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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 32 STAT. · July 1, 1902 · Chapter 1352

Chapter 1352. 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 three, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1352.— 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 three, and for other purposes. July 1, 1902.[[Public, No. 218](/us/pl/57/218).] *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, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the Dis- 591trict of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES. General expenses. For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousand Executive office.Salaries, Commissioners, etc. dollars each; Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four 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; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at four hundred and eighty 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; four assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five 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; clerk, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars; steam engineer, nine hundred dollars; three firemen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two elevator operators, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three watchmen, 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; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; deputy property clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; inspector of plumbing, two thousand dollars; seven assistant inspectors of plumbing, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, and six at one thousand dollars each; five members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each; harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars.
That hereafter every person who directly or indirectly takes, receives, Punishment for obtaining office by money, etc. or agrees to receive any money, property, or other valuable consideration whatever from any person for giving, procuring, or aiding to give or procure any office, place, or promotion in office from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or from any officer under them, and every person who, directly or indirectly, offers to give, or gives any money, property, or other valuable consideration whatever for the procuring or aiding to procure any such office, place, or promotion in office shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in the police court shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment in the jail for not more than twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Hereafter the several provisions of the Act approved February False swearing provisions.Extended to investigations, etc.Vol. 29, p. 10; Vol. 27, p. 28. twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to punish false swearing before trial boards of the Metropolitan police force and fire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,’ approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,” shall be applicable to and enforceable in any investigation or examination of any municipal matter by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, as well as to the proceedings before the trial boards named in said Act; and said Commis-592sioners are, and each of them is hereby, authorized to administer oaths to witnesses summoned in any such investigation or examination aforesaid.
Assessor’s office. For assessor’s office: For assessor, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant assessor, two thousand dollars; assistant assessor, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, arrears division, one thousand four hundred dollars; 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; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; for temporary Assistant assessors. clerk hire, two thousand five hundred dollars; three assistant assessors, at three thousand dollars each; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; in all, forty-three thousand six hundred dollars.
Excise board. For salaries and expenses of the excise board, five thousand five *Proviso*.Liquor license receipts. hundred dollars, to be expended as now provided by law: *Provided*, That all receipts from liquor licenses in the District of Columbia shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. Collector’s office. For collector’s office: For collector, four thousand dollars; deputy collector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand four 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 bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; two coupon clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.
Tax-sale certificates. 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, eight hundred dollars. Auditor’s office. For auditor’s office: For auditor, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, two thousand five hundred dollars; deputy disbursing officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand eight *Proviso*.Decision of suspended accounts. hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter when differences arise in the examination of the accounts of the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia, calling for the suspension of any item in said accounts, it shall be the duty of the Auditor for the State and other Departments who settles said accounts, to notify the auditor of the District of Columbia in connection with the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia of the grounds of such objections resulting in said suspensions, in order that said auditor in connection with said disbursing officer may by explanation if possible remove said grounds All checks to be countersigned by auditor. of suspension.
The auditor of the District of Columbia shall continue to prepare and countersign all checks issued by the disbursing officer, and no check involving disbursement of public moneys by the disbursing officer shall be valid unless countersigned by the auditor of the District of Columbia. City solicitor.*Ante*, p. 537. For city solicitor’s office: For city solicitor, four thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant city solicitor, two thousand five hun-593dred dollars; second assistant city solicitor, one thousand six hundred dollars; special assistant city solicitor, one thousand six hundred dollars; law clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of Sinking-fund office. the United States: 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 eight hundred Coroner. dollars. For market masters: For two market masters, at one thousand two Market masters. hundred dollars each; one market master, nine hundred dollars; for hire of laborers for cleaning markets, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
For office of sealer of weights and measures: For sealer of Sealer of weights and measures. weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant sealers 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 Engineer’s office.Record division. thousand 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, Engineers, inspectors, etc. 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, 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, atone 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; permit clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant permit clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; index clerk and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two sewer tappers, at one thousand dollars each; in all, sixty-seven thousand and twelve dollars.
Special assessment office: For special assessment clerk, one thousand Special 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 five Street-sweeping office. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six 594 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. Board of examiners, steam engineers: For compensation for board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Temporary overseers, etc. That overseers, inspectors, and other employees temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special work authorized by appropriations, including all necessary clerical and other services when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and all expenses incidental to or necessary for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against Report. 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 performing clerical or other services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation.
Detailed statements in estimates. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to submit, in the Book of Estimates for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and annually thereafter, immediately following estimates for each of the respective offices and departments of the government of the District of Columbia, a statement showing, in detail, the number of persons, other than day laborers, who were employed upon regular and continuous work for thirty days or more during the previous fiscal year in or under such offices or departments under authority of and paid from general appropriations, indicating in the case of every such employment the rate of compensation received and the appropriation from which paid.
Insurance department. Department of insurance: For superintendent of insurance, tWo thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; temporary clerk hire, six hundred dollars; in all, five thousand six hundred dollars. Surveyor’s office. For surveyor’s office: For surveyor, three thousand dollars; assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for such additional employees as may be required, in accordance with the provisions Vol. 28, p. 689. of the Act of Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, thirteen thousand dollars; in all, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Free public library. Free public library: For librarian, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand dollars; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistants, at six hundred dollars each; two assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; cataloguer, nine hundred dollars; cataloguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two attendants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; two janitors, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, nine hundred dollars; fireman, five hundred and forty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; four charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses. For binding, three thousand dollars; rent, fuel, lighting, fitting up building, and other contingent expenses, nine thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars. 595 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; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies 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, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures office, police court, and department of insurance, thirty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall be used Use of horses. only for official purposes. Hereafter a report in detail shall be made to Congress, at the beginning Detailed report. of each regular session, of expenditures from the appropriations for contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the next preceding fiscal year. No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the Limit on expenditure for horses, etc. purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair; and all horses, buggies, or carriages owned or maintained by the District of Columbia shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District.
For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department, Stables. including forage, livery of horses, shoeing, purchase and repair 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 office for department of insurance, five hundred and forty dollars. For rent of property yards, three hundred dollars. For rent of storeroom for property clerk, three hundred dollars. For necessary expenses in the collection of overdue personal taxes Collecting 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, the Judicial expenses. 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 testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, one thousand two hundred dollars. 596 Advertising.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, three thousand dollars. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred and two, 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. Market houses, repairs. 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.File cases, etc. For purchase and erection of additional metallic file cases and book racks in the office of the register of wills of the District of Columbia, similar to those now in use in that office, two thousand dollars. To enable the register of wills to complete the work of comparing, correcting, and reproducing certain records, or will books, in his office, including clerical service, purchase of books, and necessary equipments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Surveyor’s office. For enlargement of fireproof file case (surveyor’s office), six hundred dollars. For photolithographing certain old maps (surveyor’s office), three hundred dollars. For resurvey of Beatty and Hawkins addition to Georgetown (surveyor’s office), two thousand dollars. Highway system. PERMANENT SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS. Expenses.Vol. 27, p. 532. To pay the expenses of carrying out the plan for the extension of a 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.
Improvements and repairs. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Assessment and permit work.No exemptions. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; and hereafter no property except that of the United States or the District of Columbia shall be exempt from assessments for improvements. Paving. For paving roadways under the permit system, ten thousand dollars. Work on streets and avenues. Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix “Y,” Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and fifty 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:
Allotment. Georgetown schedule: Nine thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Northwest section schedule: Forty-three thousand and fifty dollars. Southwest section schedule: Twenty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Southeast section schedule: Thirty-six thousand six hundred dollars. Northeast section schedule: Thirty nine thousand one hundred and fifty dollars: *Proviso*.Order of precedence. *Provided*, That the streets and avenues shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in 597 such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
For paving South Capitol street and Delaware avenue, from B street South Capitol street and Delaware avenue. to C street south, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars. For paving North Capitol street, from R to T streets, fifteen thousand North Capitol street. four hundred dollars. For paving P street northwest, between Twentieth and Twenty-second P street. streets, six thousand four hundred dollars. Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made Limit 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 *Proviso*.Increase allowed. 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 of Grading. 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 or Condemnation. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Opening alleys: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of Opening alleys. forty thousand dollars made in the deficiency Act approved March Vol. 27, p. 653. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for opening, widening, and extending alleys in the District of Columbia, under the provisions Vol. 27, p. 255. of “An Act to provide for the opening of alleys in the District of Columbia,” approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, is hereby made available for opening, extending, widening, and straightening alleys and minor streets under the provisions of Vol. 31 pp. 1429–1431. sections sixteen hundred and eight to sixteen hundred and sixteen, inclusive, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia; and all Repayments. moneys collected for so opening, widening, and straightening alleys and minor streets shall be repaid and credited to this appropriation.
Plats of subdivisions outside of Washington: To pay the expenses Suburban surveys. 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 District of Columbia,” Vol. 25, p. 451. approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars. Construction of county roads:
For construction of county roads County roads.Construction. and suburban streets as follows: For Columbia road, widening and paving, thirty thousand dollars; For Sixteenth street, Columbia road to Park street, widening and macadamizing, eight thousand dollars; For Benning and Anacostia roads, grade and macadamize, five thousand dollars; For Connecticut avenue, Le Roy place to Wyoming avenue, complete paving, eight thousand dollars; For Bladensburg road, grade and macadamize, five thousand dollars;
For North Capitol street, T to V street, macadamize, two thousand five hundred dollars; For Joliet street west from Wisconsin avenue, macadamize, seven thousand dollars; For Providence street, Brookland, macadamize, five thousand five hundred dollars; For Nebraska avenue grade and regulate, two thousand five hundred dollars; 598 Zoological Park entrance.Adjusting grades.*Post*, p. 963. For Kenesaw avenue, entrance to Zoological Park, grading (and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to adjust the lines of the streets at this locality so as to afford an entrance to the Zoological Park upon good and satisfactory grade, with authority to exchange with the owners of the abutting property any land now within the lines of said streets that may be necessary to accomplish *Proviso*.Expenses. said purpose: *Provided*, That no expense is incurred thereby by the United States or the District of Columbia), ten thousand dollars;
For Eleventh street extended, grade and improve, fifteen thousand dollars; For New Hampshire avenue, Whitney avenue to Seventh street (Brightwood avenue), grade and macadamize, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; For Connecticut avenue extended, grade and macadamize, ten thousand dollars; For Thirty-seventh street and other streets in Burleith subdivision, grade and pave, three thousand dollars; For Wyoming avenue west of Connecticut avenue, pave, four thousand three hundred dollars;
For Mintwood place, grade and pave, five thousand dollars; For Decatur street from Florida avenue to Massachusetts avenue, paving with asphalt, twelve thousand dollars; Quincy street. For Quincy street northwest from Twenty-ninth street to Pierce *Proviso*.Dedication. Mill road, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That all the land necessary therefor is conveyed to the District of Columbia and dedicated to public use; In all, one hundred and fifty-one thousand three hundred dollars.
Repairs.Streets, etc. 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 Street railways. material, two 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 Vol. 20, p. 106. company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent 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 of the fiscal year in which they are collected:
Sidewalks, etc. For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs, around public reservations, and municipal buildings, ten thousand dollars. County roads. Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs of county roads and suburban streets, eighty thousand dollars. Bridges. Bridges: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, oil, lamps, and matches, four thousand dollars. For construction and repairs of bridges, fifteen thousand dollars. Massachusetts avenue bridge. Massachusetts avenue bridge:
For raising the grade of roadway and wing walls of culvert on the line of Massachusetts avenue across Rock Creek between Belmont road and the United States Naval Observatory grounds, ten thousand dollars. Aqueduct Bridge. Repairs to Aqueduct Bridge: For reconstruction of pier numbered five of the Aqueduct Bridge across the Potomac River at Georgetown, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, sixty-five thousand dollars. Highway bridge across Potomac River.Time of construction and cost limit extended.Vol. 31, p. 772, amended.
Highway bridge across Potomac River: Section twelve of the “Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended by striking out therefrom the 599 words “two years” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “four years,” and the limit of cost for the bridge across the Potomac River therein provided for of five hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars is hereby increased to nine hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into a contract or Contracts. contracts for the construction of said bridge within the said limit of cost. The cost of maintaining in good condition the asphalt paving between the street railway tracks and two feet outside thereof on said bridge shall be paid by the street railway company or companies using the same under such regulations as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall prescribe: *Provided*, That all street railroads chartered *Proviso*.Use by street railways. or that may hereafter be chartered by Congress shall have the right to cross said bridge upon terms mutually agreed upon with the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company or in case of disagreement, upon terms determined by the supreme court of the District of Columbia which is authorized and directed to give hearing to the interested parties and to fix the terms of joint trackage.
ANACOSTIA RIVER FLATS. Anacostia River flats. For a survey and outline map of land owned by the United States, Survey, etc. comprised within what is known as the flats of the Anacostia River, from its mouth to the boundary line of the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and the Attorney-General is authorized and directed to examine and report upon the nature of the title to lands embraced within said flats.
SEWERS. Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, fifty-eight thousand Cleaning. dollars. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, fifty thousand dollars. Main and pipe. For suburban sewers, fifty thousand dollars. Suburban. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, Rights of way. 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 continuing the construction of the extension of the boundary Boundary. sewer to the vicinity of Twenty-second and A streets northeast, now under contract, forty thousand dollars. For completing the construction of the east side intercepting sewer, East side intercepting. between Twenty-second and A streets northeast and Twelfth street southeast, now under contract, fifty-two thousand dollars. For continuing construction of the sewage-disposal system pumping Pumping station. station, and for machinery therefor, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For continuing construction of the low-area trunk sewer, sixty Low-area trunk, thousand dollars. For construction in part of trunk sewer to serve the western part of Georgetown. Georgetown, twenty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the whole work at a cost not to exceed forty-two thousand dollars. For constructing in part the B street and New Jersey avenue trunk B street and New Jersey avenue trunk.Contracts. sewer, fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of said sewer in part at a cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to construct said sewers where necessary across lands belonging to the United States, and as soon as practicable 600 thereafter the excavated portions of said lands shall be restored to their original condition from the appropriation made for the sewer construction.
Use of balances. Any balances of former appropriations remaining after the execution 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. James Creek Canal.Lease of lands. For fencing James Creek Canal, two thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to lease for periods not exceeding one year the public space bordering on said canal for commercial use; all revenue to be derived from this source to be paid into the United States Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
Streets. STREETS. Cleaning, etc. Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, including purchase, maintenance, and livery of horses, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons and harness, and necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work done under *Proviso*.Contracts permitted. the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract: *Provided*, That whenever it shall appear 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 ninety thousand dollars, and the Commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Removing ice and snow. For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars. Disposal of refuse. Disposal of city refuse: For the collection and disposal of garbage; 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, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, one hundred and fifteen 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-five thousand dollars. Harbor and river front. Harbor and river, front: For the improvement and protection 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.Removal. Bathing beach: For all necessary expenses of removing to and establishing the bathing beach on the inner basin near the present bathing beach site, to be available from the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and two, four thousand dollars; for care, operation, maintenance, and repair of bathing beach, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars: *Proviso*.Receipts. *Provided*, That hereafter all rents, fees, licenses, and other income derived from the bathing beach shall be paid to the collector of taxes and accounted for as other taxes. 601 For public scales:
For repair and replacement of public scales, Scales. two hundred dollars. For purchase and erection of new hay scale for Center Market, and transfer of present scale to Tennallytown, four hundred and fifty dollars. For public pumps: For the purchase, replacement, and repair of Pumps. public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, filling abandoned or condemned public wells, five thousand dollars. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Electrical department. For superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; inspector of Salaries. 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; expert repairman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; three repairmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred 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, livery, horses, and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of stable and storeroom, and other necessary items, fourteen thousand dollars.
For placing wires of fire-alarm telegraph and police telephone service Placing wires under ground. 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, nine thousand dollars. For extension of the fire-alarm telegraph in order to provide for Extending fire alarm. 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, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items for the extension of fire-alarm telegraph, five thousand dollars. For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of not less Police patrol. than 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.
For raising roof of building occupied by fire-alarm headquarters, Headquarters. and for remodeling cabinetwork, new floor, and other necessary items, to be supervised by the inspector of buildings, four thousand dollars. Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, Lighting. and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lampposts, 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, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items and services, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty dollars *Provisos*.Maximum price. per annum for each street lamp shall be paid for gas and no more than twenty dollars for oil, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, paintings cleaning, purchasing, and expenses of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures, under any expenditure provided for in this Act: *Provided*, That all of said lamps To burn every night. shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sun-602set Regulators. to forty-five minutes 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 High-power lamps. cubic feet of gas per hour: *Provided further*, That not more than fifteen thousand dollars of said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, and cleaning public lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above, and not less than sixty candlepower, which lamps shall not cost to exceed twenty-five dollars per lamp, and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of Average candle power diminished. this paragraph: *And provided further*, That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three the illuminating power of the gas furnished by any gas-lighting company, person, or persons in the District of Columbia shall be equal to twenty-two candles, notwithstanding the Vol. 29, p. 252. requirements as to candlepower prescribed by section three of the Act regulating the sale of gas in the District of Columbia, approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Electric lighting. For electric are lighting, including necessary inspection, and for extensions of such service, not exceeding seventy-six thousand dollars: *Provisos*.Maximum price. *Provided*, That not more than seventy-two dollars per annum shall be paid for any electric are 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*, Overhead wires permitted outside fire limits.
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized, under conditions and regulations to be prescribed by them, to permit the erection of poles and the stringing of overhead wires thereon outside of the fire limits and east of Rock Creek for electric lighting purposes only. Washington Aqueduct. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. Maintenance. For operation, maintenance, and repair of the aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the new reservoir, and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, thirty-three thousand dollars.
Filtration plant. Toward establishing a slow sand filtration plant, and for each and 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, six hundred thousand dollars, to *Proviso*.Contracts. be available immediately and until expended: *Provided*, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such material and work as may be necessary for prosecuting the work to final completion within the shortest practicable time, or the materials may be purchased and work done otherwise than by contract, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not Limit of cost. to exceed in the aggregate two million seven hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and five dollars, including the amount herein and heretofore appropriated.
Increasing water supply. INCREASING THE WATER SUPPLY. City reservoir. For iron fence around reservoir, to cost not exceeding twenty-seven thousand dollars; for fencing, cleaning, grading, and improving the public grounds pertaining to the Washington City reservoir and the shafts of the Washington Aqueduct tunnel; for necessary gatekeepers’ dwellings, and for structures needed to protect the west shaft and the intake and Congressional Spring at the Washington City reservoir; in all, sixty-seven thousand two hundred and forty dollars, to be available immediately and until expended. 603 ROCK CREEK PARK.
Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, to be expended Care, etc. under the direction of the board of control of said park, two thousand five hundred dollars. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Public schools. For officers: For seven members of the board of education, at Board 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 Officers, etc. public schools, four thousand dollars; two assistant superintendents, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one secretary, two thousand 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 three hundred and one 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 and principal of Manual Training School Number Two, two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;
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, four heads of departments of high schools, and two grammar school principals, seven in all, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; For five principals of buildings, and one head of department of English in Manual Training School Number One, six in all, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; For director of music, director of drawing, assistant director of drawing, director of physical culture, two teachers of manual training, two normal training teachers, instructor in shop work, assistant instructor in ironwork, instructor in free-hand drawing, fourteen High School teachers, and ten principals of buildings, thirty-five 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-eight, at one thousand dollars each; For eighteen, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For twenty-one, at nine hundred dollars each; For seventeen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For sixteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For eighty-nine, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For thirty-four, at eight hundred dollars each;
For ninety-five, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For seventeen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; For one hundred and thirty-five, at seven hundred dollars each; For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and forty-four, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For forty-eight, at six hundred dollars each; For eight, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and forty-three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; 604 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 sixty-six, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, nine hundred and eighteen thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. *Proviso*.No sex discrimination. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers, no 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 night schools for pupils not over twenty-one years of age, and teachers of night schools may also be teachers in the day schools, six thousand dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. Kindergarten. For kindergarten instruction, thirty thousand dollars. Janitors, etc. For janitors and care of buildings and grounds: For superintendent of janitors, one thousand two hundred dollars; For care of the Central High School and annex, 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, M Street High School, and Stevens School buildings, four in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; Of the Franklin Building, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Wallach Building, one thousand dollars; Of the Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Peabody, 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, Manual Training Number Two, and Mott buildings, five in all, at eight hundred dollars each; 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, Cranch, Dent, Douglass, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Eckington, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Lenox, Logan, Lovejoy, McCormick, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Monroe, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Slater, Smallwood, Taylor, Tenley, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Buren, Webb, Weightman, Wilson, Wormly, building in third division, building in fourth division, building in sixth division (Trinidad), building in seventh division (Washington Heights), building in ninth division, two building in tenth division, building in eleventh division, seventy-one in all, at five hundred and forty dollars each;
Of the Garfield, Thompson, Van Buren annex, and Woodburn buildings, four in all, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; Of the Bennings (white), Bennings (colored), Bunker Hill, Chevy Chase, Good Hope, Grant Road, Hamilton, High Street, Langdon, Kenilworth, Orr, Petworth, Potomac, Reservoir, Takoma Park, and Threlkeld buildings, sixteen 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 605 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, eighty-three thousand three hundred and six dollars. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and repair shop, Rent. seventeen thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, fifty-five Repairs. thousand dollars.
For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, twelve thousand dollars. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and Manual training. apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, fifteen thousand dollars. For fuel, forty-five thousand dollars. Fuel. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, books of reference, Contingent expenses. and periodicals, stationery, printing, ice, insurance, purchase and repair of equipments for high-school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including livery of horse for the superintendent, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For purchase of pianos for new school buildings at an average cost Pianos. not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairing school furniture now in use, three thousand dollars. Repairing furniture. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first Supplies for pupils. 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, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the board of education in its discretion is *Proviso*.Exchanges. authorized to 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. Buildings and grounds: For completing eight-room building Buildings. (Trinidad), sixth division, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For completing eight-room building, tenth division, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For completing eight-room building, third division, thirty-six thousand dollars. For completing eight-room building, ninth division, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. The appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars made by the Transfer of appropriation.Vol. 31. p. 835.
District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two for one four-room building, seventh division, Grant road, is hereby made available for one four-room building and site at or near Fort Reno. For the purchase of a site for the construction of a Business High Business High School site. School building, seventy-five thousand dollars, and for the preparation of plans and specifications for such building, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars, the cost of said building not to exceed one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For four-room addition to Brookland School, twenty-five thousand dollars. 606 For purchase of lot to rear and west of Western High School, seven thousand dollars. For purchase of part of lot five, square seven hundred and ninety-six, for additional playground for Giddings School, one thousand nine hundred, and forty-four dollars. Deaf and dumb pupils. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of [R.
S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942). 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. Police. FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE. Salaries. For major and superintendent, three thousand three hundred dollars; captain and assistant superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four captains, 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 fifty privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; two hundred and forty privates, class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; twenty-four station keepers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; thirteen 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; sixty sergeants and privates, mounted on bicycles, at fifty dollars each; twenty-eight drivers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; and three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, seven hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
Rent, Anacostia. Miscellaneous: For rent of substation at Anacostia, three hundred and sixty dollars; Fuel. For fuel, three thousand dollars; Repairs.Contingent expenses. For repairs to stations, five thousand dollars; For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchase of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, 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, horse and vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, police equipments and repairs to the 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, thirty thousand dollars;
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For rent of police department headquarters and property store-rooms, two thousand seven hundred dollars; 607 For erection of station house and stable in Southeast Washington on Fifth precinct station. site of present fifth precinct and furnishing same, thirty thousand dollars; For rent of building to be occupied temporarily during construction of the new fifth precinct station, six hundred dollars;
House of Detention: To enable the Commissioners of the District House of Detention. of Columbia to provide transportation and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of the children under seventeen years of age and in the discretion of the Commissioners of girls and women over seventeen 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, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That all such persons held or detained under *Proviso*.Time of detention. public authority prior to the adjudication of cases in which they may be involved shall be held at the place so provided;
In all, seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Fire department. For chief engineer, two thousand dollars; three 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-five 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-six drivers, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and seventy privates, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-five watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; and one laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For repairs to engine houses, seven thousand five Miscellaneous. hundred dollars; For repairs to apparatus and for new appliances, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of hose, nine thousand dollars; For fuel, four thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of horses, eleven thousand dollars; For forage, twelve thousand dollars; For rent, three hundred and sixty dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, fourteen thousand dollars;
In all, sixty-five thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. Increase fire department: For exchange for or purhase of three New engines, etc. extra first-class steam engines, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of one chemical engine, two thousand five hundred dollars; For exchange for or purchase of one seventy-five-foot aerial truck, three thousand five hundred dollars; For house and furniture for truck company in the southeastern New buildings.*Post*, p. 973. section of the city, to be located on land owned by the District of Columbia, in square nine hundred and twenty-five, twenty-two thousand dollars;
That the unexpended balance, amounting to one thousand three hundred dollars, of the appropriations heretofore made for the house, lot, and furniture for a truck company in Columbia Heights is hereby 608 authorized to be used for completing the stable in the rear of Number Eight Engine House on North Carolina avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets southeast; In all, forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Health department. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Salaries. For health officer, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief inspector and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; thirteen 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 eight 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, two thousand two 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 five 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; six sanitary and food inspectors, two of whom shall be veterinary surgeons, to assist in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws and the regulations relating thereto, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, forty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.
Rent. Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty dollars. Prevention of contagious diseases.Vol. 26, p. 691.Vol. 29, p. 635. For the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the 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 said District, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons and harness, twenty thousand dollars.
Disinfecting service. For maintaining the disinfecting service, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons and harness, five thousand dollars. Drainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 126. For emergency fund for the enforcement of the provisions of section 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. Food adulterations. For special services in. connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars.
Milk inspection. For the necessary traveling expenses of sanitary and food inspectors while traveling outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milk, and other dairy products, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Food, etc., inspection.Vol. 28, p. 709. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five;
Vol. 30, p. 246. an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 30, p. 398. ninety-eight, and an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for the maintenance of a chemical laboratory, one thousand dollars. 609 For the maintenance of the isolation wards for minor contagious Isolation wards in hospitals. diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence hospitals, each four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, eight thousand dollars.
COURTS. Courts. For the police court: For two judges, at three thousand dollars Police court. each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one deputy clerk, to be known as financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; deputy marshal, nine hundred dollars; three bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant janitor, four hundred and fifty dollars; one bailiff, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand seven 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 Defending suits in claims. States Court of Claims, three thousand dollars. Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the execution Lunacy 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 Act Vol. 30, p. 811. approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Justices of the peace: For ten justices of the peace, at two thousand Justices of the peace. dollars each, and the further sum of two hundred and fifty dollars each for rent, stationery, and other expenses, in all, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Hereafter any justice of the peace designated to serve as judge of No extra pay for acting in police court.Vol. 31, p. 1198.*Ante*, p. 522. the police court, as provided in section fifty-one of the Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia, shall receive no additional compensation while so serving.
Hereafter justices of the peace in and for the District of Columbia Notarial fees to be turned in. who are also notaries public shall account for and pay over to the collector of taxes all fees earned as such notaries public, as they are required by law to do as to fees earned by them as justices of the peace. Hereafter the salary and compensation of the clerk of the supreme Clerk of supreme court.Salary. court of the District of Columbia shall not exceed four thousand dollars per annum; and the excess of fees received by him above said salary, after defraying therefrom the necessary expenses of his office, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States.
The permanent indefinite appropriation made by section two hundred Court of appeals reports.Indefinite appropriation repealed.Vol. 31, p. 1226. and twenty-nine of the Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia, approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, to pay the reporter of the court of appeals for volumes of the reports of the opinions of said court, is hereby repealed. And the Estimates to pay reporter. Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall hereafter annually submit estimates for the amounts required to pay said reporter for volumes of the reports authorized to be furnished by him under said section two hundred and twenty-nine. 610 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. Rate of interest on judgments.Vol. 31, p. 1377. That section 1178 of the “Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be construed to amend, alter, or repeal the rate of interest fixed at four per centum per annum on judgments against the District Vol. 26, p. 537. of Columbia by the Act approved September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety.
EMERGENCY FUND. Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided *Proviso*.Purchases. for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of 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.
Courts and prisons. FOR COURTS AND PRISONS. Support of convicts out of District. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars. Court-house. Court-house, District of Columbia: For the following force 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:
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. Jail.Warden. Warden of the jail: For warden of the jail of the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General.
Maintenance. Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars. Charities and corrections. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Board of Charities. Board of Charities: For secretary, three thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; two inspectors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
Reformatories. reformatories and correctional institutions. 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, eight hundred and forty dollars; property clerk; eight 611 hundred and forty dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; principal overseer, one thousand two hundred 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 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; chief cook for almshouse and workhouse, three hundred and sixty dollars; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; three assistant cooks, at one hundred and twenty 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-five dollars; six orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than fifteen in number, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand four hundred and seventy-five 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 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 additional sum for erection of bathrooms and closets for two buildings known as the “Old Men’s Home,” one thousand dollars. For Reform School: For superintendent, one thousand five hundred Reform 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 live hundred dollars, all under the control of the Commissioners, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars. 612 Reform School for Girls. Reform School for Girls: Superintendent, one thousand dollars; 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. Transporting prisoners. Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to the work house, two thousand dollars.
Hospitals. Medical Charities. Freedmen’s Hospital. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, as follows: 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. Columbia Hospital for Women. For 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; and the further sum of six thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for improvements and repairs at the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum.
Children’s Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed ten thousand dollars. Homeopathic Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand five hundred dollars. Emergency Hospital. For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars.
For necessary alterations and improvements required for better protection of building from fire, one thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars. Eastern Dispensary. For Eastern Dispensary, maintenance, two thousand dollars. Women’s Clinic. For the Women’s Clinic, maintenance, one thousand dollars. Home for Incurables. For the Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, two thousand dollars. Care of children. child-caring institutions. 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-sixth, 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 613 visiting children, rent, and all office and sundry expenses, eight thousand six hundred dollars; For maintenance of feeble-minded children, eleven thousand dollars; For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship Care of children. 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, with authority to pay not more than one thousand dollars to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than three hundred dollars for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, thirty-five thousand dollars;
To enable the Board of Children’s Guardians to contract for the Hart Farm School. care and maintenance of sixty wards of the Board at the Hart Farm School, at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum each, twelve thousand dollars. In all, for Board of Children’s Guardians, sixty-six thousand six hundred dollars. For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance, thirteen Industrial Home School. thousand dollars. For pumping plant to dispose of sewage of Industrial Home School, two thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars; for cost of operating the same, five hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and two 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 completion of the enlargement of girls’ cottage and dormitories, in addition to the appropriation of five thousand dollars made for the enlargement of girls’ cottage in the “Act making appropriations Vol. 31, p. 843. for the support of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes,” which is hereby continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three for this purpose, three thousand dollars.
For the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Home for Destitute Colored Women. Women and Children, maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For the Newsboys’ and Children’s Aid Society, maintenance, one Children’s Aid Society. thousand dollars. For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, maintenance, six Foundling Hospital. thousand dollars. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, maintenance, five thousand four Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum. hundred dollars.
For the care and maintenance of children in German Orphan Asylum, German Orphan Asylum. not to exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars. temporary homes. For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, maintenance, Municipal lodging house. including rent, four thousand dollars. For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Grand Army Soldiers’ Home. Army of the Republic, four thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
For the Women’s Christian Association, maintenance, four thousand Women’s Christian Association. dollars. For Young Women’s Christian Home, maintenance, one thousand Young Women’s Christian Home. dollars. For Hope and Help Mission, maintenance, two thousand dollars. Hope and Help Mission. Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane of Support of indigent insane. the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane 614 [R. S. secs. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 940](/us/rs/s4844/4850/p939/940). in said District as provided in sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, two hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
Deporting indigent insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insane 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. Relief of the poor. Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay of physicians to the poor, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, thirteen thousand dollars.
Transportation. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, two thousand dollars. Militia. MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. For the following, to be expended under the authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, namely: Expenses. For rent, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, and machinery, and for telephone service, including three thousand dollars for construction of suitable dock for United States steamship Fern and United States steamship Oneida, to be immediately available, eighteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, four hundred dollars. For printing and stationery, six hundred and fifty dollars. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, nine hundred dollars. For clerk, office of the Adjutant-General, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For expenses of drills and parades, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For expenses of rifle practice and matches, three thousand six hundred dollars. Camp expenses. For expenses of camps, instruction, practice marches, and practice cruises, including fuel for cruising purposes, fourteen thousand two hundred dollars. Pay. For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the direction of the commanding general, seventeen *Provisos*.Official status of members. thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That members of the National Guard 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 of section fifty-four hundred and ninety-eight of the Revised Deductions for lost property.
Statutes of the United States: *Provided further*, That 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 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: Fines, etc *Provided further*, That 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 615 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 necessary clerical and general incidental expenses of the service or for the pay of troops, other than Government employees; 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: *And provided further*, That section forty-nine of “An Service by Government employees.Vol. 25, p. 779.
Act to provide for the organization of the militia of the District of Columbia,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall be construed as covering all days of service which the National Guard, or any portion thereof, may be ordered to perform by the commanding general. For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars. extension of high-service system of water distribution. High-service water distribution. For extension of the high-service system of water distribution in the Additional appropriation.*Infra*.
District of Columbia, in addition to the sums herein appropriated from the revenues of the water department, two hundred thousand dollars. WATER DEPARTMENT. Water department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations Payable from water revenues. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shall Revenue 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 seven Distribution branch. hundred and fifty dollars; draftsman, one thousand five 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 fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe Fuel, etc. distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs and public hydrants, ninety thousand dollars.
For continuing the extension of the high-service system of water High-service system. distribution, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated. Sec. 2. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not Limit on requisitions. make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hun-616dred and three than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District except as otherwise provided herein.
Sec. 3. Advances from Treasury. That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to advance on the requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, made in the manner now prescribed by law, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary from time to time to meet the general expenses of said District, as provided by Congress, and to Reimbursement. reimburse the Treasury for the portion of said advances payable by the District of Columbia out of the taxes and revenues collected for *Provisos*.Cost of street extension to be borne by District. the support of the government thereof: *Provided*, That nothing contained herein shall be so construed as to require the United States to bear any part of the cost of street extensions, and all advances heretofore or hereafter made for this purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury Repayment of advances.Interest on advances until paid. shall be repaid in full from the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That all advances made under this Act not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, *Post*, p. 981. nineteen hundred and three, shall be reimbursed to said Treasury from time to time out of the surplus revenues of the District of Columbia, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and three, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum until so reimbursed which reimbursement shall be made within three years from said last named date.
Sec. 4. Arrangement of estimates. That hereafter the estimates for expenses of the government of the District of Columbia shall be prepared and submitted each year according to the order and arrangement of the appropriation Act for the year preceding, and any changes in such order and arrangement and transfers of salaries from one office or department to another desired by the Commissioners may be submitted by note in the estimates. Taxation on real estate. TAXATION OF REAL ESTATE.
Sec. 5. Rate on real estate and improvements. That hereafter all real estate in the District of Columbia subject to taxation, including improvements thereon, shall be assessed at not less than two-thirds of the true value thereof, and shall be taxed one and one-half per centum upon the assessed valuation thereof, and whenever a subdivision of any portion of said real estate is made and Reassessment of subdivisions. recorded with the surveyor of the said District, the board of assistant assessors of said District are hereby authorized and directed to reassess said property so subdivided, and the tax on said reassessment shall be due and payable at the semiannual payment of taxes next following said reassessment.
Exemption of educational property. That hereafter property used for educational purposes that is not used for private gain shall be exempt from taxation, and all other property used for educational purposes shall be assessed and taxed as other property is assessed and taxed. Street-extension benefitsInstallments. In all cases where the assessments for benefits for street extensions have been or may hereafter be levied, payment of the same shall be made in five equal annual installments with interest at the rate of four per centum per annum from and after sixty days after the confirmation *Proviso*.Prior payments. of the verdict and award: *Provided*, That the amount of any payment of any installment or installments heretofore made on account of any such assessment shall be credited thereon, and the balance shall be due and payable as if such assessment had been originally payable in the installments and with the interest as herein provided.
Deductions for damages. In all cases of payments the accounting officers shall take into account the assessment for benefits and the award for damages, and shall pay 617 only such part of said award in respect of any lot as may be in excess of the assessment for benefits against the part of such lot not taken, and there shall be credited on said assessment the amount of said award not in excess of said assessment. TAXATION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. Personal property. Sec. 6. That in order to provide revenues to meet the appropriations Appointment of five assistant assessors. made by this Act and appropriations to be hereafter made to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, it is further enacted:
That the Act of Congress, entitled “An Act Vol. 28, p. 282, amended. to provide an immediate revision and equalization of real estate values in the District of Columbia; also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes,” approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby amended to take effect from and after July first, nineteen hundred and two, as follows:
Section two, line two, strike out the word “three,” and insert in lieu thereof the word “five;” section two, line five, after the words “assistant assessors, who,” strike out the words “shall hold office for a term of four years, unless sooner removed by said Commissioners for cause satisfactory to them and;” section two, line nine, after the Term of office of board. words “per annum,” insert the following: “The assessor of the District of Columbia and the members of said permanent board of assistant assessors shall not be removed except for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
” That the assessor of the District of Columbia shall designate three of Real estate and excise board. the members of said permanent board of assistant assessors for the assessment of real estate who shall constitute and compose the excise board, under the provisions of the Act of the Congress, approved August Vol. 28, p. 285. fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, aforesaid; and the two Board of personal tax appraisers. other members of said permanent board of assistant assessors shall be designated by said assessor to compose a board of personal tax appraisers, to assess personal property in accordance with the provisions of this section; and all five members of said permanent board of assistant Board of equalization, etc. assessors, together with the assessor as chairman, shall constitute the board of equalization and review of real estate assessments and also the board of personal tax appeals: *Provided*, That the assessor of the *Proviso*.Assessor to be chairman.
District of Columbia shall act as chairman, ex officio, of the several boards aforesaid. That the two members of the permanent board of assistant assessors Assessment of personal property. designated, as aforesaid, by the assessor, to assess personal property, shall, under the direction and supervision of the said assessor, assess personal property in the District of Columbia as follows: That hereafter the assessor of the District of Columbia, or his successor Schedules.Preparation. in office, shall annually cause to be prepared a printed blank schedule of all tangible personal property and all general merchandise or stock in trade, owned or held in trust or otherwise, subject to taxation under the provisions of this section, and of the classes of corporations and companies to be assessed, together with the rate of tax prescribed, to which shall be appended an affidavit in blank, setting forth that the foregoing presents a full and true statement of all such personal property, taxable capital, or other basis of assessment, or either, as the case may be.
When said schedule is ready for delivery, notice Delivery. thereof shall be given by the assessor by advertisement for three successive secular days in one or more of the daily newspapers published in said District, and a copy of said schedule shall be delivered to any citizen applying therefor at the office of the assessor. Every person, association, Returns. corporation, firm, or company in said District liable to taxation hereunder, and every association, company, executor, administrator, 618 guardian, or trustee holding personal property in trust liable to taxation hereunder, shall, within thirty days after the last publication of said advertisement, as aforesaid, fill out the proper blanks in said schedule with a full and true statement, as in this section hereinbefore required, and make and sign an affidavit to the truth thereof, as aforesaid, before the assessor or one of the other members of the said board of personal-tax appraisers, and the members of the said board are hereby Assessment. authorized to administer such and all oaths in connection with their duties as assessor and appraisers without charge, or before any person authorized by law to administer oaths; and the address in the District of Columbia of the person, corporation, or company making affidavit shall in each case be given below his, its, or their signature, and thereupon said board of personal-tax appraisers, or any one of the members thereof, shall assess said property at its fair cash value, and enter the same in the columns upon said blanks provided for that purpose, and the amount thus ascertained shall be entered upon the books for taxation for the fiscal year beginning July first, nineteen hundred and two, *Provisos*.Penalty for failure to make returns. and each fiscal year thereafter: *Provided*, That if any person, firm, association, corporation, company, administrator, executor, guardian, or trustee shall fail to make and deliver to the assessor or one of the said appraisers, within thirty days after the date of the last advertisement of the notice hereinbefore required, the schedule of bis or its said personal property, owned, held in trust, or otherwise, as provided for in this section, then the said board of personal-tax appraisers hereinbefore provided for shall without delay, from the best information they can procure, make an assessment against such person, firm, association, corporation, company, administrator, executor, guardian, or trustee, to which they shall add twenty per centum thereof: *Provided Reassessment of unsatisfactory returns. further*, That if the said board of personal-tax appraisers be not satisfied as to the correctness of the return of personal property made by any person, firm, association, corporation, company, administrator, executor, guardian, or trustee, said board may reject said return, and said board, or anyone of the members thereof, may, from the best information he or they can procure, or by making such an examination of the personal property as may be practicable, assess the same in such amount as may to him or them seem just; and notice of the rejection of the sworn return shall be given to the party interested Appeal. by leaving the same at the address given in said return, and in all such cases there shall be a right of appeal from the action taken by said appraisers to the board of personal-tax appeals, hereinafter provided for, or to their successors in office, within fifteen days after delivery of said notice of rejection as aforesaid: *And provided further*, Penalty for false returns.
That if any person, firm, association, corporation, company, administrator, executor, guardian, or trustee shall make a false affidavit touching the matters herein provided for, he or they shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject Vol. 31, p. 1329. to the penalties for that offense now provided by section eight hundred and fifty-eight of the Code of the District of Columbia. Par. 2. Rate on personal property. On all tangible personal property, assessed at a fair cash value (over and above the exemptions provided in this section), including vessels, ships, boats, tools, implements, horses, and other animals, carriages, wagons, and other vehicles, there shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia one and one-half per centum on the assessed value thereof.
Par. 3. Dealers in general merchandise. Dealers in general merchandise of every description shall pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia one and one-half per centum on the average stock in trade for the preceding year. Statement of stock before conducting business. After the passage of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person or persons entering the District of Columbia subsequent to June thirtieth in each year, and establishing a place of business for the sale of goods, 619 wares, or merchandise, either at private sale or at auction, to conduct such business until a sworn statement of the value of said stock has been filed with the assessor of the District of Columbia, who shall thereupon render a bill for the unexpired portion of the fiscal year at the same rate as other personal taxes are levied.
The assessor is hereby authorized to reassess said stock whenever in his judgment it has been undervalued. The goods, wares, and merchandise of any Seizure for unpaid taxes. person or persons, who shall fail to pay the tax required by this paragraph within three days after beginning business, shall be subject to distraint, and it shall be the duty of the assessor to place bills therefor in the hands of the collector of taxes, who shall seize sufficient of the goods of the delinquent to satisfy said tax: *Provided*, That said owner *Proviso*.Redemption. shall have the right of redemption within thirty days on payment of said tax, to which shall be added a penalty of one per centum, together with the costs of seizure.
The collector shall sell such goods as are Sale. not redeemed, at public auction, after advertisement for the three days preceding said sale. Par. 4. Hotel companies and the proprietors of hotels shall pay to Hotels. the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia one and one-half per centum on the assessed value of their furniture. Par. 5. Each national bank as the trustee for its stockholders, Incorporated banks, gas, electric lighting, and telephone companies. through its president or cashier, and all other incorporated banks, and trust companies, in the District of Columbia, through their presidents or cashiers, and all gas, electric lighting, and telephone companies, through their proper officers, shall make affidavit to the board of personal-tax appraisers on or before the first day of August each year as to the amount of its or their gross earnings for the preceding year ending the thirtieth day of June, and shall pay to the collector of Tax on gross earnings. taxes of the District of Columbia per annum on such gross earnings as follows:
Each national bank, and all other incorporated banks, and trust companies, respectively, six per centum; each gas company, five per centum; each electric lighting, and telephone company, four per centum. And in addition thereto the real estate owned by each national or other incorporated bank, and each trust, gas, electric lighting and telephone company in the District of Columbia shall be taxed as other real estate in said District: *Provided*, That street railroad *Proviso*.Street railroad companies. companies shall continue to pay the four per centum per annum on their gross receipts and other taxes as provided by existing law, and Insurance companies. insurance companies shall continue to pay the one and one-half per centum on premium receipts, as provided by section six hundred and Vol. 31, p. 1291. fifty of the Code of the District of Columbia.
That so much of the Vol. 26, p. 625. Act approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled Tax on trust, etc., companies, amended. “An Act to provide for the incorporation of trust, loan, mortgage, and certain other corporations within the District of Columbia” as is inconsistent with the provisions of this section is hereby repealed. Par. 6. All companies who guarantee the fidelity of any individual Fidelity companies. or individuals, such as bonding companies, shall pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia one and one-half per centum of their gross receipts in the District of Columbia.
Par. 7. Savings banks having no capital stock and paying interest Savings banks. to their depositors shall, through their president or cashier, make affidavit to the board of personal-tax appraisers on or before the first day of August in each year as to the amount of their surplus and undivided profits, and shall pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia a sum equal to one and one-half per centum on the amount of their surplus and undivided profits on the thirtieth day of June preceding.
Par. 8. The capital stock of all corporations, other than those herein Corporations. provided for, organized in the District of Columbia or under the laws of any of the States or Territories of the United States chiefly for the 620 purpose of and transacting- business within the District of Columbia, except those exempted by the laws relating to the District of Columbia, shall be appraised in bulk at its fair cash value by the board of personal-tax appraisers, and the corporation issuing the same shall be liable for the tax thereon according to such value, and shall pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia a sum equal to one and one-half per centum on the assessed valuation thereof; but from the assessed valuation of such capital stock shall first be deducted the value of any and all real estate owned by such corporation in said District, which real estate shall be separately taxed against said corporation: *Proviso*.Exemptions. *Provided*, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to include newspaper, real estate, and mercantile companies, which by reason of incorporation receive no special franchise or privilege; but all such corporations shall be rated, assessed, and taxed as individuals conducting business in similar lines are rated, assessed, and taxed.
Par. 9. Building associations. Building associations shall pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia four per centum per annum on their gross earnings for the preceding year ending June thirtieth. Par. 10. Exemptions. The following personal property shall be exempt from taxation. First. Institutions. The personal property of all library, benevolent, charitable, and scientific institutions incorporated under the laws of the United States or of the District of Columbia and not conducted for private gain.
Second. Libraries, etc. Libraries, schoolbooks, wearing apparel, articles of personal adornment, all family portraits, and heirlooms. Third. Household effects. Household and other belongings, not held for sale, to the value of one thousand dollars, owned by the occupant of any dwelling house or other place of abode, in which such household and other belongings may be located. Par. 11. Board of personal-tax appeals. That said board of assistant assessors hereinbefore provided for, with the assessor of the District of Columbia as chairman, shall compose a board of personal-tax appeals, and as such board of personal-tax appeals shall convene in a room, to be provided therefor by the said assessor, on the fifteenth day of November in each year, and public notice of the time and place of such meeting shall be given by advertisement for two consecutive secular days in two daily newspapers Duties and powers. published in the District of Columbia.
It shall be the duty of the board of personal-tax appeals, between the date of convening and December fifteenth of each year, to hear all appeals made by any person or persons against the assessments made by the board of personal-tax appraisers and to impartially equalize the value of said personal property as a basis for assessment. Any four members of the said board shall constitute a quorum for business, and in the absence of the assessor a temporary chairman shall be selected.
They shall be empowered to diminish or increase such assessments as they may believe to have been returned at other than their true value to such amount as, in their opinion, may be the value thereof, and the action of said board in such cases shall be final. Said board of assistant assessors shall also perform such other official duties as may be required of them by the assessor of the *Proviso*.Extension of time for appraisers’ duties. District of Columbia: *Provided*, That in case the personal-tax appraisers shall fail to complete any of the duties in this section to be by them performed within the time provided therefor the taxation provided by this section shall not by reason thereof be invalid; but such appraisers shall proceed with all reasonable diligence to complete such duties, and their acts shall be valid as if performed within the time fixed therefor.
Omission. If, at any time within any current year, property subject to taxation under the provisions of this section shall have been omitted from assessment, said board of personal-tax appraisers shall immediately proceed to assess the same for the then current year, giving notice in writing 621 to the persons or corporations so assessed, who shall have a right of appeal within ten days from date of said notice. Par. 12. That when the taxes on personal property due and payable Distraint if not paid by June first. in each year shall not be paid on or before the first day of June, then and in that event the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia, or his deputy, may distrain sufficient goods and chattels found within the District of Columbia and belonging to the person, firm, association, corporation, company, administrator, executor, guardian, or trustee charged with such tax to pay the taxes remaining due, under the provisions of this law, from such person, firm, association, corporation, company, administrator, executor, guardian, or trustee, together with the penalty thereon and the costs that may accrue; and for want of Levy on real property. such goods and chattels said collector of taxes may levy upon and sell at auction the estate and interest of such person, firm, association, corporation, company, administrator, executor, guardian, or trustee in any parcel of land in said District; and in the case of the levy on any Proceedings. estate or interest in land the proceedings subsequent to sale thereof shall be the same as now provided by law in the case of sales for arrears of taxes against real estate ; and in the case of distraint of personal property or the levy upon real estate as aforesaid the collector of taxes shall immediately proceed to advertise the same by public notice to be posted in the office of said collector and by advertisement, three times within one week, in one or more of the daily newspapers published in said District, stating the time when and the place where such property shall be sold, the last publication to be at least six days before the date of sale, and if the said taxes and penalty thereon, and the costs and expenses which shall have accrued thereon, shall not be paid before the day fixed for such sale, which shall not be less than ten days after said levy or taking of said property, the collector Sales. shall proceed to sell at public auction in his office, to the highest bidder, such property, or so much thereof as may be needed to pay such taxes, penalty, and accrued costs and expenses of such distraint and sale.
Said collector shall report in detail, in writing, every distraint Report by collector. and sale of personal property to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their successors in office, and his accounts in respect to every such distraint or sale shall forthwith be submitted to the auditor of the District of Columbia and be audited by him. Any surplus resulting from such sale over and above such taxes, costs, and expenses shall be paid into the Treasury, and upon being claimed by the owner or owners of the goods and chattels aforesaid shall be paid to him or them upon the certificate of the collector of taxes stating in full the amount of such excess.
Par. 13. That all taxes levied under the foregoing provisions of this Date of payment. section shall be due, payable, and collectible at the same time and times as the general tax on real estate in said District, and shall be subject Penalties. to the same penalties for nonpayment thereof until distraint or sale as hereinbefore provided. Par. 14. That private banks or bankers not incorporated shall pay a Private banks. tax of five hundred dollars per annum. Every person, firm, company, or association not incorporated having a place of business where credits are opened by the deposit or collection of moneys or currency subject to be paid or remitted upon draft, check, or order, or where money is advanced or loaned on stocks, bonds, bullion, bills of exchange, or promissory notes, or where stocks, bonds, bills of exchange, or promissory notes are received for discount or for sale, shall be regarded as a private bank or banker.
Par. 15. General brokers shall pay a tax of two hundred and fifty General brokers. dollars per annum. Every person, firm, company, or association not incorporated (except insurance and real-estate brokers acting as such) that solicits business from the general public by advertisement or 622 otherwise, and that purchases, sells, or negotiates for others securities, shares, stocks, bonds, exchange, bullion, coin, money, bank notes, or promissory notes, or that deals in futures on market quotations of prices or values on merchandise, shares, stocks, bonds, or other securities, or accepts margins on prices or values of said shares, stocks, bonds, merchandise, or securities, shall be deemed a general broker: *Provisos*.Washington Stock Exchange. *Provided*, That the Washington Stock Exchange, through its president or treasurer, shall pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia a sum equal to five hundred dollars per annum in lieu of tax on the members thereof for business done on said exchange: *Provided Members of other exchanges. further*, That any broker who is a member of a regularly organized stock exchange located outside of the District of Columbia and transacting a brokerage business therein, shall pay a sum equal to one hundred dollars per annum to the collector of taxes of the District of Exception as to banks.
Columbia: *And be it further provided*, That if any person or firm shall have paid the tax in this section provided for banks and bankers, such person or firm shall not again be taxed as a broker or brokers. Par. 16. Note brokers. Note brokers shall pay a tax of one hundred dollars per annum. Every person, firm, company, or association not incorporated (except private banks and bankers) that loans money on promissory notes without real estate or collateral security or advances money on personal property as security without possession of said personal property *Proviso*.Cooperative associations. shall be deemed a note broker: *Provided*, That exception shall be made of cooperative associations whose business is restricted to the members of such association.
Par. 17. Payment of tax on banks, etc. The taxes for said private banks and bankers, general brokers, and note brokers shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia, and shall date from the first day of July in each Date. year and expire on the thirtieth day of June following. Said taxes shall date from the first day of the month in which the liability begins, and payment shall be made for a proportionate amount. Par. 18. Penalty for violations. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding five hundred dollars for each offense, said penalty to be imposed, upon conviction in the police court of the District of Columbia, as other fines and penalties are imposed, and said court is hereby invested with jurisdiction thereof; and in default of the payment of said penalty the person or persons so convicted shall be imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, not exceeding six months.
Par. 19. Clerical, etc., expenses. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to appoint a clerk and assistant clerk to said board of personal-tax appraisers at annual salaries of one thousand four hundred and one thousand dollars each, and three inspectors at annual salaries of one thousand two hundred dollars each, all of whom shall perform such duties as may be assigned to Appropriation. them by the chairman of said board; and to pay the salaries of the two assistant assessors, the clerk and assistant clerk to said board of personal-tax appraisers, and the three inspectors aforesaid for the fiscal year beginning July first, nineteen hundred and two, and six thousand dollars for books, stationery, printing, means of transportation, and other incidental expenses, including the hire of temporary clerks, not to exceed one thousand dollars, the sum of eighteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.
License taxes. LICENSE TAXES. Sec. 7. Required on specified trades, etc. That no person shall engage in or carry on any business, trade, profession, or calling in the District of Columbia for which a license tax is imposed by the terms of this section without having first Application. obtained a license so to do. Applications for licenses shall be made to the assessor of the District of Columbia, and no license shall be granted 623 until payment for the same shall have been made.
Every license shall License. specify by name the person, firm, or corporation to which it shall be issued, the business, trade, profession, or calling for which it is granted, and the location at which such business, trade, profession, or calling is to be carried on. Licenses granted under the terms of this section may be assigned or transferred on application upon the conditions applicable to granting the original licenses, and the assessor shall issue a certificate of such assignment or transfer upon the payment to the District of Columbia of a fee of fifty cents therefor.
All licenses and transfers issued or granted shall be signed by the assessor of the District of Columbia and impressed with the seal of his office. Par. 2. That when more than one business, trade, profession, or Required for each trade, etc. calling for which a license is herein prescribed shall be carried on by the same person, the license tax shall be paid for each such business, trade, profession, or calling: *Provided*, That licenses issued under any *Provisos*.Effect. of the provisions of this Act shall be good only for the location designated thereon, and no license shall be issued for more than one place of business, profession, or calling, without the payment of a separate tax for each: *Provided further*, That no license shall be granted under Hotels and theaters.Certificate required as to safety. the provisions of this section, relating to hotels and theaters, until the Inspector of Buildings and the chief officer of the Fire Department have certified in writing to the Assessor that the applicant for license has complied with the laws enacted and the regulations made and promulgated for the protection of life and property.
Par. 3. That all licenses issued shall date from the first day of November Term of licenses. in each year and expire on the thirty-first day of October following, except as hereinafter provided. Licenses issued at any time after the beginning of the license year shall date from the first day of the month in which the license was issued and end on the last day of the license year above prescribed, and payment shall be made of the proportionate amount of the annual license tax: *Provided*, That in cases where the *Proviso*.Minor licenses. tax is less than five dollars per annum the license shall terminate one year from the first day of the month in which the license was issued.
Par. 4. That no person holding a license under the terms of this Illegal use. section shall willfully suffer or allow any other person chargeable with a separate license to operate under his license. Par. 5. That all licenses granted under the terms of this section Exhibition of licenses. must be conspicuously posted on the premises of the licensee. Said licenses shall be accessible at all times for inspection by the police or other officers duly authorized to make such inspections.
Licensees having no located place of business shall exhibit their licenses when requested to do so by any of the officers above named. Par. 6. That no person shall set up, operate, or conduct any business Living target devices prohibited. or device by or in which any person, animal, or living object shall act or be exposed as a target for any ball, projectile, missile, or thing thrown or projected, for or in consideration of profit or gain, directly or indirectly. Par. 7. That apothecaries or druggists shall pay a license tax of six Apothecaries. dollars per annum.
Every person who sells patent medicines, or manufactures, compounds, sells, or dispenses medicines by prescription or otherwise from a located place of business shall be regarded as an apothecary or druggist. Par. 8. That auctioneers shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars Auctioneers. per annum. Hereafter the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled Returns.Vol. 27, p. 10. “An Act to prevent fraudulent transactions on the part of commission merchants,” approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, shall be applicable to all licensed auctioneers, their agents, and employees.
Par. 9. That commission merchants shall pay a license tax of forty Commission merchants. dollars per annum. Every person, firm, or corporation that acts as agent for others in negotiating sales or purchases of goods, wares, or 624 merchandise, live stock, produce, and so forth, or negotiates freights for railroads, ships, or vessels, or for the shippers or consignees of freights carried by railroads, ships, or vessels, shall be regarded as a commission merchant. Par. 10. Cattle dealers.
That cattle dealers shall pay a license tax of fifteen dollars *Proviso*.Restriction. per annum: *Provided*, That one person only shall be entitled to do business under each license. Every person who makes a business of trading, buying, or selling horses, cattle, sheep, or hogs shall be regarded as a cattle dealer. Par. 11. Passenger vehicles for hire. That proprietors or owners of hacks, coaches, omnibuses, carriages, wagons, and other passenger vehicles for hire shall pay license taxes as follows:
Vehicles drawn by one animal, six dollars per annum; auto vehicles, automobiles, electromobiles, or other horseless vehicles by whatever name called, and vehicles drawn by more than one animal, nine dollars per annum. Licenses issued under this section Badges. shall date from July first in each year. The driver of every licensed passenger vehicle, while transacting business as such driver, shall wear conspicuously upon his breast a badge numbered to correspond with the license of his vehicle.
The badge shall be furnished by the District of Columbia and a tax of fifty cents shall be charged therefor in addition to the amount of the vehicle license. Par. 12. Livery stables. That proprietors or owners of livery stables shall pay license taxes as follows: For stables containing ten stalls or less, twenty-five dollars per annum, and two dollars per annum additional for each stall in addition to ten: *Provided*, That nothing in this paragraph shall be so construed as to exempt livery-stable keepers from paying additional license taxes for operating any description of vehicles occupying the public stands.
Par. 13. Autovehicle proprietors. That proprietors or owners of establishments where auto-vehicles of any pattern, description, or motor power whatsoever are kept for hire or are kept or stored for others, for profit or gain, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars per annum for ten vehicles or less and two dollars additional for each vehicle in addition to ten: *Proviso*.Additional tax. *Provided*, That nothing in this paragraph shall be so construed as to exempt the owner of any vehicle using the public stands from paying the additional license tax provided in paragraph eleven of this section.
Par. 14. Coach lines. That persons, firms, or corporations operating vehicles for hire or for the transportation of passengers in the District of Columbia with sufficient regularity to enable the public to take passage therein at any point intermediate to the stable or stand of such vehicle, or operate such vehicle over a route sufficiently definite to enable the public to ascertain the streets and avenues on which such vehicle can be found en route, shall pay license taxes as follows:
For each vehicle with a seating capacity not to exceed ten passengers, six dollars per annum; for each vehicle with a seating capacity exceeding ten passengers, twelve dollars per annum. No license shall be issued under the terms of this paragraph without the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Par. 15. Real estate brokers or agents. That real estate brokers or agents shall pay a license tax of fifty dollars per annum. Every person who sells, or offers for sale, as the agent for others, real estate, wherever located, including mining and quarry property, or who makes or negotiates loans thereon, or who rents houses, buildings, stores, or real estate, or who collects rents *Proviso*.Other professions. for others, shall be regarded as a real estate broker or agent: *Provided*, That the practice of a profession in connection with the real estate business shall not exempt any person from the requirements of this paragraph who would otherwise be liable hereunder.
Par. 16. Guarantee companies. That persons, firms, corporations, or associations transacting the business of the purchase or sale of securities, stocks, shares, or certificates, based upon an estimated value after a lapse of a certain 625 period of time, or who undertake to guarantee the holder of said securities, stocks, shares, or certificates certain sums of money based upon investments after the lapse of a certain time, or who promise to divide with the holders or investors of said securities, stocks, shares, or certificates, or with the heirs or assigns of such holders or investors, any profit which may accrue from their investments at maturity, shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars per annum: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Insurance companies and building associations. this paragraph shall not apply to any tire or life insurance company or building association allowed to transact business as such in the District of Columbia.
Par. 17. That railroad ticket brokers shall pay a license tax of Ticket brokers. twenty-five dollars per annum. Par. 18. Proprietors of hotels shall pay annually one dollar for each Hotels. room provided for the accommodation of guests: *Provided*, That no *Proviso*.Minimum. license shall be issued for less than thirty dollars per annum, dating from November first. Every place where food and lodging are provided for transient guests shall be regarded as a hotel. Par. 19. That victualers, owners of restaurants, oyster houses, Restaurants, etc. cookshops, ice-cream parlors, dairy lunches, or eating houses, by whatsoever name designated, where food, meals, or refreshments are served to transient customers, to be eaten on the premises where sold, shall pay a license tax of eighteen dollars per annum: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Exemptions. this paragraph shall not apply to the proprietors of hotels nor to private boarding houses where board and lodging are provided by the week or month.
Par. 20. That owners, lessees, or managers of theaters having a stage Theaters. and movable scenery used for the purpose of acting, performing, or playing any play, farce, interlude, opera, or other theatrical or dramatic performance, or any scene, section, or portion of any play, farce, burlesque, or drama of any description, for gain, shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars per annum: *Provided*, That licenses may *Provisos*.Temporary engagements. be granted for theatrical performances for one week on the payment of twenty dollars, and for less than one week on the payment of ten dollars: *And provided further*, That the proprietors of buildings, other Halls, etc. than theaters, where exhibitions, lectures, or entertainments of any description are conducted for gain shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars per annum; or for lesser periods as follows:
Three dollars per day, or ten dollars for the first week, and five dollars for each subsequent consecutive week: *And provided further*, That for entertainments, Church entertainments, etc., free. concerts, or performances of any kind given in church premises or private residences where the proceeds are intended for church or charitable purposes, and where no rental is charged, no license tax shall be required. Par. 21. That every person who exhibits paintings, pictures, or Exhibitions. works of art, or makes industrial, mechanical, agricultural, food, or floral exhibitions, including cattle and poultry shows, freaks and museum attractions, side shows, and all other lawful exhibitions not otherwise provided for, shall pay a license tax of three dollars per day, or ten dollars for the first week and five dollars additional for each subsequent consecutive week, and for an annual license the tax shall be one hundred dollars.
Par. 22. That persons conducting concerts, entertainments, or balls Conductors of concerts, etc. to which an admission fee is charged, directly or indirectly, shall pay a license tax of three dollars for each day or night. Par. 23. That proprietors or owners of any circus shall pay a license Circuses. tax of two hundred dollars per day. Par. 24. That owners or lessees of grounds used for horse racing, Athletic grounds. tournaments, athletic sports, baseball, football, polo, golf, and kindred games, or where feats of horsemanship are performed, to which admission fees are charged or which are used for profit or gain, directly or 626 indirectly, shall pay a license tax of twenty dollars per week or five dollars per day.
Par. 25. Picnic, etc., resorts. That owners or lessees of grounds or premises used for picnics or lawn fetes, or resorts where theatrical or musical attractions or other amusements are presented, to which admission fees are charged or which are used for profit or gain, directly or indirectly, and which are not taxed under any other paragraph of this section, shall pay a license tax of three dollars per day or ten dollars per week and five dollars additional for each subsequent consecutive week, or for an annual license a tax of one hundred dollars.
Par. 26. Skating rinks, etc. That owners or lessees of buildings used for skating rinks, fairs, carnivals, or amusements not otherwise provided for in this section shall pay a license tax of three dollars per day, or ten dollars for the first week and five dollars additional for each subsequent consecutive week, or for an annual license a tax of one hundred dollars. Par. 27. Shooting galleries, etc. That owners or lessees of shooting galleries, fencing schools, public gymnasiums, places where firearms of any description are used, or schools where the art of self-defense is taught shall pay a license *Provisos*.Precautions. tax of twelve dollars per annum: *Provided*, That no place of business or shooting gallery where firearms are to be used shall be licensed until the inspector of buildings for the District of Columbia shall furnish a certificate that suitable precautions have been taken for the public safety by the erection of iron shields and such appliances as in Consent of neighbors. his judgment may be necessary: *And provided further*, That before such license shall be issued the proprietor shall furnish to the assessor of the District of Columbia the written consent of a majority of the occupants and residents on the same side of the square or block in which the proposed gallery is to be located and also on the confronting side Police regulations. of the square fronting opposite to the same.
The major and superintendent of police is hereby authorized to prescribe the caliber of firearms and kind of cartridges to be used in such licensed places. Par. 28. Merry-go-rounds. That proprietors or owners of apparatus or machines known as merry-go-rounds, Hying horses, or similar devices for amusement shall pay a license tax of twelve dollars for the first week and ten dollars for each subsequent consecutive week, or three dollars per diem: *Proviso*.Discretion to issue. *Provided*, That license therefor may be refused in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
Par. 29. Slot machines. That proprietors or owners of slot or automatic machines, so called (telephones excepted), by which objects, pictures, or figures are presented to public view or musical or vocal exhibitions are automatically given on the deposit of money or metal, or where a pecuniary consideration is received for the use of said apparatus or machines, shall pay a license tax of two dollars per annum for each machine or *Provisos*.Maximum. apparatus: *Provided*, That on the payment of a license tax of fifty dollars per annum the number of machines at any one location shall Minimum. not be limited: *And provided further*, That no license shall be issued for less than two dollars.
Par. 30. Turkish, etc., baths. That owners or managers of Turkish, Russian, or medicated baths shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars per annum. Par. 31. Massage establishments.*Proviso*.Police approval. That owners or managers of massage establishments shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars per annum: *Provided*, That no license shall be issued under this paragraph without the approval of the major and superintendent of police. Par. 32. Fortune tellers, etc. That mediums, clairvoyants, soothsayers, fortune tellers, or palmists, by whatsoever name called, conducting business for profit or gain, directly or indirectly, when permitted to practice their calling in the District of Columbia, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars *Proviso*.Police approval. per annum: *Provided*, That no license shall be issued without the approval of the major and superintendent of police.
Par. 33. That hucksters or produce dealers at large shall pay a 627 license tax of twelve dollars per annum for each vehicle used in the Hucksters. conduct of their business. Licenses issued under this paragraph shall date from April first in each year. Every person who vends or sells fresh, smoked, or salt fish, meats, oysters, clams, shellfish, poultry, game, butter, eggs, vegetables, fruits, berries, candies, nuts, groceries, or produce of any kind from a vehicle of any description shall be regarded as a huckster.
Every driver shall be furnished with a badge corresponding to the number of his license, which shall be worn conspicuously while transacting business, and a similar number on metal shall also be furnished him which shall be attached to his vehicle: *Provided*, That no license shall be required of any person bringing to *Provisos*.Exemption. and selling at the several markets produce of his own raising: *And provided further*, That raisers of produce shall not be exempt from Limitation. the license tax imposed unless they sell such produce at the several markets or by the wholesale in cart, wagon, or carload lots.
Par. 34. That fuel hucksters shall pay a license tax of five dollars Fuel hucksters. per annum for each vehicle used in the conduct of their business. Every person who vends or sells fuel, oils, gasoline, wood, coal, and so forth, from house to house from vehicles of any description shall be regarded as a fuel huckster. Par. 35. That peddlers shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars Peddlers. per annum. Licenses issued under this paragraph shall date from April first of each year, and one person only shall be entitled to operate thereunder.
Every person who vends or sells from house to house miscellaneous articles of merchandise or personal property of any description, either as a foot peddler or selling from a vehicle, shall be regarded as a peddler. Par. 36. That brewers or manufacturers of fermented liquors of any Brewers, and brewers’ agents. description for sale, and brewers’ agents, shall pay a license tax of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum: *Provided*, That agent’s *Provisos*.Limitation. license under this paragraph shall only authorize the licensee to conduct bis business with the goods of the brewer represented by such agent: *And provided further*, That a licensed brewer’s solicitor, whose Solicitors not liable. business is confined to soliciting orders for his principal, shall not be liable for the license tax provided for in this paragraph.
Par. 37. That distillers or rectifiers shall pay a license tax of two Distillers. hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Par. 38. Section eight of “An Act regulating the sale of intoxicating Liquor dealers and barrooms.Vol. 27, p. 566, amended. liquors in the District of Columbia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby amended by striking out therefrom the words “The fee for a wholesale license shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and for a barroom license four hundred dollars per annum.” and inserting in lieu thereof the words:
The fee for a wholesale license shall be three hundred dollars per annum, and for a barroom license eight hundred dollars per annum. Par. 39. That billposters and persons engaged in the business of Billposters. painting or placing signs or advertisements on land, buildings, billboards, fences, or other structures in the District of Columbia visible from a street or other public space shall pay an annual tax of twenty dollars before engaging in said business. No person shall place, Permission. exhibit, maintain, or continue any advertisement or poster except upon such land, houses, buildings, billboards, fences, or other structures as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, in their discretion, authorize in writing for that purpose.
The said written authority shall only be granted in resident streets upon application made in writing and signed by a majority of the residents on the side of the square in which said display is to be made and also the side of the confronting square: *Provided*, That nothing in this paragraph shall *Proviso*.Signs on premises. apply to persons who advertise a business, exhibition, or entertainment on the premises where the same is conducted, nor to signs relat-628ing to the sale, rent, or lease of lands when the sign or advertisement Penalty for violation. is on the land referred to in the said sign or advertisement.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this paragraph shall, upon conviction thereof in the police court of the District of Columbia, be punished by a tine of not more than two hundred dollars, and after conviction of any such violation the offender shall be liable to a further fine of not more than ten dollars for each and every day thereafter that said violation of law shall continue. Par. 40. Inflammable oil tanks, etc. That owners or lessees of any buildings, structures, or tanks used for the storage of any description of inflammable oils in quantities exceeding five barrels shall pay a license tax of ten dollars per annum and shall have the approval of the fire marshal before license is granted.
Par. 41. Laundries. That owners or lessees of laundries operated otherwise than by hand power shall pay a license tax of twenty dollars per annum. Owners or lessees of laundries operated by hand labor shall pay a license tax of ten dollars per annum. Par. 42. Employment offices. That proprietors or owners of intelligence offices, information bureaus, registries, or employment offices, by whatsoever name called, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars per annum. Par. 43. Second-hand dealers.
That dealers in second-hand personal property shall pay a license tax of forty dollars per annum. Every person who buys, sells, trades, exchanges, or deals in old gold, silver, jewelry, precious stones, iron, metals of all kinds, cordage, tentage, hides, pelts, glass, rags, paper, ordnance, ship chandler’s stores, junk, furniture, clothing, or second-hand personal property of any description shall be regarded as a second-hand dealer. Par. 44. Pawnbrokers. Pawnbrokers shall continue to pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia one hundred dollars for license, and be subject to the regulations prescribed by existing law.
Par. 45. Billiard, etc., tables. Keepers of billiard, bagatelle, jenny lind, and pool tables, shuffleboards, or any table upon which legitimate games are played within the District of Columbia for public use, or for profit or gain, shall continue to pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia twelve dollars per annum license for each table and be Vol. 29, p. 594. subject to the provisions of the Act of Congress approved February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled “An Act to license billiard and pool tables in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
” Par. 46. Special trades, etc. An annual license tax is hereby imposed upon the following classes of business, trades, and professions, namely: Boarding houses (public), one dollar per room; claim agents, twenty-five dollars; building and other contractors, twenty-five dollars; carriage or wagon making establishments, twenty-five dollars; cigar dealers, twelve dollars; confectionery establishments, twelve dollars; dealers of every description in the several markets, except farmers and producers, five dollars; florists, fifteen dollars; land and improvement companies, fifty dollars; undertaking establishments, twenty-five dollars.
Par. 47. Penalty for violations. That any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall, on conviction thereof in the police court of the District of Columbia, be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each offense, and in default of payment by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, in the discretion of the court, except as otherwise provided in this section. Par. 48. Definition of words. That for the purposes of this section the word “person” shall signify and include firms, corporations, companies, associations, executors, administrators, guardians, or trustees; the word “agent” shall signify and include every person acting for another; the word “merchandise” shall signify and include every article of commerce, whether sold in bulk or otherwise; the word “dealers” shall signify 629 and include every person engaged in selling or offering for sale any description of merchandise or property.
Words of one number shall signify and include words of both numbers, respectively, and words of one gender shall signify and include words of every gender, respectively: *Provided*, That nothing in this section shall be interpreted as *Proviso*.Police and building regulations not affected. repealing any of the police or building regulations of the District of Columbia regarding the establishment or conduct of the businesses, trades, professions, or callings herein named. Sec. 8.
That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act Repeal. are repealed. Approved, July 1, 1902.
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