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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss . I. Cu. 126. 1928 . house in the District o f Columbia, b ut excluding any other publ ic building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quar- antine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), $3,090,000 . The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing : Provided, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be deter- Adv anc e f uel c on- mined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct tract s au thori zed . Provided further, That hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availab ility of the appropriation for the payme nt thereof . Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. Lands and other property of the United States : For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised S tatutes, the e xamination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers' fees in connection therewith, $550 . Buildings excluded . Gas governors. Provisos Rentals therefor. Custody of lands, etc . R.S.,sets.3749, 3750, p . 739 . Super vising Arc hi- tect's Office . Super vising Arc hi- Salaries : For the Supervising Architect, and other personal serv- tect, and office person- nel .
ices in the District of Columbia, in accordance with " The Classifica- tion Act of 1923," $337,120 . Printing house for the Blind . Expenses . Vol. 41, p. 272; Vol. 44, p . 1060. Post Office Depart- ment appropriations . Vol.5,p.60. Department ex- penses . Office of Postmaster General. Postmaster General, and o ffice pers onnel . Department build- ings. ICE OF SUPERVISING ARCHITECT MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, TREASURY DEPARTMENT AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more ade- quately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $65,000 . TITLE II .-POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836, for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending Ju ne 30, 1929, n amely POS T OFFI CE DEPA RTMENT, WASHI NGTON, DISTRIC T OF C OLUMBIA OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Postmaster General, $15,000 ; for personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $193,810 ; in all, $208,810 . POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS Personal services, op- For personal ser vices in the District of Co lumbia in acc ordance erating force . with "The Classification Act of 1923," for the care, maintenance, and protection of the main Post Office Department Building, the Washi ngton City P ost O ffice Buildi ng, an d the Mail Equipment Shops Buildi ng, $240,842 .
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