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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. Ca. 302. 1929 . 1259 between the United States and the Kans as or Kaw Trib e of Indians, or arising under or growing out of any Act of Congress in relation to Indian affairs, which claims have not heretofore been determined and adjudicated on their merits by the Court of Claims or the Supreme Court of the United States. " SEC. 2 . Any and all claims against the United States within the Time for filing. purview of this Act shall be forever barred unless suit be instituted or petition filed, as herein provided, in the Court of Claims within three years from the date of approval of this Act, and such suit shall be prosecuted in the name of said Kansas or Kaw Tribe of Indians as plaintiff, upon petiti on numbered F -64, now filed in the Court of Claims and any amendment thereto that may be necessary under the provisions of this Act, and all the evidence and proceedings filed Evidence admitted . in said case numbered F-64 shall be received and accepted by the court to the same extent as though filed anew in the suit or amend- ment filed und er this Act . Official letters, papers, documents, and records, or certified copies thereof, may be used in evidence, and the departments of the Government shall give access to the attorneys of said Kansas or Kaw Tribe of Indians to such treaties, papers, corre- spondence, or records as may be needed by the attorneys of the Kansas or Kaw Tribe of Indians. " .SEC. 3 . In said suit, the court shall also hear, examine, consider, Counter claims al- and adjudicate any claims which the United States may have against' lowed . said Kansas or Kaw Tribe of Indians, but any payment, including gratuities, which may have been made by the United States, upon any claims against the United States, shall not operate as an estoppel, but may be pleaded as an offset in such suit . " SEC. 4. That from the decision of the Court of Claims in any Appeal to supreme suit prosecuted under the authority of this Act, an appeal or other appropriate proceeding may be taken by either party as in other cases to the S upreme Court of the United States. " SEC . 5 . That upon the final determination of any suit instituted Attorneys' fees by under this Act, the Court of Claims shall decree such amount or decree of court . amounts as it may find reasonable to be paid the said attorneys of the Kansas or Kaw Tribe, of Indians for their services and expenses ~ T0U as said attorneys : Provided, That in no case shall the aggregate Lim;tat . 23e ion . amounts decreed by said Court of Claims for fees be in excess of a sum equal to 10 per centum of the amount of recovery against the United States . The amount of any judgment, after payment of such 01 Balance tfor red it fees and expenses, shall be placed in the Treasury of the United benefit . States to the credit of the Kansas or Kaw Tribe of Indians and shall draw interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum and shall be thereafter subject to appropriation by Congress for educational, health, industrial, and other purposes for the benefit of said Indians, including the purchase of lands and building of homes, and no part ment per capi ta pa y- of said judgment shall be pai d out in per c apita payment s to said Indians. " SEC. 6 . The Court of Claims shall have full authority by Joi nin g or others . 3' 3' proper Indians, etc ., as parties order and process to bring in and make parties to such suit any or all persons or tribes or bands of Indians deemed by it necessary or proper to the final determination of the matters in controversy . " SEC. 7. A copy of the petition shall, in such case, be served upon General l to Attorne y the Attorney General of the United States, and he, or some attorney from the Department of Justice to be designated by him, is hereby directed to appear and defend the interests of the United States in such case ." Approved, February 23, 1929 . 5483 5•-29-PT 1-8 3

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 1260 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ca. 303. 1929 . February 23,1929. CHAP. 303.-An Act To provide for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled [H. R. 13251.] residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. [Public, No. 801.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the voc ational reha bili- United States o f America in Congress assembled, That on and after tation, D. C. Provisions for dis- July 1, 1929, the Federal Board for Vocational Education is author- a bled resi dents. ized and directed to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to employment of any disabled resident of the District of Colu mbia. Meaning of terms. SE C. 2. For the purposes of this Act (1) the term "disabled resi- " Disab led resident of tbe District o f dent of the District of Columbia " means any bona fide resident in Co lumbia. " the District of Columbia who, by reason of a physical defect or infirmity, whe ther congenit al or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, is or may be expected to become totally or partially incapaci- "vocational rehabiii- tated for remu nerative occu pation ; and (2) t he ter m " vocational tation ." rehabilitation " means the r endering of an y such disabl ed resident fit to engage in a remunerative occupation. Public Health Serv- SE C. 3. (a) The United States Public Health Service is authorized ice to cooperate with Federal Board. and directed to cooperate with the Federal Board for Vocational Education in carrying out the provisions of this Act, and the board other agencies. may, in carrying out such provisions, obtain the cooperation of (1) any other establishment in the executive branch of the Government ; (2) any department or agency of the government of the District of Colu mbia ; ( 3) any State, Territ ory, o r polit ical su bdivis ion the reof ; or (4) any private agency or person. Plan for rebabili ta- (b) The Federal Board for Vocational Education and the United lion of civil employees to be prepared by Fed- States Employees' Compensation Commission are authorized and oral Board and Em- directed to formulate a plan of cooperation for the vocational rehabil- pl cyee s'Com pens atio n Commission. itation of civ il employees of the United States disabl ed while in the performance of duty and who reside in the District of Columbia, and such board may, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, in so far as it applies to such civil employees, carry out such plan. sc Rules, etc ., to be pre- SEC. 4. The board is authorized to prescribe such rules and regula- tions as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this Act. Expenses by Bo ard SEC. 5 . The Federal Board for Vocational Education is authorized au thor ized. to make such ex enditures (including ex penditures for Details. h 1 personal services at the seat of Government and elsewhere, for printing and binding, for traveling and subsistence expenses, for the payment of tuition to schools, for the compensation of tutors, for the purchase of prosthetic appliances and instructional supplies and equipment, and for the payment of necessary expenses of persons undergoing vocational rehabilitation) as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. nufilmy . authorized an- SEC. 6 . For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act Post, p. 1626. there is authorized to be appropriated to the Federal Board for Vocational Education a sum not to exceed $15,000 for each fiscal Equal amount f rom year :: Provided, That no such appropriations of Federal funds shall qual Distr ict funds. be available for expenditure except when matched by equal appro- priations of District of Columbia funds which are hereby authorized. Repor t to Congres s. SEC. 7. The board shall submit to Congress on or before the first day of each regular session a report of all rehabilitation service pro- vided and of all expenditures made under this Act during the preceding fiscal year. Approved, February 23, 1929.

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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHs. 304,305,312,313 . 1929 . 1261 February 23, 1929. [S. J. Res. 213.] [Pub. Res. No. 90.1 CHAP. 304 . -J oin t Resolution To provide for extending the time in which th e Uni ted S tates Supr eme C ourt Build ing Commission shall report to Congress. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act SupremeCourt f Building, D. C. entitled "An Act to provide for the submission to the Congress of Time for submitting preliminary plans and estimates of costs for the construction ofa plans extended . building for the Supreme Court of the United States," approved Ante, p. 1067, amend- December 21, 1928, is amended by striking out " March 1, 1929," and ad. inserting in lieu thereof " the first day of the first regular session of the Seventy-first Congress ." Approved, February 23, 1929. February 23, 1929. CHAP. 305 .-Joint Resolution To provide for the quartering, in certain pub- [H .J . Res.418.1 lie buildings in the District of Columbia, of troops participating in the inau- [Pub. Res. No. 91.1 gural ceremonies. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital is authorized to allocate such space in any public building under his care and supervision as he deems necessary for the purpose of quar- tering troops participating in the inaugural ceremonies to be held on March 4, 1929, but such use shall not continue after March 6, 1929. Authority granted by this resolution may be exercised notwith- standing the provisions of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, approved April 28, 1902, prohibiting the use of public buildings in connection wit h inaugural c eremonies. Approved, February 23, 1929. Inauguralcere- monies, 1929. Tempo rary qua rter- ing troops in publi c buildings during, au- thorized. Vol. 32, p. 252_ February 25, 1929. CHAP. 312 .-An Act To authorize alterations and repairs to certain naval 	[H. R. 11616.] vessels. [Public, No. 802.1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the pur- pose of modernizing the United States ships Pennsylvania and • 1 APzona. 9lvanfa"and Arizona, alterations and repairs to such vessels are hereby authorized tho zed razing of, au- at a total cost not to exceed the sum of $14,800,000, in all . The Post, p .1648 . alterations to the capital ships herein authorized shall be subject to lir a s ubject . to treaty the limitations prescribed in the treaty limiting naval armaments, Vol.43,p .1664 . ratified August 17, 1923 . Approved, February 25, 1929 . Navy. CHAP. 313 .-An Act To improve the efficiency of the Lighthouse Service, Febr uary 27,1 929 . 51791	and for other purposes. [Pub lic, No .803.1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the appr opri atio n, " General expenses, Lighthouse Service," s hall be available, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, for paying the actual and necessary traveling expenses of lighthouse keepers at isolated stations incurred in obtaining medical attention. SEC. 2 . The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to pay not Detroit, Mich. exceeding 50 per centum of the cost of paving Mount Elliott Avenue from Wight Street to the Detroit River, Detroit, Michigan, said portion being directly in front of the lighthouse depot at Detroit. Li ghthouse Bur eau . Keepers at isolated stations allowed travel, etc ., for medical atten- tion. Pa yment of 50 per cent for paving street in front of depot at.

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 1262 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ciis. 313, 314 . 1929 . The appropriation, " General expenses, Lighthouse Service," of the fiscal year in which the work is undertaken shall be available therefor. Aids to navigation SEC. 3 . The Secret ary of Commer ce is authori zed, subject t o the aut hori zed on Pacific app roac hes to Pa nama consent of the Republic of Panama and suitable diplomatic arrange- Can al, in P anama . ments for protecting the interests of the United States, to establish and maintain aids to navigation, including the purchase of sites, if necessary, on Jicarita Island and on Morro Puercos in the approaches to the Panama Canal from the Pacific Ocean, said sites belonging to the Republic of Panama. Depot sit es in Rhode SEC. 4 . The Secretar y of Commerce is authorized to purchase the Island and Adame, to be purchase, necessary land to be used as sites for lighthouse depots at Newport, Rhode Island ; Portland, Maine ; and Rockland, Maine. Details of superin- SEC. 5 . The Secretar y of Commerce may detail su perintendents of tendents and engineers to Washington author- lighthouses and engineers in the Lighthouse Service to duty at the ized. Bureau of Lighthouses at Washington without change of status. Approved, February 25, 1929. February 25, 1929. [H. R. 16422]. CHAP. 314 .-An Act Making appropriations for the government of the Dis- [Public, No. 804.] trict of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes. Dist rict of Colum- Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the bia. United States o f America in Congress assembled, That in order to App ro pri ati ons for defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year expenses of, fiscal year ending June 30 1930, any revenue (not including the proportionate 1930, from District rev- to 7 enue, and $9 ,00 0, 000 share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the from the Treasury . Revenues from activ- expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and ities from all sources to be credited to the Dis- prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District trict. of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $9,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treas- ury not otherwise' appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1929, and all the rema inder out of the combined revenues of th e District of Tax rate continued. Columbia, and the tax rate in effect in the fiscal year 1929 on real estate and t angible perso nal property subject to taxation in the District of Columbia shal l be continue d for the fisc al year 1930, namely ' Gener al e xpens es. GEN ERA L EXPENSES Executive office . E XECU TIVE OF FICE Offic e per sonn el. For personal services, $49, 160, plus so much as may be necessary Additional for Engi- p 7, ne er Commissioner. to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in Grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act 4 sari os. of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of Com- salaries limited to missioners : Provided, That in expending appropriations or por- av erage rates under tions of appro priations con tained in this Act for the payment for avera Classification Act . Vol . 42, p. 1488. pers onal ser vice s in acc orda nce with the Cla ssif icat ion Act of 1 923, Ante,p. 776. as amended (U. S. C., pp. 65-71, sees. 661 -673, 45 Stat ., pp . 776- U.S . Code, p. 65. 785), the average of the salaries of the '- otal number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the comp ensati on If o nl y one position rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in a grade. in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position Advan ces in u nusu- shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade all y meritorious case. s except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade

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 SEV ENTIE TH C ONGRESS. SESS. II . CH. 314. 1929 . 1263 advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the com- pensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and then only to the next higher rate : Provided, That Restriction not ap- plicable to clerical- this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the mechanical service. No reduction in fixed clerical-mechanical service ; (2) to require the reduction in salary salaries. of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, Vol.1 ,p . 1490. yp 1 9 y 7 U, s.Code. p.66. in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act ; (3) to require Tra nsfers to an other positicn without reduc- the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one ti . . . position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit ; or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate Pme ted salary rates higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law. Purchasing division : For personal services, $61,660 ; Purchasing division. Building ins pec tio n division : For personal services, $121, 600 . Building inspection division. Plumbing inspection division : For personal services, $35,200 ; Plumbing inspection for temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of division- plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, $5,000 ; two members of plumbing board at $150 each ; in all, $40,500. CARE OF DISTRICT BUILDING For personal services, $56,054 ; services of cleaners as necessary, Operating force . not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $14,000 ; in all, $70,054 : Provided, Proviso. That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for Assistant engineers or watchmen. the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Building. For fuel, light, power, rrepairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor Operating expenses. Elevator improve. not to exceed $5,000 and miscellaneous supplies, including not to ments. exceed $4,800 for furnishing and installing on the elevators and in th e elev ator s ystem collap sible gates and ele ctric contac ts, to p and bottom limit switches in hatchways, and emergency exits in top of cars, $37,500. ASSESSORS OFr'1CE For personal services, $204, 510 ; temporary clerk hire, $3,000 ; in A ssess or's offi ce. all, $207,510. LICENSE B UREAU For person al ser vices, $18,820 ; temporary clerk hire, $1,000 ; in all, $19,820. COLLECTORS OFFICE For person al ser vices, inclu ding $ 1,000 f or tem porary clerk hire, $46,450 . AUDITOR'S OFFICE For personal services, $118,640, and the compensation of the pres- ent incumbent of the position of disbursing officer of the District of Columbia shall be exclusive of his compensation as United States p rope rty and dis burs ing offi cer for the Nat iona l Gu ard of the District of Columbia. OFF ICE OF CO RPO RATI ON COU NSE L Ca re of District Building. License bureau. C ollec tor's off ice. Auditor's office . D isbur sing off icer permitted other duties . Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general sel's Coo office. C orpor atio n cou n-. counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $66,620.

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 1264 Coroner's office. Expenses of morgue, inquests, etc. Motor vehicle. Of fice ofsup erint end- ent of weights, etc. Pe rsona l ser vice. Inspection, etc. Markets. Motor vehicles. Highways de pa rt- ment. Use of shops. Proviso. Replacing equip- ment, etc. Sewer department. Tre es and pa rking dep artment. Engineer de pa rt- ment, office of chief clerk. Central garage. Mu nicip al ar chite ct's of fice. Limit for services of draftsmen, etc. Basis of amount in- creased. V SEVENTIETH C ONGRESS. SEss. II. CH. 314 . 1929 . CORONER'S OFFICE For personal services, $10,040. For the main tenan ce of a n onpas senge r-ca rryin g mot or wa gon for the morgue, jurors' fees, witness fees, making autopsies, ice, disin- fectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, includ- ing stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing un identifie d bodies, $4,000. For the purchase and exchange of a nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $775. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MARKETS For personal services, $47,080. For purch ase of commo dities, incl uding persona l serv ices, in con - nection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $500. For maintenance and repairs to markets, $7,500. For maintenance and repair of seven nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $2,500. For the purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $550, to be immediately available. HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT For person al ser vices, $215, 690. For such additional construction on parcel 108/3 immediately east of the Bryant Street pumping station and at the District auto- mobile repair shop as may be necessary to house the shops of the highways department, including the laboratory of the inspector of asphalts and cements, and for repairing, servicing, and housing the motor vehicles of the highways department, the trees and parking depar tment, and of such other dep artme nts a s may be econo mical ly served at this location, $205,000 : Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses of moving, installing, purchasing, and replacing equipment, the extension of steam lines, personal serv- ic es, an d othe r nece ssary expens es. SE WER DEPARTME NT For personal services, $193,200. TREES AND PARKING DEPARTMENT For person al ser vices, $22,8 80. OFFICE OF CHI EF CLE RK, EN GIN EER D EPA RTM ENT For person al ser vices, $28,0 00. CENTRAL G ARAGE For personal services, $5,240. MUNICIPAL ARCHITECT'S OFFICE For personal services, $63,700. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment for the services of draftsmen, assistant engi- neers, clerks, copyists, and inspectors, employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations, shall be based on an amount not exceeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceed- ing 23/4 per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2 ,000,000.

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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. Cry. 314 . 1929 . 1265 PUBLIC UTILIiliS COMMISSION Public utilities com- mission. For two commissioners at $7,500 each ; people's counsel, $7,500 ; and Commissioners, peo- for other personal services ; in all, $76,620. pie's counsel, etc. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized Incidental expenses. by law, $1,700. BOARD OF EXAMINERS, STEAM ENGINEERS Salaries : Three members, at $150 each, $450. DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Insurance de par t- For pers onal ser vice s, $ 19,56 0. ment. SURVEYOR'S OFFICE For personal services, $84,690. Surveyors' office. For revision of the highway plan, including the surveying and systtemsing highways permanent marking on the ground of the system of highways, $3,000 . Employees' com- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION FUND pensat ion fund. For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Payment for injuries. Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to Vol.41,p. 104. the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for Vol.39,p. 742. employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the per- f ormanc e of their dutie s, an d for other purp oses, " appr oved Sep- tember 7, 1916, $31,000. Administrative Expenses, Compensation to Injured Employees of pA A dmi nist rat ive trativsaton the District of Columbia
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. "An Act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting Ante, p .500. from injury to employees in certain -employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," approved May 17, 1928 (45 Stat ., p . 600) $63,000, for transfer to and expenditure by the Employees ' Transfers to Em- p loy ees' Co mpe nsat ion Compensation Commission under its appropriations " Salaries and commission . expenses," $60,000, and "Printing and binding," $3,000. OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF TRAFFIC Director of Traffic. For personal services, $32,040, and for temporary clerk hire, Personal services. $7,000 ; in all, $39,040. For purchase and installation of traffic signals and markers, paint- Necessary expense s. lug white lines, labor, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the commissioners, $43,700, together with $10,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of fees received Additions from fees. for reissuing motor-vehicle operators' permits, contained in the Dis- trict of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927 (44 Vol . 44, p. 1110. Stat., p . 1300) and continued available until June 30, 1928, which is hereby made available for the fiscal year 1930 for the purposes of this paragrap h : Provided, That no part of this or any other appro- Proviso. Not available for priation contained in this Act or that is now available shall be st reet etc loading plat- expended for building, installing, and maintaining street-car loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY Public Library. For personal services, $265,640. Personal services. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at the substitutes, etc. discretion of the librarian, $6,000 : Provi ded, Tha t no mon ey ap pro - Proviso. st ations re. priated by this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations strictionst not now in operation, but this restriction shall not apply to the Woodridge subbranch. Examiners, steam en- gineers.

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 1266 Sun day, etc., open - ing. Miscell aneous . Proviso. Advances for book purchases, etc. Bin ding. Contingent expenses. Site for Northeastern branch . Re nt. Register of Wills. Pers onal serv ices. Contingent expenses. Rec order of Deeds. SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ci. 314 . 1929 . For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holi- days, $3,000. Miscellaneous : For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other printed material, including payment in advance for subscriptions to period icals, newsp apers, subsc riptio n books, and societ y publ ica- tions, $38,000 : 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, $14,000. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment, care of grounds, maintenance of moto r deli very v ehicle s, and other contin gent e xpense s, $23 ,650. For the acquisition of a site to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the board of library trustees for a building for the proposed Northeastern branch library, $35,000. For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy Chase and Wood ridg e, $4 ,800. RE GIS TER OF W ILLS For personal services, $73,640. For mi scella neous and co ntinge nt exp enses, teleph one bi lls, p rint- ing, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, towels, towel service, window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and perio dicals, $ 11,000. RECORDER OF DEEDS For pe rsonal servi ces, $ 104,02 0. Recopying old la nd Not to exceed $10,000 of the unexpended balance of the fees and records, etc ., bal from un- expended balances. emcAuments of the office of the recorder of deeds for the fiscal year 1927 and prior fiscal years is hereby made available for recopying old land rec ords of th e Di stric t of Colu mbia, incl uding per sonal servi ces, t ypewri ting m achine s, and necess ary su pplies and e quipme nt. contingent expenses. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including telephone service, printing, binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records ; typewriters, towels, towel service, furniture and equip- ment and repairs thereto ; books of reference, law books and periodi- cals, street: car tokens, postage, not exceeding $100 for rest room for sick and injured employees and the equipment of and medical sup- plies for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $14,000 . For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $14,000. Pers onal serv ices. Rent of offices. Contingent expenses. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES Objects specified. For checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, stationery ; surveying instruments and implements ; drawing materials ; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records ; purchase of laboratory apparatus and equipment, and maintenance of laboratory in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement ; damages ; livery, purchase, and care of horses and car- riages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for ; horse- shoeing ; ice ; repairs to pound and vehicles, not to exceed $850 ; calculating machines for the assessor's office, not to exceed $5,000 ; traveling expenses not to exceed $3,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by

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 SEVENTIETH C ONGRESS. SEss. II. CH. 314. 1929 . the Commissioners of the District of Columbia ; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $10 per diem to each member of board of survey, other than the inspector of build- ings, while actually employed on surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings ; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, $36,350 : Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act or of any appropriation which may now be available shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list o f supp lies a nd mat erials for t he furn ishing of wh ich co ntract s have been or may be awarded. PRINTING AND BINDING 1267 Pro vis o, Printing, etc ., list of suppli es sche dules, for- bidden. For and b inding, $70, 000. 00 0. Printing and bind. printing g> ing Automobiles. Maintenance, etc. Purcha ses al lowed. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carry- ing automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, $77,525 ; for exch ange of su ch pa ssen ger-c arryi ng a utomo biles now owne d by the District of Columbia as, in the judgment of the commissioners of said District, have or shall become unserviceable, $16,110 ; and for the purc hase of pa sseng er-c arryi ng au tomo biles as f ollo ws : Highways department, one at $500 and one at $765, Public Library, one at $500, in all, $ 95,400. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in Allowances for pri. vately owned motor the performance of official duties at the rate of not to exceed vehicles. $312 per year for each automobile and $156 per year for each motor cycle, $12,816. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided resst trictea ubliavehicles for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employe es of the Di strict, exce pt as otherwi se pro vided in thi s Act Provided, That with the exception of motor vehicles for the police PPrro Co st i restri ction f or and fire departments, no automobile shall be acquired under any purc has es. provision of this Act, by purchase or exchange at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $6 50, except as may be herein specifically authorized. No motor vehicles shall be trans- Transfers forbidden. ferred 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 purchase, Use of other appro- priation s for h orses,e tc. , livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, forbidden. or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment peemrttedsnrance not of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superin- Telephones allowed at residence of desig- tendent of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector nated officials . of the stre et-cleani ng divisi on, assis tant sup erintende nt of the street- cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, Director of Public Welfare, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of pre- ventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superin- tendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, the superintendent of machinery, and the fire marshal, under

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 1268 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 314. 1929 . te con- Connections permit- appropriations contained in this Act. The commissioners may nect any or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesa- peake and Potomac Telephone Company o r the telephone syst em Postage. maintained by the District of Columbia, or to both of such systems. Car fares, etc. For postage for strictly official mail matter, $25,000. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connec tion with strictly official bu si- Proaisos s ness of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street-car and Limit. bus far es from appropri ations c ontained in this Act : Provi ded, T h a t the expenditures herein aut horized shall be so apportioned as not Firemen and excepted. Po lice to exceed a total of $8,000 : Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made Judicial expenses. for the fire and police departments. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Cour t of Appeals of the District of Columbi a, witne ss fees, and exp ert serv ices in District cases b efore Proviso. the Supreme Court of said District, $3,000 : Provided, That the Com- Contr acts for r eport - ing permitted. mission ers of t he Distr ict of C olumbia are auth orized, when in their Judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to contract for stenographic reporting services under available appropriations con- tained in this Act. General advertising. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for Taxes in arrears, tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $8,000. vol. 30, p. 250. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1929, as required to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reim- Proaisos. bursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property adver- dico tinuedpamphlets tised, $10,000 : Provi ded, That the printing of tax-sale pamphlets shall be discont inued an d in lieu thereof the not ice of s ale and the Advertisin g delis- delinquent tax list shall hereafter be advertised once a week for two quent taxes in newspa- weeks in the regular issue of one morning and one evening newspaper pers. published in the District of Columbia ; and notice shall be given, by advertising twice a week for two successive weeks in the regular issue of two daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia, that such del inquent tax list has been publish ed in tw o daily newspape rs, giving t he name of each and the d ates and the iss ues cont aining s aid list, and such notice shall be published in the two weeks immediately following the week in which the delinquent tax list shall have been competitive propos- als for publishing lists. publ ishe d : Provided T hat comp etit ive prop osal s sh all be further, , invited by the commissioners rom the seve ral newspapers published in the Distric t of Co lumbia for pu blishi ng the said delinquent tax list. Employment service expenses. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE For personal s ervices and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employm ent service for the Dis- trict of Columbia, $9,650. HISTORICAL PLACES Historical tablets. For purchase and erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the District of Columbia, $500. Emergency fund. EMERGENCY FUND Expenses under, re- stricted. To be expended oonly in case of emergency, such as riot, 3r pe sti len ce, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like characte r, and i n all oth er cases of emer gency no t otherw ise Proviso. sufficiently provided for e in the discretion of the commissioners, Purchases. $4,000 : Prov ided, That in making purchases under this fund not more than the market price shall be paid, and all bids above the

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 SEVEN TIETH CONG RES S. SEss. II. CH. 314. 1929 . 1269 market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market as may, in the judgment of the commissioners, be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. Refund of erroneous REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS collections. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, ize~aymenta su th or- school tuition charges, payments for lost library books, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion required by law, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid Bu ilding permi ts. for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appro- Vol. 36, p. 967. pr iation Act a pprove d Mar ch 2, 1911 (36 Stat ., p . 967), $3,000 : Proviso. Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds Prior years. of payments made within the past three years. Conference on Uni- To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners form State Laws . on Uniform State Laws, $250. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR Assessment and per- For assessment and permit work, including maintenance of non- mit work. passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $300,000. Paving roadways. For pavin g roadways und er the permit system, $30, 000. GASOLINE TAX ROAD AND STREET FUND Street, etc ., improve. ment and repair. Gasoline tax and road and street fund. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, Paving, etc .,. streets avenues, and roads, including personal services and the maintenance and roads from of motor vehicles used in this work, and including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, as follows, to be paid from the special fund created by section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the vol.43, p. 106. Distr ict of Columb ia, and for ot her purposes, " approved Ap ril 23, 1 924, and acc reti ons by r epay ment of asse ssme nts : For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and gutters notedImprovements desig- w here nec essa ry, the foll owin g Northwest : S Street, Thirty-eighth Street to Thirty-ninth Street, S Street NW. $6,800 ; Northwest : Garfield Street, Bellevue Terrace to Thirty-ninth Garfield Street NW. Street, $5,300 ; Northwest : Upton Street, Thirty-eighth Street to Wisconsin Upton Street NW. Avenu e, $3,900 ; N or t h we s t : Vea zey Street, T hirty-eighth Street to Thir ty-ninth Veazey Street NW. Street, $8,600 ; Northwest : Windom Place, Thirty-eighth Street to Wisconsin Winaom Place NW. . Avenue, $11,500 ; Forty-second Street N or t h we s t : F orty-second S treet, Fessen den Street to Wisconsin Nw. Avenue, $4,700 ; No rthwes t : Jeni fer Stre et, Fort y-se cond Str eet to W isco nsin Ave - nue, Street $11,900 ; Forty- second Street Northwest : Forty-second Street, Jenifer Stre et to Roa d, $9,900 ; Northwest : Patterson Street, Chevy Chase Parkway to Nevada N wterson Street Ave nue, $8,600 ; Northwest : Nevada Avenue, Livingston Street to Rittenhouse NNevada Avenue Street, $49,200 ; Northwest : Tilden Street from end of asphalt block pavement Tilden Street NR east of Connecticut Avenue to Rock Creek Park, $49,500 ; Northwest : Belmont Road, Connecticut Avenue to Waterside Belmont Road NW. Drive, $7,200 ;
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 1270 Waterside Driv e NW. Butternut Street NW. Piney Branch R oad NW. Whittier Street NW. Third Street NW. Quackenbos Street NW. Roxboro Place NW. Somerset Place NW. Seventh Street NW. Tuckerman S treet NW. Thirteenth Street NW. Montague Street NW. Allison Street NW. Spring Road NW. Third Street NW. Eighteenth Street NW. Hemlock Street NW. Tunlaw Road NW. Benton Street NW. Ob ser vato ry Pla ce NW. Eighth Street NW. Tewkesberry Street NW. Neal Street NE. Newton Street NE. Myrtle Avenue NE. Evarts Street NE. Summit Place NE. Channing Street NE. Todd Place NE. Second Street NE. Adams Street NE. Fifth Street NE. Ninth Street NE. SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. CFr. 314 . 1929 . Northwest : Waterside Drive, Belmont Road to Allen Place, $7,400 ; Northwest : Butternut Street, Fifth Street to Piney Branch Road, $8,100 ; Northwest : Piney Branch Road, Van Buren Street to Butternut Street (east side), $16,800 ; Northwest : Whittier Street, Seventh Street to Piney Branch Road, $7,600 ; Northwest : Whittier Street, Harlan Street to Second Street, $7,100 . Northwest : Third Street, Peabody Street to Sheridan Street, $13,200 ; Northwest : Quackenbos Street, North Dakota Avenue to Fourth Str eet, $ 18,500 ; Northwest : Roxboro Place, Fifth Street to Eighth Street, $12,500 ; Northwest : Somerset Place, Fifth Street to Eighth Street, $12,500 ; Northwest : Seventh Street, Rittenhouse Street to Tuckerman Street, $10,500 ; Northwest : Tuckerman Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $6,200 Northwest : Thirteenth Street, Longfellow Street to Madison Street, $5,700 ; Northwest : Montague Street, Colorado Avenue to Fourteenth Street, $9,400 ; Northwest : Allison Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, $10,500 ; Northwest : Spring Road, Rock Creek Church Road to Thirteenth Street, $14,600 ; Nor thwest : Third Street, Rock Creek Church Road to Taylor Street, $5,600 ; Northwest : Eighteenth Street, Allison Street to Webster Street, $4,900 ; N or t hw e s t : Hemlock Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, $12,700 ; Northwest : Tunlaw Road, Thirty-seventh Street to Beecher Street, $10,800 ; Northwest : Benton Street, Tunlaw Road to Huidekoper Place, $7,400 ; Northwest : Observatory Place, Benton Street northward to con- crete, $1,600 ; Nort hwest : Eighth St reet, Tuckerma n Street to U nderwood Stre et, $6,200 ; Northwest : Tewkesberry Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $5,400 - 7 Northeast
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$6,500 ; Northeast : Newton Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Eastern Ave- nue, $14,000 ; Northeast : Myrtle Avenue, Central Avenue to Walnut Street, $12,800 ; Northeast : Evarts Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-second Street, $8,8 00 ; No rth eas t : Summit Place, T Street to Todd Place, $ 2,900 ; Northeast : Channing Street, North Capitol Street eastward, $3,000 - 3 Northeast : Todd Place, Lincoln Road to Second Street, $11,700 ; Northeast : Second Street, Adams Street to Bryant Street, $5,000 ; Northeast : Adams Street, Second Street to Third Street, $6,200 ; Northeast : Fifth Street, Franklin Street to Girard Street, $3,800 ; Northeast : Ninth Street, Kearney Street to Lawrence Street, $4,700 ;

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 SEVENTIETH CO NGR ESS. SEss. II. CH. 314. 1929. 1271 Northeast : Kearney Street, Ninth Street to Tenth Street, $3,800 ; Kearney Street NE. Northeast : Lawrence Street, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, Lawrence Street NE. $5,600 ; Northeast : Randolph Street, Twelfth Street to Thirteenth Street, Randolph Street NE. $6,300 ; N or t he a st : Sheph erd Street, T welfth Street to Michigan A venue, Shepherd Street NE. $3,700 ; Northeast : Taussig Place, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $6,900 ; Taussig Place NE. Northeast : Upshur Street, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $9,200 ; Upshur Street NE. Northeast : Twelfth Place, Upshur Street to Varnum Street, Twelfth Place NE. $5,0 00 ; N ort hea st : Thi rteenth Place, Michigan Ave nue to Varnum Street, N Thi rtee nth Pla ce $6,500 ; N o rt he a st : Upshur Street, Sargent Road to Michigan Avenue, Upshur Street NE. $4,0 00 ; Nor the ast : Lawrence Street, Fourteenth Street to Seventeenth Lawrence Street NE. Street, $18,5 00 Seventeenth Street. Northeast : Seventeenth Street, Newton Street to Otis Street, NE. $5,200 Otis Street NE, N o rt he a st : Oti s Street, Six teenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $12,700 ; Fourteenth Street Northeast : Fourteenth Street, Kearney Street to Lawrence Street, NE. $5,200 ; Evarts Street NE. Northeast : Evarts Street, Ninth Street to Tenth Street, $5,600, Tenth Street NE. Northeast : Tenth Street, Evarts Street to Girard Street, $10,000 ; Northeast : Irving Street, Ninth Street to Tenth Street, $4,300 ; Irving Street NE. Nor the ast : Fra nklin Street, Thir teent h Stre et to Fourt eenth Franklin Street NE. Street, $8,800 ; South Dakota Ave Northeast : South Dakota Avenue, Rhode Island Avenue to nueNE. Twentieth Street, $34,500. Lawrence Street NE. Nor the ast : Lawrence Street, Twenty-second Street to South Dakota Avenue, $6,400 ; Twenty- econd: Northeast : Twenty-second Street, Quincy Street to Bunker Hill Stree t NE, s Road, $19,00 0 ; Nor the ast : Otis S treet, South Dako ta Ave nue to Twent y-fou rth Otis street NE. Street, $11,800 ; Nor the ast : Perry Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-second Perry Street NE. Stree t, $7,3 00 ; Northeast : Newton Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-second Newton Street NE. Stree t, $7,5 00 ; Northeast : Central Avenue, Brentwood Road to Myrtle Avenue, Central Avenue NE. $5,5 00 ; Twenty-fifth Street Northeast : Twenty-fifth Street, Girard Place to Hamlin Place, NE . $5,3 00 ; Belair Place NE. Northeast : Belair Place, Hamlin Place to Girard Place, $3,200 Northeast : Girard Place, Twenty-fifth Street to Mills Avenue, ward Place NE. $4,400 ; Northeast : Douglass Street, Queens Chapel Road to Twenty-fourth Douglas street NE. Street, $12,3 00 ; Northeast : Douglass Street, Bladensburg Road to South Dakota Avenue, $16,400 ; Northeast : Thirtieth Street, Douglass Street to Bladensburg Road, Thirtieth Street NE. $2,700 ; Thirty-first Place Northeast : Thirty-first Place, north of Douglass Street, $4,500 ; NE. Northeast : Thirtieth Street, Channing Street southward to pri- Thirtieth Street NE. vate property line, $13,600 ; Northeast : Levis Street, Trinidad Avenue to Orren Street, $3,200 ; Levis Street NE. Northeast : Orren Street, Oates Street to Levis Street, $4,500 ; Orren Street NE. N ort hea st : Q ueen S treet, Trini dad A venue eastwa rd, $ 8,100 ; Queen Street NE.

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 1272 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Cx. 314. 1929 . Owen Place NE. Northeast : Owen Place Montello A venue to Trinidad Avenue ,, $8 800 Seventeenth Street NE. Northeast : Seventeenth Street, A Street to B Street, $5,000 ; Massachusetts Ave- nue SE. Southeast : Massachusetts Avenue, Eighteenth Street to Nineteenth Street, $10,200 ; SE. ighteenth Street S o u t he a s t : Eight eenth Street, Massachusetts Avenue to D Street, $5,300 ; t; Street SE. Southeast : C Street, Fifteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $4,000 ; Southeast : C Street, Seventeenth Street to Massachusetts Avenue, $3,200 ; street SE. Southeast : D Street, Fourteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, B Street SE. $13,000 Twenty-third Street Southeast : K Street, Twelfth Street to Fourteenth Street, $12,200 ; SE. Southeast : Twenty-third Street, Minnesota Avenue to Q Street, Twenty-fifth Street $6,500 ; SE. Southeast : Twenty-fifth Street, Minnesota Avenue to Naylor Nicholson Street SE. Ro ad, $21,300 ; Southeast : Nicholson Street, Prout Street to Minnesota Avenue, Fifteenth Street SE. $5,600 ; u Street SE. Southeast : Fifteenth Street, Good Hope Road to U Street, $4,500 ; v Street SE. Southeast : U Street, Sixteenth Street to Fendall Place, $8,800 ; Southeast : V Street, Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, Fou rteenth S treet $11,000 ; SE. Southeast : Fourteenth Street, V Street to W Street, $2,600 ; SE hirteenth street Southeast : Thirteenth Street, Good Hope Road to Peasnt Street, Chester Street SE. $11,500 ; • Pleasant Street SE. Southeast : Chester Street, W Street southward, $4,100 ; Southeast : Pleasant Street, Nichols Avenue to Thirteenth Street, Valley Place SE. $5,600; Mount view p la ce Southeast : Valley Place, Mount View Place to High Street, $8,100 ; SE. Southeast : Mount View Place, Valley Place to Maple View Place, South Capitol Street $4,100 ; SE. Southeast : South Capitol Street, K Street to Canal Street, $30,900 ; Wi scon sin Ave nue NW. Northwest : Wisconsin Avenue, M Street to Water Street, $24,000 ; N Si xtee nth str eet Northwest : Sixteenth Street, Kalmia Road to District of Columbia Michigan Avenue Line, $64,000 ; NE. No rth eas t : Michigan Avenue, North Capitol Street to Monroe Post, p. 1544. Grading streets, al- Street, $81,000 ; leys, and roads . For grading street`s, alleys, and roads, including construction of Surfacing block pave- necessary culverts and retaining walls, $80,000. inents, etc. For surfacing block pavements and paving the unpaved center Minor etc. in strips of paved roadways, $100,000 ; Te For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to, be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to facili- Curb s and gutter s. tate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, $15,000 ; For construc tion of curbs and gutters, or concrete s houlders in connection with all forms of macadam roadways and adjustment of roadways thereto, together with resurfacing of such roadways where Disb urseme nt, et c. nece ssary, $345,0 00 ; In all, $1,658,500 ; to be disbursed and accounted for as "Gasoline Provisos . tax, road and street improvements," and for that purpose shall con- Restricted to speci- stitute one fund and be available immediately : Pro vide d, T ha t no fled improvements. part of such fund sh all be used fo r the improve ment of any st reet Assess ments und er or section thereof not herein specified : Provided further, That assess- existing law. ments in accordance with existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways where such roadways are paved or repaved with funds derived from the collection of the tax on motor-vehicle fuels Priority to through thoroughfares. and accretions by repayment of assessments : Provided further That . in the performance of the street-paving work specially provided for

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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. CH. 314. 1929. 1273 in this Act priority shall be given to those streets which are more in the nature of through thoroughfares or arterial highways. STREET REPAIR, GRADING, AND EXTENSION Condemnation. Cond emn ati on : For purc hase or co ndem natio n of stree ts, roads , Small park areas. and alleys, and for the condemnation of small park areas at the inter- sectio n of stre ets, aven ues, or r oads in t he Distri ct of Col umbia, to be selected by the commissioners, $5,000. Opening streets, etc ., To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the under permanent sqs. Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, tern oT h ,gh f ay or w iden any s treet, av enue, road , or high way, exce pt Fo urtee nth Four teent h St reet ex- Street extension beyond the southern boundary of Walter Reed Hos- `~i definite appropria- pital Reservation, in accordance with the plan of the permanent tion for, fro m Dis trict . system of highways for the District of Columbia there is appropriated re ven ues such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year 1930, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Repairs : For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, Repairs., etc. alleys, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the rental of necessary garage space therefor ; and including the sur- facing and resurfacing, or replacement, with the same or other approved materials, of such asphalt or concrete pavements as may be done within the f unds a vailab le und er this appro priati on, $ 1, 4 75 ,0 0 0, of which amount $200,000 shall be immediately available : Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby Repla cing asph alt autho rized to rep lace t he exi sting municip al asp halt p lant a t a co st plant. not to exceed $20,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of mentset railways pave- street railways when necessary ; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5of Vol.20,p.105 . "An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia," approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. Changing sidewalks The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and widths, etc . empowered, in their discretion, to fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all high ways that may be i mprov ed un der appro priat ions cont ained in this Act. For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public Sidewalks and curbs. reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $15,000. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be street iO penm r cop petition for ovement available for repairing, resurfacing, or newly paving any street, contracts. avenu e, or roadwa y by p rivate contr act unl ess th e spec ificat ions f or such work shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving material as well as in price. In addi tion t o the provis ion of exist ing law requi ring c ontrac tors Repairs for inferior work, etc., by contrac- to keep new pavements in repair for a period of one year from the t ors, al required ird , for addi- 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 infer ior work or defect ive mater ials, su ch repair s shall b e made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the contractor shall be liabl e for suc h expense. BRIDGES Bridges. For construction, maintenance, operation, and re air of bred es Construction, etc. p g Kenilworth Avenue, inclu ding n ot to exceed $10,0 00 for recons tructi on of the Ke nilwor th over Watts Branch.

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 1274 Anacostia River Bridge, flooring, etc. SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. Cii. 314 . 1929 . Avenue Br idge ove r Wa tts Bran ch, pers onal ser vice s, and m ain- tenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $87,500. For reconstruction of the floor system and ha nd rail of the Anacostia River Bri dg e, including personal services and other necessary expenses, $120,000. Trees and parking. TREES AND PARKINGS Conting ent expenses. For co ntingent expense s, inclu ding lab orers, t rimmers, nursery men, rep airmen, teamster s, hire of carts, wagons , or mot or truck s, trees , tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and subu rban streets, ca re of trees, tre e spaces, purcha se and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $112,500. Pub lic conv enien ce stations. PUBLIC CONVENIENCE STATIONS Maintenance . For maintenance of public convenience stations, including co m- pens ation of necessa ry emplo yees, $34 ,900. Sewers. SEWERS Cleaning, etc° For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the replace- ment of three motor trucks at not to exceed $1,350 each for operation Pumping stations, and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boile rs, machin ery, and pu mping stat ions, and employment of mechanics and laborers, pur ch ase of coal, oi ls, waste, and oth er supplies, and for the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying mot or vehicles used in this work, $250,000. Main and pipe. For mai n and pi pe sewer s and re ceiving basins, $210,000. Suburban. For suburban sewers, includ ing the replacement of four motor trucks at not to excee d $925 e ach, the purchas e of one motor t ractor at not to exceed $975, and the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $612,000. Assessment and per- For assessment and permit work, sewers, $340,000 ; and the unex- mBancce available. pended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal Ante, p. 658. year 1929 shall remain available until June 30, 1930. Rights of way. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, mainte nance, a nd repai r of pub lic sewe rs, $1,0 00. Stickfoot Branch, For continuing the construction of the Stickfoot Branch storm- stormwater. water sewer, $25,000. Upper Pot omac in- For contin uing the c onstruction of the Up per Potoma c main ter cep tor. interceptor, $50,000. city refuse. COLL ECT ION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE Personal services. For personal services, $138,900. Sweeping, cleaning, For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, snow and i•• removal ., and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commis- sioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent vehicles, etc. of storage rooms ; maintenance and repairs of stables ; hire, purchase, and m ainte nance of ho rses ; hire, p urchase, mainten ance, an d repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment ; maintenance and repair of nonpassenger-carryin g motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cle an ing streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equi pmen t ; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles ; and necessary incidental expenses, $500,000.

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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 314. 1929 . To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of exist- ing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead ani- mals, night soil, and mi scella neous refuse and as hes in the D istric t of Columbia (no contract shall be let for the collection of dead ani- mals), inclu ding i nspect ion ; fe ncing of pub lic an d priv ate pr operty designated by the commissioners as public dumps ; and i nci de nt al expenses, $975,000, including not to exceed $25,000 for repair and improvement of the garbage reduction plant : Provi ded, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the manner provided by law : Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apart- ments in whi ch the landl ord fu rnishe s heat to ten ants. PUBL IC P LAYG ROUND S For personal services, $113,180 : Provided, That employments here- unde r, e xcept dire ctor s who shal l be empl oyed for t welv e mon ths, shall be distributed as to duration in accordance with correspond- ing employments provided for in the District of Columbia Appro- priation Act for the fiscal year 1924. For general maintenance, improvement, equipment, supplies, inci- dental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance of one motor truck, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $46,000. For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open during the summer months the public-school playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners ; for special and tem- porary services, directors, assistants, and janitor service during the summer vacation, and, in the larger yards, daily after school hours during the school term, $29,000. For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000. BATHING POOLS : For superintendence, $600 ; for temporary serv- ices, supplies, and maintenance, $4,500 ; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780 ; in all, $6,880 : Provided, That section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916 (39 Stat ., p. 120, sec . 6), as amended, shall not apply to the position of superintendent of these bathing pools during the fiscal year 1930. ELECT RICAL DEP ARTMENT For personal services, $128,680. For ge neral suppli es, re pairs, new b atterie s and batter y supp lies, telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record book, stationery, livery, pur- cha se and repai r of b icycle s, bla cksmit hing, e xtra l abor, new bo xes, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, $31,150. For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone serv- ices underground, extension and relocation of police-patrol and fire- alarm systems, purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equip- ment and expenses, including not to exceed $6,625 for replacement of obsolete fire-alarm boxes by new-type boxes, $30,000. LIGHTING : For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all 54835 •-29-PT 1-84 1275 Garbage, dead ani - mals, ashes, etc. Garbag e reductio n plant. Provisos. Deposit of receipts. Use restricted. Public playgrounds. Personal services. Proviso. Emplo yment re- stricted. Vol. 42, p. 1340. e Mai nten ance, etc. Public school play- gro unds dur ing the summer. Swimming pools. Bathi ng pools . Proviso. Double pay restric- tion not applicable to super intendent . Vol. 39, p. 120. El ectr ical depa rt- ment. Pe rsona l se rvice s. Suppl ies, conting ent expen ses, etc. Placing wires under- ground . Police-patrol and fire- alarm systems, etc . Lighting streets, etc.

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 1276 at kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost of main tenanc e of l ights at Bol ling F ield ne cessar y for operat ion of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat ., pp . 1008-1011, sec . 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat., pp . 181-184, sec . 7) and other laws applicable thereto, including not to exceed $23,000 for operation and maintenance of Electric Electric street light- electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $950,000 : Provided, That ing rates. this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street li ghting in excess o f those a uthorized to be pa id in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exc eed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed : Provided further, That no part of this appropria- tion 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 specifica- tions shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. I mprov ing system, etc ., m fifteenth police The appropriation of $4,570 for the fiscal year 1929 for rearranging prA inct. iatfon avail_ and imp roving polic e-patr ol sig nal sy stem in propo sed nu mber f ifteen able. police precinct and extending telephone system to proposed number Ante, p. sso. fifteen police station house, including the purchase, installation, and relocation of boxes, instruments, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra l abor, and ot her ne cessar y item s, is c ontinu ed ava ilable until June 30, 1930. Ai r mail light s Bolling Field. Vol. 36, p. 1008. Vol.37, p.181. Awards of contracts to lowest competitor. Public schools. A dmini stra tive and supervisory officers . Vol.43,p. 368 . Clerks, etc. Sc hool attend ance and work permit de- partment . Vol. 43, pp.367, 806. Provisos. Preference of appoint- ment of normal school graduates to cease July 1, 1933 . Comp iled Statutes, D.C .,p.489. Norma l schools to be expa nded into Te ach- ers' Colleges. So licit ing subscrip. tion, etc ., in schools prohibited. SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 314. 1929. PUBLIC SC HO OLS Salaries : For personal services of administrative and supervisory officers in accordance with the Act fixing and regulating the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat ., pp . 367-375), $656,740. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $148,560. For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat ., pp. 367-375), and the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat ., pp . 806-808), $36,900 : Provided, That effective July 1, 1933, that portion of section 3 of the Act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, approved June 23, 1873, entitled "An Act to establish a normal school for the city of Washington " (sec- tion 42, chapter 57, of the compiled statutes in force in the District of Columbia), which provides that the graduates of the normal schools in the District of Columbia shall have preference in all cases wh en app ointme nts of teach ers fo r the public school s are to be made, is hereby repealed : Provided, That the Board of Education is h ereby auth oriz ed, u nder appro pria tions here afte r to be ma de, to expand the two existing normal schools into Teachers' Colleges, and at the end bf the fourth year thereof to award appropriate degrees. Teachers. Col. 43, pp. 367-375. Salaries : For personal services of teachers and librarians in accord- ance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat ., pp . 367-375), $5 ,982,600 . 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 TE ACHE RS

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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CII. 314. 1929 . or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officia ls or for an y purp ose ex cept s uch as may be autho rized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting u pon the written recom- mendation of the superintendent of schools. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $33,000. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled `An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia,' approved Ja nu ar y 15, 1920, and for other purp oses " (41 Stat ., pp . 387-390), $400 ,000 . NIGHT SCHO OLS Salaries : For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of indus trial, co mmercial, and tra de instru ction, an d teacher s and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $95,000. Contingent expenses : For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and sup- plies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,500 . THE DE AF, DU MB, AND BLIND For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (U. S. C., p. 685, sec. 238), and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $27,500. For m ainte nance and tuit ion o f co lored deaf -mute s of teac hable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $6,500 : Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be ma de und er the super vision of the Board of Ed ucatio n. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by th e comm ission ers, $10,500 : P rovid ed, Th at all expen diture s unde r this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. AMERICANIZATION WORK For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages in both day and night classes, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day schools, $11,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $1,000. COMM UNIT Y CE NTER DEPARTMENT For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and community secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp . 369, 370) ; clerks and part-time employees, includ- ing janitors on account of meetings of parent-teacher associations and other activities, and contingent expenses, equipment, supplies, and l ighting f ixtures, $42,000. Exception. Vacation schools. Ann uit ies. Vol. 44, p. 728. Vol. 41, p. 387. Post, p. Night schools. Salaries. Dea f, dumb, and blind. Instruction of deaf and dumb. R.S.,sec. 4864, p. 942. Vol.31,p.884. U.S. Code, p.685. Colored deaf mutes. Tuition of, un der contract. Proviso. Supervision. 1277 Contingent expenses. Blind children. Tuition of, un der contract. Proviso. Supervision. Americanization work. Instructing foreigners of all ages. Equipment, etc. Comm unity c enters. Salarie s and ex- penses. Vol.43,p.375.

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 1278 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II : CH. 314. 1929 . Ca re of buil dings and CARE OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS grounds. Salaries. Salaries : For personal services, $762,000. Sm aller bui ldings For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms at a rate not to and rented rooms. exceed $96 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $6,500. MISCELLANEOUS Schools for tubercular pupils. For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, 7,000. . Transporting pupils For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular to rovis fares, et c ., al- pupils, $5,000 : Provided, That expenditures for street-car and bus Car lowed. fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of street-car and bus fares covered by this Act. Transporting crip- pled pupils. For transportation for pupils attending schools for crippled pupils, . Proviso. $12,000 : Provided, That expenditures for street car and bus fares low ed, fa re s , etc. > - from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of street car and bus fares covered in this Act. Manual, etc., train- For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, ing expenses. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $90,000, to be immediately available. Fuel, light, and power. For fuel, gas, b power, tric light and 7~ ower 7 $290,000. Furniture, etc. FURNITURE Fo r des ignat ed sc hool For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions buildings. to buildings, as follows : E. A. Paul Junior High School, $48,000 ; twenty-four-room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, at Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road, $31,000 ; e ig ht - room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, on Gra nt R oad, $13 ,500 ; ei ght- room bui ldin g, i nclu ding com bina tion assembly hall and gymnasium, at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets, $13,500 ; eight-room addition, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, Raymond School, $13,500 ; eighteen-room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, Langdon School, $19,000 ; eight-room addition, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, Burrville School, $10,500 ; eight-room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, to replace the old Bell and Cardozo Schools, $13,500 ; Francis Junior High School, Available until June $20,000 ; health school for colored pupils, $12,000 ; in all, $194,500, to 30,1931. be immediately available and to continue available until June 30, Completing e quip- 1931. ment, McKinley Tech- For completing the furniture and equipment, including pianos and meal arch. window shades and repair, remodeling, and refinishing of existing Ante, p. 662. eq uipm ent, for the McK inle y Te chni cal High Sch ool, not to exce ed $50,000 of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929 is continued available until June 30, 1930. Contingent expenses, fl ags, etc. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, ice, United States flags, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $3,000 for books of reference and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for re- placement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, not exceeding $27,000 for office appliances for instruction purposes in Business High School and Cardozo High School, not exceeding $13,600 for additional furniture and equipment for normal schools, and not exceeding $5,000 for labor, $187,800, to be immediately avail- Pr ovi so. able : Provided, That a bond shall not be required on account of mili- supliestocade ts Ar my tary supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia.

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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. Ca. 314. 1929 . For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and pres ervation of said textboo ks and s upplies, includin g necess ary labor not to exceed $1,000, $125,000, to be immediately available Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in their discretion, are authorized to exchange any badly damaged book for a new one, the new one to be similar in text to the old one when it was new. For maintenance of kindergartens, including not to exceed $3,000 for furnishing and equipping three additional kindergartens, $10,000. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $3,000. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and normal schools, and for the installation of the same, $16 .000, to be immediately available. 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 p ublic sc hools wi thout pa yment of tuition. Not to exceed $100,000 of the unexpended balances of appropria- tions for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the Dis tr ict of Columbia appropriation Acts fiscal years 192 6, 1927, and 1928, is hereby made available until Ju ne 30, 1930, for the improveme nt of grou nds surrou nding publ ic-school buildings, constructed under appropriations for the fiscal year 1928 and prior fiscal years, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For repairs and improvements to school buildings, repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric lighting equipment, and installation of sanit ary drin king fou ntai ns, and main tena nce of moto r tr ucks , including not to exceed $1,700 for purchase of two dump trucks, including the exchange of one dump truck, $450,000. For r ent of school bu ildi ngs and grou nds, sto rage and sto ck rooms, $8,000. For purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, for school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $10,000 : Provid ed, That suc h pl aygr ound s sh all be k ept open for pla y pu rpos es in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the playground department. BUILDINGS AND GROU NDS Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of funds made available by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 for the construction of a combined gymnasium and assembly hall for the Wheatley School is hereby made available for the comp leti on of the ei ght- room add itio n and co mbin atio n gymn asiu m and as semb ly h all at the Morgan Sc hool. For the construction of a combination gymnasium and assembly hall at the Joh n Eaton School, in accor dance wi th the o riginal plans for the construction of said building, $50,000. For the erection of a junior high school building on a site being purchased for that purpose in the Reno section, in accordance with 1279 Supplies to pupils . Proviso. Changes authorized . Kindergartens. School gardens. Nature stu dy, etc ., teachers. Supp lies for physi cs, etc ., depa rtments. Children of Army, Navy, etc ., admitted fre e. Improving grounds of new buildings. Unexpend ed bal- ances available. Vol . 43, p. 1233,1320 ; Vol . 44, pp. 435, 1315. Repairs, etc ., to buildings. Rent. Scho ol y ards play - grounds . Proviso. Use, etc. Buildings and Grounds. Wheatley. Balance for, available for Morgan School . Ante, p. 663. Jo hn Eaton. Addition. Reno. Erection of junior high.

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 1280 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. Cu. 314. 1929 . the plans of Macfarland Junior High School, $200,000, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts as in this Act provided for such building, at a -cost not to exceed $50 0,000 . For the completion of the construction of the E. A. Paul Junior High School in Brightwood, $250,000. For the compl etion of the c onstr uctio n of an e lemen tary -scho ol building, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site already purchased at Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road to replace the Force, Adams, and Morgan Schools, $225,000. For the erection of a junior high school building on a site to be purchased for that purpose in the vicinity of the Kingsman School,, in accordance with the plans of the Macfarland Junior High Sch ool, $ 200,00 0, and the c ommiss ioners are au thoriz ed to enter into contract or contracts as in this Act provided for such building, at. a cost not to exceed $500,000. For the erection of a new health school and sanatorium for colored Business High. pupils, $150,000. Construction on site For the construction of a new school building for the Business for adjoining Macfar- High School on a site now owned b the District of Columbia land Junior High. el y adjoining the Macfarland Junior High School, including the necessary remodeling and enlargement of the heating plant at the Heating pla nt. Macfarland Junior High School to provide heat for the Business Contracts authorized. High School, $300,000, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts as in this Act provided for such Proviso. building, exclusive of the treatment of grounds, at a cost not to. Use of present build- exceed $1,500,000 : Provided, That upon completion of such build- ing. ing, the buil ding now occup ied b y the Bus iness High Sch ool s hall be used as an elementary school. For the construction of an ad dition or additions to the Park View School, including the necessary remodeling of the present buildi ng, $2 65,000. Fo r the constr uction of a four-r oom ad dition, inclu ding a combi na- tion gymnasium and assembly hall, to the Buchanan School, includ- ing th e nece ssary remode ling o f the present build ing, $ 120,00 0. Fttingr pgstadium For proper grading, seeding, and sodding ; for the construction adjoining, of roads, walks, and steps ; for seating ; for running track, baseball diamond, tennis courts, and other athletic facilities ; for fencing and other necessary work to fit up for athletic purposes the ground All toconstitnteflmd purch ased as a stad ium a djoin ing the D unbar High Sch ool, $75,0 00. available until ex- In all, $1,835,000, to be disbursed and accounted for as " Buildings pended . and grounds, public schools," and for that purpose shall constitute Proviso. Use onl y for build - one fund and remain available until expended : Provided, That no ings specified. part of this appropriation shall be used for or on account of any A wardi ng c ontr acts school building not herein specified. to lowest bidder. None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid or oblig ated towar d th e con struc tion of o r add ition to any b uildi ng 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 Proviso. 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 Purchases of sites the right to reject all bids. authorized. For the purchase of school building and playground sites, as follows : E . A. Paul, Junior High . Comple ting . Elementary school at Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road . Kingsm an School. Junior high in vicin- ity of. Health sch ool for colored p upils. Park View. Additions. Buchanan. Addition, etc. Rejection of bids.

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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ca. 314. 1929. 1281 For the purchase of a site on which to locate a new sixteen-room Co nnec ticut Ave nue school building in the vicinity of Connecticut Avenue and Upton and Upton Street. Street ; For bui ldi ngs in For the purchase of a site on which to locate a new junior high- northeast Washington. school building, a new platoon school building, and a colored health school and sanatorium in northeast Washington ; McKinley Hig h and For the purchase of additional land at the site of the McKinley LAddt oval lands. High School and Langley Junior High School ; For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Stevens School for Stevens School. playground purposes ; For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Banneker School Banneker School. f or pl aygro und purpo ses ; Additional authori- For the purchase of additional school-building and playground zations. sites authorized to be acquired in the five-year school-building pro- Vol.43,p. 988. gram Act ; Provisos. In all, $517,000 : Provided, That with the exception of $165,000, no Cost restriction. part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site the cost of which shall exceed the full value assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value : Provided further, That part or parts of a site 125 pr per sof ce nt li mita tion . slm under may be purchased under the 125 per centum limitation if the total cost of the part or parts acquired does not at the time of such pur- chase e xceed 125 pe r cent um of the as sessed value. Unexpended bal- The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $703,500 for the antes continued avail- purchase of school-building and playground sites, contained in the able until June 30, 1930, District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, is continu ed ava ilable until June 30, 19 30, for the p urchas e of s chool- Vol. 44, p. 435. buildin g and playgr ound s ites a uthori zed to be acq uired in the five- year school building program Act : Pr ovided , That part or parts ost`limitation. of a site may be purchased under the 125 per centum limitation if the total cost of the part or parts acquired does not at the time of such purchase exceed 125 per centum of the assessed value. Fa rt of unexpended Not to exceed $194,000 of the unexpended balances of the appro- balance available without limitation as priations for school-building and playground sites contained in the to assessed price. District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1927, 1928, and 1929 is made available until June 30, 1930, without limita- tion as to price based on assessed value, for the purchase of such sites. Langley Jun ior High. Not to exceed $15,500 of the appropriation of $375,000 for an addi- Balance for addition to, reappropriated for tion to the L angley Junio r High Schoo l, cont ained in the Distr ict of bui ldi ng on Gran t Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, is hereby Road. 44, p. 1315. reappropriated and made available as an additional sum for the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a combina- tion gymnasium and assembly hall, on the site on Grant Road now owned by the District of Columbia. 'Preparation of plans. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act under appropriations administered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consul- tation with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the commissioners and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. Exits required. The sch ool bu ilding s auth orized and a ppropri ated f or her ein sh all be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having an excess of Doo rs to open out- eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried ward. i n this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances Unlocking on school shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one- days. half hour before until one-half hour after school hours.

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 1282 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 314. 1929. Police. METR OPOLI TAN POLI CE SA LARIES Salaries, office rs, etc. For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metro- Vol.43,p.174. politan 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 Colum- bia," (43 Stat ., pp . 174-175) including compensation at the rate of $2,100 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the Proviso. police department, $2,722,110 : Provided, That hereafter no more than Limitations, vehicles. and motor vehicles. $50 per annum shall be paid as extra compensation to members mounted on bicycles, and no more than $312 per annum to mem- bers who may be called upon to use motor vehicles, furnished and maintained by themselves. Personal services. For personal services, $114,850. MISCELLANEOUS Fuel. For fuel, $8,500. Repairs, etc ° For repairs and improvements to police stations and station grounds, $10,000. Contingent expenses. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for fugitives, purchase of modern revolvers and other firearms, mainte- nance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, teletype system, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, not to exceed $200 for car tickets, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, and saddles, mounted equipment, flag s an d hal yards, st orage of s tolen or aband oned prop erty, and traveling and other expenses incurred in prevention and detection Prevention and de- of crime, and other necessary expense, $62,000 ; of which amount a tection of crime. sum not exceeding $2,000 may be expended by the major and super- inten dent o f poli ce for preve ntion and det ection of cr ime, u nder h is certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to Provisos. have been expended : Provid ed, That the War Department may, Armymounte a in its discretion, furnish the commissioners, for use of the police equipment. , Repairs to speedome- upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required tern by District elee- Provided further, That the commissioners are authorized to employ the electrician of the District Building to repair speedometers at such cost not exceeding $250 as they may approve, payment to be in addi- tion to his regular compensation, and such services to be performed afte r reg ular worki ng h ours. Motor vehicles. For purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles and the replace- ment of those worn out in the service and condemned, $65,000. Uniforms. Uniforms : For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the Metropolitan police, $67,050. Fifte enth preci nct. Not to exceed $2,000 of the appropriation of $52,000 contained in Additional ai labl e, the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 Ante, p .666. (45 Stat., p . 666), for the erection of a building to be known as the fifteenth police precinct station house, shall be available for the acquisition of additional land for the site for such building, House of detention. HOUSE OF DETENTION Maintenance. For maintenance, including rent, of a suitable place for the recep- tion and detention of girls and women over seventeen years of age,

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 $2,000. SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. Ca. 314. 1929 . arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the Distric t of Columbia, or held as witnesses or h eld pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including transpor- tation, the purchase and maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of building, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $22,000 ; for personal services, $10,440 ; in all, $32,440 : Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the maintenance of a House of Detention in the territory abutting or adjacent to the grounds of the Capitol Building, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Library of Congress. HARBOR PATROL For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, Harbor patrol. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, such sum as is necessary for said purposes for the fiscal year 1930 is appro- priated from the policemen and firemen's relief fund. F IRE DE PAR TME NT SALARI ES For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia" (43 Stat ., p. 175), $1,897,000. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,440. MISCELLANEOUS For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including not to exceed $8,000 for repairs and improvements at No. 8 engine house2 $33,000. Uniforms : For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the perfo rmance of d uty to offic ers an d mem bers of the fire department, $30,400. For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other motor-driven apparatus, fire boat and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the purchase of nece ssary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools, $49,000 : Provided, That the commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire dep artment repai r shop. For hose, $1,000. For fuel, $29,000. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $29,000. For one automobile, $2,000. For an additional amount for a site for an engine company, to be located in the vicinity of Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues northwest, $28,200. 1283 Proviso. Locations barred. Policemen, etc., re- lief fund. Payments from. Fire department. Salaries ', officers, etc. Vol. 43, _ 175. Perso nal s ervic es. Repairs, etc ., to buildings. Uniforms. Repairs to apparatus, etc. Proviso. Construction at re- pair shop. Hose, and fuel. Contingent expenses. Automobile. Site near Connecti- cut and Nebraska Ave- nues.

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