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(/us/pl/73/70).] *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 1934, 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, 1934, any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition $5,700,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1933, and all the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia, namely:
General expenses. GENERAL EXPENSES Executive Office. executive office Office personnel. Additional, for Engineer Commissioner. For personal services, $38,794, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board *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. VI, p. 31](/us/usc/p65/31). of Commissioners: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in accordance with the 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*, Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.
No reduction in fixed salaries. Vol. 42, p. 1490; Vol. 46, p. 1095. That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service;
(2)to require the reduction in salary, of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act;
(3)to 223 require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred Transfer to another position without pay reduction. Higher rates permitted. from one 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 higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation If only one position in a grade. of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated; Purchasing division: For personal services, $48,793; Purchasing division. Building inspection division: For personal services, $97,846; Building inspection division. Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $31,783; two Plumbing inspection division. members of plumbing board at $127.50 each; in all, $32,038. public convenience stations Public convenience stations. For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation Maintenance. of necessary employees, $12,500. care of district building Care of District Building. For personal services, including temporary labor, and service of Operating force. cleaners as necessary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $81,000: *Provided*, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be *Proviso*. Employment of 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. $28,300. assessor’s office Assessor’s office. For personal services, $193,000. Personal services. collector’s office Collector’s office. For personal services, $39,000. Personal services. auditor’s office Auditor’s office. For personal services, $106,000; and the compensation of the present Personal 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. office of corporation counsel Corporation Counsel’s office. For the corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general Extra pay, Public Utilities Commission. counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $75,400. coroner’s office Coroner’s office. For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance Services, including deputies. Vol. 46, p. 1003. with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $8,651. For the maintenance of a non-passenger-carrying motor wagon Morgue, etc., expenses. 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. 224 Office of Superintendent of Weights, etc. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets Personal service, etc. For personal services, $37,500. Inspection, etc. For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $300. Markets. For maintenance and repairs to markets, $5,500. Motor vehicles. For maintenance and repair of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $1,750. Engineer department. office of chief clerk, engineer department Chief Clerk’s office. For personal services, $24,935. central garage Central garage. For personal services, $4,539. Municipal Architect’s office. municipal architect’s office Personal services. For personal services, $40,000. 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. For two commissioners, people’s counsel, and for other personal services, $82,000, of which amount not to exceed $5,000 may be used Experts. for the employment of expert services by contract or otherwise and without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and of which amount not to exceed $688 shall be immediately available. Incidental expenses. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the purchase of newspapers, $1,500. Issuance of orders requiring meters in taxicabs forbidden. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used 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 *Proviso*. Other orders not affected. regulation or order shall have been approved by Congress: *Provided*, That this prohibition shall not be construed to affect any 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 engineers Examiners, steam engineers. Salaries: Three members, at $127.50 each, $382. department of insurance Insurance department. For personal services, $17,702. surveyor’s office Surveyor’s office. For personal services, $68,000. Employees’ Compensation fund. district of columbia employees’ compensation fund Payment for injuries. Vol. 41, p. 104. For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for 225 employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance Vol. 39, p. 742. of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, $30,000. Administrative Expenses, Compensation to Injured Employees of Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees. Vol. 45, p. 600. [U.S.C., Supp. VI, p. 664](/us/usc/p664). Transfer to Employees’ Compensation Commission. 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. V, title 33, sec. 901), $50,750, for transfer to and expenditure by the Employees’ Compensation Commission under its appropriations “Salaries and expenses”, $50,000, and “Printing and binding”, $750. For financing of the liability of the government of the District of Retirement Act. Contribution to from District revenues. Vol. 41, p. 619; Vol. 44, p. 912; Vol. 46, p. 468. [U.S.C., Supp. VI, p. 46](/us/usc/p46). 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 traffic Vehicles and traffic department. For personal services, $60,000. Personal services. For purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic Expenses, 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, $45,000: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other *Proviso*. Not available for street-car loading platforms. appropriation 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. free public library Public Library. For personal services, and for substitutes and other special and Personal services. temporary services, including extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, at the discretion of the librarian, $265,000. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other Miscellaneous. printed material, including payment in advance for subscription books, and society publications, $40,000: *Provided*, That the disbursing *Proviso*. Advances for books purchased, etc. 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. For binding, including necessary personal services, $18,452. Binding. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up Contingent expenses. buildings, care of grounds, maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $25,000. For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy Chase Chevy Chase and Woodridge branches. and Woodridge, $4,800. register of wills Register of Wills. For personal services, $60,000. Personal services. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, Contingent expenses typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, including laboratory 226 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. Recopying old land records. For personal services, $80,000, of which $6,000 shall be available only for recopying old land records of the District of Columbia. 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, not to exceed $500; traveling expenses not to exceed $1,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $6 per diem Removing unsafe, etc., buildings. 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 *Proviso*. Printing, etc., of list of supplies forbidden. offices; $28,000: *Provided*, That no 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. Printing and binding. For printing and binding, including the printing of the report on the power needs of the District of Columbia, $55,000. Automobiles, maintenance, etc. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $50,000. Restriction on use of District-owned vehicles. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles owned by the District of Columbia shall be used exclusively for “official purposes” directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall Under control of Commissioners. be under the direction and control of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided Transportation between domicile and place of employment. in this Act; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation 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: *Proviso*. Purchase price restriction. *Provided*, That no passenger-carrying automobile, except 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 Transfer forbidden. value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650. No motor vehicles 227 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 Fire insurance premiums forbidden. of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent Telephones allowed at residences of designated officials. of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the street-cleaning divison, inspector of plumbing, Director of Public Welfare, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, the superintendent of machinery, and the fire marshal, under appropriations contained in this Act. The commissioners may connect any Connections permitted. or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia, or to both of such systems. Telephones may also be maintained in the residences of the general superintendent of penal institutions and such other officials of the workhouse and reformatory as may be approved by the Commissioners. For postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental Postage. of postage meter equipment, $40,000. The Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish Car 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 of Fire 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 services Judicial expenses. in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $1,500: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are *Proviso*. Contracts for reporting permitted. [R.S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733), waived. [U.S.C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). 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, sec. 5) under available appropriations contained in this Act. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for General advertising. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $4,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the *Proviso*. Outside advertising. payment of advertising in newspapers published outside of the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the requirement for such advertising provided by existing law. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1933, as required Taxes in arrears. Vol. 30, p. 250. to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $8,000. employment service For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses Employment service. required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $9,435. emergency fund Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, Expenses; restriction. 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, 228*Proviso*. Voucher for expenses. $1,000: *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 Highways department, salaries. Salaries, Highways Department: For personal services, $155,000. 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 Gasoline tax road and street fund. gasoline tax, road and street improvements and repairs Paving, etc., streets and roads from. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, 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 Vol. 43, p. 106. be paid from the special 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: Designated streets to be improved. For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and gutters where necessary, the following: Northwest: Thirty-first Street, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to K Street and South Street, Thirty-first Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $7,400; Grading streets, alleys, and roads. For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, $50,000; Surfacing block pavements, etc. For surfacing block pavements and paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $25,000; Minor changes in roadways, etc. For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, $5,000; Curbs and gutters, shoulders, etc. For construction of curbs and gutters, or concrete shoulders in connection with all forms of macadam roadways and adjustment of roadways thereto, together with resurfacing and replacing of base of such roadways where necessary, $175,000; Surfacing, etc., pavements. For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt, granite block, or concrete pavements with the same or other approved material, $375,000; 229 For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, Bridges, construction, repair, etc. Highway bridge, improvements. Plans for New Hampshire Avenue viaduct. Motor vehicles. including $45,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for replacement of the fender pile system of the Highway Bridge, and not to exceed $7,500 for surveys, engineering investigations, and preparation of plans for a viaduct or bridge in the line of New Hampshire Avenue over the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $100,000. For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, Repairs, etc. including the reconditioning of existing gravel streets and roads, and including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $500,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, *Proviso*. Purchase of asphalt plant authorized. 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 repairing pavements of Street railways, pavements. Vol. 20, p. 105. street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5 of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected; In all, not to exceed $1,237,400, to be immediately available; to be Disbursements, etc. disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road and street improvements and repairs,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That assessments in accordance with existing *Proviso*. Assessments under existing law. 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. For additional street and road improvements and repairs to aid Street improvements, etc., for unemployment relief. in the relief of unemployment, to be allotted for such projects and purposes and in such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may approve (including the allocation of additional sums Allocations from gasoline, etc., fund. to any or all of the general items herein chargeable to the gasoline tax fund), there is hereby appropriated out of the gasoline tax fund and to be immediately available, such sums (not to exceed in the aggregate $1,500,000) as may be deemed surplus in such fund: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Calvert Street Bridge to be replaced. *Post*, p. 853. That of said amount the sum of $575,000 is hereby made available tor the construction of a bridge to replace the Calvert Street Bridge over Rock Creek, including necessary changes in water and sewer mains, and including the employment of engineering or other Employment of engineers. [R.S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733). [U.S.C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). Vol. 42, p. 1488. [U.S.C., p. 65; Supp. VI, p. 31](/us/usc/p65/31). Contracts authorized. Limit of cost. professional services by contract or otherwise, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 41, sec. 5), or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and engineering and incidental expenses, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for construction of said bridge at a cost not to exceed $1,250,000; but no part of said sum shall be available for expenditure in connection with the construction of said Calvert Street Bridge until the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have made a restudy, and reinvestigation to determine which particular Study of suitable type. type of bridge is most economical and serviceable, and best suited to the proposed location; and the Commission of Fine Arts shall have Approval by Fine Arts Commission. Street railway using bridge to install electric system at its expense; other items. approved the type of bridge decided upon, and any street railway company using said bridge shall install thereon, at its own expense, an approved underground system of street-car propulsion and, at its own expense, shall thereafter maintain such underground construction, and bear the cost of surfacing and resurfacing and main-230taining Relocating, etc., plow pit. in good condition the space between the railway tracks and two feet exterior thereto as provided by law, and shall defray the cost of excess construction occasioned by such use including the relocation and construction of closed plow pits at the west approach to the bridge in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That of said Widening, etc., designated roadways. amount of $1,500,000, the sum of $45,741 is hereby made available for widening to seventy-three feet and repaving the roadway of Constitution Avenue northwest, North Capitol to First Street, and for widening to eighty feet and repaving the roadway of Constitution Avenue northwest, First Street to Second Street, in accordance with plans therefor to be jointly approved by the National Capitol Park and Planning Commission and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including the necessary reconstruction, relocation, changes, and adjustments of all water mains, sewers in advance of paving, trees, sidewalks, lamp posts, fire hydrants or other structures affected, and including personal services and all necessary incidental expenses, Transfer from Arlington Memorial Bridge, construction appropriation. *Post*, p. 285. and the total cost of said work shall not exceed $76,235, of which sum not to exceed $30,494 shall be transferred from and in accordance with the appropriation in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, for the construction of the Arlington Memorial Bridge. miscellaneous road and street improvements and repairs 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 the permanent Indefinite appropriation for, from District revenues. 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 1934, to be paid *Provisos*. Alley improvements, building lines, etc. wholly out of the revenues of the District of 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 Limitation. of building lines in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That the amount expended hereunder shall not exceed $25,000. 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 for such work shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving material as well as in price. Repairs, due to inferior work by contractor. In addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractors to keep new pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date of the completion of the work, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall further require that where repairs are necessary Repayment. during the four years following the said one-year period, due to inferior work or defective materials, such repairs shall be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense. Laboratory tests. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used 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. 231 bridges and wharves Bridges and wharves. Benning Bridge over the Anacostia River: For completing the Benning, over Anacostia River. Completing construction. construction of a bridge to replace the bridge and trestle in line of Benning Road over the Anacostia River in accordance with the provisions and conditions contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1933, $148,500. For reconstruction, where necessary, and for maintenance and Reconstructing, etc., wharves. 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 parkings Trees and parkings. For personal services, $22,000. Personal services. For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, Contingent expenses. repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, purchase and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $84,000. SEWERS Sewers. Salaries, sewer department: For personal services, $160,000. Personal services. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the Cleaning, repair, etc. replacement of the following motor trucks: One at not to exceed $650; one at not to exceed $750; one at not to exceed $2,000; for operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of coal, oil, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle used in this work, $195,000. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $100,000. Main and pipe. For suburban sewers, including the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying Suburban. motor vehicles used in this work, and the replacement of the following motor trucks: Three at not to exceed $650 each; one at not to exceed $3,500; $175,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, including not to exceed Assessment and permit work. $1,000 for purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $75,000. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE City refuse. For personal services, $120,000. Personal services. For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, Sweeping, cleaning, snow and ice removal, etc. and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the Commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repair of stables; hire and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; maintenance and repair of nonpassenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; and necessary incidental expenses, $375,000. To enable the Commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing Garbage, dead animals, ashes, etc. 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; and 232Reduction plant. incidental expenses, $800,000, including not to exceed $14,000 for *Provisos*. Proceeds covered in; division of. repair and improvement of the garbage-reduction plant: *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the Collections restricted. manner provided by 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. Incinerator in southeast section forbidden. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be available for the operation of a high-temperature incinerator for the disposal of combustible refuse in the southeast section of the District of Columbia. Public playgrounds. PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS Personal services. *Proviso*. Employments restricted. For personal services, $97,167: *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 of one motor truck, $30,000, of which $5,000 shall be available for putting the Northeast Playground in condition for play purposes. 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, $25,000. Swimming pools. For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $2,568. Bathing pools. Bathing pools: For superintendence, $510; for temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $3,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,215; in all, $5,225. Electrical department. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT Personal services. For personal services, $115,000. 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, $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 firealarm 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 of maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operation Air 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 accord-233ance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Vol. 36, p. 1008; Vol. 37, p. 181. Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat., pp. 1008–1011, sec. 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat., pp. 181–184, sec. 7), and other laws applicable thereto, and including not to exceed $26,000 for operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, Traffic signals, etc. and controls, $800,000, together with $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1933: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment *Provisos*. Electric street lighting rates. 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 Awards to lowest contractor. appropriation shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. PUBLIC SCHOOLS Public schools. For personal services of administrative and supervisory officers Personal services. in accordance with the Act fixing and regulating the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education Vol. 43, p. 368. of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), including salaries of presidents of teachers colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $550,000. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $138,000. Clerks, etc. For personal services in the department of school attendance and School attendance and work permit department. Vol. 43, pp. 367–375, 806–808, Vol. 45, p. 998. 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), $33,413. For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance Teachers, librarians, etc. Vol. 43, pp. 367–375. 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, $5,432,760: *Provided*, *Provisos*. Assignment of kindergarten teachers, grades 1–4. That as teacher vacancies occur during the fiscal year 1934 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 Placing unassigned teachers of special, etc., subjects. vacancies that occur during the fiscal year 1934 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 Temporary services. Board of Education may at its discretion during the fiscal year 1934 appoint as temporary teachers in public schools of the District of Columbia qualified teachers from the eligible list of applicants established by examinations: *Provided further*, That in filling all Preference in filling vacancies. such vacancies teachers now in the schools shall have the preference. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation Vacation schools. schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $25,000. No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to Soliciting subscriptions, etc., in schools prohibited. any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit 234 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. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, Annuities. Vol. 44, p. 728; Vol. 41, p. 387. 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, $75,000. 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. Deaf, dumb, and blind. the deaf, dumb, and blind Instruction of deaf and dumb. 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 [R.S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942). Vol. 31, p. 844. [U.S.C., p. 685](/us/usc/p685). 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, $32,000. Colored deaf mutes. For maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some Tuition, under contract. *Proviso*. Supervision. other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, $6,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. Blind children. Tuition, under contract. *Proviso*. Supervision of expenses. For maintenance and instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract 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, $7,500. Contingent expenses. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $600. Community centers. community center department Salaries and expenses. For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and community secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 Vol. 43, pp. 369, 375. (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, $30,000. 235 care of buildings and grounds Care of buildings and grounds. For personal services, including care of smaller buildings and Personal services. rented rooms at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded Smaller buildings and rented rooms. classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $750,000. miscellaneous Miscellaneous. For the maintenance of schools for tubercular and crippled pupils, Schools for tubercular and crippled pupils. $9,000. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular Transportation. pupils, and for pupils attending schools for crippled pupils, $18,500: *Provided*, That expenditures for street car and bus fares, from this *Proviso*. Car, etc., fares allowed. 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, etc., training expenses. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $60,000, to be immediately available. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $240,000. Fuel, light, power, etc. furniture Furniture. For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions Equipping designated buildings. to buildings, as follows: School in Foxhall Village, $3,200; Phelps Vocational School, $40,000; Logan School, $6,000; Keene School, $6,000; Bancroft school, $5,600; Douglass-Simmons assembly-gymnasium and M Street Junior High School gymnasium, $3,040; in all, Immediately available. $63,840, to be immediately available and to continue available until June 30, 1935. For contingent expenses, including United States flags, furniture Contingent expenses. 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, $120,000, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be required on account of military *Proviso*. No bond required for Army supplies to cadets. supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furniture Purchases 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. For textbooks and other educational books and supplies as authorized Supplies to pupils. Vol. 46, p. 62. 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. For maintenance of kindergartens, $5,600, to be immediately Kindergartens. available. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, Supplies for physics, etc., departments. 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. 236 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, $325,000, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available. Equipment, etc., 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 Construction, etc., designated schools; payable from balances for the Municipal Center. Vol. 46, p. 1384; Vol. 47, p. 350. Not to exceed $570,000 of any unexpended balances of appropriations contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1932 and 1933 for the Municipal Center is hereby reappropriated and made available for the construction of public-school buildings as follows: Logan. *Post*, p. 860. For the erection of an eight-room building on a site already appropriated for in the vicinity of the Logan School, $95,000; Reno, senior high. For beginning the construction of a senior high school building at Forty-first and Chesapeake Streets northwest, in the Reno section, Contracts authorized. $475,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building at a cost not to exceed $1,150,000; Total; immediately available. Accounted as one fund. *Provisos*. Use for unauthorized projects forbidden. In all, $570,000, 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 expended: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. Under-age instruction prohibited. No part of the foregoing appropriations for public schools shall 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, 1933, and children entering during the second half of the school year who will be five years of age by Webster School provisions. March 15, 1934: *Provided*, That this limitation shall not be considered as preventing the employment of a matron and the care of children under school age at the Webster School whose parent or parents are in attendance in connection with Americanization work. Building contract requirements. None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid or obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, lighting, plumbing, painting, and treatment of grounds, shall not have been awarded in one or a single contract, separate and apart from any other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest responsible bidder complying with all the legal requirements as to a. deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful performance of the contract: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be Right to reject bids. construed as repealing existing law giving the Commissioners the right to reject all bids. 237 The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Preparation 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 shall Exit, 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 exists. 11 So in original. 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 POLICE Police. salaries For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Salaries, etc. Vol. 43, p. 174; Vol. 46, p. 839. 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 of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 839–841), including compensation at the rate of $2,100 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police department, $2,570,000. For personal services, $103,000. Personal services. miscellaneous Miscellaneous. For fuel, $7,000. Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and station Repairs, etc. grounds, $8,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for Contingent expenses. 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, telephone service charges, purchase, maintenance and servicing of radio broadcasting Radio system. systems, including 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 in prevention and detection Prevention and detection of crime. of crime and other necessary expenses, including expenses of harbor patrol, $70,000, 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 been expended: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Speedometer repairs. 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. For purchase, exchange, and maintenance of passenger-carrying Motor vehicles. and other motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $60,000, including not to exceed $2,000 for two patrol wagons and not to exceed $2,800 for two police cruisers. 238 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 purchase and maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of buildings, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $8,880; for personal services, $7,120; in all, $16,000. 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 1934 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. Fire Department. FIRE DEPARTMENT salaries Salaries, officers, etc. Vol. 43, p. 175; Vol. 46, p. 839. 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 and members of the Metropolitan Police Force, the United States Park 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), $1,800,000. Personal services. For personal services, $4,794. miscellaneous Repairs, etc., to buildings. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $20,000. Uniforms, etc. 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, $21,000. Repairs to apparatus, etc. For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other motor-driven 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, $41,000: *Provided*, That 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. Hose, fuel, etc. For hose, $9,000. For fuel, $20,000. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $20,000. 239 HEALTH DEPARTMENT Health Department. salaries For personal services, $155,000. Personal services. prevention of contagious diseases Prevention of contagious diseases. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisions Enforcement expenses. Vol. 29, p. 635. of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897 (29 Stat., pp. 635–641), and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal Vol. 34, p. 889. meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907 (34 Stat., pp. 889–890), and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, Registration of tuberculosis. Vol. 35, p. 126. for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908 (35 Stat., pp. 126–127), under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile Infantile paralysis. paralysis and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 1001–1003), Venereal diseases. Vol. 43, p. 1001. Disinfecting service. and for maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services, when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, and purchase of reference books and medical journals, $28,000: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist *Proviso*. Bacteriological examination of milk, etc. employed under this appropriation may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary works as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases. For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Isolating wards, Garfield Hospital. Memorial Hospital, maintenance, $22,500, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the Commissioners may be necessary. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment Maintenance of dispensaries, etc. of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal services, rent, supplies, and contingent expenses, $33,112: *Provisos*. Volunteer services. *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and ma intenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*, No pay therefor authorized. That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the Drainage of lots, etc. Vol. 29, p. 126. Abatement of nuisances. Vol. 34, p. 114. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 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, $500. hygiene and sanitation, public schools Hygiene, etc., public schools. Salaries: For personal services in the conduct of hygiene and Personal services. Dental clinics. *Proviso*. Division of inspectors and nurses. sanitation work in the public schools, including the necessary expenses of maintaining free dental clinics, $80,000: *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 240 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, $2,000. 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 Columbia, Pure food law. Vol. 34, p. 768. 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, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., pp. 768–772), and an Act to regulate, within the Milk regulations. Vol. 43, p. 1004. 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 dairyfarm inspectors; and including not to exceed $100 for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and *Proviso*. Dairy farm inspection; motor vehicle allowance. 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. Ambulances, etc. For maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motor vehicles, $800. 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 services, *Provisos*. Volunteer service may be accepted. rent, fuel, periodicals, and supplies, $44,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of No pay therefor. the service herein authorized: *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. Courts and prisons. COURTS AND PRISONS Juvenile Court. juvenile court Personal services. Salaries: For personal services, $50,000. Jurors. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $1,125. Contingent expenses. For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, repairs to courthouse and grounds, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,750. Advances authorized for returning, etc., absconding probationers. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. 241 police court Police Court. Salaries: For personal services, $85,000. Personal services. For law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, Contingent expenses. preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painter’s and plumber’s supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, lodging and meals for jurors and bailiffs when ordered by the court, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $5,500. For witness fees and compensation of jurors, $23,000. Witnesses and jurors. For repairs and alterations to building, $1,420. Building repairs, etc. municipal court Municipal Court. Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of five Salaries. judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $63,000. For compensation of jurors, $4,000: *Provided*, That deposits made Jurors. 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 of Contingent 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, $2,750. supreme court, district of columbia District Supreme Court. Salaries: For the chief justice, eight associate justices, nine stenographers Salaries. (one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice), and other personal services, $112,000. Fees of jurors and witnesses: For mileage and per diem of jurors, Jurors and witnesses. 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 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, Bailiffs, etc. 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 court, $31,942: *Provided*, That the compensation of each jury commissioner *Proviso*. Jury commissioners. for the fiscal year 1934 shall not exceed $250. Probation system: For personal services, $9,758; contingent Probation system. expenses, $242; in all, $10,000. Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection of the Courthouse, care, etc. courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $30,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including repair Repairs, etc. and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $4,000, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. 242 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 *Proviso*. Sale of reports. clerk’s office; in all, $83,500: *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 District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, $7,957. Miscellaneous, authorized by Attorney General. Miscellaneous court expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $35,000. Printing and binding. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, $6,200. Public Welfare. PUBLIC WELFARE Board of Public Welfare. board of public welfare Personal services. For personal services, $96,000. Child-welfare division. division of child welfare Administration expenses. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses, $3,500, and no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used Limitation on visiting wards of, outside the District, etc. for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of Public Welfare placed outside the District of Columbia and the States of Virginia and Maryland; and a ward placed outside said District and the States of Virginia and Maryland shall be visited not less than once 243 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 guardianship Board, 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, $250,000. To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provide Home care of dependent children. Vol. 44, p. 758. home care for dependent children in the District of Columbia”, approved June 22, 1926 (44 Stat., pp. 758–760), including not to exceed $11,152 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $171,152: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be so apportioned *Proviso*. Limitation on expenditure. 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 of Receiving, etc., home for children under 17. 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 $15,940 for personal services, $34,000. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to Advances to director. advance to the director of public welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said director by the Commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for Limit. 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. Salaries: For personal services, $65,000. Salaries. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Maintenance and support of prisoners. Columbia at the jail, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, newspapers, books, and periodicals not to exceed $100, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, and expense of electrocutions. $67,500. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION, WORKHOUSE AND Workhouse and Reformatory. REFORMATORY, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA For personal services, $280,000. Personal services. For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, rewards for fugitives, Maintenance, etc. 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 and motor bus; fuel for Fuel, etc. heating, lighting, and power, and all other necessary items, $320,000. 244 Building construction. Equipment. Additional sum. Vol. 46, p. 1404. For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including sewers, water mains, roads, and other necessary utilities, and for equipment for new buildings, $42,800, together with a further sum of not exceeding $54,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for maintenance, care, and support of inmates, and so forth, workhouse and reformatory, District of Columbia, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932. 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 Columbia, *Proviso*. Purchase of services and products. $35,000: *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 from the sale of products and services shall be deposited to Receipts deposited as revolving fund. Availability, etc. 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 1934 for the purchase and repair of machinery, tools, and equipment, purchase of raw materials and manufacturing supplies, purchase, maintenance, and operation of nonpassenger-carrying vehicles, purchase and maintenance of horses, and purchase of fuel for manufacturing purposes; for freight, personal services, and all other necessary expenses; and for the payment to inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings as the Commissioners may deem proper. Advances authorized for returning absconders. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the general superintendent of penal institutions, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners may 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 Boys. national training school for boys Care, etc., of boys committed thereto. For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $27,000. National Training School for Girls. national training school for girls Personal services. Contingent expenses. Salaries: For personal services, $27,500. For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, magazines, and other supplies which represent greater educational advantages; stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, and including compensation not exceeding $1,500 for additional labor or Apprehending 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, $31,000. 245 medical charities Medical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be Care, 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, $15,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $45,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $15,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000. columbia hospital and lying-in asylum Columbia Hospital. For general repairs, including labor and material, to be expended Repairs, etc. in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $5,000. tuberculosis hospital Tuberculosis Hospital. For personal services, $73,500. Personal services. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs to Contingent expenses. 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, $59,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including Repairs, etc. roads and sidewalks, $3,000. children’s tuberculosis sanatorium Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium. For personal services, maintenance, and other necessary expenses, Maintenance, etc. including maintenance of motor vehicles and the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, $25,000. For completely furnishing and equipping the Children’s Tuberculosis Equipment, etc. Sanatorium, including not to exceed $1,950 for the purchase of one nonpassenger and two passenger-carrying motor vehicles Motor vehicles. (including one bus), $45,000. gallinger municipal hospital Gallinger Hospital. Salaries: For personal services, including not to exceed $2,000 for Personal services. temporary labor, $295,000. For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quarantine Maintenance, etc. 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, $195,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,500. Repairs, etc. Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense of Incidental expenses. commencement exercises, entertainments, and inspection by New York State Board of Regents, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $600. district training school District Training School. For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary Personal services. labor, $75,000. 246 Maintenance, etc. For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, farm machinery and implements, $80,000. Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $5,000. Industrial Home School for Colored Children. industrial home school for colored children Personal services. Salaries: For personal services, $30,575; temporary labor, $425; in all, $31,000. Maintenance. For maintenance, including purchase and maintenance of farm implements, horses, wagons, and harness, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, $25,000. Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,928. Deposit of receipts from products. All moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board or of instruction or otherwise shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. Industrial Home School. industrial home school Personal services. Salaries: For personal services, $20,575; temporary labor, $425; in all, $21,000. Maintenance. For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $21,000. Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, including not to exceed $2,000 for laundry equipment, $4,000. Home for Aged and Infirm. home for aged and infirm Personal services. Salaries: For personal services, $49,300; temporary labor, $1,700; in all, $51,000. Contingent expenses. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $65,000. Repairs, etc.; day labor. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $4,500. Municipal Lodging House, etc. municipal lodging house and wood yard Maintenance, etc. For personal services, $2,934; maintenance, $4,066; in all, $7,000. War Veterans’ Service office. war veterans’ service office Personal services. For personal services, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to enable the municipal government to aid and advise war veteran residents of the District of Columbia and their dependents as to their rights and privileges under Federal legislation of which veterans and/or their dependents may be beneficiaries, Assisting presentation of claims. including assistance in the presentation of claims to the Veterans’ Administration or other appropriate Federal agencies, $5,100, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Emergency relief. emergency relief Relief of unemployed, etc., residents. For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the District of Columbia who are unemployed or otherwise in distress because of 247 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 Method of expenditure. rules and regulations to be prescribed by the board and without regard to the provisions of any other law, payable from the revenues Wholly from District revenues. of the District of Columbia, $1,300,000, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That not to exceed 8 per centum of such amount shall be *Proviso*. Administrative expenses. available for administrative expenses, including necessary personal services. temporary home for union ex-soldiers and sailors (department of the potomac, grand army of the republic) For personal services, $3,747; maintenance, $9,253; and repairs Grand Army soldiers, etc., temporary home. to buildings and grounds, $500; in all, $13,500, 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 Maintenance, etc. to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $6,000. southern relief society For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate Southern Relief Society, for needy Confederate veterans. veterans, their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located National Library for the Blind. at 1800 D Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. columbia polytechnic institute To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located Columbia Polytechnic Institute. at 1808 H Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000. saint elizabeths hospital Saint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Support of District insane. Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $1,807,580. nonresident insane For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with Deporting nonresident insane. Vol. 30, p. 811. 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, $5,500. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District Advances authorized to Director of Public Welfare. of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Director of Public Welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the 248Limitation. District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners may require of said Director, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. relief of the poor Relief of the poor. For relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and for pay of physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, $8,000. Payment to abandoned families. Vol. 34, p. 87. Vol. 44, p. 758. For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person 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, $7,000. Ex-service men. burial of ex-service men Burial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent Union ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines, of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired, and who 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, $135. transportation of indigent persons Transporting indigent persons. For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $5,000. Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents. Vol. 45, p. 1260. Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents, District of Columbia: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved February 23, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1260), $15,000. Militia. MILITIA Expenses authorized, under commanding general. For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Personal services. Expenses of camps, etc. For personal services, $18,000; temporary labor, $5,000; for expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or 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 249 and operation of passenger and nonpassenger-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, $32,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS Public Buildings and Public Parks. salaries, public parks, district of columbia For personal services, $300,000. Personal services. general expenses, public parks Public parks. General expenses: For general expenses in connection with the Maintenance and general expenses. maintenance, care, improvement, furnishing of heat, light, and power of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, including $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, $333,000: *Provided*, That not *Proviso*. Outdoor sports, band concerts, etc. 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. park police Park police. Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police Salaries. Vol. 43, p. 175; Vol. 46, p. 839. force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $145,000. For uniforming and equipping the United States park police Uniforms, equipment, etc. 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, $9,000. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING National Capital Park and Planning Commission. COMMISSION For reimbursement to the United States in compliance with Reimbursement for acquired lands. Vol. 46, p. 485. section 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 482), as amended, $1,000,000. For each and every purpose, except the acquisition of land, Incidental expenses, etc. requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park 250Vol. 43, p. 463; Vol. 44, p. 374; Vol. 45, p. 1070. [U.S.C., p. 1292](/us/usc/p1292). 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, 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 expenses and car fare of employees of the commission, and not to exceed $300 for professional, scientific, technical, and reference books, and periodicals, $31,000. National Zoological Park. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK Expenses. For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; 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 motorpropelled 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, $180,000, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. Water service. WATER SERVICE From water revenues. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of water department, namely: Washington Aqueduct. washington aqueduct Maintenance, etc., of, and accessories. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance 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, $400,000. Control of Secretary of War not affected. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. Revenue, inspection, and distribution. For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personal services, $150,000. Operating expenses. For maintenance of the water department distribution system, including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, and all buildings and accessories, and 251 motor trucks, and the replacement by purchase and/or exchange of the following motor-propelled vehicles: Three seven-hundred-and-fifty-pound trucks not to exceed $550 each, one one-and-one-half-ton truck not to exceed $700, one three-ton truck not to exceed $1,600, and one five-ton truck not to exceed $2,000; purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and for contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing and binding not to exceed $2,000, postage, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals, not to exceed $275, and other necessary items, $7,500; in all for maintenance, $265,000, 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. For extension of the water department distribution system, laying Distribution expenses. of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $142,000. For installing and repairing water meters on services to private Meters. 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, $10,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, $10,000. Hydrants. For replacement of old mains and divide valves in various locations, Replacing mains. on account of inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains in advance of pavements, $50,000, to be immediately available. For additional extension, improvement, and repair of the water New mains. distribution system, including necessary mains, machinery, and equipment, to aid in the relief of unemployment and to be allotted for such projects and purposes and in such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may approve (including the allocation of additional sums to any or all of the four immediately preceding items), there is hereby appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department such sums (not to exceed in the aggregate $635,000) as may be deemed surplus in such revenues. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, the Commissioners Discounts, payment of water charges. of the District of Columbia are authorized to allow a discount of 10 per centum on the amount of any bill for water charges paid within fifteen days after the date of the rendition thereof. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, Construction work, etc., under Commissioners. 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 and in writing ordered by the Commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners in their Budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, *Provisos*. Limitation on expenses. That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $42,000 during the fiscal year 1934: Provided further, That, excluding inspectors in the sewer department and one inspector in the electrical department, no Period of employment. 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. Temporary labor, etc. The Commissioners, or their duly designated representatives, are 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. 252 Sec. 3.Horses, vehicles, etc. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary for 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 Specific authority required. carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners: and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners in the Budget estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided *Proviso*. Temporary work, etc. for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4.Miscellaneous trust funds. Expenses payable from. Vol. 33, p. 368. That the Commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work, the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as the Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia, 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 and necessary for the proper execution thereof, including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles for inspection and transportation purposes, such services and expenses to be *Proviso*. Employment of laborers, etc. paid from said appropriation account: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may delegate to their duly authorized representatives the employment under this section of laborers, 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. Purchase from stock of Government activities no longer needed. That the Commissioners and other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible, shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, in accordance with the 253 regulations and schedules of the General Supply Committee or from the various services of the Government of the United States possessing material, supplies, passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, and equipment no longer required. Surplus articles purchased from the Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have Price stipulation. 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 Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That *Proviso*. Transfers under Executive order. 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. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall Increase of pay by reason of reallocation to higher grade. 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. Title II of the Act entitled “An Act to maintain the credit Provisions for impounding, on account of salary reductions not operative. *Ante*, p. 14. of the United States Government”, approved March 20, 1933, to the extent that it provides for the impoundment of appropriations on account of reductions in compensation of officers and employees, shall not operate to require such impoundment under appropriations contained in this Act. Sec. 8. When specifically approved by the Director of the Bureau Transfers between subheads of appropriations allowed; exception. of the Budget upon recommendation of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transfers may be made between subheads of appropriations provided in this Act for the free Public Library, public playgrounds, public schools (except buildings and grounds and repairs to buildings), health department, and public welfare, respectively: *Provided*, That such transfers under this section shall *Proviso*. Not to apply to specified service. not be made between appropriations for the several municipal services named, and all transfers, whether approved or contemplated, shall be reported to Congress in the estimates of the District of Report thereof to Congress. Columbia for the fiscal year 1935. Approved, June 16, 1933, 12:50 p.m. To transfer Bedford County from the Nashville division to the Winchester division of the middle Tennessee judicial district. Chapter 94 48 Stat. 253 1933-06-16 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 73 1 public [CHAPTER 94.] AN ACT To transfer Bedford County from the Nashville division to the Winchester division of the middle Tennessee judicial district.June 16, 1933.[[H.R. 5909](/us/bill/73/hr/5909).][[Public, No. 71](/us/pl/73/71).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Bedford Tennessee judicial district.Transfer of Bedford County to Winchester Division. County of the Nashville division of the middle district of the State of Tennessee is hereby detached from the Nashville division and attached to and made a part of the Winchester division of the middle district of such State. Approved, June 16, 1933, 12:55 p.m. Providing for payment of $50 to each enrolled Chippewa Indian of the Red Lake-Band of Minnesota from the timber funds standing to their credit in the Treasury of the United States. Chapter 95 48 Stat. 254 1933-06-16 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 73 1 public 254 [CHAPTER 95.] AN ACT Providing for payment of $50 to each enrolled Chippewa Indian of the Red Lake-Band of Minnesota from the timber funds standing to their credit in the Treasury of the United States.June 16, 1933.[[S. 1561](/us/bill/73/s/1561).][
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