55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CH. 271-JULY 1, 1941 of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes", approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (5 U. S . C . 707a), $849,640, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the "civil service retirement and disability fund". REGISTER OF WILLS For personal services, $77,980. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, contract statistical services, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, including laboratory coats and photographic developing-room equip- ment, towels, towel service, window washing, streetcar tokens, furni- ture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of ref- erence, lawbooks, and periodicals, $13,120. RECORDER OF DEEDS For personal services, $117,360. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including telephone service, printing, binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; typewriters, towels, towel service, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto; books of reference, lawbooks and periodicals, streetcar tokens, postage; not exceeding $100 for rest room for sick and injured employees and the equipment of and medical supplies for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $14,100. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $8,750, to be expended without reference to the provisions of section 6 of this Act. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES For checks, books, lawbooks, books of reference, including $1,000 for lawbooks and books of reference for the Corporation Counsel's office, periodicals, newspapers, stationery; surveying instruments and imple- ments; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and pres- ervation of records; ice; including $575 for affiliation with the National Safety Council, Incorporated; traveling expenses not to exceed $3,000; including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, includ- ing payment of a fee of $6 per diem to each member of board of survey, other than the inspector of buildings, while actually employed on surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings; not exceeding $3,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $250 each, approved by the Commissioners under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of Columbia", approved February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); not to exceed $250 to aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; maintenance and repair of wharves; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, $40,200: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded. For postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental of postage-meter equipment, $23,700. For judicial expenses, including witness fees, and expert services in District of Columbia cases before the District Court of the United 503 41 Stat. 614 . 5 U. S .C . §§691-738. Post, p. 835 . Post, p. 835. Post, p . 639. National Safety Council, Inc. Removal of unsafe, etc., buildings. Settlement of claims. D.C. Code ii 1-902 to 1-905. Uniform State laws, conference. Proviso. Printing list of sup- plies.
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