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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 281-JULY 15, 1939 Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved August 17, 1937, for expenses of the following departments and activities: DEPARTMENT OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIO For personal services, including $6,000 for temporary clerk hire, and including an administrative assistant at $4,000 per annum, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, $177,420. For purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, main- tenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, purchase (includ- ing exchange) of a one-ton truck at not to exceed $870, printing and binding, postage, telephone service, heating, electricity, repairs to equipment of inspection stations, continuation of the operation of parking meters on the streets of the District of Columbia, including maintenance and repair, not to exceed $7,500 for such expenses as the Commissioners, in their discretion, may deem necessary in connection with traffic safety education, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the Commissioners, including not to exceed $32,000 for the operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $165,250, of which not less than $50,000 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic-light signals and $5,000 shall be available for direc- tional signs: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropria- tion contained in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same, except that a permanent type of platform may be constructed from appropriations contained in this Act for street improvements when such work is undertaken in connection with roadway paving, repaving or resurfacing, and plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utilities Commis- sion and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic: Providedfurther, That the street railway company shall pay the cost of maintenance, mark- ing, and lighting after construction. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to designate, reserve, and properly mark appropriate and sufficient parking spaces on the streets adjacent to all public buildings in such District for the use of Members of Congress engaged on public business. For the purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates, $20,000. POLICE TRAFFIC CONTROL For expenses necessarily involved in the police control, regulation, and administration of traffic upon the highways, $518,885, which amount shall be transferred to the appropriation contained in this Act for pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metro- politan Police force. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT For personal services, $250,360. STREET IMPROVEMENTS For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, and roads, including temporary per diem services, surveying instruments and implements, and drawing materials, and the main- tenance of motor vehicles used in this work, including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, and 1033 43 Stat. 106; 50 Stat. 676. Personal services. Expenses, etc. Parking meters. Traffic safety eda- cation. Provisos. Streetcar loading platforms, etc., re - strictions; exception. Maintenance ex- penses. I)esignatioin of park- ing spalCeS for otficitll us, of NM"iintHlrs of ('ongress. Identification plates. Expenses. Personal services. Paving, etc.. streets and roads.

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