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58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 300 , 301-JUNE 28, 1944 and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 11 . Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an appropriation for a particular purpose or object of expenditure, such amount, unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maxi- mum amount which may be expended for said purpose or object rather than an amount set apart exclusively therefor. SEC. 12. Hereafter no District of Columbia appropriation shall be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. SEC. 13. Hereafter no part of any appropriation for the District of Columbia, except for public schools, shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the fur- nishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded. ,EC. 14. Title VI of the District of Columbia Revenue Act approved July 26, 1939, as amended, is amended by striking out "Until and including June 30, 1944,". SEC. 15. The Commissioners are authorized, under available appro- priations in this Act, to contract for stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes. SEC. 16. Neither the District of Columbia nor any officer thereof acting therefor shall be required to pay court costs in any court in and for the District of Columbia. SEC. 17. Work performed for repairs and improvements under appropriations contained in this Act may be by contract or otherwise, as determined by the Commissioners. SEC. 18. Hereafter any revenue now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such reve- nue was derived shall be credited wholly to the general fund of the District of Columbia. SEC. 19. If at any time during the fiscal year 1945 the termination of the Act entitled "An Act to provide temporary additional com- pensation for employees in the Postal Service" approved April 9, 1943, or of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of overtime compensation to Government employees, and for other purposes", approved May 7, 1943, shall be fixed by concurrent resolu- tion of the Congress at a date earlier than June 30, 1945, the appro- priations contained in this Act shall cease to be available on such earlier date for obligation for the purposes of the terminated Act and the unobligated portions of appropriations allocated for the purposes of such terminated Act shall not be obligated for any other purposes of the appropriation during the fiscal year 1945. SEC. 20. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945. Approved June 28, 1944. [CHAPTER 301] AN ACT Making appropriations for war agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the support of war agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30,1945, and for other purposes, namely: 533 Maximum amount. Fire insurance. Printing lists of sup- plies, exception. 53 Stat. 1118; 56 Stat. 460. D.. Code§47- 2501. 41U.B.C. 6. Court costs Termination of designated Acts, ef- fect. 57 Stat. 59 75. 39 U. S. C., Supp. IIl 00 835, 836; 50 S.., SUpp. III, app. i0 1401-1415. Pot, p. 768. Short title. June 8, 1944 [H. R.48791 [Public Law 372 National War Agency Appropria tom Act, l4 .