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to the findings of the joint congress
si0nal committee concerning the ex-
fstence and amount of the accumulat-
ed tax surplus to the credit of the
District of Columbia in the Treasury
of the United States.
To the Congress of the United
States:
Your petitioners, the Citizens Joint
Committee on the Fiscal Relations be-
tween the United States and the Dis
trict of acknowledgements the
Board of Trade, the Chamber of Com
merce, tie Merchants and Manufac-
turers Association, the Federation of
Citizens Associations, the Bar As
sociation. the Columbia Heights Citi-
zens' Association, the Georgetown
Citizens Association, the City Club,
the District of Columbia Bankers As
sociation, the Real Estate Board, the
Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club and
the Cfvitan Club-respectfully repre-
sentS:
In the last Congress a joint con-
gressional committee, composed of
Senator's Phipps, Ball and Harris and
Representatives, Hardy, Wright and
Evans, with Senator Lawrence c.
Phipps as chairman, made exhaustive
investigation of the fiscal relations of
Nation and Capital, and, as instruct
ed, aScertained and reported (D What
lumbia had to it's credit on the books
of the Terasury of the United States,
which has been acquired by taxation
or by licenses, and CD What money
is due, either legally or morally, from
the United States to the District or
from the District to the United States.
This committee, after thorough in
vestigation, reported fully, and now
submits for the purpose of giving
effect to it's findings Senate bill 703,
ipI, a
x x K
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, that, pursuant to the
report of the joint select committee
appointed under the provisions of the
act entitled IAN act making appro-
priations for the government of the
District of Columbia and other activ-
tiles chargeab1e in whole or in part
against the revenues OF such Dis
trict for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1928, and for other purposes"
approved June 29, 1922
(a) There shall be credited to the
general account of the District OF
Columbia required under the pro-
act to be kept in the Treasury De-
partment the following sums:
CD 7,574.416.9o. representing the
balance in the general fund in the
Treasury for such District on June
80, 1922. and
(2) s66546, representing an ad-
justment of certain errors; and .
(b) There shall be charged to such
account the following sums:
Cd s2,9o3,219.93, representing the
Districts proportion of unexpended
balances of appropriations on June
80, 1922, together with certain obli-
after such date,
CD s191.S90.35, representing the
Districts proportion of the annual
bonus paid to certain employees of
the District
(3) $41,5o0. representing the Dis
trict's proportion of the cost of addi-
tional land for the National Zoologi-
cal Park, and
90 s317.16, representing the Dis
trict's proportion of an amount ap-
for the relief of Eldred C. Davis
Such credits and charges to the
general accounts OF the District or
Columbia shall be made without the
the United States or the District of
Columbia; and the making of such
credits and charges shall be held
to be in full satisfaction OF all
claims and demands either for or
against the United States or the Dis
items involved therein.
The sum of s4,43S,154.s2, repre-
senting the difference between such
credits and charges, is hereby made
count of the District of Columbia for
appropriation by the Congress for
such purposes as it may from time to
time provide
in this act shall be construed to de-
prive the District of Columbia, as of
and on June SO, 1922, in addition to the
sum named herein, of credit for the
surplus of revenues of said District
collected and deposited in the Treas
ury of the United States during the
fiscal year 1922, over and above all
appropriations and other charges for
that year; or of credit for the unex-
pended balances of District Of Colum-
bia appropriations covered into the
surplus fund by warrant Of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury issued on June
80, 1922; or of credit for the proper
ton the District of Columbia may pc
paid directly into the Treasury dur.
ing the fiscal year 1922; or or credll
for the amount erroneouSly charged
against the revenues of the District
for the fiscal year 1922 on account or
appropriations made by the third de,
ficiency act, fiscal year 1922, approved
July 1. 1922, as the amount or Salo
APPROPRIATIONS were charged against
the revenues of the District OF Co
lumbia for the fiscal year 1923, total
ing the sum of $819, ,373S3, which is
included in the total sum of $2,9o3, :.
1883 mentioned in line 8, page z, or
this bill. and taken into account IN
arriving at the net balance OF $4,45S,-
1892, above stated.
provided further, That the con-
troller general Of the United states
shall ascertain and determine whether
the items mentioned in the preceding
proviso were improperly taken into
account in arriving at the net bal
ance of s4,438,154sz, and II. and to
the extent that, any or all OF sa1o
items shall be so determined to have
been improperly taken into account
the amount thereof shall be added to
the said fund of $4,43S,1 1892 and
likewise shall be available perma-
nently in the general account of the
District of Columbia for appropria-
ton by the Congress for such pur-
noses as it may from time to time
provide: And provided further, That
the controller general shall submit to