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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 333 -JUNE 12, 1940 and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including steno- graphic services in taking testimony and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,700. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MARKETS For personal services, $58,460. Weights, measures, and markets, expenses: For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and not exceeding $750 for the purchase, including exchange, of one motor vehicle equipped for making investigations of sales of gaso- line and oil by short measure, $9,175. OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK, ENGINEER DEPARTMENT For personal services, $32,340. tMUNICIPAL ARCHITECT'S OFFICE For personal services, $64,880. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment of personal services employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an amount not exceeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 234 per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000, and appropriations specifically made in this Act for the preparation of plans and specifications shall be deducted from any allowances authorized under this paragraph: Provided, That reimbursements may be made to this fund from appropriations con- tained in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District Government, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appropriations. PUBLIo UTILITIES COMMISSION For two commissioners, and for other personal services, $69,920. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the purchase of newspapers, $1,500. No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Com- mission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation in accordance with such system of uni- form zones and rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission. 309 Personal services. Contingent ex- penses. Vehicles. Personal services. Personal services. Apportionments of appropriations. Post, pp . 319, 320 . Proviso. Reimbursements. Commissioners, etc. Incidental, etc., ex- penses. Meters in taxicabs; zones and rates. DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE For personal services, $28,000. SURVEYOR'S OFFICE For personal services, $80,820. MINIMUM WAGE BOARD For personal services, $15,280. Personal services. Personal services. Personal services.