Public Law 77–452

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, 1943, 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, $110,185, 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, and including $7,000 for examination of estimates of appropriations and for other purposes without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements. Purchasing division: For personal services, $57,775. Department of Inspections: For personal services, $289,245, including two members of plumbing board at $150 each, and two members, board of examiners, steam engineers at $300 each, the inspector of boilers to serve without additional compensation. To carry out the provisions of section 10 of the Act of June 4, 1934, entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to require the erection of fire escapes in certain buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes’, approved March 19, 1906, as amended” (48 Stat. 843), $10,000. Office of Poundmaster: For personal services, including the salary of the poundmaster at $2,600 per annum, maintenance and operation of motor vehicles, and other necessary expenses, $16,940. public convenience stations For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $18,500. For the construction of three public-convenience stations, on District-owned land, including the acquisition by the Commissioners of additional necessary land, $40,000: Provided, That not to exceed 3 per centum of the amount herein appropriated may be transferred to the credit of the appropriation account “Municipal Architect’s Office, construction services”, to be available for the preparation of plans and specifications for said buildings. care of the district buildings For personal services, including temporary labor, and service of cleaners as necessary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $265,075: 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, $120,230. assessor’s office For personal services, $341,885. board of tax appeals For personal services in accordance with title IX of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, and for other purposes”, approved May 16, 1938, as amended by the Act of July 26, 1939, $14,140. collector’s office For personal services, $54,240; for temporary clerk hire, $2,500; in all. $64,560. For purchase of cash register machines, $2,840, adding machines, $360, and for replacement of a money safe at main office in the District Building, $2,500; in all, $5,700, to be available immediately. auditor’s office For personal services, $133,355, including $2,000 for continuing the employment of a real-estate expert without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements. office of corporation counsel Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $123,607. alcoholic beverage control board For personal services, streetcar and bus transportation, telephone service, not exceeding $100 for witness fees, and not less than $12,000 for beverage tax stamps, and other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and periodicals, $51,095. coroner’s office For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $14,855. For the maintenance of a non-passenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witnesses’ fees, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies and services, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony and photographing unidentified bodies, $6,100. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets For personal services, $61,070. Weights, measures, and markets, expenses: For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and for the purchase, including exchange, of one motor vehicle equipped for making investigations of sales of gasoline and oil by short measure, $9,675. Motortruck master scale: For the purchase and installation of a motortruck master scale for verifying the weights of coal and other commodities sold in large loads, including construction of weight-master’s office and all other necessary appurtenances as determined by the Commissioners, $5,000. office of chief clerk, engineer department For personal services, $35,350. municipal architect’s office For personal services, $70,080, of which $2,600 shall be available for continuing the employment of one unclassified engineering examiner and computer. 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, and appropriations specifically made in this Act for the preparation of plans and specifications shall be deducted from any allowances authorized under this paragraph: Provided, That reimbursements may be made to this fund from appropriations contained in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District government, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appropriations. public utilities commission For two commissioners, and for other personal services, $78,715. 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. department of insurance For personal services, $34,495. surveyor’s office For personal services, including $6,560 for the employment of one temporary field party, $87,810. minimum wage and industrial safety board Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary for the Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board, created by the Act of October 14, 1941, amending the Act of September 19, 1918, including personal services and printing and binding, $31,625. zoning commission For salaries and expenses necessary for the administration of the Act entitled “An Act providing for the zoning of the District of Columbia and the regulation of the location, height, bulk, and uses of buildings and other structures and of the uses of land in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved June 20, 1938, $12,655. commission on mental health For compensation of members of the Commission on Mental Health of the District of Columbia, and other personal services, $21,342: Provided, That the salary of the executive secretary shall be at the rate of $3,000 per annum and the salary of each physician-member shall be at the rate of $3,800 per annum. board of indeterminate sentence and parole For salaries and expenses, including not to exceed $300 for travel in attending parole conventions and conferences, $23,575. office of administrator of rent control Salaries and expenses: For all expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act, approved December 2, 1941, including personal services and printing and binding, $70,720. 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, $65,000. 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. 600), $87,215, for transfer to and expenditure by the Employees’ Compensation Commission under its appropriations “Salaries and expenses” $86,715, and “Printing and binding”, $500. 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 (5 U. S. C. 707a), $879,575, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “civil service retirement and disability fund”. register of wills For personal services, $82,478.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, contract statistical services, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, including laboratory coats and photographic developing-room equipment, towels, towel service, window washing, streetcar tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, lawbooks and periodicals, $13,120. recorder of deeds For personal services, $126,188. 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, lawbooks and periodicals, streetcar tokens, postage; not exceeding $100 for rest room for sick and injured employees and the equipment of and medical supplies for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $13,900.

CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES For checks, books, lawbooks, books of reference, including $1,000 for lawbooks and books of reference for the Corporation Counsel’s office, periodicals, newspapers, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; ice; including $575 for affiliation with the National Safety Council, Incorporated: traveling expenses not to exceed $3,000; including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of 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, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); not to exceed $250 to aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; maintenance and repair of wharves; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, $40,200: 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, $23,700. 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, $1,500: Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when in their judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to contract for stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 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 any court in and 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, $9,000: 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, 1942, 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, $2,500: 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, $69,000, of which $1,650 shall be. available immediately for payment of 1942 obligations: Provided, That no part of the appropriation contained in tins Act shall be available for expenditure for printing and binding unless the need for such expenditure shall have been specifically approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the purchasing officer and the auditor for the District of Columbia acting for such Commissioners: Provided further, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1943. central garage For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, work cars, field wagons, ambulances, and busses owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $60,530; for purchase (including exchange) of passenger-carrying automobiles, work cars, and field wagons, $18,500; and for purchase of two auto-mobiles for pool service; in all, $80,880. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at a rate of not to exceed $264 per year for each automobile, $13,200: 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. 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 streetcar 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 $17,000: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. emergency fund To be expended in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood, or fire, or storm, and of like character, and for other purposes, in the discretion of the Commissioners, $3,500: 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 taxes, special assessments, school-tuition charges, payments for lost library books, rents, fines, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the general revenues of the District of Columbia, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911 (36 Stat. 967), $75,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years.

REPAYMENT OF LOAN FROM PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION, INCLUDING INTEREST For reimbursement to the United States, in compliance with section 3 of the Act approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1203), of funds loaned under the authority of said Act, including interest, $2,500,000.

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, $475,358. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other printed material, including payment in advance for subscription books, and society publications, including not exceeding $300 for music records and sound recordings, $57,000: Provided, That the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the librarian of the Free Public Library, upon requisition previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not exceeding $25 at the first of each month, to be expended for the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, numbers of periodicals or newspapers, or other printed material, and to be accounted for on itemized vouchers. For binding, including necessary personal services, $30,000. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, care of grounds, maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $51,625. For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Anacostia, Chevy Chase, and Woodridge, $7,560. For continuing the construction in square 491 of the first unit of an extensible library building, $128,000: Provided, That the unexpended balances of the amounts made available by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1940, for the preparation of plans and specifications for this building shall remain available for the same purposes and under the same conditions and limitations until June 30, 1943.

SEWERS For personal services, including one chief engineering inspector at $2,600 per annum, without reference to civil-service requirements, $188,860. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work; and for operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to equipment, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of electricity, fuel, oil, waste, and other supplies, $250,000. For construction of sewers and receiving basins, $630,000, including the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work. For assessment and permit work, sewers, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase or condemnation of rights-of-way for construction. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $500,000, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available. 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, $4,800. 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, $200,000. For the pro rata contribution of the District of Columbia to the expenses of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, in accordance with Public Resolution Numbered 93, approved July 11, 1940, granting such Commission authority to regulate, control, prevent, or otherwise render unobjectionable and harmless the pollution of the water of the Potomac drainage area by sewage and industrial and other wastes, $3,600.

COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE For personal services, $145,550. For dust prevention, sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repair of garages; maintenance and repair of non-passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets, purchase of and purchase including exchange of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment, not to exceed $43,300, and necessary incidental expenses, $565,465. To enable the Commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia, including inspection; fencing of public and private property designated by the Commissioners as public dumps; including not to exceed $85,100 for the purchase of and purchase including exchange of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; and incidental expenses, $1,214,200, of which not to exceed $26,776 shall be immediately avail-able for payment of 1942 obligations: 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.

ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT For personal services, $100,840. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record book, stationery, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motortrucks, and other necessary items, $70,540. For placing wires of fire-alarm, police-patrol, and telephone services underground, extension and relocation of police-patrol and fire-alarm systems, purchase and installing additional cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment and expenses, $93,450. Street 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 motortrucks, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat. 1008–1011, Sec. 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat. 181–184, Sec. 7), and other laws applicable thereto. $829,900: 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. 367–375), including salaries of presidents of teachers colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $722,883. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $221,545. For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 367–375), the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat. 806–808), and the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 998), $44,100. For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 367–375), including for teachers colleges assistant professors in salary class eleven, and professors in salary class twelve, and for health and physical education teachers, $7,609,840: Provided, That teaching vacancies that occur during the fiscal year 1943 wherever found may be filled by the assignment of teachers of special subjects and teachers not now assigned to classroom instruction, and such teachers are hereby made eligible for such assignment without further examination. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $38,045. 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, $108,600. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $6,000. 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, $12,810. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $600. For the development of vocational education in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories”, approved June 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1488), and regulations promulgated thereunder, $32,675. care of buildings and grounds For personal services, including care of portable buildings at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each building, $1,041,987. miscellaneous For the maintenance of schools for crippled pupils, $4,600. For transportation of pupils attending schools for sight-conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $17,100: Provided, That expenditures for streetcar and bus fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of streetcar and bus fares covered by this Act. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, and for insurance and all other necessary expenses in connection with the operation, maintenance, and repair of District owned or loaned automobiles used in driver-training courses, $81,240, to be immediately available. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $327,750, of which $12,000 shall be available immediately for the payment of 1942 obligations. For contingent expenses, including United States flags, furniture and repairs of same, stationery, ice, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $10,000 for books of reference and periodicals, not exceeding $2,000 for replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, and not exceeding $7,300 for labor; in all, $170,000, to be immediately available, of which not to exceed $2,100 may be expended for tabulating school census cards either by contract or by day labor as the Commissioners may determine: Provided, That a bond shall not be required on account of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. For the replacement of furniture and equipment and for the purchase of equipment for additional classrooms in existing school buildings, $8,100. . For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings, as follows: Benning School addition, new elementary school at Hillside Road and Alabama Avenue Southeast, Van Ness School addition, Kramer Junior High School, Anacostia Senior High School, and Spingam Senior High School, $310,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1944. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $34,190 for completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is continued available for the same purpose in the fiscal year 1943. For textbooks and other educational books and supplies as authorized by the Act of January 31, 1930 (46 Stat. 62), including not to exceed $7,000 for personal services, $210,000, to be immediately available. For maintenance of kindergartens, $6,000, to be immediately available. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the 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, $20,175, to be immediately available. For utensils, materials, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, and not to exceed $700 for use in teaching elementary science in connection therewith, $5,000. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment for school yards for the purposes of play of pupils. $7,000. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, including purchase, exchange, and maintenance of motortrucks, replacement of boilers, for replacement of the heating plant at the Webb School, replacement of insanitary drinking fountains, replacement of insanitary toilet facilities, new roofs for the Macfarland Junior High School, the Mott School, and the Shaw Junior High School, and for the elimination of emergency fire hazards, and including $2,000 for painting and decorating inside Brookland Elementary School, Tenth and Monroe Streets, Northeast, $597,150, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That work performed for repairs and improvements under appropriations contained in this Act shall be by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the Commissioners to be most advantageous to the District of Columbia: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for performing work of repairs and improvements to other municipal buildings subject to reimbursement covering the cost of such work, and a report of expenditures for such repairs and improvements to other municipal buildings shall be submitted to Congress in the annual Budget. 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” (44 Stat. 727), $609,000: Provided, That the Treasury Department shall prepare the estimates of the annual appropriations required to be made to the teachers’ retirement fund, and shall make actuarial valuations of such fund at intervals of five years, or oftener if deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided further, That the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia is authorized to expend from money to the credit of the teachers’ retirement fund an amount not exceeding $5,000 per annum for the expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of said Act, including actuarial advice. the deaf, dumb, and blind For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (24 U. S. C. 238). and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the Commissioners, $40,000. 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, $10,000: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. For maintenance and instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, $7,500: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. Notwithstanding the provision that no part of any 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, the Board of Education is authorized to have printed and bound schedules or lists of supplies, textbooks, and equipment approved by the Board of Education for use in the schools for requisitioning purposes only: Provided, That all such expenditures for printing and binding 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. 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 instruction in nature study and school gardening, and in health, physical education, and playground activities. Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 to September 15, 1942, to teachers of the public schools of the District of Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or independent establishments of the United States Government. 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 the Kramer Junior High School on land owned by the District of Columbia in the vicinity of Seventeenth and Q Streets Southeast, $270,125. Not to exceed $97,500 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $130,625 for beginning construction of an eight-room addition and assembly hall-gymnasium at the Benning School, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is reappropriated and made available for the construction of a temporary eight-room addition at the Benning School, including necessary remodeling of the present building. Not to exceed $97,500 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $130,625 for beginning construction of an eight-room addition and assembly hall-gymnasium at the Van Ness School, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is reappropriated and made available for the construction of a temporary eight-room addition at the Van Ness School, including necessary remodeling of the present building. Not to exceed $50,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $167,500 for a new extensible eight-room elementary school building, to be located on a site to be acquired in the vicinity of Hillside Road and Alabama Avenue Southeast, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is reappropriated and made available for the construction of a temporary four-room school building on such site. The appropriation of $45,000 for the completion of six unfinished classrooms at the Lafayette School, contained in the Sixth Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942, is made available also for furniture and equipment, for those rooms. In all, $270,125, 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. 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, 1942, and children entering during the second half of the school year who will be five years of age by March 15, 1943: 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 building provided for in this Act under appropriations administered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the Commissioners and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having in excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours.

RECREATION DEPARTMENT For all expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of the Act of April 29, 1942 (Public Law 534), including personal services, $364,894. For improvement of various municipal playgrounds and recreation centers, including erection of shelter houses. $26,500, of which not exceeding $1,000 shall be immediately available for the preparation of architectural and landscaping plans. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the superintendent of recreation 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 $500 at one time to be used for the expense of conducting its activities under the trust fund created by the Act of April 29, 1942, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved.

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. 174–175), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 839–841), including one captain, who shall be property clerk, and the present acting sergeant in charge of police automobiles, who shall have the rank and pay of a sergeant, $3,442,500, including the employment of not to exceed four detectives in the salary grade of captain. For personal services, $186,160, including not to exceed $1,265 for the salary of one part-time physician to be paid at the rate of $3,800 per annum. For fuel, $8,600. For repairs and improvements to police stations and station grounds, $9,000. 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, not to exceed $3,000 for expenses of officers and members of the police force in attending, without loss of pay or time, specialized police training classes and pistol matches, including tuition, entrance fees, travel and subsistence, and other necessary expenses, including expenses of harbor patrol, and the 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, $1,000 for the purchase of samples and for other expenses of investigations of alcoholic beverage licenses, and $2,500 for expenses of police training school, including traveling and other necessary expenses of visiting lecturers or experts in criminology, $100,730, of which amount $15,000 shall be exclusively available for expenditure by the Major and Superintendent of Police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the Commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended. For purchase, exchange, and maintenance of passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $115,892, of which $11,963 shall be available immediately for the payment of 1942 obligations. 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, or damaged in the performance of duty, $86,500. For furnishing and equipping a gymnasium in the space set aside in the plans of the East Administration Building for this purpose, $5,000: Provided, That such gymnasium shall be exclusively for the officers and members of the Metropolitan Police, and no part of this sum may be expended until such space is definitely assigned and made available for such purpose.

POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN'S RELIEF To pay the policemen and firemen’s relief and other allowances as authorized by law, $1,355,000.

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), $2,267,060. For personal services, $5,895. miscellaneous For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $18,500. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the. performance of duty to officers and members of the fire department, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, or damaged in the performance of duty, $25,375. For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other motor-driven apparatus, fireboat and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools, $42,500 of which $2,500 shall be available immediately for payment of 1942 obligations: 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, $26,000. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $20,500. For replacement of fire-fighting apparatus, including not to exceed $3,000 for two chief’s automobiles, and the purchase of one passenger automobile, $59,425. For a new fire-engine house to be constructed on a site owned by the District of Columbia in the vicinity of North Capitol and Crittenden Streets, including furniture and furnishings, and necessary instruments for receiving alarms, and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, $110,000.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT General administration: For personal services and other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $1,000 for continuing contract investigational services, $111,775. Medical services: For all expenses necessary for the enforcement of the Acts relating to the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in the District of Columbia; the maintenance of tuberculosis and venereal disease clincs and dispensaries; the conduct of hygiene and sanitation work, including the maintenance of free dental clinics in schools; the maintenance of a maternal and child-health service, including clinics: and the maintenance of a nursing service; such expenses to include personal services, books and periodicals, uniforms and rent, $725,510: Provided, That the Commissioners may, without creating any obligation for the payment of money on account thereof, accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the medical services herein provided for. Laboratories: For operation and maintenance of laboratories, including personal services, books and periodicals, manufacture or serums for use in indigent cases, and other necessary expenses, $66,510. Inspections: For all expenses necessary for the enforcement of the Acts relating to the drainage of lots and abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia; the Act relating to the adulteration of foods, drugs, and candy; the Act relating to the manufacture and sale of mattresses; the Act relating to the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors; and the Act relating to the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream; such expenses to include personal services, books and periodicals and travel, $201,310: Provided , That not to exceed $200 may be expended for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk: Provided further, 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. Not to exceed $4,800 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $120,000 for beginning the construction of the Northwest Health Center, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is reappropriated and made available for repairs, alterations, and improvements to the Polk School building to make it suitable for use temporarily for enlarged clinical services. For the following hospital and sanatoria: Tuberculosis sanatoria: For personal services, including $3,000 for chief visiting consultant, and not to exceed $3,000 for compensation of consulting physicians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners. $475,265. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, water, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, medical books, schoolbooks, classroom supplies, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $500, maintenance of motortrucks, and other necessary items, $288,750. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $12,600. For purchase and installation of equipment and for alterations and improvements to the sewage treatment plant, $8,750. Tuberculosis Hospital: For repairs, alterations, and improvements to the Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets North-west, to make it suitable for use temporarily during the present emergency for the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients, $50,000. For all expenses necessary for operation and maintenance of the Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets Northwest, $136,920, including not to exceed $73,545 for personal services; not to exceed $18,750 for necessary furniture and equipment; and not to exceed $1,500 for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For personal services, including not to exceed six full-time chief resident physicians at $5,600 per annum each and two associate medical officers at $3,200 per annum each, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, and including not to exceed $2,000 for temporary labor, $905,047, of which $26,760 shall be available for out-patient relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and pay of physicians: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the care of persons, except in emergency eases, where the person has been a resident of the District of Columbia for less than one year at the time of application for admission. 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, $452,900. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $23,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $6,500 for an additional amount for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, contained in the Sixth Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942, is continued available in the fiscal year 1943. 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. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $78,750 for repairs, alterations, and improvements to the building used for domestic purposes, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is continued available in the fiscal year 1943. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall establish from time to time reasonable standards of indigency for admission of patients to municipal hospitals of the District of Columbia : Provided, That emergency and semi-indigent patients may be admitted to the general ward and tuberculosis ward of Gallinger Municipal Hospital on a full-or part-pay basis at such rates and under such regulations as may be established by the Commissioners insofar as such admissions will not interfere with the admission of indigent patients: Provided further, That the Commissioners may enter into agreements with the States of Maryland and Virginia, or the political subdivisions thereof, for the care and treatment in such municipal hospitals of emergency patients who are indigent residents of such States or political subdivisions. 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, including not to exceed $10,000 for dispensary cases to be paid for at existing rates, $75,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $55,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $55,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $15,000. 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, $11,200.

COURTS juvenile court Salaries: For personal services, $112,610. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $2,000. For stationery, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, preservation of records, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $4,570. 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.

THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Salaries: For personal services, $222,845. For witness fees and compensation of jurors, $52,500: Provided, That deposits made on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. Expenses: For all necessary expenses, other than salaries and fees and printing and binding, including lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, rebinding of books, medicines, lodging, and meals for jurors and for bailiffs and deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court, $10,707.

THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Salaries and expenses: For personal services and all necessary expenses, other than printing and binding, of the Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, created by the Act of April 1, 1942, $44,600, of which $3,000 shall be immediately available for payment of 1942 obligations. miscellaneous Probation system: For personal services, $18,820; contingent expenses, $800; in all, $19,620.

PUBLIC WELFARE board of public welfare For personal services, and including not to exceed $6,000 for continuing contract investigational service, $174,015. division of child welfare Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $75, and all office and sundry expenses, $6,175, 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, including white girls committed to the National Training School for Girls, and for board and care of all children accepted by said Board for care, as authorized by the Act to give additional powers to the Board of Public Welfare (Public Law 397), approved January 12, 1942, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $2,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the Board, $320,315: Provided, That not more than $1,260 of this appropriation shall be available for continuous maintenance of three foster homes for temporary or emergency board and care of nondelinquent children. For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the house of detention for the reception and detention of children under eighteen years of age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or committed to the guardianship of the Board, or held as witness, or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, including transportation, food, clothing, medicine, and medicinal supplies, rental, repair and upkeep of buildings, fuel, gas, electricity, ice, supplies, and equipment, and other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $25,740 for personal services, $43,745. 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, $126,560. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Columbia at the jail, including not to exceed $1,500 for furnishing uniforms and caps for guards; subsistence of internes; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their capture; repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices; newspapers, books, and periodicals not to exceed $100; maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle; and expense of electrocutions, $105,700. general administration, workhouse and reformatory, district of columbia For personal services, $569,920. For maintenance, care, and support of inmates, including subsistence of internes, discharge gratuities provided by law. medical supplies, newspapers, books, books of reference and periodicals, farm implements, tools, equipment, transportation expenses, purchase and maintenance of livestock and horses; purchase of a moving-picture machine at not to exceed $1,500; purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation and repair of non-passenger-carrying vehicles and motor busses, fuel for heating, lighting, and power, and all other necessary items, including uniforms and caps for guards, $579,450. For repairs to buildings and grounds, and maintenance of utilities, marine and railroad transportation facilities, and mechanical equipment not used in industrial enterprises, $27,000. To provide a working capital fund for such industrial enterprises as may be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $30,000: Provided, That the various departments and institutions of the District of Columbia and the Federal Government may purchase, at fair market prices, as determined by the Commissioners, such 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 1943 for the purchase and repair of machinery, tools, and equipment, purchase of raw materials and manufacturing supplies, purchase, maintenance, and operation of non-passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase of fuel for manufacturing purposes; for freight, personal services, and all other necessary expenses; and for the payment to inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings as the Commissioners may deem proper. Construction: For continuing construction and equipment of permanent buildings for women, including sewers, water mains, and other necessary utilities, $28,000. For continuing the remodeling, repairing, rearranging, and water-proofing steam-distribution tunnels at the workhouse to permit sectionalization of steam load, $3,000. Enlargement of the kitchen and mess hall, $10,000. Construction of two residences for employees, $7,000. Construction of new main water line, $27,800. In all, $75,800, to be immediately available and to be disbursed and accounted for as “Construction, Penal Institutions, District of Columbia”, 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 construction not herein specified. For the acquisition by the Commissioners of additional land for the workhouse and reformatory, $25,000. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States; expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying, pursuing, recapturing (including rewards therefor), and returning to institutions, escaped convicts and parole and conditional-release violators; and transportation expenses of returning released convicts to their residences; $150,000. 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 $500 at one time, to be used only for expenses in returning escaped prisoners, conditional releases, and parolees, payable from the appropriation, “Support-of convicts”, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. national training school for boys 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 Attorney General at a rate of not to exceed $2 per day for each boy so committed, $90,600. national training school for girls National Training School for Girls: For personal services, groceries, provisions, light, fuel, clothing, shoes, including subsistence of internes; forage and farm supplies; medicine and medical service (including not to exceed $2,000 for medical care and not to exceed $600 for dental care); transportation; maintenance of non-passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment, fixtures, books, magazines, and other educational supplies; recreational equipment and supplies, including rental of motion-picture films; stationery; postage; repairs; and other necessary items, including expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, $41,100, of which sum not to exceed $21,640 may be expended for personal services: Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated for the National Training School for Girls shall be used for white inmates. district of columbia training school For personal services, including not to exceed $500 for compensation of consulting physicians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners and not to exceed $2,500 for temporary labor, $196,460. For maintenance, including subsistence of internes 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, $144,100. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $11,500. For the improvement and the extension of the water system, $8,000. industrial home school for colored children Salaries: For personal services $44,545: temporary labor, $500; in all, $45,045. For maintenance, including subsistence of internes and including purchase and maintenance of farm implements, horses, wagons, and harness, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, not to exceed $2,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, and for purchase of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $35,963. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000. For installation of modern plumbing facilities, $1,940. For laying eight hundred feet of eight-inch water main, including the installation of one fire hydrant near barns, and laying six hundred and forty-eight feet of eight-inch connections to each of five cottages and the administration and school buildings. $4,865. industrial home school Salaries: For personal services, $41,667; temporary labor, $1,000; in all, $42,667. For maintenance, including subsistence of internes and including purchase of equipment, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $28,250. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $7,000. home for aged and infirm Salaries: For personal services, $149,640; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $151,640. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, including subsistence of internes, furniture and bedding, h utensils, and other necessary items, and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $151,050. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $7,500: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $48,000 for an additional amount for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1942, is continued available in the fiscal year 1943. municipal lodging house For personal services, $4,025; maintenance, $4,200; in all, $8,225. public assistance For the purpose of affording relief to indigent residents of the District of Columbia 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, $775,000, together with not to exceed $75,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, and not to exceed 12 per centum of this appropriation and of Federal grants reimbursed under this appropriation shall be expended for personal services, and the amount made available by this paragraph shall include the distribution of surplus commodities and relief milk and the certification of persons eligible for work relief and surplus commodities, including personal services without regard to such 12 per centum limitation: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in such a manner as to require a deficiency to supplement such appropriation: Provided further, 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. Home Care for Dependent Children: 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. 758–760), including not to exceed $24,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $298,400: Provided, That this appropriation shall be so apportioned and distributed by the Commissioners over the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and shall be so administered during such fiscal year as to constitute the total amount that will be utilized during such fiscal year for such purposes, and no more than $400 shall be paid for burial of children dying while beneficiaries under said Act. 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. 747), including not to exceed $67,000 for personal services and other necessary expenses, $685,465. 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. 744), $64,800. In expending appropriations contained in this Act under the caption “Public Assistance”, not more than the following monthly amounts shall be paid therefrom: Emergency Relief of Residents: Single persons, not more than $24; family of two persons, not more than $30, and for each person in excess of such number under sixteen years of age not more than $6; and not to exceed a total of $60 to any one family; Home Care for Dependent Children: Family of two persons, not more than $30, and for each person in excess of such number under sixteen years of age not more than $6; and not to exceed a total of $60 to any one family; Assistance Against Old Age Want: Not more than $30 per month shall be paid therefrom to any one person; Aid for Needy Blind Persons: Not more than $40 per month shall be paid therefrom to any one person. sponsor’s contributions to work projects administration For amount required by the District of Columbia as sponsor’s contributions toward Work Projects Administration nonconstruction projects for free lunches for necessitous school children, sewing, household service, housekeeping aides, adult education, recreation, vocational training, and historical records, including the purchase of food, supplies, materials, streetcar and bus fares, rent, equipment, rental of equipment, personal services, and other necessary expenses, to be expended subject to the approval of the Director of Public Welfare acting as agent of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $155,000: Provided, That should the projects herein set out be not operated by the Work Projects Administration of the District of Columbia, such amount of this appropriation as may be necessary may be expended by the Board of Public Welfare for housekeeping aides and for free lunches and milk for necessitous school children, including the purchase of food, supplies, streetcar and bus fares, rent, equipment, rental of equipment, personal services, and other necessary expenses. temporary home for former soldiers and sailors For personal services, $4,925; maintenance, $11,750; and repairs to buildings and grounds, $1,000; in all, $17,675, 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 and saint ann’s infant asylum and maternity hospital For care and maintenance of women and children under contracts to be made by the Board of Public Welfare, with the Florence Crittenton Home, and Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital, $8,000. national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at 1126 Twenty-first Street Northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. columbia polytechnic institute For the training and employment of the blind under contracts to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, $3,000. saint elizabeths hospital For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $3,055,050. nonresident insane For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for insanity proceedings in the District of Columbia”, approved June 8, 1938, 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 $500 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, 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 nonresident persons For transportation of indigent nonresident persons to their legal residence or to the home of a relative or relatives, including maintenance pending transportation, and transportation of other indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $17,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,265 shall be available for personal services. 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, $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, $10,800; temporary labor, $3,240; 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 nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; streetcar fares (not to exceed $200), necessarily used in the transaction of official business; not exceeding $400 for traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings or conventions of associations pertaining to the National Guard; and for general incidental expenses of the service, $5,320; in all, $19,360. For operation and maintenance of new armory, including necessary personal services, $20,000.

IMPROVEMENT OF WASHINGTON CHANNEL Toward the payment by the District of Columbia of its proportionate part of the cost of improving the north side of Washington Channel, District of Columbia, as set forth in the Act of Congress approved August 30, 1935, entitled “An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes”, $64,000, which sum shall be transferred to the War Department and be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, and shall continue available until expended.

NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS salaries, public parks, district of columbia For personal services, $364,400. 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 per diem rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, erection of stands, furnishing and placing of chairs, and services incident thereto in connection with national, patriotic, civic, and recreational functions held in the parks, including the President’s Cup Regatta, and for expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by said Secretary; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; contingent expenses; city directories; communication service; carfare; traveling expenses; professional, scientific, technical, and lawbooks; 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, $419,950: 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, $188,350. For uniforming and equipping the United States Park Police force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equipment and the rental of teletype service, $18,635.

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. 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 (40 U. S. C. 71), as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, not to exceed $1,000 for printing and binding, not to exceed $500 for traveling expenses and carfare of employees of the Commission, and not to exceed $300 for professional, scientific, technical, and reference books, and periodicals, $45,470.

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, $261,510, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation.

HIGHWAY FUND, GASOLINE TAX AND MOTOR VEHICLE FEES The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the special fund created by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved April 23, 1924, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, for expenses of the following departments and activities: department of vehicles and traffic For personal services, including $11,000 for temporary clerk hire, $208,460. For purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, printing and binding, postage, telephone service, heating, electricity, repairs to equipment of inspection stations, continuation of the operation of parking meters on the streets of the District of Columbia, including maintenance and repair, not to exceed $10,000 for such expenses as the Commissioners, in their discretion, may deem necessary in connection with traffic safety education, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the Commissioners, said amount to be expended without reference to any other law, including not to exceed $41,000 for the operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $194,260, of which not less than $27,500 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic-light signals and $1,000 shall be available for directional signs: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same, except that a permanent type of platform may be constructed from appropriations contained in this Act for street improvements when plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utilities Commission and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic: Provided further, That the street-railway company shall after construction maintain, mark, and light the same at its expense: Provided further, That fees from parking meters shall be deposited to the credit of the highway fund of the District of Columbia. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to designate, reserve, and properly mark appropriate and sufficient parking spaces on the streets adjacent to all public buildings in such District for the use of Members of Congress engaged on public business. For the purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates, $20,000. police traffic control For expenses necessarily involved in the police control, regulation, and administration of traffic upon the highways, $607,500, which amount shall be transferred to the appropriation contained in this Act for pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force. highway department For personal services, $262,030. street improvements For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, and roads, including temporary per diem services, surveying instruments and implements, and drawing materials, printing and binding, postage, and miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase (including exchange), operation and maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, and including assessment and permit work and the several purposes provided for thereunder, as follows: For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and gutters where necessary, the following: Northwest: Dalecarlia Parkway, Loughboro Road to Massachusetts Avenue, $154,000; For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbs and gutters where necessary, such streets, avenues, and roads as may be selected for this purpose by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $200,000; For widening, altering, paving, and repaving roadways, in accordance with the plans and profiles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including the necessary replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains, and fire-alarm and police-patrol boxes, as follows: Southwest: Independence Avenue, Sixth Street to Twelfth Street, $131,100; Southwest: Maine Avenue, Twelfth Street to Fourteenth Street, $58,000; Northeast: Sixth Street, K Street to Florida Avenue, $50,000; For grading, paving, repaving, surfacing, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, and roads, including curbing and gutters, drainage structures, retaining walls, the replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains, and fire-alarm boxes and police-patrol boxes, and replacement of curb-line trees, when necessary, as Federal-aid highway projects under section 1–b of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938 (Public, Numbered 584, Seventy-fifth Congress), $194,000, to remain available until June 30, 1944: Provided, That in connection with the highway-planning survey, involving surveys, plans, engineering, and economic investigations of projects for future construction in the District of Columbia, as provided for under section 10 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, this fund shall be available to the extent authorized in said section for the employment of engineering or other professional services by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements, and for engineering and incidental expenses; For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, $75,000; 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, $25,000; For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt, granite block, or concrete pavements with the same or other approved material, $300,000; For the construction of and changes in drainage structures in connection with and in advance of highway and street improvements including suitable connections to the storm-water sewer system, $250,000; For the reconstruction and changes in layout of roadways and curb lines, the construction of directional and pedestrian islands at various intersections to permit of proper traffic light control and channelization of traffic, $100,000, including necessary expense of changes in sewer and water lines, traffic lights, fire hydrants, street lights, including all necessary expenses incident thereto; For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, For grading, paving, surfacing, and otherwise improving such unpaved or inadequately surfaced streets, avenues, and roads in newly developed areas as may be designated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and such curbing, gutters, and drainage facilities as may be necessary to insure reasonably satisfactory conditions pending permanent and final improvement, including all necessary expenses incident thereto, $300,000; 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 passenger and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $1,025,000, of which amount $75,000 shall be available exclusively for snow-removal purposes, and not to exceed $30,000 thereof to be available for the procurement of snow-removal equipment : 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. 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 beginning construction of a bridge over the Anacostia River between the general vicinity of South Capitol and P Streets and Anacostia Parkway at the northern end of the Naval Air Station grounds (old Bolling Field) with connections to South Capitol Street and other District thoroughfares east of the Anacostia River, including construction of and changes in sewer and water mains, fire alarm and police patrol communication systems, changes and additions to traffic signal and other equipment, and construction and reconstruction of approach roads and streets in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and the Commission of Fine Arts, travel expenses in connection with the inspection of material at the point of manufacture, the acquisition of the necessary land for approach roadways and rights-of-way, by either purchase or condemnation, employment of engineering, and other professional services by contract or otherwise and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, Sec. 5) or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements, and engineering and incidental expenses, $1,000,000; and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the completion of said bridge and approaches at a cost not to exceed $4,500,000; For the preparation of studies, preliminary plans and surveys, estimates and investigation of foundation conditions (1) for a trunk highway to the northeast from the vicinity of Twelfth and K Streets Northwest to Fifteenth Street and Benning Road Northeast; (2) for a trunk highway to the northwest from the vicinity of Connecticut Avenue and K Street to Twenty-seventh and K Streets Northwest; (3) District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, Thirteenth and H Streets Northwest: and (4) for a grade-separation structure at Dupont Circle, including consideration of conditions to meet present and future traffic and transportation needs, curb and roadway changes, the necessary underpasses and depressed roadways, street railway track relocation, and changes and additions to underground structures and including the employment of engineering and other professional services, by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, Sec. 5) or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements, and engineering and incidental expenses, $150,000, to remain available until June 30, 1944; For all necessary expenses for studies, preparation of plans and specifications, surveys and estimates for a grade separation structure in the vicinity of Rock Creek Park and Klingle Road, including a bridge across Rock Creek, together with plans and estimates for the necessary approach roads thereto, and the employment of engineering or other professional services, by contract or otherwise, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements, $18,000; 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 July 30, 1944: 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, $200,000; The appropriation of $1,424,000 for street improvements in connection with the improvement of the approaches to the Potomac River bridges contained in the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942, is continued available in the fiscal year 1943; In all, $4,495,100, to be immediately available, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Street improvements”, 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 herein appropriated: Provided further, That any portion of this appropriation may be used for payment to contractors and for other expenses in connection with the expense of design, construction, and inspection of grade-crossing elimination and other construction projects authorized under section 8 of the Act approved June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), and section 1–b of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938 (Public, Numbered 584, Seventy-fifth Congress), pending reimbursement to the District of Columbia by the Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency, reimbursement to be credited to fund from which payment was made. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all highways that may be improved under appropriations contained in this Act. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for repairing, resurfacing, or paving any street, avenue, or roadway by private contract unless the specifications for such work shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving material as well as in price. In addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractors 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. For personal services, trees and parkings, $27,935; For contingent expenses, trees and parkings, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motortrucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees, and tree spaces on city and suburban streets, purchase and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, printing and binding and miscellaneous items, $138,600, of which not less than $25,000 shall be for tree trimming. motor vehicle parking agency For all expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the District of Columbia Motor Vehicle Parking Facility Act of 1942, approved February 16, 1942 (Public Law 454), including personal services and printing and binding, $16,200. maintenance of park roads For the maintenance of vehicular roads, public parks, $25,000, which amount shall be transferred to the appropriation contained in this Act for general expenses of public parks and be available solely for the maintenance of vehicular roads in such parks. reimbursement of district offices for administrative expenses For administrative services rendered to the Departments of Motor Vehicles and Traffic, Highways, and Trees and Parkings, there is hereby authorized to be transferred sums from the special fund created by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved April 23, 1924, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, to other appropriations, as follows: $4,525 to “Purchasing Division, Salaries, District of Columbia”; $5,298 to “District Buildings, Salaries, District of Columbia”; $3,542 to “District Buildings, Expenses, District of Columbia”; $4,555 to “Collector, Salaries, District of Columbia”: $12,720 to “Auditor, Salaries, District of Columbia”; $9,775 to “Corporation Counsel, Salaries, District of Columbia”; and $2,028 to “Electrical Department, Expenses, District of Columbia”; in all, $42,443. Refunding erroneous collections: To enable the Commissioners, in cases where motor-vehicle registration fees, motor-vehicle operators’ permit fees, motor-vehicle title fees, motor-vehicle fuel taxes, importers’ license fees, special assessments, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the special fund created by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved April 23, 1924. and the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, to refund such erroneous payments, $1,500: Provided, That this appropriation shall also be available for refunding such payments made within the last three fiscal years prior to the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made available: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be available for refunds authorized by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 1924.

WATER SERVICE 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, repair, and protection 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 two passenger-carrying motor vehicles; purchase and repair of rubber boots and protective apparel; printing and binding; and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $561,700. For the rehabilitation of the Dalecarlia hydroelectric station generators and switching equipment; installation of underground duct and cable line to serve east shaft booster pumping station; installation of new third-high pump and electrical control equipment in the Dalecarlia pumping station; installation of automatic stop valve in the influent of the first-high service reservoir; repairs to McMillan filters; replacement of tainter gate on main conduit from Dalecarlia Reservoir to Georgetown Reservoir; procurement of mechanical sand washers and repairs to sand-washer piping at the McMillan filter plant; installation of surface-grid sand-washing systems in the Dalecarlia filters; reconstruction of overflow spillway of the Dalecarlia Reservoir; and all necessary expenses incident thereto, $264,000, to continue available until June 30, 1944. For the completion of construction of a covered reservoir of approximately twenty million gallon capacity on United States Government-owned land adjacent to the present filtered-water reservoir of the McMillan Filter Plant, with all necessary appurtenances and auxiliaries, including engineering and other professional services, by contract or otherwise, as may be required in connection with the preparation of plans and the construction of such reservoir and as may be approved by the Secretary of War without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, the Classification Act of 1923. as amended, or the civil-service requirements, $90,000, to continue available until expended: Provided, however, That the waiver of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to the letting of contracts for construction in connection with this project. 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. water department For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personal services, $221,525. 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 vehicles; and the replacement of passenger-carrying motor vehicles; purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and for contingent expenses including books, blanks, stationery, printing and binding not to exceed $3,300; postage, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $275, and other necessary items; in all for maintenance, $404,170, 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, $475,000, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available. For installing and repairing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the Commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $115,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, $30,000. For replacement of old mains and divide valves in various locations, on account of inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains and replacing old service pipes in advance of pavements, $150,000. 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 continuing the construction of fifteen thousand eight hundred linear feet of thirty-six-inch water main from the vicinity of Thirteenth and Upshur Streets Northwest to the vicinity of Thirteenth and Otis Streets Northeast, including connection to proposed Second High Reservoir, $290,000, to continue available until June 30, 1944. For the construction or approximately ten thousand eight hundred linear feet of twenty-, thirty-, and thirty-six-inch trunk line water main from the vicinity of Second and C Streets to the vicinity of C Street and Kentucky Avenue, Southeast, from the vicinity of Eleventh and East Capitol Streets to the vicinity of Eleventh and C Streets, Southeast, and from the vicinity of Eleventh and East Capitol Streets to the vicinity of Kentucky and Potomac Avenues, Southeast, $250,000, to continue available until June 30, 1944. For the construction of one or more elevated water tanks of approximately two million gallons capacity, in the vicinity of the United States reservation known as Fort Dupont, and all necessary supply lines, appurtenances, and auxiliaries, and including not to exceed $7,050 for the employment, by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, of engineering or other professional services, $235,000, to continue available until June 30, 1944. For the construction of an underground covered reservoir of approximately ten million gallons’ capacity in the vicinity of the existing Anacostia first-high service reservoir in Stanton Park, including necessary appurtenances and auxiliaries, and including not to exceed $7,200 for the employment, by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, of engineering or other professional services, $240,000, to continue available until June 30, 1944. For additional pumping equipment at the Anacostia pumping station, including necessary appurtenances, alterations to existing piping, and enlargement of switchgear building, $75,000, to continue available until June 30, 1944. On and after July 1, 1942, an additional charge of 10 per centum shall be imposed on all water-rent charges remaining unpaid after the expiration of thirty days from the date of rendition of the bill therefor. This paragraph shall not be construed as depriving the District of Columbia or any of its officers or employees of any other remedy that may exist for the collection of such water-rent charges.

Approved, June 27, 1942.