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the following agencies. or those per-
tanning to these agencies, be trans
ferred to the director of De-
partment of Labor: Minimum
Wage and Industrial Safety Board,
Board of Unemployment Compensa-
ton, District of Columbia Employ
ment Service, District of Columbia
Vocational Rehabilitation Service.
| the functions of the Bureau Of En-
ploye Compensation in the Fed
eral Security Agency with respect
to employe compensation and
workmen's compensation in the Dis
trict, with the express authority
that the District can, if it chooses,
continue to utilize. the Bureau of
Employe Compensation to admin
lister these laws in the District on
a voluntary contractual basis at
/ District expense, and enforcement
of child-labor provisions now as
signed to the District Board OF Edu-
cation.
/ OF the Federal agencies covered
by this recommendation, it is sug-
gested that the District of Columbia
Employment Service, now under the
United States Employment Service
in the Department of Labor, and the
District of Columbia Vocational Re-
habilitation Service, now under the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
in the Federal Security Agency, be
transferred completely to the juris-
diction of the District. =
Department of Commerce. -r
recommendation all the
powers and duties of the heads of
the following agencies, or those per-
tanning to these agencies, be trans
ferred to the director of a Depart
ment of Commerce: District Alco-
holic Beverage Control Board, Dis
trict Department of Insurance, Dis
trict Department of Weights, Meas
ures and Markets, District Bureau
of Licenses, District Boxing Com
mission, District Real Estate. Com
mission, and the functions of the
! Comptroller of the Currency with
respect to the regulation of nom
national banks, trust companies,
/ building and loan associations and
credit unions, provided that the di-
rector of the District Department
of Commerce could contract with
the Comptroller of the Currency to
continue his present activities In the
District at the expense OF the
apoY,oioc onrnerna6
The Boxing Commission, with the
elimination of the police member
should be constituted as an athletic
commission to supervise all profes-
sional athletic contests.
The Real Estate Commission
should be abolished and its powers
should be vested in the director OF
the Department of Commerce.
Department of Corrections.
! Recommendation. - T h t t n
powers and duties of the present
director of the Department OF
/ Corrections, as we'll as those which
pertain to the agency. be trans
ferred to the director of the pro-
posed Department of Corrections
Further, that all prisoners convicted
of offenses against laws solely ap-
pl;cable TO the District of Columbia
and sentenced to terms OF eonflne-
ment be committed to the custody
of the director of the Department
of Corrections, who should have the
power to designate the place OF con-
1nement either in institutions oper-
ated by the District of Columbia or
with the permission Of the Attorney
1 General, in Federal correctional In
stitutions at District expense.
Occupational Standards.
Department of Professional ane
Occupational Standards would bt
created to assume all the powers
and duties of the Board o.
Accountancy. Board of Denta
Examiners, Board of Examiners ane
Registrars of Architects, Nurses
Examining Board, Board OF Barber
Examiners. Board of Optometry
Board of Pharmacy, Board of Cos
metology, Board of Podiatry Ex
aminers, Board of Examiners o
Veterinary Medicine, Commission
on Licensure, Healing Arts Practice
Electrical Examining Board and tn
Board of Examiners Of Stean
Engineers.
Zoning Advisory Board.
Recommendation.-That the pres
ent Zoning Commission OF tn
District of Columbia be abolished
and its powers and duties trans
ferred to the District Council, will
= the provision that all zoning regu
e lations must be passed as ordi
= nances of the District of Columbia
! and that the present zoning Ad
= visory Council be abolished and 1t
powers and duties transferred to
t zoning Advisory Board composed o
!. the director of the District Depart
n ment of Public Works. the chair
e man of the National Capital Par
y and Planning Commission and tn
r director of National Capital Parks
all serving ex officio-or thei
representatives.
e This recommendation gives tn
# Federal interests In the District