Public Law 71–282

That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, 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, $9,500,000 is appropriated, out of any

Advances.

money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1931, and all the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia, and the tax rate in effect in the fiscal year 1931 on real estate and tangible personal property subject to

Tax rate not to be decreased.

taxation in the District of Columbia shall not be decreased for the fiscal year 1932, namely:

select committee on fiscal relations, house of representatives Those members of the Select Committee on Fiscal Relations, House of Representatives, appointed pursuant to House Resolution Numbered 285, Seventy-first Congress, who are Members elect to the Seventy-second Congress, or a majority of them, during the period from March 4 to December 31, 1931, inclusive, are hereby authorized to continue the investigations and to have the authority and privileges provided in such House resolution. Any unobligated balance on March 4, 1931, in the allocation made to such select committee from the contingent fund of the House under the authority of House Resolution Numbered 329, Seventy-first Congress, shall remain to the credit of such committee as continued hereby, to be paid out on the usual vouchers approved as now provided by law.

GENERAL EXPENSES executive office For personal services, $49,380, 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: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the two civilian commissioners the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grades, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and then only to the next higher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to 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; or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law; Purchasing division: For personal services, $60,560; Building inspection division: For personal services, $161,200. Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $42,280; for temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, $5,000; two members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all, $47,580; In all, Executive Office, $318,720. care of district building For personal services, including temporary labor, $83,280; service of cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $15,000; in all, $98,280: Provided, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Building. For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, and miscellaneous supplies, $24,100. assessor’s office For personal services $220,230; temporary clerk hire, $5,000, to be immediately available; in all, $225,230. license bureau For personal services, $19,520; temporary clerk hire, $1,000; in all, $20,520. For the purchase of motor vehicle identification number plates, $20,000. collector’s office For personal services, including $1,000 for temporary clerk hire, $49,790. auditor’s office For personal services $129,720; and the compensation of the present incumbent of the position of disbursing officer of the District of Columbia shall be exclusive of his compensation as United States property and disbursing officer for the National Guard of the District of Columbia. office of corporation counsel Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $89,380. coroner’s office For personal services, including not to exceed $3,500 for compensation of surgeons making autopsies, $11,340. For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquest, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $5,000. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets For personal services, $47,380. For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $500. For maintenance and repairs to markets, including $10,000 for repairs and improvements to Western Market, $17,500. For maintenance and repair of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $2,000. For the purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $530, to be immediately available. For purchase of one heavy motor truck and equipping same for use in testing heavy capacity scales, $6,000. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000 for the construction at Eastern and Western Markets of suitable sheds and facilities for the use of farmers retailing farm produce, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, is continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1932. highways department For personal services, $220,830. sewer department For personal services, $198,620. trees and parking department For personal services, $28,480. office of chief clerk, engineer department For personal services, $29,980. central garage For personal services, $5,340. municipal architect’s office For personal services, $76,120. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment for the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, clerks, copyists, and inspectors, 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 23/4 per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000. For altering and extending the repair shop, for the purchase of additional equipment, and for the purchase and/or exchange at not exceeding $8,400 of one five-ton, two one and one-half ton and three one-ton trucks, $33,900. public utilities commission For two commissioners at $7,500 each; people’s counsel, $7,500; and for other personal services; in all, $101,440, of which amount not to exceed $5,000 may be used for the employment of expert services by contract or otherwise and without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the purchase of newspapers, $1,950. board of examiners, steam engineers Salaries: Three members, at $150 each, $450. department of insurance For personal services, $19,880. surveyor’s office For personal services, $88,190. district of columbia employee’s compensation fund For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $32,000. Administrative Expenses, Compensation to Injured Employees of 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., p. 600), $63,000, for transfer to and expenditure by the Employees’ Compensation Commission under its appropriations “Salaries and expenses,” $60,000, and “Printing and binding,” $3,000. For financing of the liability of the government of the District of Columbia, created by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 707a), $150,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil service retirement and disability fund.” office of the director of traffic For personal service, $36,060. For purchase and installation of electric traffic lights, signals and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the commissioners, including not to exceed $1,800 for the purchase and exchange of two nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $80,100: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act, or that is now available shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining street-car loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. free public library For personal services, $295,550. For substitutes and other special and temporary services, at the discretion of the librarian, $6,000: Provided, That no money appropriated by this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations not now in operation. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $3,000. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other printed material, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $84,500: Provided, That the disbursing officer of the District or 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 vouchers. For binding, including necessary personal services, $15,000. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment, care of grounds, maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, including not to exceed $700 for purchase and exchange of one motor delivery vehicle, $24,500. For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy Chase and Woodridge, $4,800. For the grading of the Georgetown Reservoir (Wisconsin Avenue, between R Street and Brown Place northwest), for utilization as a site for a Georgetown branch library, and for drawing plans for a library building to be erected on such site, $30,000, to be immediately available; and such site is hereby transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. register of wills For personal services, $74,720. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, including laboratory coats and photographic developing room equipment, towels, towel service, window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, $11,500. recorder of deeds For personal services, $105,020. For recopying old land records of the District of Columbia, including personal services, typewriting machines, and necessary supplies and equipment, $10,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including telephone service, printing, binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; typewriters, towels, towel service, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto; books of reference, law books and periodicals, street-car tokens, postage, not exceeding $100 for rest room for sick and injured employees and the equipment of and medical supplies for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $14,000. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $14,000. When specifically approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transfers may be made between the appropriations in this Act under the respective jurisdiction of any bureau, office, institution, or service, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under any such organization unit. Any such transfers shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.

CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES For checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; purchase of laboratory apparatus and equipment, and maintenance of laboratory in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles, not to exceed $500; traveling expenses not to exceed $4,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $10 per diem to each member of board of survey, other than the inspector of buildings, while actually employed on surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, $32,500: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act or of any appropriation which may now be available 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.

printing and binding For printing and binding, $75,000. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $77,900, for exchange of such passenger-carrying automobiles now owned by the District of Columbia as, in the judgment of the commissioners of said District have or shall become unserviceable, $20,600; and for the purchase and exchange of passenger-carrying automobiles as follows: Executive office, three, $6,000, to be immediately available for the purchase and exchange of two and purchase of one; District Training School, one, $900; director of traffic, one, $600; city refuse division, three, $1,720; Board of Public Welfare, one motor ambulance, and equipment, $1,980; in all, $109,700. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at the rate of not to exceed $312 per year for each automobile and $156 per year for each motor cycle, $12,816. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided in this Act owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act: Provided, That with the exception of motor vehicles for the police and fire departments, no automobile shall be acquired under any provision of this Act, by purchase or exchange at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650, except as may be herein specifically authorized. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the street-cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, Director of Public Welfare, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, the superintendent of machinery, and the fire marshal, under appropriations contained in this Act. The commissioners may connect any or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia, or to both of such systems. Telephones may also be maintained in the residences of the general superintendent of penal institutions, and such other officials of the workhouse and reformatory as may be approved by the commissioners. For postage for strictly official mail matter, $23,000. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street car and bus fares from appropriations contained in this Act: Provided, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $8,300: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $5,000: 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 steno graphic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) under available appropriations contained in this Act. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $9,500. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1930, as required to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $10,000.

employment service For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $10,280.

historical places For purchase and erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the District of Columbia, $500.

emergency fund To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, $4,000: Provided, That the certificate of the commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure not to exceed $1,000 for such investigations as they may deem necessary.

refund of erroneous collections To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, payments for lost library books, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion required by law, to refund such erroneous payments, 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., p. 967), $4,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, $250.

MUNICIPAL CENTER For beginning the construction of the first unit of the municipal center, $1,500,000, to be immediately available; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the preparation of site and completion of such unit at a total cost not exceeding $6,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $200,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the preparation of plans and specifications, cost of superintendence of construction, and employment of such architectural or other professional services as shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR For assessment and permit work, of which not to exceed $25,000 shall be available for the paving of roadways under the permit system, including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $250,000.

gasoline tax road and street fund For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, and roads, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, and including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, as follows, to be paid from the special fund created by section 1 of the Act 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 accretions by repayment of assessments: For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and gutters where necessary, the following: Southeast: Sixteenth Street, U Street to W Street, $9,500; Southeast: W Street, Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $12.400: Southeast: Ives Place, Potomac Avenue to Fourteenth Street, $8,500; Southeast: Nineteenth Street, B Street to E Street, $24,000; Southeast: Eighteenth Street, B Street to C Street, $11,200; Northeast: Benning Road, Fifteenth Street to culvert, $154,400; Northeast: L Street, Bladensburg Road to Twentieth Street, $33,800; Northeast: Childress Street, Trinidad Avenue eastward, $9,000; Northeast: New York Avenue, Florida Avenue to Bladensburg Road, $195,000; Northeast: Thirtieth Street, South Dakota Avenue to Bladensburg Road, $13,200; Northeast: Vista Street, Central Avenue to South Dakota Avenue, $12,400; Northeast: Central Avenue, Myrtle Avenue to Carlton Avenue, $11,300; Northeast: Otis Street, Twenty-fourth Street to Twenty-sixth Street, $7,800; Northeast: Twenty-first Street, Quincy Street to Randolph Street, $4,200; Northeast: Twentieth Street, South Dakota Avenue to Perry Street, $2,200; Northeast: Sixteenth Street, Lawrence Street to Monroe Street, $4,200; Northeast: Tenth Street, Taylor Street to Upshur Street, $7,300; Northeast: Twelfth Street, Urell Place to Varnum Street, $2,900; Northeast: Varnum Street, Twelfth Street to Sargent Road, $8,500; Northeast: Monroe Street, Michigan Avenue to Twelfth Street, $34,000; Northeast: Lawrence Street, Ninth Street to Tenth Street, $5,200; Northeast: Ninth Street, Lawrence Street to Monroe Street, $4,300; Northwest: V Street, Georgia Avenue to Ninth Street (north of Florida Avenue), $17,800; Northwest: Ninth Street, Farragut Street to Gallatin Street, $4,700; Northwest: Madison Street, Georgia Avenue to Ninth Street, $8,400; Northwest: Ninth Street, Madison Street to Concord Avenue, $9,300; Northwest: Seventh Street, Tuckerman Street to Tewksbury Place, $2,900; Northwest: Eighth Street, Quackenbos Street to Rittenhouse Street, $5,700; Northwest: Blagden Avenue, Sixteenth Street to Rock Creek Park, $71,800; Northwest: Hobart Street from alley west of Mount Pleasant westward approximately 200 feet, $4,000; Northwest: Cathedral Avenue, Woodley Road to Rock Creek Park, $39,700; Northwest: Thirtieth Street north of Brandywine Street, $6,000; Northwest: Quesada Street, Nevada Avenue to Broad Branch Road, $11,800; Northwest: Western Avenue, Forty-first Street to Chevy Chase Circle, $23,200; Northwest: Forty-first Street, Livingston Street to Western Avenue, $10,900; Northwest: Brandywine Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Forty-third Street, $13,100; Northwest: Brandywine Street, Forty-third Place to Forty-fourth Street, $4,200; Northwest: Yuma Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Forty-second Street, $12,300; Northwest: Reno Road, Thirty-fourth Street to Ordway Street, and Ordway Street, Reno Road to Thirty-fourth Street, $6,000; Northwest: Forty-third Street, Hawthorne Street to Tunlaw Road, $5,800; Northwest: Hawthorne Street, Forty-third Street to Tunlaw Road, $3,100; Northwest: T Street, Thirty-eighth Street to Thirty-ninth Street, $6,600; Northwest: Thirty-eighth Street, Reservoir Road to T Street, $16,100; Northwest: Reservoir Road, Thirty-fifth Street to Foxhall Road, $98,400; Northwest: Galena Place, Carolina Place to Conduit Road, $11,600; Northwest: Dorsett Place, Galena Place to Weaver Place, $6,100; Northwest: Cathedral Avenue, Fifty-first Place to Conduit Road, $15,700; Virginia approaches to Highway Bridge, $45,100. For grading, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, the following: Northwest: Porter Street, Connecticut Avenue to Klingle Road, $10,000; Southeast: Sheridan Road, Stanton Road to Nichols Avenue, $5,000; Northwest: Klingle Street, Macomb Street to Weaver Place, $11,000; Northwest: For completing the widening to fifty-six feet and repaving the roadway of H Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Thirteenth Street, including necessary replacement and relocation of sewers and water mains, $58,400: Provided, That in widening and repaving this roadway, 40 per centum of the entire cost thereof shall be assessed against and collected from the owners of the abutting property in the manner provided in the Act approved July 1, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 524), as amended by section 8 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (39 Stat., p. 716). The owners of abutting property also shall be required to modify, at their own expense, the roofs of any vaults that may be under the sidewalk or parking on said street if it be found necessary to change such vaults to permit of the roadway being widened; For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, $80,000; For surfacing block pavements and paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $100,000; For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, $10,000; For construction of curbs and gutters, or concrete shoulders, in connection with all forms of macadam roadways and adjustment of roadways thereto, together with resurfacing and replacing of base of such roadways where necessary, $290,000; For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt, granite block, or concrete pavements with the same or other approved material, $400,000; In all, $2,000,000, to be immediately available; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road and street improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: Provided, That no part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street or section thereof not herein specified: Provided further, That assessments in accordance with existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways where such roadways are paved or repaved with funds derived from the collection of the tax on motor-vehicle fuels and accretions by repayment of assessments: Provided further, That in the performance of the street-paving work specially provided for in this Act priority shall be given to those streets which are more in the nature of through thoroughfares or arterial highways.

street repair, grading, and extension Condemnation: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and of areas less than 250 square feet at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the commissioners, $5,000. To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension beyond the southern boundary of Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia there is appropriated such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year 1932, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available to carry out the provisions of existing law for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of alleys and minor streets and for the establishment of building lines in the District of Columbia. Repairs: For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, alleys, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the rental of necessary garage space therefor; and including the surfacing and resurfacing, or replacement, with the same or other approved materials, of such asphalt or concrete pavements as may be done within the funds available under this appropriation, $1,175,000; Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to replace the existing municipal asphalt plant at a cost not to exceed $20,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5 of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all highways that may be improved under appropriations contained in this Act. For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $30,000. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for repairing, resurfacing, or newly paving any street, avenue, or roadway by private contract unless the specifications for such work shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving material as well as in price. In addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractors to keep new pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date of the completion of the work, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall further require that where repairs are necessary during the four years following the said one-year period, due to inferior work or defective materials, such repairs shall be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense. For widening to eighty feet and repaving the roadway of B Street, Northwest, from Fourteenth Street to Virginia Avenue, in accordance with plans therefor to be jointly approved by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including the necessary reconstruction, relocation, changes, and adjustments of all water mains, sewers, trees, sidewalks, lamp-posts, fire hydrants, or other structures affected and including personal services and all necessary incidental expenses, at a total cost not to exceed $168,500, of which sum $101,100 is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, to be immediately available, and not to exceed $67,400 shall be transferred from and in accordance with the appropriation in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1932, for the construction of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.

bridges For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, including not to exceed $57,500 for surveys, engineering investigations, and preparation of plans for bridges to replace the P Street and Calvert Street Bridges over Rock Creek, and the Benning Bridge over the Anacostia River, and including the employment of personal services, by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $145,000, to be immediately available. Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Klingle Valley: For completing the construction of a bridge to replace the Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Klingle Valley, including necessary changes in water mains, and including the employment of personal services, by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, engineering, and incidental expenses, in accordance with the provisions contained in the District of Columbia appropriation act for the fiscal year 1931, $250,000, to be immediately available. New York Avenue bridge over right of way of the Washington Terminal Company: For repair and strengthening of the New York Avenue bridge over the right of way of the Washington Terminal Company, $60,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That the total cost of such repairs and strengthening within the limits of the right of way shall be borne and paid by the Washington Terminal Company, its successors and assigns, to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia, and the same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and property of the said Washington Terminal Company and shall constitute a legal indebtedness of said company in favor of the District of Columbia, and the said lien may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by a bill in equity brought by the said commissioners in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or by any other lawful proceeding against the said Washington Terminal Company. 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, $5,000.

trees and parkings For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, purchase and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $122,500.

public convenience stations For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $29,000.

sewers For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the replacement of the following motor trucks: One at not to exceed $650; one at not to exceed $900; one at not to exceed $4,000; for operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of coal, oil, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $250,000. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $210,000. For suburban sewers, including the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and not to exceed $50,000 to be immediately available for the construction of a garage at the sewer department yard on reservation 248, $675,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $150,000; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1931 shall remain available until June 30, 1932. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, and of the necessary land for a site for the proposed Benning substation in the vicinity of parcel 170/13, $6,000. For continuing the construction of the Upper Potomac main interceptor, $50,000. For the control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia, including personal services, purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of oil, and other necessary expenses, $45,000: Provided, That of the amount herein appropriated there may be transferred for direct expenditure not to exceed $11,350 to the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital and, in the interest of coordinating the work of mosquito control in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $6,500 to the Public Health Service of the Treasury Department, the amounts so transferred to be available for the objects herein specified.

COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE For personal services, $148,520. For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repair of stables; hire and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; maintenance and repair of nonpassenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; and necessary incidental expenses, $568,000. 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; and incidental expenses, $1,060,000, including not to exceed $25,000 for repair and improvement of the garbage reduction plant: Provided, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the manner provided by law: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. For the completion of the construction of high-temperature incinerators for the destruction of combustible refuse, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the acquisition of land in the District of Columbia and the construction thereon of two modern high-temperature incinerators for the destruction of combustible refuse, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat, p. 1549), $300,000.

PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS For personal services, $115,940: Provided, That employments hereunder, except directors who shall be employed for twelve months, shall be distributed as to duration in accordance with corresponding employments provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924. For general maintenance, equipment, supplies, incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance of one motor truck, $38,000; for construction of physical improvements by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the commissioners, $25,000; in all, $63,000. For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open during the summer months the public-school playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners; for special and temporary services, directors, assistants, and janitor service during the summer vacation, and, in the larger yards, daily after school hours during the school term, $30,000. For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000. Bathing pools: For superintendence, $600; for temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $6,880: Provided, That section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act. approved May 10, 1916 (39 Stat., p. 120, sec. 6), as amended, shall not apply to the position of superintendent of these bathing pools during the fiscal year 1932.

ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT For personal services, $153,120, of which amount $2,400 shall be immediately available. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record book, stationery, livery, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, $32,200, of which $10,000 shall be immediately available. For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone services underground, extension and relocation of police-patrol and fire-alarm systems, purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment and expenses, including not to exceed $8,800, for replacement of obsolete engine house fire alarm recording registers and take-up reels by new-type registers and reels, $44,225, of which $9,225 shall be immediately available. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lamp-posts, 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 of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat., pp. 1008–1011, sec. 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat., pp. 181–184, sec. 7), and other laws applicable thereto, and including not to exceed $26,000 for operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $1,009,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. For the purpose of making a study of the power needs of the District of Columbia with a view to establishing a municipally owned and operated service therefor, including the employment, by contract or otherwise, of such expert and other personal services as shall be approved by the commissioners, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, traveling expenses (including traveling expenses previously incurred and that may be incurred prior to July 1, 1931), and necessary incidental expenses, $15,000; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 is continued available until June 30, 1932.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS For personal services of administrative and supervisory officers in accordance with the Act fixing and regulating the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), including salaries of presidents of teachers’ colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $665440. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $161,160. For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat. pp. 806–808), and the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 998), $39,900. For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), including for teachers’ colleges assistant professors in salary class seven, and professors in salary class twelve, $6,399,200: Provided, That as teacher vacancies occur during the fiscal year 1932 in grades one to four inclusive of the elementary schools, such vacancies may be filled by the assignment of teachers now employed in kindergartens, and teachers employed in kindergartens are hereby made eligible to teach in the said grades. No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $36,000. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia,’ approved January 15, 1920, and for other purposes” (41 Stat., pp. 387–390), $400,000.

NIGHT SCHOOLS 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, $97,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,500.

the deaf, dumb, and blind For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 238), and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $29,500. 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, $6,000: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. For maintenance and instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $11,000: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education.

americanization work 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, $13,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $800.

community center department For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and community secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924. (43 Stat., pp. 369,370); clerks and part-time employees, including janitors on account of meetings of parent-teacher associations and other activities, and contingent expenses, equipment, supplies, and lighting fixtures, $42,000.

care of buildings and grounds For personal services, including care of smaller buildings and rented rooms at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each school room, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $834,670.

miscellaneous For the maintenance of schools for tubercular and crippled pupils, $11,000. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular pupils, and for pupils attending schools for crippled pupils, $20,000: Provided, That expenditures for street-car and bus fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of street-car and bus fares covered by this Act. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $85,000, to be immediately available. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $295,000.

furniture For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings, as follows: Woodridge School, $2,095; Murch School, $2,900; school at Fourteenth Street and Kalmia Road, $4,995; Deal Junior High School, $44,015; Gordon Junior High School, twelve-room addition, including two gymnasiums, $16,190; Powell Junior High School, eight-room addition, including one gymnasium, $18,000; Congress Heights School, four-room addition, including combination gymnasium and assembly hall, $5,000; Young School, $13,090; Brown Junior High School, $44,015; Deanwood School, four-room addition, including combination gymnasium and assembly hall, $5,115; Whittier School, eight-room addition, $5,440; Stuart Junior High School, ten-room addition, including two gymnasiums, $13,820; Broad Branch Road, eight-room building, $8,570; Mann School, eight-room building, $8,570; Anthony Bowen School, twelve-room addition, $7,415; Noyes School, four-room building, $3,660; in all $202,890, to be immediately available and to continue available until June 30, 1933. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, ice, United States flags, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $8,000 for books of reference and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, not exceeding $5,000 for labor, and including $35 for reimbursement to the assistant superintendent in charge of business affairs for personal funds expended in litigation involving his official position, $175,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That a bond shall not be required on account of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furniture and equipment for the public schools of the District of Columbia shall be expended unless the requisitions of the Board of Education therefor shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the purchasing officer and the auditor for the District of Columbia acting for the commissioners. For textbooks and other educational books and supplies, as authorized by the Act of January 31, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 62), including not to exceed $7,000 for personal services, $225,000, to be immediately available. For maintenance of kindergartens, $7,000, to be immediately available. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and normal schools, and for the installation of the same, $16,500, to be immediately available. For utensils, material, and labor for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $3,000. The Board or Education is authorized to designate the months in which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy, 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. Not to exceed $200,000 of the unexpended balances of appropriations for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, is hereby made immediately available and shall continue available until June 30, 1932, for the improvement of grounds surrounding public-school buildings, constructed under appropriations for the fiscal year 1930 and prior fiscal years, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For repairs and improvements to school buildings, repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric equipment, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains, and maintenance of motor trucks, including not to exceed $3,000 for purchase of two one and one-half ton trucks and including not to exceed $15,000 for exterior fire stairways, $492,000, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available. For necessary remodeling, painting, and equipping, including the repair and refinishing of suitable existing equipment, because of contemplated change of use of buildings, as follows: Columbia Junior High School, $15,000; Abbot Vocational School, $6,000; in all, $21,000, to be immediately available. For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stock rooms, $3,000. For purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, for school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $10,000: Provided, That such playgrounds shall be kept open for play purposes in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the playground department. 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, 1931, and children entering during the second half of the school year who will be five years of age by March 15, 1932: 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.

buildings and grounds For continuing the construction of the new school building for the Roosevelt (Business) High School, $400,000: Provided, That upon completion of such building the building now occupied by the Business High School shall be utilized for senior high and elementary school purposes. For the completion of the construction of the first unit of the Young School in northeast Washington, $30,000. For the completion of the construction of the Brown Junior High School in northeast Washington, $300,000. For the erection of an eight-room building on a site to be purchased in the vicinity of Connecticut Avenue and Upton Street northwest, $140,000. For the erection of an eight-room building on a site to be purchased in the vicinity of Burleith and Glover Park, $145,000. For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Douglass-Simmons School and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $130,000. For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Harrison School and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $140,000. For the construction of a six-classroom addition to the Orr School, $80,000. For the construction of a second story of four classrooms at the Key School, $60,000. For the completion of the construction of the Macfarland Junior High School, including ten classrooms, one gymnasium, and a lunch room and kitchen, $200,000. For the construction of an addition to the Paul Junior High School, including ten classrooms and one gymnasium, $180,000. For the erection of a junior high school building on a site already purchased for that purpose in the Brookland-Woodridge section, $200,000; and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building, at a cost not to exceed $500,000. For the construction of an addition to the Woodridge School to provide four classrooms and unfinished space for four additional classrooms, $110,000. For the erection of a new school building for the Jefferson Junior High School on a site to be acquired in southwest Washington for that purpose, $200,000; and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building, at a cost not to exceed $575,000. For the construction of a gymnasium at the Randall Junior High School, $40,000. For the construction of a gymnasium and three additional classrooms connecting the Hine Junior High School and the Towers School, including the necessary remodeling of the present buildings, $55,000. For the construction of an additional building for the Giddings School of twelve classrooms and three auxiliary rooms, $170,000. For the construction of a school building on a site now owned by the District of Columbia at Fourteenth Street and Kalmia Road to provide four classrooms and unfinished space for four additional classrooms, $110,000. For the construction of an addition to the Murch School to provide four classrooms and unfinished space for four additional classrooms, $30,000, and in addition thereto $80,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Buildings and grounds, public schools,” contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, is made immediately available for this purpose and shall continue available during the fiscal year 1932. Not exceeding $120,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Buildings and grounds, public schools,” contained in ’ the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, is made immediately available and shall continue available during the fiscal year 1932 for the erection of an eight-room addition to the Janney School and the necessary remodeling of the present building. In all, $2,720,000, to be immediately available and to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and grounds, public schools,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. 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 of the contract: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the commissioners the right to reject all bids. For the purchase of school building and playground sites, as follows: For the purchase of a site in the vicinity of Foxhall Village; For the purchase of land to replace the Bates Road site; For the purchase of additional land for the Douglass-Simmons School; For the purchase of additional land for the Harrison School; For the purchase of a site for a senior high school in the Reno section; For the purchase of a site for a senior high school in the Manor Park section; For the purchase of land for an eight-room addition to the Bancroft School; For the purchase of additional school-building and playground sites; In all, $490,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That an additional amount of not to exceed $125,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for school building and playground sites, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, is hereby made available without limitation as to price based on assessed value for the purchase of such sites. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act under appropriations administered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the commissioners and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having an 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 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., pp. 174–175), as amended, including compensation at the rate of $2,100 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police department, $3,110,220. For personal services, $120,170. miscellaneous For fuel, $8,500. For repairs and improvements to police stations and station grounds, $15,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for fugitives, purchase of modern revolvers and other firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, rental and maintenance of teletype system, maintenance and servicing of radio broadcasting system and equipment, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, medals of award, not to exceed $300 for car tickets, not to exceed $1,500 for travel and other expenses of members of the force at the police school at Camp Perry, Ohio, furniture and repair thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, and saddles, mounted equipment, flags and halyards, storage of stolen or abandoned property, and traveling and other expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, including expenses of harbor patrol, $67,800, of which amount a sum not exceeding $2,000 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: Provided, That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the commissioners for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required: Provided further, That the commissioners are authorized to employ the electrician of the District Building to repair speedometers at such cost not exceeding $250 as they may approve, payment to be in addition to his regular compensation, and such services to be performed after regular working hours. For purchase and maintenance of passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $72,500. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the Metropolitan police, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, $65,900. house of detention For maintenance, including rent, of a suitable place for the reception and detention of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including transportation, the purchase and maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of buildings, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $18,250; for personal services $10,560; in all, $28,810: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the maintenance of a House of Detention in the territory abutting or adjacent to the grounds of the Capitol Building, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Library of Congress.

POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, such sum as is necessary for said purposes for the fiscal year 1932 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund.

FIRE DEPARTMENT salaries For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia” (43 Stat., p. 175), as amended, $2,167,000. For personal services, $5,920. miscellaneous For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $25,000. 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, $30,000. For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other motor-driven apparatus, fire boat and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools, $45,000: Provided, That the commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire department repair shop. For hose, $20.000. For fuel, $28,000. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $29,000. For two aerial hook and ladder trucks, motor driven, at $15,500 each; two combination hose wagons, motor driven, at $8,000 each; and one water tower, motor driven, $22,000; in all, $69,000. For new house for Engine Company Numbered 16 (now located at Twelfth and D Streets northwest), Truck Company Numbered 3 (now located at Fourteenth Street and Ohio Avenue northwest), and the fire-police department clinic, in the vicinity of Thirteenth and K Streets northwest, including furniture, furnishings, clinic equipment, and the cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, $150,000, to be immediately available, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the purchase of a site for said house contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931. For site for house for a truck company in the vicinity of Twelfth Street and Rhode Island Avenue northeast, $15,000, to be immediately available.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT salaries For personal services, $189,530. 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 March 3, 1897 (29 Stat., pp. 635–641), and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907 (34 Stat., pp. 889–890), and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908 (35 Stat., pp. 126–127), under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile paralysis and 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., pp. 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, $38,000: Provided, That any bacteriologist employed under this appropriation may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary works as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases. For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $17,000 and $10,000, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $27,000. For the maintenance of a dispensary 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, $29,000: Provided, That the commissioners may 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 authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896 (29 Stat. pp. 125–126), and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $2,500. hygiene and sanitation, public schools Salaries: For personal services in the conduct of hygiene and sanitation work in the public schools, including the necessary expenses of maintaining free dental clinics, and not to exceed $850 for the purchase of audiometers, $96,830: Provided, That of the persons employed as medical inspectors one shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, and that of the graduate nurses employed as public-school nurses three shall be of the colored race. For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books and periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $2,600. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat., pp. 246–248) an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898 (30 Stat., p. 398), an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., pp. 768–772), and an Act to regulate, within the District of Columbia, the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, and for other purposes, approved February 27, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 1004–1008), including traveling and other necessary expenses of dairy farm inspectors; and including not to exceed $100 for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk, $8,300: 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 $480 per annum for each inspector. For maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motor vehicles, $1,200. For maintaining a child-hygiene service, including the establishment and maintenance of child-welfare stations for the clinical examinations, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six years of age, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, periodicals, and supplies, $54,000: Provided, That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service herein authorized: Provided further, That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service.

COURTS AND PRISONS juvenile courts Salaries: For personal services, $59,910. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $1,500. For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, repairs to courthouse and grounds, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $4,250. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. police court Salaries: For personal services, $101,350. For law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painter’s and plumber’s supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, lodging and meals for jurors and bailiffs when ordered by the court, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $7,700. For witness fees, $1,500. For compensation of jurors, $37,200. For repairs and alterations to building, $2,500. municipal court Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of five judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $72,050. For compensation of jurors, $6,000: Provided, That deposits made on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (41 Stat., p. 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books 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, $4,000. supreme court, district of columbia Salaries: Chief justice, $10,500; eight associate justices, at $10,000 each; nine stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, and other personal services, $49,800, of which $6,600 shall be immediately available; in all, $140,300. For installing necessary partitions, purchase of furniture, furnishings and equipment, installation of telephones, telephone rental, and other expenses necessary and incidental to providing additional space for new employees, $6,198, of which amount $5,000 shall be immediately available, and $3,500 of which may be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. Fees of witnesses: For mileage and per diem of witnesses and for per diem in lieu of subsistence, and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 604), $37,000. Fees of jurors: For mileage and per diem of jurors, $100,000. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, clerks of jury commissioners, and per diems of jury commissioners, $55,093, of which amount $833 shall be immediately available: Provided, That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1932 shall not exceed $250. Probation system: For personal services, $12,120, of which $640 shall be immediately available; contingent expenses, $380; in all, $12,500. Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection of the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $39,410, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto $8,500, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. court of appeals Salaries: Chief justice and four associate justices, at $12,500 each; all other officers and employees of the court, including reporting service, $36,020; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $950; in all, $99,470: Provided, That the reports of the court shall not be sold for a price exceeding that approved by the court and for not more than $6.50 per volume. Building: For personal services for care and protection of the Court of Appeals Building, including one mechanician, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $8,340: Provided, That the clerk of the court of appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court. For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $780. For general repairs and painting of the Court of Appeals Building, $8,800, to be expended under the control of the Architect of the Capitol. miscellaneous Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; and discharge gratuities provided by law; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $75,000. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, $10,600. Miscellaneous court expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $85,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, $4,500.

PUBLIC WELFARE board of public welfare For personal services, $114,500. division of child welfare 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, $4,000; 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. 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 $1,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board. $232,940. To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provide home care for dependent children in the District of Columbia,” approved June 22, 1926 (44 Stat., pp. 758–760), including not to exceed $13,280 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $153,280. 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 seventeen years of age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or committed to the guardianship of the board, or held as witnesses, or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, including transportation, food, clothing, medicine and medical supplies, rental, repair, and upkeep of buildings, fuel, gas, electricity, ice, supplies and equipment, and other necessary expenses including not to exceed $20,260 for personal services, $42,360. 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 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. jail Salaries: For personal services, $78,270. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Columbia at the jail, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair, and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, and expense of electrocutions, $79,000.

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION, WORKHOUSE AND REFORMATORY, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA For personal services, $297,050. For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, rewards for fugitives, discharge gratuities provided by law, medical supplies, farm implements, tools, equipment, transportation expenses, purchase and maintenance of livestock and horses, purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of nonpassenger-carrying vehicles; fuel for heating, lighting, and power, and all other necessary items, $358,000. For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including sewers, water mains, roads, and other necessary utilities; for equipment for new buildings, $87,000. For continuing construction of buildings and inclosing walls, including equipment and furniture, to provide for the custody of such prisoners as should be confined within a walled inclosure, $150,000, to be immediately available. For repairs to buildings and grounds, and maintenance of utilities, marine and railroad transportation facilities, and mechanical equipment not used in industrial enterprises, $30,000. Not to exceed $60,000 of the appropriation for remodeling, rearrangement, and consolidation of power, heating, and lighting facilities; for construction of a permanent water supply, filtration, and fire-protection system; and for equipment and necessary expenses in connection therewith, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, is continued available until June 30, 1932. For the replacement of tugboat for marine transportation system, $25,000. To provide a working capital fund for such industrial enterprises as may be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $50,000: Provided. That the various departments and institutions of the District of Columbia and the Federal Government may purchase, at fair market prices, as determined by the commissioners, such surplus products and services as meet their requirements, and receipts from the sale of products and services shall be deposited to the credit of said working capital fund, and said fund, including all receipts credited thereto, shall be used as a revolving fund for the fiscal year 1932 for the purchase and repair of machinery, tools, and equipment, purchase of raw materials and manufacturing supplies, purchase, maintenance, and operation of nonpassenger-carrying vehicles, purchase and maintenance of horses and purchase of fuel for manufacturing purposes; for freight, personal services, and all other necessary expenses; and for the payment to inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings as the commissioners may deem proper. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the general superintendent of penal institutions, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require of said superintendent, sums of money not exceeding $200 at one time, to be used only for expenses in returning escaped prisoners, payable from the maintenance appropriations for the workhouse and reformatory, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved.

national training school for boys 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, $20,000.

national training school for girls Salaries: For personal services, $41,560. For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, magazines, and other supplies which represent greater educational advantages, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including not to exceed $4,000 for fire-protection facilities and improvements, and including compensation not exceeding $1,500 for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates and for rewards for their capture, for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroles or discharged girls, and for maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $42,000.

medical charities For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital, $25,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $30,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $18,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000.

columbia hospital and lying-in asylum For general repairs and for additional construction, including labor and material, and for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $15,000.

tuberculosis hospital Salaries: For personal services, $80,080. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $60,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks; for installation of electrical and heating plant equipment; for inclosing two wards of third floor with French windows; and for fire protection improvements, $23,500. For the erection of suitable buildings and structures for use as a children’s tuberculosis sanatorium on the site acquired for that purpose, including nurses’ and employees’ home, superintendent’s quarters, and necessary approaches and roadways, heating and ventilating apparatus, water, sewer, lighting and fire protection facilities, and other necessary expenses, $250,000, together with the unexpended balance of the item of $75,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 for the purchase of a site and preparation of plans and specifications for the said sanatorium, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract or contracts therefor at a cost not to exceed $508,000; Provided, That of the sum herein appropriated there shall be immediately available such amount as may be necessary for the salary, under the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, of a superintendent of said sanatorium, and for the compensation, without reference to said Classification Act, of a consulting architect.

Gallinger Municipal Hospital Salaries: For personal services, including not to exceed $2,000 for temporary labor, $333,940. 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 nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses; $211,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including not to exceed $1,500 for fire-protection improvements, $10,000. Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Reformatory, District of Columbia, Working Capital Fund, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, is reappropriated and made available for furniture, furnishings, and laboratory equipment for the new nurses’ home at Gallinger Municipal Hospital. 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, $700.

district training school For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary labor, $84,780. For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, farm machinery and implements, $91,200. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including purchase of machinery and tools, $5,000; for hog house, canning house, addition to cow barn, and fire-protection improvements, $11,500; in all, $16,500. For completing the equipment, including furniture and furnishings, for the new domestic service building, $10,000. For the construction of an infirmary ward building, including all necessary equipment, furniture, and furnishings, $115,000. For the replacement of boilers and smokestack, and replacement and extension of heating mains, water mains, sewer and electric transmission lines, $52,000.

industrial home school for colored children Salaries: For personal services, $34,120; temporary labor, $500; in all, $34,620. For maintenance, including purchase and maintenance of farm implements, horses, wagons, and harness, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, $23,400. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $3,000. For the construction of two cottage dormitories and additional school building facilities, such work to be done by day labor or otherwise as in the judgment of the commissioners may be most advantageous to the District of Columbia, $86,000, of which $5,000 shall be immediately available. All moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board or of instruction or otherwise shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia.

industrial home school Salaries: For personal services, $25,500; temporary labor, $500; in all, $26,000. For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $25,500. For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, including fire-protection improvements, $6,000.

home for aged and infirm Salaries: For personal services, $59,900; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $61,900. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $67,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the commissioners, $9,000.

municipal lodging house and wood yard For personal services; $3,660; maintenance, $3,780; in all, $7,440.

war veterans service office For personal services, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to enable the municipal government to aid and advise war veteran residents of the District of Columbia and their dependents as to their rights and privileges under Federal legislation of which veterans and/or their dependents may be beneficiaries, including assistance in the presentation of claims to the Veterans’ Administration or other appropriate Federal agencies, $6,000, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

temporary home for union ex-soldiers and sailors (department of the potomac, grand army of the republic) For personal services, $4,740; maintenance, $10,450; and repairs to buildings and grounds, $1,000; in all, $16,190, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners; and Union ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Civil War, ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Spanish War, Philippine insurrection, or China relief expedition, and soldiers, sailors, or marines of the World War or who served prior to July 2, 1921, shall be admitted to the home, all under the supervision of a board of management.

florence crittenton home For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $5,000.

southern relief society For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000.

national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at 1800 D Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000.

columbia polytechnic institute To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at 1808 H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000.

saint elizabeths hospital For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $1,781,936.

nonresident insane For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899, including persons held in the psycopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $5000. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Director of Public Welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the 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.

relief of the poor For relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and for pay of physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, $8,000. For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of an “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March 23, 1906, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District, $3, 500.

burial of ex-service men For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent Union ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines, of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired, and who died in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $225.

transportation of indigent persons For transporation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $5,000. Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents, District of Columbia: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February 23, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1260), $15,000.

MILITIA 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: For personal services, $27,150; temporary labor, $7,000; in all, $34,150. 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, instruction, purchase, and maintenance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at armory or field encampments, not to exceed $500; practice marches, drills, and parade; rent of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; fuel, light, eat, care, and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses, machinery and dock, dredging alongside of dock, construction of buildings for storage and other purposes at target range, telephone service, horses and mules for mounted organizations, maintenance and operation of passenger and nonpassenger motor vehicles, street car fares (not to exceed $200) necessarily used in the transaction of official business, not exceeding $400 for traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings or conventions of associations pertaining to the National Guard, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $12,500. For printing, stationery, and postage, $750. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment, and contingent expenses, $1,200. For expenses of target practice matches, including matches held outside of the District of Columbia and travel incident thereto, $2,500. For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general $10,000.

ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, in accordance with the revised plan as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, $179,520.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS salaries, public parks, district of columbia For personal services, $405,900. general expenses, public parks General expenses: For general expenses in connection with the 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 Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, including $5,000 for the maintenance of the tourists’ camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of seasonal or intermittent employees at per diem rates of pay approved by the director, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the director; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; contingent expenses; city directories; communication service; car fare; traveling expenses; professional, scientific, technical, and law books; periodicals and reference books; blank books and forms; photographs; dictionaries and maps; leather and rubber articles for the protection of employees and property; the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of not to exceed four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motor cycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $853,900, of which amount $309,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That not exceeding $38,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports and for expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; not exceeding $25,000 for the improvement and maintenance as recreation parks of Sections C and D, Anacostia Park; not exceeding $279,000 for the improvement of the Rock Creek and Potomac connecting parkway; not exceeding $100,000 for the improvement of Meridian Hill Park, to remain available until June 30, 1933; not exceeding $37,000 for grading and improving the roadway of Rock Creek Park to the District line; and not exceeding $15,000 for the erection of minor auxiliary structures: Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 may be expended by contract or otherwise for architectural or other professional services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923 as amended or civil-service rules, as approved by the director. park police Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $180,885. 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 and ammunition, $15,160.

NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION For reimbursement to the United States in compliance with section 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 482), as amended, $1,000,000. For each and every purpose, except the acquisition of land, requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital, approved June 6, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 463–464), as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, not to exceed $3,500 for printing and binding, not to exceed $500 for traveling expenses and car fare of employees of the commission, and not to exceed $100 for technical books and periodicals, $50,000.

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; 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 motor cycles, revolvers and ammunition; not exceeding $30,000 for the construction of necessary fencing with gates around the park; 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, $255,540, of which $4,500 shall be immediately available, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. For the preparation of plans and specifications for a public exhibition building for small mammals, $4,500, to be immediately available.

WATER SERVICE The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of water department, namely: washington aqueduct For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueducts and their accessories, including Dalecarlia, Georgetown, McMillan Park, first and second High Service Reservoirs, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plants, the pumping plants and the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters on Federal services, purchase, care, repair, and operation of vehicles, including the purchase and exchange of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle at a cost not to exceed $1,200; purchase and repair of rubber boots and protective apparel, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $450,000. 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. For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personal services, $187,880. For maintenance of the water department distribution system, including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, and all buildings and accessories, and motor trucks, and the replacement by purchase and exchange of the following motor-propelled vehicles: Three engineer field wagons not to exceed $2,100, three seven hundred and fifty-pound trucks not to exceed $1,500, fourteen one-ton trucks not to exceed $12,000, one one-and-one-half-ton truck not to exceed $1,500, two three-ton trucks not to exceed $7,000, and one four-ton truck not to exceed $4,000; purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and for contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing and binding not to exceed $2,000, postage, purchase of technical reference books, and periodicals, not to exceed $75, purchase and installation of two automatic billing machines, and the purchase of six hundred meter reading binders, not to exceed $3,500, and other necessary items, $11,000; in all for maintenance, $371,340, of which $30,000 shall be available for continuing a survey of water waste in the distribution system, including personal services, and $5,000 shall be available only 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 of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $285,000, to be immediately available. For installing and repairing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $130,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, $25,000. For replacement of old mains and divide valves in various locations, on account of inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains in advance of pavements, $150,000, to be immediately available. For eight thousand feet of forty-eight-inch water main from Sixth and Fairmont Streets northwest, northward to Upshur Street, by the shortest practical route, being approximately one-half of water main to ultimately connect with the existing forty-eight-inch water main at Georgia Avenue and Military Road, $320,000. For one thousand feet of twenty-inch water main from Belt Road and Fessenden Street to Wisconsin Avenue and Fessenden Street northwest, $13,000. For eight thousand feet of thirty-six-inch water main from Massachusetts Avenue and Upton Street to vicinity of Thirty-sixth Street and Woodley Road northwest, by the shortest practical route, $250,000. For the construction of a reservoir of approximately three million gallons capacity on Federal land in Fort Stanton Park (east end of W Street southeast), including not to exceed $8,000, to be immediately available for the employment by contract or otherwise of such expert and other personal services as may be required in connection with the preparation of plans for the construction of such reservoir and as shall be approved by the commissioners, and without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and for approximately three thousand five hundred linear feet of thirty-inch water main to connect said reservoir by the shortest practicable route with the Anacostia pumping station at Eighteenth Street and Minnesota Avenue, $172,000.

Sec. 2.

That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers,

Construction work, etc., under Commissioners.

levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, water, street, street-cleaning, or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: Provided, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $41,500

Provisos.

Limitation on expenses.

Period of employment.

during the fiscal year 1932: Provided further, That, excluding five inspectors in the sewer department no person shall be employed in pursuance of the authority contained in this paragraph for a longer period than nine months in the aggregate during the fiscal year.

The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily

Temporary laborers, mechanics, etc.

such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, water, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings, and bridges, furniture and equipments, and any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on, such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.

Sec. 3.

That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased,

Special authority required.

hired, and maintained and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in the Budget estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided

Proviso.

Temporary work for excavations, etc.

for in stables owned or operated by said District: Provided, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.

Sec. 4.

That the commissioners are authorized to employ in 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, all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fittings, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, two bookkeepers in the auditor’s office, clerk in the office of the collector of taxes, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire therefor motor trucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the commissioners, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles for inspection and transportation purposes, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account.

Leaves of absence, if employed 10 consecutive months.

Any person employed under any of the provisions of this Act who has been employed for ten consecutive months or more shall not be denied the leave of absence with pay for which the law provides.

Sec. 5.

That the commissioners and other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible,

Purchase directed of, from stock of Government activities no longer needed.

shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, in accordance with the regulations and schedules of the General Supply Committee or from the various services of the Government of the United States possessing material, supplies, passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, and equipment no longer required because of the cessation of war

Price stipulation.

activities. Surplus articles purchased from the Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government

Sales authorized.

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

Proviso.

Transfers under Executive order not affected.

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.