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PUBLIC LAW 637-JUNE 29, 1956

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the Department of Public Welfare placed outside of the District of Columbia and the States of Virginia and Maryland: Provided further, That employees using privately owned automobiles for the transportation of indigent persons or the placing of children may be 5 USC 835 note, reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 1949 (63 Stat. 166), but not to exceed $900 for any one individual. DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Department of Buildings and Grounds, including maintenance of public convenience stations, and $5,000 exclusively for test borings and soil investigations, $1,780,000, of which $29,300 shall be payable from the highway fund. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the Department of Buildings and Grounds in payment of personal services employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an amount not exceeding 4 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 3 % per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000, and appropriations specifically made in this Act for the preparation of plans and specifications shall be deducted from any allowances authorized under this paragraph: Provided, That reimbursements may be made to this fund from appropriations contained in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District government, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appropriations: Provided further, That this fund shall be available for advance planning subject to subsequent reimbursement from funds loaned by the Administrator of General Services under 40 USC 451-458. (.j^g provisions of the Act of October 13, 1949 (63 Stat. 841). OFFICE OF SURVEYOR

Office of Surveyor, $170,000. DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND INSPECTIONS

Department of Licenses and Inspections, including the enforcement of the Act requiring the erection of fire escapes on certain buildings and the removal of dangerous or unsafe or insanitary buildings; compensation at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of members of the unsafe structure and excavation board; maintenance and repairs to markets; purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure; $1,658,000. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS

D. C Code 7-701 to 7-705.

Department of Highways, including minor construction of bridges; rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of radio services; street lighting, including the installation and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat, 1008), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat. 181), and other laws applicable thereto; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; $6,535,000, of which $3,966,235 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided, That the Commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase and install a

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