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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · May 1, 1935 · Public Law 138

Public Law 138.

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(/us/pl/74/137).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Importation of Philippine cordage, etc.Limitation on amount, entering duty free, for ensuing three years. That, effective May 1, 1935; and for three years thereafter, the total amount of all yarns, twines, cords, cordage, rope, and cable, tarred or untarred, wholly or in chief value of Manila (abaca) or other hard fiber, produced or manufactured in the Philippine Islands, coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands, shall not exceed six million pounds during each successive twelve months period, which six million pounds shall enter the United States duty free.
Export permits.Amount exported to be allocated under.The amount or quantity of such articles which may be so exported to the United States shall be allocated, under export permits issued by the Government of the Philippine Islands, to the producers or Supervision.manufacturers thereof. This allocation shall be made by the Governor General of the Philippine Islands prior to the inauguration of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, and thereafter by the President of said Commonwealth, unless otherwise provided by the Legislature of the Commonwealth.
Sec. 2. Extension of operation of act by proclamation. Pending the final and complete withdrawal of American sovereignty over the Philippine Islands, the President of the United States may, by proclamation, at least ninety, days prior to the expiration of the three year period provided in section 1 hereof, extend the operation of this Act for an additional period of three years or more, provided such extension is accepted by the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. 341 Sec. 3.
On and after the expiration of the operation of this Act Provisions of Independence Act, applies.the articles described in section 1 coming into the United States from the Philippines shall be subject to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of Congress approved March 24, 1934, entitled “An Act Vol. 48, p. 459.to provide for the complete independence of the Philippine Islands, to provide for the adoption of a constitution and a form of government for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.
” Sec. 4. Except as provided herein, nothing in this Act shall be Existing Jaw not affected.construed to modify or repeal the provisions of any existing law. Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate such rules Rules and regulations.and regulations as may be necessary to enforce the provisions hereof; and this Act shall be enforced as part of the customs law. Approved, June 14, 1935. Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. 1935-06-14 241 Chapter 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 2025-01-07 49 Stat. 491 74 1 public [CHAPTER 241.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes.June 14, 1935.[[H. R. 3973.](/us/bill/3973/hr/3973)][[Public, No. 138](/us/pl/74/213).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse, of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in order to District of Columbia.Appropriations for expenses of, fiscal year 1936, from District revenues and $5,700,000 from the Treasury.defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, 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, 1935, and all of the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSESGeneral expenses. executive officeExecutive office. For personal services, $47,420, plus so much as may be necessary Office personnel. Additional, for Engineer Commissioner.to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of Commissioners: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of *Proviso*.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. 85](/us/usc/p85).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, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed One position in a grade.the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in Advances in meritorious cases.unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rate of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.shall not apply
(1)to grades 1,2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical 342No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; [U. S. C., p. 86](/us/usc/p86).Transfer to another position without pay reduction.Higher rates permitted.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 require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit;
(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 If only one position In a grade.Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law; or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. Purchasing division.Purchasing division: For personal services, $57,000. Building inspection division.Building inspection division: For personal services, $111,360. Plumbing inspection division.Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $37,390; two members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all, $37,690. public convenience stationsPublic convenience stations. Maintenance.For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $14,000. care of the district buildingCare of District Building. Operating force.For personal services, including temporary labor, and service of cleaners as necessary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $93,580: *Proviso*.Employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen.*Provided*, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Building. Operating supplies.For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, and miscellaneous supplies, $28,300. assesor’s officeAssessor’s office. For personal services, $225,000. collector’s officecollector’s office. For personal services, $45,650. auditor’s officeAuditor’s office. Personal services.Present disbursing officer permitted other duties.For personal services, $124,700; and the compensation of the present incumbent of the position of disbursing officer of the District of Columbia shall be exclusive of his compensation as United States property and disbursing officer for the National Guard of the District of Columbia. office of corporation counselCorporation Counsel’s office. Extra pay. Public Utilities Commission.*Post*, p. 576.Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $99,520. alcoholic beverage control boardAlcoholic Beverage Control Board. Salaries and expenses. Purchase of supplies.For personal services, street-car and bus transportation, telephone service, not exceeding $500 for the purchase of samples, and other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $40,150. coroner’s officeCoroner’s office. Personal services.[U. S. C., p. 85.](/us/usc/p85)For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $10,180. Morgue, etc., expenses.*Post*, p. 576.For the maintenance of a non-passenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness’ fees, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, and the 343necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,500. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and marketsOffice of Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets.Personal services.Contingent expenses. For personal services, $53,800. For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, not to exceed $141 (to be immediately Vehicles.available) as an additional amount for the purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle for which $530 was provided in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, and not to exceed $671 for the purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $9,042. For necessary repairs, replacements, additions and improvements Municipal Fish Wharf, etc.to paving, plumbing, water lines, and sewerage at Municipal fish wharf and market, $5,000. office of chief clerk, engineer departmentEngineer Department.Chief Clerk's office. For personal services, $29,340. municipal architect’s officeMunicipal Architect’s office. For personal services, $46,920.Personal services. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal Apportionments.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 2% per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000. public utilities commissionPublic Utilities Commission. For two commissioners, people’s counsel, and for other personal Commissioners, people’s counsel, etc.Experts.services, $69,000, of which amount not to exceed $5,000 may be used for the employment of expert services by contract or otherwise and without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorizedIncidental, etc., expenses. by law, including the purchase of newspapers, $1,500. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be usedIssuance of orders requiring meters in taxi-cabs forbidden. for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission. board of examiners, steam engineersExaminers, steam engineers Salaries: Three members, at $150 each, $450. department of insuranceInsurance department. For personal services,$24,620. surveyor’s office Surveyor’s office. For personal services, $79,500. 344 district of columbia employees’ compensation fundEmployees’ compensation fund. Payments for injuries.Vol. 41, p. 104.*Post*, p. 676.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 Vol. 39, p. 742; [U. S. C., p. 98](/us/usc/p98).provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, $32,500. Administrative expenses, compensation to Injured employees.Vol. 46, p. 600.[U. S. C., p. 1500](/us/usc/p1500).Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees in the District of Columbia: For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved May 17, 1928 Transfer to Employees’ Compensation Commission.(U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 33, sec. 901), $53,300, for transfer to and expenditure by the Employees’ Compensation Commission under its appropriations “Salaries and expenses”, $53,000, and “Printing and binding”, $300. Retirement Act.Contribution to, from District revenues.Vol. 41, p. 614; Vol. 44, p. 904; Vol. 46, p. 408.[U. S. C., p. 93](/us/usc/p93).For financing of the liability of the government of the District of Columbia, created by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes”, approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 707a), $150,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil service retirement and disability fund.” department of vehicles and trafficVehicles and Traffic Department. Personal services.For personal services, $69,600; temporary clerk hire, $4,000; in all, $73,600. Expenses, etc.For purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, signals and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the Commissioners, $63,000, of which not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic-*Proviso.*Not available for street-car loading platforms.light signals: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other 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. Identification plates.For the purchase of motor vehicle identification number plates, $20,000. register of willsRegister of Wills. Personal services.For personal services, $73,500. Miscellaneous expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, including laboratory coats and photographic developing room equipment, towels, towel service, window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, $9,000. recorder of deedsRecorder of Deeds. Personal services.For personal services, $104,580. 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 345for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $12,500. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $12,600.Rent. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSESContingent and miscellaneous expenses. For checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers,Objects specified.*Post*, p. 676. stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; traveling expenses not to exceed $1,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection Removing unsafe, etc., buildings.with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $6 per diem to each member of board of survey, other than the inspector of buildings, while actually employed on surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings; and other general necessary expenses of District offices; $26,000: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Printing, etc., list of supplies forbidden.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. For printing and binding, $43,000, and the last proviso of this Printing and binding.Restriction not to apply to central duplicating section or Lorton plant.*Provisos*.Approval of requisitions required.*Post*, p; 1611.paragraph shall not apply to work which can be performed in the central duplicating section of the District of Columbia or the printing plant at the reformatory at Lorton, Virginia: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be available for expenditure for printing and binding unless the need for such expenditure shall have been specifically approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the purchasing officer and the auditor for the District of Columbia acting for such Commissioners: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall Work performed by Public Printer.be available for expenditure unless such printing and binding is done at the Government Printing Office. central garage Central garage. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying Automobiles, maintenance, etc.automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $58,340; for exchange of such passenger-carrying automobiles now owned by the District of Columbia as, in the judgment of the Commissioners of said District, have or shall become unserviceable, $10,000; in all, $68,340. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles owned by the Restriction on use of District-owned vehicles.District of Columbia shall be used exclusively for “official purposes” directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shallUnder 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 in this Act; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation Transportation between domicile and place of employment.of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment,. except as to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and in cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as. to such latter cases when the same is approved by the Commissioners: *Provided*, That no passenger-carrying automobile, except*Proviso.*Purchase, etc., restriction.busses, patrol wagons, and ambulances, and except as otherwise specifically authorized in this Act, shall be acquired under any provision of this Act, by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including 346Transfers forbidden.the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Fire insurance premiums forbidden.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Postage.For postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental of postage meter equipment, $25,000. Transportation.The Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street car and bus *Provisos.*Limitation.fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not Fire and police departments excepted.to exceed a total of $9,500:*Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $1,350: *Provisos.*Contracts for reporting permitted.[R. S., sec. 3709. p. 733](/us/rs/s74/p3709).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).*Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when in their judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to contract for stenographic reporting services with-out regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) under available appropriations contained in this Act: No court costs, etc., in District Supreme Court required.*Provided further*, That neither the District of Columbia nor any officer thereof acting in his official capacity for the District of Columbia shall be required to pay court costs to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. General advertising.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $5,000: *Proviso.*Outside advertising.*Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of advertising in newspapers published outside of the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the requirement for such advertising provided by existing law. Taxes in arrears.Vol. 30, p. 250.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1935, as required to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property *Proviso.*Publication of delinquent list.advertised, $8,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of advertising the delinquent tax list for more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one morning or one evening newspaper published in the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the provisions of existing law. employment serviceEmployment service. For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $4,640. emergency fundEmergency fund. Expenses; restriction.To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the Commissioners.*Proviso.*Voucher for expenses.$1,500: *Provided*, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of not to exceed $1,000 for such investigations as they may deem necessary. refund of erroneous collectionsRefund of erroneous collections. Payments authorized.Vol. 36, p, 67.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 347into the Treasury, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits Building permits.authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911 (36 Stat., p. 967), $4,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation *Proviso.*Restriction.shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. For payment of amounts collected by the District erroneously Erroneously collected taxes, flues, etc.on account of taxes, fines, fees, and similar charges, which are returned to the respective parties who may have paid the same, $75,000: *Provided*, *Proviso.*Restriction.That this appropriation shall be available for refund of such erroneous payments made within the past three years only. To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners Conference on Uniform State Laws.on Uniform State Laws, $250. REPAYMENT OF LOAN FROM PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATIONLoan from Public Works Administration. For reimbursement to the United States, in compliance with sectionReimbursement. Vol. 48, p. 1215. 3 of the Act approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1215), of funds loaned under the authority of said Act, $1,000,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*Amount of deposit, fiscal year 1936. during the fiscal year 1936 no greater sum shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the special account established under section 3 of said Act than is required by said section for reimbursement to the United States. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARYFree 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, $343,550. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other Miscellaneous.printed material, including payment in advance for subscription books, and society publications, $70,000: *Provided*, That the disbursing *Proviso.*Advances for purchase of books, 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 Accounting.or newspapers, or other printed material, and to be accounted for on itemized vouchers. For binding, including necessary personal services, $20,000.Binding. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up Contingent expenses.buildings, care of grounds, maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, including not to exceed $800 for purchase and exchange of one motor delivery vehicle, $32,625. For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy ChaseChevy Chase and Woodridge branches. and Woodridge, $4,320. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIRStreet and road Improvement. For personal services, $178,280, payable from the special fund Personal services.Payable from gasoline tax fund.created by section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 106), and Vol. 43, p. 106.accretions by repayment of assessments. gasoline tax, road and street improvements and repairsGasoline tax, road and street fund. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets,Paving, etc., streets and roads from. avenues, and roads, including personal services and the maintenance 348of motor vehicles used in this work, and including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, as follows, Vol. 43, 106.to 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: Improvements designated.For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and gutters where necessary, the following: Northeast: Eighteenth Street, Otis Street to Bunker Hill Road, $37,400; Northwest: Fourteenth Street, Alaska Avenue to Holly Street, $15,400; Northwest: Van Buren Street, Blair Road to Piney Branch Road, $30,800; Northeast: Eastern Avenue, Bladensburg Road to Rhode Island Avenue, $49,500; Northeast: Shepherd Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, $7,000; Northeast: Thirteenth Place, Shepherd Street to Taylor Street, $3,700; Northwest: Quackenbos Street, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, $7,700; Northwest: Sixth Street, Van Buren Street to Whittier Street, $5,000; Northeast: Twentieth Street, Quincy Street to Bunker Hill Road, $11,000; Northeast: South Dakota Avenue, Twentieth Street to approximately two hundred feet north of Quincy Street, $12,100; Northeast: Quincy Street, Twentieth Street to South Dakota Avenue, $4,400; Northwest: Juniper Street, Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $8,300; Northwest: Allison Street, Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $7,700; Grading culverts.For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, $50,000; Paving center strips.For paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $15,000; 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; Curb and gutters, shoulder, 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, $225,000; 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; Bridges, construction, repair, etc.For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $65,000; Street, etc., repairs.For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, 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, $765,000: *Proviso*.Purchase of asphalt plant authorized.*Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 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; 349 This appropriation shall be available for the construction Street railways, pavements.Vol. 47, p. 762.and repair of pavements of street railways in accordance with the provisions of the Merger Act, approved January 14, 1933 (47 Stat., p. 752). The proportion of the amount thus expended which under Proportion of expenses chargeable to railway company.Vol. 20, p. 105.the terms of the said Act is required to be paid by the street-railway company shall be collected, upon the neglect or the refusal of such street-railway company to pay, from the said street-railway company in the manner provided by section 5 of “An Act 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 it is collected; For beginning the construction of a viaduct or bridge and Michigan Avenue Northeast, construction.Vol. 46. p. 1087.approaches thereto in line of Michigan Avenue Northeast, pursuant to authority contained in the Act approved February 12, 1931 (Public Numbered 618, Seventy-first Congress), as now located on the permanent system of highways of the District of Columbia, between Brookland Avenue and Perry Street Northeast, over the tracks and right-of-way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in accordance with plans and profiles of said work to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including Vol. 31, p. 1266; Vol 45, [a-z]. 1437.the purchase and condemnation under chapter 15 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, and amendments thereto, of necessary land in accordance with the highway plan, construction of and changes in sewer and water mains, personal services, and engineering and incidental expenses, $100,000: *Provided*, That one-half of *Provisos.*Division of cost.the total cost, excepting land, of constructing said viaduct or bridge and approaches shall be borne and paid by the said railroad company, its successors and assigns, to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia, to the credit of the District of Columbia, and the same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises Lien against railroad property, etc.and property of the said railroad company and shall constitute a legal indebtedness of said company in favor of the District of Columbia, and the said lien may be enforced in the name of the Enforcement,District of Columbia by a bill in equity brought by the said Commissioners in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or by any other lawful proceeding against the said railroad company: *Provided further*, That from and after the completion of the said viaduct and approaches the highway grade crossing over the tracks and right-of-way of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in line of present Michigan Avenue shall be forever closed against further traffic of any kind; For the widening, altering, and strengthening of the existing Benning Road.Improving existing viaduct.Vol. 38, p. 525.viaduct and approaches in the line of Benning Road Northeast, between Kenilworth and Minnesota Avenues over the tracks and right-of-way of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in accordance with plans and profiles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including construction of and changes in sewer and water mains, personal services, and engineering and incidental expenses, $175,000; For the construction of a viaductor bridge and approaches theretoFranklin Street viaduct. in line of Franklin Street Northeast, over the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in accordance with plans and profiles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including construction of and changes in sewer and water mains, personal services, and engineering and incidental expenses, $200,000: *Provided*, That one-half of the total cost thereof shall be borne Construction over railroad tracks.and paid by the said railroad company, its successors and assigns, to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia to the credit of the 350 Lien against railroad property, etc.District of Columbia, and the same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and property of the said railroad company, and shall constitute a legal indebtedness of said company in Enforcement.favor of the District of Columbia, and the said lien may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by a bill in equity brought by the said Commissioners in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or by any other lawful proceeding against the said railroad company; Opening streets, etc., permanent highway system.To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, Vol. 37, p. 950. 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 system of highways for the District of Columbia, Proviso.Alley improvements, building lines, etc.including the procurement of chains of title, $200,000: *Provided, *That this appropriation shall be available to carry out the provisions of existing law for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of alleys and minor streets and for the establishment of building lines in the District of Columbia; Disbursements, etc.In all, not to exceed $2,375,000, to be immediately available; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road, and street improvements and repairs”, and for that purpose shall constitute Proviso.Assessments under existing law.one fund: *Provided*, That assessments in accordance with existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways where such roadways are paved or repaved with funds derived from the collection of the tax on motor-vehicle fuels and accretions by repayment of assessments. miscellaneous road and street improvements and repairs Assessment and permit work.For assessment and permit work, paving of roadways under the permit system, and construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, including purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and of areas less than two hundred and fifty square feet at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the Commissioners, and including maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $150,000. Changing widths of sidewalks, 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 avail-able 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 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 con-tractor shall be liable for such expense. Laboratory test.No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used for the operation or a testing laboratory of the highways department for making tests of materials in connection with any activity of the District government. 351 wharvesWharves. For reconstruction, Reconstruction, etc.where necessary, and for maintenance and repair of wharves under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in the Washington Channel of the Potomac River, $5,000. trees and parkingsTrees and parkings. For personal services, $26,600.Personal services. For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nursery-men,Contingent expenses. repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees, and tree spaces on city and suburban streets, purchase and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $100,000. SEWERSSewers. For personal services, $184,710. Personal services. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins; including Cleaning, repair, etc.*Post*, p. 1612.the replacement of the following motor trucks: One at not to exceed $650; two at not to exceed $975 each; 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 non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $222,000. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $100,000.Main and pipe. For suburban sewers, including the maintenance of non-passenger-Suburban.carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the replacement Motor trucks.of the following motor trucks: Two at not to exceed $3,500 each; two at not to exceed $975 each; one at not to exceed $750; $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, $200,000. For the control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes Mosquito control. in the District of Columbia, including personal services, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of oil, and other necessary expenses, to be immediately available, $12,000. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSECity refuse. For personal services, $137,270.Personal services. For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, Sweeping, cleaning, snow and ice removal, etc.*Post*, p. 1612,alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, side-walks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the Commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repair of garages; maintenance and repair of non-passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; and necessary incidental expenses, $400,000: *Provided*, That appropriations contained in this Act for *Proviso.*Use of other funds for snow removal.highways, sewers, and the water department, shall be available for snow removal when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners. 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 352animals, 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 *Proviso.*Proceeds covered in; division of.incidental expenses, $795,000: *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the manner provided by law: *Provided Collection restriction.further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDSPublic Playgrounds. Personal services.*Proviso.*Employments restricted.Vol. 42, p. 1340.For personal services, $113,000: *Provided*, That employments hereunder, except directors who shall be employed for twelve months, shall be distributed as to duration in accordance with corresponding employments provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924. Maintenance, etc.For general maintenance, repairs, and improvements, equipment, supplies, incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance, and not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of one motor truck, $40,000. Public-school play-grounds 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, $26,500. Swimming or bathing pools.For temporary services, including superintendence, supplies, repairs, maintenance, and expenses necessary in the operation of swimming or bathing pools, $11,300. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENTElectrical Department. Personal services.For personal services, $135,300. 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, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, including not to exceed $540 for the purchase and exchange of one non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $27,500. Placing wires underground.Police-patrol and fire-alarm systems, etc.For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone services underground, extension and relocation of police-patrol and fire-alarm systems, purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment and expenses, $25,000. Lighting, etc.Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all Airway lights.kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost of maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operation of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection there-with, including rental of storerooms, extra labor, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Vol. 38, 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 Colum353bia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat., pp. 181–184, sec. 7), and other laws applicable thereto, and including not to exceed $28,000 for operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $801,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation *Provisos*.Electric street lighting rates.shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall Awards to lowest competitor.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 SCHOOLSPublic Schools. For personal services of administrative and supervisory officers Administrative and supervisory officers.in accordance with the Act fixing and regulating the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., Vol. 43, p. 367.pp. 367–375), including salaries of presidents of teachers colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $671,100. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $187,880.Personal services. For personal services in the department of school attendance and School attendance and work permit department.work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat., Vol. 43, pp. 367, 806; Vol. 45, p. 998.pp. 806–808), and the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 998), $41,900. For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance Teachers, librarians,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, $6,953,100, of which not exceeding $5,000 may be expended for compensation to be fixed Traveling expenses.by the Board of Education and traveling expenses of educational consultants employed on special educational projects: *Provided, **Provisos*,Assignment of kindergarten teachers in grades 1 to 4. That as teacher vacancies occur during the fiscal year 1936 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 1936 wherever found may be filled by the assignment of teachers of special subjects anti teachers not now assigned to classroom instruction, and such teachers are hereby made eligible for such assignment without further examination. 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, $29,400. 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 or Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized Exception.by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. 354 Annuities.Vol. 41, p. 387; Vol. 44, p. 727.To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia ’, approved January 15, 1920, and for other purposes” (41 Stat., pp. 387–390), $400,000. night schoolsNight 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, $91,360. 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, $10,000. the deaf, dumb, and blindDeaf, dumb, and blind. Maintenance, etc., Instruction.[R. S., sec. 4864, p.](/us/rs/s4864/p942)*Post*, p. 577.For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 238), and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the Commissioners, $34,500. Colored deaf mutes.For maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachable Tuition of, under contract.age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, *Proviso.*Supervision of expenditure.$5,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. Blind children.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, $11,500: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. americanization workAmericanization 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, $8,800. Contingent expenses.For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $600. Children of veterans who lost their lives during World War; instruction.For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1125), entitled “An Act providing educational opportunities Vol. 48, p. 1125.for the children of soldiers, sailors, and marines who were killed in action or died during the World War”, $3,000. community center departmentCommunity centers. Salaries and expenses.Vol. 43, p. 369.For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and community secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 369, 370); clerks and part-time employees, including janitors on account of meetings of parent-teacher associations and other activities, and contingent expenses, equipment, supplies, and lighting fixtures, $50,000. care of buildings and groundsCare of buildings and grounds. Salaries.Smaller buildings and rented rooms.For personal services, including care of smaller buildings and rented rooms at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $915,360. 355 miscellaneousMiscellaneous. For the maintenance of schools for tubercular and crippled pupils, Schools for tubercular and crippled pupils.$7,500. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular Transportation.pupils, sight conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $20,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Car, etc., fare.That expenditures for street-car and bus fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of street-car and bus fares covered by this Act. 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, $300,000.Fuel light, and power.*Post*, p. 577.Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including United States flags, furniture and repairs of same, stationery, ice, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $8,000 for books of reference and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, not exceeding $5,000 for labor, $119,500, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be required on account *Proviso.*No bond for Army supplies to cadets.of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice 457by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. For completing the purchase of furniture and equipment, including Woodrow Wilson Senior High; furniture, etc.*Post*, p. 577.*Proviso*.Total amount for.pianos and window shades, for the Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, $15,000: *Provided*, That the total amount expended under this appropriation and the appropriation for this purpose contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935 shall not exceed $150,000. No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furniture Requisitions for school equipment subject to Commissioners’ approval.and equipment for the public schools of the District of Columbia shall be expended unless the requisitions of the Board of Education therefor shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the purchasing officer and the auditor for the District of Columbia acting for the Commissioners. For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additionsFurnishings, etc., for buildings designated. to buildings as follows: Anacostia Junior High School, $41,200; Deal Junior High School addition, $11,000; Powell Junior High School gymnasium, $1,700; Browne Junior High School addition, $11,000; Grimke School addition, $2,100; in all, $67,000. 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 general science 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, $14,000, to be immediately available. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance School gardens.of school gardens, including rent of grounds, $2,000. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in Nature study, etc., teachers.which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. 356 Children of Army, Navy officers, etc., admitted free.The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy, and Marino 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: *Provided*, That hereafter no part of any appropriation for the public schools shall be available for the payment of the salary of any person teaching or advocating Communism. Repairs, etc., to buildings.For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, 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, including not to exceed $1,950 for the purchase of two one and one-half ton trucks, $420,950, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, for *Proviso.*Hours of opening.school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $7,000: *Provided*, That such playgrounds shall be kept open for play purposes in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the playground department. building and groundsSchool buildings and grounds. John F. Cook site.For the construction of an eight-room building on the old John F. Cook School site, $110,000. Eliot Junior High, addition.For the construction of an addition to the Eliot Junior High School, including ten classrooms and one gymnasium, $175,000. Randall Junior High, addition.For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Randall Junior High School, including remodeling of the present heating plant, $100,000. Anacostia Junior High, addition.For beginning construction of an addition to the Anacostia Junior High School to be used for senior high school pupils, $250,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for said construction at a cost not to exceed $350,000. Woodrow Wilson High.For the completion of construction, and for improvement of grounds of the Woodrow Wilson High School, $70,000. Armstrong High.For improvements at the Armstrong High School, $70,000. Phelps Vocational, additional site.For the purchase of additional land at the Phelps Vocational School for elementary-school purposes, $55,000. Aggregate; accounted for as one fund.In all, $830,000, 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 *Proviso.*Use for unauthorized projects forbidden.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, 1935, and children entering during the second half of the school year who will be five years of Proviso.Webster School Americanization work excepted.age by March 15, 1936: *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 357a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful performance of the contract: *Provided*, That nothing herein*Proviso*.Right to reject bids. shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the Commissioners the right to reject all bids. 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 exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. METROPOLITAN POLICEPolice. salaries For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Salaries, officers, etc.*Post*, p. 1856Police 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 Vol. 43, p. 174.Vol. 46, p. 839.1930 (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, $3,280,000. For personal services, $121,700.Personal services. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. For fuel, $7,300.Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and stationRepairs, etc. grounds, $8,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards Contingent expenses.for fugitives, purchase of gas equipment and fire arms, 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 broadcastingRadio systems. systems, 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 of crime and other necessary expenses, including expenses of harbor patrol, $69,770, of which amount not exceeding $2,000 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, 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*, That the Commissioners *Proviso.*Repairs to speedometers.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. 358 Motor vehicles.For purchase, exchange, and maintenance of passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $65,000. 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, $50,125. HOUSE OF DETENTIONHouse of Detention. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detention of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including transportation, the maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clime supplies, food, upkeep and repair of buildings, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $8,400; for personal services, $9,420; in all, $17,820. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND.policemen and firemen’s relief fund Payments from.To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law’, from *Proviso.*Deposit of relief funds.Vol. 39. p. 718.the policemen and firemen’s relief fund, $1,010,000: *Provided*, That commencing with July 1, 1935, and thereafter, all moneys now required to be deposited to the credit of the policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia, under section 12 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 718), as amended, shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia and deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of said District. FIRE DEPARTMENTFire Department. salaries Salaries of officers, etc.For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park Police force, and the fire department of the District Vol. 43, p. 175; Vol.46, p. 839.of Columbia” (43 Stat. 175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 839–841), $2,177,000. For personal services, $5,620.Personal services. miscellane0usMiscellaneous. Repairs, etc., to buildings.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $20,000. Uniforms.Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the fire department, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, $23,000. 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 *Proviso.*Construction at repair shop.supplies, materials, equipment, and tools$45,000:*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. 359 For hose, $29,500.Hose. For fuel, $23,000.Fuel. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing,Contingent expenses.gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $20,000. For three combination hose wagons and one pumping engine, New apparatus.triple combination, all motor driven, $34,500. For house, furniture, and furnishings for a truck company on Truck house, etc.land now owned by the District of Columbia at Fourteenth Street and Rhode Island Avenue, Northeast, including the cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, $77,241. HEALTH DEPARTMENTHealth Department. salariesSalaries. For personal services, $178,500. Personal services, *Post*, p. 577. prevention of contagious diseasesPrevention of contagious diseases. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisions Contingent expenses.Vol. 29, p. 635.*Post*, p. 577.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 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 Vol. 34, p. 889.Tuberculosis registration.Vol. 35, p. 126.of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, 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 paralysis and Infinite paralysis.other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention Venereal diseases.Vol. 43m p. 1001.of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 1001–1003), and for maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation Disinfecting service.for personal services, when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, and purchase of reference books and medical journals, $33,500: *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 the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for theTuberculosis and venereal dispensaries. treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal services, rent, supplies, and contingent expenses, $52,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer *Provisos.*Volunteer service.services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorize Compensation.the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. 360 Drainage of lots, etc.Vol. 29, p. 125.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896 (Abatement of nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.29 Stat., pp. 125–126), and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances m the District of Columbia by the Commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $1,000. Hygiene, etc., public schools.Free dental clinics.Hygiene and sanitation, public schools, salaries: For personal services in the conduct of hygiene and sanitation work in the public schools, including the necessary expenses of maintaining free dental *Proviso.*Inspectors and nurses, division of.clinics, $102,500: *Provided*, That of the persons employed as medical inspectors one shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, and that of the graduate nurses employed as public-school nurses three shall be of the colored race. Maintenance of laboratories, etc.For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books and periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $1,800. Preventing food, candy, etc., adulterations.For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.Columbia approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat., pp. 246—248), an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898 (30 Stat., p. 398), an Act for preventing Pure Food Act.Vol. 34, p. 768.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 dairy-farm inspectors; and including not to exceed $100 for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and Proviso.Dairy farms inspection; 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. Motor vehicles.For maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motor vehicles, $900. Child welfare and hygiene.Child welfare and hygiene: For maintaining a child hygiene service, including the establishment and maintenance of child-welfare stations for clinical examinations, advice in the care of children under six years of age, payment for personal services, rent, *Proviso.*Volunteer service.fuel, periodicals, and supplies, $50,000; *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance No pay therefor.of 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.COURTS Juvenile Court.juvenile court Salaries.Salaries: For personal services, $59,940. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $2,000. 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, $3,000. 361 The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized Advances authorized for returning, etc., absconding probationers.to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. police courtPolice Court. Salaries: For personal services, $100,550.Salaries. 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, $5,100, of which not exceeding $750 shall be available for telephone and telegraph service. For witness fees and compensation of jurors, $22,500.Witness fees and Jurors’ compensation.Repairs to building. For repairs and alterations to building, $1,500. municipal courtMunicipal Court. Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of five Salaries.judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $77,170. For compensation of jurors, $6,000: *Provided*, That deposits made Jurors and compensation.Proviso.Deposits for jury trials earned unless new date set.Vol. 41, p. 1312.on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (41 Stat., p. 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books Contingent expenses.of reference, fuel, light, telephone, lodging and meals for jurors, and for deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court; fixtures, repairs to furniture, building and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $3,250, supreme court, district of columbiaDistrict 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, $133,700. Fees of jurors and witnesses: For mileage and per diem of jurors, Jurors and witnesses. [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160,](/us/rs/s850/p160) Vol. 44, p. 323.[U. S. C., [a-z]. 1295.](/us/usc/p1295)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.*Post*, p. 1613. 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, $37,400: *Provided*, That the compensation of each jury commissioner *Proviso.*Jury commissioners.for the fiscal year 1936 shall not exceed $250. 362 Probation system.Probation system: For personal services, $11,480; contingent expenses, $250; in all, $11,730. Courthouse, cure, etc.Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection of the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $35,290, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $5,000, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. Court of Appeals.court of appeals Salaries.Salaries: For the chief justice and four associate justices, and all other officers and employees of the court; reporting service; and not to exceed $520 for necessary expenditures in the conduct *Proviso.*Sale of reports.of the clerk’s office; in all, $99,300: *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 $0.50 per volume. Building: For personal services for care and protection of the United States Court of Appeals Building, including one mechanician, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $8,340: Care, etc., of building.Proviso.Custodian.*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, $600. Building repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to the United States Court of Appeals Building, including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $1,500, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. 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, $60,000. 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, $1,000. Miscellaneous expenses as authorized by Attorney General.*Post*, p. 1613.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 United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $25,000. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, $5,500. 363 PUBLIC WELFAREPublic Welfare. board of public welfareBoard of Public Welfare. For personal services, $115,990.*Post*, p. 578.Personal services. division of child welfareChild Welfare Division. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing Administrative expenses.and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses, $3,500, and no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used Restriction on expenditure. for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of Public Welfare placed outside the District of Columbia and the States of Virginia and Maryland; and a ward placed outside said District and the States of Virginia and Maryland shall be visited not less than once a year by a voluntary agent or correspondent of said Board, and that said Board shall have power, upon proper showing, in its discretion, to discharge from guardianship any child committed to its care. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship Board, etc., of children.*Post*, p. 1613.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 $13,060 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $163,060: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be so apportioned *Proviso.*Apportionment restrictions.by the Commissioners as to prevent a deficiency therein, and no more than $100 per month shall be paid therefrom to any one family and no more than $400 shall be paid for burial of children dying while beneficiaries under said Act. For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Receiving home for children under seventeen. Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the house of detention for the reception and detention Maintenance, etc.*Post*, p, 1613.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 medicinal supplies, rental, repair and upkeep of buildings, fuel, gas, electricity, ice, supplies and equipment, and other necessary expenses including not to exceed $19,120 for personal services, $36,680. 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 Limit.used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. jailJail. Salaries: For personal services, $76,470.Salaries. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Maintenance, etc., of prisoners.*Post*, p. 1613.Columbia at the jail, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing 364escaped prisoners and rewards for their capture; repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices; newspapers, books, and periodicals not to exceed $100; maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle; and expense of electrocutions, $82,000. general administration, workhouse and reformatory, district of columbiaWorkhouse and Reformatory. Personal services.For personal services, $389,560. Maintenance, etc.*Post*, p. 1814. For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, rewards for fugitives, discharge gratuities provided by law, medical supplies, newspapers, books, books of reference and periodicals, farm implements, tools, equipment, transportation expenses, purchase and maintenance of livestock and horses; purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation, Fuel, etc.and repair of non-passenger-carrying vehicles and motor bus; fuel for heating, lighting, and power, and all other necessary items, $350,000. Building construction, etc.For continuing construction of buildings and inclosing walls, including equipment and furniture, to provide for the custody of such prisoners as should be confined within a walled inclosure, $100,000, to be immediately available. 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.$30,000: *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 deposited as a revolving fund; avail-ability.receipts from the sale of products and services shall be deposited to the credit of said working capital fund, and said fund, including all receipts credited thereto, shall be used as a revolving fund for the fiscal year 1936 for the purchase and repair of machinery, tools, and equipment, purchase of raw materials and manufacturing supplies, purchase, maintenance, and operation of non-passenger-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. Water supply, filtration system.*Post*, p. 1115.For construction of a sand filter for the permanent water supply system, to be immediately available, $25,000. Advances authorized for returning escaped prisoners.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 boysNational 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, $60,000. 365 national training school for girlsNational Training School for Girls. Salaries: For personal services, $31,550.Salaries and expenses. For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, sewing machines, fixtures, books, magazines, and other supplies which represent greater educational advantages; stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting; stenography, and other necessary items, and including compensation not exceeding $1,500 for additional labor or services; for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates and for Apprehending absconders.rewards for their capture, for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, and for maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $30,500. medical charitiesMedical 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, $36,500. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $55,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $25,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000. columbia hospital and lying-in asylumColumbia Hospital. For general repairs, including labor and material, to be expendedRepairs, etc. in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $5,000, tuberculosis hospitalTuberculosis Hospital. For personal services, $99,500.Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1614. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, medical books, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $200, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $65,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, includingRepairs, etc. roads and sidewalks, $3,000. children’s tuberculosis sanatoriumChildren’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Salaries: For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 for Salaries and expenses.temporary labor, $77,410. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs to same, maintenance and purchase of horses and horse-drawn vehicles, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, medical books, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $200, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $67,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including Repairs, etc.roads and sidewalks, $2,000. For purchase of furniture and equipment, $40,000.Furniture, etc. gallinger municipal hospitalGallinger Hospital. Salaries: For personal services, including not to exceed $2,000 Salaries,for temporary labor, $396,300. 366 Maintenance etc.For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quarantine station, smallpox hospital, and public crematorium, including expenses incident to furnishing proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium and remain unclaimed after twelve months from the date of such cremation; for maintenance and purchase of horses and horse-drawn vehicles; for medical books, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $500; for maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses, $230,000. Repairs, ate.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,500. Incidental expenses.Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense of commencement exercises, entertainments, and inspection by New York State Board of Regents, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $600. district training schoolDistrict Training School. Personal services.For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary labor, $90,540. Maintenance, etc.*Post*, p. 1614.For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, farm machinery and implements, and not to exceed $200 for the purchase of books, books of reference, and periodicals, $84,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $5,000. Industrial Home School for Colored Children.industrial home school for colored children Salaries.Salaries: For personal services, $35,970; temporary labor, $500; in all, $36,470. Maintenance, etc.*Post*, p. 1614.For maintenance, including purchase and maintenance of farm implements, horses, wagons, and harness, and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, $25,500. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. Industrial Homeindustrial home school Salaries.Salaries: For personal services, $24,200; temporary labor, $500; in all, $24,700. Maintenance.For maintenance, including purchase of equipment, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $22,500. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. Home for Aged and Infirm.home for aged and infirm Salaries.Salaries: For personal services, $61,880; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $63,880. Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1615.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 non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $70,000. 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 lodgingmunicipal lodging house and wood yard For personal services, $3,600; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $7,600. 367 emergency reliefEmergency relief. For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the District Wholly from District revenues.*Post*, p. 1186.of Columbia who are unemployed or otherwise in distress because of the existing emergency, to be expended by the Board of Public Welfare of the District of Columbia by employment and direct relief, in the discretion of the Board of Commissioners and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the board and without regard to the provisions of any other law, payable from the revenues of the District of Columbia, $2,000,000, to be immediately available, of which amount not more than $79,000 shall be available for free lunches for necessitous school children. temporary home for former soldiers and sailors Temporary home for former soldiers and sailors. For personal services, $4,620; maintenance, $9,250; and repairs to Personal services; maintenance, etc.buildings and grounds, $500; in all, $14,370, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners; and former Union soldiers, Admittance.sailors, or marines of the Civil War, former soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Spanish War, Philippine Insurrection, or China relief expedition, and former soldiers, sailors, or marines of the World War or who served prior to July 2, 1921, shall be admitted to the home, all under the supervision of a board of management. florence crittenton home For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract Florence Crittenton Home.to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $9,000. 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 hospitalSaint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia Support of District insane.in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $2,101,572. nonresident insane For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance Deporting nonresident insane.with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission *Post*, p. 1616.to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes”, approved January 31, 1899, including persons held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $9,000. 368 Advances authorized to Director of Public Welfare.In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Director of Public Welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Limit.Commissioners may require of said director, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of non-resident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. relief of the poor Relief of the Poor.For relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and for pay of physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, $13,000. 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, $450. transportation of indigent persons Transporting indigent persons.For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $3,500. Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents.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 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 29, secs. 47—471), $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.*Post*, p. 1615.For personal services, $21,200; temporary labor, $5,800; 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 and operation of passenger and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; street-car fares (not to exceed $200) necessarily used in the transaction of official business; not exceeding $400 for traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings or conven-369tions of associations pertaining to the National Guard; and for general incidental expenses of the service, $9,000; in all, $36,000. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATSAnacostia Park. For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Continuing development.Park, in accordance with the revised plan as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, $40,000. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKSNational Capital Parks. salaries, public parks, district of columbia For personal services, $350,000.Personal services. general expenses, public parksPublic 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 National Park Service, including not to exceed $5,000 for the maintenance of the tourists’ camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of seasonal or intermittent employees at per diem rates of pay approved by the Director, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the Director; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; contingent expenses; city directories; communication service; car fare; traveling expenses; professional, scientific, technical, and law books; periodicals and reference books, blank books and forms; photographs; dictionaries and maps; leather and rubber articles for the protection of employees and property; the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of not to exceed two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motorcycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $365,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $20,000 of the amount *Proviso.*Outdoor sports; band concerts, etc.herein appropriated may be expended for placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports and for expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; and not exceeding $10,000 for the erection of minor auxiliary structures. park policePark police. Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police Salaries.force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, Vol. 43, p. 175; Vol. 44, p. 834; Vol. 46, p. 839.$175,000. 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, $8,000. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSIONNational Capital Park and Planning Commission. For reimbursement to the United States in compliance with section Reimbursing United States for lands acquired for park system.Vol. 46, p. 4854 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 482), as amended, $300,000. 370 Incidental expenses.Vol. 43. p. 463.[U. S. C., p. 1773.](/us/usc/49/1773)For each and every purpose, except the acquisition of land, requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and play-ground system of the National Capital”, approved June 6, 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 $1,000 for printing and binding, not to exceed $500 for traveling expenses and carfare of employees of the commission, and not to exceed $300 for professional, scientific, technical, and reference books, and periodicals, $37,500. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARKNational Zoological Park. 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; purchase and exchange, at not to exceed $650, and maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; for the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of bicycles and nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, revolvers and ammunition; not exceeding $2,500 for purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, keepers, and assistant keepers; not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $215,000, 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 aqueductWashington 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, $450,000. 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. 371 For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personal Revenue, Inspection and distribution.services, $170,470. For maintenance of the water department distribution system, Operating expenses.including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, and all buildings and accessories, and motor trucks, and motor vehicles such as are now owned, and the replacement by purchase and exchange of the following motor-propelled vehicles: One two-passenger coupe at not to exceed $650; two true Its at not to exceed $500 each; two trucks at not to exceed $750 each; and one truck at not to exceed $3,000; 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 $2,500; postage, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $275, and other necessary items, $7,500; in all for maintenance, $345,000, 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, $225,000. 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. $90,000. For installing fire and public hydrants $20,000.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, $120,000, to be immediately available. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the Commissioners Discounts allowed on water charges.of the District of Columbia are authorized to allow a reduction of not to exceed 25 per centum in the water charges within the District of Columbia fixed by existing law, and the present metered allowance Metered allowance increased.of seven thousand five hundred cubic feet is increased to ten thou-sand cubic feet during such fiscal year. For six thousand five hundred feet of thirty-six inch water main New mains.from Eleventh and Kenyon Streets Northwest to Seventeenth and Taylor Streets Northwest, $120,250. For two thousand eight hundred feet of thirty-inch water main from Fourth and E Streets Southwest to Canal and E Streets Southeast, $46,200. For seven thousand seven hundred feet of forty-eight inch water main from Second and Bryant Streets to New Jersey Avenue and L Street Northwest, $192,400. For the purchase and installation of two twenty-five million gallon New pumping units.*Post*, p. 1615.daily electrical motor driven centrifugal pumping units at the Bryant Street pumping station, including all necessary appurtenances and alterations and removal of one twelve-million gallon and one twenty-million gallon obsolete steam pumping units, $123,000. For the purchase and installation of one one-million-gallon daily capacity electrically driven pumping unit with all necessary appurtenances at the Anacostia pumping station, $3,000. For the refunding of water rents and other water charges erroneously Refunds of erroneous charges.paid in the District of Columbia, to be refunded in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding of erroneously paid taxes, $3,500: 372*Proviso.*Time limitation.*Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past two years. Sec. 2.Construction work, etc., under Commissioners. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, water, street, street-cleaning, or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically 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: *Proviso.*Expense limitation.Period of employment.*Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $42.000 during the fiscal year 1930: *Provided further*, That, excluding inspectors in the sewer department and one inspector in the electrical department, no person shall be employed in pursuance of the authority contained in this paragraph for a longer period than nine months in the aggregate during the fiscal year. 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. 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 carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners in the Budget estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables 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 373under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. Temporary work, etc. That the Commissioners are authorized to employ in the Miscellaneous trust funds.execution of work, the cost of which is payable from the appropriation Expenses, payable from.Vol. 33, p, 368.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 paid from said appropriation account: *Provided*, That the *Proviso.*Employment of Labor, etc.Commissioners may delegate to their duly authorized representatives the employment under this section of laborers, mechanics, and artisans. Any person employed under any of the provisions of this Act who Leaves of absence.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. That the Commissioners and other responsible officials, Material, supplies, vehicles, etc.in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible, shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, Purchase from stock of Government activities no longer needed.when needed and funds are available, in accordance with the regulations and schedules of the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department or from 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 actualPrice stipulation. cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government of the United States are authorized to sell such surplus articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That this section shall not be construed to *Proviso.*Transfers tinder Executive Order.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 or the cessation of war activities. Sec. 6. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act for any Transfer of funds restricted.activity shall be available for transfer to any other activity or between subheads of the same activity unless specifically authorized by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. Sec. 7.No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be Limitation on rentals.available for the payment of rental of quarters for any activity at a rate in excess of 90 per centum of the per annum rate paid by the District of Columbia for such quarters on June 30, 1933: *Provided*, *Provisos.*Prior leases.That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to leases made prior to the passage of this Act, except when renewals thereof are made hereafter:*Provided further*, That the appropriations or Unexpended balances covered in.portions of appropriations unexpended by reason of the operation of this paragraph shall not be used for any purpose, but shall be impounded and deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia. Approved, June 14, 1935. To authorize an increase in the annual appropriation for books for the adult blind. 1935-06-14 242 Chapter 49 Stat. 374 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public 374 [CHAPTER 242.] AN ACT To authorize an increase in the annual appropriation for books for the adult blind. June 14, 1935.[[H. R. 6371](/us/bill/74/hr/6371).][
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