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PUBLIC LAW 637-JUNE 29, 1956

years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise; $13,773,000, of which amount $1,837,000 shall be payable from the highway fund and $43,300 from the motor vehicle parking fund, and $35,000 shall be exclusively available for expenditure by the Chief of Police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate approved by the Commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended. ADDITIONAL MUNICIPAL SERVICES, INAUGURAL CEREMONIES, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Metropolitan Police (additional municipal services, inaugural ceremonies), to enable the Commissioners to provide additional municipal services in said District from January 15 to January 24, 1957, both inclusive, including employment of personal services without regard to the civil-service and classification laws; payment at basic salary rates for services performed by officers and members of the police and fire departments in excess of the regular tours of duty (but not to exceed a total of sixteen hours overtime pay to any individual officer or member performing service within such period); travel expenses of enforcement personnel from other jurisdictions; hire of means of transportation; meals for policemen and firemen; cost of removing and relocating streetcar loading platforms; construction, rent, maintenance, and expenses incident to the operation of temporary public comfort stations, first-aid stations, and information booths; and other incidental expenses in the discretion of the Commissioners; $155,000. F I R E DEPARTMENT

Fire Department, including compensation of civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; official equipment, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another or damaged in the performance of duty; purchase and maintenance of radio equipment; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $6,755,000: Provided, That hereafter the Commissioners in their discretion may authorize the construction, in whole or in part, of firefighting apparatus in the Fire Department repair shojD. VETERANS SERVICE CENTER

Veterans services, $98,500. OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE

Office of Civil Defense, $78,000: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of any funds from appropriations available to the District of Columbia may be used to match financial contributions from the Federal Civil Defense Administration to the District of Columbia Office of Civil Defense for the purchase of civil defense equipment and supplies approved by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, when authorized by the Commissioners.

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