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(/us/pl/76/176)] *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 1940, from District revenues and $6,000,-000 from the Treasury. That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $6,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1939, and all of the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District Effective date. of Columbia, and this Act shall be effective as of July 1, 1939, and any appropriations and authority contained herein shall have the same force and effect between June 30, 1939, and the date of the enactment of this Act as though the same had become law on July 1, Validation of administrative acts. 1939; and the acts of any officer or employee performed, during such period in anticipation of the appropriations or authority contained herein shall not be invalidated, declared ineffective, or questioned solely because of the lack of such appropriations or authority during such period, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES executive office Personal services. Additional, for Engineer Commissioner. For personal services, $48,600, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of Commissioners: *Provisos*. Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions. *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the two civilian Commissioners, the average of [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674;
Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). 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 If only one position in a grade. Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation Advances in meritorious cases. rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher 53 Stat. 1005 rate: *Provided further*, That this restriction shall, not apply
(1)to Restriction not applicable to certain grades of clerical-mechanical service. No reduction in fixed salaries. [42 Stat. 1490](/us/stat/42/1490). [5 U. S. C. § 666](/us/usc/t5/s666). Transfer without reduction. 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 salary under any Higher rates permitted. 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 If only one position in a grade. the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. Purchasing division: For personal services, $56,960. Purchasing division. Department of inspections. Department of inspections: For personal services, $249,960, 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 in accordance with Office of Poundmaster. the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, maintenance and operation of motor vehicles, and other necessary expenses, $10,790. public convenience stations For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation Maintenance. of necessary employees, $14,000. care of the district buildings For personal services, including temporary labor, and service of Personal services. cleaners as necessary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $135,140: *Provided*, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be *Proviso*. Additional assistant engineers or watchmen. available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District buildings. For fuel, light, and power, repairs, laundry, and miscellaneous Fuel, light, etc. supplies, $52,080. assessor’s office For personal services, $254,480. Personal services. Equipment, supplies, etc. For office equipment, supplies, and labor-saving office devices, to be immediately available, $28,640. board of tax appeals For personal services in accordance with title IX of the Act Personal services. [52 Stat. 370](/us/stat/52/370). entitled “An Act to amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, and for other purposes”, approved May 16, 1938, $13,540. collector’s office For personal services, $55,740, of which $2,600 shall be immediately Personal services. available. auditor’s office For personal services, $158,400, of which not exceeding $500 shall Personal services. Disbursing officer permitted other compensation. 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. auditor’s office For personal services, $158,400, of which not exceeding $500 shall Personal services. Disbursing officer permitted other compensation. 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. 53 Stat. 1006 office 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, including one clerk at $1,800 per annum to be appointed without civil-service requirements, $122,440. alcoholic 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, $44,580. coroner’s office Personal services. [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). Morgue, etc., expenses. For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $13,180. For the maintenance of a non-passenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witnesses’ 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 markets Personalservices. For personal services, $58,460. Contingent expenses. Weights, measures, and markets, expenses: For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short Vehicles. weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and not exceeding $750 for the purchase, including exchange, of one motor vehicle equipped for making investigations of sales of gasoline and Gasoline, etc., testing and inspection. oil by short measure? $23,875, of which amount $7,500 shall be available for testing and inspection of gasoline and other petroleum products, and $6,700 shall be available for repairs to and replacement of electrical work at the Municipal Fish Wharf and Market. office of chief clerk, engineer department Personal services. Safety inspector. For personal services, $32,340, including $2,600 for the employment of one safety inspector. municipal architect’s office Personal services. [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). For personal services, $65,080, of which $7,200 shall be available without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements, for the employment of one chief engineering inspector, and one engineering examiner and computer. Apportionment of appropriations. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment of personal services employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an amount not exceeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 2 3/4 per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000, and appropriations specifically made in this Act for the preparation of plans and specifications shall be deducted from *Proviso*. Reimbursements. any allowances authorized under this paragraph: *Provided*, That reimbursements may be made to this fund from appropriations contained in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District Government, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appropriations. 53 Stat. 1007 public utilities commission For two commissioners, and for other personal services, $70,420. Commissioners, etc. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized Incidental, etc., expenses. by law, including the purchase of newspapers, $1,500. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used Issuance, etc., of orders requiring meters on taxicabs. for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission. department of insurance For personal services, $28,900. Personal services. surveyor’s office For personal services, $80,820. Personal services. minimum wage board For personal services, $15,380. Personal services. zoning commission For salaries and expenses necessary for the administration of the Salaries and expenses. Act entitled “An Act providing for the zoning of the District of Columbia and the regulation of the location, height, bulk, and uses of buildings and other structures and of the uses of land in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved June 20, 1938, [52 Stat. 797](/us/stat/52/797). $10,760. Commission on Mental Health, District of Columbia: For compensation Commission on Mental Health. of members of the Commission on Mental Health of the District of Columbia, and other personal services, including payment of witness fees and mileage, $22,320: *Provided*, That the salary of the *Proviso*. Executive secretary, salary. executive secretary shall be at the rate of $3,000 per annum. district of columbia employees’ compensation fund For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Payments 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 [39 Stat. 742](/us/stat/39/742). [5 U. S. C. §§ 751–793](/us/usc/t5/s751–793). 7, 1916, $50,000. Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees in Administrative expenses. the District of Columbia: For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved May 17, 1928 (45 Stat. [45 Stat. 600](/us/stat/45/600). Transfer to Commission. 600), $65,900, for transfer to and expenditure by the Employees’ Compensation Commission under its appropriations “Salaries and expenses”, $65,600, and “Printing and binding”, $300. For financing of the liability of the government of the District of Retirement Act; contribution from District revenues. Columbia, created by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes”, approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (5 U. S. C. [5 U. S. C. ch. 14; Supp. IV, ch. 14](/us/usc/t5/s14). 707a), $842,760, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil service retirement and disability fund”. 53 Stat. 1008 register of wills Personal services. For personal services, $78,020. 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 deeds Personal services. For personal services, $112,920. 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, $14,400. Rent. *Post*, p. 1041. 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 EXPENSES Objects specified. *Post*, p. 1308. For checks, books, law books, books of reference, including $1,500 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 $3,000; including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Removal of unsafe, etc., buildings. Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal Settlement of claims. of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $6 per diem to each member of board of survey, other than the inspector of buildings, while actually employed on surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings; 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 Columbia”, [45 Stat. 1160](/us/stat/45/1160); [46 Stat. 500](/us/stat/46/500). Conference of commissioners on uniform State laws. Investigation of public relief. approved February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); not to exceed $250 to aid in support of the national conference of commissioners on uniform State laws; not exceeding $2,513 as final payment for the investigation of public relief in the District of Columbia, to be immediately available; and other general necessary expenses of District *Proviso*. Printing, etc., list of supplies. offices, $37,943: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded. Postage. *Post*, p. 1308. For postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental of postage-meter equipment, $27,200. Judicial expenses. For judicial expenses, including witness fees, and expert services in District of Columbia cases before the District Court of the United *Provisos*. Stenographic reporting services. States for the District of Columbia, $1,500: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when in their judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to contract for stenographic reporting services without regard to section 53 Stat. 1009 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) under available appropriations R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). No court costs, etc., in District Court for D. C. required. contained in this Act: *Provided further*. That neither the District of Columbia nor any officer thereof acting in his official capacity for the District of Columbia shall be required to pay court costs to the clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for General 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*. Advertising outside D. C. 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, 1939, as required Taxes in arrears. [30 Stat. 250](/us/stat/30/250). [20 D. C. Code, §§ 791–798; Supp. IV, §§ 791–798](/us/dcc/s20/791–798). *Proviso*. Advertising of delinquent tax list in local newspapers. 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, $4,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of advertising the delinquent tax list for more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one morning or one evening newspaper published in the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the provisions of existing law. For printing and binding, $53,300: *Provided*, That no part of the Printing and binding. *Post*, p. 1308. *Proviso*. Approval of requisitions. appropriation 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 District Revision of D. C. organization, technical services, etc. of Columbia, acting jointly or separately as the chairmen of the two committees may decide, to pay for technical counsel and for bill drafting, statistical, and other assistance in connection with legislation for the revision of the organization of the District of Columbia and for extra services performed in the making of sundry investigations and examinations and the drafting of proposals for the revision of the organization of the District of Columbia, to be expended without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and the [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). *Proviso*. Payment in full for services rendered. provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U. S. C. 5), $12,500, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall be for payment in full for all services heretofore or hereafter rendered in connection with the study for the revision of the organization of the District of Columbia. central garage For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying Automobiles, maintenance, etc. automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $62,560; for purchase (including exchange) of passengercarrying automobiles, $10,000; and for purchase (including exchange) of three passenger-carrying automobiles for the executive office, $5,400; and purchase of one passenger-carrying automobile for the auditor’s office, $900; in all, $78,860. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles Private vehicle allowances. in the performance of official duties at a rate of not to exceed $264 per year for each automobile, $10,296: *Provided*, That allowances *Proviso*. Restriction. under this appropriation shall be made only to persons whose duties require full-time field service. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles owned by the District Use of District-owned vehicles restricted. 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 53 Stat. 1010 from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Transportation between domicile and place of employment. 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 *Proviso*. Cost limitation. when the same is approved by the 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, including the value of a vehicle Transfers forbidden. 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. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Streetcar and bus fares. The Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of streetcar and bus *Provisos*. Limitation on expenditures. fares from appropriations contained in this Act: Provided, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $11,100: Provided further, That the provisions of Fire and police departments excepted. this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. employment service Personal services, etc. For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $4,640. emergency fund Emergency expenditures. To be expended in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood, or fire, or storm, and of like character, and for other purposes, in the discretion of the Commissioners, $3,500, of which sum $1,000 shall be immediately available: *Proviso*. Voucher for expenditure. *Provided*, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of this appropriation for such purposes as they may deem necessary. refund of erroneous collections Payments authorized. To enable the Commissioners, in any case where taxes, special assessments, school-tuition charges, payments for lost library books, rents, fines, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the general revenues of the District of Columbia, to refund such erroneous payments, Building permits. [36 Stat. 967](/us/stat/36/967). *Proviso*. Availability. wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911 (36 Stat. 967), $65,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. wharves Reconstruction, maintenance, etc. For reconstruction, where necessary, and for maintenance and repair of wharves under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in the Washington Channel of the Potomac River, $2,000. 53 Stat. 1011 REPAYMENT OF LOAN FROM PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION For reimbursement to the United States, in compliance with section Reimbursement. [48 Stat. 1215](/us/stat/48/1215). *Proviso*. Amount of deposit, 1940. 3 of the Act approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat. 1215), of funds loaned under the authority of said Act, $462,500: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year 1940 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. Payment of interest on loan by Federal Emergency Administration Interest. of Public Works: For payment to the United States, in compliance with section 3 of the Act approved June 25? 1934 (48 Stat. [48 Stat. 1215](/us/stat/48/1215). 1215), of interest on funds loaned under the authority of said Act, $15,277. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY For personal services, and for substitutes and other special and Personal services. temporary services, including extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, at the discretion of the librarian, $412,830. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other Miscellaneous. printed material, including payment in advance for subscription books, and society publications, including not exceeding $300 for music records and sound recordings, $65,000: Provided, That the disbursing *Proviso*. Advances for purchases of books, etc. officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the librarian of the Free Public Library, upon requisition previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not exceeding $25 at the first of each month, to be expended for the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, numbers of periodicals or newspapers, or other printed material, and to be accounted for on itemized Accounting. vouchers. For binding, including necessary personal services, $20,000. Binding. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up Contingent expenses. buildings, care of grounds, maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $44,000. For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy Chase Chevy Chase and Woodridge branches, rent. and Woodridge, $5,760. Not to exceed $350,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation Library building, first unit construction. [52 Stat. 163](/us/stat/52/163). of $500,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939 for beginning the construction in square 533 of the first unit of an extensible building for the government of the District of Columbia is hereby reappropriated and made available for beginning the construction in square 491 of the first unit of an extensible library building, including quarters for the administrative Inclusion of Board of Education offices. Improvement of grounds, equipment. *Proviso*. Plans and specifications; funds available. offices of the Board of Education and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the construction of such first unit at a total cost, including improvement of grounds and all necessary furniture and equipment, not to exceed $1,118,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 of the said sum of $350,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $60,000 contained in such Act for the preparation of plans and specifications for a library building to be constructed on square 491, which is continued available for the same purpose in the fiscal year 1940, shall be immediately Professional, etc., services. [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). Services of Procurement Division in planning. available for the preparation of plans and specifications, and for the employment of professional and other services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, and civil-service requirements, and for other necessary expenses, and the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department 53 Stat. 1012 is authorized and directed to render such services in planning as the Commissioners may deem necessary, subject to reimbursement for such services. SEWERS Personal services. For personal services, including one chief engineering inspector at $2,600 per annum, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, $183,860. Cleaning, repairs, etc. Motortrucks. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins; including the replacement of the following motortrucks: Two at not to exceed $975 each and one at not to exceed $4,000; 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. Sewers and receiving basins. Vehicles. For construction of sewers and receiving basins, including the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the replacement of one motortruck at not to exceed $975 and two hydraulic diggers mounted on tractors at not to exceed $2,500 each; and including not to exceed $16,710 for the construction of a shop building at the sewer division yard, $275,000. Assessment and permit work. For assessment and permit work, sewers, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase or condemnation of rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $225,000. Mosquito control. Vehicles, etc. For the control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes in the 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 *Proviso*. Transfer to Public Health Service. expenses, $12,000: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated there may be transferred, in the interest of coordinating the work of mosquito control in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $4,100 to the Public Health Service of the Treasury Department, the amount so transferred to be available for the objects herein specified. Sewage treatment plant. Sewage treatment plant: For operation and maintenance, including 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, $206,940. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE Personal services. For personal services, $137,820. Sweeping, cleaning, etc. For dust prevention, sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, 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, purchase and exchange of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment, not to exceed $29,400, and necessary incidental expenses, $433,130. Garbage, dead animals, ashes, etc. To enable the Commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing 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; including Vehicles. not to exceed $47,000 for the purchase and exchange of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; and incidental expenses, $896,000: 53 Stat. 1013 *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting *Proviso*. Collection restriction. 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. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT For personal services, $96,640. Personal services. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, Supplies, contingent expenses ,etc. 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, $39,300. For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone services Placing wires underground, police patrol and fire alarm systems. 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, $30,000. Street lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of Street lighting. public lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost of maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operation Airway lights. 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 Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat. [36 Stat. 1008](/us/stat/36/1008); [37 Stat. 181](/us/stat/37/181). 1008–1011, sec. 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat. 181–184, sec. 7), and other laws applicable thereto, $757,500: *Provided*, That *Provisos*. Rates, limitation. 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 consumed: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation Awards to lowest bidder. shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. PUBLIC SCHOOLS For personal services of administrative and supervisory officers in Administrative and supervisory officers. accordance with the Act fixing and regulating the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 367–375), [43 Stat. 367](/us/stat/43/367). including salaries of presidents of teachers colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $689,803. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $189,160. Clerks, etc. For personal services in the department of school attendance and School attendance and work permits department. [43 Stat. 367, 806](/us/stat/43/367/806). [45 Stat. 998](/us/stat/45/998). work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 367–375), the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat. 806–808), and the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 998), $41,167. For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance with Teachers, librarians, etc. [43 Stat. 367](/us/stat/43/367). *Post*, p. 1308. the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 367–375), including for teachers colleges assistant professors in salary class eleven, and prolessors 53 Stat. 1014 Health and physical education teachers, central area. in salary class twelve, and including $12,200 for health and physical education teachers to supervise play in schools of the central area bounded by North Capitol Street on the east, Florida Avenue on the north, the Mall on the south, and Twelfth Street on the west, *Provisos*. Placing unassigned teachers of special, etc., subjects. $7,191,930: *Provided further*, That 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: *And provided further*, Instruction in automobile driving. That the Board of Education is hereby authorized to appoint a teacher, class 2-A, for instruction in automobile driving at the Abbott Vocational School at a beginning salary of $2,000. Vacation schools, instruction, etc. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $30,400. Lectures on effects of alcoholic liquors and narcotics. Qualified Federal personnel is authorized with the approval of the 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 schools Salaries. For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $102,180. Contingent expenses. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,000. americanization work Instruction of foreigners of all ages. For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages in both day and night classes, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day schools, $8,800. Contingent expenses. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $600. Instruction 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). For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1934 (34 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”, $1,600. Vocational education. [49 Stat. 1488](/us/stat/49/1488). [20 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 15h–15p](/us/usc/t20/s15h–15p). For the development of vocational education in the District of 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), $22,099. community center department Salaries and expenses. [43 Stat. 369](/us/stat/43/369). For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and community 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 Playground personnel. [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). other activities; directors, supervisors, and other playground personnel, at rates of pay to be fixed by the Board of Education without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and contingent 53 Stat. 1015 expenses, equipment, supplies,, and lighting fixtures, $255,320: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Operation of activities. That the activities provided for under this appropriation shall be operated under the joint control, supervision, and direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Board of Education. For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open Public-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. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment for Equipment. *Proviso*. Playground schedule. 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 heretofore maintained for playgrounds while under the jurisdiction of the playground department. care of buildings and grounds For personal services, including care of portable buildings at a Personal services. rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each building, $968,725. miscellaneous For the maintenance of schools for tubercular and crippled pupils, Schools for tubercular and crippled pupils. $7,750. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular Transportation. *Proviso*. Streetcar, etc., fares. pupils, sight-conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $23,200: *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. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, Manual, etc., training. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $70,400, to be immediately available. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $312,500: *Provided*, Fuel, light, and power. *Proviso*. Apportionment provisions. That this appropriation shall be so apportioned and distributed over the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, 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. For contingent expenses, including United States flags, furniture Contingent expenses. and repairs of same, stationery, ice, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $8,000 for books of reference and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, and not exceeding $6,800 for labor; in all, $150,000, to be immediately available, of which not to exceed $2,100 may be expended for tabulating school census cards either by contract or by day labor as the Commissioners may determine: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be *Proviso*. Military supplies issued to cadets; bond not required. 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. For the purchase of furniture and equipment to replace worn-out Replacement of worn-out equipment, designated buildings. furniture and equipment at Central High School, $2,076, McKinley High School, $3,824, and Armstrong High School, $3,824; in all, $9,724. For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions Equipment for designated buildings. to buildings, as follows: Eastern High School; Deal Junior High School; Anacostia Junior-Senior High School Stadium; Banneker 53 Stat. 1016 Junior High School; Noyes School, second floor; Rudolph School; *Proviso*. New building replacing Lenox Vocational School; designation. Woodrow Wilson Stadium; $87,000: *Provided*, That the new school building built to replace the Lenox Vocational School shall, when occupied, be known as the John A. Chamberlain Vocational School. 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. Supplies for general science, etc., departments. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, 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, $17,875, to be immediately available. School gardens, utensils, etc. For utensils, materials, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, and for use in teaching elementary science in connection therewith, $2,400. Repairs, etc., to buildings. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, 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 Gage School, heating plant. for replacement of boilers, not to exceed $12,000 for replacement of the heating plant at the Gage School, not to exceed $3,000 for replacement of insanitary drinking fountains, not to exceed $7,000 for replacement of insanitary toilet facilities, $490,525, of which amount *Provisos*. Contracts, etc. $100,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That work performed for repairs and improvements under appropriations contained in this Act shall be by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the Commissioners to be most advantageous to the District of Availability for repairs to other buildings; reimbursement, etc. Columbia: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be available for performing work of repairs and improvements to other municipal buildings, subject to reimbursement covering the cost of such work, and a report of expenditures for such repairs and improvements to other municipal buildings shall be submitted to Congress in the annual Budget. Improvement of municipal playgrounds. For improvement of various municipal playgrounds and recreation centers, including erection of shelter houses, $25,000, of which not exceeding $1,000 shall be immediately available for the preparation of architectural and landscaping plans. Annuities. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia’, approved [41 Stat. 387](/us/stat/41/387); [44 Stat. 727](/us/stat/44/727). January 15, 1920, and for other purposes” (41 Stat. 387–390), $550,000. the deaf, dumb, and blind Maintenance and instruction. For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of R. S. § 4864. [31 Stat. 844](/us/stat/31/844). [7 D. C. Code § 218](/us/dcc/s7/218). Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (24 U. S. C. 238), and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the Commissioners, $35,500. Colored deaf-mutes. Maintenance and instruction. For maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, *Proviso*. Supervision of expenditures. $9,500: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. 53 Stat. 1017 For maintenance and instruction of blind children of the District Blind children. Maintenance and instruction. *Proviso*. Supervision of expenditures. 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 any Solicitation 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 furniture Requisitions 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. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in Nature study, etc., teachers. which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to instruction in nature study and school gardening, and in health, physical education, and playground activities. The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy, Children of Army, Navy, etc., personnel, admission to schools free. and Marine Corps, and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. buildings and grounds For completing the construction of a new senior high school on a Construction, etc. Senior High, Fifth and Sheridan Streets NW. site already owned by the District of Columbia at Fifth and Sheridan Streets Northwest, $525,000, and the limit of cost of said building is increased to $1,425,000; For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Montgomery Montgomery, addition. School, including an assembly hall-gymnasium, and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $229,000; For completing the construction of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High School and Library. Junior High School and Library, $500,000, of which sum $7,200 shall be available for supervision of construction, the employment of personal services thereunder to be without reference to section 3709 of R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c.](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c) the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements; For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Ketcham Ketcham, addition, etc. School, including assembly hall-gymnasium, and the necessary remodeling of the present building, to replace the Van Buren School and the Van Buren Annex, $229,000; For construction of a ten-room addition to the Randall Junior Randall Junior High, addition. High School including necessary remodeling of the present building, $140,000; In all, $1,623,000, to be immediately available and to be disbursed Aggregate; accounting. and accounted for as “Buildings and grounds, public schools”, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and remain available until expended: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be *Proviso*. Use restricted. used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. For the purchase of school building and playground sites as follows: School building and playground sites. For the purchase of additional land at the Montgomery School for the construction of an eight-room addition and assembly hall-gymnasium to replace the Briggs School; 53 Stat. 1018 For the purchase of a site for school purposes in the vicinity of Massachusetts Avenue and Macomb Street; For the purchase of land adjoining the Syphax School for the construction of an eight-room addition and assembly hall-gymnasium; Northeast senior high. For the purchase of a site for a northeast senior high school; In all, $205,000. Instruction of children under 5 years of age. No part of the foregoing appropriations for public schools shall be used for instructing children under five years of age except children entering during the first half of the school year who will be five years of age by November 1, 1939, and children entering during the second half of the school year who will be five years of age by *Proviso*. Exception; parent attending Americanization work. March 15, 1940: *Provided*, That this limitation shall not be considered as preventing the employment of a matron and the care of children under school age at the Webster School whose parent or parents are in attendance in connection with Americanization work. Building contracts, requirements. None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid or obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, lighting, plumbing, painting, and treatment of grounds, shall not have been awarded in one or a single contract, separate and apart from any other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest responsible bidder complying with all the legal requirements as to a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful performance *Proviso*. Right to reject bids. of the contract: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the Commissioners the right to reject all bids. Preparation of plans, etc. The plans and specifications for all building provided for in this Act under appropriations administered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the Commissioners and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. Exit, etc., requirements. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall 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 POLICE salaries Salaries. For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan 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](/us/stat/43/174); [46 Stat. 839](/us/stat/46/839). Property clerk, etc. (43 Stat. 174–175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 839–841), including one captain, who shall be property clerk, and the present acting sergeant in charge of police automobiles, who shall have the rank and pay of a sergeant, $2,943,945. Personal services. For personal services, $146,280. miscellaneous Fuel. For fuel, $6,500. Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to police stations and station grounds, $13,000, of which amount not to exceed $5,000, together with 53 Stat. 1019 the sum of $10,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939 for converting the quarters occupied Women’s Bureau Building, alterations, etc. [52 Stat. 171](/us/stat/52/171). by the Women’s Bureau for use as a police precinct station, shall be available during the fiscal year 1940 for alterations, repairs, improvements, and additions to the Women’s Bureau Building. For the erection of a police precinct station house to be located on New precinct station house. land owned by the District of Columbia, in square south of 482, $68,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for Contingent expenses. fugitives, purchase of gas equipment and firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, rental and maintenance of teletype system and labor-saving devices, telephone service charges, purchase, maintenance, and servicing of radio broadcasting systems, purchase of equipment, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, medals of award, not to exceed $300 for car tickets, furniture and repair thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, police equipments and repairs to same, and mounted equipment, flags and halyards, storage and hauling of stolen or abandoned property, and traveling and other expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, not to exceed $3,000 for expenses of officers and members of the police force in attending, without loss of pay or time, specialized police training classes and pistol matches, including tuition, entrance fees, travel and subsistence, and other necessary expenses, including expenses of harbor patrol, $77,750, of which Harbor patrol. 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. For purchase and exchange, and maintenance of passenger-carrying Vehicles. and other motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $66,700. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment Uniforms. 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, $47,600. house of detention For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detention Maintenance, etc. of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including transportation, clinic supplies, food, clothing, upkeep and repair of buildings, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $8,500; for personal services, $9,360; in all, $17,860. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF To pay the policemen and firemen’s relief and other allowances as Payments. authorized by law, $1,080,000. FIRE DEPARTMENT salaries For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, in Salaries. accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park 53 Stat. 1020 Police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia” [43 Stat. 175](/us/stat/43/175); [48 Stat. 839](/us/stat/48/839). *Provisos*. Restriction on appointments. (43 Stat. 175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 839- 841), $2,186,000: *Provided*, That no appointment shall be made during the fiscal year 1940 in the grade of private until sixteen vacancies exist in such grade, and fifteen of such vacancies shall not be filled Survey of possible consolidation, etc., of stations. during such fiscal year: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to cause a survey to be made for the purpose of determining what consolidations of present fire department stations can be effected and as a result thereof what, if any, economies may be made in the cost of operating the fire department, and what additional amount would be needed for Report to Congress. new construction, a report of such survey to be made and submitted to Congress on the first day of the next regular session of Congress. Personal services. For personal services, $5,740. miscellaneous Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $20,000. Uniforms. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the fire department, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, $21,750. Repairs to apparatus, etc. For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other motor-driven apparatus, fireboat 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, *Proviso*. Construction at repairshop. materials, equipment, and tools, $37,500: *Provided*, That the Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire department repair shop. Hose. For hose, $12,000. Fuel. For fuel, $21,750. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, including $750 for the purchase of an electrocardiograph machine for the police and fire clinic, $23,250. New apparatus, etc. For additional fire-fighting apparatus, including two passenger automobiles, at not to exceed $650 each, and two chiefs’ automobiles, *Proviso*. Exchange of apparatus to be replaced. at not to exceed $1,100 each, $55,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for such purchases except by the exchange of fire-fighting apparatus and motor vehicles to be replaced. HEALTH DEPARTMENT Salaries. R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). Salaries: For personal services, including not to exceed $6,000 for contract investigational services, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), $226,850. Prevention of contagious diseases. Prevention of contagious diseases: For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved [29 Stat. 635](/us/stat/29/635). March 3, 1897 (29 Stat. 635–641), and an Act for the prevention of Scarlet fever, etc. scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District [34 Stat. 889](/us/stat/34/889). of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907 (34 Stat. 889–890), and an 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 [35 Stat. 126](/us/stat/35/126). of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908 (35 Stat. 126–127), under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, 53 Stat. 1021 including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of Infantile paralysis, etc. Venereal diseases. infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat. [43 Stat. 1001](/us/stat/43/1001). Disinfecting service. 1001–1003), and for maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services, when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, and purchase of reference books and medical journals, $47,230: *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 dispensary Maintenance 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 contingent expenses, $53,340: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may *Provisos*. Volunteer services. accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to Compensation restriction. authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. Nursing service: For maintaining a nursing service, including personal Nursing service. services, uniforms, supplies, and contingent expenses, $154,340: *Provided*, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services *Provisos*. Volunteer services. as they deem expedient in connection with the maintenance of the nursing service herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall Compensation restriction. not be construed to authorize the expenditure or payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. Abatement of nuisances: For enforcement of the provisions of an Abatement of nuisances. Drainage of lots. [29 Stat. 125](/us/stat/29/125). [34 Stat. 114](/us/stat/34/114). Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, 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: For personal services in School hygiene and sanitation, salaries. the conduct of hygiene and sanitation work in schools in the District of Columbia, including the necessary expenses of maintaining free Free dental clinics. dental clinics, $114,700. For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books and Laboratories, maintenance. periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $6,000. Contingent expenses, foods and drugs: For contingent expenses Contingent expenses, foods and drugs. incident to the enforcement of an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat. 246–248), an Act to prevent the adulteration of [30 Stat. 246, 398](/us/stat/30/246/398). 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 purposes, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 768–772), and an [34 Stat. 768](/us/stat/34/768). [21 U. S. C. §§ 1–5: 7–15](/us/usc/t21/s1–5/7–15). Milk regulation. [43 Stat. 1004](/us/stat/43/1004). 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 53 Stat. 1022 nurses, sanitary inspectors and food inspectors; and including not to exceed $200 for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs *Proviso*. Vehicle allowance. and foods, including candy and milk, $7,312: *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 mainteance of maternal and child health stations for clinical examinations, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, books, periodicals, and supplies, *Provisos*. Volunteer services. $36,280: *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 $3,000 for chief visiting consultant, and not to exceed $3,000 for compensation of consulting physicians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, $383,868. Provisions, etc. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to 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, $238,000. Repairs and improvements. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $5,500. Gallinger Municipal Hospital. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For personal services, including two associate medical officers at $3,200 per annum each, to be appointed without reference to civil service requirements, and including not to exceed $2,000 for temporary labor, $599,340, of which $26,760 shall be available for out-patient relief of the poor including medical and *Proviso*. Use restricted. surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and pay of physicians: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the care of persons, except in emergency cases, where the person has been a resident of the District of Columbia for less than one year at the time of application for admission. Maintenance, etc. For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quarantine station, smallpox hospital, and public crematorium, including expenses incident to furnishing proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium and remain unclaimed after twelve months from the date of such cremation; for maintenance and purchase of horses and horse-drawn vehicles; for medical books, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $500; for maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses, $291,000. Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $8,500. Incidental expenses. Purchase of books? musical instruments and music? expense of commencement exercises, entertainments, and inspection by New York State Board of Regents, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $600. Medical charities. Care, etc., of indigent patients at designated hospitals. Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients 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. Children’s Hospital, including not to exceed $15,000 for dispensary cases to be paid for at existing rates, $80,000. 53 Stat. 1023 Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $80,000, including Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital. Emergency-George Washington University, 24-hour clinic. $25,000 for the establishment of a twenty-four hour clinic at the Emergency-George Washington University clinic, of which not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for payment to said clinic for employment of personal services, and $5,000 for dispensary cases, redressings, radiographs, and other services, to be paid at existing rates. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $75,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital. Providence Hospital: For repairs, alterations, and improvements Providence Hospital. Out-patient clinic. to the building erected at the cost of the District of Columbia, to make such building available for an out-patient clinic for indigent persons, such work to be performed under contract or contracts entered into by the Commissioners of said District, $50,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $15,000. Washington Home for Incurables. Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs, Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum. including labor and material, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, including $30,000 for reimbursement to such hospital for the replacement of boilers, $35,000. COURTS juvenile court Salaries: For personal services, $98,190. Salaries. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $1,500. Miscellaneous. For stationery, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and Contingent expenses. repairs thereto, preservation of records, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $3,000. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized Advances for return of absconding probationers. to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. police court Salaries: For personal services, $105,520. Salaries. For law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, Contingent expenses. rebinding of books, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, telephone service, laundry work, medicines, lodging and meals for jurors and bailiffs when ordered by the court, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $3,250. For witness fees and compensation of jurors, $31,500. Witness fees and compensation of jurors. municipal court Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of five Salaries. judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $87,620. For compensation of jurors, $8,700: *Provided*, That deposits made Jurors. *Proviso*. Deposits for jury trials earned unless new date set, etc. [41 Stat. 1312](/us/stat/41/1312). on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 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. 53 Stat. 1024 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, $1,000. miscellaneous Probation system. Probation system: For personal services, $16,880; contingent expenses, $800, in all, $17,680. PUBLIC WELFARE board of public welfare Salaries; contract investigational services. For personal services, including the assistant director of public welfare who shall also be coordinator of child welfare services, and including not to exceed $7,250 for contract investigational services, R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), $144,530. division of child welfare Administration. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses, Restriction on expenditures. $5,000, and no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used 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. Board and care of children. Temporary care pending investigation, etc. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship 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 $2,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the Board, $290,000. Receiving home for children under eighteen. For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the house of detention for the reception and detention of children under eighteen 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 witness, 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 $20,920 for personal services, $39,800. Advances to director. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the director of public welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said director by the Commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for Placing and visiting children. 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. 53 Stat. 1025 jail Salaries: For personal services, $98,220. Salaries. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Columbia Maintenance, etc. of prisoners. at the jail, including not to exceed $1,000 for furnishing uniforms and caps for guards; subsistence of internes; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their capture; repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices; newspapers, books, and periodicals not to exceed $100; maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle; and expense of electrocutions, $75,400. Addition to jail: For completing construction of an addition to, Addition to jail, construction, etc. and for the necessary remodeling of, the jail, to provide for administrative offices, a hospital, execution facilities, and a walled exercise yard, $125,000. general administration, workhouse and reformatory, district of columbia For personal services, $511,340. Personal services. For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, including subsistence Maintenance, etc. of internes, 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, $479,000. For repairs to buildings and grounds, and maintenance of utilities, Repairs to buildings, etc. marine and railroad transportation facilities, and mechanical equipment not used in industrial enterprises, $27,000. To provide a working capital fund for such industrial enterprises Working capital fund for industrial enterprises. *Proviso*. Purchase of services and products. 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 products and services as meet their requirements; receipts from Deposit of receipts as a revolving fund. 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 Availability. 1940 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, 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. For continuing construction and equipment of permanent buildings Buildings for women, construction, etc. for women, including sewers, water mains, and other necessary utilities, $45,000. For continuing construction of buildings and enclosing walls, Construction of buildings and enclosing walls, etc. including purchase of equipment and furniture, to provide for the custody of such prisoners as should be confined within a walled enclosure, $75,000. For constructing an enclosed reservoir for filtered water, and for Reservoir; remodeling shop and dormitory buildings. remodeling shop and dormitory buildings, $37,000. Replacing dredge, workhouse and reformatory: For replacing a Replacing sand dredge. sand dredge, $12,000. 53 Stat. 1026 Support, etc., 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, expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying, pursuing, recapturing (including rewards therefor), and returning to institutions, escaped convicts and parole and conditional-release violators; and transportation expenses of returning released convicts to their residences, $100,000. Advances for returning escaped prisoners. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the general superintendent of penal institutions, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners may require of said superintendent, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for expenses in returning escaped prisoners, conditional releases, and parolees, payable from the appropriation, “Support of convicts”, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. national training school for boys Care, etc., of boys committed to. For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $75,000. national training school for girls Salaries and expenses. National Training School for Girls: For personal services; groceries, provisions, light, fuel, clothing, shoes; forage and farm supplies; medicine and medical service (including not to exceed $2,000 for medical care and not to exceed $600 for dental care); transportation; maintenance of non-passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment, fixtures, books, magazines, and other educational supplies; recreational equipment and supplies, including rental of motion-picture films; stationery; postage; repairs; and other necessary items, including expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, $38,200, of which sum not to exceed $20,840 may be expended for *Proviso*. Maintenance limitation. personal services: *Provided*, That the total cost of maintaining inmates in said school, including all administrative expenses, shall not exceed an average per capita of $500 per annum. Acquisition of site in Prince Georges County, Md. For the acquisition by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia of approximately one hundred acres of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, as a site for the National Training School for *Proviso*. Procurement, etc., of title. Girls, $10,000: *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 the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, shall institute condemnation proceedings to acquire such land as may be selected in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland, 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. district training school Personal services. For personal services, including not to exceed $500 for compensation of consulting physicians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, and not to exceed $2,500 for temporary labor, $129,020. Maintenance, etc. For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and 53 Stat. 1027 maintenance of horses and wagons, farm machinery and implements, and not to exceed $300 for the purchase of books, books of reference, and periodicals, $100,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $5,000. Repairs and improvements. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $175,000 for “Hospital Additional dormitory buildings. and Administration Building”, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938 is hereby made Fund available. [50 Stat. 382](/us/stat/50/382). available for the construction and equipment of additional dormitory buildings. For construction and equipment of a milk house and milking barn, Milk house, etc., construction. such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise, in the discretion of the Commissioners, $10,000. industrial home school for colored children Salaries: For personal services, $40,205; temporary labor, $500; Salaries. in all, $40,705. For maintenance, including purchase and maintenance of farm Maintenance, etc. implements, horses, wagons, and harness, maintenance of non-passenger- carrying motor vehicles, not to exceed $2,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, $29,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $3,000. Repairs, etc. industrial home school Salaries: For personal services, $28,740; temporary labor, $1,000; Salaries. in all, $29,740. For maintenance, including purchase of equipment, maintenance Maintenance, etc. of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $23,900. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. Repairs, etc. home for aged and infirm Salaries: For personal services, $66,560; temporary labor, $2,000; Salaries. in all, $68,560. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to Contingent expenses. same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $75,550. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such Repairs, etc. work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $5,000. For construction of an addition to the infirmary building, such Infirmary building, addition. work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $15,000. municipal lodging house For personal services, $3,660; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $7,660. Salaries and expenses. public assistance For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the District of Relief of the unemployed, etc. Columbia who are unemployed or otherwise in distress because of the existing emergency, to be expended by the Board of Public Welfare of the District of Columbia by employment and direct relief, in the discretion of the Board of Commissioners and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Board and without regard to the provisions of any other law, payable from the revenues of From D. C. revenues. the District of Columbia, $900,000, and not to exceed 10 per centum of this appropriation and of Federal grants reimbursed under this 53 Stat. 1028 Personal services. appropriation shall be expended for personal services, including the employment of one general superintendent of public assistance services at $5,600 per annum, one assistant superintendent of such services at $4,600 per annum, and one stenographer-typist (secretary) at $2,000 per annum, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, and not to exceed $25,000 may be expended for the distribution of surplus commodities, including $5,300 for personal *Provisos*. Supervision of accounts. 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 Antideficiency provision. control of the Auditor of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in such a manner as to require a deficiency to supplement such appropriation. 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 children [44 Stat. 758](/us/stat/44/758). in the District of Columbia”, approved June 22, 1926 (44 Stat. 758–760), including not to exceed $13,060 for personal services *Proviso*. Apportionment of funds. 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, 1940, 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 $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 $57,265 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), $40,000. Public assistance, allocations. In expending appropriations contained in this Act under the caption “Public Assistance”, not more than the following monthly Emergency relief of residents. amounts shall be paid therefrom: Emergency Relief of Residents: Single persons, not more than $24; family of two persons, not more than $30, and for each person in excess of such number under sixteen years of age not more than $6; and not to exceed a total of $60 to any Home care for dependent children. one family; Home Care for Dependent Children: Family of two persons, not more than $30, and for each person in excess of such number under sixteen years of age not more than $6; and not to exceed a total Old-age assistance and aid to blind. of $60 to any one family; Assistance Against Old Age Want, and Aid for Needy Blind Persons: Not more than $30 per month shall be paid therefrom to any one person. sponsor’s contributions to work projects administration Sponsor’s contributions for objects designated. For amount required by the District of Columbia as sponsor’s contributions toward Work Projects Administration nonconstruction projects for free lunches for necessitous school children, sewing, household service, housekeeping aides, adult education, and recreation, including the purchase of food, supplies, materials, streetcar and bus fares, rent, equipment, rental of equipment, personal services, and other necessary expenses, $177,500, together with not to exceed $12,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1939 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation [52 Stat. 1123](/us/stat/52/1123). Act, fiscal year 1938. 53 Stat. 1029 temporary home for former soldiers and sailors For personal services, $4,620; maintenance, $11,750; and repairs to Personal services, maintenance, etc. 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 be admitted to the home, all under the supervision of a board of management. florence crittenton home For care and maintenance of women and children under contracts Maintenance. 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, Maintenance. their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located Aid, etc. at 1800 D Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. columbia polytechnic institute To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at Aid, etc. 1808 H Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000. saint elizabeths hospital For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Support of D. C. indigent insane. Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $2,602,260. nonresident insane For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with Deportation expenses. the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for insanity proceedings in the District of Columbia”, approved June 8, 1938, including [52 Stat. 625](/us/stat/52/625). persons held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $12,000. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District Advances authorized. 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 men For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in Burial of indigent. 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 53 Stat. 1030 of War at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $270. transportation of nonresident and indigent persons Expenses. For transportation of indigent nonresident persons to their legal residence or to the home of a relative or relatives, including maintenance pending transportation, and transportation of other indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $20,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,100 shall be available for personal services. vocational rehabilitation Expenses. 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 [45 Stat. 1260](/us/stat/45/1260). of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved February 23, 1929, $25,000. MILITIA Expenses authorized, under commanding general. For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Personal services. For personal services, $27,600, including compensation to the commanding general at the rate of $3,600 per annum; temporary labor, Camps, etc. $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, *Proviso*. Designated extra pay legislation repealed. [25 Stat. 780](/us/stat/25/780); 35 Stat. 635. $48,880: *Provided*, That so much of the Act of March 1, 1889 (25 Stat. 773), as amended by the Act of February 18, 1909 (35 Stat. 629), as provides and fixes the rates of extra compensation to members of the regularly enlisted bands of the Militia of the District of Columbia, is hereby repealed. Armory, construction. For beginning construction of an armory for the Militia of the District of Columbia on all or any of squares 1121, 1122, 1128, 1129, 1135, and 1136, as may be determined by the Commissioners of said District, $350,000, together with an additional sum of not to exceed $150,000 which is hereby reappropriated from the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $500,000 contained in the District of Columbia [52 Stat. 163](/us/stat/52/163). Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939 for beginning the construction 53 Stat. 1031 in square 533 of the first unit of an extensible building for the government of the District of Columbia, and the Commissioners Contracts. are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the construction of such armory at a total cost, exclusive of furniture and equipment, not to exceed $2,750,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $60,000 shall *Proviso*. Plans and specifications. be immediately available for the preparation of plans and specifications, in consultation with the Commanding General of the District of Columbia Militia, and for the employment of professional and Professional, etc., services. [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). other services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, and civil-service requirements, and for other necessary expenses, and the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department is authorized and directed to render such services in planning as the Commissioners may deem necessary, subject to reimbursement for such services. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Continuing development. Park, in accordance with the revised plan as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, $65,000. improvement of washington channel Toward the payment by the District of Columbia of its proportionate Payment. 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 and harbors, and for other purposes”, $64,000, which sum shall be [49 Stat. 1031](/us/stat/49/1031). 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. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS salaries, public parks, district of columbia For personal services, $353,590. Personal services. general expenses, public parks General expenses: For general expenses in connection with the General expenses. maintenance, care, improvement, furnishing of heat, light, and power of public parks, grounds, fountains and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, including 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, 53 Stat. 1032 motorcycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $409,333: *Proviso*. Minor auxiliary structures. *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the erection of minor auxiliary structures. park police Salaries. [43 Stat. 175](/us/stat/43/175); [44 Stat. 834](/us/stat/44/834); [46 Stat. 839](/us/stat/46/839). Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States Park Police force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $175,470. Uniforms, equipment, etc. For uniforming and equipping the United States Park Police force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equipment and the rental of teletype service, $9,400. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION Federal reimbursement for lands acquired. [46 Stat. 485](/us/stat/46/485). For reimbursement to the United States in compliance with section 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as amended, $500,000. Incidental expenses. For each and every purpose, except the acquisition of land, requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground [43 Stat. 463](/us/stat/43/463). [40 U. S. C. § 71](/us/usc/t40/s71). system of the National Capital”, approved June 6, 1924 (40 U. S. C. 71), as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, not to exceed $1,000 for printing and binding, not to exceed $500 for traveling expenses and carfare of employees of the Commission, and not to exceed $300 for professional scientific, technical, and reference books, and periodicals, $41,230. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK Expenses. For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and enclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; traveling and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $2,000 for travel and field expenses in the United States and foreign countries for the procurement of live specimens and for the care, subsistence, and transportation of specimens obtained in the course of such travel; maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; for the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of bicycles and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, revolvers, and ammunition; Uniforms. 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, $237,060, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. HIGHWAY 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 53 Stat. 1033 Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, for expenses of the [43 Stat. 106](/us/stat/43/106); [50 Stat. 676](/us/stat/50/676). following departments and activities: department of vehicles and traffic For personal services, including $6,000 for temporary clerk hire, Personal services. and including an administrative assistant at $4,000 per annum, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, $177,420. For purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, Expenses, etc. 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, printing and binding, postage, telephone service, heating, electricity, repairs to equipment of inspection stations, continuation of the operation of Parking meters. parking meters on the streets of the District of Columbia, including maintenance and repair, not to exceed $7,500 for such expenses as the Traffic safety education. Commissioners, in their discretion, may deem necessary in connection with traffic safety education, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the Commissioners, including not to exceed $32,000 for the operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $165,250, of which not less than $50,000 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic-light signals and $5,000 shall be available for directional signs: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation *Provisos*. Streetcar loading platforms, etc., restrictions; exception. contained in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same, except that a permanent type of platform may be constructed from appropriations contained in this Act for street improvements when such work is undertaken in connection with roadway paving, repaving or resurfacing, and plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utilities Commission and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic: *Provided further*, That Maintenance expenses. the street railway company shall pay the cost of maintenance, marking, and lighting after construction. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and Designation of parking spaces for official use of Members of Congress. directed to designate, reserve, and properly mark appropriate and sufficient parking spaces on the streets adjacent to all public buildings in such District for the use of Members of Congress engaged on public business. For the purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates, Identification plates. $20,000. police traffic control For expenses necessarily involved in the police control, regulation, Expenses. and administration of traffic upon the highways, $518,885, 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. highway department For personal services, $250,360. Personal services. street improvements 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 53 Stat. 1034 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: Northeast: Montana Avenue, Seventeenth Street to Rhode Island Avenue, $45,000; Northeast: South Dakota Avenue, Eighteenth Street to Michigan Avenue, $35,000; Northwest: Loughboro Road, Glenbrook Road to Conduit Road, $68,000; Northeast: Lincoln Road, Rhode Island Avenue to Douglas Street, $48,000; Northwest: Kennedy Street, Kansas Avenue to North Capitol Street, $32,000; Southeast: Thirty-third Street, Alabama Avenue to Denver Street, $18,800; Southeast: Nineteenth Street, A Street to B Street, $5,300; Southeast: Burke Street, Nineteenth Street west to concrete, $2,900; Northeast: D Street, Eighteenth Street to Nineteenth Street, $7,500; Northeast: Sixteenth Street, C Street to D Street, $6,000; Northeast: Lyman Place, Nineteenth Street west to concrete, $4,200; Northeast: Staples Street, Neal Street to Oates Street, $6,000; Northeast: Capitol Avenue and Corcoran Street, Mount Olivet Road to West Virginia Avenue, $12,000; Northeast: Franklin Street, Twenty-second Street to Twenty-fourth Street, $9,000; Northeast: Clinton Street, Walnut Street to Central Avenue, $5,800; Northeast: Twenty-sixth Street, Newton Street to Perry Street, $10,500; Northeast: Twenty-fifth Place, Perry Street to Bunker Hill Road, $7,200; Northeast: Eighteenth Street, Irving Street to Rhode Island Avenue, $7,500; Northeast: Taylor Street, Seventh Street to Tenth Street, $16,200; Northeast: Evarts Street, Third Street to Sixth Street, $16,000; Northeast: Douglas Street, Lincoln Road to Third Street, $6,000; Northwest: Tuckerman Street, Blair Road to Second Place, $4,500; Northwest: Gallatin Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Third Street, $13,000; Northwest: Seventh Street, Peabody Street to Quackenbos Street, $6,000; Northwest: Quackenbos Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $6,800; Northwest: Seventh Place, Quackenbos Street to Rittenhouse Street, $4,800; Northwest: Underwood Street, Eighth Street to Ninth Street, $7,200; Northwest: Seventh Place, Underwood Street to Van Buren Street, $6,800; 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: Seventh Street west, Constitution Avenue north to Independence Avenue south, $88,000; Northwest: Eleventh Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Vermont Avenue, $49,500; Grading, etc., under Federal Aid Highway Act. For grading, paving, repaving, surfacing and otherwise improving streets, avenues and roads, including curbing and gutters, drain 53 Stat. 1035 age structures, retaining walls, the replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains and fire-alarm boxes and police-patrol boxes and replacement of curb-line trees, when necessary, as Federal aid highway projects under section 1-b of the Federal Aid Highway Act of [52 Stat. 633](/us/stat/52/633). [23 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 41b](/us/usc/t23/s41b). *Proviso*. Professional services. 1938 (Public, Numbered 584, Seventy-fifth Congress), $560,000: *Provided*, That in connection with the highway-planning survey, involving surveys, plans, engineering, and economic investigations of projects for future construction in the District of Columbia, as provided for under section 10 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of [52 Stat. 636](/us/stat/52/636). 1938, this fund shall be available to the extent authorized in said section for the employment of engineering or other professional services by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), the Classification Act R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements, and for engineering and incidental expenses; For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of Grading; culverts, etc. necessary culverts and retaining walls, $50,000; For paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $5,000; Paving center strips. For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to be Minor changes in roadways, etc. approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, $5,000; For construction of curbs and gutters, or concrete shoulders in Curbs and gutters, shoulders, etc. 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; For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt, Surfacing, etc., pavements. granite block, or concrete pavements with the same or other approved material, $350,000; For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, Bridges, construction, repair, etc. $50,000; For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, Street, etc., repairs 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 motor vehicles used in this work, $850,000, of which amount $25,000 shall be available exclusively for snow removal: *Provided*, *Provisos*. Snow removal. That appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, city refuse, and the 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 Purchase of asphalt plant authorized. Columbia, should they deem such action to be to the advantage of the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized to purchase a municipal asphalt plant at a cost not to exceed $30,000; This appropriation shall be available for the construction and Street 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 terms Proportion 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 June [20 Stat. 105](/us/stat/20/105). 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which it is collected; For the preparation of studies, plans and surveys, estimates and Grade separation structure, 14th and Maine Ave., SW. investigation of foundation conditions for a grade separation structure in the vicinity of Fourteenth Street and Maine Avenue southwest, including the necessary changes in outlet bridge, curbing, roadways and walkways in streets, parks, and other public areas, street 53 Stat. 1036 railway tracks and underground structures, and including the employment Professional services. R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). of engineering or other professional services by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or the civil-service requirements, and engineering and incidental expenses, $25,000; Additional highway, etc., Rock Creek Park. Report. For the preparation of a report for additional highway and parkway facilities in the vicinity of, into and through Rock Creek Park, Rock Creek and Potomac connecting Parkway and National Zoological Park, $10,000, said report to include such preliminary plans, surveys, and estimates as may be necessary and to be prepared jointly by the National Capital Park Service and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in cooperation with the National Capital Park Professional services. R. S. §3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). and Planning Commission, and including employment of engineering and other professional services by contract or otherwise, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or the civil-service requirements, and including engineering and incidental expenses; Through highway, bypass, etc., report. For the preparation of a report by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in cooperation with such other agencies as may be deemed advisable, for a through highway, parkway or by-pass road including a combination thereof in the District of Columbia to connect with the main routes north and south of adjoining States, $5,000, said report to include preliminary surveys and estimates for all necessary bridges, grade-separation structures, and highway Professional services. R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). improvements, and including employment of engineering and other professional services by contract or otherwise, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or the civil-service requirements, and including engineering and incidental expenses; Pennsylvania Avenue bridge, construction. For continuing the construction of a bridge to replace the bridge in line of 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, R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or the civilservice requirements, and engineering and incidental expenses, $700,000; Massachusetts Avenue bridge, over Rock Creek, etc., plans. For the construction of a bridge in line of Massachusetts Avenue northwest over Rock Creek and 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, construction of and changes in sewer and water mains, fire alarm and police patrol boxes, construction, reconstruction, and relocation of parkway roads, walkways, and such other work as may be necessary, travel expenses in connection with the inspection of material at the point of manufacture, employment of engineering and other professional R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). [5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). Reappropriation of unexpended balance. services by contract or otherwise, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements, including engineering and incidental expenses, $175,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $125,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year [52 Stat. 188](/us/stat/52/188). 1939 for the construction of an additional culvert under Massachusetts Avenue northwest, is hereby reappropriated and made available for 53 Stat. 1037 the construction of such bridge, and the Commissioners are authorized Contracts for completion. to enter into contract or contracts for the completion of such bridge at a cost not to exceed $550,000; For the construction of a second story to the highway garage, at Highway garage, additional space. Second and Bryant Streets Northwest, to provide additional storage space for motor vehicles and other equipment, including the preparation of plans, inspection, construction, and incidental expenses, $50,000; To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the Opening streets, etc., permanent highway system. 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, $150,000, to remain available until June 30, 1941: *Provided*, That this *Proviso*. Alley improvements, building lines, etc. appropriation shall be available to carry out the provision of existing law for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of alleys and minor streets and for the establishment of building lines in the District of Columbia; For assessment and permit work, paving of roadways under the Assessment and permit work. permit system, and construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, including purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and of areas less than two hundred and fifty square feet at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the Commissioners, and including maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $150,000; In all, $3,890,500, to be immediately available, to be disbursed and Disbursements, etc. accounted for as “Street improvements”, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That assessments in accordance with *Provisos*. Assessments under existing law. existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways, alleys, and sidewalks where such roadways, alleys, and sidewalks are paved or repaved with funds herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That Grade-crossing elimination projects. 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 and other construction projects authorized under section 8 of the Act approved June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), and section 1-b of the Federal [49 Stat. 1521](/us/stat/49/1521); [52 Stat. 633](/us/stat/52/633). [23 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 24a, 41b](/us/usc/t23/s24a/41b). Aid Highway Act of 1938 (Public, Numbered 584, Seventy-fifth Congress), pending reimbursement to the District of Columbia by the Department of Agriculture, reimbursement to be credited to fund from which payment was made. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and Changes in widths of sidewalks and roadways. 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. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available Open 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 contractors Repairs 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. 53 Stat. 1038 Use of funds for testing laboratory, etc. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used for the operation of a testing laboratory of the highways department for making tests of materials in connection with any activity of the District government. Trees and parkings. For personal services, trees, and parkings, $26,840; 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, $110,000; Refund of erroneous collections. Refunding erroneous collections: To enable the Commissioners, in cases where motor-vehicle registration fees, motor-vehicle operators’ permit fees, motor-vehicle title fees, motor-vehicle fuel taxes, importers’ license fees, special assessments, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit 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 [43 Stat. 106](/us/stat/43/106). Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved April 23, 1924, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District [50 Stat. 676](/us/stat/50/676). of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, to *Provisos*. Availability. refund such erroneous payments, $1,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall also be available for refunding such payments made within the last three fiscal years prior to the fiscal year for which Exception. [43 Stat. 108](/us/stat/43/108). this appropriation is made available: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for refunds authorized by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 1924. WATER SERVICE From water revenues. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses for Water Department, namely: washington aqueduct Maintenance, etc., of aqueducts and accessories. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington aqueducts and their accessories, including Dalecarlia, Georgetown, McMillan Park, first and second High Service Reservoirs, Washington aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plants, the pumping plants, and the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, Meters on Federal services. and other maintenance of Conduit Road, purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters on Federal services; purchase, care, repair, and operation of vehicles, including the purchase and exchange of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle at a cost not to exceed $650; purchase and repair of rubber boots and protective apparel; printing and binding; and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $478,700. Replacements, etc. For replacement of the filter strainer system at Dalecarlia; motorization of blow-off gate on the Dalecarlia conduit; installation of ventilating air-intake screens for the Dalecarlia hydroelectric station; procurement of portable electric pumping equipment for the city water tunnel; and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $63,000. Superintendence of Secretary of War not affected. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. 53 Stat. 1039 water department For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personal Revenue and inspection and distribution branches. services, $214,480. 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 motor-trucks, and motor vehicles such as are now owned, and the replacement by purchase and exchange of the following motor-propelled vehicles: Two trucks at not to exceed $600 each; one truck at not to exceed $1,000; two trucks at not to exceed $3,000 each; and one special truck at not to exceed $4,000; and one passenger-carrying automobile at not to exceed $650; 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 $3,300; postage, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $275, and other necessary items; in all for maintenance, $357,220, of which not exceeding $5,000 shall be available for operation of pumps at Bryant Street pumping station upon interruption of service from Dalecarlia pumping station. For extension of the water department distribution system, laying Extension of distribution system. of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $225,000. For installing and repairing water meters on services to private Meters. residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the Commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $220,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, $22,500. Hydrants. For replacement of old mains and divide valves in various locations, Replacement of old mains, etc. on account of inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains in advance of pavements, $135,000. For investment by the Secretary of the Treasury in United States Investment of water funds. securities for the account of the water fund of the District of Columbia, $500,000. For the refunding of water rents and other water charges erroneously Refund of erroneous charges. paid in the District of Columbia, to be refunded in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding of erroneously paid taxes, $3,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds *Proviso*. Availability. of payments made within the past two years. For the construction of approximately six thousand two hundred Connecting main, Bryant Street station to U. S. Soldiers’ Home. linear feet of forty-eight inch trunk line water-main, including control cables, from the Bryant Street Pumping Station to the first high service reservoir in the grounds of the United States Soldiers’ Home, $200,000, to continue available until June 30, 1941. Pumps, Anacostia and Reno stations: For additional pumping Anacostia and Reno stations, pumps. equipment at the Anacostia and Reno pumping stations, including necessary appurtenances, and including alterations in existing piping, $20,000. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, Services of draftsmen, etc.,temporarily required. 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 53 Stat. 1040 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 *Provisos*. Limitation. paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $42,000 during the fiscal year Maximum period of employment. 1940: *Provided further*, That, excluding inspectors in the sewer department, one inspector in the electrical department, and one inspector in the repair shop, 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. D. C. Unemployment Compensation Act, contributions. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for payment by the District of Columbia of its contributions as an employer, in accordance with the provisions of the District of Columbia Unemployment [49 Stat. 946](/us/stat/49/946). Compensation Act (49 Stat. 946). Temporary labor, etc. The Commissioners, or their duly designated representatives, are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, water, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings, and bridges, furniture and equipments, and any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. Horses, vehicles, etc. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work autliorized 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 *Proviso*. Temporary work, etc. owned or operated By said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. Miscellaneous trustfund deposits. Expenses payable from. [33 Stat. 368](/us/stat/33/368). That the Commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work, the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as the miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia, necessary personal services, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire therefor motortrucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the Commissioners, and to incur all 53 Stat. 1041 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. Sec. 5. That the Commissioners and other responsible officials, in Material, supplies, vehicles, etc. Purchase. 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 other motor vehicles, and equipment no longer required. Surplus Surplus articles; price basis. 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 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. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be Rent limitation. available for the payment of rental of quarters for any activity at a rate in excess of 90 per centum of the per annum rate paid by the District of Columbia for such quarters on June 30, 1933: *Provided*, That *Provisos*. Prior leases. the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to leases made prior to the passage of this Act, except when renewals thereof are made hereafter: *Provided further*, That the appropriations or portions of Unexpended balances to be covered in. 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. Appropriations contained in this Act shall be used to pay Pay increases by reallocation of position and administrative promotions. increases in the salaries of officers and employees by reason of the reallocation of the position of any officer or employee by the Civil Service Commission, and administrative promotions within the several grades: *Provided*, That the total reallocation increases under *Provisos*. Limitation. such appropriations shall not exceed $35,000 and administrative promotions shall not exceed $50,000: *Provided further*, That such reallocation Approval. increases and administrative promotions shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Sec. 8. Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States Minor purchases. R. S. § 3709. [41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). 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. No part of this appropriation shall be available for any Congressional tags. expense for or incident to the issuance of congressional tags except to those persons set out in the Act of December 19, 1932 (47 Stat. [47 Stat. 750](/us/stat/47/750). 750), including the Speaker and the Vice President. Sec. 10. This Act may be cited as the “District of Columbia Short title. Appropriation Act, 1940”. Approved, July 15, 1939. To amend and clarify the provisions of the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507), and for other purposes. 1939-07-15 282 Chapter 53 Stat. 1042 76 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-24 public 53 Stat. 1042 [CHAPTER 282] AN ACT To amend and clarify the provisions of the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507), and for other purposes. July 15, 1939[[S. 840](/us/bill/76/s/840)][[Public, No. 177](/us/pl/76/177)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army. Hospitalization, etc., of persons in active military service without reference to line-of-duty status. [49 Stat. 1507](/us/stat/49/1507). That neither of the provisions of the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507), nor any other law of the United States shall be construed as limiting the power and authority of the Secretary of War, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to require the hospitalization and medical treatment of persons in the active military service, and to incur obligations with respect thereto, without reference to their line-of-duty status: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Exceptions. That this Act shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furloughs or leaves of absence in excess of twenty-four hours. Approved, July 15, 1939. To authorize the purchase of equipment and supplies for experimental and test purposes. 1939-07-15 283 Chapter 53 Stat. 1042 76 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-24 public [CHAPTER 283] AN ACT To authorize the purchase of equipment and supplies for experimental and test purposes. July 15, 1939[[S. 1020](/us/bill/76/s/1020)][
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