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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 62-APR. 4, 1938 Advancesforreturn- ing absconding proba- tioners. Police Court. Salaries. Contingent expen- ses. Witness fees and jurors' compensation. Municipal Court. Salaries. Post, p. 1122. Jurors. ProTiso. Deposits for jury trials earned unless new date set, etc. 41 Stat. 1312. Contingent expen- ses. Miscellaneous. Probation system, District Court of the U. S. for the District. Support of convicts. Lunacy writs. Expenses of execu- tion, etc. Post, p. 11l9. mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, repairs to courthouse and grounds, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,400. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the account- ing officer of the District of Columbia. POLIQE COURT Salaries: For personal services, $98,400. For law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, station- ery, rebinding of books, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painter's and plumber's supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, lodging and meals for jurors and bailiffs when ordered by the court, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $3,250. For witness fees and compensation of jurors, $31,500. MUNICIPAL COURT Salaries: For personal services, including compensation of five judges without reference to the limitation in this Act restricting salaries within the grade, $76,420. For compensation of jurors, $8,700: Provided, That deposits made on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discon- tinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, lodfing and meals for jurors, and for deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court; fixtures, repairs to furniture, building and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $1,550. MISCELLANEOUS Probation system, District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia: For personal services, $13,280; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $13,780. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from District of Columbia; expenses of ship- ping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased con- victs; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped con- victs and rewards for their recapture; and discharge gratuities pro- vided by law, $61,000. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to [52 STAT.

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