the regularity, legality, and correctness of such claims, demands, or charges; and

(4) inspect and audit any accounts or records of financial transactions which may be maintained in any agency of the District government apart from or subsidiary to the accounts kept in his office.

WHEN CONTRACTS AND EXPENDITURES PROHIBITED

SEC. 907. No officer or agency of the District shall, during any budget year, expend or contract to expend any money or incur any liability, or enter into any contract which by its terms involves the expenditure of money, for any purpose, in excess of the amounts appropriated for any item of expenditure. Any contract, verbal or written, made in violation of this Act shall be null nad void. Any officer or employee of the District who shall violate this section, upon conviction thereof, shall be summarily removed from office. Nothing in this section, however, shall prevent the making of contracts or of expenditures for capital improvements to be financed in whole or in part by the issuance of bonds, nor the making of contracts of lease or for services for a period exceeding the budget year in which such contract is made, when such contract is permitted by law.

LAPSE OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 908. Except as may be provided in the budget, all appropriations shall lapse at the end of the budget year to the extent that they shall not have been disbursed or lawfully encumbered. Six months after the close of a fiscal year encumbered balances may be pooled and held until all encumbrances have been liquidated, but for a total period not to exceed two years immediately following the close of such fiscal year.

GENERAL FUND

SEC. 909. The general fund of the District shall be composed of the revenues of the District other than the revenues applied by law to special funds. All fees received by any agency, officer, or employee of the District shall belong to the District government and shall be paid promptly to the Department of Finance for deposit in the appropriate fund.

ACCOUNTING CONTROL OF PURCHASES

SEC. 910. All purchases of supplies, materials, and equipment and all contracts for services (except contracts under section 1401) shall be pursuant to a written requisition from the head of the agency whose appropriation will be charged; and no such purchase or contract shall be made unless and until the Director of the Department of Finance certifies that there is to the credit of such agency a sufficient unencumbered appropriation balance to pay for the supplies, materials, equipment, or services for which the requisition was made.

NO CONTRACT EXECUTED UNTIL BOND LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL EFFECTIVE

SEC. 911. No contract shall be executed for the acquisition of any property or the construction of any improvement or betterment to be financed by the issuance of bonds until the legislative proposal authorizing the issuance of such bonds shall have taken effect, and any contract executed before such day shall be unenforceable in any court of law.

CONTRACTS EXTENDING BEYOND ONE YEAR

SEC. 912. No contract involving expenditure out of the appropriations of more than one year shall be made for a period of more than five years; nor shall any such contract be valid unless made or approved by ordinance.

PART 2-ANNUAL POST AUDIT BY GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

INDEPENDENT ANNUAL POST AUDIT

SEC. 921. (a) The General Accounting Office shall audit the financial transactions of the District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for each fiscal year thereafter, in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to municipal corporations and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The audit shall be

conducted at the place or places where the accounts are normally kept. The representatives of the General Accounting Office shall have access to all books, accounts, financial records, reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property belonging to or in use by the District and necessary to facilitate the audit, and they shall be afforded full facilities for verifying transactions with the balances or securities held by depositories, fiscal agents, and custodians.

(b) (1) A report of each such audit for each fiscal year shall be made by the Comptroller General to the Joint Committee and to the District Council not later than January 15 following the close of the fiscal year for which such audit is made. The report so made to the Joint Committee shall be promptly published in the Congressional Record. The report shall set forth the scope of the audit and shall include such comments and information as may be deemed necessary to keep the Joint Committee and the District Council informed of the operations and financial condition of the District, together with such recommendations with respect thereto as the Comptroller General may deem advisable. The report shall also show specifically every program, expenditure, or other financial transaction or undertaking, which, in the opinion of the Comptroller General, has been carried on or made without authority of law.

(2) After the District Manager and the Director of the Department of Finance have had an opportunity to be heard, the District Council shall by resolution provide for the publication of such report together with such other matters as it deems pertinent thereto.

(3) The District Manager, within ninety days after the report has been made to the Joint Committee and the District Council, shall state in writing to the Joint Committee and the District Council what has been done to comply with the recommendations made by the Comptroller General in the report. Such statement in writing made to the Joint Committee shall be promptly published in the Congressional Record.

COST OF AUDIT

SEC. 922. The expenses of auditing the financial transactions of the District as provided in section 921 shall be paid out of appropriations for the General Accounting Office. The District shall reimburse the General Accounting Office for the full cost of each such audit as billed therefor by the Comptroller General, and the General Accounting Office shall deposit the sums so reimbursed into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

TITLE X-THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 1001. (a) The following executive departments of the District are hereby created: The Department of Health, the Department of Welfare, the Department of Recreation, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Finance, the Department of Law, the Department of Public Works, the Department of Libraries, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Corrections, and the Department of Professional and Occupational Standards.

(b) Each such department shall be headed by a director who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the District Manager. The directors shall receive salaries at a rate to be fixed by the District Council by ordinance. Each director may delegate any of his functions to any officer, employee, or agency in his department. He may, with the approval of the District Manager, redelegate to any such officer, employee, or agency any function delegated to him by the District Manager.

(c) For the purposes of the provisions of this title which transfer functions, the functions of an agency include (1) the functions of the head of such agency, and (2) the functions, if any, transferred to such agency or head by section 423. (d) Each agency not abolished by this title, all the functions of which are transferred by this title to the director of an executive department, is hereby transferred to such department.

(e) Whenever the director of any executive department deems it appropriate for the administration of his functions, he may, with the approval of the District Manager

(1) reorganize or abolish any agency (other than a board or commission) transferred by subsection (d);

(2) create new agencies within his department, and reorganize or abolish any agency so created;

(3) abolish the office or position of any officer or employee (other than a member of a board or commission) transferred to his department by section 1501; and

(4) create new offices and positions within his department, and abolish any office or position so created.

(f) Any vacancy occurring in any board or commission transferred by subsection (d) (other than a vacancy occurring in an ex officio position) shall be filled by appointment by the director of the transferee department with the approval of the District Manager. Any member of any such board or commission (other than an ex officio member) may at any time be removed from his position as a member of such board or commission by the director of the transferee department with the approval of the District Manager. The District Council may by ordinance reorganize or abolish any such board or commission. Where members of such boards and commissions have heretofore been compensated out of fees paid to such boards and commissions, they shall hereafter receive such compensation as the District Council may fix by ordinance,

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

SEC. 1002. (a) The functions of the Health Department, the health officer, the coroner, and the Anatomical Board are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Health.

(b) The Health Department, the offices of health officer and assistant health officer, and the Anatomical Board are hereby abolished.

DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE

SEC. 1003. (a) The functions of the Board of Public Welfare, the Director of Public Welfare, and the Office of the Supervisor of the Penny Milk and Food Conservation Programs are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Welfare.

(b) The office of Director of Public Welfare is hereby abolished.

DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION

SEC. 1004. (a) The office of Superintendent of Recreation is hereby abolished, and the functions of such office and of the Recreation Board are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Recreation. The offices of the two members of the Recreation Board representing, respectively, the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education are hereby abolished, and in their place a member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission who resides in the District (designated by the Chairman thereof) and a member of the Board of Education (designated by the President thereof) shall serve as members of such Board.

(b) All expenses incident to the maintenance and improvement of grounds, buildings, and other facilities in the District under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service shall be paid out of appropriations made by Congress to such Service, whether or not such grounds, buildings, and other facilities are being used by the Director of the Department of Recreation for the purpose of conducting a program of public recreation for the benefit of residents of the District_under agreement pursuant to the Act of April 29, 1942, creating the District Recreation Board (56 Stat. 261; D. C. Code, 1940 edition, secs. 8-201 through 8-219.)

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

SEC. 1005. (a)_The functions of the Metropolitan Police force, the police surgeons, the Fire Department, the poundmaster, and the Department of Vehicles and Traffic are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Public Safety.

(b) The District Council may, by ordinance, abolish the office of poundmaster and direct the District Manager to contract with a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals for the care, in compliance with such conditions as the ordinance may prescribe, of stray animals.

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

SEC. 1006. The functions of—

(1) the District auditor, disbursing officer, assessor, and collector of taxes; (2) the Department of the Treasury with respect to keeping accounts of the District;

(3) the Treasurer of the United States with respect of receiving, keeping, and disbursing moneys of the District; and

(4) the Comptroller General and the General Accounting Office with respect to the accounts of the District;

are, to the extent not inconsistent with the functions imposed upon him by any other provision of this Act, hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Finance.

DEPARTMENT OF LAW

SEC. 1007. (a) The officers of corporation counsel, assistant corporation counsel, and Recorder of Deeds of the District are hereby abolished, and the functions of the corporation counsel and the Recorder of Deeds are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Law. The Director of the Department of Law shall act as legal adviser to all officers and agencies of the District government.

(b) All drafts of legislative proposals and ordinances prepared by any officer or employee of any agency of the District government other than the District Council, for consideration by the District Council, shall be submitted by the head of such agency to the Director of the Department of Law. The Director may make such changes in such drafts as he deems advisable, except that he may not make any change affecting any basic policy embodied in any such draft without the approval of the head of the agency in which it was prepared. All such drafts shall be submitted by the Director to the District Manager, who shall submit them to the District Council. The Director may submit with any such draft an opinion as to the legality of any proposal embodied therein.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

SEC. 1008. (a) The functions of

(1) the Department of Construction, the Department of Sanitary Engineering, the Department of Inspection (except the functions of the Motion Picture Operators Examining Board, the Electrical Examining Board, the Board of Examiners of Steam and Other Operating Engineers, and the Plumbing Board), the Department of Highways (except the functions of the Automobile Board), the Office of the Surveyor, and the Office of the Chief Clerk, Public Works; and

(2) the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Engineers of the Regular Army of the United States with respect to the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park;

are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Public Works. (b) The Departments of Construction, Sanitary Engineering, Inspection, and Highways, are hereby abolished.

(c) The functions of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and of the President of the United States, except their functions under the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), with respect to the acquisition of land for recreational areas in the District primarily for the benefit of residents of the District are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Public Works and the District Council, respectively. Acquisitions by such Director for recreational areas shall as far as possible conform to comprehensive plans developed by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Before acquiring any such land such Director shall give notice of not less than thirty days to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. If within thirty days after the date of receipt of such notice the Commission notifies the Director that it disapproves the proposed acquisition as not being in conformity with such comprehensive plans, the Director may take the proposed action only if, after the day on which it receives such notice of disapproval, the District Council, by the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths of the members then holding office, passes a resolution authorizing him to take such action.

DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARIES

SEC. 1009. The functions of the board of library trustees and of the librarian are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Libraries. The office of librarian is hereby abolished.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

SEC. 1010. (a) The functions

(1) of the Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board and the District Unemployment Compensation Board; and

(2) transferred to the Board of Education by section 1102 (a), with respect to the enforcement and administration of laws regulating child labor; are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Labor.

(b) The function of maintaining a public employment service for the District is hereby transferred from the United States Employment Service to the Director of the Department of Labor. Such Department is hereby designated as the District agency to cooperate with the United States Employment Service under the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, providing for the establishment of a national employment system, and such Director is hereby vested with all powers necessary for such cooperation. Section 3 (b) of such Act of June 6, 1933, is hereby amended by inserting "the District of Columbia and" after "include". Section 4 of such Act shall not apply with respect to the District.

(c) The offices of the Commissioners of the District as members of the District Unemployment Compensation Board are hereby abolished, and in their place a representative of the public, who shall be apponted by the Director of the Department of Labor with the approval of the District Manager, shall serve as a member of such Board and shall act as chairman thereof.

(d) Effective July 1, 1951, the functions of the Bureau of Employees' Compensation and the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board, in the Federal Security Agency, with respect to employees of the District government and of District employers, are transferred to the Dircetor of the Department of Labor.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

SEC. 1011. (a) The functions of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; the Real Estate Commission; the License Bureau; the Department of Insurance; the Department of Weights, Measures, and Markets; and the District Boxing Commission are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Commerce.

(b) The Department of Insurance and the Department of Weights, Measures, and Markets are hereby abolished.

(c) The office of the member of the District Boxing Commission who is also a member of the Metropolitan Police force is hereby abolished. Such Commission hereafter shall be composed of three members, none of whom shall be a member of the Metropolitan Police force.

(d) There is hereby created within the Department of Commerce a bureau of insurance to administer, under the dircetion and supervision of the Director of the Department of Commerce, the functions transferred to him from the Department of Insurance.

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

SEC. 1012. (a) (1) The functions of the Department of Corrections, created by the Act entitled "An Act to create a Department of Corrections in the District of Columbia", approved June 27, 1946, are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Corrections created by section 1001 (a).

(2) The office of the Director of the Department of Corrections, and the Department of Corrections, created by such Act approved June 27, 1946, are hereby abolished.

(b) (1) All prisoners convicted of offenses under any law of the United States applicable exclusively to the District or under any legislative proposal or ordinance which has taken effect as law of the District shall be committed, for their terms of imprisonment, and to such types of institutions as the court may direct, to the custody of the Director of the Department of Corrections.