[59 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 209-JUNE 30, 1945 68 Stat. 511. Advances. Post. p. 642 . Meters in taxicabs. Treatment of legally adopted children. automobiles used for the performance of official duties (not to exceed $264 per annum for each automobile), $65,700. Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole, including allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties (not to exceed $264 per annum for each automobile), $30,400. Coroner's office, including juror and witness fees, and repairs to the morgue, $23,400. Department of Insurance, $44,500. Department of Weights, Measures, and Markets, including mainte- nance and repairs to markets, $2,500 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and for the purchase, including exchange, of one motor vehicle, $128,100, together with not to exceed $6,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945: Provided, That the Disbursing Officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Superintendent of the Department of Weights, Measures, and Markets, upon requisition previously approved by the Auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money, not exceeding $100 at any one time, to be used exclusively in connection with investigations and detection of short weights and measures. Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board, $39,200. Office of Administrator of Rent Control, $80,700. Office of Recorder of Deeds, including lawbooks and $100 for equip- ment and medical supplies for rest room, $148,700. Poundmaster's office, including uniforms for dog catchers, $22,200. Public Utilities Commission, including a people's counsel and news- papers, $98,000: Provided, That no appropriation in this Act shall be used for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission. Zoning Commission, $16,200. PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPERATING EXPENSES General administration: For all expenses necessary for the general administration of the public-school system of the District of Columbia, including personal services; printing and binding; lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals; allowances for privately owned automo- biles used for the performance of official duties within the District of Columbia (not to exceed $264 per annum for each automobile); $325,000, of which $10,000 shall be immediately available. General supervision and instruction: For all expenses necessary for supervision, instruction, and education in the teachers colleges and in the day, evening, and summer public schools of the District of Columbia, and the education of foreigners of all ages in the American- ization schools; including personal services; printing and binding; textbooks, lawbooks, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; and subsistence supplies for pupils attending the schools for crippled children; $8,800,000, of which $300,000 shall be available immediately: Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated for the pub- lic schools shall be available for the operation of any school which 274
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