Public Law 763.
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(/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).][[Public, No. 763](/us/pl/74/763).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fort Snelling Military Reservation, Minn.Certain lands within, set apart as a national cemetery. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to set aside in the Fort Snelling Military Reservation, Minnesota, a plot of land which shall include the existing post cemetery with such boundaries as he Care, etc.may prescribe therefor as a national cemetery, which hereafter shall be cared for and maintained as a national cemetery under the laws relating to the same. Approved, June 23, 1936. To extend the retirement privilege to the Director, Assistant Directors, inspectors, and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1936-06-23 728 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 728.] AN ACT To extend the retirement privilege to the Director, Assistant Directors, inspectors, and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. June 23, 1936.[[S. 4552](/us/bill/74/s/4552).][
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