FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 2510. 1907. 1].25 CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent egpenses of the. government of the District of °°“““*°“‘°’P°”°‘ Columbia, namely: or printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodica s, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses; painting; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; bindin , rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining ani keeping in good order the boratory and apparatus in the office of the ins ctor of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care ofm horses and carriages or buggies not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; fuel, ice, gas, repairs, repairs to pound and vehicles, use of bic cles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed five hundred dollars, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the und office, Board of Charities, excise board, personal-tax board, har r master, health department, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures office, an department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt an cement, thirty-nine thousand dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deuciency therein: Provided, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this gfugghou on me Act shall notbe used by the Commissioners for any other purpose of umm, sw. than tovisit such points within the District of Columbia as it may be necessary to visit in order to enable them to inspect or inform themselves concerning any public work or property belonging to the said gstrict or to do any other act necessary to the administration of its airs. No rt of the money a propriated by this Act, except appropri- ,,,,I‘,l'}‘,{§,,‘K,‘,E,,°}’°“°" ations Ifdr the militia, shall be used for the purchase, livdiy, gilmgin- yam tenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, excelpfn as- provided for in the a propriation for contingent and misce eous expenses or unless ' the a propriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized. No part of the money apprplpriated by this Act shall be used for ,,,{}',§,,l“'“"”°° *"°‘ the payment of premiums or o er cost o fire insurance. For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department, “""‘°“· including forage, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase ¤ and repair of harness, blan ets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whi oils, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois sldns, buckets, halters, jaw?} rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles an expenses, five thousand dollars; and no expenditure on account of the engineer department for the items named in this paragraph shall be made from any other fund, except as hereinafter authorized. 'For postage for strictly officia mail matter, seven thousand dollars. ’°'*•¢°- For rent of district offices, nine thousand dollars. mh For rent of old record vault, six hundred dollars. For rent of omce for department of insurance, eight hundred and forty dollars. For rent of property yards, three hundred dollars. For rent of storeroom for property clerk, three hundred dollars. For necessary expenses, inclu ing Services of collectors or bailiifs, P°¤°¤¤l in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, three thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office for corporation counsel, one thousand dollars. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the J¤¤i¤*·l ¤¤r·¤¤¤¢¤· printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District cases before the supreme court of said District, four thousand dollars.
