school hours during the school term, $30,000. For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses ofSwimming pools. operating three swimming pools, $3,000. Bathing pools: For superintendence, $600; for temporary services,Bathing pools. supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $6,880: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Double pay restriction not applicable to superintendent.Vol. 39, p. 120. section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved May 10, 1916 (39 Stat., p. 120, sec. 6), as amended, shall not apply to the position of superintendent of these bathing pools during the fiscal year 1931. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENTElectrical department. For personal services, $130,520. Personal services.Supplies, contingent expenses, etc. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record book, stationery, livery, purchase and repair of bicycles, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, $32,200. For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone servicesPlacing wires underground.Police-patrol and fire-alarm systems, etc. underground, extension and relocation of police-patrol and fire-alarm systems, purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment and expenses, including not to exceed $4,600, for replacement of obsolete fire-alarm boxes by new-type boxes, $29,000. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of publicLighting streets, etc. lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost of maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operationAir mail lights.966 of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions ofVol. 36, p. 1008.Vol. 37, p. 181. sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat., pp. 1008–1011, sec. 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat., pp. 181–184, sec. 7), and other laws applicablePurchase of nonpassenger vehicle, etc. thereto, including not to exceed $550 for the purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, and including not to exceed $26,000 for operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $915,000, and in addition there is hereby*Provisos*.Electric street lighting rates. reappropriated the unobligated balance of the appropriation for lighting for the fiscal year 1929: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed:Award of contracts to lowest competitor. *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. Study of power needs.*Post*, p. 1391.For the purpose of making a study of the power needs of the District of Columbia with a view to establishing a municipally owned and operated service therefor, including the employment, by contract or otherwise, of such expert and other personal services as shall be approved by the commissioners, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and necessary incidental expenses, $25,000. Public schools.PUBLIC SCHOOLS Administrative and supervisory officers.Vol, 43, p. 368.Salaries: For personal services of administrative and supervisory officers in accordance with the Act fixing and regulating the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), including salaries of presidents of teachers’ colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $665,800. Clerks, etc.For personal services of clerks and other employees, $154,800. School attendance and work permit department.Vol. 43, pp. 367, 806.For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), and the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 806–808), $38,800. Teachers, librarians, etc.Vol. 43, pp. 367–375.Salaries: For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), and professors in salary class nine, $6,200,000: *Provided*, That as teacher vacancies occur during the fiscal year 1931 in grades one to four inclusive of the elementary schools, such vacancies may beKindergarten teachers. filled by the assignment of teachers now employed in kindergartens, and teachers employed in kindergartens are hereby made eligible to teach in the said grades. Soliciting subscription, etc., in schools prohibited.No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonialsException. to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. 967 For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacationVacation schools. schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $36,000. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926,Annuities. entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia,’ approvedVol. 44, p. 728.Vol. 41, p. 387.*Ante*, p. 471. January 15, 1920, and for other purposes” (41 Stat., pp. 387–390), $400,000. NIGHT SCHOOLSNight schools. Salaries: For teachers and janitors of night schools, includingSalaries. teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $95,000. Contingent expenses: For contingent and other necessary expenses,Contingent expenses. including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,500. the deaf, dumb, and blindDeaf, dumb, and blind. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb personsInstruction of deaf and dumb. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 884.[U. S. C., p. 688](/us/usc/p688). for in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 238), and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $29,500. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachableColored deaf mutes.Tuition of, under contract. age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $6,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation*Proviso*.Supervision. shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, inBlind children.Tuition of, under contract.*Proviso*.Supervision. Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $11,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. americanization workAmericanization Work. For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of allInstructing foreigners of all ages. ages in both day and night classes, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day schools, $12,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books,Equipment, etc. equipment, and supplies, $1,000. community center departmentCommunity centers. For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and communitySalaries and expenses.Vol. 43, p. 375. secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 369, 370); clerks and part-time employees, including janitors on account of meetings of parent-teacher associations and other activities, and contingent expenses, equipment, supplies, and lighting fixtures, $42,000. care of buildings and groundsCare of buildings and grounds.Salaries.Smaller buildings and rented rooms. Salaries: For personal services, including care of smaller buildings and rented rooms at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each school room, other than those occupied by atypical968 or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $786,890. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous Schools for tubercular pupils.For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, $7,000. For expenses of operating schools for crippled pupils, including personal services, $2,400; equipment, $10,000; and maintenance, $4,000; in all, $16,400. Transporting tubercular and crippled pupils.*Proviso*.Car fores, etc., allowed.For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular pupils, and for pupils attending schools for crippled pupils, $19,000: *Provided*, That expenditures for street-car and bus fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of street-car and bus fares covered by this Act. Manual, etc., training expenses.For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $90,000, to be immediately available. Fuel, light, and power.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $295,000. Furniture, etc.furniture For designated school buildings.For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings, as follows: Buchanan School, four-room addition, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, $7,000; Eaton School, combination assembly hall and gymnasium, $2,900; Eliot Junior High School, in vicinity of the Kingsman, $42,700; ParkAvailable until June 30, 1932. View School, addition. $12,400; in all, $65,000, to be immediately available and to continue available until June 30, 1932. Contingent expenses, flags, etc.For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, ice, United States flags, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $3,000 for books of reference and periodicals, not exceeeding $1,500 for replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, not exceeeding $45,000 for equipment and repair of equipment at Central and Dunbar High Schools, and not exceeding $5,000 for*Proviso*.No bond for Army supplies to cadets. labor, $200,000, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be required on account of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. Purchases subject to approval of commissioners.No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furniture and equipment for the public schools of the District of Columbia shall be expended unless the requisitions of the Board of Education therefor shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the Purchasing Officer and the Auditor for the District of Columbia acting for the Commissioners. Supplies to pupils.For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including necessary labor not to exceed $1,000, $125,000, to be immediately available:*Proviso*.Changes authorized. *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in their discretion, are authorized to exchange any badly damaged book for a new one, the new one to be similar in text to the old one when it was new. Additional, for books end supplies.*Ante*, p. 62.For an additional amount for textbooks and other educational books and supplies, as authorized by the Act of January 31, 1930 (Public, No. 41, 71st Cong.), including not to exceed $4,500 for personal services, $235,500, to be immediately available. Kindergartens.For maintenance of kindergartens, $7,000. School gardens.For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $3,000. 969 The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months inNature study, etc., teachers. which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, andSupplies for physics, etc., departments. for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and normal schools, and for the installation of the same, $16,000, to be immediately available. The children of officers and men of the United States Army,Children of Army. Navy, etc., admitted free. Navy, and Marine Corps, and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia, shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. Not to exceed $100,000 of the unexpected balances of appropriationsImproving grounds of new buildings.Unexpended balance available.Vol. 45, p. 1279. for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1928, is hereby made available until June 30, 1931, for the improvement of grounds surrounding public-school buildings, constructed under appropriations for the fiscal year 1929 and prior fiscal years, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For repairs and improvements to school buildings, repairingRepairs, etc., to buildings. and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric equipment, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains, and maintenance of motor trucks, including not to exceed $5,000 for purchase of one five-ton truck, $475,000. For necessary remodeling, painting, and equipping the WilsonWilson and Miner Normal Schools.Remodeling, etc. Normal School and the Miner Normal School for use as teachers’ colleges, including the repair and refinishing of existing equipment, $30,000. For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stock rooms,Rent. $7,000. For purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, forSchool yards playgrounds.*Proviso*.Use, etc. school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $10,000: *Provided*, That such playgrounds shall be kept open for play purposes in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the playground department. buildings and groundsBuildings and grounds. For the completion of the construction of the Alice Deal JuniorAlice Deal Junior High.Vol. 45, p. 1279. High School in the Reno section, $300,000. For the completion of the construction of the Charles WilliamCharles William Eliot Junior High.Vol. 45, p. 1280. Eliot Junior High School in the vicinity of the Kingsman School, $300,000. For continuing the construction of a new school building for theBusiness High. Business High School, $600,000. For the construction of a twelve-room addition and two gymnasiumsGordon Junior High.Addition, etc. at the Gordon Junior High School in accordance with the original plans for the construction of said building, $255,000. For the construction, by student labor or otherwise, of a shop forColumbia Junior High.Automobile study shop. instruction in automobile repairing on the grounds of the Columbia Junior High School, to be used by the classes of the Abbot Vocational School, $15,000. For the construction of a third story of eight rooms at the PowellPowell Junior High. Junior High School, together with a gymnasium, including the necessary remodeling of the present structure, $225,000. For the construction of a four-room addition to the CongressCongress Heights.Addition. Heights School, including a combination gymnasium and assembly970 hall, and including the necessary remodeling of the present build ing, $130,000. Colored pupils.Platoon school in Northeast.For the erection of a new platoon school building for colored pupils on a site already purchased in northeast Washington for that purpose, $200,000; and the commissioners are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such building, at a cost not to exceed $300,000. For buildings and grounds in northeast Washington.For the erection of a junior high school building on a site already purchased in northeast Washington for that purpose, in accordance with the plans of the Macfarland Junior High School, $200,000, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such building, at a cost not to exceed $500,000. For beginning the treatment of grounds, including the construction of necessary roads, walks, sewers, water mains, and gas and telephone service connections, on the property acquired by the District of Columbia in northeast Washington for a junior high school, and a platoon school for colored pupils, $50,000. Western High.Athletic field.Fund available.Vol. 45, p. 890.For the construction of the Western High School athletic field, including all appurtenances and other work necessary in connection therewith, $55,000, and the appropriation of $45,000 for this purpose contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1928, is hereby*Proviso*.Property to be vacated. made available under and in accordance with the provisions and for the purposes of this paragraph: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to close, vacate, and abandon R Street northwest, between the west line of Thirty-eighth Street and the east line of Thirty-ninth Street, and the alleys in squares 1307 and south of 1311, the property so vacated and abandoned to be used as part of the said athletic field. Deanwood.Addition.For the construction of a four-room addition to the Deanwood School, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, $100,000. Whittier.Addition.For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Whittier School, $120,000. Stuart Junior High.Addition.For the construction of an addition to the Stuart Junior High School, including ten classrooms and two gymnasiums, $240,000. Extensible building at Northampton Street and Broad Branch Road.For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, on a site now owned by the District of Columbia at Northampton Street and Broad Branch Road, $140,000. Wesley Heights.For the erection of an eight-room extensible building on a site now owned by the District of Columbia in Wesley Heights, $140,000. Tenth and Franklin Streets NE.For the erection of a four-room extensible building on a site now owned by the District of Columbia at Tenth and Franklin Streets northeast, $80,000. Anthony Bowen School.For the construction of a twelve-room addition to the Anthony Bowen School at First and M Streets southwest, $200,000. Disbursed as one fund.Available until expended.*Proviso*.Restricted to specified buildings.In all, $3,350,000, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and grounds, public schools,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and remain available until expended: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. Awarding contracts restricted.None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid or obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, lighting, plumbing, painting, and treatment of grounds, shall not have been awarded in one or a single contract, separate and apart from any other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest responsible bidder complying with all the legal requirements as to a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faith971 ful performance of the contract: *Provided*, That nothing herein*Proviso*.Rejection of bids. shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the commissioners the right to reject all bids. For the purchase of school building and playground sites, asPurchase of sites. follows: For the purchase of land adjoining the Douglass-Simmons School; Douglass -Simmons School.Anthony Bowen School. For the purchase of land adjoining the Anthony Bowen School at First and M Streets southwest; For the purchase of a site on which to locate an eight-room extensibleBurleith, etc. building in the vicinity of Burleith and Glover Park; For purchase of a site on which to locate an eight-room extensibleConnecticut Avenue near Jenifer Street. building west of Connecticut Avenue and south of Jenifer Street; For the purchase of land adjoining the Harrison School; Harrison School. For the purchase of land adjoining the Giddings School; Giddings School. For the purchase of land adjoining the Grant School; Grant School. For the purchase of land adjoining the Morgan School; Morgan School. For the purchase of a site on which to locate a junior high schoolMinnesota Avenue and Nineteenth Street.Junior high.Additional authorizations. in the vicinity of Minnesota Avenue and Nineteenth Street; For the purchase of additional school-building and playground sites; In all, $458,200: *Provided*, That with the exception of $85,700,*Provisos*.Cost restriction. no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site the cost of which shall exceed the full value assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value: *Provided further*, That part or parts of aParts of sites purchased under 125 per centiimitation. site may be purchased under the 125 per centum limitation if the total cost of the part or parts acquired does not at the time of such purchase exceed 125 per centum of the assessed value. Not to exceed $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriationSpecified unexpended balances.Available for additional buildings and sites. of $125,000 for the construction of a six-room addition to the Bryan School, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, and not to exceed $15,000 of the unexpendedVol. 44, p. 1315. balance of the appropriation of $250,000 for the construction of a ten-room addition, including gymnasium and lunch room, at the Francis Junior High School and the necessary remodeling of theVol. 45, p. 663. present building, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, and the unexpended balances of $39,793 of appropriations now available for the construction of a public convenience station in the vicinity of Thirty-second and MVol. 45, p. 657. Streets, northwest, which work shall be abandoned, are hereby made available until June 30, 1931, for the purchase of additional schoolbuilding and playground sites. Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriationFrancis Junior HighPlayground. of $250,000 for the construction of a ten-room addition, including gymnasium and lunch room, at the Francis Junior High School and the necessary remodeling of the present building, contained inVol. 45, p. 663. the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, is hereby made available until June 30, 1931, for the development for playground purposes of the land adjoining the Francis Junior High School loaned to the District of Columbia by the Federal Government. Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriationMcKinley High and Langley Junior High.Improving site, etc.Payable from unexpended balance.Vol. 44, p. 1315. of $375,000 for an addition to the Langley Junior High School, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the paving of roadway, construction of retaining wall, coping, fencing, and necessary grading of the property recently acquired as an addition to the combined site of the McKinley Technical High School and the Langley Junior High School. 972 Preparation of plans, etc.The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act under appropriations administered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the commissioners and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. Exits required.The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having an excess ofDoors to open outward. eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrancesUnlocked on school days. shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. Police.METROPOLITAN POLICE salaries Salaries, officers, etc.For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of the Metropolitan police force, the United StatesVol. 43, p. 174. park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia”*Ante*, p. 839. (43 Stat., pp. 174–175), including compensation at the rate of $2,100 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police department, $2,782,680. Personal services.For personal services, $117,350. miscellaneous Fuel.For fuel, $8,500. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to police stations and station grounds, $10,000.Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for fugitives, purchase of modern revolvers and other firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, rental and maintenance of teletype system, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, medals of award, not to exceed $200 for car tickets, not to exceed $3,000 for tuition and training in bullet-proof identification and ballistics, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, and saddles, mounted equipment, flags and halyards, storage of stolen or abandonedPrevention and detection of crime. property, and traveling and other expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, including expenses of harbor patrol, $66,500, of which amount a sum not exceeding $2,000 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have*Provisos*.Army mounted equipment. been expended: *Provided*, That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, uponRepairs to speedometers. requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required: *Provided further*, That the commissioners are authorized to employ the electrician of the District Building to repair speedometers at such cost not exceeding $250 as they may approve, payment to be in addition to his regular compensation, and such services to be performed after regular working hours. 973 For purchase and maintenance of passenger-carrying and otherMotor vehicles. motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $80,000. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipmentUniforms. prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the Metropolitan police, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, $62,600. house of detentionHouse of Detention. For maintenance, including rent, of a suitable place for the receptionMaintenance, etc. and detention of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including transportation, the purchase and maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of buildings, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $18,250; for personal services, $10,440; in all, $28,690:*Proviso*.Locations barred. *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the maintenance of a House of Detention in the territory abutting or adjacent to the grounds of the Capitol Building, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Library of Congress. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUNDPolicemen, etc., relief fund. To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, suchPayments from.*Ante*, p. 840. sum as is necessary for said purposes for the fiscal year 1931 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. FIRE DEPARTMENTFire department. salaries For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, inSalaries, officers, etc.Vol. 43, p. 175. accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of*Ante*, p. 839. Columbia” (43 Stat., p. 175), $1,897,000. For personal services, $9,440. Personal services. miscellaneous For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $25,000. Repairs, etc., to buildings.Uniforms. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the fire department, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, $30,400. For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other motor-drivenRepairs to apparatus, etc. apparatus, fire boat and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools, $46,000: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Construction at repair shop. commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire department repair shop. For hose, $1,000. Hose and fuel. For fuel, $28,000. 974 Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $29,000. Ambulance, etc.For one ambulance, motor driven, and equipment, $3,500. New apparatus.For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $15,500; one pumping engine, triple combination, motor driven, $11,000; and one combination hose wagon, motor driven, $8,000; in all, $34,500. New sites.For new site for Engine Company No. 16 (now located at Twelfth and D Streets northwest), and Truck Company No. 3 (now located at Fourteenth Street and Ohio Avenue northwest), in the vicinity of Thirteenth and K Streets northwest, $150,000, to be immediately available. Health Department.HEALTH DEPARTMENT salaries Personal services.For personal services, $187,790. Prevention of contagious diseases.prevention of contagious diseases Enforcement expenses.For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases inVol. 29, p. 635. the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897 (29 Stat., pp. 635–641), and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis,Vol. 34, p. 889. and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907 (34 Stat., pp. 889–890), and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia,Tuberculosis registrations.Vol. 35, p. 126. for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908 (35 Stat., pp. 126–127), under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, includingInfantile paralysis. their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantileVenereal diseases. paralysis and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for theVol. 43, p. 1001. prevention of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 1001–1003),Disinfecting service. and for maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services, when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase of referenceSmallpox station and quarantine.*Proviso*.Bacteriological examination of milk, etc. books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, $48,000: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist employed under this appropriation may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary works as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases. Isolating wards, Garfield and Providence Hospitals.For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $15,500 and $8,500, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $24,000. Tuberculosis and venereal diseases dispensaries.For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal services, rent, supplies, and contingent expenses,*Provisos*.Volunteer services. $29,000: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establish975 ment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorize theNo pay authorized therefor. expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for theDrainage of lots, etc.Vol. 29, p. 126. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896 (29 Stat. pp. 125–126), and an Act to provide for the abatementAbatement of nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114. of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $2,500. hygiene and sanitation, public schoolsHygiene, etc., public schools. Salaries: For personal services in the conduct of hygiene andPersonal services.Free dental clinics. sanitation work in the public schools, including the necessary expenses of maintaining free dental clinics, $101,980: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Division of inspectors and nurses. That of the persons employed as medical inspectors one shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, and that of the graduate nurses employed as public-school nurses three shall be of the colored race. For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books andMaintenance of laboratories, etc. periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $4,450. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an ActPreventing food, candy, etc., adulterations.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398. relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat., pp 246–248), an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia. approved May 5, 1898 (30 Stat., p. 398), an Act for preventing thePure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768. manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., pp. 768–772), and an Act to regulate, within the District of Columbia, the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, andMilk regulations.Vol 43, p. 1004. for other purposes, approved February 27, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 1004–1008), including traveling and other necessary expenses of dairy-farm inspectors; and including not to exceed $100 for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk, $8,300: *Provided*, That inspectors of dairy farms*Proviso*.Dairy farm inspectors.Allowance, for motor vehicles. may receive an allowance for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at the rate of not to exceed $480 per annum for each inspector. For maintenance, including personal services, and not to exceedCrematorium. $6,100 for repairs of the public crematorium, $9,000, to be immediately*Proviso*.Containers for indigent, to be furnished. available: *Provided*, That the health officer is authorized to provide and furnish proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium, which ashes remain unclaimed after twelve months from date of such cremation. For maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motorMotor vehicles. vehicles, $1,750. For maintaining a child-hygiene service, including the establishmentWelfare stations and child welfare service. and maintenance of child-welfare stations for the clinical examinations, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six years of age, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, periodicals,*Provisos*.Volunteer services accepted. and supplies, $54,000: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorizeNo pay therefor. the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. 976 Courts and prisons.COURTS AND PRISONS Juvenile Court.juvenile court Personal services.Jurors.Salaries: For personal services, $59,490. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $1,500. Contingent expenses.For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, repairs to courthouse and grounds, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $4,250. Advances authorized for returning, etc., absconding probationers.The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. Police Court.police court Personal services.*Proviso*.Time restriction for traffic violation cases.Salaries: For personal services, $100,740: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations made herein for the Police Court shall be expended for the holding of court on any day after six o’clock postmeridian for the trial of cases involving violations of traffic laws and regulations. Contingent expenses.For law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painter’s and plumber’s supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, lodging and meals for jurors and bailiffs when ordered by the court, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $7,700. Witness fees.For witness fees, $1,500. Jurors.For compensation of jurors, $30,000. Repairs to building.For repairs and alterations to building, $2,500. Municipal Court.municipal court Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of five judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $71,670. Jurors.*Proviso*.Deposits for jury trials earned unless new date set.Vol. 41, p. 1312.For compensation of jurors, $6,000: *Provided*, That deposits made on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. Rent.For rent of building, $4,800. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, lodging and meals for jurors, and for deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court; fixtures, repairs to furniture, building,977 and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $4,000. supreme court, district of columbiaDistrict Supreme Court. Salaries: Chief justice, $10,500; six associate justices, at $10,000Salaries. each; seven stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, $18,200; in all, $88,700. Fees of witnesses: For mileage and per diem of witnesses andWitnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).Vol. 44, p. 323.[U. S. C., p. 927](/us/usc/p927). for per diem in lieu of subsistence, and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 604), $32,000. Fees of jurors: For mileage and per diem of jurors, $85,000. Jurors. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, ofBailiffs, etc. office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, clerk of jury commissioners and per diems of jury commissioners, $44,620: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Jury commissioners. That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1931 shall not exceed $250. Probation system: For personal services, $9,560; contingentProbation system. expenses, $440; in all, $10,000. Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection ofCourthouse.Care, etc., of. the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $35,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including repairRepairs, etc. and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto $7,000, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. court of appealsCourt of Appeals. Salaries: Chief justice and two associate justices, at $12,500 each;Salaries. all other officers and employees of the court, including reporting service, $28,300; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s*Proviso*.Sale of reports. office, $950; in all, $66,750: *Provided*, That the reports of the court shall not be sold for a price exceeding that approved by the court and for not more than $6.50 per volume. Building: For personal services for care and protection of the Court of Appeals Building, including one mechanician, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $8,340: *Provided*, That theCare, etc., of building.*Proviso*.Custodian. clerk of the court of appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court. For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electricalIncidental expenses. supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $780. miscellaneous Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts out of the District. of convicts transferred from District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; and discharge gratuities provided by law; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $110,000. 978 Lunacy writs.Expenses of executing.Vol.33, p. 740.Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, $10,500. Miscellaneous expenses, authorized by Attorney General.Miscellaneous court expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $60,000.Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, $4,200. Public Welfare.PUBLIC WELFARE Board of Public Welfare.board of public welfare Personal services.For personal services, $111,140. Living expenses of officials at institutions.The practice of allowing quarters, heat, light, household equipment, subsistence, and laundry service to officers and employees of the government of the District of Columbia who are required to live at the several institutions of such District may be continued at the rates or values in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act pending review and determination of rates or values by the Personnel Classification Board as provided by law. Child Welfare Division.division of child welfare Administrative expenses.Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses,Limitation on visiting wards of, outside the District, etc. $4,000; and no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of Public Welfare placed outside the District of Columbia and the States of Virginia and Maryland, and a ward placed outside said District and the States of Virginia and Maryland shall be visited not less than once a year by a voluntary agent or correspondent of said board, and that said board shall have power, upon proper showing, in its discretion, to discharge from guardianship any child committed to its care. Board, etc., of children.For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 each. to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $235,000. Home care for dependent children.Vol. 44, p. 758.To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provide home care for dependent children in the District of Columbia,” approved June 22, 1926 (44 Stat., pp. 758–760), including not to exceed $13,280 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $133,200. Receiving, etc., home for children under seventeen.For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the House of Detention for the reception and detention of children under seventeen years of age arrested by the police979 on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or committed to the guardianship of the board, or held as witnesses, or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, including transportation, operation and maintenance of motor vehicles,Maintenance, etc. food, clothing, medicine and medical supplies, rental, repair, and upkeep of buildings, fuel, gas, electricity, ice, supplies and equipment, and other necessary expenses including not to exceed $18,240 for personal services, $41,250. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorizedAdvances to director. to advance to the director of public welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said director by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used forLimit. expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. jailJail. Salaries: For personal services, $76,710. Personal services. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District ofMaintenance and support of prisoners. Columbia at the jail, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, and expense of electrocutions, $77,000. general administration, work house and reformatory, district ofWorkhouse and Reformatory. columbia For personal services, $238,700. Personal services. For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, rewards for fugitives,Maintenance, etc. discharge gratuities provided by law, medical supplies, farm*Post*, p. 1559. implements, tools, equipment, transportation expenses, purchase and maintenance of livestock and horses, maintenance and operation of nonpassenger-carrying vehicles; fuel for heating, lighting, andFuel, etc. power, and all other necessary items, $275,000. For continuing construction of permanent buildings, includingConstruction of buildings, etc. sewers, water mains, roads, and other necessary utilities; for equipment for new buildings, and for replacement or reconstruction ofReconstructing building at Ninth Street Wharf. the building housing workhouse prisoners at the Ninth Street Wharf in the District of Columbia, $125,000. For commencing construction of buildings and inclosing walls,Constructing buildings, inclosing walls, etc. including equipment and furniture, to provide for the custody of such prisoners as should be confined within a walled inclosure, $150,000, to be immediately available. For repairs to buildings, improvement of grounds, and maintenanceRepairs. of utilities, marine and railroad transportation facilities, and mechanical equipment not used in industrial enterprises, $17,500. For remodeling, rearrangement, and consolidation of power, heating,Power, etc., facilities.Remodeling, etc. and lighting facilities; for construction of a permanent water supply, filtration, and fire-protection system; and for equipment and necessary expenses in connection therewith, $87,500. To provide a working capital fund for such industrial enterprisesWorking capital. as may be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $50,000: *Provided*, That the various departments and institutions*Proviso*.Purchase of services and products. of the District of Columbia and the Federal Government may purchase, at fair market prices, as determined by the commissioners, such surplus products and services as meet their requirements, and980 receipts from the sale of products and services shall be deposited to the credit of said working capital fund, and said fund, includingReceipts deposited as a revolving fund.Availability of fund. all receipts credited thereto, shall be used as a revolving fund for the fiscal year 1931 for the purchase and repair of machinery, tools, and equipment, purchase of raw materials and manufacturing supplies, purchase, maintenance, and operation of nonpassenger-carrying vehicles, purchase and maintenance of horses and purchase of fuel for manufacturing purposes; for freight, personal services, and all other necessary expenses; and for the payment to inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings as the commissioners may deem proper. Advances authorized for returning absconders.The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the general superintendent of penal institutions, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may requireRestriction. of said superintendent, sums of money not exceeding $100 at one time, to be used only for expenses in returning escaped prisoners, payable from the maintenance appropriations for the workhouse and reformatory, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. National Training School for Boys.national training school for boys Care, etc., of boys committed thereto.For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $25,000. National Training School for Girls.national training school for girls Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, $39,240.Contingent expenses.For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, magazines, and other supplies which represent greater educational advantages, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding $1,500 for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates and for rewards for their capture, for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, and for maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $40,000.Fire protection.For purchase and installation of additional fire-protection equipment, $12,250. Medical charities.medical charities Care, etc., of indigent patients at designated hospitals.For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital, $22,000.Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $30,000.Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $18,000.Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000. 981 columbia hospital and lying-in asylumColombia Hospital. For general repairs and for additional construction, includingRepairs, etc. labor and material, and for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $15,000. tuberculosis hospitalTuberculosis Hospital. Salaries: For personal services, $74,800. Personal services. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $59,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, includingRepairs, etc. roads and sidewalks, $10,000. There is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purchaseChildren’s tuberculosis sanitarium.Site and plans for construction, etc.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 45, pp. 1291, 1425.Other funds available.Vol. 45, p. 1280. of a site for a children’s tuberculosis sanatorium, and preparation of plans and specifications of a sanatorium building, nurses’ and employees’ home, and superintendent’s quarters, including necessary approaches and roadways, heating and ventilating apparatus, equipment and accessories, $75,000 or the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $150,000 for the erection of a new health school and sanatorium for colored pupils contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930. gallinger municipal hospitalGallinger Hospital. Salaries: For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 forPersonal services. temporary labor, $325,300. For maintenance, maintenance and purchase of horses and horse-drawnMaintenance, etc. vehicles, medical books, books of reference and periodicals, not to exceed $1,000, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, $209,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $6,000. Repairs, etc. Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense ofIncidental expenses. commencement exercises, entertainments, and inspection by New York State Board of Regents, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $700. For completing the construction and equipment of a nurses’ homeNurses’ home.Vol. 45, p. 675. at Gallinger Municipal Hospital subject to the limitations prescribed in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930, $175,000. For purchase and exchange of one one and one-half ton motorMotor truck. truck, $1,050. district training schoolDistrict Training School. For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporaryPersonal services. labor, $76,000.For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including theMaintenance, etc. maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, farm machinery and implements, $86,000: *Provided*, That $500 of the sum of $1,000 for a topographical*Proviso*.Survey, etc.Vol. 45, p. 1292. survey and landscape study for the District Training School, authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930, is continued available until June 30, 1931, to reimburse the National Capital Park and Planning Commission for making such survey. 982 Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including purchase of machinery and tools for same, $22,000. Motor truck.For purchase and equipment of one two-ton motor truck, $1,750. Domestic service building.For construction of domestic service building, including necessary mechanical and other equipment, $130,000. Employees’ building, etc.For furnishings and equipment for employees’ building and superintendent’s residence, $8,500. Superintendent’s residence.Construction.Balance available.Vol. 45, p. 1292.Not exceeding $4,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000 for the construction of an employees’ building at the District Training School, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930, is hereby made available as an additional amount for the erection of a residence for the superintendent at the said institution. Industrial Home School for colored children.Personal services.industrial home school for colored children Salaries: For personal services, $33,460; temporary labor, $500; in all, $33,960. Maintenance.For maintenance, including purchase and maintenance of farm implements, horses, wagons, and harness, purchase of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle not to exceed $750, including its maintenance, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, $24,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. New farm buildings, etc.For replacement of farm buildings, $12,000, together with the appropriation of $2,500 for rebuilding of barn contained in theVol. 45, p. 1292.Day labor, etc. District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930, such work to be done by day labor or otherwise, as in the judgment of the commissioners may be most advantageous to the District of Columbia. Deposit of receipts from products.All moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board or of instruction or otherwise shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. Industrial Home School.industrial home school Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, $25,500; temporary labor, $500; in all, $26,000. Maintenance.For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, and not exceeding $1,000 for school furniture and equipment, $26,500. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $4,000. Motor vehicles.For purchase of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $600. Home for Aged and Infirm.home for aged and infirm Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, $56,600; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $58,600. Contingent expenses.For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $67,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the commissioners, $7,000. 983 For remodeling and enlarging infirmary building, includingRemodeling, etc., infirmary building. additional equipment, $8,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for 1930 “For extension of three ward buildingsVol. 45, p. 1293. and dining room,” such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the commissioners. For extension of water mains and installation of fire hydrants forFire protection. completing necessary fire protection, $3,000. For purchase and installation of electrical equipment, $25,000. Electric installation, etc. For purchase and exchange of one three-ton motor truck, $2,800. Motor truck. For purchase and exchange of farm tractor, $1,0000. Farm tractor. municipal lodging house and wood yard For personal services, $3,660; maintenance, $3,000; in all, $6,660. Municipal lodging bouse. temporary home for union ex-soldiers and sailors (department of the potomac, g. a. r.) For personal services, $4,740; maintenance, $9,200; and repairs toGrand Army soldiers, etc., temporary home. buildings and grounds, including not to exceed $1,500 for furnishing and installing fire escape, $2,000; in all, $15,940, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners; and Union ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Civil War, ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Spanish War, Philippine insurrection, or China relief expedition, and soldiers, sailors, or marines of the World War or who served prior to July 2, 1921, shall be admitted to the home, all under the supervision of a board of management. florence crittenton home For care and maintenance of women and children under a contractHope and Help Mission. to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $5,000. southern relief society For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans,Southern Relief Society for needy Confederate Veterans. their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, locatedNational Library for the Blind. at 1800 D Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $6,500. columbia polytechnic institute To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, locatedColumbia Polytechnic Institute. at 1808 H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000. saint elizabeths hospitalSaint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia inSupport of District insane. Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $1,715,472. 984 nonresident insane Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30. p. 811.For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899 including persons held in the psycopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $5,000. Advances authorized to Director of Public Welfare.In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Director of Public Welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of theLimit. District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require of said directors, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. relief of the poor Relief of the poor.For relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and for pay of physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, $7,500. Payment to abandoned families, etc.For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person ofVol. 34, p. 87.Vol. 44, p. 758. his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March 23, 1906, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District, $3,500. burial of ex-service men Ex-service men.Burial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc.For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent Union ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines, of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired, and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $225. transportation of indigent persons Transporting indigent persons.For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $3,500.Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents.Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents, District of Columbia: To carry out the provisions of the act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents ofVol. 45, p. 1260. the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February 23, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1260), $15,000. Militia.MILITIA Expenses authorized under the commanding general.For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Personal services.For personal services, $27,050: temporary labor, $7,000; in all, $34,050. Expenses of camps, drills, etc.For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move985 the United States property at home stations on days immediately S receding and immediately following the annual encampments, amages to private property incident to encampment, instruction, purchase, and maintenance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at armory or field encampments, not to exceed $500; practice marches, drills, and parades; rent of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; fuel, light, heat, care and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses, machinery and dock, dredging alongside of dock, construction of buildings for storage and other purposes at target range, telephone service, horses and mules for mounted organizations, maintenance and operation of passenger and nonpassenger motor vehicles, street car fares (not to exceed $200) necessarily used in the transaction of official business, not exceeding $400 for traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings or conventions of associations pertaining to the National Guard, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $13,500. For printing, stationery, and postage, $750. Printing, etc. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, andContingent expenses. contingent expenses, $1,200. For expenses of target practice matches, including matches heldTarget practice matches. outside of the District or Columbia and travel incident thereto, $2,500. For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursedPay of troops. under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $10,000. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS For continuing the reclamation and development of AnacostiaAnncostia Park.Continuing development. Park, including not to exceed $150,000 for the purchase or condemnation of land, in accordance with the revised plan as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, $330,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKSPublic Buildings and Public Parks. salaries, public parks, district of columbia For personal services, $405,000. Personal services. general expenses, public parksPublic parks. General expenses: For general expenses in connection with theMaintenance, services, and general expenses. maintenance, care, improvement, furnishing of heat, light, and power of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, includingTourists’ camp, East Potomac Park. $5,000 for the maintenance of the tourists’ camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of seasonal or intermittent employees at per diem rates of pay approved by the director, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the director; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; contingent expenses; city directories; communication service; car fare; traveling expenses; professional, scientific, technial, and law books; periodicals and reference books; blank books and forms; photographs; dictionaries and maps; leather and rubber articles for the protection of employees and property; the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of not to exceed four motor-pro-986pelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motor cycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, maintenance, and*Provisos*.Outdoor sports, band concerts, etc. repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $690,555: *Provided*, That not exceeding $38,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports and for expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; not exceeding $25,000 for theAnacostia Park. improvement and maintenance as recreation parks of Sections C andRock Creek and Potomac parkway. D, Anacostia Park; not exceeding $134,755 for the improvement of the Rock Creek and Potomac connecting parkway and the completion of construction of sea wall; not exceeding $100,000 for theMeridian Hill Park. improvement of Meridian Hill Park, to remain available until June 30, 1932; not exceeding $40,000 for completing the construction of aEast Potomac Park, sea wall, etc. sidewalk and protective railing along the sea wall of East Potomac Park; and not exceeding $15,000 for the erection of minor auxiliary*Proviso*.Architectural services. structures: *Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 may be expended by contract or otherwise for architectural or other professional services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923 as amended or civil-service rules, as approved by the director. Park police.park police Pay, etc.Vol. 43, p. 175; Vol. 44, p. 834.*Ante*, p. 839.Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $162,120. Uniforms, equipment, etc.For uniforming and equipping the United States park police force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, and ammunition, $14,610. Bathing pools.bathing pools Operation, etc.The Director of Public Buildings and Parks of the National Capital, in his discretion, is authorized to operate during the fiscal year 1931, through the Welfare and Recreational Association of Public Buildings and Grounds, bathing pools under his jurisdiction, and thereupon there may be deposited in the Treasury under theFees, etc., deposited to credit of the District. special fund to the credit of said association moneys received for the operation of such pools and be there available for the purposes of said special fund and this shall be a compliance with the provisionsVoL 45, p. 1411. of the Act approved February 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1411–1412). National Capital Park and Planning Commission.NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION Incidental, etc., expenses.For each and every purpose requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital,”Vol. 43, p. 463; Vol. 44, p. 374; Vol. 45, p. 1070. approved June 6, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 463–464), as amended, and the Act approved December 22, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 1070), including not to exceed $100 for technical books and periodicals, not to exceed $60,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $3,500 for printing and binding, and including travel expenses and car fare of employees of the commission not to exceed $300, and the purchase, not to exceed $1,500, maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle,*Provisos*.Purchase price for sites. $1,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That not more than $300,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the purchase of sites without limitation987 as to price based on assessed value and that the purchase price to be paid for any site out of the remainder of the appropriation shall not exceed the full value assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value: *Provided further*,No acquisitions outside the District. That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the acquisition of land outside of the District of Columbia. The unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in theConnecting park way.Balance available.Vol. 45, p. 1296. “Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926,” for continuing the acquisition of lands for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park shall remain available until June 30, 1931. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARKNational Zoological Park. For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage;Expenses. grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; traveling and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes, and the purchase and exchange of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes at a cost not to exceed $1,000; not exceeding $2,500 for purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, keepers, and assistant keepers; not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $220,000, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. For an additional amount for the completion of the constructionExhibition buildings. of a public exhibition building for reptiles, amphibians, insects, and miscellaneous invertebrates, $28,000. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $30,000 containedBalance available.Vol. 45, p. 893. in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, for the construction and equipment of exhibition cages and walks around the exterior of the public exhibition building for birds is hereby made immediately available for necessary grading, and construction of outdoor cages with fittings and accessories, adjacent to the public exhibition building for birds, said work to be done by day labor or contract in whole or in part in the discretion of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. WATER SERVICEWater service. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenuesFrom water revenues. of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct*Ante*, p. 821. and its appurtenances and for expenses of water department, namely: washington aqueductWashington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employeesMaintenance, etc., of, and accessories. maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueducts and their accessories, including Dalecarlia, Georgetown, McMillan Park, First, Second, and Third High Service Reservoirs, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plants, the pumping plants and the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters on Federal services, purchase, care, repair, and operation of vehicles, including the purchase and exchange of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle at a cost not to exceed $1,200; purchase and repair988 of rubber boots and protective apparel, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $441,000. Control of Secretary of War not affected.Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. Revenue, inspection, and distribution branches.For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personal services, $177,440. Operation expenses.For maintenance of the water department distribution system, including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, and all buildings and accessories, and the purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, not to exceed $3,840 for purchase and exchange of six, and not to exceed $2,800 for purchase of four, motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and for contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing and binding not to exceed $2,000, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books, and periodicals, not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $7,500; in all for maintenance, $345,500, ofWater waste survey. which $40,000 shall be available for a survey of water waste in the distribution system, including personal services. Distribution expenses.For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $285,000, to be immediately available. Meters in residences, etc.For installing and repairing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $95,000. Hydrants.For installing fire and public hydrants, $25,000. Replacing old mains.For replacement of old mains and divide valves in various locations, on account of inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains in advance of pavement, $100,000, to be immediately available. Lowering mains, New Hampshire Avenue.For lowering one thousand nine hundred feet of forty-eight inch water main in New Hempshire Avenue from M Street to Dupont Circle, exclusive of cost of any resurfacing, $20,000, to be immediately available. New mains authorized.For three thousand three hundred feet of forty-eight inch water main in Bryant Street, from Bryant Street pumping station to Sixth Street, north in Sixth Street to Fairmont Street, and west in Fairmont Street to Georgia Avenue northwest, $110,000. For purchase and installation of one twenty-million gallon pump at the Bryant Street pumping station, including economizer and generator, $92,000. The appropriation of $105,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930 for three thousand four hundred and fifty feet of thirty-six inch main in M Street northwest, from Eleventh Street to New Jersey Avenue, is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for three thousand eight hundred and fifty feet of thirty-six inch main in Eleventh Street northwest, from Florida Avenue to Kenyon Street, and west in Kenyon Street to Thirteenth Street northwest. Water rates.Effective, July 1, 1930.The following schedule of water rents in the District of Columbia shall be fixed by the commissioners of said District, to be effective on and after July 1, 1930: 989 For the use of water for domestic purposes through unmetered services, $9.85 per annum for all tenements two stories high, or less, with a front width of sixteen feet, or less; for each additional front foot or fraction thereof greater than one-half, 62 cents; and for each additional story or part thereof, one-third of the charges as computed above. For business places that are not required to install meters under existing regulations, the present rates to be increased by 40 per centum per annum. For the use of waterMetered service. through metered services, a minimum charge of $8.75 per annum for seven thousand five hundred cubic feet of water, and 7 cents per one hundred cubic feet for water used in excess of that quantity. For water for building construction purposes when not supplied through a meter, 6 cents per one thousand brick and 3 cents per cubic yard of concrete, with a minimum charge of $1 for each separate building project. All water required for purposes which are not covered by the foregoing classifications shall be paid for at such rates as may be fixed by the Commissioners of the District of*Proviso*.Service construction, etc. Columbia: *Provided*, That the rate of assessment for laying or constructing water mains in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the laying of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of assessments therefor, and for other purposes,” approved AprilVol.33, p.244, amended.Vol. 44, p. 850. 22, 1904 (33 Stat., p. 244), is hereby increased from $2 to $3 per linear front foot for any water main laid during the fiscal year 1931 and thereafter. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers,Construction work, etc., under Commissioners. levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street-cleaning, or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their Budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Maximum. That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $30,000 during the fiscal year 1931: *Provided further*, That, excluding five inspectorsEmployment period limited. in the sewer department no person shall be employed in pursuance of the authority contained in this paragraph for a longer period than nine months in the aggregate during the fiscal year. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarilyTemporary laborers, mechanics, etc. such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, and any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessaryHorses, vehicles, etc. for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including990 maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintainedSpecial authority from commissioners for using. and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in the Budget estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables*Proviso*.Temporary work for excavations. owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. Temporary laborers, etc., water department. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 5. Miscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work, the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act. approved April 27, 1904, and known as the Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia, all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fittings, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, two bookkeepers in the auditor’s office, clerk in the office of the collector of taxes, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire therefor motor trucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the commissioners, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles for inspection and transportation purposes, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Leaves of absence, if employed 10 months consecutively.Any person employed under any of the provisions of this Act who has been employed for ten consecutive months or more shall not be denied the leave of absence with pay for which the law provides. Sec. 6. Materials, supplies, vehicles, etc. That the commissioners and other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possiblePurchase directed of, from stock of Government activities no longer needed. shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, in accordance with the regulations and schedules of the General Supply Committee or from the various services of the Government of the United States possessing material, supplies, passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, and equipment no longer required because of the cessation of991 war activities. Surplus articles purchased from the Government, ifPrice stipulation. the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of theSales authorized. Government of the United States are authorized to sell such surplus articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That this section shall not be construed*Proviso*.Transfers under Executive order not affected. to amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities. Approved, July 3, 1930.
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Chapter 848
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, 1931, and for other purposes
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