[H. R. 10204] An Act Providing an additional wing to the District Jail. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct an additional building at the District Jail and to rearrange the interior construction of the east wing of the present jail building so as to provide accommodations for not less than two hundred additional prisoners at a total cost not exceeding $300,000. Approved, May 22, 1926. (263) [PUBLIC-No. 542-69TH CONGRESS] [S. 4393] An Act To authorize the construction of a nurses' home for the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a modern, fireproof nurses' home is hereby authorized for the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum to replace the existing cottages and to cost not exceeding $400,000, including heating and ventilating apparatus, equipment, accessories, roadways, and approaches and other facilities leading thereto. All of such work shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Architect of the Capitol and in accordance with plans and specifications prepared by him and approved by the board of directors of the hospital, such plans to provide separate room accommodations for each nurse or student. The plans and specifications may provide for such future extensions and modifications as may be deemed advisable. SEC. 2. The Architect of the Capitol, for the purposes and subject to the limit of cost fixed by section 1 hereof, is authorized to enter into contracts, to purchase material, supplies, equipment, and accessories in the open market, to employ the necessary personnel including professional services without reference to section 35 of the Act approved June 25, 1910, and to incur such other expenditures, including advertising and travel, as may be necessary and incidental to the purposes of this Act. SEC. 3. All expenditures incurred under this Act shall be charged against the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed in the appropriation Act in which the appropriations therefor are contained." Approved, January 13, 1927. [S. 2729] An Act To authorize the refund of $25,000 to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to pay to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum the sum of $25.000 as a contribution to the maintenance of that hospital. SEC. 2. That there is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act the sum of $25,000, payable from the revenues of the District of Columbia and in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 4, 1927. [PUBLIC-No. 776-69TH CONGRESS] An Act Authorizing negotiations for the acquisition of a site for the farmers' produce market, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to negotiate for the acquirement but shall not contract to acquire a site for the farmers' produce market, at a cost not to exceed $600,000, and to report to Congress with their recommendations not later than December 15, 1927. Approved, March 3, 1927. (363) 81504-51-24 [H. R. 5769] An Act To authorize the consolidation and coordination of Government purchase, to enlarge the functions of the General Supply Committee, to authorize the erection of a public warehouse for the storage of Government supplies, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury, through the General Supply Committee established under the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, and for other purposes," is hereby authorized and directed to purchase or procure and distribute supplies to meet the consolidated requirements of the executive departments and independent establishments of the Federal Government in Washington, District of Columbia, and of the municipal government of the District of Columbia: Provided, That the requirements of the field services of any department or establishment, when request is made by the head thereof, shall be included in such purchase or procurement and distribution of supplies. The supplies to be purchased in this manner shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury from those for which he is authorized under existing law to make term contracts or to include in the general schedule of supplies issued annually by the General Supply Committee. SEC. 2. That each executive department and independent estab lishment shall furnish from time to time, when called on to do so, estimates of its requirements for inclusion in purchases which it is proposed to have made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and there shall be reserved from proper appropriations sufficient amounts in each case to reimburse the general supply fund hereinafter created. The General Supply Committee shall charge the proportionate cost of supplies, including breakage, shrinkage, transportation, cost of handling by the Treasury Department, and inspection, and bill the same to each requisitioning department; and each requisitioning department and independent establishment shall reimburse said general supply fund out of its appropriation upon proper vouchers. SEC. 3. That there is hereby authorized to be set aside as a special fund in the Treasury Department, to be known as the general supply fund, such sum as may be appropriated by Congress for the making of payments for supplies to be purchased under the provisions of this Act, including the cost thereof and transportation charges, and reimbursement therefor upon presentation of proper vouchers, shall be made by each requisitioning office, out of any appropriations which may be applicable, by depositing the proper amounts directly to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States for the credit of the general supply fund herein authorized, and duplicate certificates of deposits issued therefor shall be promptly forwarded to the General Supply Committee: Provided, That all such reimbursements shall be placed to the credit of the general supply fund, and the same are hereby reappropriated for the same purpose as the original fund: Provided further, That there shall be included in each annual report of the Treasury Department a statement of the assets and liabilities of the said general supply fund as of June 30, including as assets any supplies purchased therefrom and on hand, for which reimbursement has not been received: Provided further, That the Comptroller General of the United States shall make an annual audit of the general supply fund as of June 30, and there shall be covered into the United States Treasury as miscellaneous receipts any surplus found therein, all assets and liabilities considered, above the amount appropriated to establish the said fund: Provided, how ever, That payments for supplies procured for a field service may, in the discretion of the head of the department or establishment controlling such field service, and with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Treasury, be made direct to the vendors by the department or establishment. SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prescribe suitable regulations to give full force and effect to the purposes of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this Act. SEC. 5. That the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, such sites and additions to sites, in the vicinity of United States Reservations 17B, 17C, 17D, or 113, as may be necessary, and is authorized and directed to construct, on the sites so acquired or on other land in said District belonging to the United States not needed for other purposes, the location to be subject to the approval of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, a building or buildings of fireproof warehouse type, with approximately four hundred thousand square feet of floor space, to provide storage space and facilities and the necessary offices connected therewith, for use of the General Supply Committee of the Treasury Department, of other departments or Independent Establishments of the United States Government, and of the municipal government of the District of Columbia. SEC. 6. That the control of assignment of space in said building or buildings shall be vested in the Public Buildings Commission, established by section 10 of the Act approved March 1, 1919. Compensation for such occupancy, space, and facilities as are utilized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be on a rental basis on terms to be fixed by a board consisting of the director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, the engineer commissioner of the District of Columbia, and the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. SEC. 7. That the plans for such building or buildings shall be prepared by the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital in consultation with the Commission of Fine Arts; and he shall be charged with the custody, protection, maintenance, repair, and operation of said building or buildings. SEC. 8. Authority is hereby given for closing and vacating such portions of streets as lie between such sites and such alleys as intersect such sites, and the portions of such streets and alleys so closed and vacated shall thereupon become parts of such site. SEC. 9. Not more than $10,000 of any funds hereafter appropriated for the purposes of this Act may be expended by the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks for obtaining, by contract or otherwise, such special technical personal services as may be neces sary, at rates of pay as may be fixed by the director not exceeding those usual for similar services, without reference to civil-service rules and the Classification Act of 1923. SEC. 10. Appropriations of the amount necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of this Act, not exceeding $1,750,000, are hereby authorized. Approved, February 27, 1929. [PUBLIC-No. 873-70TH CONGRESS] An Act To provide for the construction of a children's tuberculosis sanatorium. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site, and to cause to be constructed thereon, in accordance with plans and specifications approved by such commissioners, suitable buildings and structures for use as a children's tuberculosis sanatorium, including necessary approaches and roadways, heating and ventilating apparatus, furniture, equipment, and accessories. SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of this Act, to be appropriated in like manner as other appropriations for the District of Columbia. Approved, March 1, 1929. |