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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 681 -JUNE 25, 1938 to provide for the annual inspection of all motor vehicles in the District of Columbia", approved February 18, 1938, including not Ant,p . 78. to exceed $30,720 for personal services without regard to civil-service requirements, and not to exceed $103,000 for the construction of two buildings, including grading and paving of roadways, for use as inspection stations on land owned by the District of Columbia, one to be located in square 355 and the other on parcel 141/13, and includ- ing purchase of necessary inspection equipment, and printing and binding, $154,720, to remain available until June 30, 1939. Extension of streets and avenues: For an additional amount to Extension of streets carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the Cor- andavenues. missioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension beyond the southern boundary of Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, including the procurement of chains of title, fiscal year 1937, $50,000: Provided,That this appro- Proeiso. priation shall be available to carry out the provisions of existing law Amenly imrproe for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of alleys and etc. minor streets and for the establishment of building lines in the District of Columbia. Refunding erroneous collections: To enable the Commissioners, in Refund oferroneous cases where motor-vehicle registration fees, motor-vehicle operators' ti permit fees, motor-vehicle title fees, motor-vehicle fuel taxes, importers' license fees, special assessments, or collections of any char- acter have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the special fund created by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved April 23, 1924, and the Act entitled 43 stt. 106. "An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved August 17, 1937, to refund such o5 stat. 673. erroneous payments, fiscal years 1938 and 1939, $3,000: Provided, Provisos. That this appropriation shall also be available for refunding such yer.fnds, prior payments made within the last three fiscal years prior to the fiscal year for which this appropriation was made available: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be available for refunds authorized Motor vehicle fuel by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 1924. motor vehicles. DIVISION OF EXPENSES The foregoing sums for the District of Columbia, unless otherwise therein specifically provided, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed, by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the respective fiscal years for which such sums are provided. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Rent of buildings, Department of Agriculture: Not to exceed $13,040 of such funds available to the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1939, as the Secretary of Agriculture may determine, may be transferred to the appropriation for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for such Department for such fiscal year. Mediterranean Fruit Fly Board: For carrying into effect the Act entitled "An Act to provide for an investigation and report of losses resulting from the campaign for the eradication of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly by the Department of Agriculture", approved May 23, 1938, fiscal year 1939, $10,000. Division of exo penses. Department of Agri culture. Office of the Secre- tary. Rent of buildings. Ante, p. 712. Mediterranean Fruit Fly Board. Ante, p. 436. 1125

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