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P U B L I C LAW 4 5 3 - J U L Y 5, 1952

Office of the corporation counsel, including extra compensation for the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission; $10,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $260 each, approved by the Commissioners in accordance with the Act of February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act of June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); and judicial expenses, including witness fees and expert services, in District of Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the District of Columbia; $348,000, of which $9,350 shall be payable from the highway fund. Purchasing Division, $135,400, of which $4,525 shall be payable from the highway fund. Board of Tax Appeals, $23,300.

claims D.C.Code 1-902.

FISCAL SERVICE Salaries and expenses. Fiscal Service: For expenses necessary for the Assessor's Office, the Collector's Office, and the Auditor's Office, $1,992,000, of which $28,150 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for advertising, for not more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one newspaper published in the District of Columbia, the list of all taxes on real property and all special assessments, together with penalties and costs, in arrears, the cost of such advertising to be reimbursed to the general fund by a charge to be fixed annually by the Commissioners for each lot or piece of property advertised: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for refunding, wholly or in part, school tuition, lost library books, building permits, and other payments which have been erroneously made during the present and past three years.

COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND EXPENSES For compensation and retirement fund expenses, as follows: District government employees' compensation, $167,000. Workmen's compensation, administrative expenses: For transfer to the Bureau of Employees' Compensation for administration of the law providing compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, $175,000. District government retirement and relief funds: For financing the liability of the government of the District of Columbia to the "Civil service retirement and disability fund" and the "Teachers' retirement and annuity fund", and to provide relief and other allowances as authorized by law for policemen and firemen, $8,262,000, of which $2,418,000 shall be placed to the credit of the "Civil service retirement and disability fund": Provided, That the Treasury Department shall prepare the estimates of the annual appropriations required to be made to the teachers' retirement fund, and shall make actuarial valuations of such fund at intervals of five years, or oftener if deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Commissioners are authorized to expend from money to the credit of the "Teachers' retirement and annuity fund. District of Columbia" not exceeding $5,000 per annum for this purpose, including personal services.



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DISTRICT DEBT SERVICE

For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned, in compliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as amended, $500,000.

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