PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 218 -JULY 12, 1943 AUDITED CLAIMS For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under appropria- tions, the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 18 tat. 110. 1874 (31 U. S. C . 713), being for the service of the fiscal year 1940 and prior fiscal years: Public schools, salaries, District of Columbia, 1940, community centers, $6.08; General advertising, District of Columbia, 1940, $11.24; Support of convicts, District of Columbia, 1940, $108.80; Metropolitan Police expenses, District of Columbia, 1939, motor vehicles, $147.92; Support of convicts, District of Columbia, 1939, $328.50; Support of convicts, District of Columbia, 1938, $149.40; Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, 1937, general advertising, $286; In all, audited claims, $1,037.94. TEMPORARY INCREASE IN COMPENSATION FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA For additional amounts for appropriations for the fiscal year 1943 for the payment of increases in compensation authorized by the Act Anfr, P. 7. of April 1, 1943 (Public Law 22, Seventy-eighth Congress), as follows: For Poundmaster, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943, $175; Commission on Mental Health, District of Columbia, 1943, $525; Public schools, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943: Administra- tive and supervisory, $11,373; attendance officers, $265; teachers and librarians, $470,700; in all, $482,338; Recreation Board, salaries and expenses, District of Columbia, 1943, $14,305; Metropolitan Police, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943: Pay and allowances, officers and members, $48,000; Fire Department, salaries, District of Columbia, 1943: Pay of of- ficers and members, $7,000; Gallinger Municipal Hospital, salaries. District of Columbia, 1943, $36,000; Probation system, courts, District of Columbia, 1943, $750; In all, $589,093. HIGHWAY FUND, GASOLINE TAX AND MOTOR VEHICLE FEES DEPARTMENT OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC Expenses: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1941, for purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, signals and controls, and so forth, including the objects specified under this head 4" "Sta4. in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1941, $468.19. REFUND OF PAVING ASSESSMENTS Refund of paving assessments: For the refund in part of paving assessments paid by abutting property owners in connection with the restoration of abandoned street railway track areas, where por- tions of such assessments were subsequently paid by the street railway 436 [57 STAT.
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