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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · June 30, 1937 · Public Law 762

Public Law 762.

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(/us/pl/74/761).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1937. TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENTTitle I—Treasury Department. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in theAppropriation for fiscal year 1937. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, namely: office of the secretarySecretary’s office.
Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury,Secretary, Undersecretary, Assistants, and office personnel.*Ante*, p. 1635.Division of Research and Statistics.Experts.*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/p85).Exceptions. Under Secretary of the Treasury, three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Division of Research and Statistics and the temporary employment of experts, $250,000: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury and the Assistant Postmasters General, 1828the 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 Advances in meritorious cases.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 the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.then only to the next higher rate: *Provided further*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanicalNo reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; Vol. 46, p. 1005.[U. S. C., p. 86](/us/usc/p86).Transfers without reduction. 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 Higher salary rates permitted.or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specificallyIf only one position in a grade. authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. Emergency Banking. Gold Reserve, and Silver Purchase Acts, expenses.Vol. 48, pp. 1, 337, 1178.Expenses, Emergency Banking, Gold Reserve, and Silver Purchase Acts: For expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for any purpose in connection with the carrying out of the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, approved March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 1), the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, approved January 30, 1934 (48 Stat. 337), the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, Executive orders, etc.approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1178), any Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations issued under the foregoing Acts, and [R. S., sec. 3553, p. 719](/us/rs/s3553/p719).[U. S. C., p. 1396](/us/usc/p1396).section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, including costs of transportation, insurance, and protection of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates transferred to Federal Reserve banks and branches, United States mints and assay offices, and the Treasury, after March 9, 1933, losses sustained by Federal Reserve banks due to abrasion of gold coin, and reimbursement to Federal Reserve banks and branches for expenses incurred by them in carrying out instructions issued by the Secretary of the Treasury after March 4, 1933, as follows: Offices designated.Office of Secretary of the Treasury, including not to exceed $48,960 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $77,960. Ôffice of General Counsel, $70,000. Office of Chief Clerk and Superintendent, including not to exceed $35,040 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $74,240. Division of Research and Statistics, including not to exceed $86,650 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $90,000. Division of Appointments, $1,440. Office of Treasurer of the United States, including not to exceed $5,220 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $60,220. Office of Comptroller of the Currency, $55,340. Bureau of Internal Revenue, including not to exceed $23,780 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $69,990. Bureau of the Mint and Mints and Assay Offices, including not to exceed $85,640 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,050,000. Federal land banks.Payments to, on account of reductions in interest rate on mortgages.*Ante*, p. 1635,Payments to Federal land banks on account of reductions in interest; rate on mortgages: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay each Federal land bank such amount as the Land Bank Commissioner certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury is equal to the amount by 1829which interest payments on mortgages held by such, bank have been reduced, in accordance with the provisions of section 24 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12. 1933 (48 Stat. 31), as amended by section 3 of the Vol. 48. p. 43.*Ante*, p. 314.Farm Credit Act of 1935, approved June 3, 1935 (Public, Numbered 87), $24,000,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of*Proviso*.Sum available.*Ante*, p. 592. $36,000,000 made in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1935, approved August 12, 1935 (49 Stat. 592), for the purposes of said section 24, shall be available for the purposes named herein until June 30, 1937. Subscriptions to paid-in surplus of Federal land banks: To enableSubscriptions to paid-in surplus. *Ante*, 1635. the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for subscriptions to the paid-in surplus of Federal land banks under section 23 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 31),Vol. 48, p. 43. $24,000,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation*Proviso*.Amount available.*Ante*, p. 592. of $20,000,000 made in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved August 12, 1935 (49 Stat. 592), for the purpose of said section 23, shall remain available until June 30, 1937. office of general counselGeneral Counsel’s office. Salaries: For the General Counsel and other personal services inGeneral Counsel and office personnel. the District of Columbia, $107,000. office of chief clerk and superintendentChief Clerk’s office. Salaries: For the chief clerk and other personal services in theChief clerk and office personnel.Operating force of designated buildings. District of Columbia, including the operating force of the Treasury, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings and the Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, and of other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, $520,000. miscellaneous and contingent expenses, treasury department For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the office of theDepartment contingent expenses.Operating expenses, Department buildings. Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department, including operating expenses of the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Auditors, and Liberty Loan Buildings; newspaper clippings, financial journals, books of reference, law books, technical and scientific books,Books, periodicals, ete. newspapers, and periodicals, expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, library cards, supplies, and all other necessary expenses connected with the library; not exceeding $10,000 forTraveling expenses. traveling expenses, including the payment of actual transportation and subsistence expenses to any person whom the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time invite to the city of Washington or elsewhere for conference and advisory purposes in furthering the work of the Department; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; purchase and exchange of one passenger automobile (at aVehicles. cost not exceeding $2,500) for the Secretary of the Treasury and of motor trucks, and maintenance and repair of motor trucks and three passenger automobiles (one for the Secretary of the Treasury and two for general use of the Department), all to be used for official purposes only; file holders and cases; fuel, oils, grease, andFuel, light, power, etc. heating supplies and equipment; gas and electricity for lighting, heating, and power purposes, including material, fixtures, and equipment therefor; purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters and labor-saving machines and equipment and supplies for same; floor covering and repairs thereto; furniture and office equipment, includingFurniture, etc. supplies therefor and repairs thereto; awnings, window shades, 1830and fixtures; cleaning supplies and equipment; drafting equipment; ammonia for ice plant; flags; hand trucks, ladders; miscellaneous hardware; street-car fares not exceeding $500; thermometers; lavatory equipment and supplies; tools and sharpening same; laundry service; laboratory supplies and equipment, removal of rubbish; Public property, sales.postage; uniforms for Treasury guards not exceeding $1,200; custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections [R. S., secs. 3740, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3740/3750/p739).[U. S. C., p. 1790](/us/usc/p1790).3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 40, secs. 301, 302), the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith; and other absolutely necessary articles, supplies, and equipment not otherwise provided for; *Provisos*.Additional funds.*Post*, pp. 1831, 1833, 1834.$155,000: *Provided*, That the appropriations for the Public Debt Service, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Alcohol Administration, and Division of Disbursement for the fiscal year 1937 are hereby made available for the payment of items otherwise properly chargeable Apportionment.Vol. 37, p. 414; [U. S. C., p. 1400](/us/usc/p1400).Minor purchases without advertising.[R. S., sec.3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1303](/us/usc/p1303).to this appropriation, the provisions of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided further*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for tire Treasury Department when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. division of printingPrinting Division. Chief, and other personal services.Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Printing, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $69,240. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washingon, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Work excluded.Treasury Department, but not including work done at the New York Vol. 40, p. 1270.[U. S. C., p. 1935](/us/usc/p1935).customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. Ill), $656,000. Stationery.Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, and field services thereof, including tags, labels, and index cards, printed in the course of manufacturing, packing boxes and other materials necessary for shipping stationery supplies, and cost of transportation of stationery supplies purchased free on board point of shipment and of such supplies shipped from Washington to field offices, $400,000. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsAccounts and Deposits office. Commissioner, and other personal services.Salaries: For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, $279,520. Division of Disbursement.Salaries and expenses.Division of Disbursement, salaries and expenses: For personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, stationery, travel, rental of equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous and contingent*Proviso*.Transfer of funds from designated agencies for disbursing expenses. expenses, $1,373,210: *Provided*, That with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget there may be transferred to this appropriation from funds available for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (including transfers to the Bureau of Internal Revenue for administrative expenses), Federal Housing Administration, Federal Prison Industries, Railroad Retirement Board, Social Security Board, and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, such sums as may be necessary to cover the expense incurred in performing the function of disbursement therefor. 1831 Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expensesContingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).[U. S. C., p. 1396](/us/usc/p1396). under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 545), for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts,Examination of depositories. and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section 3649[R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).[U. S. C., p. 1397](/us/usc/p1397). of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 548), also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail or otherwise when necessary, $175,000. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage of minor coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coms of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $25,000. Recoinage of silver coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecolnage of silver coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent subsidiary silver coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $500,000. Relief of the indigent, Alaska: For the payment to the UnitedRelief of the indigent, Alaska. States district judges in Alaska but not to exceed 10 per centum of the receipts from licenses collected outside of incorporated towns in Alaska, to be expended for the relief of persons in Alaska who are indigent and incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness, or accident, $20,000. Refund of moneys erroneously received and covered: To enableRefund of moneys erroneously received and covered. the Secretary of the Treasury to meet any expenditures of the character formerly chargeable to the appropriation accounts abolished under section 18 of the Permanent Appropriation RepealVol. 48, p. 1231.[U. S. C., p. 1413](/us/usc/p1413). Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, and any other collections erroneously received and covered which are not properly chargeable to any other appropriation, $75,000. Payment of unclaimed moneys: To enable the Secretary of thePayment of unclaimed moneys. Treasury to meet any expenditures of the character formerly chargeable to the appropriation accounts abolished under section 17 of theVol. 43, p. 1230.[U. S. C., p. 1413](/us/usc/p1413). Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of 1934, approved June 26, 1934, payable from the funds held by the United States in the trust fund receipt account “Unclaimed moneys of individuals whose whereabouts are unknown”. $20,000. public debt servicePublic Debt Service. Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses connected with theSalaries and expenses. administration of any public-debt issues and United States paper-currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including the purchase of law books, directories, books ofReference books, etc. reference, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled bus or station wagon, for use or the Destruction Committee, and including the Commissioner of the Public Debt and other personal services inServices in the District.*Proviso*.Amount limited. the District of Columbia. $2,000,000: *Provided*, That the amount to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not exceed $1,975,000: *Provided further*, That the indefinite appropriationRestriction on using indefinite appropriation. “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended 1832Vol. 40, p. 292.[U.S. C., [a-z]. 1422](/us/usc/p1422).and extended” (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 760, 761), shall not be used during the fiscal year 1937 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. Distinctive paper for securities.Expenses.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency and Federal Reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, and salaries of employees and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; *Proviso*.Division of award.in all, $600,000: *Provided*, That in order to foster competition in the manufacture of distinctive paper for United States securities, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to split the award for such paper for the fiscal year 1937 between the two bidders whose prices per pound are the lowest received after advertisement. division of appointmentsAppointments Division. Salaries.Salaries: For the chief of the division, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $44,480. bureau of customsCustoms Bureau. Salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses: For collecting the revenue from customs, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $100,000 for the securing of evidence of violations Transfer of receipts from points lacking Government depositories.Living quarters.Vol. 46, p. 818; [U. S. C., p. 45](us/usc/p45).of the customs laws; for expenses of transportation and transfer of customs receipts from points where there are no Government depositories; not to exceed $80,000 for allowances for living Quarters along borders.Vol. 46, p. 817.[U. S. C., p. 799](/us/usc/p799).quarters, including heat, fuel, and lights, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), but not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; not to exceed $5,000 for the hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $500 for subscriptions to newspapers; not to exceed $1,500 for improving, repairing, maintaining, or preserving buildings, inspection stations, office quarters, including living quarters for officers, sheds, and sites along the Canadian and Mexican borders acquired under authority of the Act of June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 19, sec. 68); and including the purchase (not to exceed $100,000), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; $20,400,000, of which such Seizures, etc., under customs laws.amount as may be necessary shall he available for the cost of seizure, storage, and disposition of any merchandise, vehicle and team, auto-mobile, boat, air or water craft, or any other conveyance seized under the provisions of the customs laws, for the purchase of arms, ammunition,Services in the District. and accessories, and $449,980 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of ten persons from Vol. 46, p. 741.the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the *Provisos*.Motor vehicle restriction.Tariff Act of 1930: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use in the District of Columbia except one for use in connection with the work of the customhouse Advance payments in foreign countries. [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).[U. S. C., p. 1395](/us/usc/p1395).in Georgetown: *Provided further*, That section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 529) shall not apply to payments made for the Bureau of Customs in foreign countries. Refunds and drawbacks.Refunds and drawbacks: For the refund or payment of customs collections or receipts, and for the payment of debentures or drawbacks, bounties, and allowances, as authorized by law, $18,500,000. 1833 bureau of the budgetBureau of the Budget. Salaries and expenses: Director, Assistant Director, and all otherSalaries and expenses. necessary expenses of the Bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia; contract stenographic reporting services, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street-car fares; $187,000. For printing and binding, $32,000.Printing and binding. office of treasurer of the united statesTreasurer’s office. Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, Assistant Treasurer,Treasurer, Assistant, and office personnel. and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,155,000, For personal services in the District of Columbia, in redeemingRedeeming Federal Reserve and national currency. Federal Reserve and national currency, $107,460, to be reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and national banks. office of the comptroller of the currencyOffice of Comptroller of the Currency. Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency and other personal servicesComptroller, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $220,320. For personal services in the District of Columbia in connectionPersonal services; reimbursable. with Federal Reserve and national currency, $25,000, to be reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and national banks. bureau of internal revenueInternal Revenue Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For expenses of assessing and collectingSalaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 1S36.Vol. 41, p. 305; [U. S. C., p. 1217](/us/usc/p1217).*Ante*, p. 872.Vol. 48, pp. 313, 1020. the internal-revenue taxes and to administer the applicable provisions of the Act of October 28, 1919, as amended and supplemented (U. S. C., title 27), the Act of August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 872–881), the Act of January 11, 1934 (48 Stat. 313), Public Resolutions Numbered 40 and 41, approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 1020–1021); and[U. S. C., pp. 1138, 1145, 1155](/us/usc/pp1138/1145/1155).Vol. 44, p. 1381; [U. S. C., p. 59](/us/usc/p59).Vol. 46, p. 427; [U. S. C., p. 1223](/us/usc/p1223). the internal-revenue laws pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., title 5, sees. 281–281e), the Act of May 27, 1930 (U. S. C., title 27, secs. 103–108), and Executive Order Numbered 6639, dated March 10, 1934; including the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,Commissioner, Assistant General Counsel, and other personal services.Vol. 48, p. 1061. Assistant General Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an assistant to the Commissioner, a special deputy commissioner, four deputy commissioners, one stamp agent (to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers), and the necessary officers, collectors, deputy collectors, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, investigators, chemists, supervisors, storekeeper-gaugers, guards, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, the several divisions of internal-revenue agents and the several supervisory districts, to be appointed as provided by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts, the cost ofSecuring of evidence. chemical analyses made by others than employees of the United States and expenses incident to such chemists testifying when necessary; telegraph and telephone service, rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including stenographic reporting services; for the acquisition of property under the provisions of Title IIIAcquisition of property.*Ante*, p, 879. of the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act, approved August 183427, 1935 (49 Stat. 872–881), and the operation maintenance, and Vehicles.repair of property acquired under such Title HI; for the purchase (not exceeding $50,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, for official use of the Alcohol Tax Unit in field work; and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, the several divisionsServices in the District. of internal-revenue agents, and the several supervisory districts, $48,512,980, of which amount not to exceed $9,527,740 may be *Provisos*.Witness fees.expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer designated above, subpenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That not more than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue Concentration of distilled spirits In bonded warehouses.laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation: *Provided further*, That for the purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled in bond in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the Commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sum of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses and in transit between such warehouses. Refunding taxes.Vol. 45, p. 398.Refunding internal-revenue collections: For refunding internal-revenue collections, as provided by law, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1937 and prior years and accounts arising under “Allowance or drawback (Internal Revenue)”, “Redemption of stamps (Internal Revenue)”, “Refunding legacy taxes, Act of March 30, 1928”, and “Repayment of taxes on distilled spirits *Proviso*.Detailed report to Congress.destroyed by casualty”, $6,000,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress by internal-revenue districts and alphabetically arranged of all disbursements hereunder in excess of $500 as required Vol. 45, p. 996.[U. S. C., p. 1202](/us/usc/p1202).by section 3 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 1676), including the names of all persons and corporations to whom such payments are made, together with the amount paid to each. Alaska railroads, additional Income tax.Additional income tax on railroads in Alaska: For the payment to the Treasurer of Alaska of an amount equal to the tax of 1 per centum collected on the gross annual income of all railroad corporations doing business in Alaska, on business done in Alaska, which tax is in addition to the normal income tax collected from such corporations on net income, and the amount of such additional tax to be applicable to general Territorial purposes, $3,100. federal alcohol administrationFederal Alcohol Administration. Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 977.Salaries and expenses: For the purpose of administering the provisions of the “Federal Alcohol Administration Act”, approved August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 977), including personal and other services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; supplies and materials; equipment; communication service; stationery; travel and subsistence expenses as authorized by law; maintenance, repair, and1835operation of automobiles; law books, books of reference, magazines, periodicals, and newspapers; contract stenographic reporting service; the securing of evidence of violations of the Act; and miscellaneousSecuring of evidence. and contingent expenses; $475,000. bureau of narcoticsNarcotics Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For expenses to enforce the Act of DecemberSalaries and expenses.Vol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130.Vol. 35, p. 614; Vol. 38, p. 275; Vol. 42, p. 596.[U. S. C., p. 932](/us/usc/p932).Vol, 44, p. 1381; Vol. 46, p. 585.[U. S. C., p. 59](/us/usc/p59).Executive officers, etc. 17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec, 211), as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918 (U. S. C., title 26, secs. 691–708), the Act approved February 9, 1909, as amended by the Act of May 26, 1922 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 171–184), known as the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 281–281e), and the Act of June 14, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 282–282c), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, agents, inspectors, chemists, supervisors, clerks, messengers, and other necessary employees in the field and in the Bureau of Narcotics in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts; the costs of chemical analyses made by others than employees of the United States; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the several field offices; cost incurred by officers and employees of the Bureau of NarcoticsSeizures, etc. in the seizure, storage, and disposition of property under the internal-revenue laws when the same is disposed of under section 3460, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 119311 So in original.); purchase (not[R. S., sec. 3460, p. 685](/us/rs/s3460/p3460).[U. S. C., p. 1199](/us/usc/p1199). to exceed $10,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary for official use in field work; purchase of arms and ammunition, and for rental of necessary quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; in all, $1,275,000, of which amount not toServices in the District. exceed $187,664 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may*Provisos*.Use of forfeited vehicles.Vol. 43, p. 1116.[U. S. C., p. 1218](/us/usc/p1218). authorize the use by narcotic agents of motor vehicles confiscated under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 43), as amended, and to pay the cost of acquisition, maintenance, repair, and operation thereof: *Provided further*, That not exceedingLaw observance Information. $10,000 may be expended for the collection and dissemination of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement, including cost of printing, purchase of newspapers, and other necessary expenses in connection therewith and not exceeding $1,500 for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau of Narcotics: *Provided further*, That moneys expended from thisCredit for sums expended. appropriation for the purchase of narcotics and subsequently recovered shall be reimbursed to the appropriation for enforcement of the Narcotic Acts current at the time of the deposit. coast guardCoast Guard. Office of the Commandant: For personal services in the DistrictOffice personnel. of Columbia, $389,240: *Provided*, That no part of any appropriation*Proviso*.Details at headquarters restricted. contained in this Act shall be used to pay any enlisted man of the Coast Guard while detailed for duty at Coast Guard headquarters if such detail increases the total number of enlisted men detailed on such duty at any time above ten. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedService expenditures. work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and 1836Vol. 43, p. 1116.[U. S. C., [a-z]. 1218](/us/usc/p1218).delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the Act approved March 3, 1925 (U. S. C., title 27, sec. 41), the purchase (not to exceed $1,500), maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes in the field, and the rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, as follows: Pay and allowances.Pay and allowances: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, surfmen, substitute surfmen, and two civilian instructors, including not to Retired members of Life Saving Service.Vol. 46, p. 164.[U. S. C., p. 506](/us/usc/p506).Cash prizes.exceed $94,000 for retired pay for certain members of the former Life Saving Service authorized by the Act approved April 14, 1930 (U. S. C., title 14, sec. 178 a), and not exceeding $6,000 for cash Death allowance.Vol. 41, p. 824.[U. S. C., p. 1570](/us/usc/p1570).prizes for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions, for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 943), rations or commutation thereof for cadets, petty officers, and other enlisted men, mileage Traveling expenses.and expenses allowed by law for officers; and traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; transportation and packing allowances for baggage or household effects of commissioned *Proviso*.Pay restriction.officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men, $17,566,458: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for increased pay at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum to any nonflying commissioned officer or commissioned officer observer for making aerial flights; which rate shall be the legal maximum rate of such increased pay as to any such officer. Fuel and water.Fuel and water: For fuel, lubricating oil, kerosene, and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $1,414,450; Outfits, stores, etc.Outfits: For outfits, including repairs to portable equipment at shore units, ship chandlery, engineers’ stores, and draft animals and their maintenance, $1,400,000; Stations, houses of refuge, etc.Rebuilding and repairing stations: For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $292,500; Limitation on new construction.No part of the appropriations contained in this Act under the Coast Guard, nor of any appropriation heretofore made, shall be used for the construction for the Coast Guard of any new permanent aviation shore station or for the permanent enlargement of the capacity of any existing aviation shore station, but this limitation shall not apply to expenditures for completion of construction for which funds were made available prior to February 5, 1936; Coastal communication lines.Communication lines: For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance, and communication service, $138,120. Civilian field employees.Civilian employees: For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including clerks to district commanders, $201,760. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including subsistence of shipwrecked and destitute persons succorded 11 So in original. by the Coast Guard and of prisoners while in the custody of the Coast Guard; for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $40,000; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, 1837services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and not exceeding $4,000 for experimental and research work; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men, including those who die in Government hospitals; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newspapers, and periodicals for statistical purposes; not to exceed $5,000 for cost of special instruction including maintenance of students; and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading; $180,000; Repairs to vessels: For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats,Vessel, etc., repairs. $1,800,000; Additional airplanes: For additional airplanes and their equipment,Additional airplanes. including radio equipment, spare parts, and accessories, to be constructed or purchased in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, $697,500, to be immediately available. Total, Coast Guard, exclusive of Commandant’s office, $23,690,788: *Provided*, That not more than a total of $1,550,000 out of the appropriations*Proviso*.Aviation expenses. contained in this Act under the caption “Coast Guard”, except the appropriations “Salaries, Commandant’s Office” and “Additional airplanes”, shall be expended for aviation. Section 18 of the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Act, fiscalPayment of reenlistment allowances.Vol. 47, p. 1519. year 1934, is hereby continued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937; and for the purpose of making such section applicable to such latter fiscal year, the figures “1934” shall be read as “1937”. bureau of engraving and printingEngraving and Printing Bureau. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Work authorized for fiscal year 1937. during the fiscal year 1937 United States currency, internal-revenue stamps including opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914 (U. S. C., title 26, sec. 211),Vol. 38, p. 786.[U. S. C., p. 1062](/us/usc/p1062). checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Salaries and expenses: For the Director, two Assistant Directors,Salaries and expenses. and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including wages of rotary press plate printers at per diem rates and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work; forMaterials, etc. engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal Reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technical books and periodicals, and books of reference,Reference books, etc. not exceeding $300; rent of warehouse in the District of Columbia; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000; uniforms for guards not to exceed $2,000; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500Miscellaneous expenses. for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; for transferScientific investigations. to the Bureau of Standards for scientific investigations in connection with the work of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, not to exceed $15,000; and for the maintenance and driving of twoVehicles. motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; $6,328,430, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year 1937 all proceeds derived from work performProceeds of work to be credited to Bureau. by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for such Bureau for such fiscal year, instead of being 1838Vol. 24, p. 227.[U. S. C., p. 1366](/us/usc/p1366).covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (U. S. C., title 31. sec. 176), shall tie credited when received to the appropriation for said Bureau for the fiscal year 1937. secret service divisionSecret Service Division. Chief, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Chief of the Division and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $53,160. Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, Federal Reserve notes, Federal Reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; purchase (not to exceed $25,000), exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; purchase of arms and ammunition; traveling expenses; and for no other purpose whatsoever, except in the performance of other Protecting the President, etc.*Ante*, p. 1322.duties specifically authorized by law, and in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, *Provisos*.Witness fees.$850,000: *Provided*, That no part of the amount herein appropriated shall be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner,*Ante*, p. 1327. which *Ante*, p. 1327.Detection and prosecution of violations.expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses and jurors, United States courts”: *Provided further*,Violation of laws relating to Treasury Department, etc. That of the amount herein appropriated, not to exceed $10,000 may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the laws relating to the Treasury Department, and for services or information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. White House police.Salaries.White House police: Captain, lieutenant, three sergeants, and for fifty-five privates, at rates of pay provided by law; in all, $146,700. Uniforms and equipment.For uniforming and equipping the White House police, including the purchase, issue, and repair of revolvers and the purchase and issue of ammunition and miscellaneous supplies, to be procured in such manner as the President in his discretion may determine, $3,750. public health servicePublicHealthService Office personnel.Salaries, office of Surgeon General: For personal services in the District of Columbia, $308,410. Pay, allowance, etc., Surgeon General, officers, etc.Commissioned officers, pay, and so forth: For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for regular commissioned medical officers, including the Surgeon General and assistant surgeons general and for other regular commissioned officers, $1,775,810. Acting assistant surgeons.Acting assistant surgeons, pay: For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $340,200. Other employees.Pay of other employees: For pay of all other employees (attend-ants, and so forth) $1,000,000. Freight, transportation, etc.Freight, transportation, and so forth: For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved 1839June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), not to exceed $5,000 butVol. 46, p. 818.[U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45). not to exceed $1,700 for any one person; the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health; contract stenographic reporting services; not to exceed $450 for journals and scientific books, office of the Surgeon General; and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service, upon permanent change of station, $25,450: *Provided*, That funds expendable for transportation and*Proviso*.Transporting, etc., remains of officers. traveling expenses may also be used for preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes of remains of officers who die in line of duty. National Institute of Health, maintenance: For maintaining theNational Institute of Health, maintenance. National Institute of Health, $64,000. Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals: For medicalHospital maintenance, medical examinations, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885.[U. S. C., p. 191](/us/usc/p191). examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917 (U. S. C., title 8, sec. 152), medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for beneficiaries (other than patients of the Veterans’ Administration) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations, including necessary personnel and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal servicesServices in the District.General expenses. in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, the maintenance, exchange, and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles for official use in field work (including not to exceed $3,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles) and one for use in connection with the administrative work of the Public Health Service in the District of Columbia, purchase of ambulances, transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, includingLepers, transportation, care, etc. transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs and other expensesInsane, etc. incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $5,870,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Use of Ellis Island hospitals. That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and moneyReceipts to be covered into Treasury. collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no partUses forbidden. of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine service. exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and 1840operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and not to exceed $3,500 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $361,450. Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to aid State and local boards or otherwise in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $260,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. Interstate quarantine service.Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, $36,535. Biologic products.Regulating sale of viruses, etc.Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $45,000. Venereal Diseases Division.Maintenance, etc.Vol. 40, p. 886.[U. S. C., p. 1812](/us/usc/p1812).Division of Venereal Diseases: For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918 (U. S. C. title 42, secs. 24, 25), including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $80,000, of which amount not to exceed $19,420 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Mental Hygiene Division.Vol. 46, pp. 587, 819.[U. S. C., pp. 934, 937.](/us/usc/pp934/937)Narcotic Farm, Lexington, Ky.Vol. 45, p. 1085.[U. S. C., p. 937](/us/usc/p937).Division of Mental Hygiene: F or carrying out the provisions of section 4 of the Act of June 14, 1930 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 196 and 225); for maintenance and operation of the Narcotic Farm, Lexington, Kentucky, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., title 21, secs. 221–237), including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $27,740) and elsewhere; traveling expenses; necessary supplies and equipment; subsistence and care of inmates; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates and of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates; purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock; law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; furnishing and laundering of uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; transportation when necessary, within continental United States and under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, of persons voluntarily admitted and discharged as cured; tobacco for inmates; purchase and exchange, not to exceed $800, and maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying*Proviso*.Narcotic Farm hereafter known as U. S. Public Health Service Hospital. vehicles; $663,220: *Provided*, That on and after July 1, 1936, the Narcotic Farm at Lexington, Kentucky, shall be known as United States Public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, Status.but such change in designation shall not affect the status of any person in connection therewith or the status of such institution under any Act applicable thereto. Educational exhibits.Educational exhibits: For the preparation of public-health exhibits designed to demonstrate the cause, prevalence, methods of spread, and measures for preventing diseases dangerous to the public health, including personal services and the cost of acquiring, transporting, and displaying exhibit material, $1,000. Grants to States for public-health work.Grants to States for public-health work: For the purpose of assisting States, counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public-health 1841services, including the training of personnel for State and local*Ante*, p. 634. health work, as authorized in sections 601 and 602, Title VI, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935 (49 Stat., 634), $8,000,000. Diseases and sanitation investigations: For carrying out the provisionsDiseases and sanitation investigations.*Ante*, p. 635. of section 603 of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, and section 1 of the Act of August 14, 1912, including rent and personnel and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriationsContingent expenses. for printing and binding, stationery, and miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the Treasury Department, the provisionsVol. 37, p. 414.[U. S. C., p. 1406](/us/usc/p1406). of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 669), to the contrary notwithstanding, the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service upon permanent change of station, and including the purchaseVehicles. (not to exceed $5,000), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field work, $1,320,000. Bureau of the MintBureau of the Mint. office of director of the mint Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal servicesDirector and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $38,360. Transportation of bullion and coin: For transportation of bullionTransporting bullion and coin. and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $50,000. Contingent expenses: For assay-laboratory chemicals, fuel,Contingent expenses. materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, and for examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $5,300. Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices: For compensationMints and assay offices.Salaries and expenses. of officers and employees of the mints at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, California, Denver, Colorado, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and assay offices at New York, New York, and Seattle, Washington, and for incidental and contingent expenses, including traveling expenses, new machinery, and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, not to exceed $500 for the expenses of the annual assay commission, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint at Philadelphia, $1,202,000. procurement division buildings branchProcurement Division; Public Buildings Branch.Repair, preservation, and upkeep of completed buildings, etc.Vol. 35, p. 537; Vol. 42, p. 21.[U. S. C., p. 1407](/us/usc/p1407) For carrying into effect the provisions of the. Public Building Acts, as provided in section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 683), and for the repair, preservation, and upkeep of all completed public buildings, the mechanical equipment and the grounds thereof, and sites acquired for buildings, maintained by the Treasury Department, and for the operation of certain completed and occupied Treasury buildings, including furniture and repairs thereof, but exclusive, with respect to operation, of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, narcotic farms, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, and Auditors’ Buildings: 1842 General administrative expenses.General administrative expenses: For architectural, engineering, mechanical, administrative, clerical, and other personal services, traveling expenses, including expenses of employees directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to attend meetings of technical and professional societies and educational exhibits in connection with subjects related to the work of the Division of Procurement, Public Buildings Branch, and transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of all employees engaged in field activities, not to exceed five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expenses incident to packing and draying same; advertising, not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of educational exhibits, specifically approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, testing instruments, law books, books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, drafting materials, especially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same, carpets, electric-light fixtures, furniture, equipment, and repairs thereto, telegraph and telephone service, freight, expressage, and postage incident to the transportation of drawings to and from the office and such other contingencies, articles, services, or supplies as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve in connection with any of the work of the Procurement Division, Public Buildings Branch; Salamanca, N. Y., ground rent.rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including ground rent of the Federal building at Salamanca, New York, for which payment may be made in advance; $920,000, of which amount not to exceed $494,940 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $289,060 for personal services *Provisos*.Cost of surveys, models, etc.in the field: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriations shall not be available for the cost of surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pits and borings, or mill and shop inspections, but the cost thereof shall be construed to be chargeable against the construction appropriations of the respective projects to which they Not available for transporting supplies.relate: *Provided further*, That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings: Pay rates.*And provided further*, That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force in the field under this appropriation be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Repairs, preservation, and equipment, public buildings.Repair, preservation, and equipment, public buildings: For repairs, alterations, improvement, and preservation of completed Federal buildings (including Marcus Hook), the grounds and approaches thereof, wharves, and piers, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, and care and safeguarding, not otherwise provided for, of sites acquired for Federal buildings, including tools and materials for the use of the custodial and mechanical force, wire partitions and insect screens, installation and repair of mechanical equipment, gas, and electric-light fixtures, conduits, wiring, platform scales, and tower clocks; vaults and lock-box equipment in all buildings under construction or completed, and for necessary safe equipments in buildings under the administration of the Treasury Department, including repairs thereto, and changes in, maintenance Pneumatic-tube system, New York City.of, and repairs to the pneumatic-tube system in New York City installed under franchise of the city of New York, approved June 29, 1909, and June 11, 1928, and the payment of any obligations arising Vol. 36, p. 120; Vol. 45, p. 533.thereunder in accordance with the provisions of the Acts approved August 5, 1909 (36 Stat., 120), and May 15, 1928 (45 Stat., 533), *Provisos*.Personal services, restriction.$1,625,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation herein made shall not be available for the payment of personal services, except for work done under contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency in 1843an amount not to exceed $100 at one time at any one building: *Provided further*, That the total expenditures for the fiscal year forLimitation on repairs, etc. the repair and preservation of buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the enlargement of buildings and the installation and repair of the mechanical equipment thereof shall not exceed 20 per centum of the annual rental of such buildings. Operating force for public buildings: For personal services, includingOperating force.Personal services. also telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $1,410,000: *Provided*, That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the*Proviso*.Pay rates. mechanical labor force under this appropriation be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Furniture and repairs of furniture, public buildings: For furniture,Furniture, etc. carpets, and repairs of same, for certain completed and occupied Treasury buildings, and for public buildings in course of construction which are to be operated by the Public Buildings Branch, $45,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be*Provisos*.Personal services, restriction. used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, ThatUse of present furniture. all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas for lightingOperating supplies.Fuel, light, power, etc. and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of such public buildings, the grounds thereof, and the equipment and furnishings therein; temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning, air-conditioning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation of articles or supplies, authorized herein; $425,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Contracts for joint telephone switchboards. this appropriation shall be available for contracts for telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities in buildings under the Treasury Department where it is found that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and this appropriation shall be reimbursed for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations of the offices receiving the service. Payment of claims for relief of contractors, Act of June 16, 1934:Relief of Government contractors. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment of claims settled and certified by the Comptroller General of the United States under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide reliefVol. 48, p. 974. to Government contractors whose costs of performance were increased as a result of compliance with the Act approved June 16, 1933, and for other purposes”, approved June 16, 1934 (48 Stat. 974), the unexpended*Ante*, p. 594 balance of the appropriation available foi’ this purpose for the fiscal year 1936 is continued available until June 30, 1937. 1844 procurement division—branch of supply Salaries and expenses: For the Director of Procurement and other personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field service, and for miscellaneous expenses, including two three-and-one-half-ton and two one-and-one-half-ton motor trucks, office supplies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, and other expenses for carrying into effect regulations governing the procurement, warehousing, and distribution by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department of property, equipment, stores, and supplies in the District of Columbia (including not to exceed $500 to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles used by the Procurement Division), $580,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed during the fiscal year 1937 to transfer to this appropriation from any appropriations or funds available to the several departments and establishments of the Government such amounts as may be approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, not to exceed the amount of the annual compensation of employees heretofore or hereafter transferred or detailed to the Procurement Division, Branch of Supply, respectively, from any such department or establishment, where the transfer or detail of such employees was or will be incident to a transfer of a function or functions to that Division: *Provided further*, That payments during the fiscal year 1937 to the general supply fund for materials, supplies (including fuel), and services, and overhead expenses, for all issues shall be made on the books of the Treasury Department by transfer and counter-warrants prepared by the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department and countersigned by the Comptroller General, such warrants to be based solely on itemized invoices prepared by the Procurement Division at issue prices to be fixed by the Director of Procurement: *Provided further*, That advances received pursuant to law (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 686) from departments and establishments of the United States Government and the Government of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1937 shall be credited to the general supply fund: *Provided further*, That the term “fuel” shall be held to include “fuel oil”: *Provided further*, That the requirements of sections 3711 and 3713 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 40, sec. 109) relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, measurement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Procurement Division at free-on-board destination outside of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That the reconditioning and repair of surplus property and equipment, for disposition or reissue to Government service, may be made at cost by the Procurement Division? payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Branch of Supply, Procurement Division.” General supply fund: To increase the general supply fund established by the Act approved February 27, 1929 (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 7c) ? as amended, $250,000. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the Procurement Division, payment therefor to be effected by charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Procurement Division, Branch of Supply.” 1845 No part of any money appropriated by this or any other ActPrices of standard machines established. shall be used during the fiscal year 1937 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75: four-teen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches? $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50; or, for standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation, the maximum prices shall be as follows for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches, $80; twelve inches, $85; fourteen inches, $90; eighteen inches, $95: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Quiet machines. standard typewriting machines distinctively quiet in operation purchased during such fiscal year by any such department, establishment, or municipal government shall only be purchased on the written order of the head thereof. With the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget,Check clearance, etc., expenses. there may be transferred sums (not exceeding a total of $450,000) to the appropriations, “Salaries, Office of Treasurer of United States, 1937”, “Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department, 1937”, “Printing and Binding, Treasury Department, 1937”, and “Stationery, Treasury Department, 1937”, from funds available for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Farmers’ Crop Production and Harvesting Loans, Federal Land Banks, and other banks and corporations under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, Railroad Retirement Board, Soil Conservation Service, including Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment, Social Security Board, Federal Housing Administration, and Emergency Conservation Work, to cover the expenses incurred on account of such respective activities in clearing of checks, servicing of bonds, handling of collections, and rendering of accounts therefor: *Provided*, That funds transferred hereunder from the appropriation for Emergency Conservation Work shall remain*Provisos*.Emergency Conservation Work funds transferred available until June 30, 1937.*Ante*, p. 1601. available until June 30, 1937, any provision in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided further*, That a statement of any transfers of appropriationsStatement In the Budget. made hereunder shall be included in the annual Budget. Miscellaneous Items, Treasury DepartmentMiscellaneous Items. american printing house for the blind To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequatelyAmerican Printing House for the Blind, expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1060; [U. S. C., p. 913](/us/usc/p913). to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 8, 1927 (U. S. C., title 20, sec. 101), $65,000. short title This title may be cited as the Treasury Department AppropriationCitation of title. Act, 1937. 1846 TITLE II— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTTitle II—Post Office Appropriation for fiscal year 1937.Vol. 5, p. 80.[U. S. C., pp. 60, 1763](/us/usc/pp60/1763).The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 380, title 39, sec. 786), for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, namely: post office department, washington, district of columbia office of the postmaster generalDepartment expenses.Postmaster General’s Office. Postmaster General, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Postmaster General and other personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia, $228,344. salaries in bureaus ano officesSalaries, bureaus and offices. Amounts.For personal services in the District of Columbia in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $366,135. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $569,810. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $769,150. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $447,500. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department. $81,280. Office of the chief inspector, $206,240. Office of the purchasing agent, $42,000. Bureau of Accounts, $104,930. Contingent Expenses, Post Office DepartmentDepartment contingent expenses. Stationery, etc.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses; stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelops; telegraph and telephone service, furniture and filing cabinets and repairs thereto; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of tools, electrical supplies, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; maintenance of Vehicles.motor trucks and of two motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes (one for the Postmaster General and one for the general use of the Department); street-car fares; Correspondence addressed abroad.Vol. 44, pp. 2243, 2245.floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 47 of the London convention of the Universal Postal Union; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department; newspapers, not Attendance at meetings.exceeding $200; expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions concerned with postal affairs, when incurred on the written authority of the Postmaster General, not exceeding $2,000; expenses of the purchasing agent and of the Solicitor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the Department, not exceeding $800; and other expenses not otherwise provided for; $81,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,100,000. Field service appropriations not to be used for Department.Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: *Provisos*.Travel expenses, payable from service appropriations.*Provided*, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the 1847appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is performed, and appropriations for the fiscal year 1937 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor: *Provided further*, That appropriations hereinafter made, Use in examining field estimates.except such as are exclusively for payment of compensation, shall be immediately available for expenses in connection with the examination of estimates for appropriations in the field including per-diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses of subsistence. Field Service, Post Office DepartmentField Service. office of the postmaster generalPostmaster General. Rewards to postal employees for inventions: The Postmaster GeneralRewards to employees for inventions improving the service. is hereby authorized to pay a cash reward for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency, and for that purpose the sum of $200 is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That the sums*Provisos*.Additional to regular pay.Agreement for Government use required. so paid to employees in accordance with this Act shall be in addition to their usual compensation: *Provided further*, That no employee shall be paid a reward under this appropriation until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by him, his heirs, or assigns. Travel expenses, Postmaster General and Assistant PostmastersTravel, etc. General: For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, offices of the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmasters General, $5,000. Personal or property damage claims: To enable the PostmasterDamage claims. General to pay claims for damages, occurring during the fiscal year 1937, or in prior fiscal years, to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approvedVol. 42, p. 63; Vol. 48, p. 1207.[U. S. C., p. 67](/us/usc/p67). June 16, 1921 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 392), as amended by the Act approved June 22, 1934 (48 Stat., 1207), $30,000. Adjusted losses and contingencies, postal funds: To enable the PostmasterAdjusted losses and contingencies. General to pay to postmasters, Navy mail clerks, and assistant Navy mail clerks or credit them with the amount ascertained to have been lost or destroyed during the fiscal year 1937, or prior fiscal years, through burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty resulting from no fault or negligence on their part, as authorized by the Act approved March 17, 1882, as amended, $60,000. office of chief inspectorChief Inspector’s Office. Salaries of inspectors: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in chargeInspectors. of divisions and five hundred and seventy-five inspectors, $2,219,500. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling expenses ofTraveling expenses, investigations, etc. inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases; for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, including necessary miscellaneous expenses of division headquarters, and not to exceed $500 for technical and scientific books and other books of reference needed in 1848*Proviso*.Allotment for chemical, etc., investigations.the operation of the Post Office Inspection Service, $586,500: *Provided*, That not exceeding $18,000 of this sum shall be available for transfer by the Postmaster General to other departments and independent establishments for chemical and other investigations. Clerks, division headquarters.Clerks, division headquarters: For compensation of one hundred and ninety-four clerks at division headquarters, $465,000. Rewards for detecting law violations.Payment of rewards: For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway *Provisos*.Death of offender.mail robbers, $55,000: *Provided*, That rewards may be paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resistingRates. lawful arrest: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 9955, dated February 28, 1930: *ProvidedSecuring information. further.* That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $20,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. office of the first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Postmaster General. Compensation to postmasters.Compensation to postmasters: For compensation to postmasters, including compensation as postmaster to persons who, pending the designation of an acting postmaster, assume and properly perform the duties of postmaster in the event of a vacancy in the office of postmaster of the third or fourth class, and for allowances for rent, light, fuel, and equipment to postmasters of the fourth class, $48,000,000. Assistant postmasters.Compensation to assistant postmasters: For compensation to assist-ant postmasters at first- and second-class post offices, $6,775,000. Clerks, etc., first- and second-class offices.Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For compensation to clerks and employees at first- and second-class post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, printers, mechanics, skilled laborers, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and substitutes, $186,900,000. Contract station clerks.Clerks, contract stations: For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, $1,500,000. Separating mails.Separating mails: For separating mails at third- and fourth-class post offices, $450,000. Unusual conditions.Unusual conditions: For unusual conditions at post offices, $75,000. Clerks, third-class offices.Clerks, third-class post offices: For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, $7,000,000. Miscellaneous, first- and second-class officesMiscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to the operation and protection of post offices of the first and second classes, and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $2,075,000. Village delivery.Village delivery service: For village delivery service in towns and villages having post offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,725,000. Detroit River service.Detroit River service: For Detroit River postal service, $15.995. Car fare and bicycle allowance.Car fare and bicycle allowance: For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery car fare, $1,250,000. City delivery carriers.City delivery earners: For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $134,900,000. Special-delivery fees.Special-delivery fees: For fees to special-delivery messengers, $7,125,000. 1849 office of the second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster Geneneral. Star-route service: For inland transportation by star routesStar routes, except Alaska. (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, and not to exceed $100,000 for Government-operated star-route service, $10,800,000. Star-route service, Alaska: For inland transportation by starAlaska. routes in Alaska, $207,245. Power-boat service: For inland transportation by steamboat orPower-boat service. other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat and way letters, $1,270,000. Railroad transportation and mail messenger service: For inlandRailroad transportation, and mail messenger service. transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $102,000,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,500,000 of this appropriation*Provisos*.Freight train conveyance. may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special arrangement in freight trains or otherwise: *Provided further*, That separateSeparate accounting, messenger service. accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger service:Services in the District.Vol. 39, p. 429; Vol. 43, p. 1069.[U. S. C., pp. 1749, 1766](/us/usc/pp1749/1766). *Provided further*, That there may be expended from this appropriation for clerical and other assistance in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $60,922 to carry out the provisions of section 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 562) (the space basis Act), and not exceeding the sum of $33,050 to carry out the provisions of section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 826) (cost ascertainment). Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteenRailway Mail Service.Division superintendents, etc.*Ante*, p. 1374. assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $57,000,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance: For travel allowance toRailway postal clerks, travel allowance. railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $3,525,000. Railway Mail Service, traveling expenses: For actual and necessaryRailway Mail Service, traveling expenses.expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $60,000. Railway Mail Service} miscellaneous expenses: For rent, light,Miscellaneous. heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, for the purchase or rentalArms, etc., for mail protection. of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails, and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for theTerminal offices, rent. distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution cannot, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $540,000. Electric- and cable-car service: For electric- and cable-car service,Electric- and cable-car service. $375,000. Foreign mail transportation: For transportation of foreign mailsForeign mails.Vol. 41, p. 988; Vol. 45, p. 689.[U. S. C., p. 2068](/us/usc/p2068). by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise (exclusive of mail carried under contracts awarded under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1928), $9,717,500: *Provided*, That not to exceed $8,230,000*Provisos*.Aircraft allowance, restriction. of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft 1850under contracts which will not create obligations for the fiscal year Sea-post service.1938 in excess of $8,230,000: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General is authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $165,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea-post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to Assistant Director, International Postal Service.Delegates to Postal Union Congress.and from the United States including the salary of the Assistant Director, Division of International Postal Service, with headquarters at New York City: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $7,500 of this sum may be available for expenses of delegates designated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General to the Congress of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain to be held during the fiscal year 1937, to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for on his certificate notwithstanding the provisions of any other law. Payments under Merchant Marine Act contracts.Payments under Merchant Marine Act contracts: For payments under contracts entered into by the Postmaster General prior to Vol. 45, p. 689.[U. S. C., p. 2068](/us/usc/p2068).March 4, 1933, or any modification thereof, under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1928 (U. S. C., title 46, secs. 891–891x), $26,500,000, of which $4,500,000 is an estimated amount representing the equivalent poundage-rate cost of transportation of the mail carried on vessels under such contracts and $22,000,000 is an estimated amount representing additional assistance toward the development*Proviso*.Payments to Seatrain Company, forbidden. of the American merchant marine: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be paid on contract numbered 56 to the Seatrain Company. Balances due foreign countries.Balances due foreign countries: For balances due foreign countries, fiscal year 1937 and prior years, $1,000,000. Contract Air Mail Service.Contract Air Mail Service: For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, as authorized by law, and for the incidental expenses thereof, including not to exceed $22,200 for supervisory officials and clerks at air-mail transfer points, and not to exceed $46,460 for personal services in the District of Columbia and incidental and travel expenses, $12,000,000. Indemnities, international mail.Indemnities, international mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of international mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $15,000. Rural Delivery Service.Rural Delivery Service: For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $93,200,000. office of the third assistant postmaster generalThird Assistant Postmaster General. Stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc.Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, and including not to exceed $22,100 for pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and for expenses of agency, $4,000,000. Indemnities, lost, etc., domestic mail.Indemnities, domestic mail: For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, $625,000. Unpaid money orders more than one year old.Unpaid money orders more than one year old: For payment of domestic money orders after one year from the last day of the month of issue of such orders, $265,000. 1851 office of the fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. Post office stationery, equipment, and supplies: For stationery forStationery, etc. the Postal Service, including the money-order and registry system; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System,Postal Savings System, supplies. including rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates, envelopes, and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and registration ofBond expenses.Vol. 36, p. 817.[U. S. C., p. 1761](/us/usc/p1761). the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 760); for miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks,Miscellaneous equipment and supplies. baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erection and painting of letter-box equipment, andLetter boxes. for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps,Postmarking, etc., stamps. and electrotype plates and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, copying presses, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales (exclusive of dormant or built-in platform scales in Federal buildings), test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service, including complete equipment and furniture for post offices in leased and rented quarters; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publicationPost-route maps, etc. of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth class having or to have rural delivery service, and for letter boxes; for the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works not to exceed $1,500:Twine and tying devices. for wrapping twine and tying devices; for expenses incident to thé shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $55,000 for the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia; for rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including not to exceed $35,000 for salariesTraveling mechanicians. of thirteen traveling mechanicians, and for traveling expenses, $2,345,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may authorize*Provisos*.Sale of maps, etc. the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural delivery maps or blueprints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall beFurniture, etc., third-class offices. expended for the purchase of furniture and complete equipment for third-class post offices except miscellaneous equipment of the general character furnished such offices during the fiscal year 1931. Equipment shops, Washington, District of Columbia: For theEquipment shops, materials, etc. purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers mid attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; for the expenses of maintenance and repair of the mail bag equipment shops building and equipment, including fuel, light, power, and miscellaneous supplies 1852and services; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops and in the operation, care, maintenance, and protection of the Services in the District.equipment shops building, $1,025,000, of which not to exceed $539,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska, and island possessions.*Provided*, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. Rent, light, and fuel.Rent, light, and fuel: For rent, light, fuel, and water, for first-, second-, and third-class post offices, and the cost of advertising for lease proposals for such offices, $12,875,000. Pneumatic-tube service, New York, etc.Pneumatic-tube service: For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, at an annual rate not in excess of $19,500 per mile of double line of tubes, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, $558,260. Boston, Mass.For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, not including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission*Proviso*.Provisions applicable.Vol. 32, p. 114; Vol. 35, p. 412.[U. S. C., p. 1737](/us/usc/p1737). of mail in the city of Boston? Massachusetts, $24,000: *Provided*, That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), and May 27, 1908 (U. S. C., title 39, sec. 423), relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. Vehicle service.Vehicle service: For vehicle service; the hire of vehicles; the rental of garage facilities; the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles; the hire of supervisors, clerical assistance, mechanics, drivers, garage men, and such other employees as may be necessary in providing vehicles and vehicle service for usa in the collection, transportation, delivery, and supervision of the *Provisos*.Rentals.mail, $14,984,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned motor vehicles at a reasonable annual rental for a. term not exceeding ten Tractors and trailer trucks.years: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal year 1937, may purchase and maintain from the appropriation “Vehicle service” such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required Motor vehicle restriction.in the operation of the vehicle service: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with the administrative work of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. Transportation of equipment and supplies.Transportation of equipment and supplies: For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $265,000. public buildings, maintenance and operationPublic buildings. Operating force.Operating force: For personal services in connection with the operation of public buildings, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, operated by the Post Office Department, together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent 1853telephone switchboard equipment in such buildings jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $14,900,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Pay rates, etc. That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas, andOperating supplies. electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, removal of ashes and rubbish, snow and ice, cutting Sass and weeds, washing towels, telephone service for custodial rces, and for miscellaneous services and supplies, tools and appliances, for the operation of completed and occupied public buildings and grounds, including mechanical and electrical equipment, but not the repair thereof, operated by the Post Office Department, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, and for the transportation of articles and supplies authorized herein, $4,675,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing*Provisos*.Personal services, restriction. appropriation shall not be available for personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General is authorized to contractContracts for telephone service. for telephone service in public buildings under his administration by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone-switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, where he determines that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the Bureaus and offices receiving the same. Furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings: For the procurement,Furniture and equipment. including transportation, of furniture, carpets, safes, safe and vault protective devices, and repairs of same, for use in public buildings which are now, or may hereafter be, operated by the Post Office Department, $625,000: *Provided*, That, excepting expenditures*Provisos*.Personal services, restriction. for labor for or incidental to the moving of equipment from or into public buildings, the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, ThatUse of present furniture. all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan of furniture or not. Scientific investigations: In the disbursement of appropriationsScientific investigations.Transfer of sums to Bureau of Standards. contained in this title for the field service of the Post Office Department the Postmaster General may transfer to the Bureau of Standards not to exceed $20,000 for scientific investigations in connection with the purchase of materials, equipment, and supplies necessary in the maintenance and operation of the Postal Service. Deficiency in postal revenues: It the revenues of the Post OfficeDeficiency in postal revenues. Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made under title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. 1854 short title Short title.This title may be cited as the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1937. Sec. 2. Executive departments, etc.Appropriations for travel, etc., fiscal year 1937. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1937 available for expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment*Proviso*.Transfers for convenience of officers. concerned in the order directing such transfer: *Provided*, That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. Sec. 3. Restrictions on expenditures. No appropriation available for the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, whether contained in this Act or any other Act, shall be expended—
(a)Cost limitation of automobiles. To purchase any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), at a cost, completely equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle exchanged, in excess of $750, unless otherwise specifically provided for in the appropriation.
(b)Maintenance, automobiles not used for official purposes.“Official purposes” construed. For the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical services and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties maires such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department or Limitations not applicable.establishment concerned. The limitations of this subsection
(b)shall not apply to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, or of the heads of the executive departments.
(c)Cost of maintenance; limit. For the maintenance, upkeep, and repair (exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants) on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, except busses and ambulances, m excess of one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make and class and in no case in excess of $400. Sec. 4. Appointments after Senate rejection, etc. No part of the money appropriated under this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate upon vote has failed to confirm the nomination of such person. Approved, June 23, 1936. 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, 1937, and for other purposes. 1936-06-23 726 Chapter 49 Stat. 1854 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 74 2 public [CHAPTER 726.] 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, 1937, and for other purposes. June 23, 1936.[[H. R. 11581](/us/bill/74/hr/11581).][[Public, No. 762](/us/pl/74/762).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Appropriations for expenses of, fiscal year 1937, from District revenues, and $5,000,000 from the Treasury. That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, 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 1855derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $5,000,000 (of which not to exceed $50,000 shall be availableAmount for study of fiscal relations between United States and District of Columbia. for expenditure, under the direction of the President, for making an independent study of the fiscal relations between the United States and the District of Columbia and enabling him to report to Congress at the beginning of the next regular session, what, in hisReport to Congress. judgment, is a fair and equitable amount to be paid by the United States as an annual contribution toward the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia; such sum shall be available for personal services without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923. as amended, and for such other expenditures as may be necessary in connection with such study) is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1936, 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, $47,400, plus so much as may be necessaryOffice personnel.Additional, for Engineer Commissioner. to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of Commissioners: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions.Vol. 42. p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776; Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 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 suchIf only one position in a grade. Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensationAdvances in meritorious cases. rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may lie made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates 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 shall not apply
(1)to gradesRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service. 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service;
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, asNo reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; [U. S. C., p. 86](/us/usc/p86).Transfer to another position without pay reduction. 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 underHigher rates permitted. any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law; or
(5)to reduceIf only one position in a grade. the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. Purchasing division: For personal services, $57,000.Purchasing division. Building inspection division: For personal services, $122,860.Building inspection division. Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $43,690; twoPlumbing inspection division. members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all, $43,990. Smoke regulation and control: For personal services, equipment,Smoke regulation and control.*Ante*, p. 653. instruments, supplies, transportation, and other contingent expenses necessary for the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to prevent the fouling of the atmosphere in the District of Columbia by smoke and other foreign substances, and for other purposes”, approved August 15, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 653), $15,000. 1856 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, $94,900: *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 and power, repairs, laundry, and miscellaneous supplies, $30,000. assessor’s office Assessor’s office.For personal services, $225,000. collector’s office Collector’s office.For personal services, $47,900. 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.Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $99,520. Transfer authorized.*Ante*, p. 357.The transfer of not to exceed $4,100 of the appropriation “Metropolitan Police, District of Columbia, 1936” (salaries), to the appropriation “Office of the Corporation Counsel, District of Columbia, 1936”, is hereby authorized. alcoholic beverage control boardAlcoholic Beverage Control Board. Personal services and expenses.For personal services, street-car and bus transportation, telephone service, not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase of samples, not exceeding $100 for witness fees, and other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $40,400. 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, $10,600. Morgue, etc., expenses.For the maintenance of a non-passenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, the replacement of the present non-passenger-carrying motor wagon, jurors’ fees, witness’ fees, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,800. 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-1857passenger-carrying motor vehicles, and not to exceed $671 for theVehicles. purchase of one non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $9,150. office of chief clerk, engineer department Engineer Department. For personal services, $29,340.Chief clerk’s office. municipal architect’s office Municipal Architect’s office. For personal services, $46,920.Personal services. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipalApportionments. 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. For the purchase of land, being lots numbered 31 and 32, in squareAdditional shop facilities, etc.Land for. 175, adjacent to the District of Columbia repair shop, to afford additional shop facilities, housing for automobile trucks, and storage for tools and building materials for the District of Columbia repair shop, $15,000. public utilities commissionPublic Utilities Commission. For two commissioners, people’s counsel, and for other personalCommissioners, 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 taxi-cab 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, $80,000.Personal services. For rebinding and repairing record books in the office of theRecord books, repair, etc. surveyor of the District of Columbia, showing properties in the District of Columbia, $2,500. district of columbia employees’ compensation fund Employees’ compensation fund. For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District ofPayments for injuries.Vol. 41, p. 104. Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensationVol. 39, p. 742.[U. S. C., p. 98](/us/usc/p98). for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, $35,000. 1858 Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees.Vol. 45, p. 600.Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees in the District Transfer to Employees’ Compensation Commission.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 (45 Stat., p. 600), $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. 468.[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, [a-z]ec. 707a), $150,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil service retirement and disability fund.” District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act.Contribution to.*Ante*, p. 949.District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act: For the contribution of the District of Columbia under the provisions of section 5
(a)of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, approved August 28, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 946), $125,000. department of vehicles and trafficVehicles and Traffic Department. Personal services.For personal services, $74,640. 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-light signals:*Proviso*.Not available for street-car loading platforms. *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 for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $12,500. Rent.For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $12,600. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSESContingent and miscellaneous expenses. Objects specified.For checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, news-papers, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; 1859ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings,Removing unsafe, etc., 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; $27,000: *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 thisPrinting and binding.Restriction not to apply to central duplicating section or Lorton printing plant. paragraph shall not apply to work which can be performed at a lower cost 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*Provisos*.Approval of requisitions required. 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 ofWork to be done at Government Printing Office. this appropriation shall be available for expenditure unless such printing and binding is done at the Government Printing Office. CENTRAL GARAGECentral garage. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carryingAutomobiles, maintenance, etc. automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $60,467; for purchase (including exchange) of passenger-carrying automobiles $13,840; and for purchase (including exchange) of a passenger-carrying automobile for the assessor’s office, $800; Executive Office, three, $6,300; and one ambulance for the Board of Public Welfare, $1,660; for purchase of two passenger-carrying automobiles, $1,160, and two station wagons, $1,500; in all, $85,727. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles owned by theRestriction on use of District-owned vehicles. District of Columbia shall be used exclusively for “official purposes” directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall lie under the direction and control of the Commissioners, who mayUnder control of Commissioners. from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation ofTransportation between domicile and place of employment. 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*Proviso*.Purchase, etc., restrictions. no passenger-carrying automobile, except busses, patrol wagons, and ambulances, and except as otherwise specifically authorized in this Act, shall be acquired under any provision of this Act, by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from theTransfers forbidden. police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment ofFire insurance premiums forbidden. premiums or other cost of fire insurance. For postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rentalPostage. of postage-meter equipment, $25,000. 1860 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 to Fire and police departments excepted.exceed a total of $10,400: *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, $2,500: *Proviso*.Contracts for reporting permitted.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[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 without 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, 1936, 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, $5,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of advertising the delinquent tax list for more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one morning or one evening newspaper published in the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the provisions of existing law. employment service Employment service.For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $4,640. emergency fund Emergency fund, expenses.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 expenditure.$2,500: *Provided*, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of not to exceed $1,000 for such purposes as they may deem necessary. refund of erroneous collectionsRefund of erroneous collections. Payments authorized.To enable the Commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, payments for lost library books, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in Building permits.Vol. 36, p. 967.*Proviso*.Restriction.part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911 (36 Stat., p. 967), $4,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. 1861 For payment of amounts collected by the District erroneously onErroneously collected taxes, fines, etc. account of taxes, fines, fees, and similar charges, which are returned to the respective parties who may have paid the same, $75,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for refund of*Proviso*.Restriction. such erroneous payments made within the past three years only. To aid in support of the National Conference of CommissionersConference 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*,*Proviso*.Amount of deposit, fiscal year 1937. That during the fiscal year 1937 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 andPersonal services. temporary services, including extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, at the discretion of the librarian, $352,020. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and otherMiscellaneous. printed material, including payment in advance for subscription books, and society publications, $60,000: *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 or newspapers, or other printed material, and to be accounted forAccounting. on itemized vouchers. For binding, including necessary personal services, $20,000.Binding. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting upContingent 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, $36,500. For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy ChaseChevy Chase and Woodridge branches. and Woodridge, $4,320. For beginning construction of the Petworth branch library building,Petworth branch, beginning construction. including plans and specifications, to be erected at Kansas and Iowa Avenues on property owned by the District of Columbia, $75,000; and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contractContracts. or contracts for such construction, including improvement of grounds and necessary furniture and equipment, at a cost not to exceed $150,000. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIRStreet and road improvement. For personal services, $178,280, payable from the special fund createdPersonal services.Payable from gasoline tax fund.Vol. 43, p. 166. 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. 1862 gasoline tax, road and street improvements and repairsGasoline tax, road and street fund. Paving, etc., streets and roads from.For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, and roads, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, and including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, as follows, to be paid from the special fund created by section 1 of the Act eVol. 43, p. 106.entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved April 23, 1924 (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: Northwest: Nebraska Avenue, Forty-fifth Street to Indian Lane, $24,700; Northwest: Hemlock Street, Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $10,000; Northwest: Eighth Street, Dahlia Street to Elder Street, $7,000; Northwest: Third Street, Underwood Street to Blair Road, $19,000; Northwest: Third Street, Kansas Avenue to Peabody Street, $31,000; Northwest: Seventh Street, Quackenbos Street & Rittenhouse Street, $5,300; Northwest: Harvard Street, Fifth Street to Georgia Avenue, $8,800; Northwest: Runnymede Place, Broad Branch Road to Nevada Avenue, and Nevada Avenue, Ruiuivmede Place to Western Avenue, $8,400; Northeast: Franklin Street, Lincoln Road to Sixth Street, $16,400; Northeast: Franklin Street, Tenth Street to Thirteenth Street, $15,500; Northeast: Franklin Street, Fourteenth Street to Rhode Island Avenue, $10,200; Northeast: Third Street, Douglas Street to Evarts Street, $5,400; Northeast: Shepherd Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-second Street, $8,200; Northeast: Franklin Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-second Street, $8,200; Northeast: Twenty-second Street, Queen’s Chapel Road to Franklin Street, $20,500; Northeast: Staples Street, Morse Street to Neal Street, $6,000; Grading; culverts, etc.For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, $50,000; Center strips.For paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $5,000; Minor changes in roadways, etc.For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, $5,000; Curbs and gutters, shoulders, etc.For construction of curbs and gutters, or concrete shoulders in connection with all forms of macadam roadways and adjustment of roadways thereto, together with resurfacing and replacing of base of such roadways where necessary, $200,000; Surfacing, etc., pavements.For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt, granite block, or concrete pavements with the same or other approved material, $400,000; Bridges, construction, repair, etc.For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, including not to exceed $25,000 for engineering investigations and preparation of plans for a new bridge to replace the existing bridge in line with Pennsylvania Avenue over the Anacostia River, and 1863including maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $90,000; For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, and alleys,Street, etc., repairs. including the reconditioning of existing gravel streets and roads, and including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $765,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia,*Proviso*.Purchase of asphalt plant authorized. should they deem such action to be to the advantage of the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized to purchase a municipal asphalt plant at a cost not to exceed $30,000; This appropriation shall be available for the construction andStreet railways, pavements.Vol. 47, p. 752. 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 theProportion of expenses chargeable to railway company. 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 permanentVol. 20, p. 105. 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 replacement of the superstructure, and such portions of theChain Bridge, replacing superstructure, etc.Approach roads. substructure as may be necessary, including relocation and reconstruction of approach roads of the Chain Bridge in accordance with plans and profiles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including personal services, engineering and incidental expenses, $250,000; and the Commissioners are authorized toContracts. enter into contract or contracts for the completion of said bridge at a cost not to exceed $350,000; To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize theOpening streets, etc., permanent highway system. Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension beyond the southern boundary of Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, including the procurement of chains of title, $200,000: *Provided*, That this*Proviso*.Alley improvements, building lines, etc. appropriation shall be available to carry out the provision 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; In all, not to exceed $2,169,600, to be immediately available; to beDisbursements, etc. disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road, and street improvements and repairs”, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That assessments in accordance with existing*Proviso*.Assessments under existing law. law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways where such roadways are paved or repaved with funds derived from the collection of the tax on motor-vehicle fuels and accretions by repayment of assessments. miscellaneous road and street improvements and repairsMiscellaneous. For assessment and permit work, paving of roadways under theAssessment and permit work. 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. 1864 Changing widths of sidewalks.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all highways that may be improved under appropriations contained in this Act. Open competition for street repair, etc., contracts.No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for repairing, resurfacing, or newly paving any street, avenue, or roadway by private contract unless the specifications for such work shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving material as well as in price. Repairs due to inferior work by contractor.In addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractors to keep new pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date of the completion of the work, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall further require that where repairs are necessary during the four years following the said one-year period, due to inferior work or defective materials, such repairs shall be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense. Testing laboratory; restriction.No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used for the operation of a testing laboratory of the highways department for making tests of materials in connection with any activity of the District government. wharvesWharves. Reconstruction, etc.For reconstruction, 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, $3,000. Fish wharf, etc.Pier, etc., construction.For construction of pier at fish wharf and market, including approaches, preparation of plans and specifications, and personal services, $20,000. trees and parkingsTrees and parkings. Personal services.For personal services, $26,600. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, 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. Personal services.For personal services, $184,710. Cleaning, repair, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins; including the replacement of the following motor trucks: One at not to exceed $2,500; 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, $230,170. Main and pipe.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $100,000. Suburban.For suburban sewers, including the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the replacement of Motor trucks.the following motor trucks: One at not to exceed $3,500; one at not to exceed $2,500; two at not to exceed $975 each; one at not to exceed $750; and one at not to exceed $650; in all, $125,000. Assessment and permit work.For assessment and permit work, sewers, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase or condemnation of rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $200,000. 1865 For the control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes in theMosquito control. District of Columbia, including personal services, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles, purchase of oil, and other necessary expenses, $12,000: *Provided*, That of the amount*Proviso*.Transfer to Public Health Service. herein appropriated there may be transferred, in the interest of coordinating the work of mosquito control in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $4,100 to the Public Health Service of the Treasury Department, the amount so transferred to be available for the objects herein specified. Sewage treatment plant: For operation and maintenance, includingSewage treatment plant. salaries and wages of necessary employees, supplies, repairs to buildings and equipment, purchase of electric power, fuel, oil, waste, and other necessary expenses including not to exceed $950 for the purchase of one non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $190,403. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSECity refuse. For personal services, $135,360.Personal services. For dust prevention, sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys,Sweeping, cleaning, snow and ice removal, etc. and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross-walks, 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*,*Proviso*.Use of other funds for snow removal. That appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, and the water department shall be available for snow removal when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners. To enable the Commissioners to carry out the provisions of existingGarbage, dead animals, ashes, etc. law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia, including inspection; fencing of public and private property designated by the Commissioners as public dumps; and incidental*Provisos*.Proceeds covered in; division of. expenses, $850,000: *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 further*,Collection restriction. 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. For personal services, $122,500: *Provided*, That employments hereunder,Personal services.*Proviso*.Employments restricted.Vol. 42, p. 1340. except directors who shall be employed for twelve months, shall be distributed as to duration in accordance with corresponding employments provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924. For general maintenance, repairs, and improvements, equipment,Maintenance, etc. supplies, incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance, $40,800. For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open duringPublic-school playgrounds during summer. 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, $29,700. 1866 Swimming or bathing pooh, operation, etc.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, $142,500. 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 $600 for the purchase and exchange of one non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $30,800. 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 kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost Airway lights.of maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operation of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of storerooms, extra labor, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District Vol. 36, p. 1008; Vol. 37, p. 181.of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat., pp. 1008–1011, sec. 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat., pp. 181–184, sec. 7), and other laws applicable thereto, and including not to exceed $29,000 for operation and maintenance of electric *Provisos*.Electric street lighting rates.traffic lights, signals, and controls, $790,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for Awards to lowest competitor.current consumed: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. PUBLIC SCHOOLSPublic Schools. Administrative and supervisory officers.For personal services of administrative and supervisory officers in accordance with the Act fixing and regulating the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Vol. 43, p. 367.Education of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), including salaries of presidents of teachers colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $687,395. Personal services.For personal services of clerks and other employees, $175,940. School attendance and work permits department.Vol. 43, pp. 367, 806; Vol. 45, p. 998.For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 806–808), and the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 998), $42,100. 1867 For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance withTeachers, librarians, etc.Vol. 43, p. 367. 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, and including $10,000 for healthHealth anti physical-education teachers. and physical-education teachers to supervise play in schools of the central area, bounded by North Capitol Street on the east, Florida Avenue on the north, the Mall on the south, and Twelfth Street on the west, $7,010,840: *Provided*, That as teacher vacancies occur during*Provisos*.Assignment of kindergarten teachers in grades 1 to 4. the fiscal year 1937 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 vacancies that occur duringPlacing unassigned teachers of special, etc., subjects. the fiscal year 1937 wherever found may be filled by the assignment of teachers of special subjects and teachers not now assigned to classroom instruction, and such teachers are hereby made eligible for such assignment without further examination. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacationVacation schools and playgrounds. schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $32,400. No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paidSoliciting subscriptions, etc., in schools prohibited. to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorizedException. by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926,Annuities.Vol. 41, p. 387; Vol. 44, p. 727. 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. For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers ofSalaries. industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $94,180. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipmentContingent expenses. and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,000. the deaf, dumb, and blindDeaf, dumb, and blind. For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb personsMaintenance and instruction.[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 844.[U. S. C., p. 991](/us/usc/p991). 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. For maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachableColored deaf mutes.Tuition of, under contract. age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, $5,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this*Proviso*.Supervision of expenditures. appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. 1868 Blind children.Tuition of, under contract.*Proviso*.Supervision of expenditures.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. Instruction of 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 of.Vol. 48, p. 1125.For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1125), entitled “An Act providing educational opportunities 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.For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and Vol. 43, p. 369.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, $75,000. 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, $937,730. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. Schools for tubercular and crippled pupils.Transportation.For the maintenance of schools for tubercular and crippled pupils, $8,000. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular pupils, sight-conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $22,000: *Proviso*.Car, etc., fares.*Provided*, That expenditures for street-car and bus fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of street-car and bus fares covered by this Act. Manual, etc., training expenses.For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $64,000, to be immediately available. Fuel, light, and power.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $325,000. 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 to exceed $1,000 for the purchase of one grand piano for the Armstrong High School, not exceeding $6,800 for labor; in all, $124,500, to be immediately available, of which not to exceed $1,200 may be expended for tabulating school census cards either by contract or by day labor as the Commissioners may 1869determine: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be required on account*Proviso*.No bond for Army supplies to cadets. of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. For completing the purchase of furniture and equipment, includingWoodrow Wilson Senior High; furniture, etc. pianos and window shades, for the Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, $15,000. No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furnitureRequisitions for 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 designated buildings. to buildings as follows: Anacostia Junior-Senior High School, $113,000; Armstrong High School gymnasium, $3,000; Eliot Junior High School addition, $12,000; Randall Junior High School addition, $10,000; Hardy School, second floor, $3,000; eight-room building on old John F. Cook School site, $9,000; in all, $150,000. For completing the purchase of furniture and equipment for theCardozo High; furniture, etc. Cardozo High School, $18,000. For the necessary reequipping, including repair and refinishing ofShaw Junior High; refinishing, repair, etc., of equipment. suitable existing equipment, of the Shaw Junior High School, $20,000. For textbooks and other educational books and supplies as authorizedSupplies 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, $185,000, to be immediately available. For maintenance of kindergartens, $5,600, to be immediately available.Kindergartens. 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 or physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and teachers’ colleges, and for the installation of the same, $15,000, to be immediately available. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenanceSchool gardens, utensils, etc. of school gardens, $2,400. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months inNature study, etc., teachers. which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy,Children of Army, Navy officers, etc., admitted free. and Marine Corps, and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds,Repairs, etc., to buildings. repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric equipment, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains, and maintenance of motor trucks, including not to exceed $975 for the replacement of one one-and-one-half ton truck, $442,975, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, forEquipment for school yard playgrounds.*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. 1870 buildings and groundsBuildings and grounds. Lafayette School, addition.For the construction of an addition to the Lafayette School to provide four classrooms, unfinished space for four additional classrooms, and an assembly-gymnasium, $165,000; Hardy School, completion of second floor.For the completion of the second floor of the Hardy School, $30,000; Truesdell School, addition.For the construction of an addition to the Truesdell School, including eight classrooms and an assembly-gymnasium, necessary remodeling, and removing old structures, $148,500; Grimke School, addition.For the construction of an addition to the Grimke School, including eight classrooms and an assembly-gymnasium, $175,000; Young School, addition.For the construction of an addition to the Young School, including eight classrooms and a gymnasium, $140,000; Old Dennison School Building; replacement.For beginning construction of a vocational school for girls, to replace the old Dennison School Building on S Street, on land owned by the District of Columbia at Arkansas Avenue and Allison Street Northwest, $100,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building at a cost not to exceed $280,000; Paul Junior High, addition.For the construction of an addition to the Paul Junior High School, including ten classrooms and one gymnasium, $165>000; Alice Deal Junior High, addition.For construction of an addition to the Alice Deal Junior High School, including ten classrooms and one gymnasium, $165,000; Anacostia Junior-Senior High.For completing the construction of the Anacostia Junior-Senior High School, $100,000; Eastern High, alterations.For alterations at the Eastern High School to include addition to present heating plant, remodeling of present gymnasium into classrooms, and provision for gymnasium wing, $353,000; John F. Ccok, additional land.For the purchase of additional land at the old John F. Cook School for elementary-school purposes, $26,000; Aggregate; accounting.In all, $1,567,500, to be immediately available and to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and grounds, public schools”, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and remain available until *Proviso*.Use for unauthorized projects forbidden.Under age instruction prohibited.expended: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. 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, 1936, and children entering during the second half of the school year who will be five years of age by *Proviso*.Webster School, Americanization work excepted.March 15, 1937: *Provided*, That this limitation shall not be considered as preventing the employment of a matron and the care of children under school age at the Webster School whose parent or parents are in attendance in connection with Americanization work. Building contract requirements.None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid or obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, lighting, plumbing, painting, and treatment of grounds, shall not have been awarded in one or a single contract, separate and apart from any other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest responsible bidder complying with all the legal requirements as to a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful performance*Proviso*.Right to reject bids. of the contract: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the Commissioners the right to reject all bids. Preparation of plans.The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act under appropriations administered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation 1871with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the Commissioners and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shallExit, etc., requirements. be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having in excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. METROPOLITAN POLICEPolice. salaries For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the MetropolitanSalaries, officers, etc.Vol. 43, p. 174.Vol. 46, p. 839. Police force, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park Police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia” (43 Stat., pp. 174–175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 839–841), including compensation at the rate of $2,100 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police department, $3,339,950. For personal services, $129,260.Personal services. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. For fuel, $7,300.Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and stationRepairs, etc. grounds, $9,500. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards forContingent expenses. fugitives, purchase of gas equipment and firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, rental and maintenance of teletype system and labor-saving devices, telephone service charges, purchase, maintenance, and servicing of radio broadcastingRadio systems, etc. 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 and hauling 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, $68,375, of which amount not exceeding $2,000 mayPrevention and detection of crime. be expended by the major and superintendent of pmice for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the Commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Repairs to speedometers.> That the Commissioners are authorized to employ the electrician of the District Building to repair and test speedometers at such cost not exceeding $250 as they may approve, payment to be in addition to his regular compensation, and such services to be performed after regular working hours. For purchase, exchange, and maintenance of passenger-carryingMotor vehicles, etc. and other motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $70,000, including $2,000 for one prison van, $1,200 for one truck, $2,700 for replacement of two auto cranes, $1,400 for one new auto crane, $1,400 for one police cruiser, and $2,000 for one armored police cruiser. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipmentUniforms. prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in 1872the performance of duty to officers and members of the Metropolitan Police, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, $47,875. 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, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of buildings, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $8,900; for personal services, $9,420; in all, $18,320. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUNDPolicemen and Firemen’s Relief Fund. Payments from.To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund, $1,025,000. FIRE DEPARTMENTFire Department. salaries Salaries of officers, etc.Vol. 43, p. 175; Vol. 46, p. 839.For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park Police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia” (43 Stat. 175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (4G Stat. 839–841), $2,225,000. Personal services.For personal services, $5,620. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. 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. Hose.For hose, $18,000. Fuel.For fuel, $23,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $22,500. New apparatus.For three aerial hook and ladder trucks, four combination hose wagons, and two pumping engines, triple combination, all motor driven, $92,000. 1873 HEALTH DEPARTMENTHealth Department. salariesSalaries. For personal services, $185,790.Personal services. prevention of contagious diseasesPrevention of contagious diseases. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisionsContingent expenses. of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the DistrictVol. 29, p. 636. 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 forVol. 34, p. 889.Tuberculosis registration. registration 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 theVol. 35, p. 126. health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantileInfantile paralysis. paralysis and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, andVenereal diseases, etc.Vol. 43, p. 1001. for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 1001–1003), and for maintenance of disinfecting service, including salariesDisinfecting service. or compensation for personal services, when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, and purchase of reference books and medical journals, $32,500: *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 the treatmentTuberculosis and venereal dispensaries. of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal services, rent, supplies, and contingent expenses, $45,380: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services*Provisos*.Volunteer services. as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*,Compensation restriction. That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. Nursing service: For maintaining a nursing service, including personalNursing service. services, uniforms, supplies, and contingent expenses, $120,400: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services*Provisos.*Volunteer services. as they deem expedient in connection with the maintenance of the nursing service herein authorized: *Provided further*, That thisCompensation restriction. shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for theDrainage of lots, etc.Vol. 29, p. 125. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896 (29 Stat., pp. 125–126), and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $1,000. Hygiene and sanitation, public schools, salaries: For personalHygiene, etc., public schools. services in the conduct of hygiene and sanitation work in the publicFree dental clinics. schools, including the necessary expenses of maintaining free dental 1874*Proviso*.Inspectors and nurses, division of.clinics, $84,000: *Provided*, That of the persons employed as medical inspectors one shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, and that of the graduate nurses employed as public-school nurses three shall be of the colored race. Laboratories, maintenance, etc.For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books and periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $3,300. Preventing food, candy, etc., adulterations.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia Pure Food Act.Vol. 30, p. 768.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 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 Milk regulation.Vol. 43, p. 1004.30, 1906 (34 Stat., pp. 768–772), and an Act to regulate, within the District of Columbia, the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, 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 $200 for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including *Proviso*.Dairy farm inspection; vehicle allowance.candy and milk, $7,000: *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 including the purchase, exchange, and equipment of one impounding vehicle at a cost not to exceed $900, and the purchase, exchange and equipment of one ambulance, at a cost not to exceed $1,500; in all, $3,600. 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, fuel, *Provisos.*Volunteer services.periodicals, and supplies, $25,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service Compensation restriction.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. COURTSCourts. juvenile courtJuvenile Court. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services, $65,380. 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, $3,150. Advances for returning, etc., absconding probationers.The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and 1875traveling 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, $6,100, 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. For repairs and alterations to building, $1,500.Repairs to building. For commencing construction of a building in Judiciary Square toConstruction of new building. house the Police Court of the District of Columbia, including furniture and equipment, and inspection, $1,000,000, to be immediately available; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into one or more contracts for such construction at a cost not to exceed $1,500,000. municipal courtMunicipal Court. Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of fiveSalaries. judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $77,170. For compensation of jurors, $6,000: *Provided*, That deposits madeJurors.*Proviso*.Deposits for jury trials earned unless new date set, etc.Vol. 41, p. 1312. on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (41 Stat., p. 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books ofContingent expenses. reference, fuel, light, telephone, lodging and meals for jurors, and for deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court; fixtures, repairs to furniture, building and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $3,250. supreme court, district of columbiaDistrict of Columbia Supreme Court. Salaries: For the chief justice, eight associate justices, nineSalaries.*Post*, p. 1921. stenographers (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. 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.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).[U. S. C., p. 1295](/us/usc/p1295). 6040, $85,000. For not exceeding twenty deputy marshals who act as bailiffs,Bailiffs, etc. clerks of jury commissioners, and per diems of jury commissioners, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors m 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 1937 shall not exceed $250. 1876 Probation system.Probation system: For personal services, $11,480; contingent expenses, $350; m all, $11,830. Courthouse, care, etc. Repairs, etc.Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection of the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District or Columbia, $35,290, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Courthouse, care, etc. 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, $23,000, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. court of appealsCourt of Appeals. Salaries.Salaries: For the chief justice and four associate justices, five law clerks at $2,500 each, and all other officers and employees of the court; reporting service; and not to exceed $520 for necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office; in all $111,800: *Proviso*.Sale of reports.*Provided*, That the reports of the court shall not be sold for a price exceeding that approved by the court and for not more than $6.50 per volume. Care, etc., of building.Building: For personal services for care and protection of the United States Court of Appeals Building, including one mechanician, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $8,340: *Proviso*.Custodian.*Provided*, That the clerk of the court of appeals shall lie the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court. Incidental expenses.For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $660. 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, $5,000, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. Support of convicts.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 execution, etc.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 court expenses.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. 1877 Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the SupremePrinting and binding. Court of the District of Columbia, $2,500, and the United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, $3,000, except records and briefs m cases in which the United States is a party: in all, $5,500. PUBLIC WELFAREPublic Welfare. board of public welfareBoard of Public Welfare. For personal services, $115,300.Personal services. division of child welfareChild Welfare Division. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placingAdministrative expenses. and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses, $3,500, and no part of the money herein appropriated shall be usedRestriction 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 guardianshipBoard, etc., of children. of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $260,000. To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provideHome 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, $163,000: *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 PublicReceiving home for children under seventeen.Maintenance, etc. Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the house of detention for the reception and detention of children under seventeen years of age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or committed to the guardianship of the Board, or held as witnesses, or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, including transportation, food, clothing, medicine, and 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, $37,180. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorizedAdvances to director. to advance to the director of public welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said director by the Commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to beLimitation. used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the Board, and for office and sundry expenses, all 1878such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. jailJail. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services, $80,970. Maintenance, etc., of prisoners.For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Columbia at the jail, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their 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, $80,000. general administration, workhouse and reformatory, district of columbiaWorkhouse and Reformatory. Personal services.For personal services, $416,300. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, rewards for fugitives, discharge gratuities provided by law, medical supplies, newspapers, books, books of reference and periodicals, farm implements, tools, equipment, transportation expenses, purchase and maintenance of livestock and horses; purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation, Fuel, etc.and repair of non-passenger-carrying vehicles and motor bus; fuel for heating, lighting, and power, and all other necessary items, including uniforms and caps for guards, $397,400. Building construction, etc.For continuing construction of buildings and enclosing walls, including equipment and furniture, to provide for the custody of such prisoners as should be confined within a walled enclosure, $90,000. 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 fund.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; availability.receipts from the sale of products and services shall be deposited to the credit of said working capital fund, and said fund, including all receipts credited thereto, shall be used as a revolving fund for the fiscal year 1937 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. Buildings for women; construction, etc.For beginning construction of permanent buildings for women, including sewers, water mains, and other necessary utilities, $45,000. 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 1879reformatory, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. national training school for boysNational Training School for Boys. For care and maintenance of boys committed to the NationalCare, etc., of boys committed to. 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, $100,000. national training school for girlsNational Training School for Girls. Salaries: For personal services, $31,800.Salaries and expenses. For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, sewing machines, fixtures, books, magazines, and other supplies which represent greater educational advantages; stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, and including compensation not exceeding $1,500 for additional labor or services; for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates and forApprehending escaped inmates. 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. For construction, repair, improvement, and extension of buildings Buildings, construction, repair, ete.at the National Training School for Girls in accordance with plans to be approved by the municipal architect and the Commissioners; and for additional personnel and maintenance at that institution, $100,000. medical charitiesMedical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to beCare, etc., of indigent patients at designated hospitals. made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital, $75,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $65,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $40,000. 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 hospital and sanatoriumTuberculosis Hospital. For personal services, $141,500.Salaries and expenses. 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, $92,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, includingRepairs, etc. roads and sidewalks, $3,000; for furniture and equipment for the new sanatorium, including not to exceed $5,000 for motor-propelled trucks and passenger-carrying vehicles, $80,000; in all, $83,000. 1880 children’s tuberculosis sanatoriumChildren’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Salaries and expenses.Salaries: For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary labor, $116,350. 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, school books, classroom supplies, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $200, maintenance of motor truck, and other *Proviso*.Admittance of pay patients.necessary items, $85,000: *Provided*, That pay patients may hereafter be admitted to the Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium for care and treatment at such rates and under such regulations as may be established by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, insofar as such admissions will not interfere with admission of indigent patients. Repairs and improvements.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $2,000. gallinger municipal hospitalGallinger Hospital. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services, including not to exceed $2,000 for temporary labor, $423,380. 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, $250,000. Repairs, etc.Incidental expenses.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,500. 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. Truck.For the purchase and exchange of one truck, $750. district training schoolDistrict Training School. Personal services.For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary labor, $95,270. Maintenance, etc.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, $85,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including fire-protection and sewage-chlorination facilities, $9,000. Vehicle.For the purchase, including exchange, of one motor-propelled station wagon, $750. industrial home school for colored childrenIndustrial Home School for Colored Children. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services, $35,970; temporary labor, $500; in all, $36,470. Maintenance, etc.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. 1881 For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,500.Repairs, etc. For the purchase, including exchange, of one motor-propelledVehicle. station wagon, $750. industrial home schoolIndustrial Home School. Salaries: For personal services, $24,780; temporary labor, $500;Salaries. in all, $25}280. For maintenance, including purchase of equipment, maintenanceMaintenance. of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $22,500. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500.Repairs, etc. home for aged and infirmHome for Aged and Infirm. Salaries: For personal services, $61,880; temporary labor, $2,000;Salaries. in all, $63,880. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. 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. For repairs and improvements to building and grounds, suchRepairs, etc.; day labor. work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $4,500. For the purchase, including exchange, of one motor truck, $750.Truck. municipal lodging house and wood yardMunicipal lodging house, etc. For personal services, $3,600; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $7,600. public assistancePublic assistance. For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the DistrictRelief of the unemployed, etc. 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, $1,600,000, of which not to exceedFrom District revenues. $200,000 shall be available for personal services. Assistance against old-age want: To carry out the provisions ofOld-age assistance.*Ante*, p. 747. the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia in relation to providing assistance against old-age want”, approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 747), including not to exceed $32,265 for personal services and other necessary expenses, $284,265. Pensions for needy blind persons: To carry out the provisions ofPensions for the needy blind.*Ante*, p. 744. the Act entitled “An Act to provide pensions for needy blind persons of the District of Columbia and authorizing appropriations therefor”, approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 744), $54,000. temporary home for former soldiers and sailorsTemporary home for former soldiers and sailors.Personal services, maintenance, etc. For personal services, $4,620; maintenance, $11,750; and repairs to buildings and grounds, $1,000; in all, $17,370, 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. 1882 florence crittenton home Florence Crittenton Home.For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $9,000. southern relief society Southern Relief Society, for needy Confederate veterans.For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. national library for the blind National Library for the Blind.For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at 1800 D Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. columbia polytechnic institute Columbia Polytechnic Institute.To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at 1808 H Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000. saint elizabeths hospitalSaint Elizabeths Hospital. Support of District insane.For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $2,233,800. nonresident insane Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811.For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes”, approved January 31, 1899, including persons held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $12,000. Advances authorized to Director of Public Welfare.In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Director of Public Welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the CommissionersLimit. may require of said director, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. relief of the poor Relief of the poor.For relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and for pay of physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, $13,000. BURIAL OF EX-SERVICE MENEx-service men. Burial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc.For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent Union ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines, of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired, and who died in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $135. 1883 transportation of indigent persons For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veteransTransportation of Indigent persons. of the World War and their families, $3,500. vocational rehabilitation Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents, District of Columbia:Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents.Vol. 45, p. 1260. 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. 47–47f), $25,000. MILITIAMilitia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and directionExpenses authorized, under commanding general. of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For personal services, $21,500; temporary labor, $5,800; forPersonal services.Expenses of camps, etc. expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments; damages to private property incident to encampment; reimbursement to the United States for loss of property for which the District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and maintenance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at armory or field encampments, not to exceed $500; practice marches, drills, and parades; rent of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses; machinery and dock, including dredging alongside of dock; construction of buildings for storage and other purposes at target range; telephone service; printing, stationery, and postage; horses and mules for mounted organizations ; maintenance and operation of passenger and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; street-car fares (not to exceed $200) necessarily used in the transaction of official business; not exceeding $400 for traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings or conventions of associations pertaining to the National Guard; and for general incidental expenses of the service, $15,480; in all, $42,780. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATSAnacostia Park. For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park,Continuing development. in accordance with the revised plan as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, $50,000. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKSNational Capital Parks. salaries, public parks, district of columbia For personal services, $351,910.Personal services. general expenses, public parksPublic parks. General expenses: For general expenses in connection with theMaintenance and general expenses. maintenance, care, improvement, furnishing of heat, light, and power of public parks, grounds, fountains and reservations, propa-1884gating gardens and greenhouses under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, including the tourists’ camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of seasonal or intermittent employees at perdiem 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 *Proviso*.Outdoor sports, band concerts, etc.of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $373,500: *Provided*, That not exceeding $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports and for expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; and not exceeding $10,000 for the erection of minor auxiliary structures. park policePark police. Salaries.Vol. 43, p. 175; Vol. 44, p. 834; Vol. 46, p. 839.Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $175,000. Uniforms, equipment, etc.For uniforming and equipping the United States park police force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equipment, $8,000. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSIONNational Capital Park and Planning Commission. Reimbursing United States for lands acquired for park system.Vol. 46, p. 485.For reimbursement to the United States in compliance with section 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 482), as amended, $300,000. Incidental expenses.Vol. 43, p. 463.[U. S. C., p. 1773](/us/usc/p1773).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 playground 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. Expenses.For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and enclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; traveling and 1885incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $2,000 for travel and field expenses in the United States and foreign countries for the procurement of live specimens and for the care, subsistence, and transportation of specimens obtained in the course of such travel; maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; for the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of bicycles and non-passenger-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, $225,000, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. WATER SERVICEWater Service. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenuesFrom water revenues. of the water department for expenses of the Washington aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of water department, namely: washington aqueductWashington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees,Maintenance, etc., of, and accessories. 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, $470,000. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendenceControl of Secretary of War not affected. and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personalRevenue, inspection, and distribution. services, $179,670. For maintenance of the water department distribution system, includingOperating expenses. 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 four-passenger sedan at not to exceed $650; four trucks at not to exceed $750 each; and one truck at not to exceed $850; 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, $360,000, 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. 1886 Extension of distribution system.For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $250,000. Meters.For installing and repairing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the Commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $100,000. Hydrants.For installing lire and public hydrants, $22,500. Replacement of old mains, etc.For replacement of old mains and divide valves in various locations, on account of inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains in advance of pavements, $135,000. Reduction in water charges.During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to allow a reduction of not to exceed 25 per centum in the water charges within the District Metered allowance increased.of Columbia fixed by existing law, and the present metered allowance of seven thousand five hundred cubic feet is increased to ten thousand cubic feet during such fiscal year. New mains.For seven thousand two hundred feet of thirty-inch water main from Third and E Streets Southwest to Fifth and M Streets Southeast, $118,800. Replacement of water tank.For purchase and erection of one five-hundred-thousand-gallon capacity elevated water tank and appurtenances to replace the existing one-hundred-and-thirty-eight-thousand-gallon tank situated on District of Columbia property at Stanton School, $35,000, to be immediately available. Refunds of erroneous charges.For the refunding of water rents and other water charges erroneously paid in the District of Columbia, to be refunded in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding of erroneously paid *Proviso*.Availability.taxes, $5,000: *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 m 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: *Provisos*.Limitation.Maximum period of employment.*Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $42,000 during the fiscal year 1937: *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 1887mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessaryHorses, vehicles, etc. for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, 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 e 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*Proviso*.Temporary work, etc. horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborer’s, and mechanics. Sec. 4. That the Commissioners are authorized to employ in theMiscellaneous trust fund deposits.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368. execution of work, the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as “the miscellaneous trust-fund deposits”; District of Columbia, necessary personal services, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire therefor motor trucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the Commissioners, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles for inspection and transportation purposes, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Employment of labor. That the 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 ActLeave of absence. who has been employed for ten consecutive months or more shall not be denied the leave of absence with pay for which the law provides. Sec. 5. That the Commissioners and other responsible officials, inMaterial, supplies, vehicles, etc.Purchase of. expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible, shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, in accordance with the 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 haveSurplus articles; price bases. not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government 1888of 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*Proviso*.Transfers under Executive order. receipts: *Provided*, That this section shall not be construed to amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities. Sec. 6. Limitation on rentals. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be available for the payment of rental of quarters for any activity at a rate in excess of 90 per centum of the per annum rate paid by the *Provisos*.Prior leases.District of Columbia for such quarters on June 30, 1933: *Provided, *That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to leases made prior to the passage of this Act, except when renewals thereof are Unexpended balances to be covered In.made hereafter: *Provided further*, That the appropriations or portions of appropriations unexpended by reason of the operation of this paragraph shall not be used for any purpose, but shall be impounded and deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia. Sec. 9. Unemployment Compensation Act.Amendment.*Ante*, p. 1138. Paragraph
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(b)of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows:" “(7) “Employment.”Definition of, extended. Service performed in the employ of a corporation, community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.” " Approved, June 23, 1936. To authorize the Secretary of War to set apart as a national cemetery certain lands of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation, Minnesota. 1936-06-23 727 Chapter 49 Stat. 1888 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 727.] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to set apart as a national cemetery certain lands of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation, Minnesota. June 23, 1936.[[S. 4268](/us/bill/74/s/4268).][
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