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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 52 STAT. · June 30, 1939 · Public Law 459

Public Law 459.

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(/us/pl/75/458)] *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 1939, 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, 1939, 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 52 Stat. 157of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $5,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1938, and all of the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES General expenses. executive office Executive office. For personal services, $48,180, 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*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions.[42 Stat. 1488](/us/stat/42/1488).[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674;
Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674). of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the two civilian Commissioners the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated If only one position in a grade.the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritoriousAdvances in meritorious cases. cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rate’s of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided further*, That this restriction shall notRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.[42 Stat. 1490](/us/stat/42/1490).[5 U. S. C. § 666](/us/usc/t5/s666).Transfers without pay reduction. apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service;
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act;
(3)to 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 salaryHigher rates permitted. under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law; or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in whichIf only one position in a grade. only one position is allocated. Purchasing division: For personal services, $56,000. Purchasing division.Department of inspections. Department of inspections: For personal services, $240,000, including two members of plumbing board at $150 each, and two members, board of examiners, steam engineers, at $150 each, the inspector of boilers to serve without additional compensation. Office of Poundmaster: For personal services, maintenance andOffice of Poundmaster. operation of motor vehicles, and other necessary expenses, $10,490: *Provided*, That the salary of the poundmaster shall be at the rate of*Proviso*.Salary rate. $2,000 per annum. public convenience stations Public convenience stations. For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensationMaintenance. of necessary employees, $14,000, of which not less than $500 shall be available for necessary repairs. 52 Stat. 158 care of the district buildings Core of District buildings. Operating force. For personal services, including temporary labor, and service of cleaners as necessary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $126,600: *Proviso*.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 buildings. Operating supplies. For fuel, light and power, repairs, laundry, and miscellaneous supplies, $50,450. assessor’s office Assessor’s office. Personal services. For personal services, $253,000. Reference maps. For rebinding and repairing reference maps in the Assessor’s Office, $2,500. collector’s office Collector’s office. Personal services. For personal services, $50,000. Additional office equipment. For additional office equipment for the Collector’s Office, $3,300. auditor’s officeAuditor’s office. Personal services. For personal services, $131,700, of which $2,000 shall be available without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, Real-estate expert.and civil-service requirements for the employment of a real-estate Disbursing officer permitted other compensation.expert, to be immediately available; 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 counselOffice of Corporation Counsel. Corporation counsel; extra pay.Personal services. Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $117,280. alcoholic beverage control boardAlcoholic Beverage Control Board. Personal services and expenses. For personal services, streetcar and bus transportation, telephone service, not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase of samples, not exceeding $100 for witness fees, and not less than $8,000 for beverage tax stamps, and other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $43,980. coroner’s officeCoroner’s office. Personal services.[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673](/us/usc/t5/s661–674)c. For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $11,680. Morgue, etc., expenses. For the maintenance of a non-passenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness’ fees, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,700. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and marketsOffice of Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets. Personal services. For personal services, $58,000. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for 52 Stat. 159personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motorVehicles. vehicles, and not exceeding $750 for the purchase, including exchange, of one motor vehicle equipped for making investigations of sales of gasoline and oil by short measure, $28,675, of which amount $7,500Gasoline, etc., testing and inspection. shall be available for testing and inspection of gasoline and other petroleum products. office of chief clerk, engineer departmentEngineer Department. For personal services, $32,040, including $2,600 for the employmentChief Clerk’s office.Safety inspector. of one safety inspector. municipal architect’s officeMunicipal Architect’s office. For personal services, $57,980.Personal services. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipalApportionments of appropriations. architect in payment of personal services employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an amount not exceeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 2¾ per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000. public utilities commissionPublic Utilities Commission. For two commissioners, people’s counsel, and for otherCommissioners, people’s counsel, etc. personal services, $76,000. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorizedIncidental, etc., expenses. by law, including the purchase of newspapers, $1,200. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be usedIssuance of orders requiring meters in taxicabs forbidden. for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, 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. department of insurance For personal services, $28,660.Department of Insurance. surveyor’s officeSurveyor’s office. For personal services, $80,000. minimum wage boardMinimum Wage Board. For personal services, including not to exceed $2,500 for the secretaryPersonal services. of the Board, $8,420. district of columbia employees’ compensation fundEmployees’ compensation fund. For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District ofPayments for injuries.[41 Stat. 104](/us/stat/41/104). Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7,[39 Stat. 742](/us/stat/39/742).[5 U. S. C. §§ 751–796](/us/usc/t5/s751–796). 1916, $52,000. 52 Stat. 160 Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees.Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees in the District of Columbia: For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of [45 Stat. 600](/us/stat/45/600).Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved May 17, 1928 (45 Stat. Transfer to Commission.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 from District revenues. 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”, [5 U. S. C. § 707a](/us/usc/t5/s707a).approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (5 U. S. C. 707a), $842,760, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil service retirement and disability fund”. register of willsRegister of Wills. Personal services. For personal services, $76,560. Contingent expenses. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, contract statistical services, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, including laboratory coats and photographic developing-room equipment, towels, towel service, window washing, streetcar tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, $13,120. recorder of deedsRecorder of Deeds. Personal services. For personal services, $111,440. 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, streetcar 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.*Post*, p. 152. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $15,000, to be expended without reference to the provisions of section 6 of this Act. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSESContingent and miscellaneous expenses. Objects specified.*Post*, p. 1120. For checks, books, law books, books of reference, including $3,000 for law books and books of reference for the Corporation Counsel’s office, periodicals, newspapers, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and Traveling expenses.preservation of records; ice; 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 Removing unsafe, etc., buildings.of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $6 per diem to each member of board of survey, other than the inspector of buildings, while actually employed on Settlement of claims.surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings; not exceeding $3,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $250 each, approved by the Commissioners under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of [45 Stat. 1160](/us/stat/45/1160); [46 Stat. 500](/us/stat/46/500).Columbia”, approved February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended 52 Stat. 161by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); not to exceed $250Conference of commissioners on uniform State laws. to aid in support of the national conference of commissioners on uniform State laws; and other general necessary expenses of District-offices, $33,000: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation*Proviso*.Printing, etc., list of supplies, forbidden. 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 postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rentalPostage. of postage-meter equipment, $28,000. For judicial expenses, including witness fees, and expert servicesJudicial expenses. in District of Columbia cases before the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, $1,500: *Provided*, That the Commissioners*Provisos*.Stenographic reporting services. 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[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) under available appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided further*, That neither the DistrictNo court costs, etc., in District Court for D. C. required. 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 District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forGeneral advertising. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $9,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment*Proviso*.Outside advertising. of advertising in newspapers published outside of the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the requirement for such advertising provided by existing law. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1938, as requiredTaxes in arrears.[30 Stat. 250](/us/stat/30/250). to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $5,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available*Proviso*.Advertising of delinquent tax list in newspapers. 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. For printing and binding, $55,600: *Provided*, That no part of thePrinting and binding.*Post*, p. 1120.*Proviso*.Approval of requisitions required. appropriations contained in this Act shall be available for expenditure for printing and binding unless the need for such expenditure shall have been specifically approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the purchasing officer and the auditor for the District of Columbia acting for such Commissioners. For the use of the Senate and House committees on the DistrictStudy of surveys respecting new legislation for efficiency; personal services.*Post*, p. 1121. of Columbia, acting jointly or separately as the chairmen of the two committees may decide, to employ such clerical help as will be necessary to make a complete study of the various surveys previously made of the government of the District of Columbia for the express purpose of forming such legislation as will effect a. more efficient and economic handling of the government affairs of the District of Columbia, $5,000, to be immediately available. For an investigation of public relief in the District of ColumbiaInvestigation of public relief.*Post*, p. 1121. to be made under the supervision of the chairmen of the respective Subcommittees on District of Columbia Appropriations of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, who are authorized to select a person to act as director of investigation at a salary to be fixed by the said chairmen; suchScope. investigation shall cover the extent of unemployment in said District; the need for all types of relief; the extent to which existing agencies are meeting both the unemployment and relief situations; the ade52 Stat. 162quacy or inadequacy of individual grants; the characteristics of cases receiving assistance from public agencies; the policies and procedures of public administrative organizations, including the Personal services.adequacy, qualifications, and competency of personnel. The said director of investigation is authorized and empowered to employ necessary assistants at rates of pay to be approved by the Assistance of other agencies.chairmen of the subcommittees aforesaid, and the said director may request and be entitled to obtain such assistance as he may deem necessary from Federal and District agencies, including the Social Security Access to records, etc.Board and the Works Progress Administration, and the said director and his assistants shall have access to any and all records of such agencies, including financial statements, social case histories and correspondence, and he shall be free to seek information from staff Report; time for filing.members and employees of such agencies; and the said director shall make a full report to the aforesaid chairmen prior to August 1, 1938, of the results of the investigation, including such recommendations as he may deem necessary relating to administrative efficiency, the adequacy or inadequacy of public relief in the District of Columbia, existing and proposed work projects providing for unemployed Availability of sum.employables, and any other kindred matters, $10,000, said sum to be available immediately and to be expended without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, civil-service requirements, or any other law. central garageCentral Garage. Automobiles, maintenance, etc. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $61,780; for purchase (including exchange) of Ambulance, etc.passenger-carrying automobiles, including $1,700 for the replacement of one ambulance and $1,500 for the replacement of one bus for the Health Department, $15,200; in all, $76,980. Private vehicle allowances. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at a rate of not to exceed $264 per *Proviso*.Restriction.year for each automobile, $10,296: *Provided*, That allowances under this appropriation shall be made only to persons whose duties require full-time field service. Use of District-owned vehicles restricted. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles owned by the District of Columbia shall be used exclusively for “official purposes” directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided Transportation between domicile and place of employment.in this Act; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except as to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and in cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary, and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the *Proviso*.Cost limitation.Commissioners: *Provided*, That no passenger-carrying automobile, except busses, station wagons, 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, Transfers forbidden.including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Fire insurance premiums forbidden. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. 52 Stat. 163 The Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnishStreetcar and bus fares. necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of streetcar and bus fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Limitation on expenditures.*Post*, p. 1121.Fire and police departments excepted. expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $9,900: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein, made for the fire and police departments. employment service For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expensesEmployment service. required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $4,640. emergency fundEmergency fund. To be expended in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence,Expenditure. public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood, or fire, or storm, and of like character, and for other purposes, in the discretion of the Commissioners, $2,500: *Provided*, That the certificate of the Commissioners*Proviso*.Voucher for expenditure. shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of this appropriation for such purposes as they may deem necessary. refund of erroneous collectionsRefund of erroneous collections. To enable the Commissioners, in any case where special assessments,Payments authorized. 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 part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permitsBuilding permits.[36 Stat. 967](/us/stat/36/967). authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911 (36 Stat. 967), $3,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation *Proviso*.Availability.shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. 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, $65,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Availability. That this appropriation shall be available for refund of such erroneous payments made within the past three years only. wharvesWharves. For reconstruction, where necessary, and for maintenanceReconstruction, maintenance, etc. 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. old police court buildingOld Police Court Building. For repairs, alterations, and improvements to the old Police CourtRepairs, etc.; use. Building, to be used for such District activity or activities as may be determined by the Commissioners, $10,000, to be immediately available. MUNICIPAL CENTERMunicipal Center. For beginning the construction in square 533, bounded by JohnBeginning construction. Marshall Place, Indiana Avenue, and Third, C, and D Streets, of the first unit of an extensible building for the government of the District of Columbia, $500,000, of which amount the sum of $60,000Preparation of plans, etc. shall be immediately available for the preparation of plans and specifications, including the employment of professional and other 52 Stat. 164 [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674).[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5).services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, civil service requirements, or section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the completion of such unit, including fixed equipment, at a total cost not to exceed $1,500,000. REPAYMENT OF LOAN FROM PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATIONLoan from Public Works Administration. Reimbursement. For reimbursement to the United States, in compliance with [48 Stat. 1215](/us/stat/48/1215).section 3 of the Act approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat. 1215), of funds *Proviso*.Amount of deposit, 1939.loaned under the authority of said Act, $1,000,000: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year 1939 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. Personal services. For personal services, and for substitutes and other special and temporary services, including extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, at the discretion of the librarian, $394,300. Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other printed material, including payment in advance for subscription *Proviso*.Advances for purchases of books, etc.books, and society publications, $65,000: *Provided*, That the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the librarian of the free Public Library, upon requisition previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not exceeding $25 at the first of each month, to be expended for the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, numbers of periodicals or Accounting.newspapers, or other printed material, and to be accounted for on itemized vouchers. Binding.*Proviso*.Division of expenditure. For binding, including necessary personal services, $20,000: *Provided*, That approximately 50 per centum of this appropriation shall be expended in connection with the library’s present bindery and the balance for materials and work to be performed at the reformatory at Lorton, Virginia. Contingent expenses. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, care of grounds, maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, including not to exceed $400 for painting the Conduit Road Library Branch, $49,650. Chevy Chase and Woodridge branches, rent. For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy Chase and Woodridge, $4,320. New library building, plans. For the preparation of plans and specifications for a library building to be constructed on square 491 in the District of Columbia, $60,000. SEWERSSewers. Personal services. For personal services, $175,000. Cleaning, repair, etc.Motortrucks. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins; including the replacement of the following motortrucks: Four at not to exceed $975 each; and the purchase of one motortruck at not to exceed $650; and for operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to equipment, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of electricity, fuel, oil, waste, and other supplies, and the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $230,000. 52 Stat. 165 For construction of sewers and receiving basins, including theSewers and receiving basins.Vehicles. maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the replacement of two motortrucks at not to exceed $975 each and one tractor at not to exceed $2,500; in all, $258,500, of whichMount Rainier, Md., outlet sewer. amount not exceeding $3,500 shall be available for payment to the Maryland Suburban Sanitary District for the construction of an outlet sewer through Mount Rainier, Maryland, to permit the abandonment of the Woodridge pumping station. For assessment and permit work, sewers, including not to exceedAssessment and permit work. $1,000 for purchase or condemnation of rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $225,000. 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, the replacement of one motortruck at not to exceed $650, purchase of oil, and other necessary expenses, $12,000: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated*Proviso*.Transfer to Public Health Service. 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 the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $216,000. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSECollection, etc., of refuse. For personal services, $133,000.Personal services. For dust prevention, sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys,Sweeping, cleaning, etc. and suburban streets, under the immediate direction 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, $403,730. 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 expenses, $862,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall*Proviso*.Collection restriction. 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, $131,000: *Provided*, That employments hereunder,Personal services.*Proviso*.Employments restricted. 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.[42 Stat. 1340](/us/stat/42/1340). For general maintenance, including labor, repairs and improvements,Maintenance, etc. equipment, supplies, incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, $40,800. For temporary services, including superintendence, supplies,Swimming or bathing pools. repairs, maintenance, and expenses necessary in the operation of swimming or bathing pools, $11,300. 52 Stat. 166 Improvements. For improvement of various municipal playgrounds and recreation centers, $25,000, of which not exceeding $1,000 shall be immediately available for the preparation of architectural and landscaping plans. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENTElectrical Department. Personal services. For personal services, $92,800. 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 motortrucks, and other necessary items including not to exceed $600 for the purchase (including exchange) of one non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $30,800. Placing wires underground, police patrol and fire alarm systems. 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 cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment and expenses, $25,000. Street lighting.Street lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures Airway lights.of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost of maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operation of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of storerooms, extra labor, operation, maintenance, and repair of motortrucks, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of [36 Stat. 1008](/us/stat/36/1008).Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat. 1008–1011, sec. 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia [37 Stat. 181](/us/stat/37/181).Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat. 181–184, sec. 7), *Provisos*.Rates, limitation.and other laws applicable thereto, $765.000: *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 current Awards to lowest bidder.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 Education of the [43 Stat. 367](/us/stat/43/367).District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 367–375), including salaries of presidents of teachers colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $673,700. Personal services. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $179,540. School attendance and work permits department. For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 [43 Stat. 367, 806](/us/stat/43/367/806).Stat. 367–375), the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat. 806–808), [45 Stat. 998](/us/stat/45/998).and the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 998), $40,100. Teachers, librarians, etc.[43 Stat. 367](/us/stat/43/367). For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 367–375). including for teachers colleges assistant professors in salary class eleven, and pro52 Stat. 167fessors in salary class twelve, and including $11,600 for health andHealth and physical education teachers. 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, $7,119,300: *Provided*, That teaching vacancies that occur during the*Provisos*.Placing unassigned teachers of special, etc., subjects. fiscal year 1939 wherever found may be filled by the assignment of teachers of special subjects and teachers not now assigned to classroom instruction, and such teachers are hereby made eligible for such assignment without further examination: *Provided further*, ThatLibrarians, pay restriction. the average of the salaries paid librarians in the public schools shall not exceed the average of the salaries paid employees performing the same grade of work in the Free Public Library. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacationVacation schools, instruction , etc. schools, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $30,400. Qualified Federal personnel is authorized, with the approval of theLectures on effects of alcoholic liquors and narcotics. head of the Federal agency concerned, and upon request by the Board of Education, to give lectures in the public schools on the effects of alcoholic liquors and narcotics. 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, $102,180. 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. americanization workAmericanization work. For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all agesInstruction 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. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books,Contingent expenses. equipment, and supplies, $600. For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1934 (34Instruction of children of veterans killed, etc., during World War.[48 Stat. 1125](/us/stat/48/1125).[34 U. S. C. § 945](/us/usc/t34/s945). U. S. C. 945), 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”, $2,700. For the development of vocational education in the District ofVocational education.[49 Stat. 1488](/us/stat/49/1488).[20 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 15h–l5p](/us/usc/t20/s15h–l5p). Columbia in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories”, approved June 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1488), $17,699. community center departmentCommunity Center Department. For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and communitySalaries and expenses.[43 Stat. 369](/us/stat/43/369). secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 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, $102,000. For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping openPublic school playgrounds during summer. during the summer months the public-school playgrounds; for special and temporary services, directors, assistants, and janitor service during the summer vacation, and, in the larger yards, daily after school hours during the school term, $25,000. 52 Stat. 168 Equipment. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment for *Proviso*.When open.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. care of buildings and groundsCare of buildings and grounds. Personal services, etc. 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, $948,785. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. Schools for tubercular and crippled children.Transportation. For the maintenance of schools for tubercular and crippled pupils, $7,500. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular pupils, sight-conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $20,000: *Proviso*.Streetcar, etc., fares. *Provided*, That expenditures for streetcar and bus fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of streetcar and bus fares covered by this Act. Manual, etc., training. 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.*Proviso*.Apportionment provisions. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $300,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be so apportioned and distributed over the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and shall be so administered, during such fiscal year, as to constitute the total amount that will be utilized during such fiscal year for such purposes. 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 $10,500 Books for Wilson Teachers College.for books of reference and periodicals, of which $2,500 shall be available for the purchase of such books for the Wilson Teachers College, not exceeding $1,500 for replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, not exceeding $6,800 for labor; in all, $132,600, to be immediately available, of which not to exceed $3,000 may be expended for tabulating school census cards either by contract *Proviso*.Military supplies issued to cadets; bond not required.or by day labor as the Commissioners may determine: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be required on account 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. Equipment, etc., for designated buildings. For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings as follows: Eastern High School; Bundy School, addition and assembly-gymnasium; Lenox Vocational School; $82,415: *Proviso*.Dennison Vocational School, amount continued.[50 Stat. 370](/us/stat/50/370). *Provided*, That the amount of $26,000 made available for the Dennison Vocational School in the appropriation under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved June 29, 1937, is hereby continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1939. Supplies to pupils.[46 Stat. 62](/us/stat/46/62). For textbooks and other educational books and supplies as authorized by the Act of January 31, 1930 (46 Stat. 62), including not to exceed $7,000 for personal services, $190,000, to be immediately available. Kindergartens. For maintenance of kindergartens, $5,600, to be immediately available. 52 Stat. 169 For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books,Supplies for general science, etc., departments. and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the department of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools, vocational schools, and teachers colleges, and for the installation of the same, $16,975, to be immediately available. For utensils, materials, and labor, for establishment and maintenanceSchool gardens, utensils, etc. of school gardens, and for use in teaching elementary science in connection therewith, $2,400. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds,Repairs, etc., to buildings. including maintenance of motor trucks, and not to exceed $975 for the replacement of one one and one-half ton truck, not to exceed $40,000 for replacement of boilers, not to exceed $9,000 for replacement of the heating plant at the Administration Annex Numbered 2, and not toMcKinley High School, retaining wall. exceed $40,000 for replacement of a section of the McKinley High School retaining wall, $485,000, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That work performed for repairs*Proviso*.Contracts, etc. and improvements shall be by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the Commissioners to be most advantageous to the District of Columbia. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926,Annuities.[41 Stat. 387](/us/stat/41/387); [44 Stat. 727](/us/stat/44/727). 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. 387–390), $510,000. the deaf, dumb, and blindDeaf, dumb, and blind. For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admittedMaintenance and instruction. to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided[R. S. § 4864](/us/rs/s4864). for in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (24 U. S. C. 238), and[31 Stat. 844](/us/stat/31/844).[7 D. C. Code § 218](/us/dcc/t7/s218). under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the Commissioners, $35,500. For maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachableColored deaf-mutes.Maintenance and instruction. age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, $8,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation*Proviso*.Supervision of expenditures.Blind children.Maintenance and instruction.*Proviso*.Supervision of expenditures. shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. 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. No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to anySolicitation of subscriptions, etc. 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 authorized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furnitureRequisitions for equipment, approval by Commissioners. and equipment and school supplies 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. 52 Stat. 170 Nature study, etc., teachers. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to instruction in nature study and school gardening, and in health, physical education, and playground activities. Children of Army, Navy officers, etc., admitted to schools free. The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. buildings and groundsBuildings and grounds. Vocational school replacing Lenox building. For completing the construction of a vocational school to replace the present Lenox Vocational School, on land now owned by the District of Columbia at Potomac Avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets Southeast, $200,000; Senior high, Fifth and Sheridan Streets NW. For continuing the construction of a new senior high school on a site already owned by the District of Columbia at Fifth and Sheridan Streets Northwest, $550,000; Junior high, Banneker playground site. For completing the construction of a junior high school building on a portion of the site of the existing Banneker Playground, $524,650; Extensible school building on Pet worth playground site. For the construction of an eight-room extensible school building on a portion of the site of the existing Petworth Playground at Hamilton and Third Streets Northwest, $160,000; Woodrow Wilson Senior High, improvement of grounds. For the improvement of the grounds of the Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, including the erection of structures thereon for the utilization of such grounds for athletic purposes, $64,000; Crosby Noyes, second story addition. For a second story addition to the Crosby Noyes School, $60,000; Alice Deal Junior High, auditorium. For a sloping floor in the auditorium of the Alice Deal Junior High School, $10,000; Aggregate; accounting. In all, $1,568,650, 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 *Proviso*.Use restricted.until expended: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. Sites designated. For the purchase of school building and playground sites as follows: For the purchase of land adjoining the Douglass-Simmons School for physical education purposes; For the purchase of a site for school purposes in the vicinity of Mount Olivet and Bladensburg Roads; In all, $52,500. Junior high, vicinity of Minnesota Avenue, Eighteenth Street, etc., SE.; fund available.[50 Stat. 372](/us/stat/50/372). The appropriation contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938 for the purchase of a site for an elementary school in the vicinity of Third Street and Concord Avenue Northwest, or such part thereof as may be necessary, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purchase of a site for a junior high school in the vicinity of Minnesota Avenue, Eighteenth Street, and Good Hope Road Southeast; Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High and Library.Sum available for site: location.[50 Stat. 372](/us/stat/50/372). The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932 for the erection of a new school building for the Jefferson Junior High School and made available in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938 for the acquisition of a site in the area bounded by Seventh Street on the west and K Street on the south in southwest Washington for a new building for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High School and Library, is hereby continued available for the latter purpose without restriction as to area in southwest Washington within which said building may be located. 52 Stat. 171 No part of the foregoing appropriations for public schools shallUnder-age instruction prohibited; exception. 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, 1938, and children entering during the second half of the school year who will be five years of age by March 15, 1939: *Provided*, That this limitation shall not be considered*Proviso*.Exception; parent in Americanization work. 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. None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid orBuilding contracts, requirements. obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, lighting, plumbing, painting, and treatment of grounds, shall not have been awarded in one or a single contract, separate and apart from any other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest responsible bidder complying with all the legal requirements as to a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful performance of the contract: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be*Proviso*.Right to reject bids. construed as repealing existing law giving the Commissioners the right to reject all bids. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in thisPreparation of plans, etc. Act under appropriations administered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the Commissioners and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shallExit, etc., requirements. be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having in excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. METROPOLITAN POLICEMetropolitan Police. salaries For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the MetropolitanSalaries.*Post*, p. 1119. 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. 174–175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46[43 Stat. 174](/us/stat/43/174); [46 Stat. 839](/us/stat/46/839). Stat. 839–41), $2,894,870. For personal services, $148,980.Personal services. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. For fuel, $7,000.Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and stationRepairs, etc. grounds, $18,000, including not exceeding $10,000 for converting theWomen’s Bureau quarters, alterations. present quarters occupied by the Women’s Bureau for use as a police precinct station. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewardsContingent expenses. for fugitives, purchase of gas equipment and firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, rental and maintenance of teletype system and labor-saving devices, telephone service charges, purchase, maintenance, and servicing of radio broadcasting systems, purchase of equipment, gas, ice, washing, meals 52 Stat. 172for 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 Harbor patrol.detection of crime and other necessary expenses, including expenses of harbor patrol, $76,595, of which amount not exceeding $10,000 shall be immediately available and may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the Commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended. Motor vehicles, etc. For purchase, exchange, and maintenance of passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $70,000. Uniforms. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the Metropolitan Police, including cleaning alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, $50,500. house of detentionHouse of Detention. Maintenance, etc. For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detention of girls and women, and of boys under 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, or committed to the guardianship of the Board of Public Welfare, including transportation, clinic supplies, food, clothing, upkeep and repair of buildings, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses. $13,500; for personal services, $9,240; in all, $22,740. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEFPolicemen and Firemen’s Relief. Payments. To pay the policemen and firemen’s relief and other allowances as authorized by law, $1,015,000. FIRE DEPARTMENTFire Department. salaries Salaries. 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 [43 Stat. 175](/us/stat/43/175); [46 Stat. 839](/us/stat/46/839).Columbia” (43 Stat. 175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 839–841), $2,206,000. Personal services. For personal services, $5,620. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. Repairs, etc., to buildings.Engine House No. 22, addition. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including $16,000 for an addition to No. 22 Engine House, and for repairs, alterations, and new heating plant for said house, $36,000. 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. 52 Stat. 173 For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other motor-drivenRepairs to apparatus, etc. apparatus, fire boat and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools, $40,000: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Construction at repair shop. Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire department repair shop. For hose, $15,000.Hose. For fuel, $23,500.Fuel. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing,Contingent expenses. gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $22,500. For additional fire-fighting apparatus, $64,000.New apparatus. HEALTH DEPARTMENTHealth Department. Salaries: For personal services, including the employment of aSalaries.*Post*, 1121. business manager to supervise the business administration and operation of municipal hospitals and sanatoria and business activities of the Health Department, to be appointed by the Commissioners[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; 631–652; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/631–652).Inspection of public buildings where food is sold, etc.Contract investigational services.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements, and including not exceeding $16,880 for the inspection of all Federal buildings and all public establishments and employees where food is sold or served and not to exceed $6,000 for contract investigational services, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), $229,690. Prevention of contagious diseases: For contingent expenses incidentPrevention of contagious diseases. to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897 (29 Stat. 635–641), and an Act for the prevention of[29 Stat. 635](/us/stat/29/635).Scarlet fever, etc. scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907 (34 Stat. 889–890), and an[34 Stat. 889](/us/stat/34/889).Tuberculosis registration. Act to provide for 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. 126–127), under the[35 Stat. 126](/us/stat/35/126). direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile paralysisInfantile paralysis, etc.Venereal diseases. and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat. 1001–1003),[43 Stat. 1001](/us/stat/43/1001). and for maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries orDisinfecting service. 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, $43,830: *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. Maintenance of Dispensaries: For the maintenance of a dispensaryMaintenance of dispensaries. or dispensaries for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal services, rent, supplies, and con52 Stat. 174 *Provisos*.Volunteer services.tingent expenses, $53,220: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein Compensation restriction.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. Nursing service. Nursing service: For maintaining a nursing service, including personal services, uniforms, supplies, and contingent expenses, *Provisos*.Volunteer services.$151,540: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the maintenance of the nursing service herein authorized: *Provided further*, Compensation restriction.That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. Abatement of nuisances.Drainage of lots. Abatement of nuisances: For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, [29 Stat. 125](/us/stat/29/125).[34 Stat. 114](/us/stat/34/114).approved May 19, 1896 (29 Stat. 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. School hygiene and sanitation, salaries.School hygiene and sanitation, salaries: For personal services in the conduct of hygiene and sanitation work in schools in the District Free dental clinics.of Columbia, including the necessary expenses of maintaining free dental clinics, and the establishment of one clinic, $111,060. Laboratories, maintenance. For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books and periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $6,000. Food, drugs, candy, etc., adulteration Acts, enforcement.*Post*, p. 1121. Contingent expenses, foods and drugs: For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia approved February 17, [30 Stat. 246, 398](/us/stat/30/246/398).1898 (30 Stat. 246–248), an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898 (30 Stat. 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 [34 Stat. 768](/us/stat/34/768).[21 U. S. C. §§ 1–26](/us/usc/t21/s1–26).Milk regulation.[43 Stat. 1004](/us/stat/43/1004).purposes, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 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. 1004–1008), including traveling and other necessary expenses of dairy-farm inspectors, and car tokens and passes for nurses, sanitary inspectors and food inspectors; and including not to exceed $200 for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, *Proviso*.Vehicle allowance, inspectors.including 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. Maternal and child health service. Maternal and child health service: For maintaining a maternal and child health service, including the establishment and maintenance of maternal and child health stations for clinical examinations, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, periodicals, and supplies, *Provisos*.Volunteer services.$25,900: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service herein authorized: Compensation restriction. *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. For the following hospital and sanatoria: Tuberculosis Sanatoria. Tuberculosis Sanatoria: For personal services, including not to exceed $3,000 for compensation of consulting physicians at rates to 52 Stat. 175be fixed by the Commissioners, $350,000, and nurses for said sanatoria may be appointed without reference to civil service requirements. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs toProvisions, etc. same, gas, water, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, medical books, schoolbooks, classroom supplies, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $500, maintenance of motortrucks, and other necessary items, $223,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, includingRepairs and improvements. roads and sidewalks, $4,000. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For personal services, includingGallinger Municipal Hospital. not to exceed six full-time chief resident physicians at $5,600 per annum each, to be appointed without reference to civil service requirements, and including not to exceed $2,000 for temporary labor, $523,760, of which $26,760 shall be available for out-patient relief of the poor including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and pay of physicians. For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quarantineMaintenance, etc. station, smallpox hospital, and public crematorium, including expenses incident to furnishing proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium and remain unclaimed after twelve months from the date of such cremation; for maintenance and purchase of horses and horse-drawn vehicles; for medical books, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $500; for maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses, $270,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $6,000.Repairs, etc. Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense ofIncidental expenses. commencement exercises, entertainments, and inspection by New York State Board of Regents, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $600. Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patientsMedical charities.Care, etc., of indigent patients at designated hospitals. under contracts to be made by the Health Officer of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with the. following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital, $66,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $60,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $45,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $15,000. Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs,Columbia Hospital, repairs. including labor and material, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $5,000. Health Center: For the construction of a building for a HealthHealth Center, construction, etc. Center in southwest Washington, including necessary fixed equipment therefor, on land owned by the District of Columbia, $200,000. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $165,000 for the construction of a health center on the site of the Jones elementary school at First and L Streets Northwest, made in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, is hereby[50 Stat. 377](/us/stat/50/377). repealed. COURTSCourts. juvenile courtJuvenile Court. Salaries: For personal services, $64,270.Salaries.*Post*, p. 1121.Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $2,000. For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, books of reference,Contingent expenses. periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, preservation of records, 52 Stat. 176mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, repairs to courthouse and grounds, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,400. Advances for returning absconding probationers. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. police courtPolice Court. Salaries. Salaries: For personal services, $98,400. Contingent expenses. For law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, rebinding of books, 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, $3,250. Witness fees and jurors’ compensation. For witness fees and compensation of jurors, $31,500. municipal courtMunicipal Court. Salaries.*Post*, p. 1122. Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of five judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $76,420. Jurors.*Proviso*.Deposits for jury trials earned unless new date set, etc.[41 Stat. 1312](/us/stat/41/1312). For compensation of jurors, $8,700: *Provided*, That deposits made 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. 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. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, lodging and meals for jurors, and for deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court; fixtures, repairs to furniture, building and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $1,550. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. Probation system, District Court of the U. S. for the District. Probation system, District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia: For personal services, $13,280; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $13,780. 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, $61,000. Lunacy write.Expenses of execution, etc.*Post*, p. 1119. 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 52 Stat. 177Saint 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. PUBLIC WELFAREPublic Welfare. board of public welfareBoard of Public Welfare. For personal services, including not to exceed $7,250 for contractSalaries; contract investigational services.[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). investigational services, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), $104,990. division of child welfareDivision of Child Welfare. 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 guardianshipHome care of dependent children.Temporary care pending investigation, etc. 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, $267,500. For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of PublicReceiving home for children under seventeen.Maintenance.*Post*, p. 1123. 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 $9,560 for personal services, $19,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Appropriation not available after December 31, 1938. no part of this appropriation shall be available for the operation of this institution after December 31, 1938. 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 bePlacing and visiting children. used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the Board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. jailJail. Salaries: For personal services, $89,760.Salaries. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of ColumbiaMaintenance, etc., of prisoners. at the jail, including subsistence of internes; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their52 Stat. 178capture; 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, $83,000. Construction of addition to jail. Addition to jail: For beginning construction of an addition to, and for the necessary remodeling of, the jail, to provide for administrative offices, a hospital, execution facilities, and a walled exercise yard, $125,000, of which sum $5,200 shall be immediately available for the preparation of plans and specifications; and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such construction at a total cost not to exceed $250,000. general administration, workhouse and reformatory, district of columbiaWorkhouse and Reformatory. Personal services. For personal services, $473,660. Maintenance, etc. For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, including subsistence of internes, 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 of a moving-picture machine at not to exceed $1,500; purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of non-passenger-carrying vehicles and motorbus; fuel for heating, lighting, and power, and all other necessary items, including uniforms and caps for guards, $464,000. Repairs to buildings. etc. For repairs to buildings and grounds, and maintenance of utilities, marine and railroad transportation facilities, and mechanical equipment not used in industrial enterprises, $27,000. Working capital fund for industrial enterprises.*Proviso*.Purchase of services and products. To provide a working capital fund for such industrial enterprises as may be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $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; Deposit of receipts 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 1939 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 continuing construction of permanent buildings for women, including sewers, water mains, and other necessary utilities, $11,000. Construction of buildings and enclosing walls, etc. For continuing construction of buildings and enclosing walls, including purchase of equipment and furniture, to provide for the custody of such prisoners as should be confined within a walled enclosure, $45,000. Central warehouse and service building. For construction of a central warehouse and service building, including necessary equipment and utilities, $105,000. Acquisition of additional land.*Proviso*.Title to property. For the acquisition by the Commissioners of additional land for the workhouse and reformatory, $5,000: *Provided*, That the title to said property shall be taken directly to and in the name of the United States, and in case a satisfactory price cannot be agreed upon for the purchase of said land the Attorney General of the United States, at 52 Stat. 179the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, shall institute condemnation proceedings to acquire such land as may be selected in the State of Virginia in accordance with the laws of said State, and expenses of procuring evidences of title or of condemnation, or both, shall be paid out of the appropriation made for the purchase of said land. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances for returning escaped prisoners. 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 $300 at one time, to be used only for expenses in returning escaped prisoners, conditional releasees, and parolees, payable from the maintenance appropriations for the workhouse and reformatory, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. national training school for boysNational Training School for Boys. For care and maintenance of boys committed to the NationalCare, etc., of boys committed 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, $80,000. district training schoolDistrict Training School. For personal services, including not to exceed $2,500 for temporaryPersonal services. labor, $108,760. For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the maintenanceMaintenance, etc. of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, farm machinery and implements, and not to exceed $800 for the purchase of books, books of reference, and periodicals, $100,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $6,500.Repairs, etc. The appropriation of $4,500, contained in the Third DeficiencyRepairs to bridge across Little Patuxent River.[50 Stat. 760](/us/stat/50/760). Act, fiscal year 1937, for repairing a bridge across the Little Patuxent River on the grounds of the District Training School near Laurel, Maryland, is hereby reappropriated and continued available, during the fiscal year 1939, for the same purposes and may be expended by the employment of day labor or otherwise. For extension of steam tunnels and installation of steam linesSteam tunnels, etc. in tunnels and buildings, $11,200. For the purchase, including exchange of one stake-body truck,Truck. $750. industrial home school for colored childrenIndustrial Home School for Colored Children.Salaries. Salaries: For personal services, $39,080; temporary labor, $500; in all, $39,580. For maintenance, including purchase and maintenance of farmMaintenance, etc. implements, horses, wagons, and harness, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, not to exceed $2,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, and not to exceed $675 for a portable motion-picture projector, $28,675. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $7,500.Repairs, etc. industrial home schoolIndustrial Home School. Salaries: For personal services, $24,780; temporary labor, $1,000;Salaries. in all, $25,780. For maintenance, including purchase of equipment, maintenanceMaintenance. of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $23,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500.Repairs. 52 Stat. 180 home for aged and infirmHome for Aged and Infirm. Salaries. Salaries: For personal services, $65,840; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $67,840. Contingent expenses. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, purchase and exchange of one farm tractor at not to exceed $1,300, and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $74,300. Repairs, etc.; day labor. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $12,000. municipal lodging houseMunicipal Lodging House. For personal services, $3,600; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $7,600. public assistancePublic assistance. Relief of the unemployed, etc. For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the District 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 From District revenues.provisions of any other law, payable from the revenues of the District of Columbia, $900,000, and not to exceed 8½ per centum of this appropriation and of Federal grants reimbursed under this appropriation shall be expended for personal services, and not to exceed $20,000 may be expended for the distribution of surplus commodities, *Provisos*.Supervision of accounts.including $4,020 for personal services: *Provided*, That all auditing, disbursing, and accounting for funds administered through the Public Assistance Division of the Board of Public Welfare, including all employees engaged in such work and records relating thereto, shall be under the supervision and control of the Auditor of the District Antideficiency provision.of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in such a manner as to require a deficiency to supplement Payment restriction.such appropriation: *Provided further*, That not more than $60 per month shall be paid therefrom to any one family. Home care for dependent children. Home Care for Dependent Children: To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provide home care for dependent [44 Stat. 758](/us/stat/44/758).children in the District of Columbia”, approved June 22, 1926 (44 Stat. 758–760), including not to exceed $13,060 for personal services *Proviso*.Apportionment restrictions.in the District of Columbia, $163,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be so apportioned and distributed by the Commissioners over the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and shall be so administered during such fiscal year, as to constitute the total amount that will be utilized during such fiscal year for such purposes, and no more than $75 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. Old-age assistance. Assistance against old-age want: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia in relation to providing assistance against old-age [49 Stat. 747](/us/stat/49/747).want”, approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 747), including not to exceed $32,265 for personal services and other necessary expenses, $597,000. Pensions for needy blind persons. Pensions for needy blind persons: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide aid for needy blind persons of the District of Columbia and authorizing appropriations therefor”, [49 Stat. 744](/us/stat/49/744).approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 744), $36,250. 52 Stat. 181 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, 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 lie admitted to the home, all under the supervision of a board of management. florence crittenton home For care and maintenance of women and children under contractsFlorence Crittenton Home. to be made by the Board of Public Welfare, with the Florence Crittenton Home and other like institutions, $8,000. southern relief society For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans,Southern Relief Society. their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind,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 To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, locatedColumbia Polytechnic Institute. at 1808 H Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000. saint elizabeths hospitalSaint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in SaintSupport of District indigent insane. Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $2,426,000. nonresident insaneNonresident insane. For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance withDeportation expenses.*Post*, p. 1123. tile 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[30 Stat. 811](/us/stat/30/811). psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $12,000. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of theAdvances authorized. 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 Commissioners may require of said Director, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. burial of ex-service menEx-service men. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, orBurial of indigent. 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, $270. 52 Stat. 182 transportation of indigent persons Transportation of indigent persons. For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $3,500. vocational rehabilitation Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents. Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents, District of Columbia: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved February [45 Stat. 1260](/us/stat/45/1260).23, 1929 (45 Stat. 1260), $25,000. MILITIAMilitia. Expenses authorized, under commanding general. For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Personal services.Expenses of camps, etc. For personal services, $21,500; temporary labor, $5,800; for expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments; damages to private property incident to encampment; reimbursement to the United States for loss of property for which the District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and maintenance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at armory or field encampments, not to exceed $500; practice marches, drills, and parades; rent of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses; machinery and dock, including dredging alongside of dock; construction of buildings for storage and other purposes at target range; telephone service; printing, stationery, and postage; horses and mules for mounted organizations; maintenance and operation of passenger and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; streetcar 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 LIVED AND FLATS Anacostia Park.Continuing development. For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, in accordance with the revised plan as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, including $15,000 for the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of land and appurtenances thereto which shall be in addition to any appropriations heretofore made for the acquisition of land for this purpose, $65,000. improvement of washington channel Improvement of Washington Channel. Toward the payment by the District of Columbia of its proportionate part of the cost of improving the north side of Washington Channel, District of Columbia, as set forth in the Act of Congress approved August 30, 1935, entitled “An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers [49 Stat. 1031](/us/stat/49/1031).and harbors, and for other purposes”, $64,000, which sum shall be transferred to the War Department and be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, and shall continue available until expended. 52 Stat. 183 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 theGeneral expenses. maintenance, care, improvement, furnishing of heat, light, and power of public parks, grounds, fountains and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, including the tourists’ camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of seasonal or intermittent employees at per diem rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; 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; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by said Secretary; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; contingent expenses; city directories; communication service; carfare; traveling expenses; professional, scientific, technical, and law books; periodicals and reference books, blank books and forms; photographs; dictionaries and maps; leather and rubber articles for the protection of employees and property; the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of not to exceed two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motorcycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $388,500: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein*Proviso*.Minor auxiliary structures. appropriated may be expended for the erection of minor auxiliary structures. park policePark police. Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park policeSalaries.[43 Stat. 175](/us/stat/43/175); [44 Stat. 834](/us/stat/44/834); [46 Stat. 839](/us/stat/46/839). force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $175,470. For uniforming and equipping the United States park policeUniforms, equipment, etc. force, including the purchase, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equipment and including not to exceed $400 for the installation and rental of teletype service, $9,400. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSIONNational Capital Park and Planning Commission. For reimbursement to the United States in compliance with sectionReimbursement to United States for lands acquired.[46 Stat. 485](/us/stat/46/485). 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as amended, $300,000. For each and every purpose, except the acquisition of land, requisiteIncidental expenses. 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 (40 U. S. C. 71), as[43 Stat. 463](/us/stat/43/463).[40 U. S. C. § 71](/us/usc/t40/s71). 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, 52 Stat. 184 *Proviso*.Report to Congress.technical, and reference books, and periodicals, $40,150: *Provided*, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. 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 incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $2,000 for travel and field expenses in the United States and foreign countries for the procurement of live specimens and for the care, subsistence, and transportation of specimens obtained in the course of such travel; maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; for the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of bicycles and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, revolvers, and Uniforms.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, $227,000, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. HIGHWAY FUND, GASOLINE TAX AND MOTOR VEHICLE FEESHighway fund, gasoline tax and motor vehicle fees. Sums appropriated wholly out of special fund. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the special fund created by 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, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and [43 Stat. 106](/us/stat/43/106); [50 Stat. 676](/us/stat/50/676).for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, for expenses of the following departments and activities: department of vehicles and trafficDepartment of Vehicles and Traffic. Personal services. For personal services, including $11,000 for temporary clerk hire, $92,320. 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, purchase (including exchange) of a one-ton truck at not to exceed $870, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the Commissioners, including not to exceed $30,000 for the operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $101,210, of which not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic-light signals and $1,000 shall be *Proviso*.Streetcar loading platforms, etc., restriction.available for directional signs: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. Identification plates. For the purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates, $20,000. police traffic controlPolice traffic control. Expenses. For expenses necessarily involved in the police control, regulation, and administration of traffic upon the highways, $510,860, which amount shall be transferred to the appropriation contained in this Act for pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force. 52 Stat. 185 highway departmentHighway Department. For personal services, $251,000. street improvementsStreet improvement. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets,Paving, etc., streets and roads. avenues, and roads, including temporary per diem services, surveying instruments and implements, and drawing materials, and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, and including assessment and permit work and the several purposes provided for thereunder, as follows:Improvements designated. For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and gutters where necessary, the following: Southeast, Thirty-first Place, V Place to Alabama Avenue, $18,000; Southeast, Thirty-second Street, V Place to Alabama Avenue, $18,000; Southeast, Thirty-second Street, Alabama Avenue to Denver Street, $19,500; Northeast, Neal Street, Bladensburg Road to Maryland Avenue, $10,200; Northeast, Lang Place, Bladensburg Road to Seventeenth Street, $5,200; Northeast, Lyman Place, Bladensburg Road to Seventeenth Street, $3,600; Northeast, Oates Street, Bladensburg Road to Trinidad Avenue, $19,500; Northeast, Queen Street, Holbrook Terrace to Montello Avenue, $9,000; Northeast, Trinidad Avenue, Childress Street to Raum Street, $11,400; Northeast, Newton Street, Twenty-sixth Street to Twenty-eighth Street, $9,000; Northeast, Randolph Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-fourth Street, $16,500; Northeast, Shepherd Street, Eighteenth Street to Twentieth Street, $16,500; Northwest, Hobart Place, Fifth Street to Georgia Avenue, $12,300; Northwest, Farragut Street, Third Street to Fourth Street. $6,800; Northwest, First Street, Farragut to Gallatin, and Gallatin Street, First Street to New Hampshire Avenue, $15,000; Northwest, Aspen Street, Blair Road to Laurel Street, $7,500; Northwest, Eighth Street, concrete north of Butternut Street to Dahlia Street, $6,800; Northwest, Quintana Place, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, $8,400; Northwest, Whittier Street, Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $12,000; Northwest, Upshur Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $9,000; Northwest, Runnymede Place, Broad Branch Road to approximately two hundred and fifty feet eastward, $4,200; Northwest, Garrison Street, Forty-fifth Street to River Road, $10,500; Northwest, Calvert Street, Thirty-ninth Street to Forty-first Street, $15,000; Northwest, Tunlaw Road, Thirty-seventh Street to W Place, and W Place, Tunlaw Road to Hall Place, $9,000; Northwest, Blair Road, Peabody Street to Aspen Street, $60,000; Northwest, Kennedy Street, Kansas Avenue to Fourteenth Street, $94,000; 52 Stat. 186 Southeast, Branch. Avenue, Denver Street to District of Columbia line, $30,000; Southeast, Nichols Avenue, Upsal to South Capitol Street and South Capitol Street, Nichols Avenue to Atlantic Street, $86,000; Northwest, Forty-sixth Street, Massachusetts Avenue to River Road, $81,000; Northwest, Loughboro Road, Indian Lane to Glenbrook Road, $60,000; Northeast, C Street, Sixteenth Street to Nineteenth Street, Double Roadway, $40,000; Northeast, North Carolina Avenue, Fifteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $10,000; Widening, etc., designated roadways. For widening, altering, paving, and repaving roadways, in accordance with the plans and profiles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including the necessary replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains, and fire-alarm and police-patrol boxes, as follows: Northwest, K Street, Twelfth Street to Connecticut Avenue, $121,100; Northwest, Eleventh Street, Massachusetts Avenue to Rhode Island Avenue, $115,200; Northwest, Twelfth Street, New York Avenue to Massachusetts Avenue, $46,900; Northwest, New York Avenue, Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street (north side), $15,000; Twelfth Street west, Constitution Avenue north to Independence Avenue south, $84,500: *Proviso*.Assessment against abutting property owners. *Provided*, That in widening, altering, paving, and repaving these roadways 40 per centum of the entire cost thereof shall be assessed against and collected from the owners of the abutting property in [46 Stat. 1197](/us/stat/46/1197).the manner provided in the Act approved February 20, 1931 (46 Stat. 1197–1199). The owners of abutting property also shall be required to modify, at their own expense, the. roots of any vaults that may be under the sidewalks or parking on said street if it be found necessary to change such vaults to permit of the roadway being widened; Grading; culverts, etc. For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, $50,000; Paving center strips. For paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $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, $450,000; Bridges, construction, repair, etc. For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, $50,000; Street, etc., repairs. For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, including the reconditioning of existing gravel streets and roads; for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross walks, and gutters in the discretion of the Commissioners; and including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of non-passenger-carrying *Provisos*.Snow removal.motor vehicles used in this work, $850,000: *Provided*, That appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, city refuse, and 52 Stat. 187the water department shall be available for snow removal when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia,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. repair of pavements of street railways in accordance with the provisions of the Merger Act, approved January 14, 1933 (47 Stat. 752).[47 Stat. 752](/us/stat/47/752). The proportion of the amount thus expended which under the termsProportion of expenses chargeable to railway company. of the said Act is required to be paid by the street-railway company shall be collected, upon the neglect or the refusal of such street-railway company to pay, from the said street-railway company in the manner provided by section 5 of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia”, approved[20 Stat. 105](/us/stat/20/105). June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which it is collected; For the construction of a grade-separation structure at K StreetGrade-separation structure, construction. Northwest and Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, in accordance with plans and profile to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including the replacement of the bridge in the line of K Street over Rock Creek, the necessary construction, reconstruction, and changes of roadways, walkways, sidewalks, and curbing in the vicinity of the structures, relocation and reconstruction of any necessary parkway roads, walkways, and so forth, construction of and changes in water and sewer mains, fire-alarm and police-patrol boxes, street and traffic lights, travel expenses in connection with the inspection of material at the point of manufacture, employment of engineering or other professional services,Engineering, etc., services.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5).[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674). by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and engineering and incidental expenses, $320,000; For the construction of an underpass at Thomas Circle in theUnderpass at Thomas Circle. line of Massachusetts Avenue in accordance with plan and profile to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including necessary changes, construction, and reconstruction of roadways, sidewalks, and curbing, construction of and changes in sewer and water mains, street and traffic lights, fire-alarm and police-patrol boxes in the vicinity of the circle, construction of and such changes in walkways, landscaping, and so forth, of the Thomas Circle Park Reservation as may be approved by said Commissioners, travel expenses in connection with the inspection of material at the point of manufacture, employment of engineering and other professional services by contract or otherwise and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) or[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5).[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–671; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–671). the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and engineering and incidental expenses, $530,000; For the construction of a bridge to replace the bridge in line ofPennsylvania Avenue bridge, replacing present structure. Pennsylvania Avenue over the Anacostia River in accordance with plans and profiles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including construction of and changes in sewer and water mains, traveling expenses in connection with the inspection of material at the point of manufacture, employment of engineering and other professional services, by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) or[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5).[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp, III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674). the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and engineering and incidental expenses, $620,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to 52 Stat. 188enter into contract or contracts for the completion of said bridge *Proviso*.Designated expenses to be borne by Pennsylvania Railroad Company.at a cost not to exceed $2,000,000: *Provided*, That the expense of necessary personnel to handle railroad traffic during construction and the changes in power and conductor lines incident to construction of the bridge shall be borne by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Additional culvert under Massachusetts Avenue Northwest. For the construction of an additional culvert under Massachusetts Avenue Northwest in the line of Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway in accordance with plans and profiles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including necessary changes, construction and reconstruction of roadways, sidewalks, and curbing, and construction of and changes in sewer and water mains, fire alarm and police patrol boxes, and construction, reconstruction and relocation of parkway roads, walkways, and so forth as may be approved by said Commissioners, travel expenses in connection with the inspection of material at the point of manufacture, employment of engineering and other professional services by contract or otherwise and without [R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5).[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp, III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674).Contracts.reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U, S. C. 5) or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, civil service requirements, and engineering and incidental expenses, $125,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the completion of said culvert at a cost not to exceed $300,000. Opening streets, etc., permanent highway system. To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, including the procurement of chains of title, *Proviso*.Alley improvement, building lines, etc.$150,000, to remain available until June 30, 1940: *Provided*, That this 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; Assessment and permit work. For assessment and permit work, paving of roadways under the permit system, and construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, including purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and of areas less than two hundred and fifty square feet at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the Commissioners, and including maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $150,000; Disbursements, etc. In all, $4,621,600, to be immediately available, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Street improvements”, and for that purpose shall *Proviso*.Assessments under existing law.constitute one fund: *Provided*, That assessments in accordance with existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways, alleys, and sidewalks where such roadways, alleys, and sidewalks are paved Grade-crossing elimination projects.or repaved with funds herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That any portion of this appropriation may be used for payment to contractors and for other expenses in connection with the expense of design, construction, and inspection of grade-crossing elimination projects authorized under section 8 of the Act approved June 16, [49 Stat. 1521](/us/stat/49/1521).1936 (49 Stat. 1521), pending reimbursement to the District of Columbia by the Department of Agriculture, reimbursement to be credited to fund from which payment was made. Minor changes in sidewalks and roadways. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia arc 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. 52 Stat. 189 No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be availableOpen competition for street improvement contracts. for repairing, resurfacing, or 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. In addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractorsRepairs for inferior work by contractors required for additional period. 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. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be usedUse of funds for testing laboratory, etc., forbidden. 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. For personal services, trees, and parkings, $26,600.Trees and parkings. For contingent expenses, trees and parkings, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motortrucks, 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. 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 for water department, namely: washington aqueductWashington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenanceMaintenance, etc., of, and accessories. and repair of Washington aqueducts and their accessories, including Dalecarlia, Georgetown, McMillan Park, first and second High Service Reservoirs, Washington aqueduct tunnel the filtration plants, the pumping plants, and the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, purchase, installation, andMeters on Federal services. 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, $467,350. For replacements of inadequate, worn-out, and obsolete chemicalReplacements, etc. equipment, pump and screen housings of the Washington aqueduct, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $140,000. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendenceSuperintendence 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 and inspection and distribution branches. services, $185,170. For the maintenance of the water-department distribution system,Operating expenses. including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, and all buildings and accessories, and motor52 Stat. 190trucks, and motor vehicles such as are now owned, and the replacement by purchase and exchange of the following motor-propelled vehicles: Twelve one and one-half ton trucks at not to exceed $750 each; 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, $367,700, 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. 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, $220,000. Hydrants. For installing fire 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. Reservoir, Soldiers’ Home grounds, construction. For the construction of a reservoir of approximately fifteen million gallons capacity on the grounds of the United States Soldiers’ Home, District of Columbia, including necessary appurtenances and auxiliaries, and including not to exceed $12,000 for the employment, [R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5).[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674).by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, of engineering and other professional services, $400,000, to continue available until June 30, 1940. Investment of water funds. The Treasurer of the United States is authorized to invest in United States securities for the account of the water fund of the District of Columbia such funds as may be determined by the Commissioners to be available for that purpose during the fiscal year 1939, and such funds are appropriated for this purpose from the revenues of the Water Department. Refund 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 taxes, *Proviso*.Availability.$3,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past two years. Sec. 2. Construction work, etc., under Commissioners. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, water, street, street-cleaning, or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners in their Budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provisos*.Limitation.Maximum period of employment. *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $42,000 during the fiscal year 1939: *Provided further*, That, excluding inspectors in the sewer department and one inspector in the electrical 52 Stat. 191department, 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. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for payment by theD. C. Unemployment Compensation Act, contribution.[49 Stat. 946](/us/stat/49/946). District of Columbia of its contributions as an employer, in accordance with the provisions of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act (49 Stat. 946). The Commissioners, or their duly designated representative, areTemporary labor, etc. further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, water, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings, and bridges, furniture and equipments, and any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary forHorses, vehicles, etc. use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained, and motortrucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners in the Budget estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn*Proviso*.Temporary work, etc. vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. That the Commissioners are authorized to employ in theMiscellaneous trust-fund deposits.Expenses payable from.[33 Stat. 368](/us/stat/33/368). 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 motortrucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the Commissioners, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles for inspection and transportation purposes, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may*Proviso*.Employment of labor. delegate to their duly authorized representatives the employment under this section of laborers, mechanics, and artisans. 52 Stat. 192 Sec. 5. Material, supplies, vehicles, etc.Purchase of. That the Commissioners and other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible, shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, in accordance with the regulations and schedules of the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department or from various services of the Government of the United States possessing materials, supplies, passenger-carrying and Surplus articles; price basis.other motor vehicles, and equipment no longer required. Surplus articles purchased from the Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government of the United States are authorized to sell such surplus articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous *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. Rental limitation. 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. 7. Pay increase by reallocation of position. Appropriations contained in this Act shall be used to pay increases in the salaries of officers and employees by reason of the reallocation of the position of any officer or employee by the Civil *Provisos*.Amount available.Approval.Service Commission: *Provided*, That the total reallocation increases under such appropriations shall not exceed $35,000: *Provided further*, That such reallocation increases shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Sec. 8. Minor purchases.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/s3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase made or service rendered under the appropriations contained in this Act when the aggregate amount does not exceed the sum of $50. Sec. 9. Congressional tags. No part of this appropriation shall be available for any expense for or incident to the issuance of congressional tags except [47 Stat. 750](/us/stat/47/750).to those persons set out in the Act of December 19, 1932 (47 Stat. 750), including the Speaker and the Vice President. Sec. 10. Credit allowed for designated disburse merits. Credit is allowed in the accounts of the District of Columbia for disbursements made from the appropriation “Division of Child Welfare, District of Columbia, 1933”, covered by audit Numbers XXXX, XXXX, XXXX; and General Accounting Office Certificate Numbered G–73092–DC, dated October 11, 1937. Sec. 11. Mechanical parking meters.Experimental installation authorized. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to secure and to install experimentally, at no expense to the said District, mechanical parking meters or devices on the streets, avenues, roads, highways, and other public spaces in the District of Columbia under the jurisdiction and control of said Commissioners, such installations to be limited to a linear footage not to exceed the total of the perimeters of four 52 Stat. 193normally sized squares in such District; and said Commissioners areRules, fees, etc., to be prescribed. authorized and empowered to make and enforce rules and regulations for the control of the parking of vehicles on such streets, avenues, roads, highways, and other public spaces, and as an aid to such regulation and control of the parking of vehicles the Commissioners may prescribe fees for the privilege of parking vehicles where said meters or devices are installed. The Commissioners are further authorized and empowered to payPurchase and installation. the purchase price and cost of installation of the said meters or devices from the fees collected, which are hereby appropriated for such purpose, for the fiscal years 1938 and 1939, and thereafter such meters or devices shall become the property of said District, and allDeposit of collections. fees collected shall be paid to the collector of taxes for deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the revenues of said District. Approved, April 4, 1938. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant concessions on reservoir sites and other lands in connection with Federal Indian irrigation projects wholly or partly Indian, and to lease the lands in such reserves for agricultural, grazing, and other purposes. 1938-04-04 63 Chapter 52 Stat. 193 75 3 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-15 public [CHAPTER 63] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant concessions on reservoir sites and other lands in connection with Federal Indian irrigation projects wholly or partly Indian, and to lease the lands in such reserves for agricultural, grazing, and other purposes. April 4, 1938[[S. 1945](/us/bill/75/s/1945)][[Public, No. 459](/us/pl/75/459)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary Indian irrigation projects.Concessions on reservoir sites and other lands, authorized.of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to grant concessions on reservoir sites, reserves for canals or flowage areas, and other lands under his jurisdiction which have been withdrawn or otherwise acquired in connection with the San Carlos, Fort Hall, Flathead, and Duck Valley or Western Shoshone irrigation projects for the benefit in whole or in part of Indians, and to leaseLeases for agricultural, grazing, etc., purposes.*Provisos*.Ineligibility for benefit payments. such lands for agricultural, grazing, or other purposes: *Provided*, That no lands so leased shall be eligible for benefit payments under the crop control program, or the soil conservation act: *Provided further*, That such concessions may be granted or lands leased by theConditions prescribed. Secretary of the Interior under such rules, regulations, and laws as govern his administration of the public domain as far as applicable, for such considerations, monetary or otherwise, and for such periods of time as he may deem proper, the term of no concession to exceedTerm limitation. a period of ten years: *Provided further*, That the funds derived fromMaintenance, etc. such concessions or leases, except funds so derived from Indian tribal property withdrawn for irrigation purposes and for which the tribe has not been compensated, shall be available for expenditure in accordance with the existing laws in the operation and maintenance of the irrigation projects with which they are connected. Any fundsUse of funds from reserves for which tribe has not been compensated. derived from reserves for which the tribe has not been compensated shall be deposited to the credit of the proper tribe: *Provided further*, That where tribal lands of any Indian tribe organized under section Tribal lands; lease restrictions.[48 Stat. 987](/us/stat/48/987).[25 U. S. C. § 476](/us/usc/t25/s476).16 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), have been withdrawn or reserved for the purposes hereinbefore, mentioned, such lands may be leased or concessions may be granted thereon only by the proper tribal authorities, upon such conditions and subject to such limitations as may be set forth in the constitution and bylaws or charter of the respective tribes. Approved, April 4, 1938. Authorizing the State of Rhode Island, acting by and through the Jamestown Bridge Commission as an agency of the State, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the west passage of Narragansett Bay between the towns of Jamestown and North Kingstown. 1938-04-04 64 Chapter 52 Stat. 194 75 3 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-15 public 52 Stat. 194 [CHAPTER 64] AN ACT Authorizing the State of Rhode Island, acting by and through the Jamestown Bridge Commission as an agency of the State, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the west passage of Narragansett Bay between the towns of Jamestown and North Kingstown. April 4, 1938[[H. R. 7266](/us/bill/75/hr/7266)][
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