57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 184 -JULY 1, 1943 office, periodicals, newspapers, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation 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 Dis- trict 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 sup- plies 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, $30,000. For judicial expenses, including witness fees, and expert services in District of Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the District of Columbia, $1,500: Provided, That the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when in their judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to contract for stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) under available appropria- tions contained in this Act: Provided further, That neither the Dis- trict of Columbia nor any officer thereof acting in his official capacity for the District of Columbia shall be required to pay court costs to the clerk of any court in and for the District of Columbia. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, notice of public hearings, publication of orders and regulations, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $9,000: Provided,That this appropriation shall not be available for the pay- ment of advertising in newspapers published outside of the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the requirement for such advertising provided by existing law. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1943, as required to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $2,500: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of advertising the delinquent tax list for more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one morning or one evening newspaper published in the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the provisions of existing law. For printing and binding, $63,885: Provided, That no part of the appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for expenditure for printing and binding unless the need for such expenditure shall have been specifically approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the purchasing officer and the Auditor for the District of Columbia acting for such Commissioners: Provided further, That the unexpendedbalance of the appropriation under this 317 National Safety Council, Inc. Removal of unsafe, etc., buildings. Settlement of claims. D. c. Code f 1-902 to 1-905. Uniform State laws, conference. Printing lists of sup- plies. Post, p. 323 . Judicial expenses. Stenographic re- porting services. Court cots. Advertising. 30 Stat. 250 . D. C. Code ii 47- 1001 to 47-1009. Printing and bind ing. Approval by Com- missioners. ReappUropfrR
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