PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 281 -JULY 15, 1939 Personal services. Contingent ex- penses. Personal services. Contingent ex- penses. Rent. Post, p. 1041 . REGISTER OF WILLS For personal services, $78,020. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, print- ing, contract statistical services, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, including laboratory coats and photographic developing- room equipment, towels, towel service, window washing, streetcar tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, $13,120. RECORDER OF DEEDS For personal services, $112,920. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including telephone service, printing, binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; typewriters, towels, towel service, furniture and equip- ment and repairs thereto; books of reference, law books and peri- odicals, streetcar tokens, postage; not exceeding $100 for rest room for sick and injured employees and the equipment of and medical supplies for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $14,400. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $15,000, to be expended without reference to the provisions of section 6 of this Act. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES Obects spefied. For checks, books, law books, books of reference, including $1,500 for law books and books of reference for the Corporation Counsel's office, periodicals, newspapers, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and Traveling expenses preservation of records; ice; traveling expenses not to exceed $3,000; including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending con- ventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of et., buildings. ' Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $6 per diem to each member of board of survey, other Settlement o lais. than the inspector of buildings, while actually employed on surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings; not exceeding $3,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $250 each, approved by the Commissioners under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of Colum- Stat. 1160; 46 bia", approved February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by Conference of com- the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); not to exceed $250 missioners on uniform State laws. to .aid in support of the national conference of commissioners on pubnlicreltieof uniform State laws; not exceeding $2,513 as final payment for the investigation of public relief in the District of Columbia, to be immediately available; and other general necessary expenses of Dis- Printing, etc., lst trict offices, $37,943: Provided, That no part of this or any other of supplies. appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnish- ing of which contracts have been or may be awarded. Post, p. 108 . For postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental of postage-meter equipment, $27,200. udicial expenses. For judicial expenses, including witness fees, and expert services in District of Columbia cases before the District Court of the United Stenographicreport- States for the District of Columbia, $1,500: Provided, That the ing services. Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when in their judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to con- tract for stenographic reporting services without regard to section 1008 [53 STAT.
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