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(/us/pl/73/285).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Appropriations for expenses of, fiscal year 1935, from District revenues and $5,700,000 from the Treasury. That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, 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, Less 70 percent of Public Works Administration allotments.in addition a sum equal to $5,700,000 less a sum equal to 70 per centum of the amounts expended under the allotments from the Public Works Administration of $1,759,500 for sewers and $148,650 for park improvements is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1934, and all of the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia, namely: 847 GENERAL EXPENSESGeneral expenses. executive officeExecutive Office.
For personal services, $42,714, plus so much as may be necessaryOffice personnel.Additional, for Engineer Commissioner. 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: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions.Vol. 42, p. 1488;Vol. 45, p. 776;Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U.
S. C., p. 65; Supp. VII, p. 34](/us/usc/65/34). appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in accordance with the11So in original. Classification Act of 1923, as amended, 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 specified for the grade by such Act, as amended: *Provided*, That this restrictionRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services. shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service;
(2)to require the reduction in salary of anyNo reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; Vol. 46, p. 1005. person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act;
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from oneTransfer to another position without pay reduction. position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit;
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higherHigher rates permitted. 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, or
(5)to reduce the compensationIf only one position in a grade. of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. Purchasing division: For personal services, $51,570.Purchasing division. Building inspection division: For personal services, $100,719.Building inspection division. Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $31,851; two members of plumbing board at $135 each; in all, $32,121.Plumbing inspection division. public convenience stationsPublic convenience stations. For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensationMaintenance. of necessary employees, $12,847. care of the district buildingCare of District Building. For personal services, including temporary labor, and service ofOperating force. cleaners as necessary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $84,672: *Provided*, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be*Proviso*.Employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen. available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Building. For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, and miscellaneous supplies,Operating supplies. $28,000. assessor’s officeAssessor’s office. For personal services, $203,238. collector’s officeCollector’s office. For personal services, $41,220. auditor’s officeAuditor’s office. For personal services $112,230; and the compensation of the presentPersonal services.Present disbursing officer permitted other duties. 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. 848 Corporation counsel’s office.office of corporation counsel Extra pay, Public Utilities Commission.Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $89,568. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.alcoholic beverage control board Salaries and expenses.Purchase of samples.For personal services, advertising, printing and binding, street-car and bus transportation, telephone service, not exceeding $500 for the purchase of samples, and other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $37,492. Coroner’s office.coroner’s office Services, including deputies.Vol. 46, p. 1003.For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $9,162. Morgue, etc., expenses.For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor wagon 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 inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies. $3,750. Office of Superintendent of Weights, etc.office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets Personal services.For personal services, $40,626. Inspection, etc.For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $500. Markets.>For maintenance and repairs to markets, $5,500. Vehicles.For maintenance and repair of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $1,750. For the purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $530. Farmers’ Produce Market, improvements.For the construction of shelters, paving, and for such other improvements as the Commissioners may deem necessary at the Farmers’ Produce Market, $22,500. Engineer department.office of chief clerk, engineer department Chief Clerk’s office.For personal services, $26,397. Municipal Architect’s office.municipal architect’s office Personal services.For personal services, $42,228. Apportionments.All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment of personal services employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an amount not exceeding 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. Public Utilities Commission.public utilities commission Commissioners, people’s counsel, etc.Experts.For two commissioners, people’s counsel, and for other personal services, $50,000, of which amount not to exceed $5,000 may be used for the employment of expert services by contract or otherwise and without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Incidental, etc., expenses.For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the purchase of newspapers, $1,500. 849 No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be usedIssuance of orders requiring meters in taxicabs forbidden. for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs until such regulation or order shall have been approved by Congress: *Provided*, That this prohibition shall not be construed to affect any*Proviso*.Other orders not affected. order or part of an order of such Public Utilities Commission other than with respect to the requirement of the installation of such meters. board of examiners, steam engineersExaminers, steam engineers. Salaries: Three members, at $135 each, $405. department of insuranceInsurance department. For personal services, $18,738. surveyor’s officeSurveyor’s office. For personal services, $72,000. district of columbia employees’ compensation fundEmployees’ compensation fund. For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District ofPayments 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 forVol. 39, p. 742. employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes ”, approved September 7, 1916, $32,500. Administrative Expenses, Compensation to Injured EmployeesAdministrative expenses, compensation to injured employees.Vol. 45, p. 600.[U. S. C., Supp. VII, p. 789](/us/usc/789). in the District of Columbia: For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes ”, approved May 17, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VI, title 33, sec. 901), $51,000, for transfer to andTransfer to Employees’ Compensation Commission. expenditure by the Employees’ Compensation Commission under its appropriations “Salaries and expenses”, $50,550, and “Printing and binding ”, $450. 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;Vol. 46, p. 408.[U. S. C., Supp. VII, p. 51](/us/usc/51). 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.” department of vehicles and trafficVehicles and traffic department. For personal services, $63,144.Personal services. For purchase, installation, and modification of electric trafficExpenses, etc. lights, signals and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the Commissioners, $63,000, of which not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic-light signals: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation*Proviso*.Not available for street-car loading platforms. contained in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining street-car loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. For the purchase of motor vehicle identification number plates,Identification plates. $20,000. 850 Public Library.free public library Personal services.For personal services, and for substitutes and other special and temporary services, including extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, at the discretion of the librarian, $280,584. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other printed material, including payment in advance for subscription *Proviso*.Advances for books purchased, etc.books, and society publications, $40,000: *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, $19,051. Contingent expenses.For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, 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.For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy Chase and Woodridge, $4,320. Building for Georgetown branch.For a building for a Georgetown branch library, including necessary furniture and equipment, and improvement of grounds, $150,000, of which $4,500 shall be immediately available for the preparation of plans and specifications. Register of wills.register of wills Personal services.For personal services, $64,827. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, including laboratory coats and photographic developing room equipment, towels, towel service, window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, $9,000. Recorder of deeds.recorder of deeds Personal services.For personal services, $83,754, of which $6,000 shall be available only for recopying old land records of the District of Columbia. Recopying old land records.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, $10,000. Rent.For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $10,000. 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; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; traveling expenses not to exceed $1,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the 851District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, includingRemoving unsafe, etc., buildings. payment of a fee of $6 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 of District offices; $36,000: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Printing, etc., of list of supplies forbidden. part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act 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. For printing and binding, $40,000.Printing and binding. central garageCentral Garage. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carryingAutomobiles, maintenance, etc. automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $56,806; 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, $8,000; in all, $64,806. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles owned by theRestriction on use of District-owned vehicles. District of Columbia shall be used exclusively for “official purposes” directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the Commissioners, who mayUnder control of Commissioners. 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; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportationTransportation between domicile and place of employment. of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except as to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and in cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the Commissioners: *Provided*, That no passenger-carrying automobile, except*Proviso*.Purchase price restriction. busses, patrol wagons, and ambulances, and except as otherwise specifically authorized in this Act, 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. No motor vehiclesTransfer forbidden. shall be transferred 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 payment ofFire insurance premiums forbidden. premiums or other cost of fire insurance. For postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rentalPostage. of postage meter equipment, $22,500. The Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnishCar fare. etc. necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the. District of Columbia by the purchase of street car and bus fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Limitation. expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $9,500: *Provided further*, That the provisions ofFire and police departments excepted. this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. For judicial expenses, including witness fees, and expert servicesJudicial expenses. in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $1,500: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are*Provisos*.Contracts for reporting permitted. authorized, when in their judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to contract for stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 41,[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/3709/733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/1309). 852sec. 5) under available appropriations contained in this Act: No court fees, etc., in District Supreme Court, required. *Provided further*, That neither the District of Columbia nor any officer thereof acting in his official capacity for the District of Columbia shall be required to pay court costs to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. General advertising.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $4,000: *Proviso.*Outside advertising. *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of advertising in newspapers published outside of the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the requirement for such advertising provided by existing law. Taxes in arrears.Vol. 30, p. 250.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1934, 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 *Proviso.*Publication of delinquent list modified.advertised, $8,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of advertising the delinquent tax list for more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one morning or one evening newspaper published in the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the provisions of existing law. employment service Employment service.For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $9,920. Emergency fund.emergency fund Expenses; restriction.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.$1,500: *Provided*, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of not to exceed $1,000 for such investigations as they may deem necessary. Refund of erroneous collections.refund of erroneous collections Payments authorized.Vol. 36, p. 967.To enable the Commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, payments for lost library books, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in Building permits.part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved *Proviso*.Refunds of prior years.March 2, 1911 (36 Stat., p. 967), $4,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. Conference on Uniform State Laws.To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, $250. Street, etc., improvement and repair.STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR Personal services.For personal services, $161,550, payable from the special fund Payable from gasoline tax fund.created by section 1 of the Act 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 (43 Stat. p. 106), and accretions by repayment of assessments. 853 gasoline tax, road and street improvements and repairsGasoline 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 Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicleVol. 43, p. 105. fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 106), and accretions by repayment of assessments; For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction ofGrading streets, alleys, and roads. necessary culverts and retaining walls, $50,000; For surfacing block pavements and paving the unpaved centerSurfacing block pavements, etc. strips of paved roadways, $15,000; 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, $5,000; For construction of curbs and gutters, or concrete shoulders inCurbs and gutters, shoulders, etc. connection with all forms of macadam roadways and adjustment of roadways thereto, together with resurfacing and replacing of base of such roadways where necessary, $225,000; For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt,Surfacing, etc., pavements. granite block, or concrete pavements with the same or other approved material, $350,000; For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges,Bridges, construction. etc. including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $65,000; For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, and alleys,Street, etc., repairs. including the reconditioning of existing gravel streets and roads, and including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $750,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia,*Proviso*.Purchase of asphalt paint authorised. should they deem such action to be to the advantage of the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized to purchase a municipal asphalt plant at a cost not to exceed $30,000; This appropriation shall be available for the construction andStreet railways, pavements. repair of pavements of street railways in accordance with the provisions of the Merger Act, approved January 14, 1933 (47 Stat., p.Vol. 47, p. 752. 752). The proportion of the amount thus expended which underProportion of expenses chargeable to railway company. the terms of the said Act is required to be paid by the street-railway company shall be collected, upon the neglect or the refusal of such street-railway company to pay, from the said street-railway company in the manner provided by section 5 of “An Act providingVol. 20, p. 105. 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 it is collected; For completing the construction of a bridge to replace the CalvertCalvert Street Bridge, construction.*Ante*, p. 220. Street Bridge over Rock Creek, in accordance with the provisions and conditions contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1934, $500,000; For the construction of a viaduct or bridge and approaches theretoEastern Avenue via-duct, construction. in line of Eastern Avenue between Monroe Street and Bladensburg Road northeast, over the tracks and right-of-way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in accordance with plans and profiles of said work to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including construction of and changes in sewers and water mains, personal services, and engineering and incidental 854*Provisos*.One half cost borne by railroad company.expenses, $130,000: *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 railway 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 or Columbia by a bill in equity brought by the said Commissioners in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or by any other lawful proceeding against Wooden structure to be removed; road closed.the said railroad company: *Provided further*, That from and after the completion of the said viaduct and approaches, the wooden bridge in the line of Reeves Road over the tracks and right-of-way of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company shall be removed and the road at the railroad right-of-way forever closed against further traffic of any kind; Disbursements, etc.In all, not to exceed $2,090,000, to be immediately available; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road, and street improvements and repairs”, and for that purpose shall constitute *Proviso*.Assessments under existing law.one fund: *Provided*, That assessments 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. miscellaneous road and street improvements and repairs Assessment and permit work.For assessment and permit work, paving of roadways under the permit system, and construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, including purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and of areas less than two hundred and fifty square feet at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the Commissioners, and including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $150,000. Opening streets, etc., permanent highway system.Vol. 37, p. 950.To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the 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 of Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, in accordance with the plan of Indefinite appropriation for, from District revenues.the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, there is appropriated such sum as is necessary for said purpose, including the procurement of chains of title, during the fiscal year 1935, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of *Provisos*.Alley improvements, building lines, etc.Columbia: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available to carry out the provisions of existing law for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of alleys and minor streets and for the establishment of building lines in the District of Columbia: Maximum expenditure. *Provided further*, That the amount expended hereunder shall not exceed $200,000. 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. Open competition for street repair, etc., 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 855for such work shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving material as well as in price. In addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractorsRepairs, due to inferior work by contractor. 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 beRepayment. made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be usedLaboratory tests. for the operation of a testing laboratory of the highways department for making tests of materials in connection with any activity of the District government. bridges and wharvesBridges and wharves. For reconstruction, where necessary, and for maintenance andReconstruction, maintenance, etc. repair of wharves under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in the Washington Channel of the Potomac River, $5,000. trees and parkingsTrees and parking. For personal services, $23,940.Personal services. For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nursery-men,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 and tree spaces on city and suburban streets, purchase and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $88,200. SEWERSSewers. For personal services, $167,598. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins; for operation andCleaning, repair, etc. 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, $200,411. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $95,491.Main and pipe. For suburban sewers, including the maintenance of nonpassenger-carryingSuburban. motor vehicles used in this work, and the replacement ofMotor trucks. the following motor trucks: Two at not to exceed $3,500 each; one at not to exceed $2,000; $150,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, including not to exceedAssessment and permit work. $1,000 for purchase or condemnation of rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $120,094. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSECity refuse. For personal services, $126,900.Personal services. For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues,Sweeping, cleaning, snow and ice removal, etc. alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, side-walks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the Commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repair of stables; maintenance and repair of non-passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; and necessary incidental expenses, 856*Proviso*.Availability of designated funds for snow removal.$375,000: *Provided*, That appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, and the water department, shall be available for snow removal when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners. 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 of Columbia, including inspection; fencing of public and private property designated by the Commissioners as public dumps; *Proviso*.Proceeds covered in; division of.and incidental expenses, $716,200: *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 Collection restrictions.law: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be 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 playgrounds.PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS Personal services.*Proviso*.Employments restricted.For personal services, $101,250: *Provided*, That employments 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. Maintenance, etc.For general maintenance, repairs, and improvements, equipment, supplies, incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance, and not to exceed $500 for purchase and exchange, of one motor truck, $33,600. Public-school playgrounds during summer.For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open 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, $23,930. Swimming or bathing pools.For temporary services, including superintendence, supplies, repairs, maintenance, and expenses necessary in the operation of swimming or bathing pools. $10,370. Electrical department.ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT Personal services.For personal services, $121,770. 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, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motor trucks and other necessary items, including not to exceed $3,600 for the purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle. $29,000. Placing wires underground.Police-patrol and fire-alarm systems, etc.For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone services 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, $15,000. Lighting, etc.Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost 857of maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operationAir mail lights. of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of storerooms; extra labor, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of section 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat.,Vol. 36. p. 1008;Vol. 37, p. 181. 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 applicable thereto, and including not to exceed $27,000 for operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $768,700: *Provided*, That this*Proviso*.Electric street light rates. 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: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriationAwards to lowest competitor. 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. For the purchase and installation of fire alarm transmittingFire-alarm system. apparatus and operator’s pedestal storage batteries, storage-battery rectifiers, alarm gongs, master telegraph key with relays and terminal switchboard, necessary wiring materials, labor, and other necessary items, to replace worn and defective fire-alarm equipment and apparatus in fire-alarm headquarters and fire stations, $28,000. PUBLIC SCHOOLSPublic schools. For personal services of administrative and supervisory officersAdministrative 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.,Vol. 43, p. 368. pp. 367–375), including salaries of presidents of teachers colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $583,380. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $164,421.Clerks, etc.School attendance and work permit department.Vol. 43, pp. 367, 806. For personal services in the department of school attendanceTeachers, librarians.Vol. 43, pp. 367–375. and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 806–808), and the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 998), $35,640. For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), including for teachers colleges assistant professors in salary class eleven, and professors in salary class twelve, $5,763,960, of which not exceeding $5,000 may be expended for compensation to be fixed by the Board of Education and traveling expenses of educationalTraveling expenses.*Provisos*.Assignment of kindergarten teachers in grades 1 to 4. consultants employed in character education: *Provided*, That as teacher vacancies occur during the fiscal year 1935 in grades one to four, inclusive, of the elementary schools, such vacancies may be 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: *Provided further*, That teaching vacanciesPlacing unassigned teachers of special, etc., subjects. that occur during the fiscal year 1935 wherever found may be filled by the assignment of teachers of special subjects and teachers not now assigned to classroom instruction, and such teachers are hereby made eligible for such assignment without further examination: *Provided further*, That in the interests of economy the BoardTemporary teachers. of Education may at its discretion during the fiscal year 1935 858appoint as temporary teachers in public schools of the District of Columbia qualified teachers from the eligible list of applicants established by examinations. Vacation schools.For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $26,460. Soliciting subscriptions, 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 testimonials Exception.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. Annuities.Vol. 41, 387; Vol. 44, P. 728.To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia,’ approved January 15, 1920, and for other purposes” (41 Stat., pp. 387–390), $400,000. Night schools.night schools Salaries.For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $85,246. Contingent expenses.For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,000. the deaf, dumb, and blind Deaf, dumb, and blind.Maintenance, instruction, etc.[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/4864/942).Vol. 31, p. 844.[U. S. C., p. 685](/us/usc/685).For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided 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, $32,500. Colored deaf mutes.Tuition of, under contract.For maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the *Proviso*.Supervision of expenditure.Commissioners, $6,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. Blind children.Tuition of, under contract.For maintenance and instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract *Proviso*.Supervision of expenditure.to be entered into by the Commissioners, $10,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. americanization work Americanization work.Instructing foreigners of all ages.For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages in both day and night, classes, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day schools, $7,920. Equipment, etc.For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $600. 859 For aid in the education of children (between the ages of sixteenEducating children of World War veterans dying in service. and twenty-one years, inclusive, who have had their domicile in the District of Columbia for at least five years) of those who lost their lives during the World War as a result of service in the military or naval forces of the United States, including tuition, fees, maintenance, and the purchase of books and supplies, $3,600: *Provided*, That not more than $200 shall be available for any one*Provisos*.Maximum allowance. child during the fiscal year 1935: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be expended for such children while attendingUse while attending secondary, etc., educational institutions. educational institutions of a secondary or college grade under rules and regulations prescribed by the Board of Education. community center departmentCommunity centers. For personal services of the director, general secretaries, andSalaries and expenses.Vol. 43, p. 375. community 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, $40,000. care of buildings and groundsCare of buildings and grounds. For personal services, including care of smaller buildings andSalaries. rented rooms at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the careSmaller buildings and rented rooms. of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $791,600. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. For the maintenance of schools for tubercular and crippled pupils,Schools for tubercular and crippled pupils. $8,000. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercularTransportation. pupils, and for pupils attending schools for crippled pupils, $18,500: *Provided*, That expenditures for street car and bus fares, from this*Proviso*.Car fare, etc. fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of street car and bus fares covered by this Act. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material,Manual training, etc., expenses. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, including the Shaw Junior High School, $60,000, to be immediately available. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $250,000.Fuel, light, and power.Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including United States flags, furniture and repairs of same, stationery, ice, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $8,000 for books of reference and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, not exceeding $5,000 for labor, $119,500, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be required on account*Proviso*.No bond for Army supplies to cadets. 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. For furniture and equipment, including pianos and windowWoodrow Wilson Senior High, furniture, etc. shades, for the Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, $150,000. No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furnitureRequisitions for school equipment subject to Commissioners’ approval. 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. 860 Supplies to pupils.Vol. 46, p. 62.For textbooks and other educational books and supplies as authorized by the Act of January 31, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 62), including not to exceed $7,000 for personal services, $180,000, to be immediately available. Kindergartens.For maintenance of kindergartens, $5,600, to be immediately available. Supplies for general sciences departments.For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the department of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and teachers colleges, and for the installation of the same, $15,000, to be immediately available. School gardens.For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, including rent of grounds, $2,000. Nature study, etc., teachers.The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in 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. Children of Army, Navy, etc., admitted free.The children of officers and men of the United States Army, 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. Repairs, etc., to buildings.For repairs and improvements to school buildings, repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric equipment, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains, and maintenance of motor trucks, $375,000, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available. School yard playgrounds.*Proviso*.Use, etc.For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, for school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $7,500: *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 grounds.buildings and grounds Browne Junior High.For the construction of an addition to the Browne Junior High School, including ten classrooms and one gymnasium, $168,000. Woodrow Wilson High.For continuing the construction of the Woodrow Wilson High School, $600,000. Construction, near Logan School.*Ante*, p. 236.For an additional amount for the erection of an eight-room building on a site now owned by the District of Columbia in the vicinity of the Logan School, $5,500. Anacostia, Junior High.For completing the construction of a junior high school building on a site already purchased for that purpose at Nineteenth Street and Minnesota Avenue southeast in Anacostia, $180,000. Phelps School, addition.For the construction of a four-room addition to the Phelps School, including the necessary remodeling of present building, $65,000. Deal Junior High, addition.For the construction of an addition to the Deal Junior High School, including ten classrooms and one gymnasium, $166,000. Powell Junior High, gymnasium.Fund available.Vol. 47, p. 358.Not to exceed $36,000 of the unexpended balances of appropriations for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1933, is hereby made available for the construction of a gymnasium at the Powell Junior High School. Accounted as one fund.In all, $1,184,500, to be immediately available and to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and grounds, public schools”, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and remain available until *Proviso*.Use for unauthorized projects forbidden.expended: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall lie used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. 861 For the purchase of additional land at the Phelps VocationalPhelps Vocational additional site.*Proviso*.Condition. School for elementary school purposes, $55,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be obligated or expended unless and until the Jefferson Junior High School site shall have been acquired within the sum contained in this Act for such purpose. For an additional amount for the purchase of a site for the JeffersonJefferson Junior High, site. Junior High School, $105,000. No part of the foregoing appropriations for public schools shallUnder age instruction prohibited. be used for instructing children under five years of age except children entering during the first half of the school year who will be five years of age by November 1, 1934, and children entering during the second half of the school year who will be five years of age by March 15, 1935: *Provided*, That this limitation shall not be considered as*Proviso*.Webster School provision. preventing the employment of a matron and the care of children timler school age at the Webster School whose parent or parents are in attendance in connection with Americanization work. None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid orBuilding contract requirements. 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 faithful performance of the contract: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed*Proviso*.Right to reject bids. as repealing existing law giving the Commissioners the right to reject all bids. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in thisPreparation of plans. 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. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shallExit, etc., requirements. be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having in excess of 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 entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one. half hour before until one half hour after school hours. METROPOLITAN POLICEPolice. salaries For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the MetropolitanSalaries, officers, etc. Police Force, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of the Metropolitan Police Force, the United States Park Police Force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia” (43 Stat., pp. 174–175), as amended by the Act ofVol. 43, p. 174. July 1, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 839–841), including compensation at theVol. 46, p. 839. rate of $2,100 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police department, $2,790,000. For personal services, $109,980.Personal services. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. For fuel, $7,000.Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and stationRepairs, etc. grounds, $8,000. 862 Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for fugitives, purchase of gas equipment and firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, rental and maintenance of teletype system and labor-saving devices, Radio systems.telephone service charges, purchase, maintenance and servicing of radio broadcasting systems, including $11,000 for use only in purchasing, maintaining, and servicing additional radio receiving sets for automobiles and the purchase and installation of radio input system in the several precinct stations, bureaus, and offices, purchase of equipment, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, medals of award, not to exceed $300 for car tickets, furniture and repair thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, police equipments and repairs to same, and mounted equipment, flags and halyards, storage of stolen or abandoned property, and traveling and other expenses incurred Prevention and detection of crime.in prevention and detection of crime and other necessary expenses, including expenses of harbor patrol, $78,500, of which amount 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*Proviso*.Repairs to speedometers.been expended: *Provided*, 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. Motor vehicles.For purchase, exchange, and maintenance of passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $60,000, including not to exceed $2,800 for two police cruisers. 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 Metropolitan Police, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, $45,000. House of Detention.house of detention Maintenance, etc.For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception 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 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, $8,424; for personal services, $7,538; in all, $15,962. Policemen, etc., relief fund.POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND Payments from.To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, such sum as is necessary for said purposes for the fiscal year 1935 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. Fire Department.FIRE DEPARTMENT salaries Salaries, officers, etc.For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers Vol. 46, p. 839.and members of the Metropolitan Police Force, the United States 863Park Police Force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia ” (43 Stat. 175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 839–841), $1,894,500. For personal services, $5,058.Personal services. miscellaneous For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $20,000.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, $23,000. 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, $42,217: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Construction at repair shop. the 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, $9,000.Hose. For fuel, $21,000.Fuel. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing,Contingent expenses. gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $20,000. For two combination hose wagons and one pumping engine, tripleNew apparatus. combination, all motor driven, $23,500. HEALTH DEPARTMENTHealth Department. salaries For personal services, $160,650.Personal services. prevention of contagious diseasesPrevention of contagious diseases. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisionsEnforcement expenses. of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897 (29 Stat., pp. 635–641Vol. 29, p. 635.), and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907 (34 Stat., pp. 889–890), and an Act to provide forVol. 34, p. 889. registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia,Tuberculosis registration. 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 theVol. 35, p. 126. health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile paralysisInfantile paralysis. and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention ofVenereal diseases. venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 1001–1003), and forVol. 43, p. 1001. maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensationDisinfecting service. 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, and purchase of reference books and medical journals, $27,783: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist employed*Proviso*.Bacteriological examination of milk, etc. under this appropriation may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and 864of 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 Hospital.For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial Hospital, maintenance, $25,000, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the Commissioners may be necessary. Tuberculosis and venereal diseases disperisaries.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, $42,998: *Provisos*.Volunteer services. *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: No pay authorized therefor. *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the, payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. Drainage of lots, etc.Vol. 29, p. 126.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, Abatement of nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.1896 (29 Stat., pp. 125–126), and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $1,000. Hygiene, etc., public schools.Hygiene and sanitation, public schools, salaries: For personal services in the conduct of hygiene and sanitation work in the public Free dental clinics.schools, including the necessary expenses of maintaining free dental *Proviso*.Division of inspectors and nurses.clinics, $84,554: *Provided*, 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. Maintenance of laboratories, etc.For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books and periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $1,800. Preventing food, candy, etc., adulterations.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act 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 Pure Food Act.Vol. 34, p. 768.Columbia, approved May 5, 1898 (30 Stat., p. 398), an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drug, 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 Milk regulations.Vol. 43, p. 1004.regulate, within the District of Columbia, the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, and 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 *Proviso*.Dairy farms inspection; motor vehicle allowance.foods, including candy and milk, $6,000: *Provided*, That inspectors of dairy farms may receive an allowance for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at the rate of not to exceed $312 per annum for each inspector. Motor vehicles.For maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motor vehicles, $900. Child welfare and hygiene.Child welfare and hygiene: For maintaining a child-hygiene service, including the establishment and maintenance of child-welfare stations for the clinical examinations, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six years of age, payment for personal *Provisos*.Volunteer services accepted.services, rent, fuel, periodicals, and supplies. ‘$45,834: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and main865tenance of the service herein authorized: *Provided further*, ThatNo pay therefor. this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. COURTS AND PRISONSCourts and prisons. juvenile courtJuvenile Court. Salaries: For personal services, $52,938.Personal services. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $1,125.Jurors. For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, books of reference,Contingent expenses. 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, $2,750. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorizedAdvances authorized for returning, etc., absconding probationers. 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 courtPolice Court. Salaries: For personal services, $90,000.Personal services. 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,Contingent expenses. 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, $5,100, of which not exceeding $750 shall be available for telephone and telegraph service. For witness fees and compensation of jurors, $23,000.Witness fees and jurors’ compensation. For repairs and alterations to building, $1,500.Repairs to building. municipal courtMunicipal Court Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of fiveSalaries. judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $68,166. For compensation of jurors, $4,000: *Provided*, That deposits madeJurors.*Proviso*.Deposits for Jury trials earned unless new date set.Vol. 41, p. 1312. 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 (41 Stat., p. 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. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books ofContingent expenses. 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 and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $3,000. 866 District Supreme Court.supreme court, district of columbia Salaries.Salaries: For the chief justice, eight associate justices, nine stenographers (one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice), and other personal services, $129,380. Jurors and witnesses.Fees of jurors and witnesses: For mileage and per diem of jurors, for mileage and per diem of witnesses and for per diem in lieu of subsistence, and payment of the expenses of witnesses in said court [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/850/160).Vol. 44, p. 323.[U. S. C., p. 927.](/us/usc/927)Bailiffs, etc.as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 28, sec. 604), $85,000. For not exceeding twenty deputy marshals who act as bailiffs, clerks of jury commissioners, and per diems of jury commissioners, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the *Proviso*.Jury commissioners.court, $33,740: *Provided*, That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1935 shall not exceed $250. Probation system.Probation system: For personal services, $10,332; contingent expenses, $250; in all, $10,582. Courthouse, care, etc.Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection of the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $31,761, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $9.000, including not to exceed $6,000 for repairs to roof, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. Court of Appeals.court of appeals Salaries.Salaries: For the chief justice and four associate justices, and all other officers and employees of the court; reporting service; and not to exceed $950 for necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s *Proviso*.Sale of reports.office; in all, $95,202: *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. Care, etc., of building.Building: For personal services for care and protection of the Court of Appeals Building, including one mechanician, under the *Proviso*.Custodian.direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $7,089: *Provided*, That the clerk of the court of appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court. Incidental expenses.For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $660. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous Support of convicts out of the District.Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation 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, $45,000. 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 867District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, $1,000. Miscellaneous court expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses asMiscellaneous expenses as authorized by Attorney General. 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, $35,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the SupremePrinting and binding. 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, $5,000. PUBLIC WELFAREPublic Welfare. board of public welfareBoard of Public Welfare. For personal services, $96,000.Personal services. division of child welfareChild Welfare Division. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placingAdministrative expenses. and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses, $3,500, and no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of Public WelfareLimitation on visiting wards of, outside the District. 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. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianshipBoard, etc., of children. 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, $240,000. To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provideHome care of dependent children. home care for dependent children in the District of Columbia”, approved June 22, 1926 (44 Stat., pp. 758–760), including not toVol. 44, p. 758. exceed $11,808 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $171,808: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be so apportioned*Proviso*.Apportionment restrictions. by the Commissioners as to prevent a deficiency therein, and no more than $100 per month shall be paid therefrom to any one family. For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board ofReceiving home for children under seventeen.Maintenance, etc. 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 police 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, 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 $17,208 for personal services, $34,768. 868 Advances to director.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 the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said director by the Limit.Commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for 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. Jail.jail Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, $68,823. Maintenance, etc., of prisoners.For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of 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; newspapers, books, and periodicals not to exceed $100; maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle ; and expense of electrocutions, $70,000. Workhouse and Reformatory.general administration, workhouse and reformatory, district of columbia Personal services.For personal services, $324,000. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, rewards for fugitives, discharge gratuities provided by law, medical supplies, newspapers, books, books of reference, and periodicals, farm implements, tools, equipment, transportation expenses, purchase and maintenance of livestock and horses, purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of nonpassenger-carrying vehicles Fuel, etc.and motor bus; fuel for heating, lighting, and power, and all other necessary items, $335,000. Construction of buildings, etc.For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including sewers, water mains, roads, and other necessary utilities, and for equipment for new buildings, $42,800. Repairs.For repairs to buildings and grounds, and maintenance of utilities, marine and railroad transportation facilities, and mechanical equipment not used in industrial enterprises, $22,000. Working capital.To provide a working capital fund for such industrial enterprises as may be approved by the Commissioners of the District of *Proviso*.Purchase of services and products.Columbia, $30,319: *Provided*, That the various departments and institutions 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; Receipts deposited as a revolving fund; availability.receipts from the sale of products and services shall be deposited to the credit of said working capital fund, and said fund, including all receipts credited thereto, shall be used as a revolving fund for the fiscal year 1935 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. 869 For construction of a permanent water supply filtration system,Filtration system, water supply. including the purchase of land on Occoquan Creek and Elkhorn Run, to be immediately available, $52,000: *Provided*, That in case a*Proviso*.Condemnation, if satisfactory price not attainable. satisfactory price cannot be agreed upon for the purchase of said land, the Attorney General of the United States, upon the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, is directed to acquire said land by condemnation, title to be taken directly to and in the name of the United States, and the expenses of condemnation shall be paid out of the appropriation herein made. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorizedAdvances authorized for returning escaped prisoners. 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 require of said superintendent, sums of money not exceeding $200 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 boysNational Training School for Boys. For care, and maintenance of boys committed to the NationalCare, etc., of boys committed thereto. 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, $38,000. national training school for girlsNational Training School for Girls. Salaries: For personal services, $28,800.Salaries and expenses. For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, 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, and including compensation not exceeding $1,500 for additional labor orApprehending absconders. 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, $30,000. medical charitiesMedical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to beCare, etc., of indigent patients at designated hospitals. made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital, $30,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $45,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $20,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000. columbia hospital and lying-in asylumColumbia Hospital. For general repairs, including labor and material, to be expendedRepairs, etc. in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $5,000. 870 Tuberculosis Hospital.tuberculosis hospital Salaries and expenses.For personal services, $81,567. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, medical books, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $200, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $60,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $3,000. Children’s tuberculosis sanatorium.children’s tuberculosis sanatorium Salaries and expenses.Salaries: For personal services, $51,498. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs to same, maintenance and purchase of horses and horse-drawn vehicles, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, medical books, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $200, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $30,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $2,000. D. C. Tuberculosis Sanatoria.district of columbia tuberculosis sanatoria Children’s unit, additions.For the construction of additions to the Children’s Unit, and the preparation of plans and specifications for the District of Columbia Plans for construction, Glenn Dale, Md.Tuberculosis Sanatoria at Glenn Dale, Maryland, including not to exceed $100,000 for the employment of professional and other personal services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, $500,000. Gallinger Hospital.gallinger municipal hospital Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, including not to exceed $2,000 for temporary labor, $323,928. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quarantine. station, smallpox hospital, and public crematorium, including expenses incident to furnishing 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 and remain unclaimed after twelve months from the date of such cremation; for maintenance and purchase of horses and horse-drawn vehicles; for medical books, books of reference, and periodicals, not to exceed $500; for maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses, $205,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,500. Incidental expenses.Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense of commencement exercises, entertainments, and inspection by New York State Board of Regents, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $600. Additional ward for contagious diseases.For completing construction at Gallinger Municipal Hospital of an additional ward building for contagious diseases, including necessary equipment, $290,000. 871 district training schoolDistrict Training School. For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporaryPersonal services. labor, $81,486. 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, and not to exceed $200 for the purchase of books, books of reference, and periodicals, $80,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $5,000.Repairs, etc. For purchase and exchange of one two-ton motor truck, $1,000.Motor truck. industrial home school for colored childrenIndustrial Home School for Colored Children. Salaries: For personal services, $30,575; temporary labor, $425;Personal services. in all, $31,000. For maintenance, including purchase and maintenance of farmMaintenance, etc. implements, horses, wagons, and harness, and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, $25,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,000.Repairs, etc. industrial home schoolIndustrial Home School. Salaries: For personal services, $21,780; temporary labor, $450;Personal services. in all, $22,230. For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and careMaintenance. of wagon and harness, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $20,500. For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $2,500.Repairs, etc. home for aged and infirmHome for Aged and Infirm. Salaries: For personal services, $53,100, temporary labor, $1,800;Personal services. in all, $54,900. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairsContingent expenses. 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, $67,500. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, suchRepairs, etc.; day labor. work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $4,500. For the purchase and exchange of station wagon-truck, $750.Truck. municipal lodging house and wood yard For personal services, $3,240; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $7,240.Municipal lodging house. emergency relief For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the DistrictEmergency relief. of Columbia who are unemployed or otherwise in distress because of the existing emergency, to be expended by the Board of Public Welfare of the District of Columbia by employment and/or direct relief, in the discretion of the Board of Commissioners and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the board and withoutWholly from District revenues. regard to the provisions of any other law, payable from the revenues of the District of Columbia, $2,000.000, to be immediately available. 872 temporary home for union ex-soldiers and sailors (department of the potomac, grand army of the republic) Grand Army soldiers, etc., temporary home.For personal services, $4,158; maintenance, $9,250; and repairs to buildings and grounds, $500; in all, $13,908, 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 Florence Crittenton Home.For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $6,000. southern relief society Southern Relief Society, for needy Confederate veterans.For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern ReliefSociety by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. national library for the blind National Library for the Blind.For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at 1800 I) Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. columbia polytechnic institute Columbia Polytechnic Institute.To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at 1808 H Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000. Saint Elizabeths Hospital.saint elizabeth hospital Support of District insane.For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $1,874,092. 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 psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $9,000. 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 the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Limit.Commissioners may require of said director, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of non-resident 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, $8,000. 873 For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An Act making Payment to abandoned families, etc.Vol. 34, p. 87;Vol. 44, p. 758.it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of 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, $9,000. burial of ex-service menEx-service men. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, orBurial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc. 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 died 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, $540. transportation of indigent persons For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veteransTransporting indigent persons. of the World War and their families, $5,000. Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents, District ofVocational rehabilitation of disabled residents.Vol. 45, p. 1260.[U. S. C., Supp. VII, p. 747](/us/usc/747). Columbia: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved February 23, 1929 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 29, secs. 47–47f), $15,000. MILITIAMilitia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and directionExpenses authorized, under commanding general. of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For personal services, $19,080; temporary labor, $5,220; forPersonal services.Expenses of camps. 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 move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments; damages to private property incident to encampment; reimbursement to the United States for loss of property for which the District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment; 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, including dredging alongside of dock; construction of buildings for storage and other purposes at target range; telephone service; printing, stationery, and postage; horses and mules for mounted organizations; maintenance and operation of passenger and non-passenger-carrying 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, $9,000; in all, $33,300. 874 National Capital Parks.NATIONAL CAPITAL, PARKS salaries, public parks, district of columbia Personal services.For personal services, $314,880. Public parks.general expenses, public parks Maintenance and general expenses.General expenses: For general expenses in connection with the 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 National Park Service, including not to exceed $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, technical, 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 two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motorcycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, *Proviso*.Outdoor sports, band concerts, etc.$340,543: *Provided*, That not exceeding $20,000 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; and not exceeding $10,000 for the erection of minor auxiliary structures. Park police.park police Pay, etc.Vol. 43, p. 175;Vol. 44, p. 834;Vol. 46, 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, $153,450. 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, ammunition, and radio equipment, $8,000. National Capital Park and Planning Commission.NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION Reimbursing United States for acquired lands, for park system.Vol. 46, p. 485.Incidental expenses.Vol. 43, p. 463;Vol. 44, p. 374;Vol. 45, p. 1070.For reimbursement to the United States in compliance with section 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 482), as amended, $531,211.94. For each and every purpose, except the acquisition of land, 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 play-ground system of the National Capital”, approved June 6, [U. S. C., p. 1292](/us/usc/1292).1924 (U.S.C., title 40, sec. 71), as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, not to exceed $1,500 for printing and binding, not to exceed $500 for traveling 875expenses and car fare of employees of the commission, and not to exceed $300 for professional, scientific, technical, and reference books, and periodicals, $33,096. 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 enclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; traveling and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $2,000 for travel and field expenses in the United States and foreign countries for the procurement of live specimens and for the care, subsistence, and transportation of specimens obtained in the course of such travel; maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; for the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of bicycles and nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, revolvers and ammunition; 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, $189,600, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. 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 and its appurtenances and for expenses of water department, namely: washington aqueductWashington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenanceMaintenance, etc., of, and accessories. and repair of Washington Aqueducts and their accessories, including Dalecarlia, Georgetown, McMillan Park, first and second 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 $650; purchase and repair of rubber boots and protective apparel, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $420,624. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendenceControl of Secretary of War not affected. 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. For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personalRevenue, inspection and distribution. services, $158,823. For maintenance of the water department distribution system,Operating expenses. including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, and all buildings and accessories, and motor trucks, and motor vehicles such as are now owned, and the replacement by purchase and/or exchange of the following motor-propelled vehicles: one one-and-one-half-ton special truck not to exceed $1,800, and one four-ton truck not to exceed $2,000; purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all 876labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and for contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing and binding not to exceed $2,500, postage, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $275, and other necessary items, $7,500; in all for maintenance, $310,000, of which not exceeding $5,000 shall be available for operation of pumps at Bryant Street pumping station upon interruption of service from Dalecarlia pumping station. Distribution expenses.For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $100,000. Meters.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, $60,000. Hydrants.For installing fire and public hydrants, $18,800. Replacing 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 pavements, $90,000, to be immediately available. New mains.For eight thousand two hundred feet of twenty-inch water main in Nichols Avenue Southeast, from First Street to Blue Plains, $59,000. For three thousand feet of thirty-inch water main from the thirty-inch main in Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast to Eighteenth Street and Minnesota Avenue Southeast, $42,000. For seven thousand five hundred feet of sixteen-inch water main in Rock Creek Church Road Northwest from Upshur Street to Harewood Road and south in Harewood Road to Michigan Avenue, $46,000. For three thousand one hundred feet of twenty-inch water main from Thirty-third Place and Woodley Road Northwest to Connecticut Avenue in vicinity of Macomb Street Northwest, $25,000. Discounts allowed on water charges.During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to allow a reduction of not to exceed 25 per centum in the water charges within the District Metered allowance increased.of Columbia fixed by existing law, and the present metered allowance of 7,500 cubic feet is increased to 10,000 cubic feet during such fiscal year. Assessment rates for mains and sewers.The rates of assessment for laying or constructing water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia under the provisions Vol. 33, p. 244.of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the laying of water mains and service sewers, and for other purposes”, approved April 22, 1904, are hereby established at $1.50 per linear foot for any watermains and service sewers constructed or laid on and after July 1, *Proviso*.Barry Farm subdivision.1934: *Provided*, That the assessment rate herein prescribed shall lie applicable to assessments for sewer and water mains constructed and laid subsequent to January 1, 1923, in the subdivision of Barry Farm, as said subdivision appears on the records of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia. Sec. 2. Construction work, etc., under Commissioners. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, water, 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 877and 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*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $42,000*Proviso*.Limitation on expenses. during the fiscal year 1935: *Provided further*, That, excluding inspectors in the sewer department and one inspector in the electrical 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, or their duly designated representatives, areTemporary labor, etc. further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, water, 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 necessary forHorses, vehicles, etc. use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including 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 maintained, and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effectSpecific authority required. 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 owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses,*Proviso*.Temporary work, etc. 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. That the Commissioners are authorized to employ in theMiscellaneous trust funds.Expenses, payable from. 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-fundVol. 33, p. 368. deposits, District of Columbia, necessary personal services, 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 878and 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 *Proviso*.Employment of labor, etc.to be paid from said appropriation account: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may delegate to their duly authorized representatives the employment under this section of laborer’s, mechanics, and artisans. Leaves of absence.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. 5. Material, supplies, vehicles, etc. That the Commissioners and other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible, Purchases 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 Procurement Division of the Treasury Department 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. Surplus articles purchased from the Government, if the Price stipulation.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 the 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 *Proviso*.Transfers under Executive Order No. 3019.Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That this section shall not be construed 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. Sec. 6. Increase of pay by reason of reallocation to higher grade. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used to pay any increase in the salary of any officer or employee of the District of Columbia by reason of the reallocation of the position of such officer or employee to a higher grade after June 30, 1932, by the Personnel Classification Board or the Civil Service Commission, and salaries paid accordingly shall be payment in full. Sec. 7. Transfer of funds restricted. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act for any activity shall be available for transfer to any other activity or between subheads of the same activity unless specifically authorized by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. Sec. 8. Limitation on rentals. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be available for the payment of rental of quarters for any activity at a rate in excess of 90 per centum of the per annum rate paid by the District of Columbia for such quarters on June 30, 1933: *Proviso*.Prior leases. *Provided*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to leases made prior to the passage of this Act, except when renewals thereof are made hereafter: *Provided further*, That the Unexpended balances covered in.appropriations or portions of appropriations unexpended by reason of the operation of this paragraph shall not be used for any purpose, but shall be impounded and deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia. Approved, June 4, 1934, 4 p.m. To provide for changing the time of the meeting of Congress, the beginning of the terms of Members of Congress, and the time when the electoral votes shall be counted, and for other purposes. 1934-06-05 48 Stat. 879 390 Chapter 73 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-11 public 879 [CHAPTER 390.] AN ACT To provide for changing the time of the meeting of Congress, the beginning of the terms of Members of Congress, and the time when the electoral votes shall be counted, and for other purposes.June 5, 1934.[[S. 2745](/us/usc/t73/s/2745).][[Public, No. 286](/us/pl/73/286).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 152 ofThe President; commencement of term of office.Vol. 47, p. 2569.[R.S., sec. 152](/us/usc/t/s152); [U.S.C., p. 21](/us/usc/t/s21). the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 3, sec. 41) is hereby amended by striking out the words“fourth day of March” and inserting in lieu thereof “20th day of January”. Sec. 2. Section 25 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 2, sec. 7)Representatives and Delegates to Congress.[R.S., sec. 25](/us/rs/25); [U.S.C., p. 3](/us/usc/t/s3). is hereby amended by striking out the words “fourth day of March” and inserting in lieu thereof “3d day of January”. Sec. 3. Section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act providing aSenators.Vol. 38, p. 384.[U.S.C., p. 3](/us/usc/t/s3). temporary method of conducting the nomination and election of United States Senators”, approved June 4, 1914 (U.S.C., title 2, sec. 1), is hereby amended by striking out “fourth day of March” and inserting in lieu thereof “3d day of January”. Sec. 4. The first sentence of section 20 of the Act entitled “An ActResident Commissioners, Philippine Islands.Vol. 39, p. 552.[U.S.C., p. 1630](/us/usc/t/s1630). to declare the purpose of the people of the United States as to the future political status of the people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for those islands”, approved August 29, 1916 (U.S.C., title 48, sec. 1091), is hereby amended by striking out the words “fourth day of March” and inserting in lieu thereof “3d day of January”. Sec. 5. The second sentence of section 36 of the Act entitled “AnResident Commissioner, Puerto Rico.Vol. 39, p. 963.[U.S.C., p. 1625](/us/usc/t/s1625). Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes”, approved March 2, 1917 (U.S.C., title 48, sec. 891), is hereby amended by striking out the words “fourth of March” and inserting in lieu thereof “3d day of January”. Sec. 6. The Act entitled “An Act providing for the meeting ofMeeting and vote of electors. electors of President and Vice President and for the issuance and transmission of the certificates of their selection and of the result of their determination, and for other purposes”, approved May 29, 1928, is hereby amended as follows:
(a)By striking out the words “first Wednesday in January” inVol. 45, p. 945.[U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 13](/us/usc/t/s13). section 1 of such Act (U.S.C., Supp. VII, title 3, sec. 5a) and inserting in lieu thereof “first Monday after the second Wednesday in December”.
(b)By striking out the words “by the third Wednesday in theFailure to receive certificates of electors.Vol. 45, p. 946.[U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 13](/us/usc/t/s13). month of January” in section 5 of such Act (U.S.C., Supp. VII, title 3, sec. l1b) and inserting in lieu thereof “by the fourth Wednesday in December”.
(c)By striking out the words “on the fourth Wednesday of theDemand on district judge for certificate.Vol. 45, p. 947; [U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 13](/us/usc/t/s13). month of January” in section 6 of such Act (U.S.C., Supp. VII, title 3, sec. 11c) and inserting in lieu thereof “on the fourth Wednesday in December”. Sec. 7. The first sentence of section 4 of the Act entitled “An ActCounting electoral votes in Congress.Vol. 24, p. 373.[U.S.C., p. 20](/us/usc/t/s20). to fix the day for the meeting of the electors of President and Vice President, and to provide for and regulate the counting of the votes for President and Vice President, and the decision of questions arising thereon”, approved February 3, 1887 (U.S.C., title 3, sec. 17), is amended by striking out the words “second” Wednesday in February” and inserting in lieu thereof “sixth day of January”. Approved, June 5, 1934. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole for the District of Columbia and to determine its functions, and for other purposes”, approved July 15, 1932. 1934-06-05 48 Stat. 880 391 Chapter 73 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-11 public 880 [CHAPTER 391.] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole for the District of Columbia and to determine its functions, and for other purposes”, approved July 15, 1932.June 5, 1934.[[S. 3290](/us/bill/73/s/3290).][
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