PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 281 -JULY 15, 1939 Personal services. Cleaning, repairs, etc. Motortrucks. Sewers and receiv- ing basins. Vehicles. Assessment and per- mit work. Mosquito control. Vehicles, etc. Proviso. Transfer to Public Health Service. Sewage treatment plant. et ment is authorized and directed to render such services in planning as the Commissioners may deem necessary, subject to reimbursement for such services. SEWERS For personal services, including one chief engineering inspector at $2,600 per annum, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, $183,860. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins; including the replace- ment of the following motortrucks: Two at not to exceed $975 each and one at not to exceed $4,000; and for operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to equipment, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of electricity, fuel, oil, waste, and other supplies, and the maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $230,000. For construction of sewers and receiving basins, including the main- tenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the replacement of one motortruck at not to exceed $975 and two hydraulic diggers mounted on tractors at not to exceed $2,500 each; and including not to exceed $16,710 for the construction of a shop building at the sewer division yard, $275,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase or condemnation of rights-of-way for construc- tion, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $225,000. For the control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia, including personal services, operation, mainte- nance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles, the replacement of one motortruck at not to exceed $650, purchase of oil, and other neces- sary expenses, $12,000: Provided, That of the amount herein appro- priated there may be transferred, in the interest of coordinating the work of mosquito control in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $4,100 to the Public Health Service of the Treasury Department, the amount so transferred to be available for the objects herein specified. Sewage treatment plant: For operation and maintenance, including salaries and wages of necessary employees, supplies, repairs to build- ings and equipment, purchase of electric power, fuel, oil, waste, and other necessary expenses including the maintenance of non-passenger- carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $206,940. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE Personal services. For personal services, $137,820. Sweeping, cleaning, For dust prevention, sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Commis- sioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equip- ment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repair of garages; maintenance and repair of non-passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets, purchase and exchange of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment, not to exceed $29,400, and necessary incidental expenses, $433,130. Garbage, dead anl- To enable the Commissioners to carry out the provisions of exist- ing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia, including inspection; fencing of public and private property designated by the Commissioners as public dumps; includ- Vehics. ing not to exceed $47,000 for the purchase and exchange of non- passenger-carrying motor vehicles; and incidental expenses, $896,000: [53 STAT. Tm
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