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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · March 1, 1901 · Chapter 670

Chapter 670. Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 670.— An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes. March 1, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Appropriations.That the half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money823 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out ofHalf from District revenues. the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES. General expenses. Executive office. For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousandCommissioners, secretary, etc. dollars each; Engineer Commissioner, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; two assistant secretaries to Commissioners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two laborers, one of whom shall also act as messenger and substitute elevator operator, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of buildings, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars; three assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand dollars each; civil engineer or computer, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; janitor, one thousand dollars; steam engineer, nine hundred dollars; two firemen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two elevator operators, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; three watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; deputy property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; inspector of plumbing, two thousand dollars; five assistant inspectors of plumbing, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, and four at one thou-sand dollars each; five members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each; harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, sixty-three thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
For assessor’s office: For assessor, three thousand five hundredAssessor’s office. dollars; three assistant assessors, at three thousand dollars each; two assistant assessors at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one clerk, arrears division, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, atone thousand four hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk in charge of records, one thousand dollars; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand four hundred dollars.
To enable the Assessor of the District of Columbia to complete theCompleting card records, authorized. card records of his office by placing thereon, in addition to charges for general taxes already listed, all assessments for special improvements, these additions being rendered necessary by the recent consolidation of the special assessment office with the Assessor’s office, and also to prepare for the United States Treasury a list of balances of all general824 tax levies, four thousand dollars to be immediately available: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Payment to employees for overtime work.
That out of said amount such employees in the Assessor’s Office as may be required for its successful prosecution may be paid for over-time work. For collector’s office: For collector, four thousand dollars;Collector’s office. deputy collector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars: two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk and messenger. one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars: in all, sixteen thousand dollars.
For extra labor for preparation of tax-sale certificates, and so forth, with authority to employ clerks of this and other offices after office hours, to be immediately available, six hundred dollars. For auditor’s office: For auditor, three thousand six hundredAuditor’s office. dollars; chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, two thousand five, hundred dollars: deputy disbursing officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all. twenty-one thousand three hundred dollars.
For attorney’s office: For attorney, four thousand dollars;Attorney’s office. assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; second assistant attorney, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand six hundred dollars; special assistant attorney, one thousand six hundred dollars; law clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, two hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States:Sinking-fund office.
For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. For coroner’s office: For coroner, one thousand eightCoroner’s office. hundred dollars. For market masters: For two market masters, at one thousandMarket masters two hundred dollars each; one market master, nine hundred dollars; for hire of laborers for cleaning markets, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all. four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
For office of sealer of weights and measures: For sealer ofSealer of weights and measures. weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; second assistant sealer of weights and measures, nine hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. For engineer’s office: Record division: For chief clerk, one thousandEngineer’s office. nine hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one. clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; computing engineer, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three, chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of streets, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant inspectors of streets, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of county roads, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of parking, one thousand three hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of park-825ing, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; inspector of asphalt and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, one thousand dollars: assistant inspector of gas and meters, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; superintendent of sewers, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; drafts-man, one thousand two hundred dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each: two inspectors of property, at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars each; two sewer tappers, at one thousand dollars each; permit clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant permit clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars: index clerk and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, sixty-seven thousand and twelve dollars.
Special assessment office: For special assessment clerk, one thousandSpecial assessment office. seven hundred dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred dollars. Street sweeping office: For superintendent, two thousand fiveStreet sweeping office. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; four inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three assistant inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; foreman of public dumps, nine hundred dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand one hundred dollars.
Board of examiners, steam engineers: For compensation forBoard of examiners, steam engineers. board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. That overseers, inspectors, and other employees temporarily requiredPayment of temporary employees; report. in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any work authorized by appropriations, and all expenses incidental to or necessary for the proper execution of said work shall he paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District, in their annual report to Congress, shall report the number of such overseers, inspectors, and other employees, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedEstimate of regular employees to be submitted. and directed to submit in the annual estimates for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three estimates for all such clerks, overseers, inspectors, foremen, and other employees, other than day laborers, who are employed under authority of and paid from general appropriations. and are engaged upon regular and continuous work, and whose services will be required during said fiscal year, indicating in the case of every such employment the rate of compensation received and the appropriation from which paid.
For surveyor’s office: For surveyor, three thousand dollars;Surveyor’s office assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for such employees as may be required, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, seven thousand dollars; for resurvey of the Barry farm subdivision, two thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars. Free public library: For librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars;Free public library. assistant librarian, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistants, at six hundred dollars each; cata-826loguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, six hundred dollars; janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; one attendant, four hundred and eighty dollars; two attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, eight thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
For purchase of books, five thousand dollars; binding, two thousand five hundred dollars; rent, fuel, light, fitting up rooms, and other contingent expenses, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all. eleven thousand dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia,Contingent expenses. namely; For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses; painting; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; care of horses not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; fuel, ice. gas. repairs, insurance, repairs to pound and vehicles, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, board of charities, harbor master, health department, surveyors office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, and police court, twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall*Proviso*.Horses, etc. be used only for official purposes.
Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, after supplyingSale of surplus books authorized. each of the heads of the several departments and offices of the government and the judiciary of said District with the necessary copies of the bound editions of the laws affecting said District, which are prepared in the office of the secretary of the Board at the close of each session of Congress, may sell the surplus volumes at a rate per volume to be fixed by them, approximating but not less than the pro rata cost, of compilation, and deposit all money so received to the credit of the appropriation out of which such cost is paid.
For card index for permit records, two thousand five hundred dollars.Index permit records. For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department,Engineer department, stables. including forage, livery of horses, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oil, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles and expenses, five thousand dollars; and no expenditure on account of the engineer department for the items named in this paragraph shall be made from any other fund.
For rent of District offices, nine thousand dollars.Rent. For rent of old record vault, six hundred dollars. For rent of property yards, three hundred dollars. For necessary expenses in the collection of overdue personal taxesCollection personal taxes. by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, one thousand five hundred dollars. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, theJudicial expenses, etc. printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District cases before the supreme court of said District, one thousand dollars.
For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees,Coroner’s expenses. removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testi-827mony, and photographing unidentified bodies, one thousand two hundred dollars. For erection of morgue complete, fifteen thousand dollars; and saidErection of morgue authorized. morgue shall be erected at such point on the water front between the north line of M street and the south line of N street as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may decide to be most advantageous and desirable, and shall not exceed in cost said sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
For preparation of a plan or plans, specifications, and estimates ofPlans municipal hospital. cost for a municipal hospital, live thousand dollars. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forAdvertising. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, two thousand five hundred dollars. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundredNotice of arrears of taxes.Vol. 26, p. 24. and one, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, three thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised.
To enable the assessor to continue account of arrears of taxes on realArrears on real property. property, due the District of Columbia, including the payment of necessary clerical force, two thousand dollars. For special repairs to market houses, two thousand two hundred andRepairs, market houses. fifty dollars. For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District ofEnforcing game and fish laws. Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners, five hundred dollars.
To enable the register of wills to continue the work of comparing,Register of wills. correcting, and reproducing certain records, or will books, in his office, including clerical service, purchase of books, and necessary equipments, two thousand dollars. For one fore-and-aft compound engine, shaft, wheel, and other connectionsEngine for harbcr boat. for harbor boat, three thousand five hundred dollars. PERMANENT SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS. To pay the expenses of carrying out the plan for the extension of aExtension of highways.Vol. 27, p. 532. permanent system of highways in conformity with the “Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two thousand five hundred dollars; to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
ASSESSMENT AND PERMIT WORK. For assessment and permit work, one hundred and forty thousandAssessment and permit work. dollars. For paving roadways under the permit system, ten thousand dollars. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix “Ee,” BookImprovements and repairs. of Estimates, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty thou-sand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the CommissionersStreetsand avenues. upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Georgetown schedule: Nine thousand four hundred and fiftyAllotment. dollars. Northwest section schedule: Forty-six thousand and fifty dollars. Southwest section schedule: Eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.828 Southeast section schedule: Thirty-six thousand six hundred dollars. Northeast section schedule: Thirty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. *Provided*, That the streets and avenues shall be contracted for in*Provisos.*Order of precedence. the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall beLimit contracts for asphalt pavements. made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the beat laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base: *Provided*, That—increase for certain streets. these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.
Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For purchase and repair ofGrading. cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses, to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, eight thousand dollars. Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase orCondemnation of streets, etc. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Plats of subdivisions outside of Washington: To pay theSurveys and plats Of outside subdivisions. expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to enable the Commissioners of the District to determine whether plats of subdivisions of land within said District offered for record have been made in conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within the DistrictVol. 25, p. 451. of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars.
The name of that portion of Fourth street, northwest, formerly aPart of Fourth street renamed “John Marshall Place.” part of Four-and-a-half street, extending from D street to Pennsylvania avenue, is hereby changed to John Marshall Place. SEWERS. Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, fifty-eight thousandCleaning. dollars. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, fifty thousand dollars.Cleaning. For suburban sewers, fifty thousand dollars.Suburban. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,For suburban sewers, fifty thousand dollars.Condemnation of rights of way, etc.. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For automatic flushing tanks, one thousand dollars.Flushing tanks. For continuation of the work on the Arizona avenue sewer, fifty-fiveArizona avenue, etc., sewers. thousand dollars. For the extension of the boundary sewer to the vicinity of Twenty-second and A streets northeast, now under contract, one hundred thou-sand dollars. For continuing the construction, in part, of the east side intercepting sewer, between Twenty-second and A streets northeast and Twelfth street southeast, now under contract, forty thousand dollars.
For completing the construction, in part, of the east side intercepting sewer from Twelfth street southeast to the pumping station at the foot of New Jersey avenue, now under contract, twenty-six thousand dollars. For constructing main sewer from Third and Cincinnati streets, northeast, through the grounds of W. W. Davidge and the Trinity College to Michigan avenue, twenty-five thousand dollars.829 For sewage disposal system pumping station, three hundred andSewage disposal station.Contracts authorized. seventy-five thousand dollars.
And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the completed building and so much of the machinery as may be immediately needed at a cost not to exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For low-area trunk sewer, sixty thousand dollars.Low-area trunk sewer. Any balances of former appropriations remaining after the executionBalances of appropriations available. of contracts for works of the sewage disposal system may be applied by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in the execution of other portions of said sewage disposal system.
CONSTRUCTION OF COUNTY ROADS. County roads. For construction of county roads and suburban streets as follows:Cincinnati street etc. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to change and adjust the line of Cincinnati street in the vicinity of Connecticut avenue, and of Warder avenue in the vicinity of Rock Creek Church road, and of Park road between Kenesaw avenue and Klingle Ford road, and of C street in the subdivision of Deanwood Heights, upon plans approved by them: *Provided*, That no expense is*Proviso*.—expense. incurred thereby to the United States or the District of Columbia.
For paving Crescent street west of Sixteenth street, three thousandCrescent street, Huntington street etc. dollars. For paving Huntington street, five thousand dollars. For Blagden avenue, grading and macadamizing, ten thousand dollars: For Elm street, Third to Fourth streets, northwest, paving, three thousand five hundred dollars; For Erie street between Champlain avenue and Sixteenth street, grading and macadamizing, two thousand five hundred dollars; For Gale street. Fifteenth to Seventeenth streets, northeast, paving, nine thousand dollars;
For Pennsylvania avenue, Anacostia River to Minnesota avenue, grading and macadamizing, three thousand dollars: For paving Fourth street east from U street north to W street north, six thousand dollars. For streets in Woodridge subdivision, grading and macadamizing, three thousand dollars; For Connecticut avenue west of Rock Creek, grading and macadamizing, ten thousand dollars; For Columbia road west from Fourteenth street, paving, five thousand dollars; For California and Wyoming avenues, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Decatur, and S streets, grading and macadamizing, five thousand dollars;
For Thirty-seventh street between New Cut road and Tennallytown road, and adjacent streets in Burleith addition, grading and macadamizing, two thousand dollars; For Illinois avenue, grading, five thousand dollars; For Providence street, grading and macadamizing, two thousand dollars; For Nebraska avenue, grading and macadamizing, four thousand five hundred dollars; For Genesee street between Brightwood avenue and Fourteenth street road, grading, one thousand dollars; For grading and paving Connecticut avenue extended, between Le Roy place and Kalorama avenue, ten thousand dollars;
For Bunker Hill road, grading and macadamizing, seven thousand dollars;830 For grading, regulating, and macadamizing Trenton street, from Brightwood avenue to Eighth street, three thousand dollars; For Joliet street, Wisconsin avenue to Tunlaw road, grading and regulating, nineteen thousand six hundred dollars; For Bennings and Anacostia roads, grading and macadamizing. five thousand dollars; For completing masonry retaining wall on the east side of Bock Creek, between Cincinnati street and Woodley road, one thousand two hundred dollars;
For paving Cincinnati street and Connecticut avenue extended from Rock Creek to Cathedral avenue, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars: in all, one hundred and forty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. STREETS. Streets. Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work ofRepairs. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, two hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary: the amountsStreet railways. thus expended shall be collected from such railroad company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of governmentVol. 20, p. 106. for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.
For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations,Sidewalks. Government and municipal buildings, ten thousand dollars. Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs of county roadsCounty roads. and suburban streets, eighty thousand dollars. That one-half of the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated by theHalf emergency appropriation for bridges, etc., charged to District.*Ante*, p. 722. joint resolution making an emergency appropriation for the repair of certain roads and bridges in the District of Columbia, approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, shall be charged to the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping,Sprinkling, sweeping, etc., streets. and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, including necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work done under the immediate direction of the Com-missioners without contract: *Provided*, That whenever it shall appear*Proviso*.When may be done by contract. to the Commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards, in accordance with the specifications under which the same was last advertised for bids, it shall at once be their duty to advertise to let said work under said specifications to the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents per thousand square yards, they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications; one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under theCleaning snow and ice.Vol. 28, p. 809. Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars. Disposal of city refuse: For the collection and disposal of garbage:Garbage, etc., disposal. miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; for collecting and disposing of dead animals and night soil in the District of Columbia, and for the payment of necessary inspection and incidental expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, includingParking commission. laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, twenty-five thousand dollars.831 Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing,Lighting. repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, loads, and alleys: purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts. street designations, lanterns, and fixtures: moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unlit for service; for rent of storeroom, cart-age of material, and other necessary items and services, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty*Provisos*.—limit per lamp. dollars per annum for each street lamp shall be paid for gas and no more than twenty-four dollars for oil, lighting, extinguishing, repairing. painting, and cleaning, under any expenditure provided for in this Act: *Provided*, That all of said lamps shall burn every night, on—to burn every night. the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: *Provided further*.
That before any expenditures are—self-regulating burner, etc. made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip. so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour: *And provided further*, That not more than ten thousandAmount available for lamps of higher candlepower. dollars of said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, and cleaning public lamps of a higher candle-power than those provided for above, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph excepting as to the time of burning.
For electric-arc lighting, including necessary inspection, and forElectric lighting. extensions of such service, not exceeding sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than seventy-two dollars per annum shall be*Provisos*.Limit of price, etc. paid for any electric arc light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wire; and each are light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington: *Provided further*, That the electric and gas light companies of the DistrictElectric and gas light companies to file annual statements. of Columbia shall file with the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the first day of August, nineteen hundred and two. and annually thereafter, a statement showing their receipts and expenditures for the previous fiscal year.
Harbor and river front: For the improvement and protection ofHarbor and river front. the harbor and river front, the enforcement of laws and regulations, construction and maintenance of wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, three thousand dollars. Bathing beach: For the improvement, care, and repair of the publicBathing beach. bathing beach in the Potomac River, in the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars, five hundred dollars of which shall be immediately available.
For public scales: For repair and replacement of public scales,Public scales. two hundred dollars. For public pumps: For the purchase, replacement, and repair ofPublic pumps. public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, tilling abandoned or condemned public wells, five thousand dollars. BRIDGES. Bridges. For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, oil, lamps, andCare. matches, four thousand dollars. For construction and repairs of bridges, fifteen thousand dollars.Repairs, etc.
For completing the construction of a bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Massachusetts avenue extended, fifty thousand dollars. Toward the construction of a bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Connecticut avenue extended, seventy-five thousand dollars.832 WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. Washington Aqueduct. For operation, maintenance, and repair of the aqueduct and itsMaintenance. accessories, including Conduit road, twenty-two thousand dollars. Toward establishing a slow sand filtration plant, and for each andFiltration plant. every purpose connected therewith, including the preparation of plans, and for the purchase of such scientific books and periodicals as may be approved by the Secretary of War, five hundred thousand dollars, to be available immediately and until expended.
INCREASING THE WATER SUPPLY. For completion of Washington Aqueduct tunnel and Howard UniversityWashington Aqueduct tunnel and Howard University reservoir. reservoir, one hundred and sixty-two thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Public schools. For officers: For seven members of the board of education, atBoard of education. five hundred dollars each, three thousand five hundred dollars, not more than one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars of which shall be used during the first half of the fiscal year: one superintendent of public schools, four thousand dollars; two assistant superintendents, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one secretary, two thou-sand dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For teachers: For one thousand two hundred and fifty-six teachers,Teachers. to be assigned as follows: For director of high schools, two thousand five hundred dollars; For eleven supervising principals, at two thousand dollars each; For director of manual training, two thousand dollars; For five principals of high schools, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For principal of manual training school number one, one thousand six hundred dollars; For principal of white normal school and principal of colored normal school, two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;
For director of primary instruction, three heads of departments of high schools, and two grammar school principals, six in all, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; For five principals of buildings, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; For director of music, director of drawing, assistant director of drawing, director of physical culture, assistant director of manual training school number two, first assistant teacher of manual training, two normal training teachers, instructor in shopwork, assistant instructor in ironwork, instructor in free-hand drawing, twelve high school teachers, and ten principals of buildings, thirty-three in all. at one thousand two hundred dollars each;
For director of primary work, high school teacher, and principal of building, three in all, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; For ninety-one, at one thousand dollars each; For eighteen, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For twenty-one, at nine hundred dollars each; For fourteen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For sixteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For eighty-eight, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For thirty-four, at eight hundred dollars each;833 For ninety-one, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each;
For seventeen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; For one hundred and thirty-two. at seven hundred dollars each; For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and thirty-seven, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For twenty-six, at six hundred dollars each; For eight, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and fifty-eight, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For five, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For one hundred and thirty-one, at five hundred dollars each:
For thirty-nine, at four hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and eight, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; For fifty, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; in all, eight hundred and eighty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers, no discrimination*Proviso*.No sex discrimination.Designated salaries not to be changed. shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school and performing a like class of duties; and it shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades.
For teachers of night schools, who may also be teachers in the dayNight schools. schools, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. For kindergarten instruction, twenty-five thousand dollars.Kindergarten. For janitors and care of buildings and grounds: For care ofJanitors. the High School and annex, of the first eight divisions, two thousand dollars; Of the Jefferson Building and the Western High School, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
Of the Eastern High School, Business High School. High School of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, and Stevens School buildings, four in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; Of the Franklin Building, one thousand one hundred dollars; Of the Wallach Building, one thousand dollars; Of the Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garnet. Grant, Henry. Pea-body. Seaton, Sumner. Webster, and Manual Training School Number One, and one twelve-room school building, thirteen in all, at nine hundred dollars each;
Of the Birney, Lincoln, Miner, and Mott buildings, four in all. at eight hundred dollars each; Of the Manual Training School Building Number Two. seven hundred and fifty dollars; Of the Abbott, Berrett, John F. Cook, and Randall buildings, four in all, at seven hundred dollars each; Of the Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon. Anthony Bowen. Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Brightwood, Brookland. Bruce. Buchanan. Carberry, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Crunch, Douglass, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Eckington, Green-leaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton.
Hubbard, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Lenox, Logan, Lovejoy, McCormick, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Monroe, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Phelps, Phillips. Pierce, Polk, Stater, Smallwood, Taylor, Tenley, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Buren, Webb. Weightman, Wilson. Wormly, building in third division. building in fourth division, building in seventh division (Washing-ton Heights), building in tenth division, building in eleventh division, sixty-seven in all, at five hundred and forty dollars each;
Of the Garfield, Hillsdale, Thompson, Van Buren annex, and Wood-burn buildings, five in all, at three hundred and sixty dollars each;834 Of the Bennings (white), Bennings (colored), Chevy Chase, Hamilton, High Street, Langdon, Kenilworth, Petworth, Potomac, Reservoir, Takoma Park, Twining City, and Threlkeld buildings, thirteen in all, at two hundred and forty dollars each; For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual training schools wherever located, at a rate not to exceed forty-eight dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, four thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars;
For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at Manual Training School Number One, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at Manual Training School Number Two, one thousand dollars; In all, seventy-eight thousand one hundred and twenty-six dollars. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and repair shop, seventeenRent. thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, fiftyRepairs. thousand dollars.
For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, ten thousand dollars. For furniture for and equipment of Manual Training School Number One, twenty-five thousand dollars. For furniture for and equipment of Manual Training School Number Two, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel, forty-five thousand dollars.Fuel. For furniture for new school buildings and additions to buildings,Furniture.New buildings. as follows: Lovejoy, eight rooms, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; Birney, eight rooms, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; building in fourth division, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: building in seventh division, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: building in tenth division, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; building in eleventh division, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; building in second division, twelve rooms, two thou-sand four hundred and seventy-five dollars;
Petworth, four rooms, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; Kenilworth, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; Twining City, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, books of reference,Contingent expenses. and periodicals, stationery, printing, insurance, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including maintenance of horse and carriage for the superintendent, thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars.
For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the firstFree text-books. eight grades who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, forty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*. That the board of education in its discretion is authorized toExchange of undesirable books authorized. make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use.
For purchase of United States flags, one thousand dollars.Flags. For vacation schools, including contingent expenses, one thousand dollars. Buildings and grounds: For completing twelve-room building,Buildings and sites. Eckington, second division, forty-six thousand dollars. For completing eight-room building, to relieve Greenleaf School, fourth division, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.835 For completing eight-room building, Washington Heights, seventh division, thirty-six thousand dollars.
For completing eight-room building, tenth division, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For completing eight-room building, eleventh division, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For site for and toward the construction of one eight-room building (Trinidad or vicinity), sixth division, twenty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For site for and toward the construction of one eight-room building, tenth division, twenty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For site for and toward the construction of one eight-room building, third division, twenty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed fifty-six thousand dollars.
For site for and toward the construction of one eight-room building, ninth division, twenty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of ground adjoining the Cranch School and enlarging the Cranch School to eight rooms, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For one four-room building and site, Good Hope, eighth division, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For one four-room building and site, Brookland (colored), seventh division, twenty-six thousand dollars. For one four-room building, seventh division. Grant road, twenty-five thousand dollars. For purchase of lot adjoining Tenley School, one thousand five hundred dollars. For reconstructing building at Seventh and G streets southeast, four rooms, manual training, fifteen thousand dollars. For purchase of lots twenty-six and twenty-seven, square five hundred and seventy-eight, adjoining Bell School, four thousand dollars.
For additional amount for one four-room school building, Petworth, seventh division, five thousand dollars. For additional amount for one four-room school building, eighth division, six thousand dollars. For additional amount for one four-room school building, Kenilworth, eight thousand dollars. That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respectiveLimit of cost. buildings heroin provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes: *Provided*, That the Commissioners*Proviso*.Construction by day labor authorized. of the District of Columbia, in ease they shall consider the bids received for the construction of any number of the school buildings herein provided for. not exceeding three, to be in excess of a reasonable amount, are hereby authorized to construct such building or buildings by day labor and the purchase of material in open market, if the same can be completed within the amount appropriated or authorized therefor.
That the plans and specifications for school buildings shall be preparedPreparing plans, etc. under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District, and shall be constructed by the Commissioners in con-836formity therewith: and the plans and specifications for all other buildings provided for in this Act shall he prepared under the super-vision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Architect of the Capitol and the Commissioners of the District, and shall he constructed in conformity therewith.
FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE. Police. For major and superintendent, three thousand three hundred dollars;Salaries. captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four lieutenants, inspectors, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at five hundred and forty dollars each: additional compensation for fourteen privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary; ten lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-five sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; three hundred and forty-five privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; two hundred and thirty privates, class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each: twenty-two station keepers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each: eleven laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; laborer in charge of the morgue, six hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, seven hundred dollars: messenger, five hundred dollars; major and superintendent, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars: captain, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars: fifty-one lieutenants, sergeants. and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; fifty sergeants and privates, mounted, on bicycles, at fifty dollars each; twenty-five drivers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; and three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all. six hundred and ninety-three thousand and eighty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of substation at Anacostia, three hundredRent, Anacostia. and sixty dollars; For fuel, two thousand five hundred dollars;Rent, Anacostia. For repairs to stations, five thousand dollars;Repairs. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including modernContingent expenses. revolvers, and installation of card system in the police department, stationery, books, books of reference, and periodicals, telegraphing, photographs, printing, binding, gas. ice. washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bedclothing, insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, police equipments and repairs of same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, ambulance, and patrol wagons, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred and twenty-fiveFlags. dollars: For additional equipment for new station house north of FloridaNew equipment. avenue, eight hundred dollars; For rent of police department headquarters and property storerooms,New equipment. two thousand seven hundred dollars. To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to providePlace for detention of children, etc. transportation and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of the children under sixteen years of age, and in the discretion of the Commissioners of girls and women over sixteen years of age. arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, eight thousand dollars,837 or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That all such persons*Proviso*.—detention of other persons. held or detained under public authority prior to the adjudication of cases in which they may be involved shall be held at the place so provided:
For purchase of site and erection of temporary substation in TennallytownTennallytown. or vicinity, six thousand dollars: In all, fifty thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Fire department For chief engineer, two thousand dollars; three assistant chiefSalaries. engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thou-sand dollars: fire marshal, one thousand dollars; machinist, one thousand dollars: twenty-four foremen, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen engineers, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen firemen, at nine hundred dollars each; six tillermen, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-five drivers, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and sixty-six privates, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; and one laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-one thou-sand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For repairs to engine houses, five thousand dollars;Miscellaneous. For repairs to apparatus, and new appliances, four thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of hose, nine thousand dollars; For fuel, four thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of horses, ten thousand five hundred dollars; For forage, nine thousand dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil. medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars;
In all. fifty-four thousand five hundred dollars. Increase fire department: For additional stable, to be erected inIncrease. the rear of Number Eight engine house, North Carolina avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets southeast, five thousand dollars; For house and furniture for a chemical engine company, to be located at Congress Heights, twenty-five thousand dollars: In all, thirty thousand dollars. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Electrical department. For superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; inspector ofSalaries. lamps, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; expert repairman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; three repairmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies,Supplies. telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, purchase of horse and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of stable and storeroom, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars.
For placing wires of fire-alarm telegraph and police telephone serviceFire-alarm telegraph. under ground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, eight thousand dollars.838 For extension of the tire-alarm telegraph in order to provide for—extension additional circuits in connection with new thirty-circuit board, fifty new boxes, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For purchase, and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators,Poles, etc. pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, five thousand dollars. For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of twentyPolice-patrol system. new boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, five thousand dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Health, department. For health officer, three thousand five hundred dollars: fourteenSalaries. sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products, and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; sanitary and food inspector, who shall be a veterinary surgeon, and act as inspector of live stock and dairy farms, one thousand two hundred dollars: inspector of marine products, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, two of whom may act as sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, six hundred dollars: messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; pound master, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceeding forty dollars per month, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars: ambulance driver, four hundred and eighty dollars: sanitary and food inspector, who shall be a veterinary surgeon, nine hundred dollars: four sanitary and food inspectors, one of whom shall be a veterinary surgeon, to assist in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws, at nine hundred dollars each; in all. forty-three thousand six hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty dollars.Rent. For the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia,Scarlet fever and diphtheria.Vol. 26, p. 691.Vol. 29, p. 635. approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under the direction of the health officer of said District, twenty thousand dollars.
For maintaining the disinfecting service, five thousand dollars.Disinfecting service. For abatement of nuisances under section twenty-six of an ordinanceAbating nuisances. to revise, consolidate, and amend the ordinances of the board of health, and so forth, legalized by the Act of August seventh, eighteenVol. 28, p. 257. hundred and ninety-four, the cost of such abatement, when collected from the responsible party, to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, one hundred dollars.
For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to cause the removalVol. 28, p. 257.Vol. 30, p. 959. of weeds from lands in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand dollars. For emergency fund for the enforcement of the provisions of sectionDrainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 126. four of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For special services in connection with the detection of the adulterationAdulteration of foods, etc. of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars.839 COURTS. Courts. For the police court: For two judges, at three thousand dollarsPolice court. each; compensation of two justices of the peace, acting as judges of the police court during the absence of said judges, not exceeding at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars per month each, seven hundred and fifty dollars; clerk, two thousand dollars: two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each: one deputy marshal, nine hundred dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars: engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant janitors, four hundred and fifty dollars; one bailiff, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For witness fees, four thousand dollars;Miscellaneous. For repairs of police-court building, eight hundred dollars; For repairs to police-court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dollars; For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, one hundred dollars; For rent of property adjoining police-court building, for police court and other purposes, six hundred dollars; For compensation of jury, eight thousand dollars; In all, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
Defending suits in claims: For defending suits in the United StatesDefending suits in claims. Court of Claims, two thousand dollars. Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionLunacy writs. of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of the ActVol. 30, p. 811. approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars.
INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, exclusive of waterInterest and sinking fund. bonds, one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents. EMERGENCY FUND. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence,Emergency fund. public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of*Proviso*.Purchases. all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected.
ROCK CREEK PARK. Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, to be expendedCare and improvement. under the direction of the board of control of said park, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. FOR COURTS AND PRISONS. Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-eight thousand dollars.840 Court-house, District of Columbia:
For the following forceCourt-house. necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: One engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and seven assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: in all. twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General.
Warden of the jail: For warden of the jail of the District ofWarden of jail. Columbia, two thousand dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General. Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail ofSupport of prisoners. the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-three thousand dollars. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Board of Charities: For secretary, three thousand dollars: clerk,Board of Charities. one thousand dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; traveling expenses, two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand two hundred and forty dollars. reformatories and correctional institutions.
For Washington Asylum: For intendant, one thousand two hundredWashington Asylum. dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars: matron, six hundred dollars: clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars: property clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; principal overseer, one thousand dollars; ten overseers, at six hundred dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant-engineer, three hundred and fifty dollars; second assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; engineer at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; five watchmen, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; night watchman, five hundred and forty-eight dollars; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred dollars; carpenter, five hundred dollars; driver for dead wagon, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; hostler and ambulance driver, two hundred and forty dollars; keeper at female workhouse, three hundred dollars; keeper at female workhouse, one hundred and eighty dollars; two female attendants at almshouse, at one hundred and fifty dollars each: hospital cook, three hundred and sixty five dollars: four cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each: two cooks, at sixty dollars each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, six hundred dollars; graduate nurse, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; graduate nurse for receiving ward, three hundred and sixty dollars; pupil nurses, not less than thirteen in number, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars: registered pharmacist, who shall also act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs, pro-visions. fuel, forage, lumber, gas. ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, hardware, medicines, repairs to tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, painting, and other necessary items and services, and not exceeding nine hundred dollars for purchase of kitchen utensils and diet for hospital, fifty-five thousand dollars. For completing the erection of a workhouse for males, fifty thousand841 dollars: *Provided*, That the total cost of the building shall not*Proviso*.—limit of cost. exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, including the one hundred thousand dollars heretofore appropriated; and said Commissioners are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to expend for temporary frame structures to meet present institutional needs not exceeding ten thousand dollars of the sum herein and heretofore appropriated for this purpose.
For repairs to buildings, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, removal of floors, and repairs to plumbing, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars. For erection of bathrooms and closets for two buildings known as the “Old Men’s Home,” one thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Municipal almshouse: For the purchase by the Commissioners ofMunicipal almshouse.Purchase of site, etc., authorized. the District of Columbia of a suitable site in the District of Columbia for a municipal almshouse, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for the preparation of plans for suitable buildings for such almshouse, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; and the total cost of such almshouse, exclusive of—total cost limited. site, and including water supply, heating, ventilating, and lighting apparatus, and improvement of grounds shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if acceptable to the*Proviso*.—donation of site authorized, etc.
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to transfer to them for a site for said alms-house the tract of land containing about sixty acres belonging to the United States lying south of Congress Heights and east of Nichols Avenue and detached from the present site of the Government Hospital for the Insane, and in the event of this acceptance and transfer, the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars shall be available for construction of the buildings for the said almshouse.
For reform school: For superintendent, one thousand five hundredReform school. dollars; assistant superintendent, nine hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, five thousand and forty dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; four matrons of families, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; three foremen of workshops, at six hundred and sixty dollars each: farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at three hundred dollars each; laundress, one hundred and eighty dollars; two dining-room servants, seamstress, and chambermaid, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each: florist, three hundred and sixty dollars; watchmen. not to exceed six in number, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; secretary and treasurer to board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas. fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding nine hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, all under the control of the Commissioners, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For one additional one hundred horsepower boiler, including all expenses of installation, foundation, brickwork, connections, and so forth, three thousand dollars.842 Reform School for Girls: Superintendent, one thousand dollars;Reform School for Girls. treasurer, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four teachers of industries, at two hundred and fifty dollars each: engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; assistant engineer, three hundred and sixty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; laborer, three hundred dollars; in all, six thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars;
For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil. lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows. pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, ten thousand dollars; In all, sixteen thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars. Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to theTransporting prisoners. workhouse, two thousand dollars.
Medical Charities. Medical charities. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, as follows:Freedmen’s Hospital. For subsistence, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars: two assistant surgeons, clerk, assistant clerk, pharmacist, assistant pharmacist, steward, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, sixteen thousand dollars; For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars:
For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; In all, fifty-four thousand dollars. For the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, forColumbia Hospital. the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, by the board of charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs, one thousand dollars. Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minorGarfield and Providence hospitals. contagious diseases at Garfield and Providence hospitals, maintenance, each, four thousand dollars, eight thousand dollars. For completing the retaining wall on Sherman avenue by extending it from its present northern terminus in front of the isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at the Garfield Hospital to the northern boundary of the hospital grounds, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toChildren’s hospital. be made with the Children’s Hospital by the board of charities, not to exceed ten thousand dollars. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toHomeopathic Hospital. he made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the board of charities, not to exceed eight thousand five hundred dollars. For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance,Emergency Hospital, etc. fifteen thousand dollars.
For Eastern Dispensary, maintenance, two thousand dollars. For the Women’s Clinic, maintenance, one thousand dollars. For the Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, two thousand dollars. child-caring institutions. Board of Children’s Guardians: For the Board of Children’sBoard of Children’s Guardians.Vol. 27, p.268. Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, includ-843ing salaries of agents, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars, expenses in placing and visiting children, and all office and sundry expenses, seven thousand dollars;
For care of feeble-minded children, ten thousand dollars; For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship ofCare of children.—committed by District courts. said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That when the*Proviso*.—when placed with private families, etc. Board of Children’s Guardians place any of such children in private families, as far as practicable, such children shall be placed only in such families as are of the same religious denomination or belief as the parents or last surviving parent of the child, and this appropriation shall not be otherwise available.
For burial of children who die while wards of the board, three hundred dollars; In all for Board of Children’s Guardians, forty-seven thousand three hundred dollars. For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance, thirteenIndustrial Home School, etc. thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to buildings, fences, and grounds, two thousand dollars. For enlargement and improvement of plant for industrial training, one thousand dollars. For enlargement of girls' cottage, five thousand dollars.
For the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For the Newsboys’ and Children’s Aid Society, maintenance, one thousand dollars. For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, maintenance, six thousand dollars. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, maintenance, five thousand four hundred dollars. For the German Orphan Asylum, maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars. temporary homes.
For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, includingMunicipal lodging house, etc. rent, four thousand dollars. For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For the Women’s Christian Association, maintenance, four thousand dollars. For Young Women’s Christian Home, maintenance, one thousand dollars. For Hope and Help Mission, maintenance, two thousand dollars.
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are herebyColumbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, payment to.*Ante*, p. 577. authorized and directed to pay to the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, a duly incorporated organization of the District of Columbia, the sum of live thousand dollars, made available by Act of Congress approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, “for the instruction and employment of the blind who are actual residents of the District of Columbia, and for the purchase and repair of machinery and tools which may be needed to equip a workshop for the blind of said District:” *Provided*, That such part of said appropriation as may be*Proviso*.Private disbursements to be reimbursed. necessary may be used to reimburse any officer of said Columbia Polytechnic institute for the Blind for any money he may have used of his own private funds for the equipping and maintenance of said workshop.844 miscellaneous.
Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane ofGovernment Hospital for the Insane.[R.S., sec. 4844, etc., p. 939](/us/rs/s4844/p939). the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District as provided in sections forty-eight Hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, one hundred and thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insaneDeporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “To change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand dollars.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For expensesColumbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. [R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942). attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That hereafter all deaf mutes of teachable*Proviso*.District deaf mutes to be admitted. age, of good mental capacity, and properly belonging to the District of Columbia shall be received and instructed in said institution, their admission thereto being subject to the approval of the superintendent of public schools in the District of Columbia.
And said institution shall not be regarded nor classified as an institution of charity.Not deemed an institution of charity.Relief of poor. Relief of the Poor: For relief of the poor, thirteen thousand dollars. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, twoTransporting paupers thousand dollars. Burial Ground for the Indigent Dead: For the purchase by thePurchase of burial ground for indigent dead authorized. Commissioners of the District of Columbia of ground suitable as a place for the burial of the indigent dead, fifteen thousand dollars.
MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. For the following, to be expended under the authority of the CommissionersMilitia. of the District of Columbia, namely: For rent, fuel, light, care, and repair of armories, and practice ships,Rent, etc. and for telephone service, including three thousand eight hundred dollars for refitting the Oneida, to be immediately available, eighteen thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, four hundred dollars.
For printing and stationery, five hundred dollars. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, one thousand dollars. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, nine hundred dollars. For expenses of drills and parades, one thousand dollars. For expenses of rifle practice and matches, three thousand six hundred dollars. For expenses of camps, instruction, practice marches, and practice cruises, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars.
For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursedPay. under the direction of the commanding general, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That members of the National Guard of the*Provisos*.Members of National Guard not deemed officers of United States. District of Columbia who receive compensation for their services as such shall not be held or construed to be officers of the United States, or persons holding any place of trust or profit, or discharging any official function under or in connection with any Executive Department of the Government of the United States within the provision of section fifty-845four hundred and ninety-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United[R.
S., sec. 5498, p. 1065](/us/rs/s5498/p1065). States: *Provided further*, That all moneys collected on account ofPayment for moneys collected on account of deductions for lost Government property, etc. deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia on account of Government property lost or destroyed by such individual shall be repaid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the officer of the militia of the District of Columbia who is accountable to the United States Government for such property lost or destroyed: *And provided further*, That—and for violating regulations. all moneys collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said National Guard shall be held by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys so collected for general incidental expenses of the service; and for all moneys so collected and expended the commanding general shall make an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops.
For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars. WATER DEPARTMENT. Water department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsAppropriations payable from its revenues. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shallRevenue and inspection branch. also perform the duties of chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; eight inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each: messenger, six hundred dollars;
For distribution branch: For superintendent, two thousand sevenDistribution branch hundred and fifty dollars: draftsman, one thousand live hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; timekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; hostler, four hundred and eighty dollars; calker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirty thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, forage,Contingent expenses. advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars. For necessary labor, clerk hire, material, and so forth, for introducing the card system for water-main tax accounts, to be immediately available, two thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipeFuel, etc. distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and tire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing five plugs and public hydrants, ninety thousand dollars.
The appropriation of five thousand dollars made in the District ofWater meters for private residences.*Ante*, p. 578. Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, for the purchase of water meters, to be placed in such private residences as desired, and installed at the expense of the property owner, said meters at all times to remain and be the property of the water department, is hereby made available for and continued duringAppropriation available. the fiscal year ninteen hundred and two.
For interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, six thousandFor interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, six thousand and twenty-two dollars. and twenty-two dollars.846 For continuing the extension of the high-service system of waterExtending high-service system. distribution, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall notLimit of requisitions on the Treasury. make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District, except as may be otherwise provided by law. Approved, March 1, 1901.
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