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 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 433. 1916. 683 Charities, health officer, chief engineer of the fire department, supermtendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator and two iire·alarm repair men under eppropriations contained in this Act. The Commissioners of the c,§g,”’§*?,,,j{L°¤’,,,,_fi,E'* _1str1ct of Columbia may connect any or all of these telephones to t0mac'1‘elopl1cnaCo¤in): either the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com- P“y'°°°‘ pany or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia, as m their judgment rnaly be most economical to the District. P°¤*¤¤°· For postage for strict y official mail matter, $1 1,500. ` The comm1ssioners_are_ authorized, in their discretion, to furnish c,f’,‘§§§,§,_';$° °' °*'°°* necessary transportatmn m connection with strictly official busin Hs of the District of Columbia by the purchase of car tickets from appropriations contained in this Act: Provided, That the expenditures erem authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total Fu, md ,,,,1,,,, ,,0, of $5,000:_Prmnded further, That the provisions of this paragraph *¤¤¤¤¤¤¤· shall not mclude the appropriations herein made for the fire and police dpfpartments. Here_ ter the several street railwa companies in the District of ,,,,I";j,{,§,,°“',,,,",,,‘*°°’,,, Columbia. are authorized and re uiredr to transport free of charge all members of the Metropolitan pollice, crossing police, park police, and fire department of the District of Columbia when in uniform and in the performance of their duties. , For necessary exgenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, ¤§gL°°¤¤¢ Pa*°¤“ in collection of over ue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, $4,000. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, Judicislarpums the printing of briefs in the Com·t o ppeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Su reme Court of said District, $5,000. ger purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transpor- °°'°°°"° °‘P°°’°=*— tation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased (persons, making autopeies ice disinfectants, telephone service, an other necessary supp 'es for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holdinlg inquests, including stenofaplhic services in taking testimony, and p otographing unidentified o 'es, $4 400. iFor general advertising, authorized and required b law, and for ;*,§_§’,',:,'$*¤¤· tax an school notices and notices of changes in regugtions, $5,000. ` For advertising notice of taxes in arrears J y first nineteen 'gaiwinamn hundred and sixteen, as required to be given by Act of Miarch nine- ° °°’p‘f°' teenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $3 500, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or igece of property advertised. For enforcement of game and _ h laws, to be expended imder the G°m° md M 1**** diiiection of the comimssiouers, $20% h A d h Em Ra or c out the rovisions 0 the ct a rove t, ,,,,.,,,,,,,, eighteen hunilied and riinety-nine, entitled _"Aii) Act to authorize V0!-30.l>-923~ the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and_ for other purposes," to pay members o the board of s1u·vey provided for therem, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to {pay the cost of making safe or removing Such buildings u n the re usal or neglect of the ownexsso to do, Mmowaum the unex n ed biilance of the appropriation made for this purpose var sa,p.wi. for the Eggal year nineteen hun ed and thirteen is reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. _ _ b For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the §§,§’,‘§‘,%u‘§§_S‘ — District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the V¤L 38»1>·°°1· Joint Committee on the Library not exceeding the sum of $500 of the unexpended balances of the apiropriations made for this purpose by the Acts of June twenty-sevent, nineteen hundred and six, and subse uent District of Coumbia appropriation Acts, is continued availzilile for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.