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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. I. CH. 659 . 1928 .

651 paper published in the District of Columbia ; and notice shall be given, by advertising twice a week for two successive weeks in the regular issue of two daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia, that such delinquent tax list has been published in two daily newspapers, giving the name of each and the dates and the issues containing said list, and such notice shall be published in the two weeks immediately following the week in which the delinquent Competitive propo- tax list shall have been published : Provided further, That competi- sass for publishing list . tive proposals shall be invited by the commissioners from the several newspapers published in the District of Columbia for publishing the said deli nquent ta x list . EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Employment service For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses expenses. required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $9,650 . HISTORICAL PLACES For purchase and erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the District of Columbia, $500 . EMERGENCY FUND Expenses under, To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, stricted' public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like chara cter, and in all o ther c ases of emerg ency n ot oth erwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, Proviso . $4,000 : Provided, That in making purchases under this fund not Pur cha ses . more than the market price shall be paid, and all bids above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may, in the judgment, of the commissioners, be most econo mical and ad vantag eous t o the D istric t of C olumbi a . Refund of erroneous REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COL LEC TIO NS

collections. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments Payments authorized from . school tuition charges, payments for lost library books, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion required by law, to refund such errone- Building permits . ous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees vol.as,p. er paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Proviso. 967. Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911, $3,000 : Provided, That Prior years . this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments ma de wit hin th e past three years . To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners form State Laws. on Uniform State Laws, $250 . STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR

menteandrepairs . r ove For assessment and permit work, including maintenance of non- passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $300,000 . For paving roadways under the permit system, $40,000 . Ga solin e tax road and GASOLINE TAX ROAD AND STREET FUND

street fund . For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, and roads, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, and including curbing and 54835°-29-rT 1-45 Historical tablets . Emergency fund. Assessment and per- mit work . Paving roadways . Paving, etc ., streets, and roads from .