PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 209-JUNE 30, 1945 42 Stat. 1488. 5U..C.. 661; Supp. IV, 661 e seq. Post, p. 298 et seq. NationalConference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. D. C. Code § 1-902 to 1-905. From the highway fund: All sums appropriated under District debt service and public works designated as payable from the high- way fund; and From the water fund: All sums appropriated under District debt service, public works, and Washington aqueduct, designated as pay- able from the water fund; namely: GENERAL ADMINISTRATION For all expenses necessary for the offices named under this general head, including, in addition to the objects specified respectfully under each head, personal services; lawbooks, books of reference, period- icals, and newspapers; and printing and binding: Executive office, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in grade 8 of the professional service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of Commissioners of the District of Colum- bia, hereafter in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; $10,500 for examination of estimates of appropriations without regard to the civil-service and classification laws; payment of dues and expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the District of Columbia government when authorized by the Commissioners; $250 to aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; general advertising in newspapers and legal periodicals in the District of Columbia but not elsewhere, unless the need for advertising outside the District of Columbia shall have been specifically approved by the Commissioners, including notices of public hearings, publication of orders and regu- lations, tax and school notices, and notices of changes in regulations; and $20,000 for expenses in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, flood, fire, or storm, and for expenses of investigations; $169,200: Provided, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of $1,500 of this appropriation for such purposes as they may deem necessary. Office of the corporation counsel, including extra compensation for the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Public Utilities Com- mission; $4,500 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $250 each, approved by the Commissioners in accordance with the Act approved February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); and judicial expenses, including witness fees and expert services, in District of Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the District of Columbia; $140,200. Board of Tax Appeals, $16,000. FISCAL SERVICE For all expenses necessary for the offices named under this general head, including, in addition to the objects specified respectively under each head, personal services; books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; and printing and binding: Assessor's office, including advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1945, to be reimbursed by a charge of 75 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $420,000: Provided,That this appropria- tion shall not be available for the payment of advertising the delin- quent tax list for more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one newspaper published in the District of Columbia. Collector's office, including refunding, wholly or in part, erroneous payments of taxes, special assessments, school tuition charges, payment [59 STAT. 272
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