Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21

Tax Rate Retirement Quota
and Check on Auto Levy
Included.

Provisions for continuing the present
tax rate both on real estate and or
tangible personal property, for the
! District to pay $l5O,o0o a year into the
Civil Service Retirement Fund and pro-
hibiting the superintendent of licenses
from issuing identification tags on any
automobile on which personal taxes are
unpaid, are among II limitations and
legislative provisions which the COM
mittee included in the District appro-
priation bill. These riders" not here
tofore enacted are:
and the tax rate in effect in
| the fiscal year 1929 on real estate and
tangible personal property subject to
! taxation in the District of Columbia
shall be continued for the fiscal year
| 1880
Provided. That hereafter the superin-
| tendent of licenses of the District of
Columbia shall not issue a registration
certificate or Identification tags for any
motor vehicle upon which any personal
taxes are due and unpaid to the said
District
Provided, That no part of the appro-
| priationS contained in this act for per-
| sonal services and other expenses of
the office of the recorder of deeds shall
be expended without the prior approval
of the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia, or under such regulations
| as the commissioners shall approve, and
| all expenditures from such appropria-
! tons shall be made and accounted for
! in the manner provided by law for the
/ expenditure of other appropriations for
/ he government of the District of Col
umcia.
! Provided. That the Commissioners of
/ the District of Columbia are authorized,
/ when in their judgment such action be
/ deemed in the public interest, to con-
tract for stenographic reporting service
under available appropriations con-
tanned in this act.
Provided, That beginning July l.,
| 1881, and thereafter, section 8 of the
act of the Legislative Assembly of the
District of Columbia, approved June
| %, 1873, entitled AN act to establish
normal school for the City of Wash
ington" (section 40, chapter 81, of the
| Compiled Statutes in force in the Dis
trict of Columbia) shall apply only to
those graduates of the normal schools
of the District of Columbia who shall
at the time of their graduation rank
within the first Is per cent of their
| respective classes, arranged in order of
their ratings received for their entire
normal school course.
Business High School
In connection with the appropriation
for new Business High School:
| Provided, That upon completion of
such building, the building now &C.
cupied by the Business High School
shall be used as an elementary school
for colored pupils
In connection with the appropriation
for salaries of police:
Provided, That hereafter no more
than $3.50 per annum shall be paid as
extra compensation to members of said
force who may be mounted on horses.
furnished and maintained by them
selves, no more than $50 per annum
as extra compensation to members
mounted on bicycles, and no more than
| 1912 per annum to members who may
be called upon to use motor vehicles.
furnished and maintained by them
selves.
In connection with the health de-
partment:
Provided, That inspectors of dairy
farms may receive an allowance for
furnishing privately owned motor
vehicles in the performance of official
duties at the rate of not to exceed $480
per annum for each inspector.
| The health officer of the District of
Columbia is hereby authorized and di-
rected to transfer all the marriage
records in the Health Department, with
! IN fifteen days after the passage of
/ this act, to the clerk of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, who
shall thereafter have the same control
and custody of such records as he has
I q lon rIe to al
clerks office.
Quarters for Employees
The practice of allowing quarters,
heat, light, household equipment, sub
S1stence, and laundry service to officers
and employees of the government of
the District of Columbia who are re-
| CURED to live at the several institutions
OF such District may be continued at
the rates or values in effect on the date
OF the enactment of this act pending
review and determination of rates or
values by the Personnel Classification
Board as provided by law.
IN connection with the appropriation
for additional land at the District
Training School:
If the land proposed to be acquired
can not be purchased at satisfactory
price the Attorney General of the
| United States, at the request of the
commissioners of the District of Co.
lumbia, shall institute condemnation
proceedings to acquire such land, the
title OF said land to be taken directly
to and in the name of the United
States, but the land so acquired shall
be held under the jurisdiction of the
Commissioners Of the District of Co.
lumbia as agents of the United States
and the expenses of procuring evil
dence of title or of condemnation. OF
both, shall be paid out of the ap-
preparation herein made for the pur-
chase of said land.
Sec. Z. OF the appropriations for the
fiscal years 1929 and 1880, respectively
toward financing the liability of the
United States created by the act en-.
titled AN act for the retirement of EN-.
ployees in the classified civil service
and for other purposes" approved Ma,
~, 1920, and acts amending thereof
the sum of $4,000 for each of such
fiscal years shall be charged to the
revenues of the District of Columbia
ana such sums shall be transferred
} from the revenues of the District to the
credit OF the United States on account
OF the retirement of District of Column.
pla personnel under such acts.