339 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 184-JULY 1, 1943 STREET IMPROVEMENTS For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, and roads, including temporary per diem services, survey- ing instruments and implements, and drawing materials, printing and binding, postage, and miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase (including exchange), operation and maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, and including assessment and permit work and the several purposes provided for thereunder as follows: Not to exceed $75,000 of the unexpended balance of the appro- Reappropriation. priation of $200,000 for paving, repaving, and surfacing, and so forth, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 5s stat. 451. 1944; For grading, paving, repaving, surfacing, and otherwise improving Orading,etc,iunde streets, avenues, and roads, including curbing and gutters, drainage Act of 138. structures, retaining walls, the replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains, and fire-alarm boxes and police-patrol boxes, and re- placement of curb-line trees, when necessary, as Federal-aid highway projects under section 1-b of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938 stat. . (Public Numbered 584, Seventy-fifth Congress), $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1945: Provided, That in connection with the ProIe-iaselrvioe highway-planning survey, involving surveys, plans, engineering, and economic investigations of projects for future construction in the District of Columbia, as provided for under section 10 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, this fund shall be available to the extent 106tat. -a;st authorized in said section for the employment of engineering or other professional services by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C . 5), the Classifica- tion Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements, and for 5 uts. C . 661; Supp. n1,I 661 d seg. engineering and incidental expenses; upp.,I For grading streets, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, $60,000; The appropriation of $25,000 for construction of curbs and gut- ters, and so forth, contained in the District of Columbia Appro- priation Act, 1943, is continued available for the same purposes until M st. at June 30, 1944; Not to exceed $150,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropri- ation of $300,000 for the surfacing and resurfacing, and so forth, con- tained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, is 66 Stat 4U continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1944; Not to exceed $100,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropri- ation of $250,000 for the construction of and changes in drainage structures, and so forth, contained in the District of Columbia Appro- priation Act, 1943, is continued available for the same purposes until S.s June 80, 1944; Not to exceed $50,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropri- ation of $100,000 for the reconstruction and changes in layout of road- ways and curb lines, and so forth, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, is continued available for the 58tat. 4 same purposes until June 30, 1944; s . For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, $55,000, together with not to exceed $50,000 of the unexpended bal- ance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the District t of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943;d, e, in Not to exceed $150,000 of the unexpended balance of the appro- ob ed. priation of $300,000 for grading, pving, surfacing, and so forth contained in the District of Columbi Approiation Act, 194, is continued available for the same purposes until June 0. 1944;
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