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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · June 6, 1900 · Chapter 789

Chapter 789. 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 one, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 789.— 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 one, and for other purposes. June 6, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Appropriations.Half from District revenues. That the half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of 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 one, namely:
General expenses.GENERAL EXPENSES. Executive office. Commissioners, secretary, etc.For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousand 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 dollars each; clerk, one 555thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars: three clerks, one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; messenger clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; laborer, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of buildings, two thousand four hundred dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars: janitor, nine hundred dollars; steam engineer, nine hundred dollars; two fire-men, 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 tour at one thousand dollars each; five members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each; harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; boiler for harbor boat, one thousand five hundred dollars: in all, sixty thousand two hundred and ninety-three 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; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three 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 and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars.
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 auditor’s office: For auditor, three thousand six hundredAuditor’s office. dollars; chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, two thousand five hundred dollars; deputy disbursing officer, who shall hereafter, in the absence of the disbursing officer, be authorized to transact all duties pertaining to said disbursing officer, and who shall be required to give bond to the said disbursing officer in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned on the faithful performance of the duties of his office, but said disbursing officer to be responsible to the United States, District of Columbia, and the people whom he pays, as now required by law, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars 556each; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in ill, twenty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
Attorney’s office.For attorney’s office: For attorney, four thousand dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand dollars: special assistant attorney, one thousand six hundred dollars: law clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, two hundred dollars: in all. nine thousand dollars. Sinking-fund office.For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Coroner’s office.For coroner’s office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Market masters.For market masters: For two market masters, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one market master, nine hundred dollars; for hire of laborers for cleaning markets, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all. four thousand five hundred dollars. Sealer of weights and measures.For office of sealer of weights and measures: For sealer of weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars: laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Engineer’s office.For engineer’s office: Record division: For chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty 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 parking, nine hundred 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; draftsman, 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; in all, sixty-five thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars.
Special assessment office.Special assessment office: For special assessment clerk, one thou-sand 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.Street sweeping office: For superintendent, two thousand two hundred dollars: assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; four inspectors, at one 557thousand 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-four thousand seven 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 be 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.
Superintendent of charities: For superintendent of charities,Superintendent of charities. three thousand dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars: traveling expenses, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars. 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; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Free Public Library: For librarian, one thousand six hundredFree Public Library. dollars; assistant librarian, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant, six hundred dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; attendant, three hundred and sixty dollars; purchase of books, one thousand dollars; binding, one thousand five hundred dollars; rent, fuel, light, fitting up rooms, and other contingent expenses, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent expenses of the government of the District ofContingent expenses. Columbia, namely: For printing, cheeks, 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 horse-shoeing; fuel, ice, gas, repairs, insurance, repairs to pound and vehicles, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, office of the superintendent of charities, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, and police court, twenty-three thousand five hundred 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 be used only for official purposes: *Provided further,* That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized toAllowance in Commissioners’ accounts for books, etc. audit and allow in the accounts of the District Commissioners expenditures made for law books, books of reference, and periodicals from appropriations made for contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the District for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nine-teen hundred. 558 Engineer department, stables.For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department, 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 para- graph shall be made from any other fund.
Rent.For rent of District offices, nine thousand dollars. For rent of old record vault, six hundred dollars. For rent of property yards, three hundred dollars. Collection personal taxes.For necessary expenses in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, one thousand five hundred dollars. Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the 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.
Coroner’s expenses.For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees, 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 testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, one thousand two hundred dollars. Advertising.For general advertising, authorized and required by law. and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Notice of arrears of taxes.Vol. 26, p. 24.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, three thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a *Proviso.*charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised: *Provided*,Notice of printing of pamphlet containing list of taxes in arrears. That in lieu of the notice now required to be given by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia of the pamphlet containing the list of taxes in arrears, the said Commissioners shall give notice, by advertising twice a week, for three successive weeks, beginning on the third Monday in March of each year hereafter, in the regular issue of two or more daily newspapers published in said District, that the said pamphlet has been printed and that a copy thereof will be delivered to any taxpayer applying therefor at the office of the collector of taxes of said District; and all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
To enable the assessor to continue account of arrears of taxes on real property, due the District of Columbia, including the payment of necessary clerical force, two thousand dollars. Repairs, market houses.For special repairs to market houses, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Enforcing game and fish laws.For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners, five hundred dollars. Register of wills.To enable the register of wills to continue the work of comparing, Reproduction, etc., certain records.correcting, and reproducing certain records, or will books, in his office, including clerical service, purchase of books, and necessary equipments, two thousand dollars.
Recorder of deeds.Purchase of book typewriters. Vol. 30, p.769.To enable the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia to purchase twenty Elliott Hatch book typewriters for recording deeds and other instruments of writing in his office, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three thousand five hundred dollars. Restoring portraits.For restoration and preservation of portraits belonging to the Dis trict of Columbia, nine hundred dollars. 559 PLATS OF SUBDIVISIONS OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON.
To pay the expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to enableSurveys and plats of outside subdivisions. the Commissioners of the District to determine whether plats of sub-divisions of land withinVol. 25, p. 451. said District offered for record have been made in conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within the District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand 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 live 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 thousand dollars.Assessment and permit work. For paving roadways under the permit system, ten thousand dollars. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix X, Book ofStreets and avenues. Estimates, nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners 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: Ten thousand and eighty dollars.Allotment. Northwest section schedule: Forty-nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Southwest section schedule: Twenty thousand dollars. Southeast section schedule: Thirty-nine thousand and forty dollars. Northeast section schedule: Forty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. *Provided,* That the streets and avenues shall be contracted for in the*Provisos*Order of precedence. 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 be madeLimit for contracts for asphalt pavements. 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 best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base: *Provided*, That these conditions—increase for certain streets. 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.
And hereafter, when as many streetsAvailable balance. and entire blocks of streets in any section have been paved as the amount allotted to that section will permit, and there still remains a balance insufficient to pave an entire block of the street provided for pavement upon the schedule, such balance shall remain available and be added to the allotment for that section for the next succeeding year. For widening and paving roadway of G street northwest, betweenG street NW. Sixth and Fifteenth streets, nineteen thousand dollars. 560 Fifteenth street.For paving Fifteenth street from V to W streets, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Grading.Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For purchase and repair of 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, etc.Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Sewers.SEWERS. Cleaning.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, fifty thousand dollars.
Replacing.For replacing obstructed sewers, twenty-five thousand dollars. Main, pipe, etc.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, fifty thousand dollars. Suburban.For suburban sewers, fifty thousand dollars. Condemnation of rights of way, etc.For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Automatic flushing tanks.Tiber Creek, etc.For automatic flushing tanks, one thousand dollars.
For completing contract on the Tiber Creek and New Jersey avenue high-level intercepting sewer, twenty-five thousand dollars. For damages and losses occasioned by the construction of the Tiber Creek and New Jersey avenue high-level intercepting sewer, through Arthur place, between B and C streets northwest, eighteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available; said amount to cover and be in full of all damages and losses on account of such construction. Pumping plant, etc.For so much of the permanent pumping plant at the foot of New Jersey avenue southeast, including outlet chambers, gates, connections, and so forth, as is immediately necessary for the purpose of draining the intercepting sewer already constructed, one hundred and ten thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to use for such purpose any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the preparation of plans and acquiring land for said pumping station.
Extension of boundary sewer.Any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the extension of the boundary sewer to the vicinity of Twenty-second and A streets north- east shall remain available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one. And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the extension of the boundary sewer to the vicinity of Twenty-second and A streets northeast, at a cost not to exceed two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be paid from time to time as appropriations may be made by law.
East side intercepting sewer.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 continuing 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, forty thousand dollars. Arizona avenue sewer.For construction in part of the Arizona avenue sewer, fifty thousand dollars.
L street sewer.For constructing the L street sewer from near Twenty-first and L streets northwest to the east side of Sixteenth street, thirty thousand dollars. Plans for sewage disposal system.For preparation of detailed plans and specifications for sewage-disposal system complete, twenty-thousand dollars. Streets.STREETS. Repairs.Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, 561two hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary.
The amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanentStreet railways. Vol. 20, p. 106. form of government 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 and municipal buildings, ten thousand dollars.
Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs of countyCounty roads. roads and suburban streets, sixty thousand dollars. Construction of county roads: For construction of county roads and suburban streets, as follows: For macadamizing Kenesaw avenue and Park drive, ten thousandKenesaw avenue, etc. dollars: For macadamizing Michigan avenue, ten thousand dollars;Michigan avenue. For paving Eighteenth street (extended) and Cincinnati street fromEighteenth street extended.Cincinnati street.
Columbia road to Rock Creek and completing paving of Twentieth street between Baltimore and Cincinnati streets, seventeen thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Blagden avenue, five thousand dollars;Blagden avenue. For grading and regulating Quincy street, Petworth, from BrightwoodQuincy street. avenue to Eighth street, two thousand dollars; For improving Bladensburg road from Fifteenth street northward,Bladensburg road. fifteen thousand dollars: For grading and macadamizing Frankfort, Twenty-second, andLangdon.
Twenty-fourth streets, Langdon, three thousand dollars; For improving Connecticut avenue west of Rock Creek, sevenConnecticut avenue. thousand five hundred dollars; For grading and regulating streets in Woodridge subdivision, twoWoodridge. thousand five hundred dollars; For completing the paving of Nineteenth street extended, betweenNineteenth street extended. Florida avenue and Columbia road, five thousand six hundred dollars, to be immediately available; For grading and macadamizing Eleventh street extended, betweenEleventh street extended.
Florida avenue and Lydecker avenue, twenty thousand dollars; For grading, repairing, pavement of gutters, and improving Thirty-seventhThirty-seventh street. street between New Cut road and Tennallytown road and other streets in Burleith addition, four thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Cathedral avenue from Connecticut avenueCathedral avenue. to Woodley road and the highway along the west border of the Zoological Park from Woodley road to Cathedral avenue, as shown on the plan of the permanent system of highways, third section, twenty-one thousand dollars: *Provided,* That parties interested first deposit*Proviso.*—conditions: deposit. with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia an equal sum to be used toward defraying the cost of the work: *And provided,* That—donation. the full width of the highway bordering the Zoological Park be donated to the District of Columbia whenever it lies within the limits of Woodley Park.
And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to use as a highway so much of the Zoological Park as lies within the lines of said proposed highway; To construct a masonry retaining wall between Cincinnati street andDriveway east side of Rock Creek, etc. Woodley road to define the limits of a new driveway which the Com-missioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to lay out along the east side of Rock Creek from Connecticut avenue to Zoological Park, four thousand dollars: *Provided,* That all the land*Proviso.*—dedication. within the limits of said highway between Cincinnati street and Woodley road shall first be dedicated to the District of Columbia; 562 Crescent street.For grading and improving Crescent street, two thousand dollars:
Bennings road, etc.For grading and regulating Bennings road and Anacostia road east of Eastern Branch, ten thousand dollars: in all. one hundred and thirty--eight thousand six hundred dollars. District quarry.Bids for operating.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to invite bids and make contract for operating the District quarry for such term of years, not exceeding five, as may be determined by them to be most advantageous to the District. Sprinkling, sweeping. etc., streets.Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning:
For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, including necessary incidental expenses, one hundred and fifty-five thousand *Provisos.*Specifications for bids.dollars: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District shall make specifications for the manner of sweeping and cleaning the streets by machinery and by hand labor, and shall advertise to let the work to the lowest responsible bidder, according to such specifications, and if the same, or any part thereof, can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents for hand work and twenty cents for machine work per thousand square yards, then they may do said work under their immediate direction, but the same shall be done according —limit of price under.to the said specifications: —expenditure with-out contract. *Provided further,* That the specifications for bids shall provide that the payment for labor in the execution of said contract shall not be less than that now paid by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for cleaning the streets by hand: *And provided further,* That of the amount hereby appropriated, twenty-five thousand dollars, or such part thereof as the Commissioners may deem advisable, may be expended under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract.
Cleaning snow and ice.Vol. 28, p. 809.For cleaning snow and ice from crosswalks and gutters, and so forth, under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars. Parking commission.For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, including 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-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Addition public park on Eighteenth street.For the purchase of lot twelve, block eight, in Commissioners’ sudivision of Washington Heights, so as to cause the public park on Eighteenth street extended to front on Eighteenth street, eleven thou-sand eight hundred dollars. Lighting.Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, 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 unfit for service: for rent of storeroom, cart-age of material, and other necessary items and services, one hundred *Provisos.*Limit per lamp.and seventy-eight thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no more than twenty 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 —to burn every night.in this Act: *Provided,* That all of said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes —self-regulating burner and tip.before sunrise: *Provided further*, That before any expenditures are 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 Amount available for lamps of higher candlepower, etc.gas per hour: *And* *Provided further,* That not more than five thousand dollars of said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, and cleaning public lamps of a higher candle563power 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 are lighting, including necessary inspection, and forElectric lighting. extensions of such service, not exceeding sixty-three 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 every night from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wire; and each arc 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 hereafter the Commissioners ofEnlargement, etc., of existing conduits. the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to grant permits for the repair, enlargement, and extension, under proper regulations, of existing electric-lighting conduits, and in every conduit constructed or to be constructed under the provisions of this paragraph, three ductsReservation of ducts for city, etc. shall be reserved for the use of the United States and the District of Columbia, and as a condition for the right to use conduits heretofore built, or to be built under the provisions of this Act, the electric-lighting companies shall be required at all times to furnish to the public and to private consumers in all parts of the District of Columbia standard arc lights of not less than one thousand actual candle-power at a rate not exceeding seventy-two dollars per annum for each arc light: and on and after the first day of June, nineteen hundred,Rates. the maximum price of electric current sold or furnished to any consumer in the District of Columbia shall not exceed ten cents per kilowatt hour.
That if consumers other than the Government shall—increase for failure to pay bill. not pay monthly electric bills within ten days after the same shall have been presented, said companies may charge and collect from said consumer so failing to pay said bill as aforsaid eleven cents per kilowatt hour for the electric current furnished to said consumer during said month: *And provided further*, That the right to amend, modify, orAmendment. repeal the privileges herein granted, and to further limit the prices herein specified, is hereby expressly reserved; any company charging Penalty excessive rates.or collecting an amount in excess of the rates herein prescribed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall pay to the District of Columbia the sum of fifty dollars for each and every offense, to be collected as other fines are now collected in the District of Columbia.
Harbor and river front: For the improvement and protectionHarbor and river front. of 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 theBathing beach. public 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 ofPumps. public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, filling 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.
For continuing the construction of a bridge across Rock Creek on theRock Creek bridge, Massachusetts avenue, extended. *Provisos.* —condemnation proceedings. line of Massachusetts avenue extended, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to purchase or condemn so much of the land within the lines 564of Massachusetts avenue extended to which the District does not now possess title, and such adjacent land for side slopes, embankments, and so forth, as may be necessary, and to use for such purpose so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary; and the proceedings for condemnation, if the same be necessary, shall be in accordance with the provisions relating to the condemnation of land as contained Vol. 26, p. 412.in section three of the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. and for other purposes;” and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon the confinnation by the court of the award of the commissioners appointed to appraise the land to be taken, and after payment into said court of the amount —construction notwithstanding appeal.thereof, may enter upon said land and proceed with the construction of said bridge, notwithstanding any appeal or other proceeding at law or in equity, of any person interested in the proceedings: *Provided*, —rejection of award.*however*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, within fifteen days after the tiling of the award of said commissioners, reject the same, in which event new commissioners shall be summoned to appraise the land to be taken, and the same proceedings shall be had as in the case of the first commission.
Bridge, Connecticut avenue, extended.Toward the construction of a bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Connecticut avenue extended, forty thousand dollars. Washington Aqueduct.WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. Maintenance, etc.For operation, maintenance, and repair of the aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, twenty-two thousand dollars. For protection to the inlet to the conduit at Great Falls, five thousand dollars. For repairing the by-conduit, Dalecarlia reservoir, ten thousand dollars.
Filtering plant.For establishing those portions of a filtration plant which are essential to the operation of either system of filtration adopted, including necessary land, grading, masonry, and appurtenances, two hundred thousand dollars, to be available immediately and until expended. INCREASING THE WATER SUPPLY. Washington Aqueduct tunnel.For completing the work on the Washington Aqueduct tunnel and Howard University reservoir, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand and thirty-four dollars and thirty-four cents.
Public schools.PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Board of education, appointment, etc.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to appoint seven persons, bona fide residents and taxpayers of the District of Columbia, and who have been such for five years immediately preceding their appointment, who shall constitute a board of —term of office, etc.education, and whose term of office shall be seven years, except that the terms of the persons first appointed shall terminate as follows:
One each year, to be determined by lot among the seven members of the board first appointed. The compensation of members of the board shall be ten dollars each for personal attendance at each meeting, but shall not exceed for any member five hundred dollars per annum. —duties, etc.The board shall have complete jurisdiction over all administrative matters connected with the public schools of the District of Columbia, except that all expenditures of public funds for such school purposes shall be made and accounted for as now provided by law under the 565direction and control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
The board shall make all needful rules and regulations which may be proper for the government and control of said schools, and shall make annual report to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall transmit the same to Congress, of the condition and operations of said schools, and the sanitary and structural condition of all buildings in use as well as those in course of construction, with recommendations as respects needed changes. The board shall have power to appoint one superintendent for allSuperintendent, secretary, clerks, etc. the public schools of the District of Columbia, two assistant superintendents, one of whom, under the direction of the superintendent, shall have charge of schools for colored children; a secretary, and three clerks, and to remove said officers at its pleasure, and shall also have power to employ and remove all teachers, officers, and other employees connected with the public schools not already specified: *Provided*, That*Proviso.* the graduates of the normal schools shall have preference in all casesPreference to normal school graduates as teachers. when appointments of teachers for the grade schools are to be made.
The superintendent shall annually submit to the board for its approvalText-books. the course of studies and list of text-books and other apparatus to be used in said schools. The board shall annually transmit to the Commissioners of the DistrictAnnual estimate of money required. of Columbia an estimate in detail of the amount of money required for the public schools for the ensuing year, and said Commissioners shall include the same in their annual estimate of appropriations for the District of Columbia with such recommendations as they may deem proper.
The foregoing provisions under the head of “Public schools” shallEffect. take effect on the first day of July, nineteen hundred, and all Acts andRepeal. parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. For officers: For seven members of the board of education, at five hundredSalaries. 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, one thousand eight hundred 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 four hundred and twenty dollars.
For teachers: For one thousand two hundred and twenty-fourTeachers. 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 five principals of nigh schools, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For principal of White Normal School, and principal of Colored Normal School, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For director of primary instruction, director of manual training, three heads of departments of high schools, head of high school manual training shop, and two grammar school principals, eight 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, two directors of drawing, director of physical culture, director of manual training, first assistant teacher of manual training, two normal training teachers, twelve high school teachers, and ten principals of buildings, thirty 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; 566 For eighty-five, 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-five, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For thirty-one, at eight hundred dollars each; For eighty-eight, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For seventeen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; For one hundred and twenty-seven, at seven hundred dollars each;
For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and thirty-one, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For twenty-four, at six hundred dollars each; For seven, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and sixty, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For three, 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 fifty, at four hundred and fifty dollars each;
For one hundred and eight, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; in all, eight hundred and fifty-three thousand four hundred *Proviso*.dollars: *Provided,* That in assigning salaries to teachers, no No sex discrimination.Designated salaries not to be changed.discrimination 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.
Night schools.For teachers of night schools, who may also be teachers in the day schools, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. KindergartenFor kindergarten instruction, twenty-five thousand dollars. Janitors.For janitors and care of buildings and grounds: For care of the High School and annex, of the first eight divisions, two thousand dollars; Of the Jefferson Building and the Western High School, at one thou-sand 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, five, 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 O Street Manual Training School, twelve, at nine hundred dollars each; Of the Lincoln, Miner, and Mott buildings, three, at eight hundred dollars each;
Of the Abbott, Berrett, John F. Cook, and Randall buildings, four, 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, Carbery, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Cranch, Douglass, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Eckington, Greenleaf. Harrison. Hayes, Hilton. 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, Weightman.
Wilson, Wormly, building in third division, building in sixth division, and two new eight-room buildings, sixty- four in all, at five hundred dollars each; 567 Of the Garfield, Hillsdale. Thompson, Van Buren annex, and Wood-burn buildings, four, at two hundred and fifty dollars each; Of the Bennings (white). Bennings (colored). Birney, Chevy Chase, Hamilton, High Street, Langdon, Potomac, Reservoir, Takoma Park, and Threlkekd buildings, eleven, at one hundred and sixty-live 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: in all, sixty-seven thou-sand four hundred and forty-one 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 fuel, thirty-seven thousand dollars.Fuel. For furniture for new school buildings and additions to buildings,Furniture. as follows: For two new eight-room buildings, at one thousand five hundredNew buildings. dollars each: for one new four-room building, seven hundred and fifty dollars:
In all, three thousand seven 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 thousand six hundred dollars. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades,Free text-books. 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.
For purchase of United States flags, one thousand dollars.Flags. Buildings and grounds: For site for and toward the construction of one twelve-room building (Eckington and vicinity), second 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 sixty-six thousand dollars. For site for and toward the constructionBuildings and sites. of one eight-room building to relieve the Greenleaf School, fourth 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, Washington Heights, seventh 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 one four-room building and site, Petworth, seventh division, twenty-five thousand dollars. For one four-room building and site, eighth division, twenty thou-sand dollars. For one four-room building and site, Kenilworth, eighth division, eighteen thousand dollars. 568 For completing manual-training high school, ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, one hundred thousand 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, eleventh 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.
The total cost of the fireproof manual-training school building, including cost of site, first eight divisions, and the total amount of contracts heretofore authorized therefor, is hereby increased by the amount of forty-five thousand dollars. Toward furniture for and equipment of the Manual Training School for the first eight divisions, twenty thousand dollars. For construction of a fence around the Western High School, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional amount for one eight-room school building, north-east. twelve thousand dollars.
For additional amount for rebuilding the Lovejoy School building, eight thousand dollars. For additional amount for one eight-room school building, southeast, eight thousand dollars. For additional amount for one eight-room school building. Hillsdale, eight thousand dollars. For additional amount for four-room school building. Takonia Park, eight thousand dollars. For improving and inclosing grounds of the Hubbard School, Columbia Heights, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase and improvement of lot eleven, block thirteen, for the enlargement of the playgrounds of the Brookland School, one thou-sand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Limit of cost.That the total cost of the site and of the several and respective buildings herein 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. Preparing plans, etc.That the plans and specifications for each of said buildings, and for all other buildings provided for in this Act, shall be prepared under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Architect of the Capitol and the Com-missioners of the District, and said building shall be constructed by *Proviso*.—future enlargement of building to be considered.the Commissioners in conformity therewith: *Provided,* That hereafter in the purchase of sites and in preparing plans for new school buildings proper regard shall be had for future enlargement of said buildings.
Police.FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE. Salaries.For major and superintendent, three thousand three hundred dollars; captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars: three 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 six hundred dollars each: four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at five hundred and forty dollars each: additional compensation for four-teen privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, or as 569much thereof as may be necessary; nine lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-two sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each: three hundred and twenty-five privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each: two hundred and fifteen privates, class two. at one thousand and eighty dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; twenty-one station keepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eleven laborers. at four hundred and eighty 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: forty-nine lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-four drivers, at five hundred and ten dollars each: and three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, six hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of substation at Anacostia, three hundredRent, Anacostia. and sixty dollars: For fuel, two thousand dollars;Fuel. For repairs to stations, five thousand dollars;Repairs. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including stationery,Contingent expenses. books, books of reference, and periodicals, telegraphing, photographing, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bedclothing, insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, bicycles, police equipments and repairs of same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van. ambulances, and patrol wagons, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred and twenty-fiveFlags. dollars; For purchase of site and erection of station house, north of FloridaNew building. avenue, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For rent, of police department headquarters and property store-rooms,Rent. one thousand eight hundred dollars: In all, sixty thousand seven hundred and eighty-five 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 investigation, examination, or otherwise, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That all such persons—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 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. For chief engineer, two thousand dollars: two assistant chief engineers,Salaries. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; fire marshal, one thousand dollars; machinist, one thousand dollars; twenty-three foremen, at one thousand dollars each: fourteen engineers, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; six tillermen. at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-three hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one hundred and fifty-eight privates, at eight hundred dollars each; eight watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; in all. two hundred and eleven thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For repairs to engine houses, four thousand fiveMiscellaneous hundred dollars; 570 For repairs of apparatus, and new appliances, four thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of hose, nine thousand dollars; For fuel, four thousand 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;
For flags and halyards, two hundred dollars; In all, fifty-three thousand seven hundred dollars. Increase.Increase fire department: For additional amount for house and furniture for a chemical engine company, in Tennallytown. seven thousand dollars; For additional amount for house and furniture for a truck company in Columbia Heights, seven thousand dollars; For two combination chemical and hose wagons for Georgetown and Brookland, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars;
For one water tower, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For house, lot, and furniture for a combination chemical and hose company to be located in Brookland, District of Columbia, fifteen thousand dollars; For the purchase of a chemical fire engine to be located at Cleveland Park, seven hundred dollars. In all, forty thousand eight hundred dollars. Telegraph and telephone service.telegraph and telephone service. Salaries.For superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; three telegraph operators, at one thousand 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, fifteen thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
Supplies.For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery 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 store-room, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars.
Fire-alarm telegraph, etc.For placing wires of fire-alarm telegraph and police telephone service under ground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts tor fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, six thousand dollars. For 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.
Extension policepatrol system.For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of twenty 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. Salaries.For health officer, three thousand dollars; fourteen sanitary and food inspectors, who shall also oversee the collection of garbage and 571 dead animals, 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; in all. thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty dollars.Rent. For the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent theScarlet fever and diphtheria. Vol. 26, p. 691. Vol. 29, p. 635. spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, 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 the District, ten thousand dollars.
For maintaining the disinfecting service, three 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, eighteen hundredVol. 28. p. 257. 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, two hundred dollars.
Enforcement of section sixteen of an Act to regulate in the DistrictDisposal of refuse. Vol. 30. p. 233. of Columbia the disposal of certain refuse, and for other purposes, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred dollars. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to cause the removal ofRemoval of weeds. Vol. 30, p. 959. weeds from lands in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, five hundred 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 dollars. DISPOSAL OF CITY REFUSE. For the collection and disposal of garbage, miscellaneous refuse,Collection and disposal of city refuse. and ashes, 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, of which sum five hundred dollars shall be immediately available: *Provided,* That the Commissioners may, on and after the passage*Proviso.*Contracts. of this Act, enter into a contract or contracts for the collection and disposal of garbage, miscellaneous refuse, ashes, night soil, and dead animals, under such regulations and specifications as they may establish, for a period not exceeding five years, after advertisement and the receipt of proposals.
Said Commissioners shall definitely fix the collection districts in theCollection districts. city of Washington and District of Columbia and stipulate in said 572regulations and specifications the number of collections to be made, whether daily, semi-weekly, or triweekly in said districts, so that —specifications in bids.efficient collections may be enforced, and to require that all bidders shall stipulate in their proposals the increased compensation they will require if semi-weekly collections are required to be made triweekly or triweekly collections are to be made daily in any of said districts or portions of such districts, and the reduction in compensation said bidders will concede if daily collections are changed to triweekly or triweekly collections are changed to semi-weekly in any of said *Provisos*.Manner of disposal, etc.districts or portions of such districts: *Provided further*, That all garbage collected under the provisions of this Act shall be disposed of through a reduction or consumption process in such a manner as to entail no damage or claim against the District of Columbia for such disposal, and subject to the sanitary inspection and approval of the Commissioners.
All contracts shall expressly provide that no garbage or other vegetable or animal matter shall be dumped into the Potomac River or any other waters, fed to animals or exposed to the elements upon Contract for temporary service.lands: *Provided further*, That said Commissioners may. either with or without advertisement, enter into a contract or contracts for the collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals, at a rate not exceeding seventy thousand dollars per annum, from the first day of July nineteen hundred until such time as the plant necessary for the collection and disposal of garbage, miscellaneous refuse, ashes, night soil, and dead animals, under the five-year contract hereinbefore authorized, Regulations, penalties.shall be ready for operation; and said Commissioners are hereby authorized to make all regulations necessary for the collection and disposal of miscellaneous refuse, ashes, dead animals, and night soil, and to annex to such regulations such penalties as may, in the judgment of said Commissioners, be necessary to secure the enforcement thereof.
Courts.COURTS. Police court.For the police court: For two judges, at three thousand dollars each; compensation of two justices of the peace, acting as judges of the police court during the absence of said judges, not exceeding three hundred dollars each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, at one thousand dollars each: three bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; one deputy marshal, nine hundred dollars: doorkeeper, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all. nineteen thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For witness fees, four thousand dollars; For repairs of police-court building, seven hundred dollars; For repairs to police-court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dollars; For feeding jurors, two 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.*Proviso.*Congress to authorize payment of judgments.Vol. 21, p. 284.Defending suits in claims:
For defending suits in the United States Court of Claims, two thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no judgment heretofore or hereafter rendered under the Act of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia. and conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes,”shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury until said judgment shall have been reported to, and specific authority for payment thereof granted by, Congress.
Lunacy writs.Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder, in all 573 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, six hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the appropriation of six hundred*Proviso.*Unexpended balance available. dollars for writs of lunacy, for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, is hereby made available for the execution of the provisions of the Act approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.Interest and sinking fund. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water 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 tire, 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, fifteen thousand dollars; and for the purpose of securing better alignmentAlignment of boundaries near Brightwood authorized. of boundaries the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the board of control of Rock Creek Park are hereby authorized to adjust and change the boundary between said park and the tract of land near Brightwood.
District of Columbia, recently purchased by the District of Columbia for a reservoir site: *Provided,* That the area of Rock*Proviso.*—not to diminish park area. Creek Park shall not be diminished by such adjustment or change. FOR REFORMATORIES AND PRISONS.Reformatories. 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.
Court-house, District of Columbia: For the following force necessaryCourt-house. 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 fire-men 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. 574 Transporting paupers, etc.Transportation of paupers and prisoners: For transportation of paupers, two thousand dollars.
For conveying prisoners to the workhouse, two thousand dollars. Washington Asylum.For Washington Asylum: For intendant, one thousand two hundred dollars: visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and eighty dollars; property clerk, seven hundred and eighty dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; principal overseer, one thousand dollars; seven 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, four hundred and eighty dollars; graduate nurse, three hundred and sixty-five, dollars; pupil nurses, not less than nine in number, nine hundred dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all. twenty thousand three hundred and fifty-three dollars.
For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs, provisions, 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, fifty-five thousand dollars. For continuing erection of a workhouse for males, fifty thousand dollars. 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 a deadhouse, one thousand two hundred dollars. For building and furnishing a receiving ward that will protect the hospital from contagion and disturbances of all kinds, fifteen thousand dollars. For repair of water-closets in the female wards of the hospital, one thousand dollars. For bathroom fixtures and plumbing in nurses’ home, one hundred dollars. For erection of a porch to the north wing of the almshouse, one thousand two hundred dollars. Reform school.For Reform School:
For superintendent, one thousand five hundred 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 exceeding six in number, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars: secretary and treasurer of board of trustees, six hund575dred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry poods, 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 additional amount for construction of assembly hall, five thousand six hundred dollars. 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, eight thousand dollars. For furnishing and equipping new building, five thousand dollars. FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE INSANE. For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in theSupport of insane.[R.
S., secs. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 940](/us/rs/s4844/4850/p939/940). 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 twenty-seven thousand 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.
FOR INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admittedColumbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.[R. S., sec. 4864,p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942). 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. FOR CHARITIES.Charities. Public charities: For relief of the poor, thirteen thousand dollars.Relief of poor.
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 thou-sand dollars; For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; 576 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. Site for municipal hospital.For the purchase by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia of a suitable site in the District of Columbia for a municipal hospital, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Columbia Hospital, etc.For the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, maintenance, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs, one thousand dollars. For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, including rent, four thousand dollars.
Industrial Home school.For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance, thirteen thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to buildings, fences, and grounds, two thousand dollars. For enlargement and improvement of plant for industrial training, two thousand dollars. For erection of new four-room school building, twenty thousand dollars. Board of Children’s Guardians.Vol. 27, p. 268.Board of Children’s Guardians: For the Board of Children’s Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-six, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely:
For administrative expenses, including salaries of agents, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars, expenses in placing and visiting children, and ail office and sundry expenses, seven thousand dollars; Care of children.For care of feeble-minded children; board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of 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, forty thousand dollars;
In all, forty-seven thousand dollars. Private charities.Soldiers and Sailors’ Home, etc.Private charities: 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.
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. For the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For steam heating plant, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the Newsboys' and Children’s Aid Society, maintenance, one thousand dollars.
For Eastern Dispensary, maintenance, one thousand five hundred dollars. For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Women’s Clinic, maintenance, one thousand dollars. For the Children’s Hospital, maintenance, ten thousand dollars. For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington, 577District of Columbia, for maintenance, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For the Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, two thousand dollars.
For the instruction and employment of the blind who are actualInstruction, etc., resident blind. 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, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minorGarfield and Providence hospitals. contagious diseases at Garfield and Providence hospitals, maintenance, each, three thousand dollars, six thousand dollars.
MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, namely: For rent, fuel, light, care, and repair of armories, and practice ships,Rent. etc. and for telephone service, fourteen thousand four 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 and 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*Proviso.* Members of National Guard not deemed officers of United States. of the 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[R.
S., sec. 5498, p. 1065](/us/rs/s5498/p1065). of section fifty-four hundred and ninety-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States. For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars. And no contract shall be made or liability incurred under appopriations for the militia of the District of Columbia beyond the sums herein appropriated. 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 fourDistribution branch. hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; fore578man, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each: timekeeper, eight hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; property keeper, six hundred dollars; 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 sixteen dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars. Fuel, etc.For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe 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 tire plugs and public hydrants, ninety thousand dollars.
For purchase of water meters, to be placed in such private residences as desired, and installed at the expense of the property owner, and said meters shall at all times remain and be the property of the water department, five thousand dollars. Interest and sinking fund.For interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, six thousand and twenty-five dollars. Extending high- service system.For continuing the extension of the high-service system of water 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 one, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. Limit of requisitions on the Treasury.That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Approved, June 6, 1900.
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