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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 184-JULY 1, 1943 48 Stat. 655. D.C. Code § 25-124. 42 Stat. 1488. 5U.S.C.§661; Supp. II, § 661 et seq. 42 Stat. 1488. 5U. . C. 661; Supp. II, §661 et seq. Advances. Appropriations and authority. Availability. Ratification of in- curred obligations. For purchase of alcoholic beverage tax stamps required under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act of 1934, $12,000. AUDITOR'S OFFICE For personal services, $153,010, including $2,000 for continuing the employment of a real-estate expert without reference to the Classifi- cation Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements. OFFICE OF CORPORATION COUNSEL Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general coun- sel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal services, $126,987. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD For personal services, streetcar and bus transportation, telephone service, not exceeding $100 for witness fees, and other necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and periodicals, $39,300. CORONER'S OFFICE For personal services, including deputy coroners, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, $17,180. For the maintenance of two non-passenger-carrying motor vehi- cles for the morgue, jurors' fees, witnesses' fees, heat, light and power, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies and services, including repairs to the morgue, $5,125. OFFICE OF' SUPERINTENDENT OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MARKETS For personal services, $65,115. Weights, measures, and markets, expenses: For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and for the purchase of one motor vehicle equipped for making investi- gations of sales of gasoline and oil by short measure, $9,675: Pro- vided, That the Disbursing Officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Superintendent of the Department of Weights, Measures, and Markets, upon requisition previously approved by the Auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money, not exceeding $100 at any one time, to be used exclusively in connec- tion with investigations and detection of short weights and meas- ures, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officials of the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the appropriations and authority contained in this Act shall be available from and including July 1, 1943, for the purposes respec- tively provided in such appropriations and authority: And provided further, That all obligations incurred during the period between June 30, 1943, and the date of the enactment of this Act in anticipa- tion of such appropriations and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with the terms thereof. OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK, ENGINEER DEPARTMENT For personal services, $35,280. 314 [57 STAT.

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