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SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 160. 1917. 1011 system, one fire-alarm rggerator, and two iire·alarm repair men under appropriations contain in this Act. The commissioners may con- ;,2;,°°°°°°°"° °“°h°'” nect any or all of these telephones to either the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telep one Com any or the telephone ystem mamtamed by the District of Columlbia, as in their judgment may be most economical to the District. For postage for strictly official mail matter, $12,000. P°“°‘°‘ The comm1ssioners_are_ authorized, in their discretion, to furnish ,,,${"°°°‘°”‘°'°“°"' necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the pprchase of car tickets from appropriations contained in this Act: romlded, That the ex enditures {]{,',,'”{f"‘ erein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceedpa total of $5,000: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragra h shall ¤01?{.§§‘§§',,{“° *’°°°° not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. _ or necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, m°§§‘°"“"* P•””“* in collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and other- ' wise, and for other necess items, $4,000. , For judicial expenses, iiiglvudmiprocurement of chains of title, the ’“'“""'“¤’°"·’°'· printing of briefs in the Court of p eals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $5,000. For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of trans- °°‘°"""°"°'“"· portation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness ees, removal of deceased plersons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including steno€·a hic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified ogies, $4,800. For the establishment of an ice or cold—storage plant at the morgue, “°'¥“°· $1,500. For general advertising, authorized and required b law, and for tax an school notices and notices of changes in regullztions, $5,000. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears Ju y first, nineteen $§‘,{°‘§,,“',,f';,°f”· hundred and seventeen, as required to be given by Act of March ' nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $3,500, to be reimbursed by a cha e of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. For enligircement of game and fish laws, to be expended under the °•“‘°""“"""“ d_i]§()ti()n of th.B c0 i0nBrS1 h A cd M h Hrs }’(°m°v{¤‘d;r|g9r0ns or c out the rovisions 0 the ct a pl‘0V arc t, _ eighteen ed and riinety-nine, entitled _"£n Act to authorize wiiignsli em the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe build' anglrparts thereof, and for other purposes," to pay members ofuigiz be of survey provided for therem, other than the ins ctor of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for eaclggmvey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings u n the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, the imex- §:*;>¥;f’P6§**°¤· pended balgiice of the appropriation made_for this purpose for the ' iiscal year nineteen hun red and thirteen is reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. _ _ _ For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places m the K“°°‘*°"°°*"°*’- District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint _ Committee on the Library not exceeding the sum of $500 of the unex· mP1§f’§,,';f'*°°· pended balances of the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts of June twentv-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and subsequent District of Columbia appropriation Acts, is continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. C ( wma N Office of ter of wills: For furnishing to the office of the assewor si;. copies of petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to ·*"“·P·*°”‘· real estate is involved, $900.