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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 271-JULY 1, 1941 For maintenance, including purchase of equipment, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $25,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000. HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM Salaries: For personal services, $87,710, including a superintendent at $4,600 per annum, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $89,710. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $90,100. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners, $7,500. For replacement of equipment at power house, to be immediately available, $2,030. MUNICIPAL LODGING HOUSE For personal services, $3,800; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $7,800. PUBLIC ASSISTANCE For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the District of Columbia who are unemployed or otherwise in distress because of the existing emergency, to be expended by the Board of Public Welfare of the District of Columbia by employment and direct relief, in the discretion of the Board of Commissioners and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Board and without regard to the provisions of any other law, payable from the revenues of the District of Columbia, $1,025,000, and not to exceed 12 per centum of this appropriation and of Federal grants reimbursed under this appropriation shall be expended for personal services, including the employment of one general superintendent of public assistance services at $5,600 per annum, one assistant superintendent of such services at $4,600 per annum, and one stenographer-typist (secretary) at $2,000 per annum, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, not to exceed $35,000 may be expended for the distribution of surplus commodities and relief milk, including not to exceed $22,040 for personal services, which shall be in addition to such services herein authorized, and not to exceed $49,960 for personal services, which shall be in addition to such services herein authorized, to certify persons eligible for work relief and surplus commodities: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of this appro- priation, together with $25,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1940, may be used during the fiscal year 1942 as a revolving fund for the purchase of food stamps from the Department of Agriculture in accordance with the food-stamp plan of that Department for the distribution of surplus commodities, under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Public Welfare and approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said revolving fund to be reimbursed from time to time from the proceeds of sale of such stamps: Providedfurther, That all auditing, disburs- ing, and accounting for funds administered through the Public Assistance Division of the Board of Public Welfare, including all employees engaged in such work and records relating thereto, shall Post, p. 836. Relief to the unem- ployed, etc. Personal services. Proisos. Purchase of food stamps. 53 Stat. 1027. Supervision of ac- counting, etc.

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