sioners, including notices of public hearings, publication of orders and regulations, tax and school notices, and notices of changes in regulations; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 Ú. S. C. 55a); and expenses in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, flood, fire, or storm, and for expenses of investigations; $296,575: Provided, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of $1,500 of this appropriation for such purposes as they may deem necessary. For ceremony expenses, $10,000‒‒‒ Office of the corporation counsel, including extra compensation for the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Public Utilities. Commission; $20,000 for the settlement of claims; and judicial expenses, including witness fees and expert services, in District of Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the District of Columbia; $341,000, of which $9,775 shall be payable from the highway fund. Purchasing Division, $126,300, of which $4,525 shall be payable from the highway fund. Board of Tax Appeals, $22,000__ [Total, General Administration, $795,875.] FISCAL SERVICE Salaries and expenses, Fiscal Service: For expenses necessary for the Assessor's Office, the Collector's Office, and the Auditor's Office, $1,900,000, of which $67,036 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for advertising, for not more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one newspaper published in the District of Columbia, the list of all taxes on real property and all special assessments, together with penalties and costs, in arrears, the cost of such advertising to be reimbursed to the general fund by a charge to be fixed annually by the Commissioners for each lot or piece of property advertised: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for refunding, wholly or in part, school tuition, lost library books, building permits, and other payments which have been erroneously made during the present and past three years. COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND EXPENSES For compensation and retirement fund expenses, as follows: District government employees' compensation, $187,000. Workmen's compensation, administrative expenses: For transfer to the Bureau of Employees' Compensation for administration of the law providing compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, $157,000. District government retirement and relief funds: For financing the liability of the government of the District of Columbia to the "Civil service retirement and disability fund" and the "Teachers' retirement and annuity fund", and to provide relief and other allowances as authorized by law for policemen and firemen, $8,049,000, of which $2,542,000 shall be placed to the credit of the "Civil service retirement and disability fund”: Provided, That the Treasury Department shall prepare the estimates of the annual appropriations required to be made to the teachers' retirement fund, and shall make actuarial valuations of such fund at intervals of five years, or oftener if deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Commissioners $296,575 and indefinite 10,000 341,000 126,300 22,000 1,900,000 187,000 157,000 8,049,000 are authorized to expend from money to the credit of the "Teachers' retirement and annuity fund, District of Columbia" not exceeding $5,000 per annum for this purpose, including personal services. [Total, Compensation and Retirement Fund Expenses, $8,393,000.] DISTRICT DEBT SERVICE For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned, in compliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as amended, $1,000,000__ [For appropriation for 1952 for Office of Defense, see p. 242.] REGULATORY AGENCIES For expenses necessary for agencies named under this general head: Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, including the purchase of samples, $106,900_. Board of Parole, $79,300- Coroner's office, including juror fees, and repairs to the morgue, $60,100 Department of Insurance, $86,500- Department of Weights, Measures, and Markets, including maintenance and repairs to markets, purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only, $163,600_ License Bureau, $78,800 [For appropriation for 1952 for Office of Administrator of Rent Control, see p. 242.] Office of Recorder of Deeds, including uniforms and caps for guards, $240,400_. Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board, $73,400_. Poundmaster's office, including uniforms for dog catchers, $41,900-- $1,000,000 106,900 79,300 60,100 86,500 163,600 78,800 73,400 240,400 41,900 148,800 36,300 Zoning Commission, $36,300_ [Total, Regulatory Agencies, $1,116,000.] PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPERATING EXPENSES General administration, supervision and instruction: For expenses necessary for the administration of and supervision and instruction in the public school system of the District of Columbia including the education of foreigners of all ages in the Americanization schools; athletic apparel and accessories; subsistence supplies for pupils enrolled in classes for crippled children; maintenance and instruction of deaf, dumb and blind children of the District of Columbia by contract entered into by the Commissioners upon recommendation by the Board of Education of the District of Columbia; transportation of children attending schools or classes established for physically handicapped pupils; for carrying out the provisions of the Act of December 16, 1944 (58 Stat. 811); distribution of surplus commodities and relief milk to public and charitable institutions, and for the carrying out, under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Education, of a "penny milk” program for the school children of the District, including the purchase and distribution of milk under agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture; $17,315,000, of which $3,000 shall be available for the services of experts and consultants as 17,315,000 authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), but at rates not exceeding $50 per diem plus travel expenses for such individuals: Provided, That the compensation for summer school personnel may be charged to the appropriation for the fiscal year in which the pay periods end: Provided further, That collections from the milk program shall be paid to the Collector of Taxes, District of Columbia, for deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District: Provided further, That collections from school athletic contests shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. Vocational education, George-Barden program: For expenses necessary for the development of vocational education in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended, $243,900‒‒‒‒ Operation and maintenance of buildings, grounds and equipment: For expenses necessary for the operation, repair, maintenance and improvement of public school buildings, grounds and equipment; purchase of equipment; and purchase, operation, repair, maintenance and insurance of passenger-carrying motor vehicles, including District-owned or borrowed passenger motor vehicles, $4,576,500_ [Total, Operating Expenses, $22,135,400.] CAPITAL OUTLAY Public school construction, sites and equipment: For the purchase of sites; for plans and specifications for the following school buildings: Armstrong Senior High School replacement, Dunbar Senior High School addition, Health School addition, Phelps Vocational High School addition, Randle Highlands Elementary School addition, Seaton Elementary School replacement, and Washington Vocational High School addition; for completing the construction of the following school buildings including building improvements and alterations, treatment of grounds, and the purchase of equipment: Browne Junior High School addition, Bunker Hill Elementary School addition, Davis Elementary School addition, a new extensible junior high school building in the vicinity of Pomeroy Road, Douglas Place, and Stanton Road Southeast (Douglass Junior High School), Francis Junior High School addition, Keene Elementary School addition, Elementary school in the vicinity of River Terrace, Northeast, Spingarn Senior High School, and Terrell Junior High School replacement; and for the construction of the following school buildings including building improvements and alterations, treatment of grounds, and the purchase of equipment: Payne Elementary School addition, Richardson Elementary School addition, and Turner Elementary School addition; to remain available until expended, $7,027,350, of which $190,000 shall be available for the use of the Municipal Architect and shall be credited to the appropriation account, "Office of Municipal Architect, construction services", and $1,347,260 shall not become available for expenditure until July 1, 1952; and the limits of cost contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1951, for the following school buildings, are increased to the following amounts: Bunker Hill Elementary School addition, $850,200; Davis Elementary School addition, $495,000; Keene Elementary School addition, $660,000; Elementary school in the vicinity of River Terrace, Northeast, $326,000; Francis Junior High School addition, $534,750; new extensible junior high school building in the vicinity of Pomeroy Road, Douglas Place, and Stanton Road Southeast (Douglass Junior High School), $1,807,000; and Terrell Junior High School replacement, $1,891,500; and the limit of cost contained in the Supplemental $243,900 4,576,500 7,027, 350 Appropriation Act, 1951, for the Browne Junior High School addition including eighteen classrooms, improvements, and alterations of the existing building, and treatment of grounds, but excluding a gymnasium, is increased to $975,000. Permanent improvement of public school buildings: For permanent improvements and alterations of public school buildings, including the purchase of equipment and the elimination of fire hazards, $442,000, to remain available until expended. Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 to September 1, 1951, to teachers of the public schools of the District of Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or independent establishments of the United States Government. [Total, Capital Outlay, $7,469,350.] [Total, Public Schools, $29,604,750.] PUBLIC LIBRARY For expenses necessary for the operation of the Public Library, including extra services on Sundays and holidays; music records, sound recordings, and educational films; alterations, repairs; fitting up buildings; care of grounds; and rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Anacostia and Woodridge without reference to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945, $1,413,000 Capital outlay: For construction of a branch library building in Cleveland Park, including site preparation, and preliminary design studies and surveys for the construction of extensions to the central library building, $343,500__. [Total, Public Library, $1,756,500.] RECREATION DEPARTMENT Operating expenses: For expenses necessary for operation and maintenance of recreation facilities in and for the District of Columbia, $1,425,000. Capital outlay: For improvement of various recreation units, including erection of recreation structures, preparation of architectural and landscape architectural plans, without regard to the Act of August 24, 1912 (40 U. S. C. 68), and reimbursement to the United States of funds advanced in compliance with section 501 of the Act of October 3, 1944 (58 Stat. 791), $200,000.. [Total, Recreation Department, $1,625,000.] METROPOLITAN POLICE For expenses necessary for the Metropolitan Police, including pay and allowances; one inspector who shall be property clerk; the lieutenants in command of the homicide squad, robbery squad, general assignment squad, special investigation squad, with the rank and pay of captain while so assigned; the detective sergeants in command of the automobile and bicycle squad, the check and fraud squad, and the narcotic squad with the rank and pay of lieutenant while so assigned; the detective sergeant assigned as administrative assistant to the chief of detectives with the rank and pay of lieutenant while so assigned; the present acting sergeant in charge of police automobiles with the rank and pay of sergeant; the present sergeant in charge of the police radio station with the rank and pay of lieutenant; the present sergeant in charge of purchasing and accounts with the rank and pay of lieutenant; the lieutenant assigned as harbor master with $442,000 1,413,000 343,500 1,425,000 200,000 the rank and pay of captain; corporals at $3,669 per annum each; technicians with basic salary increase of not to exceed $325 per annum each; not to exceed one detective in the salary grade of captain; probational detectives with basic salary increase of $163 per annum each; compensation of civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; allowances for privately owned automobiles used by inspectors in the performance of official duties at $480 per annum for each automobile; meals for prisoners; rewards for fugitives; medals of award; photographs; rental and maintenance of teletype system; travel expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime; expenses of attendance, without loss of pay or time, at specialized police training classes and pistol matches, including tuition and entrance fees; expenses of the police training school, including travel expenses of visiting lecturers or experts in criminology; police equipment and repairs to same; insignia of office, uniforms, and other official equipment, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, or damaged in the performance of duty; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; expenses of harbor patrol; and the maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detention of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise; $9,390,000, of which amount $1,180,000 shall be payable from the highway fund and $25,000 shall be exclusively available for expenditure by the Superintendent of Police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the Commissioners and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended. FIRE DEPARTMENT For expenses necessary for the Fire Department, including pay and allowances; the present first deputy fire marshal with the rank and pay comparable to battalion chief; compensation of civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; uniforms and other official equipment, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another or damaged in the performance of duty; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $4,695,000: Provided, That the Commissioners, in their discretion may authorize the construction, in whole or in part, of fire-fighting apparatus in the Fire Department repair shop. VETERANS' SERVICES For expenses necessary to provide services to veterans, $117,800____ COURTS District of Columbia courts: For expenses of the Juvenile Court, the Municipal Court, and the Municipal Court of Appeals, including pay of retired judges; lodging and meals for jurors, bailiffs, and deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the courts; and meals for prisoners; $1,100,300, of which $17,100 shall be available for payment to the United States Public Health Service for furnishing psychiatric service to the Juvenile Court, including the detail of necessary medical and other personnel: Provided, That deposits made on demands for jury trials in $9,390,000 4,695,000 117,800 1,100, 300 |