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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 62 -APR . 4, 1938 Proviso. Report to Congress. National Zoological Park. Expenses. Uniforms. technical, and reference books, and periodicals, $40,150: Provided, That a statement of expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and enclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; traveling and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $2,000 for travel and field expenses in the United States and foreign countries for the procurement of live specimens and for the care, subsistence, and transportation of specimens obtained in the course of such travel; maintenance and operation of one motor-pro- pelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; for the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of bicycles and non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, revolvers, and ammunition; not exceeding $2,500 for purchasing and supplying uniforms to Park Police, keepers, and assistant keepers; not exceed- ing $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $227,000, no part of which sum shall be available for architect's fees or com- pensation. Highway fand, gas- HIGHWAY FUND, GASOLINE TAX AND MOTOR VEHICLE oline tax and motorFEES vehicle fees. FEES Sums appropriated wholly out of special fund. 43 Stat. 106; 50 Stat. 676. Department of Ve- hicles and Traffic. Personal services. For personal services, including $11,000 for temporary clerk hire, $92,320. Expenses, etc. For purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, mainte- nance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, purchase (including exchange) of a one-ton truck at not to exceed $870, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the Commissioners, including not to exceed $30,000 for the operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $101,210, of which not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic-light signals and $1,000 shall be avail- Streetcar loading able for directional signs: Provided, That no part of this or any latforms, etc. , restric- other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for on. building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. Iden t if ication For the purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates, e $20,000. P ti p The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the special fund created by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved April 23, 1924, and the Act entitled "An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved August 17, 1937, for expenses of the following departments and activities: DEPARTMENT OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC Police traffic con- trol. Expenses. POLICE TRAFFIC CONTROL For expenses necessarily involved in the police control, regulation, and administration of traffic upon the highways, $510,860, which amount shall be transferred to the appropriation contained in this Act for pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metro- politan Police force. 184 [52 STAT.