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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ca. 659. 1928. 649 window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, and including $1,500 for the purchase of a cash register, in all, $10,000. R ECOR DER OF DRRDS Recorder of Deeds. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act Per sona l ser vice s. of 1923, $96,000. Conting ent expenses. For misce llane ous a nd c ontin gent expe nses, incl udin g tel ephon e service, printing, binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records ; typewriters, towels, towel service, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto ; books of reference, law books and periodicals, street-car tokens, postage, not exceeding $100 for rest room for sick and injured employees and the equipment of and medical supplies for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $14,500. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $14,000. Rent of offices. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES Conting ent expenses. For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, period- Objects specified. icals, 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 carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for ; horseshoeing ; ice ; repairs to pound and vehicles ; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800 in the aggregate ; traveling expenses not to exceed $3,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia ; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings ; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, Proviso. $50,000 : Pr ovid ed, That no part of this or any other appropriation pl Printing schedules lis t for s up- b id- contained in this Act or of any appropriation which may now be den. available shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of su pplies and m ateria ls for the fu rnishi ng of which contra cts have been or may be awarded. Printing reports for For printing all annual and special reports of the government of fiscal y ear 1928. the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for Proviso . submission to Congress, $4,800 : Provided, That authority is hereby Discretionarydiscon- given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to discontinue tfn"ance' the printing of any annual or special reports of the government of the District of Columbia in order to keep the expenditures within this appropriation . In all cases where the printing of said reports Preservation of origi- is di scontinue d, the or iginal co py there of shall be kept o n file in the offices of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for public inspection. For maintenance, care, h re air 7 and operation of Automobiles . passenger-carrying Mai ntena nce, etc . automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, $76,670 ; for exchange of s uch passe nger- carr ying autom obile s no w own ed by the Dist rict of Columbia as, in the judgment of the commissioners of said Dis- trict, have or shall become unserviceable, $15,530 ; and for the pur- Pur chase s al lowed . chase of pa ssenge r-carr ying a utomob iles as follo ws
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one, $1,800 ; District Training School, one autobus, $1,500 ; Public Utilities Commission, one, $1,500 ; in all, $97,000 . For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in Allowances for 2 cately owned motor the performance of official duties at the rate of not to exceed $312 vehicles. per year for each automobile and $156 per year for each motor cycle, $15,000.

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