Public Law 75–403

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

GENERAL EXPENSES executive office For personal services, $48,060, 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 of personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the two civilian Commissioners the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and 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; (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; or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. Purchasing division: For personal services, $57,000. Building inspection division: For personal services, $121,360. Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $43,160; two members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all, $43,460. Smoke and boiler regulation: For personal services, equipment, instruments, supplies, transportation, and other contingent expenses necessary for the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to prevent the fouling of the atmosphere in the District of Columbia by smoke and other foreign substances, and for other purposes”, approved August 15, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 653), and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the inspection, control, and regulation of steam boilers and unfired pressure vessels in the District of Columbia”, approved June 25, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1917), $20,500. Office of Poundmaster: For personal services, maintenance and operation of motor vehicles, and other necessary expenses, $10,490: Provided, That the salary of the poundmaster shall be at the rate of $2,000 per annum. public convenience stations For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $14,000. care of the district buildings For personal services, including temporary labor, and service of cleaners as necesssary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $96,700: Provided, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Buildings. For fuel, light and power, repairs, laundry, and miscellaneous supplies, $30,000. assessor’s office For personal services, $221,000. collector’s office For personal services, $47,900. auditor’s office For personal services, $131,700, of which $5,000 shall be available without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements for examination of estimates of appropriations and for other purposes; 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. $98,060. alcoholic beverage control board For personal services, street-car and bus transportation, telephone service, not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase of samples, not exceeding $100 for witness fees, and other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $42,440. coroner’s office For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $10,600. For the maintenance of a non-passenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness’ fees, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,000. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets For personal services, $53,800. For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and not exceeding $750 for the purchase including exchange, of one motor vehicle equipped for making investigations of sales of gasoline and oil by short measure, $9,175. office of chief clerk, engineer department For personal services, $31,940, including $2,600 for the employment of one safety inspector. municipal architect’s office For personal services, $57,980. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment of personal services employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an amount not exceeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 2¾ per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000. public utilities commission For two commissioners, people’s counsel, and for other personal services, $61,500, 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, $1,500. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission. board of examiners, steam engineers Salaries: Two members, at $150 each, $300, and the inspector of boilers shall serve without additional compensation. department of insurance For personal services, including one fire-insurance-rate expert at not exceeding $4,600 per annum, $29,220. surveyor’s office For personal services, $79,000. For completing the rebinding and repairing of record books in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia, showing properties in the District of Columbia, $2,500. minimum wage board For personal services, including not to exceed $2,500 for the secretary of the Board, $8,040. For equipment, transportation, and other necessary expenses, $575. district of columbia employees’ 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, $41,000. Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees in the District of Columbia: For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved May 17, 1928 (45 Stat., p, 600), $53,300, for transfer to and expenditure by the Employees’ Compensation Commission under its appropriations “Salaries and expenses”, $53,000, and “Printing and binding”, $300. 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), $842,760, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil service retirement and disability fund.” department of vehicles and traffic For personal services, $82,440. For purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the Commissioners, including not to exceed $30,000 for the operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $93,000, of which not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic-light signals: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining street-car loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. For the purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates, $20,000. register of wills For personal services, $74,940. 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, $10,500. recorder of deeds For personal services, $110,000. 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, $12,500. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $14,000, to be expended without reference to the provisions of section 6 of this Act.

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; ice; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $6 per diem to each member of board of survey, other than the inspector of buildings, while actually employed on surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings; not exceeding $3,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $250 each, approved by the Commissioners under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of Columbia”, approved February 11, 1921) (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); and other general necessary expenses of District offices, $29,050: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded. For postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental of postage-meter equipment, $28,000. For judicial expenses, including witness fees, and expert services in District of Columbia cases before the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, $1,800: Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when in their judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to contract for stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) under available appropriations contained in this Act: Provided further, That neither the District of Columbia nor any officer thereof acting in his official capacity for the District of Columbia shall be required to pay court costs to the clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $7,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of advertising in newspapers published outside of the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the requirement for such advertising provided by existing law. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1937, 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, $5,500: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of advertising the delinquent tax list for more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one morning or one evening newspaper published in the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the provisions of existing law. For printing and binding, $49,000: Provided, That no part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be available for expenditure for printing and binding unless the need for such expenditure shall have been specifically approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the purchasing officer and the auditor for the District of Columbia acting for such Commissioners. To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, $250.

central garage For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $60,980; for purchase (including exchange) of passenger-carrying automobiles, $12,040; in all, $73,020. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at a rate of not to exceed $264 per ear for each automobile, $10,296: Provided, That allowances under this appropriation shall be made only to persons whose duties require full-time field service. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles owned by the District of Columbia shall be used exclusively for “official purposes” directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except as to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and in cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the Commissioners: Provided, That no passenger-carrying automobile, except busses, station wagons, patrol wagons, and ambulances, and except as otherwise specifically authorized in this Act, shall be acquired under any provision of this Act? by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. 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 $8,900: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments.

employment service For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $4,640.

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, $2,500: Provided, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of this appropriation for such purposes as they may deem necessary.

refund of erroneous collections To enable the Commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, payments for lost library books, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in 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), $3,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. For payment of amounts collected by the District erroneously on account of taxes, fines, fees, and similar charges, which are returned to the respective parties who may have paid the same, $100,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for refund of such erroneous payments made within the past three years only.

wharves For reconstruction, where necessary, and for maintenance and repair of wharves under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in the Washington Channel of the Potomac River, $3,000.

REPAYMENT OF LOAN FROM PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION For reimbursement to the United States, in compliance with section 3 of the Act approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 1215), of funds loaned under the authority of said Act, $1,000,000: Provided, That during the fiscal year 1938 no greater sum shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the special account established under section 3 of said Act than is required by said section for reimbursement to the United States.

FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY For personal services, and for substitutes and other special and temporary services, including extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, at the discretion of the librarian, $380.010. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other printed material, including payment in advance for subscription books, and society publications, $84,500: Provided, That the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the librarian of the free Public Library, upon requisition previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not exceeding $25 at the first of each month, to be expended for the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, numbers of periodicals or newspapers, or other printed material, and to be accounted for on itemized vouchers. For binding, including necessary personal services, $20,000. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, care of grounds, maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, including not to exceed $800 for purchase and exchange of one motor delivery vehicle, $36,000. For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy Chase and Woodridge, $4,320. For completing construction of the Petworth branch library building, including improvement of grounds and necessary furniture and equipment, $105,000: Provided, That the limit of cost fixed in the Act of June 23, 1936, is hereby increased from $150,000 to $180,000.

SEWERS For personal services, $180,030. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins; including the replacement of the following motor trucks: One at not to exceed $2,500; two at not to exceed $975 each; and the purchase of one motor truck at not to exceed $2,500; and 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 the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $245,000. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $100,000. For suburban sewers, including the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the replacement of the following motor trucks: Two at not to exceed $975 each; one at not to exceed $750; and one at not to exceed $650; in all, $150,000. For commencing construction of the Oxon Run Interceptor to provide an outlet for sewage from Washington Highlands, $169,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase or condemnation of rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $400,000. For the control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia, including personal services, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles, purchase of oil, and other necessary expenses, $12,000: Provided, That of the amount herein appropriated there may be transferred, in the interest of coordinating the work of mosquito control in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $4,100 to the Public Health Service of the Treasury Department, the amount so transferred to be available for the objects herein specified. Sewage treatment plant: For operation and maintenance, including salaries and wages of necessary employees, supplies, repairs to buildings and equipment, purchase of electric power, fuel, oil, waste, and other necessary expenses including the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $160,000.

COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE For personal services, $130,000. For dust prevention, sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repair of garages; maintenance and repair of non-passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment and necessary incidental expenses, $403,730. 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, $850,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants.

PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS For personal services, $127,780: 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, repairs, and improvements, equipment, supplies, incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance, $40,800. 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, $29,700. For temporary services, including superintendence, supplies, repairs, maintenance, and expenses necessary in the operation of swimming or bathing pools, $11,300.

ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT For personal services, $145,000. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, wire and cable for extension or telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record book, stationery, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, including not to exceed $600 for the purchase of one non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $30,800. For placing wires or 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, $40,000, of which $15,000 shall be available for the purchase and replacement of two sections of main trunk cables. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost of maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operation of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of storerooms, extra labor, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District 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, $765,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition.

PUBLIC 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, $683,800. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $180,260. 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), $41,500. 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 eleven, and professors in salary class twelve, and including $10,000 for health and physical education teachers to supervise play in schools of the central area bounded by North Capitol Street on the east, Florida Avenue on the north, the Mall on the south, and Twelfth Street on the west; and including $4,000 for advancement of teachers from group 1A to IB, group 2A to 2B, group 3A to 3B, and group 2C to 2D, $7,167,820: Provided, That as teacher vacancies occur during the fiscal year 1938 in grades one to four, inclusive, of the elementary schools, such vacancies may be filled by the assignment of teachers now employed in kindergartens, and teachers employed in kindergartens are hereby made eligible to teach in the said grades: Provided further, That teaching vacancies that occur during the fiscal year 1938 wherever found may be filled by the assignment of teachers of special subjects and teachers not now assigned to classroom instruction, and such teachers are hereby made eligible for such assignment without further examination: Provided further, That the average of the salaries paid librarians in the public schools shall not exceed the average of the salaries paid employees performing the same grade of work in the Free Public Library. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $30,400.

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, $102,180, of which $8,000 shall be for night-school instruction at Western High School. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,000.

americanization work For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages in both day and night classes, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day schools, $8,800. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $600. For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1934 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 945), entitled “An Act providing educational opportunities for the children of soldiers, sailors, and marines who were killed in action or died during the World War”, $3,000. For the development of vocational education in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories,” approved June 8, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1488), $4,235.

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, $102,000.

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 schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $942,705.

miscellaneous For the maintenance of schools for tubercular and crippled pupils, $8,300. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular pupils, sight conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $22,500: 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, $64,000, to be immediately available. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $325,000. For contingent expenses, including United States flags, furniture and repairs of same, including not exceeding $10,000 for the purchase of furniture and equipment for the Phelps Vocational School, stationery, ice, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $13,000 for books of reference and periodicals, of which $5,000 shall be available for the purchase of such books for the Wilson Teachers College, not exceeding $1,500 for replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, not exceeding $6,800 for labor; in all, $140,000, to be immediately available, of which not to exceed $1,200 may be expended for tabulating school census cards either by contract or by day labor as the Commissioners may determine: Provided, That a bond shall not be required on account of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings as follows: Lafayette School addition and assembly-gymnasium, $5,500; Truesdell School, addition and assembly-gymnasium, $10,000; Grimke School, addition and assembly-gymnasium, $10,000; Young School, addition and gymnasium, $7,250; Cleveland School, addition, $6,750; Shepherd School, second floor, $2,750; Dennison Vocational School, $26,000; Paul Junior High School, addition and gymnasium, $10,500; Deal Junior High School, addition and gymnasium, $10,500; Eastern High School, alterations, $30,000; in all, $119,250. 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, $185,000, to be immediately available. For maintenance of kindergartens, $5,600, 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 department of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools, vocational schools, and teachers colleges, and for the installation of the same, $16,400, to be immediately available. For utensils, materials, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $2,400. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric equipment, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains, and maintenance of motor trucks, including not to exceed $975 for the replacement of one one and one-half ton truck and including $4,000 for improvements at the Central High School stadium, $396,975, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That work performed for repairs and improvements shall be by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the Commissioners to be most advantageous to the District of Columbia. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, for school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $7,000: Provided, That such playgrounds shall be kept open for play purposes in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the playground department. 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.

the deaf, dumb, and blind For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbian 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, $35,500. 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, $7,500: 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, $11,500: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District, of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furniture and equipment and school supplies for the public schools of the District of Columbia shall be expended unless the requisitions of the Board of Education therefor shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the purchasing officer and the auditor for the District of Columbia acting for the Commissioners. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in 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.

buildings and grounds For completing the construction of a vocational school for girls, to replace the old Dennison School Building on S Street, on land owned by the District of Columbia at Arkansas Avenue and Allison Street Northwest, $236,000: Provided, That the limit of cost fixed in the Act of June 23, 1936, is hereby increased from $280,000 to $336,000. For beginning the construction of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High School and Library, $300,000, of which sum $16,800 shall be available for the preparation of plans, specifications, and administration; the employment of such personal services to be without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements; and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building or buildings at a cost not to exceed $800,000: Provided, That the library shall be under the administration of the Board of Library Trustees of the Free Public Library; For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Bundy School, including an assembly hall-gymnasium, and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $150,000; For beginning the construction of a vocational school to replace the present Lenox Vocational School, on land now owned by the District of Columbia at Potomac Avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets Southeast, $160,000, of which sum $7,560 shall be available for the preparation of plans, specifications, and administration, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such building at a cost not to exceed $360,000; For the construction of a third-story addition to the Cleveland School to provide six additional rooms, $114,000; For beginning the construction of a new senior high school on a site already owned by the District of Columbia at Fifth and Sheridan Streets Northwest, $350,000, of which sum $28,300 shall be available for the preparation of plans, specifications, and administration; the employment of such personal services to be 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 the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building at a cost not to exceed $1,350,000; For the erection of a junior high school building on a portion of the site of the existing Banneker Playground, $200,000, of which sum $15,217 shall be available for the preparation of plans, specifications, and administration, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building at a cost not to exceed $724,650; For the completion of the second floor of the Shepherd School. $30,000; In all, $1,540,000, 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. For the purchase of school building and playground sites as follows: For the purchase of land adjoining the site of the old Dennison School, to provide for the construction of an elementary school building; Not exceeding $17,500 for the purchase of land for elementary school purposes in the vicinity of First and Pierce Street Northwest; For the purchase of a site for elementary school purposes in the vicinity of Third Street and Concord Avenue Northwest; For the purchase of additional land for an extension to the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School; For the purchase of additional land for the new Lenox Vocational School, adjacent to the site for said school now owned by the District of Columbia at Potomac Avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets Southeast; In all, $242,500. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932 for the erection of a new school building for the Jefferson Junior High School is hereby made available for the acquisition of a site in the area bounded by Seventh Street on the west and K Street on the south in Southwest Washington for a new building for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High School and Library. 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, 1937, and children entering during the second halt of the school year who will be five years of age by March 15, 1938: 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. 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. 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 lie 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 in excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance or 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 by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 839–841), including compensation at the rate of $2,100 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police department, $3.386,730. For personal services, $138,730. miscellaneous For fuel, $7,300. For repairs and improvements to police stations and station grounds, $12,500. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for fugitives, purchase of gas equipment and firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, rental and maintenance of teletype system and labor-saving devices, telephone service charges, purchase, maintenance, and servicing of radio broadcasting systems, purchase of equipment, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, medals of award, not to exceed $300 for car tickets, furniture and repair thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, police equipments and repairs to same, and mounted equipment, flags and halyards, storage and hauling of stolen or abandoned property, and traveling and other expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime and other necessary expenses, including expenses of harbor patrol, $68,375, of which amount not exceeding $2,000 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 Commissioners are authorized to employ the electrician of the District Building to repair and test speedometers at such cost not exceeding $250 as they may approve, payment to be in addition to his regular compensation, and such services to be performed after regular working hours. miscellaneous For purchase, exchange, and maintenance of passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $67,300. 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, $49,750. house of detention For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detention of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including transportation, the maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of buildings, fuel, gas, ice, laundry supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $8,900; for personal services, $9,420; in all, $18,320.

POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF To pay the policemen and firemen’s relief and other allowances as authorized by law, $1,015,000.

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. 175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 839–841), $2,211,900. For personal services, $5,620. miscellaneous For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $20,000. 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, $23,000. 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, $18,000. For fuel, $23,500. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $22,500. For additional fire-fighting apparatus, including three chiefs’ automobiles, at not to exceed $1,200 each, $100,000.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT salaries For personal services, including not exceeding $19,360 for employees in the permit office and ambulance service, and not exceeding $16,880 for the inspection of all public establishments and employees where food is sold or served, $217,690. 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, $43.830: 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 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, $45,380: 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. Nursing service: For maintaining a nursing service, including personal services, uniforms, supplies, and contingent expenses, $143,440: Provided, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the maintenance of the nursing service herein authorized: Provided further, That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for 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, $1,000. 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 the establishment of one additional clinic, $111,060: 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, $7,890. 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 car tokens and passes for nurses, sanitary inspectors and food inspectors; and including not to exceed $200 for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk, $7,000: Provided, That inspectors of dairy farms may receive an allowance for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at the rate of not to exceed $312 per annum for each inspector. For maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motor vehicles, $800. Child welfare and hygiene: For maintaining a child-hygiene service, including the establishment and maintenance of child-welfare stations for clinical examinations, advice in the care of children under six years of age, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, periodicals, and supplies, $25,000: Provided, That the Commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service 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 the following hospital and sanatoria, which, on and after July 1, 1937, shall be under the direction and control of the Health Department of the District of Columbia and subject to the supervision of the Board of Commissioners: Tuberculosis Sanatoria: For personal services, $325,440. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs to same, gas, water, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, medical books, school books, classroom supplies, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $500, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, $203,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $13,000. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For personal services, including not to exceed $2,000 for temporary labor, $468,560, of which $13,000 shall be available for out-patient relief of the poor including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and pay of physicians. For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quarantine station, smallpox hospital, and public crematorium, including expenses incident to furnishing proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium and remain unclaimed after twelve months from the date of such cremation; for maintenance and purchase of horses and horse-drawn vehicles; for medical books, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $500; for maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses, $270,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,500. Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense of commencement exercises, entertainments, and inspection by New York State Board of Regents, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $600. Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Health Officer of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital, $40,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $65,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $40,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000. Health Center: For the construction on the site of the Jones Elementary School at First and L Streets Northwest, of a building for a Health Center, including necessary fixed equipment therefor, $165,000, of which sum $7,000 shall be available for preparation of plans and specifications, administration and inspection, including the employment of personal services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended: Provided, That all buildings belonging to the District of Columbia shall be under the jurisdiction and control of the Commissioners of said District.

COURTS juvenile court Salaries: For personal services, $65,800. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $2,000. For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, repairs to courthouse and grounds, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $3,150. 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, $114,530. For law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, rebinding of books, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painter’s and plumber’s supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, lodging and meals for jurors and bailiffs when ordered by the court, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $11,600, of which not exceeding $750 shall be available for telephone and telegraph service. For witness fees and compensation of jurors, $24,000. For completing construction of a building in Judiciary Square to house the Police Court of the District of Columbia, including furniture and equipment, and inspection, $450,000. municipal court Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of five judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $77,170. For compensation of jurors, $6,000: Provided, That deposits 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, $3,250. District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. district court of the united states for the district of columbia Salaries: For the chief justice, eight associate justices, nine stenographers (one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice), and other personal services, $137,300. Fees of jurors and witnesses: For mileage and per diem of jurors, for mileage and per diem of witnesses and for per diem in lieu of subsistence, and payment of the expenses of witnesses in said court as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 604), $85,000. For not exceeding twenty deputy marshals who act as bailiffs, clerks of jury commissioners, and per diems of jury commissioners, 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, $37,400: Provided, That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1938 shall not exceed $250. Probation system: For personal services, $13,280; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $13,780. Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection of the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $35,290, 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, $19.675, of which $9,000 shall be immediately available for changing electric wiring in said courthouse from direct to alternating current, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. court of appeals Salaries: For the chief justice and four associate justices, marshal, $3,600, whose appointment is hereby authorized, five law clerks at $2,500 each, and all other officers and employees of the court; reporting service; and not to exceed $520 for necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office; in all, $115,400: 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 United States 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, $660. For repairs and improvements to the United States Court of Appeals Building, including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $4,500, of which $3,000 shall be immediately available for changing electric wiring in said building from direct to alternating current, to be expended under the direction 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, $71,200. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, $1,000. Miscellaneous court expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $25.000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, $3,000, and the United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, $3,000, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party; in all, $6,000.

PUBLIC WELFARE board of public welfare For personal services, $97,740. 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, $3,500, 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, $275,000. 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 $13,060 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $163,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be so apportioned by the Commissioners as to prevent a deficiency therein, and no more than $100 per month shall be paid therefrom to any one family and no more than $400 shall be paid for burial of children dying while beneficiaries under said Act. For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of 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 medicinal supplies, rental, repair and upkeep of buildings, fuel, gas, electricity, ice, supplies and equipment, and other necessary expenses including not to exceed $19,120 for personal services, $38,000. 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, $86,600. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Columbia at the jail, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their capture; repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices; newspapers, books, and periodicals not to exceed $100; purchase including exchange of one truck, $700; maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle; purchase of one motor-driven extractor, $2,200; and expense of electrocutions, $84,900. general administration, workhouse and reformatory, district of columbia For personal services, $442,640. For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, rewards for fugitives, discharge gratuities provided by law, medical supplies, newspapers, books, books of reference and periodicals, farm implements, tools, equipment, transportation expenses, purchase and maintenance of livestock and horses; purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of non-passenger-carrying vehicles and motor bus; purchase of one bus, including exchange, for transportation of prisoners, $7,500; fuel for heating, lighting, and power, and all other necessary items, including uniforms and caps for guards, $437,500. For repairs to buildings and grounds, and maintenance of utilities, marine and railroad transportation facilities, and mechanical equipment not used in industrial enterprises, $22,000. For replacing defective electric wiring and equipment of distribution system with underground construction at the District of Columbia penal institutions at Lorton and Occoquan, and moving electric generators from powerhouse at Occoquan to powerhouse at Lorton, $29,000. To provide a working capital fund for such industrial enterprises as may be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $30,000: Provided, That the various departments and institutions of the Distinct of Columbia and the Federal Government may purchase, at fair market prices, as determined by the Commissioners, such surplus products and services as meet their requirements; receipts 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 1938 for the purchase and repair of machinery, tools, and equipment, purchase or raw materials and manufacturing supplies, purchase, maintenance, and operation of non-passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase and maintenance of horses, and purchase of fuel for manufacturing purposes; for freight, personal services, and all other necessary expenses; and for the payment to inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings as the Commissioners may deem proper. For continuing construction of permanent buildings for women, including sewers, water mains, and other necessary utilities, $45,000. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the general superintendent of penal institutions, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners may require of said superintendent, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for expenses in returning escaped prisoners, conditional releasees, and parolees, payable from the maintenance appropriations for the workhouse and reformatory, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. national training school for 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, $150,000. national training school for girls Salaries: For personal services, $31,500. For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, clothing, shoes, forage and farm supplies; medicine, medical service, including not to exceed $2,000 for medical care and not to exceed $600 for dental care; transportation, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment, fixtures, books, magazines, and other educational supplies; recreational equipment and supplies, including rental of motion-picture films; stationery, postage; repairs; and other necessary items, including not exceeding $2,500 for additional labor and services on a per diem basis; funds for foster home placement of girls approved for such treatment by the Board of Public Welfare not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, $30,000. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937 for the construction, repair, improvement, and extension of buildings at the National Teaming School for Girls, in accordance with plans to be approved by the Municipal Architect and the Commissioners; and for additional personnel and maintenance at that institution is hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1938. columbia hospital and lying-in asylum For general repairs, including labor and material, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $5,000. district training school For personal services, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary labor, $104,270. For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, farm machinery and implements, and not to exceed $300 for the purchase of books, books of reference, and periodicals, $97,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including improvements to the power and lighting system, $17,500. For the purchase, including exchange, of one three-ton dump truck, $2,500. For construction of a hospital and administration building, including purchase of furniture and equipment, $175,000, of which sum $4,000 shall be available for preparation of plans, specifications, and administration. industrial home school for colored children Salaries: For personal services, $37,760; temporary labor, $500; in all, $38,260. For maintenance, including purchase and maintenance of farm implements, horses, wagons, and harness, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, not to exceed $1,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, and not to exceed $2,000 for laundry machinery, $25,500. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,500. For construction of a vocational building, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $15,000. industrial home school Salaries: For personal services, $24,780; temporary labor, $1,000; in all, $25,780. For maintenance, including purchase of equipment, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $23,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. home for aged and infirm Salaries: For personal services, $64,400; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $66,400. 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 non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $78,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $4,500. For the purchase, including exchange, of one three-ton dump truck, $2,500. For purchase and installation of an additional boiler for the heating plant, $15,750. municipal lodging house For personal services, $3,600; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $7,600. public assistance For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the District of Columbia who are unemployed or otherwise in distress because of the existing emergency, to be expended by the Board of Public Welfare of the District of Columbia by employment and direct relief, in the discretion of the Board of Commissioners and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the board and without regard to the provisions of any other law, payable from the revenues of the District of Columbia, $1,411,500, and not to exceed 10 per centum of this appropriation and of Federal grants reimbursed under this appropriation shall be expended for personal services: Provided, That all auditing, disbursing, and accounting for funds administered through the Public Assistance Division of the Board of Public Welfare, including all employees engaged in such work and records relating thereto, shall be under the supervision and control of the Auditor of the District of Columbia. Assistance against old-age want: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia in relation to providing assistance against old-age want”, approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 747), including not to exceed $32,265 for personal services and other necessary expenses, $428,265. Pensions for needy blind persons: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide aid for needy blind persons of the District of Columbia and authorizing appropriations therefor”, approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat., p. 744), $36,645. temporary home for former soldiers and sailors For personal services, $4,620; maintenance, $11,750; and repairs to buildings and grounds, $1,000; in all, $17,370, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners; and former Union soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Civil War, former soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Spanish War, Philippine Insurrection, or China relief expedition, and former soldiers, sailors, or marines of the World War or who served prior to July 2, 1921, shall 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, $9,000. 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 Belief 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, $2,325,780. 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 psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $12,000. 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. 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, $270. transportation of indigent persons For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $3,500. vocational rehabilitation Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents, 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), $25,000.

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, $21,500; temporary labor, $5,800; for expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments; damages to private property incident to encampment; reimbursement to the United States for loss of property for which the District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and maintenance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at armory or field encampments, not to exceed $500; practice marches, drills, and parades; rent of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses; machinery and dock, including dredging alongside of dock; construction of buildings for storage and other purposes at target range; telephone service; printing, stationery, and postage; horses and mules for mounted organizations; maintenance and operation of passenger and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; street-car fares (not to exceed $200) necessarily used in the transaction of official business; not exceeding $400 for traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings or conventions of associations pertaining to the National Guard; and for general incidental expenses of the service, $15,480; in all, $42,780.

ANACOSTIA RIVER AND 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, $50,000.

NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS salaries, public parks, district of columbia For personal services, $351,910. 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 National Park Service, including the tourists’ camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of seasonal or intermittent employees at perdiem rates of pay approved by the Director, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports and for expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the Director; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; contingent expenses; city directories; communication service; carfare; traveling expenses; professional, scientific, technical, and law books; periodicals and reference books, blank books and forms; photographs; dictionaries and maps; leather and rubber articles for the protection of employees and property; the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of not to exceed two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motorcycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $382,500: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the erection of minor auxiliary structures. park police Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $175,470. For uniforming and equipping the United States park police force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equipment, $9,000.

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, $300,000. 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 (U. S. C., title 40, sec. 71), as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, not to exceed $1,000 for printing and binding, not to exceed $500 for traveling expenses and carfare of employees of the Commission, and not to exceed $300 for professional, scientific, technical, and reference books, and periodicals, $40,150: Provided, That the Commission may procure supplies and services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $50: Provided further, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget.

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and enclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; traveling and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $2,000 for travel and field expenses in the United States and foreign countries for the procurement of live specimens and for the care, subsistence, and transportation of specimens obtained in the course of such travel; maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; for the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of bicycles and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, revolvers, and ammunition; not exceeding $2,500 for purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, keepers, and assistant keepers; not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $225,000, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation.

STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR For personal services, $251,000, payable 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 (43 Stat., p. 106), and accretions by repayment of assessments.

gasoline tax, road and street improvements and repairs For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, and roads, including temporary per diem services, surveying instruments and implements, and drawing materials, and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, and including trees and parkings, assessment and permit work and the several purposes provided for in that paragraph, 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 (43 Stat., p. 106), and accretions by repayment of assessments: For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and gutters where necessary, the following: Southeast: Branch Avenue, Alabama Avenue to Denver Street, $26,000; Southeast: Minnesota Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue to Twenty-seventh Street, $10,000; Northeast: Fenwick Street, New York Avenue to West Virginia Avenue, $18,000; Northeast: Franklin Street, Michigan Avenue to Lincoln Road, $16,500; Northwest: New Hampshire Avenue, Buchanan Street to North Capitol Street, $96,000; Northwest: For widening to seventy feet and repaving the roadway of Seventeenth Street, from Pennsylvania Avenue to H Street, including the necessary replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains, fire-alarm and police-patrol boxes, $23,500: 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 February 20, 1931 (46 Stat., pp. 1197–1199). 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 sidewalks or parking on said street if it be found necessary to change such vaults to permit of the roadway being widened: Southeast: Denver Street, Branch Avenue to Thirty-fourth Street, $15,000; Southeast: Sixteenth Street, Ridge Place to Q Street, $10,500; Southeast: Nineteenth Street, Minnesota Avenue to P Street, $10,500; Southeast: R Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $8,300; Southeast: Q Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $8,300; Southeast: Q Street, Nineteenth Street to Minnesota Avenue, $3,800; Southeast: P Street, Eighteenth Place to Nineteenth Street, $4,500; Southeast: Eighteenth Place, Fairlawn Avenue to P Street, $7,500; Northeast: Seventeenth Street, C Street to E Street, $12,000; Northeast: D Street, Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $9,000; Northeast; Eighteenth Street, C Street to D Street, $7,500; Northeast: E Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $4,800; Northeast: Holbrook Street, Morse Street to Neal Street, $6,100; Northeast: Seventeenth Place, K Street to L Street, $5,400; Northeast: Seventeenth Street, K Street to M Street, $15,000; Northeast: Lang Street, Seventeenth Street eastward, $3,000; Northeast: Lyman Street, Seventeenth Street eastward, $3,600; Northeast: R Street, Bladensburg Road eastward, $10,500; Northeast: Evarts Street, Twenty-second Street to Twenty-fourth Street, $8,300; Northeast: Nineteenth Street, South Dakota Avenue to Bunker Hill Road, $14,000; Northeast: Randolph Street, Eighteenth Street to Twentieth Street, $16,500; Northeast: South Dakota Avenue, Eighteenth Street to Nineteenth Street, $21,900; Northeast: South Dakota Avenue, Fourteenth Street southward, $14,000; Northeast: Thirteenth Place, Taylor Street to Michigan Avenue, $5,300; Northeast: Taylor Street, Michigan Avenue to Fourteenth Street, $10,000; Northwest: Crittenden Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Fourth Street, $5,300; Northwest: Third Place, Crittenden Street to Decatur Street, $4,600; Northwest: Decatur Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Fourth Street, $9,000; Northwest: Fourth Street, Decatur Street to Emerson Street, $6,800; Northwest: Delafield Place, Third Street to Fourth Street, $6,800; Northwest: Third Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Emerson Street, $10,500; Northwest: Third Street, Farragut Street to Kansas Avenue, $28,500; Northwest: Gallatin Street, Third Street to Fourth Street, $7,500; Northwest: Hamilton Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Kansas Avenue, $20,500; Northwest: Second Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Hamilton Street, $11,300; Northwest: Farragut Street, New Hampshire Avenue to First Street, $4,500; Northwest: First Street, Concord Avenue to Longfellow Street, $10,500; Northwest: Powhatan Place, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, $9,100; Northwest: Sixth Street, Tuckerman Street to Van Buren Street, $8,200; Northwest: Seventh Street, Tewksbury Place to Whittier Street, $17,300; Northwest: Oglethorpe Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $6,800; Northwest: Gallatin Street, Georgia Avenue to Ninth Street, $7,500; Northwest: Western Avenue, Rittenhouse Street to Broad Branch Road, $24,200; Northwest: Elder Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $6,000; For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, $50,000; For paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $5,000; 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, $5,000; 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, $200,000; For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt, granite block, or concrete pavements with the same or other approved material, $450,000; For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, $54,540; For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, including the reconditioning of existing gravel streets and roads; for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross walks, and gutters in the discretion of the Commissioners; and including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $900,000: Provided, That appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, city refuse, and the water department shall be available for snow removal when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners: Provided further, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, should they deem such action to be to the advantage of the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized to purchase a municipal asphalt plant at a cost not to exceed $30,000. This appropriation shall be available for the construction and repair of pavements of street railways in accordance with the provisions of the Merger Act, approved January 14, 1933 (47 Stat., p. 752). The proportion of the amount thus expended which under the terms of the said Act is required to be paid by the street-railway company shall be collected, upon the neglect or the refusal of such street-railway company to pay, from the said street-railway company in the manner provided by section 5 of “An Act providing a 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 it is collected; For completing the replacement of the superstructure, and such portions of the substructure as may be necessary, including relocation and reconstruction of approach roads of the Chain Bridge in accordance with plans and profiles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including personal services, engineering and incidental expenses, $143,000; and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the completion of said bridge at a cost not to exceed $393,000; For the preparation of studies, preliminary plans and surveys, estimates, and investigations of foundation conditions (1) for a highway, including the necessary bridges, across Rock Creek Park to provide a direct connection between Sixteenth Street and Connecticut Avenue at a location near or north of Klingle Road, (2) for a through or bypass highway in Georgetown in the general line of K Street and Canal Road Northwest, between Twenty-seventh Street and Foxhall Road, including the necessary bridges, viaducts, grade-separation structures, and connections to Key Bridge, (3) for a redesign and changes in Dupont, Scott, and Thomas Circles, including adjacent public space, to meet present and future traffic and transportation needs, including the necessary underpasses, curb and roadway changes, street-railway-track relocation and changes and addition to underground structures, and including the employment of engineering or other professional services, by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and engineering and incidental expenses, $30,000; 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, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, including the procurement of chains of title, $150,000, to remain available until June 30, 1939: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available to carry out the provision of existing law for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of alleys and minor streets and for the establishment of building lines in the District of Columbia; For assessment and permit work, paving of roadways under the permit system, and construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, including purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and of areas less than two hundred and fifty square feet at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the Commissioners, and including maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $150,000; For personal services, trees and parkings, $26,600; For contingent expenses, trees and parkings, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees, and tree spaces on city and suburban streets, purchase and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $100,000; In all, not to exceed $2,894,340. to be immediately available; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road, and street improvements and repairs”, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: Provided, That assessments in accordance with existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways, alleys, and sidewalks where such roadways, alleys, and sidewalks are paved or repaved with funds derived from the collection of the tax on motorvehicle fuels and accretions by repayment of assessments: Provided further, That any portion of this appropriation (Gasoline tax, road and street improvements and repairs) may be used for payment to contractors and for other expenses in connection with the expense of design, construction, and inspection of grade-crossing elimination projects authorized under section 8 of Act of Congress, Public Law Numbered 686, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved June 16, 1936, pending reimbursement to the District of Columbia by the Department of Agriculture, reimbursement to be credited to fund from which payment was made. The Commissioner’s 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. 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. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used for the operation of a testing laboratory of the highways department for making tests of materials in connection with any activity of the District government.

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 for 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 $650: purchase and repair of rubber boots and protective apparel, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $540,000, including $40,000 for emergency repairs caused by the floods of the Potomac River in March 1936 and April 1937. 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, $179,670. For the 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 motor vehicles such as are now owned, and the replacement by purchase and exchange of the following motor-propelled vehicles: One two-passenger coupe and one five-passenger sedan at not to exceed $600 each; three station wagons at not to exceed $750 each; one truck at not to exceed $500; four trucks at not to exceed $750 each; one truck at not to exceed $800; one truck at not to exceed $3,300; and one special truck at not to exceed $3,500; and the purchase of the following additional motor vehicles: five trucks at not to exceed $750 each; purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and for contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing and binding not to exceed $2,500; postage, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $275, and other necessary items, $7,500; in all for maintenance, $367,800, of which not exceeding $5,000 shall be available for operation of pumps at Bryant Street pumping station upon interruption of service from Dalecarlia pumping station. For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $300,000. For installing and repairing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the Commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $220,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, $22,500. For replacement of old mains and divide valves in various locations, on account of inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains in advance of pavements, $135,000. The Treasurer of the United States is authorized to invest in United States securities for the account of the water fund of the District of Columbia such funds as may be determined by the Commissioners to be available for that purpose during the fiscal year 1938, and such funds are appropriated for this purpose from the revenues of the Water Department. For the construction of approximately seven thousand six hundred feet of thirty-six inch trunk line water main from the vicinity of First and L Streets Northwest to the vicinity of East Capitol and Second Streets, $171,000; for the construction of approximately three thousand and eighty feet of twenty-four, thirty, and forty-eight inch trunk water main in the vicinity of Washington Circle, including minor changes in present construction, $85,000; in all, $256,000, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the Water Department and to be disbursed and accounted for as “Mains, Water Department, District of Columbia”, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. For the refunding of water rents and other water charges erroneously paid in the District of Columbia, to be refunded in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding of erroneously paid taxes, $3,500: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past two years. For expenses of a survey to determine the reproduction cost and historical cost of the water system of the District of Columbia, and the proper water rates to cover not only operating expenses but also depreciation reserve, including the employment of engineering or other professional services by contract or otherwise, 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 such other expenses as may be approved by the Commissioners, $20,000, to be immediately available and to be payable from the water revenues of said District of Columbia.

Approved, June 29, 1937.