Chapter 992. 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 four, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 992.— 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 four, and for other purposes. March 3, 1903.[[Public, No. 142](/us/pl/57/142).] *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 District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, namely:
General expenses. GENERAL EXPENSES. Executive office. Salaries, Commissioners, etc. For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousand dollars each; Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); secretary, two thousand 957 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 six hundred 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; five assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand dollars each; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, two thousand four hundred dollars; two civil engineers or computers, atone thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; 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, seventy-four thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars.
For assessor’s office: For assessor, three thousand five hundred Assessor’s office. 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; assistant inspector of licenses, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; three assistant assessors, at three thousand Assistant assessors. dollars each; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars; in all, forty-two thousand six hundred dollars.
Excise Board: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk, Excise board. one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter all receipts from liquor licenses in the *Proviso*. Liquor license receipts. District of Columbia shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. Personal Tax Board: For two assistant assessors of personal taxes, Personal tax board. at three thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; four inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars. 958 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; two coupon clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk and bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; 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 hundred and fifty dollars.
Corporation counsel’s office. For office of corporation counsel: For corporation counsel, four thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant corporation counsel, two thousand five hundred dollars; second assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; third assistant corporation counsel, 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.
Sinking-fund office. For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. Coroner. For coroner’s office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Market masters. For market masters: For two market masters, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one market master, nine hundred dollars; for hire of laborers for cleaning markets, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
Sealer of weights and measures. For office of sealer of weights and measures: For sealer of weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; second assistant sealer of weights and measures, nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand and eighty dollars. Engineer’s office. Record division. For engineer’s office: Record division:
For chief clerk, one 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 Engineers, inspectors, etc. messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer of highways, three thousand 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 959 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, three thousand dollars; general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectors of property, at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars each; 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 five hundred and twelve dollars.
Hereafter the inspector of gas and meters and assistant inspector Appointment of inspector of gas and meters. of gas and meters of the District of Columbia shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 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 hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; four inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three assistant inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; foreman of public dumps, nine hundred dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand one hundred dollars.
Board of examiners, steam engineers: For compensation for Board of examiners, steam engineers. board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. That overseers, inspectors, and other employees temporarily required Temporary overseers, etc. 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 and all necessary horses, harness, and wagons, 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 the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District, in Report. 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, together with the sums expended for horses, harness, Horses and wagons. and wagons; 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.
Department of insurance: For superintendent of insurance, two Insurance department. thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; temporary clerk hire, six hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. For surveyor’s office: For surveyor, three thousand dollars; Surveyor’s office. Vol. 28, p. 689. assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for such addi-960tional employees as may be required, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand 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; three assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; cataloguer, nine hundred dollars; cataloguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; three temporary cataloguers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two attendants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; three attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; four pages, at two hundred and forty dollars each; 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, nineteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
Contingent expenses. For purchase of books, five thousand dollars; binding, three thousand dollars; fuel, lighting, fitting up building, and other contingent expenses, nine thousand dollars; in all, seventeen thousand dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, 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, repairs to pound and vehicles, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, board of charities, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, police court, and department of insurance, thirty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency *Proviso*.
Use of horses. therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall be used only for official purposes. Limit on expenditure for horses, etc. No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the 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 or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinbefore authorized.
Payment for fire insurance prohibited. No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Stables. For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department, including forage, livery of horses, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oils, 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.
Rent. For rent of District offices, nine thousand dollars. For rent of old record vault, six hundred dollars. 961 For rent of office for department of insurance, eight 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 five hundred dollars.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for Advertising. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, three thousand dollars. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred Tax arrearage sales. and three, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen Vol. 26, p. 24. hundred and ninety, three thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District of Enforcing game and fish laws.
Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners, five hundred dollars. For reconstruction of cement storehouse at First and Canal streets Cement storehouse repairs. southwest, three thousand dollars. For running and permanently marking the boundary line of the District District boundary lines. between the present boundary-line monuments and to mark the limits of the District on the roads leading out of the District, one thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the register of wills to continue the work of preparing Register of wills.
Card index of records. card index of the records of his office, two thousand five hundred dollars. PERMANENT SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS. Highway system. To pay the expenses of carrying out the plan for the extension of Expenses. Vol. 27, p. 532. permanent system of highways in conformity with the “Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two thousand five hundred dollars; to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Improvements and repairs. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, Assessment and permit work. Exemptions. one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; and hereafter no property except that of the United States or the District of Columbia and property owned by foreign governments for legation purposes shall be exempt from assessments for improvements. For paving roadways under the permit system, ten thousand dollars. Paving. Work on streets and avenues:
For work on streets and avenues Work on streets and avenues. named in Appendix “Z,” Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely: Georgetown schedule: Ten thousand dollars. Allotment. 962 Northwest section schedule: Twenty-five thousand one hundred dollars, to be expended for paving Vermont avenue from R to T streets, New Hampshire avenue from V to W streets, and V street from Seventeenth to Eighteenth streets.
Southwest section schedule: Fifteen thousand dollars. Southeast section schedule: Twenty thousand dollars. Northeast section schedule: Twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. *Proviso*. Streets paved with Belgian block, etc. *Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Important streets first in schedules. Hereafter the Commissioners, in submitting the schedules of streets and avenues to be improved, shall each year arrange said streets and avenues in the order of their importance, as determined by them after personal examination of said streets and avenues. Limit for asphalt pavements. Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred *Proviso*.
Increase allowed. and eighty-six, and with same depth of base: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard. Grading. Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses, to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, ten thousand dollars.
Condemnation. Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Opening alleys. Vol. 31, p. 1429. Opening alleys: For opening, widening, and extending alleys and minor streets in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Suburban surveys. Plats of subdivisions outside of Washington: To pay the expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to enable the Commissioners of the District to determine whether plats of subdivisions of land within said District offered for record have been made in conformity Vol. 25, p. 451. to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within the District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars.
County roads. Construction. Construction of county roads: For construction of county roads and suburban streets as follows: For Rhode Island avenue, Florida avenue toward First street, pave, ten thousand dollars; For Sixteenth street, Columbia road to Spring road, grade and improve, twenty-five thousand dollars; For Sixteenth street, Morris street to Columbia road, pave, twenty-five thousand dollars; For Twenty-second street, R to Decatur streets, pave, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For California avenue, Columbia road to Phelps place, pave, six thousand dollars; For grading and improving Wisconsin avenue, six thousand dollars; 963 For Kansas avenue, in Petworth subdivision, from Trenton to Utica streets, grading, regulating, and macadamizing, two thousand dollars; For Twentieth street, Queen’s Chapel to Brentwood road, grade and macadamize, five thousand dollars; For Connecticut avenue extended, grade and macadamize, five thousand dollars; That upon the dedication of Milwaukee street through the subdivision Milwaukee street. of Fairview Heights, District of Columbia, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to abandon the portion of Massachusetts avenue bounded by blocks six, seven, and eight of Fairview Heights, except where said avenue is included within the plan for a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities, and the portions of said avenue so abandoned shall revert to the owners of the lots abutting thereon;
That in order to provide better grades and to save in the cost of Relocation of streets in Ingleside. grading and improving streets in Herman D. Walbridge’s subdivision of Ingleside, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to make the following change in the location of streets in said subdivision without cost to the District of Columbia or to the United States, namely, first, to shift the location of Nineteenth street south of Grant street so that it shall run in a southeasterly direction from the intersection of Nineteenth and Grant streets to Kenyon street, and, secondly, to abandon Grant street west of Nineteenth street, the old location of Nineteenth street south of Grant street, and Joliet street west of the new position of Nineteenth street, the land in such abandoned streets to revert to the adjacent owners of the property;
For North Capitol street, V street to Michigan avenue, macadam, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For Adams Mill road, Columbia road to Zoo, grade and improve, seven thousand dollars; For R street, Florida avenue to Massachusetts avenue, pave, six thousand five hundred dollars; For Eckington place, Florida avenue to Q street, grade and pave, three thousand dollars; For Bladensburg road, grade and improve, five thousand dollars; For grading and regulating streets in Anacostia, six thousand dollars;
For Messmore street, Erie street to Columbia road, grade and regulate, one thousand five hundred dollars; For Ontario street, Florida avenue to Superior street, grade and regulate, one thousand five hundred dollars; For Nineteenth street, Columbia road to Kalorama avenue, pave, two thousand dollars; For W street, west of Massachusetts avenue, grade and improve, nine thousand five hundred dollars; For V street, North Capitol street to Lincoln avenue, grade, four thousand dollars;
For Howard street, Seventeenth to Eighteenth streets northwest, grade and regulate, one thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-one thousand dollars. That in order to more fully carry out the intent of the provision in Zoological Park. Adjusting grades. the appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, providing for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, *Ante*, p. 598. authorizing the readjustment of the lines of the streets on the east side of the Zoological Park, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to use as a highway so much of the Zoological Park as lies within a proposed street on the east side of said Zoological Park between Kenyon street and Klingle road, the bounds of said street being located as follows:
The east build-964ing line to be distant fifteen feet from the present improved thirty-foot roadway and the west line to be distant forty-five feet from the present improved thirty-foot roadway. 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;
Vol. 20, p. 106. the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad 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 for the fiscal year in which they are collected. Sidewalks. 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, ninety 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. Rock Creek bridge, Connecticut avenue. Construction of. For continuing the construction of the bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Connecticut avenue extended, forty-eight thousand dollars.
Said bridge shall be constructed of concrete on the general plan for a concrete bridge made by George S. Morrison, and found in Senate Document Number ninety-six, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, and shall cost complete, exclusive of appropriations herein and heretofore Time of construction. made, not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars, and shall be completed within four years from July first, nineteen hundred and Contracts. three; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of said bridge within the time specified and within the limit of cost herein authorized, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations therefor may be made by law.
Sewers. SEWERS. Cleaning. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, fifty-eight thousand dollars. Main and pipe. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, fifty thousand dollars. Suburban. For suburban sewers, fifty thousand dollars. Rights of way. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Flushing tanks. For automatic flushing tanks, one thousand dollars.
Boundary. For continuing the construction of the extension of the boundary sewer to the vicinity of Twenty-second and A streets northeast, now under contract, forty thousand dollars. Pumping station. For continuing construction of the sewage disposal system pumping station, and for machinery therefor, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Trunk sewer, Georgetown. For construction of trunk sewer to serve the western part of Georgetown, twenty-two thousand dollars. B street and New Jersey avenue trunk.
For constructing the B street and New Jersey avenue trunk sewer, namely: For Section A, two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; for Section B, two hundred thousand dollars; for Section C, two hundred thousand dollars; in all, six hundred thousand dollars. 965 Toward constructing outfall sewer and siphon, one hundred and fifty Outfall sewer, etc. thousand dollars. Any balances of former appropriations remaining after the execution Use of balances. 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.
STREETS. Streets. Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping, Cleaning, etc. and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, including purchase, maintenance, and livery of horses, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons and harness, rent of storage rooms, and necessary incidental expenses not properly chargeable to the general appropriation for contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work done under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract: *Provided*, That whenever it shall appear to the Commissioners *Proviso*.
Contracts permitted. 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.
For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under the Removing ice and snow. Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars. Disposal of city refuse: For the collection and disposal of garbage; Disposal of refuse. 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.
For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, including Parking commission. laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, twenty-five thousand dollars. Harbor and river front: For the improvement and protection of Harbor and river front. the harbor and river front, the enforcement of laws and regulations, construction and maintenance of wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, three thousand dollars.
Bathing beach: For the construction, maintenance, and repair of Bathing beach. Floating baths. floating baths to be moored in the tidal reservoir or the water front of Washington, at such points as may be agreed upon by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Secretary of War, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars; 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, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For public scales: For repair and replacement of public scales, Scales. two hundred 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, four thousand dollars. 966 Electrical department. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Salaries. For superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; inspector of 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.
Supplies. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery horses, and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of stable and storeroom, and other necessary items, fifteen thousand dollars.
Placing wires underground. For placing wires of fire-alarm telegraph and police telephone service under ground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to, and between existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, forty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available. Police patrol. For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of 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.
Repairs to worn-out circuits, etc. Toward rebuilding grounded and worn-out police-patrol circuits, including purchase of new boxes to replace old ones, purchase and erection of the necessary posts, poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, ten thousand dollars. Manual transmitter. For one four-dial four-number manual transmitter for fire-alarm system, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Lighting.
Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unfit for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items and services, two hundred *Provisos*.
Maximum price. and nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty dollars per annum for each street lamp shall be paid for gas and no more than twenty-four dollars for oil, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expenses of erecting and maintaining new lamp posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures, under any expenditure provided for in this Act. And during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four the price prescribed by Congress for lighting each street lamp in the District of Columbia with gas or oil shall be construed to include the cost of the illuminating material used, lighting and extinguishing lamps, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expense of erecting and maintaining lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures:
All-night service. *Provided*, That all of said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: Regulators. *Provided further*, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour: *Provided High-power lamps. further*, That not more than fifteen thousand dollars of said 967 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-eight dollars per lamp, and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph: *And provided further*, That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four the Average candle power diminished. 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 requirements as to candlepower prescribed Vol. 29, p. 252. by section three of the Act regulating the sale of gas in the District of Columbia, approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
For electric arc lighting, including necessary inspection, and for Electric lighting. extensions of such service, not exceeding eighty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than eighty dollars per annum shall be paid *Proviso*. Maximum price. for any electric arc light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wire; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. Washington Aqueduct. For operation, maintenance, and repair of the aqueduct and its Maintenance. accessories, including Conduit road, the Washington City reservoir and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, thirty-three thousand dollars. For continuing work on a slow sand filtration plant, and for each Filtration plant. 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 be available immediately and until expended: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.
Contracts. all contracts authorized under appropriations for the slow sand-filtration plant shall provide for the completion of the work on or before December first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided further*, That Increased appropriation. the amount for which 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 on said slow sand-filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith to final completion within the shortest practicable time, or within which the materials may be purchased and the work done otherwise than by contract, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, is hereby increased from two million seven hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and five dollars to three million four hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and five dollars.
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, twelve thousand dollars. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Public schools. For officers: For seven members of the board of education, at five Board of education. hundred dollars each, three thousand five hundred dollars, not more than one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars of which shall be used during the first half of the fiscal year; one superintendent of public schools, four thousand dollars; two assistant superintendents, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one secretary, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and one messenger, seven hundred and 968 twenty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Teachers. For teachers: For one thousand three hundred and forty-seven teachers, to be assigned as follows: For director of high schools, two thousand five hundred dollars; For twelve 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 McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand six hundred dollars; For principal of Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand six hundred dollars;
For principal of Normal School Number One and principal of Normal School Number Two, 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 one hundred and seven, at one thousand dollars each; For eighteen, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For twenty-one, at nine hundred dollars each; For twenty, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For sixteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For ninety-three, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For thirty-four, at eight hundred dollars each;
For one hundred, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For seventeen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; For one hundred and forty-three, at seven hundred dollars each; For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and fifty-one, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For forty-eight, at six hundred dollars each; For four, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and fifty-one, at five hundred and fifty dollars each;
For five, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For one hundred and thirty-six, at five hundred dollars each; For sixty-five, at four hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and forty, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; In all, nine hundred and fifty-three thousand seven 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. 969 For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. For kindergarten instruction, thirty-five thousand dollars. Kindergarten. For janitors and care of buildings and grounds: For superintendent Janitors, etc. of janitors, one thousand two hundred dollars; For care of Central High School and annex, two thousand dollars;
Of the Jefferson Building, Franklin 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, McKinley Manual Training School, Armstrong Manual Training School, and Stevens School buildings, six in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; Of the Wallach Building, one thousand dollars; Of the Brookland, Curtis, Dennison, Emery, Force, Gales, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, and Webster buildings, thirteen in all, at nine hundred dollars each;
Of the Birney, Lincoln, Miner, and Mott buildings, four in all, at eight hundred dollars each; Of the Abbott, Berrett, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley buildings, nine in all, at seven hundred dollars each; Of the Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Dent, Douglass, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Eckington, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Lovejoy, McCormick, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Abby S.
Simmons, Slater, Smallwood, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Buren, Webb, Weightman, Wilson, Wormly, building in third division, and building in sixth division (Trinidad), sixty-five 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 forty-eight dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, five thousand five hundred dollars; For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one assistant engineer at the McKinley Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand dollars;
For one assistant engineer at the Armstrong Manual Training School, six hundred dollars. In all, eighty-six thousand and eighty dollars. For medical inspectors: For twelve medical inspectors of public Medical inspectors. schools, four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said inspectors *Proviso*. Competitive examination. shall be appointed by the Commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him, which shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the Commissioners. 970 Rent.
Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and repair shop, fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars. Repairs. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, fifty-five 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, three thousand five hundred dollars. Manual training. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
Fuel. For fuel, forty-five thousand dollars. Furniture. For furniture for new school buildings and additions to buildings, as follows: For four eight-room buildings, at one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars each; addition to Cranch Building, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; and five four-room buildings, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; in all, twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs thereof, books, books of reference, and periodicals, stationery, printing, ice, 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.
Pianos. For purchase of pianos for school buildings not now supplied, at an average cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, two thousand five hundred dollars. Supplies for pupils. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first 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 *Proviso*.
Exchanges. dollars: *Provided*, That the board of education in its discretion is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. Flags. For purchase of United States flags, one thousand dollars. Fire extinguishers. For fire extinguishers and tire escapes for school buildings, two thousand four hundred dollars. Telephones. For extending the telephone system to the public school buildings within the fire limits, including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, poles, cross-arms, braces, conduit connections, manholes, telephone instruments, extra labor, and other necessary items, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the electrical department.
Buildings and grounds. Buildings and grounds: Toward the construction of a Business High School building, seventy-five thousand dollars, and the Commissioners are hereby authorized to enter into contract for the construction of said building at a total cost not exceeding one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For purchase of lot adjoining Brent School, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For additional amount for reconstructing building at Seventh and G streets southeast, ten thousand dollars; and the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars made by the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two is hereby continued available for the same purpose.
For site for and toward the construction of one eight-room building, second division, thirty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars. 971 For site for and toward the construction of one eight-room building, sixth division, thirty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars.
For one four-room addition to the Takoma School, twenty-seven thousand dollars. That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respective Cost of sites. buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes: *Provided*, That the Commissioners *Proviso*. Day labor. of the District of Columbia, in case they shall consider the bids received for the construction of any number of the school buildings herein provided for, not exceeding three, to be in excess of a reasonable amount, are hereby authorized to construct such building or buildings by day labor, and the purchase of material in open market, if the same can be completed within the amount appropriated or authorized therefor.
That the plans and specifications for school buildings shall be prepared Commissioners to approve plans, etc. under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District, and shall be constructed by the Commissioners in conformity therewith; and the plans and specifications for all other buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Superintendent of the Capitol building and the Commissioners of the District, and shall be constructed in conformity therewith.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons Deaf and dumb pupils. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four [R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942). of the Revised Statutes, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE. Police. For major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; captain and Salaries. assistant superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four captains, at one thousand live 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 tire departments, at five hundred and forty dollars each; additional compensation for twenty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, four thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; ten lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-five sergeants, atone thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; three hundred and fifty privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; two hundred and forty-five privates, class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; for forty additional privates of class one, who shall receive seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; twenty-four station keepers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; janitor for police headquarters, seven hundred and twenty dollars; thirteen laborers, at six hundred 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, 972 sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; sixty-four sergeants and privates, mounted, on bicycles, at forty dollars each; twenty-four drivers, at six hundred dollars each; and three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, seven hundred and forty-nine thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
Rent, Anacostia. Miscellaneous: For rent of substation at Anacostia, three hundred and sixty dollars; Fuel. For fuel, three thousand live hundred dollars; Repairs. For repairs to stations and grounds, five thousand dollars; Contingent expenses. 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 expenses, thirty thousand dollars;
That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the major and superintendent of the Metropolitan police, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money, not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for the prevention and detection of crime, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For rent of police department headquarters and property storerooms, two thousand four hundred dollars; In all, forty-one thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars. House of Detention. House of Detention: To enable the Commissioners of the District 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, nine thousand dollars or so much thereof as may *Proviso*.
Time of detention. be necessary: *Provided*, That all such persons held or detained under public authority prior to the adjudication of cases in which they may be involved shall be held at the place so provided. Fire department. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Salaries. Chief engineer. Qualifications of. For chief engineer, two thousand dollars, and this sum shall not be available to pay a chief engineer who has not had at least five years’ experience as a member of some organized municipal fire department; three assistant chief engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; fire marshal, one thousand two hundred dollars; machinist, one thousand dollars; twenty-six foremen, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen engineers, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen firemen, at nine hundred dollars each; seven tillermen, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-seven drivers, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and eighty-six privates, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-six watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; and one laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, two hundred and sixty-four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. 973 Miscellaneous:
For repairs and improvements to engine houses Miscellaneous. and grounds, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs to apparatus and for new appliances, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of hose, nine thousand dollars; For fuel, five thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, eleven thousand dollars; For forage, thirteen 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-eight thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Increase fire department: For site, house, and furniture for an Site, etc., for new station. engine company in the southwestern section of the city, including cost of connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, thirty thousand dollars; For purchase of three combination chemical engine and hose wagons, Chemical engines, etc. at not exceeding two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; For purchase of one sixty-five-foot aerial truck, three thousand five Aerial truck. hundred dollars;
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to Additional land for new building. *Ante*, p. 607. acquire by purchase or condemnation additional land in rear of the present site of the truck house in square numbered nine hundred and twenty-five, in the southeast section of the city, at an expense not exceeding two thousand dollars, to be paid out of the appropriation heretofore made for said truck house; In all, thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Health department. For health officer, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief Salaries. 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; seven 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.
Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty dollars. Rent. For the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the Prevention of contagious diseases. Vol. 26, p. 691. Vol. 29, p. 635. spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for investigating the causes of cases of typhoid fever reported to *Ante*, p. 3. the health department under the provisions of an Act to require cases 974 of typhoid fever occurring in the District of Columbia to be reported to the health department of said District, approved February fourth, nineteen hundred and two, under the direction of the health officer of said District, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, twenty-five 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;
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;
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 two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Quarantine’ buildings. For the erection, completion, and equipment of quarantine buildings on the Washington Asylum grounds, fifteen thousand dollars. Isolating wards in hospitals. Garfield and Providence hospitals:
For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield and Providence hospitals, maintenance, each, four thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Courts. COURTS. Court of appeals reports. For amount required to pay the reporter of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia for volumes of the reports of the opinions of Vol. 31, p. 1226. said court, authorized to be furnished by him under section two hundred and twenty-nine of the code of law for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two volumes, at five dollars each, one hundred and ten dollars.
Police court. For the police court: For two judges, at three thousand dollars 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; deputy clerk, to be known as financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; deputy marshal, one thousand dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant janitors, four hundred and fifty dollars; bailiff, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand and ninety dollars.
Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous: For witness fees, four thousand dollars; 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 jurors, eight thousand dollars; 975 For rebuilding police-court cells, which shall be done under the direction of the Commissioners before the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available;
For building public water-closet for men, which shall be done under the direction of the Commissioners before the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available; In all, seventeen 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 *Post*, p. 1043. 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. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, nine hundred and Interest and sinking fund. seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars. Any excess of said sum or of sums hereafter appropriated for this Surplus applied to redemption of bonds. purpose, over and above the amount required for the payment of the interest on the funded debt of the District of Columbia shall be applied by the Treasury of the United States to the purchase and redemption of the bonds of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That should the *Provisos*.
Restriction. Treasurer of the United States at any time be unable to secure bonds of the District of Columbia at a price which he may deem advantageous, he is hereby authorized to invest the amount available for the said sinking fund in bonds of the United States, the bonds so purchased to be registered in the name of the Treasurer of the United States, trustee for the sinking fund of the District of Columbia, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the United States to collect the interest, when due on the bonds so held, and to invest the same for account of said sinking fund: *Provided further*, That the Treasurer of the United States is Substitution of bonds. hereby authorized, by exchange or by sale and reinvestment, to substitute bonds of the District of Columbia for the bonds of the United States, so held, when he shall deem it to be to the interest of the said sinking fund to do so.
EMERGENCY FUND. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, Emergency fund. public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of *Proviso*. Purchases. all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected.
FOR COURTS AND PRISONS. Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation Support of convicts out of District. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars. 976 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 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-six thousand dollars. Charities and corrections. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Board of Charities. Board of Charities: For secretary, three thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; stenographer, eight hundred and forty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; three inspectors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; four drivers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, ten thousand four hundred 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 hundred and forty dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; principal overseer, one thousand two hundred dollars; fifteen overseers, at six hundred dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; second assistant engineer, three hundred and sixty dollars; engineer at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; two watchmen, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; two night watchmen, at five hundred and forty-eight dollars each; 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, four hundred and eighty dollars; chief cook for almshouse and workhouse, four hundred and eighty 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-eight thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For contingent expenses, including provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, 977 tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items and services, sixty thousand dollars. The unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for erection of a workhouse for males is hereby made available for the construction of cells in the old workhouse for males. For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars.
For Reform School: For superintendent, one thousand five hundred Reform School. dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, five thousand seven hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; four matrons of families, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; two 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 five hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding nine hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, all under the control of the Commissioners, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars. Reform School for Girls: Superintendent, one thousand dollars; Reform School for Girls. treasurer, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four teachers of industries, at three hundred dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and twenty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; laborer, three hundred dollars; in all, six thousand seven hundred and sixty-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 seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. For building and equipping brick building to be used to house men employees and for storerooms, six thousand dollars.
Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to the Transporting prisoners. workhouse, two thousand dollars. Medical Charities. Hospitals. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, as follows: Freedmen’s Hospital. For subsistence, twenty-one 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, 978 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, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; In all, fifty-four thousand dollars. Columbia Hospital. 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.
For erection of fire escapes, electric wiring, and necessary apparatus and alterations required for better protection of the hospital from fire, two thousand five hundred dollars. 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.
Reconstruction, etc. To aid in the reconstruction and completion of the building for the National Homeopathic Hospital, fifty thousand dollars. Emergency Hospital. For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance, fifteen thousand 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 visiting children, and all office and sundry expenses, eight thousand six hundred dollars; For maintenance of feeble-minded children, eleven thousand dollars;
Care of children. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, 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;
Hart Farm School. The Board of Children’s Guardians is hereby directed to contract for the care and maintenance of sixty wards of the Board at the Hart Farm School at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum each, and for this purpose the sum of twelve thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, and the Commissioners are required to report to Congress at the first regular session of the Fifty-eighth Congress a general plan for the future care of the delinquent and dependent children in the District of Columbia.
In all, for Board of Children’s Guardians, sixty-six thousand six hundred dollars. Industrial Home School. For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance, thirteen thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, two thousand dollars. For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars. 979 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 Foundlings’ 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, five thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war shall also be admitted to the home. 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. Support of indigent insane. Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane, in said District, as provided in sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four [R. S., secs. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 940](/us/rs/s4844/4850/pp939/940). and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand three hundred dollars.
For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insane Deporting indigent insane. Vol. 30, p. 811. persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “To change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand dollars. Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay of physicians Relief of the poor. 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 of paupers: For transportation of paupers, two Transportation. thousand dollars. MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority of the Commissioners Expenses. of the District of Columbia, namely: For rent, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, machinery, and for telephone service, seventeen thousand 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 seven hundred dollars. 980 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, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars. Pay. For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the direction of the commanding general, seventeen thousand *Provisos*. Official status. 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 loss of 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 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, including books, 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.
For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars. Water department. WATER DEPARTMENT. Payable from water revenues. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: Revenue and inspection branch. For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; 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;
Distribution branch. For distribution branch: For superintendent, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five 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; calker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and six dollars.
Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, purchase and care of horse, buggy, and harness for use of superintendent for purposes of inspection, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars. Card record system. For introducing the card record system in the office of the water registrar, including cards, fixtures, labor, and other items necessary to install the same, two thousand dollars, to be immediately available. 981 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 lire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs and purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, one hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing the extension of the high-service system of water distribution, High-service system. and for laying necessary trunk mains for low service, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. 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 hundred and four than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District, except as otherwise provided herein. Sec. 3. That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred Advances from the Treasury. and four, 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 authorized by Congress, and to reimburse the Treasury for the portion of said advances payable by the District of Columbia out of the taxes and revenues collected for the support of the government thereof: *Provided*, That all advances made under this *Proviso*.
Interest on advances until paid. Vol. 31, p. 766. Act and under the Acts of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and one, and June first, nineteen hundred and two, not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen *Ante*, p. 616. hundred and four, shall be reimbursed to said Treasury out of the revenues of the District of Columbia from time to time, within five years, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and four, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum until so reimbursed: *Provided further*, That interest on advances made prior Computing interest. to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, in the accounts of the District of Columbia with the United States, shall be computed for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and paid immediately after the close thereof from the revenues of the District of Columbia, and the same rule of computation and payment of interest shall apply to all advances made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and subsequent fiscal years: *Provided further*, That the Auditor for the Report.
State and other Departments and the auditor of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each fiscal year separately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any, due to the United States: *And provided further*, That nothing Street extensions to be paid from District revenues. 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 shall be repaid in full from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act Repeal. are repealed. Approved, March 3, 1903.