55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 271-JULY 1, 1941 ings and equipment, purchase of electric power, fuel, oil, waste, and other necessary expenses, including the maintenance of non-passenger- carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $200,000. For the pro rata contribution of the District of Columbia to the expenses of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, in accordance with Public Resolution Numbered 93, approved July 11, 1940, granting such Commission authority to regulate, control, prevent, or otherwise render unobjectionable and harmless the pol- lution of the water of the Potomac drainage area by sewage and industrial and other wastes, $3,600. For continuing construction of the Oxen Run interceptor, section 3, to be immediately available, $54,000. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE For personal services, $137,020. For dust prevention, sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and surburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Com- missioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repair of garages; maintenance and repair of non-passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets, purchase of and purchase including exchange of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment, not to exceed $45,200, and necessary incidental expenses, $494,800. To enable the Commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia, including inspection; fencing of public and private prop- erty designated by the Commissioners as public dumps; including not to exceed $60,900 for the purchase of and purchase including exchange of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; and incidental expenses, $1,000,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apart- ments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. For construction on land owned by the District of Columbia in parcel 141/13 of a high-temperature incinerator for the destruction of combustible refuse, $300,000: Provided, That not to exceed $9,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be transferred to the credit of the appropriation account, "Municipal Architect's Office, construc- tion services", and be available for the preparation of plans and specifications for said incinerator, including the employment of per- sonal services without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT For personal services, $99,220. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardwood, cross arms, ice, record book, stationery, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motortrucks, and other necessary items, including not to exceed $1,800 for the purchase (including exchange) of one non-passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $68,672. For placing wires of fire-alarm, police-patrol, and telephone serv- ices underground, extension and relocation of police-patrol and fire- 507 Interstate Commis- sion on the Potomac River Basin. 54 Stat. 748 . 33U.S. C. §567b. Oxon Run inter- captor. Post, p . 835. Garbage, dead ani- mals, etc. Vehicles. Proviso. Collection tion. restric- Construction of in- cinorator. lrovrso. Hlans anal sla'illra- tions. 41U.S.C.§ . 42 Stat. 1488 . 5U.S..C. §61-6174. Post, p. 613 .
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