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 528 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 271-JULY 1, 1941 [55 STAT. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and enclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees- traveling and inci- dental expenses not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $2,000 for travel and field expenses in the United States and foreign countries for the procurement of live specimens and for the care, subsistence and transportation of specimens obtained in the course of Vehicles. such travel; maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled pas- senger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; for the pur- chase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of bicycles and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, revolvers, and ammuni- Uniorms. tion; not exceeding $2,500 for purchasing and supplying uniforms to Park Police, keepers, and assistant keepers; not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $239,260, no part of which sum shall be available for architect's fees or compensation. Post,pp .823,83s HIGHWAY FUND, GASOLINE TAX AND MOTOR VEHICLE FEES Appropriation from The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the special fund s und 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 D.st0e A 4710purposes", approved April 23, 1924, and the Act entitled "An Act 1901 to 47-1916. to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for 08otat 676: other purposes", approved August 17, 1937, for expenses of the following departments and activities: DEPARTMENT OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC For personal services, including $11,000 for temporary clerk hire, $196,240. For purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, mainte- nance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, printing and bind- ing, postage, telephone service, heating, electricity, repairs to equip- Paring meters. ment of inspection stations, continuation of the operation of parking meters on the streets of the District of Columbia, including main- tTrafflsafetyeduca- tenance and repair not to exceed $7,500 for such expenses as the Com- missioners, 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 said amount to be expended without reference to any other law, including not to exceed $38,500 for the operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $161,270, of which not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic-light signals and $1,000 shall be available for directional signs: Ptreetcr loading Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained platforms. in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintain- ing 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 m this Act for street improvements when plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utilities Commission and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic: Provided further, That the street-railway company shall after con- . struction maintain, mark, and light the same at its expense: Provided arkmeteresfurther, That fees from parking meters shall be deposited to the credit of the Highway Fund of the District of Columbia.

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