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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 33 STAT. · March 3, 1905 · Chapter 1406

Chapter 1406. 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 six, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1406.— 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 six, and for other purposes. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 18123](/us/bill/58/hr/18123).] [[Public, No. 139](/us/pl/58/139).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia appropriations. That the half of the following sums mimed, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other halfHalf from District revenues. out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the884 District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES. General expenses. For executive Office: For two Commissioners, at five thousandExecutive office.Salaries of Commissioners, etc. dollars each: Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary live thousand dollars); secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars: two assistant secretaries to Commissioners. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at 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, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars: 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; one laborer, who shall also act as messenger and substitute elevator operator, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; property clerk, who shall hereafter give, bond in such sum as the Commissioners may determine, and who shall, under the direction of the Commissioners, supervise the purchase and distribution and have custody of al! supplies and stores for the use of the government of the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars; deputy property clerk, one thousand six 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 atone thousand dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; five members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each; in all, seventy-six thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.
For the following now authorized and being paid from general appropriations, namely: For one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven clerks, atEmployees paid from general appropriations. one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: three clerks, at six hundred dollars each; one clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; and one superintendent of construction, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of fuel, one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant inspector of fuel, one thousand one hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, twenty thousand three hundred dollars.
For assessor’s office; For assessor, three thousand five hundredAssessor’s office. dollars and five hundred dollars additional as chairman of the excise and personal tax boards; two assistant assessors, at two thousand dol-885lars each; 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 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; temporaryNumerical book. clerk hire for preparing numerical book, two thousand dollars, and the employees in the See of the assessor may be assigned to duty in the preparation of said numerical book in addition to their regular duties, and may be allowed a reasonable compensation for such additional services from said appropriation; in all, forty-five thousand five hunched dollars; and the assessor of the District of Columbia is herebyCorporation returns. authorized, in his discretion, to accept, without penalty, all returns of gross earnings made by companies or corporations on or before August eighth, nineteen hundred and four, as if the same had been made on the first day of August, nineteen hundred and four.
Excise board: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, oneExcise board. thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Personal tax board: For two assistant assessors of personal taxes,Personal tax board. at three thousand dollars each; appraiser of personal property, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 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, seventeen thousand dollars.
For collector’s office; For collector, four thousand dollars;Collector’s office. deputy collector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 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.
For extra labor for preparation of tax-sale certificates, and so forth,Tax-sale certificates. with authority to employ clerks of this and other offices after office hours, eight hundred dollars. For auditor’s office: For auditor, three thousand six hundredAuditor’s office. 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, atone thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, two thousand five hundred dollars; deputy disbursing, officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the following now authorized and being paid from general appropriations, namely: For one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at oneClerks paid from general appropriations. thousand dollars each; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars, and one clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars.886 For office of corporation counsel: For corporation counsel,Corporation counsel’s office. 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; fourth assistant corporation counsel, one thousand two hundred dollars;
Stenographer, nine hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars. 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. For coroner’s office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundredCoroner’s office. dollars: morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand dollars.
For market masters: For two market masters, at one thousandMarket masters. two hundred dollars each; one market master, six hundred dollars; for hire of laborers for cleaning markets, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For office of sealer of weights and measures: For sealer ofSealer of weights and measures. weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; first 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.
For engineer’s office: Record division: For chief clerk, one thousandEngineer’s office.Record division. nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two messengers, at, five hundred and forty dollars each; engineer of highways, three thousandEngineers, inspectors, etc. dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three rodmen. at seven hundred mid 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 live hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as assistant engineer in Rock Creek Park; superintendent of parking, one thousand three and red dollars; assistant superintendent of parking, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; inspector of asphalt and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided, *That the inspector of asphalt and cements shall not*Proviso*.Restriction on asphalt inspector. receive or accept compensation of any kind from any person, firm, corporation, or municipality, other than the District of Columbia; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, one thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, eight hundred and forty dollars: messenger, five hundred and forty 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, nine hundred dollars; index clerk and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, sixty-six thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars.887 For the following, now authorized and being paid from general appropriations, namely:
For one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at oneEmployees paid from general appropriations. thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each; one inspector of material, one thousand two hundred dollars; two property-yard keepers, at one thousand dollars each; one engineer of bridges, two thousand one hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two transitmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one transit man, one thousand and fifty dollars; three rodmen, at nine hundred dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; three messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars; one inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; one bridge inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; eight foremen, tit one thousand two hundred dollars each; three subforemen, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; one bridge keeper, six hundred and fifty dollars; three bridge keepers, at six hundred dollars each; one foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Rock Creek Park; one foreman, one thousand and fifty dollars; four foremen, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant inspector of asphalts and cements, one thousand five hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one inspector, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; two skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one assistant engineer, two thousand two hundred dollars: one draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant engineer, two thousand one hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars; one inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: two levelers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; two rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; nine chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; four foremen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six foremen, at nine hundred dollars each; one steam engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two steam engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; three firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; one superintendent of repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; one clerk, six hundred and twenty dollars; one driver, five hundred and forty dollars; one superintendent of stables, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; one blacksmith, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; two watchmen, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; two drivers, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; in all, one hundred and eleven thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Special assessment office: For special assessment clerk, oneSpecial assessment office. thousand 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. For one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars, now authorized and paid from appropriation for assessment and permit work. Street-sweeping office: For superintendent, two thousand fiveStreet-sweeping office. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; four inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand888 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.
For the following, now authorized and being paid from general appropriations, namely: For superintendent of stable, one thousand and fifty dollars; foremanEmployees paid from general appropriations. of repairs, one thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; six inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; one weigh clerk, nine hundred and fifty dollars; one blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; one mechanic, seven hundred and eighty dollars; one mechanic’s helper, six hundred dollars; one hostler, live hundred and fifty dollars; nine dump men, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand three hundred dollars.
Board of examiners, steam engineers; For compensation forBoard of examiners, steam engineers. board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Department of insurance: For superintendent of insurance, threeInsurance department. thousand dollars; examiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; statistician, one thousand four hundred dollars; temporary clerk hire, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand six hundred dollars.
For surveyor’s office: For surveyor, three thousand dollars;Surveyor’s office. assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For the following, now authorized and being paid from general appropriations: For one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant engineers;Employees paid from general appropriations. at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one computer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one record clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; one inspector, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; one draftsman, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; one clerk, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; one draftsman, nine hundred dollars; one rodman, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; three chainmen, at seven hundred dollars each; two chairmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; one clerk, six hundred and seventy-five dollars; one charwoman, one hundred and four dollars; in all, fifteen thousand live hundred and seventy-nine dollars.
For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborer, andTemporary services. drivers when required, and for an additional field party when required, all expenditures under this sum to be made only on the written authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, four thousand five hundred dollars. In all, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars. Free public library: For librarian, two thousand five hundredFree public library. dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand dollars; assistant, trine hundred dollars; four assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistants, at six hundred dollars each; three assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; copyist, four hundred and eighty dollars; 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; five attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two messengers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; five pages, at two hundred and forty dollars each; two janitors, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one of whom shall act as a night watchman; engineer, nine hundred dollars; fireman, five hundred889 and forty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; four charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, twenty-four thousand and twenty dollars.
For keeping the library open fifty-two Sundays, from two o’clockSunday opening. postmeridian to ten o’clock postmeridian (eight hours), five holidays, from ten o’clock antemeridian to ten o’clock postmeridian (twelve hours), and for extra services, three hours on Saturday afternoons during July, August, and September, one thousand seven hundred dollars. Miscellaneous Free Public Library: For purchase of books,Miscellaneous. five thousand dollars; For binding, three thousand dollars;
For fuel, lighting, fitting up building, and other contingent expenses, six thousand dollars; In all, fourteen thousand dollars. CONTINENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent expenses of the government of the District ofContingent expenses. Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, lawbooks, 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, use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed live hundred dollars, 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. forty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided, *That horses*Proviso*.Use of horses, etc. and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall be used only for official purposes.
No part of the money appropriated by this Act, except appropriationsLimit on expenditure for horses, etc. for the militia, 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 hereinafter authorized.
No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for theFire insurance prohibited. payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department,Stables. including forage, livery of horses, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, 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 he made from any other fund, except as hereinafter authorized.
For postage for strictly official mail matter, six thousand dollars.Postage. For rent of District offices, nine thousand dollars.Rent. For rent of old record vault, six hundred dollars.890 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, including services of collectors or bailiffs,Collecting personal taxes. in the collect ion of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, three thousand dollars.
For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, theJudicial expenses. printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District eases 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. witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants. telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, two thousand two hundred dollars.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for taxAdvertising. and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, three thousand dollars. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first nineteen hundredTax arrearages sales. and five, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District ofEnforcing game and fish laws.
Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners, five hundred dollars. For continuing work on the municipal building for the District ofMunicipal building.Limit of cost increased. Columbia, three hundred thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said, building, including cost of site, is hereby increased from two million dollars to two million five hundred thousand dollars. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first,Removing dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes.” to pay the members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed ten dollars each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, two thousand dollars.
For purchase of land and improvements thereon for stable purposesStreet sweeping stable. for street-sweeping office, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. For all necessary alterations to the improvements on said land, two thousand dollars. For purchase of plats and field notes of William J. Latimer, to beWilliam J. Latimer.Plats. immediately available, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For stable, wagon shed, and fence for morgue, five hundred dollars.Morgue stable.
IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Improvements and repairs. Elimination of grade crossings: Toward carrying out the provisionsEliminating grade crossings, Union station.Vol. 31, p. 767. of the Acts of Congress providing for the elimination of grade crossings and the construction of a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, forVol. 32, p. 909. purchase or condemnation of the land necessary for the plaza and new streets, and for reconstructing, grading, and paving, together with the necessary incidental work in connection therewith, the streets,891 avenues, and ways changed in line or grade or newly created under the provisions of said Acts, including the employment on the approval of this Act of special assistant counsel at a rate not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum; and one clerk, at a rate not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum, in connection with the settlement of claims for damages incident to changes of grade, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, four hundred and titty thousand dollars.
Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work,Assessment and permit work. one, hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars. For grading, lowering, and improving Bunker Hill road crossing ofBunker Hill road.Elevation of Baltimore and Ohio tracks. the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad so as to eliminate the present grade crossing, thirteen thousand dollars; and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is hereby directed to construct a bridge to carry its tracks over said road at the present track grades, the cost of said bridge to be borne entirely by said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
Work of streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenuesWork on streets and avenues. named in Appendix W, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and six, seventy-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules mimed in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely; Georgetown schedule: Five thousand seven hundred dollars.Schedules. Northwest section schedule:
Twenty-four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Southwest section schedule: Seven thousand eight, hundred and fifty dollars. Southeast section schedule: Fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Northeast section schedule: Nineteen thousand dollars: *Provided, *That streets and avenues named in said schedules already*Proviso*.Streets paved with Belgian block, etc. 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 graved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall beLimit for asphalt pavements. made for making or relaying asphalt pavement, at a higher price than one dollar and sixty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base, nor more than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for laying standard asphalt block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided, *That these conditions*Proviso*.Increase allowed. 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 ease the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.
For replacing granite block pavement with asphalt on Third street,Repaving Third street SE. between D and E streets southeast, three thousand seven hundred dollars. Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For purchase and repair ofGrading. ears, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses, to lie 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 of streets, roads, and alleys:
For purchase orCondemnation. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars.892 Hereafter in all eases of payments tor opening, widening, extending,Opening alleys, etc.*Ante*, p. 733. and straightening alleys and minor streets under the provisions of the Code of Laws lor the District of Columbia, the accounting officers shall take into account the assessment for benefits and the award forAssessment and award. damages, and shall pay only such part of said award in respect of any lot as may be in excess of the assessment for benefits against the part of such lot not taken, and there shall be credited on said assessment the amount of said award not in excess of said assessment.
Construction of county roads: For construction of county roadsCounty roads.Construction. and suburban streets as follows: For completing the opening, grading, and macadamizing of FourteenthFourteenth stree road. street from its present terminus, at Lydecker avenue, to Piney Branch road, thirty-seven thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars, of which amount, ten thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For Sherman avenue, Florida avenue to Irving street, improve, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For Erie street and Euclid place, Sixteenth street to University place, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars. For twentieth street, Brentwood road to Queens Chapel road, grade and improve, one thousand nine hundred and ten dollars. For Nichols avenue, Anacostia, macadamize, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For Clifton street, Eleventh to Thirteenth, grade, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For Bladensburg road, grade and improve, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For Messmore street, grade and improve, one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. For Grant street, School to Mount Pleasant, grade and improve, two thousand two hundred dollars. For S street, First to Le Droit street northwest, grade and pave, six thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. For streets in Anacostia, grade and improve, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For Trumbull street, First to Four-and-a-half street northwest, grade and improve, three thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For Lowell street, Eighteenth street to Columbia avenue, grade and improve, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For streets in American University Park, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars. For Pennsylvania avenue extended, grade, ten thousand dollars. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directedVirginia C. HuidekoperCredit for assessment widening V street NW.*Ante*, p. 520. to credit the assessment for benefits in the matter of the widening of V street northwest, under the Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, with the sum of one, thousand and fifty dollars, against lots numbered nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, four-teen, fifteen, and sixteen in square one hundred and thirtvnine; lot numbered eight in square one hundred and forty: the east fifty-five, feet by the depth thereof of lot numbered one and lots numbered two and three in square one hundred and forty-one; and lots numbered two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight, in square one hundred and forty-two, all in the subdivision of Burleith, said amount being the sum paid by Virginia C.
Huidekoper as a deposit under said Act, which deposit was intended to be applied upon said assessment. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia arc hereby authorizedDistrict quarry.Operating. to invite bids and to make contracts for operating the District quarry for such periods, not exceeding five years each, as may be determined by them to be most advantageous to the District. Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to893 concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, two hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall be available forStreet railways. repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary; the, amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of governmentVol. 20, p. 106. for the District of Columbia,” approved Juno eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.
For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public reservationsSidewalks. and municipal buildings, nine thousand five hundred dollars. Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs of county roadsCounty roads. and suburban streets, eighty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Bridges: For construction and repairs of bridges, fourteen thousandBridges. dollars. For continuing the construction of the bridge across Rock Creek onConnecticut Avenue Bridge. the line of Connecticut avenue, extended, three hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars, of which sum one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available.
For completing construction, including approaches and acquisitionHighway bridge, Potomac River.Construction. of land therefor, of the highway bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, District of Columbia, and for personal services and any and all purposes connected therewith, two hundred thousand dollars. For maintenance of said bridge, including necessary personal servicesMaintenance. therefor, seven thousand dollars. The reconstruction of the Anacostia Bridge authorized in the DistrictAnacostia Bridge.Mode of reconstruction.*Ante*, p. 372. of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five may be on the Hue of the existing bridge or on such other line as may be determined by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and the limit of cost for this work is increased from twoLimit of cost increased. hundred and fifty thousand dollars to three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, and the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, out of the appropriation made for said reconstruction, such land as is necessary to provideApproaches. proper approaches for said bridge, and in ease there is any dispute regarding the title of any land so condemned, the value thereof, as determined under said condemnation proceedings, shall be deposited into the registry of the court, and upon such deposit being made the title to the land claimed shall be vested in the District of Columbia; *Provided, *That the time within which said bridge shall be constructed*Provisos*.Time of construction.Underfloor electrical conductors for street railroad. is extended to July first, nineteen hundred and seven: *And provided further,* That in addition to the requirements heretofore made as to the payment fora portion of said work upon said bridge by the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company, said company shall, when directed by the said Commissioners, deposit with the collector of taxes of the district of Columbia, to the credit of the appropriation for the reconstruction of said bridge, the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars, to defray the cost of such underfloor construction as may be necessary in order that the cars of said company may be propelled over said bridge by underfloor electrical conductors or cables, and the entire cost of maintenance of said underfloor construction shall there-after be borne by said railroad company, and no cars shall be propelled across said bridge unless all electrical conductors or cables furnishing power for the propulsion of the same shall be placed under floor of said bridge.
For construction of a concrete bridge across Piney Branch on thePiney Branch bridge. line of Sixteenth street extended, twenty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of said bridge lit a cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, to be paid from time to time as appropriations therefor may be made by law. 894SEWERS. Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, forty-two thousandCleaning. dollars.
For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, forty-four thousandMain and pipe. dollars. For suburban sewers, forty-four thousand dollars.Suburban. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,Rights of way,. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing construction of the sewage-disposal system pumpingPumping station. station, and for machinery therefor, ninety-seven thousand dollars.
For completing construction of the B street and New Jersey avenueB street and New Jersey avenue trunk trunk sewer, one hundred and thirty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. For completing the outfall sewer, siphon, and outlet, including costOutfall sewer. of securing rights of way for outfall sewer by purchase or condemnation, three hundred thousand seven hundred dollars. For completing lower section of Rock Creek and B street interceptingRock Creek and B street sewer, twenty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty dollars, to be immediately available.
For completing Water and L street intercepting sewer, one hundredWater and L street. and forty-three thousand live hundred and sixty dollars, to be immediately available. For completing Four-and-a-half street intercepting sewer, seventy-eightFour-and-a-half street. thousand and eighty dollars. For completing outlet to old B street sewer, twenty-four thousandB street outlet. two hundred and fifty dollars. Any balances of former appropriations remaining after the executionUse 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 rent of stable and storage rooms; purchase, maintenance, and livery of horses; purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons and harness, and necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work done under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract: *Provided*, That whenever it*Proviso*.Contracts permitted. shall appear to the Commissioners that said latter work cannot 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 IO the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same cannot be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty emits per thousand square yards, they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications; one hundred and ninety-one thousand live hundred 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 theRemoving snow and ice.Vol. 28, p. 809. Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand five hundred dollars. Disposal of city refuse; For the vol lection and disposal of garbageDisposal of refuse. and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; for collection and disposal of night soil in the District of895 Columbia, and for the payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, arid incidental expenses, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso*.Work under Commissioners.*Ante*, p. 621.
That if it shall appear to the Commissioners that any part of this work can be done under their immediate direction at less cost than is proposed by the lowest and best responsible bidder under the, contracts authorized to be entered into by the Act approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, said Commissioners are hereby authorized to undertake such work and to use this appropriation, or any part thereof, for that purpose, other provisions of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, and such use shall be reported in detail in the estimates submitted to Congress.
For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, includingParking Commission. laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, twenty-four thousand dollars. Bathing beach: For superintendent, six hundred dollars: watchman,Bathing beach. four hundred and fifty dollars, now authorized and being paid from the general appropriation; and for temporary services, maintenance, and repairs, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available; in all, three thousand dollars.
For public scales: For repair and replacement of public scales,Scales. two hundred dollars. For public pumps: For the purchase, replacement, and repair ofPumps. public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, filling abandoned or condemned public wells, including the hire and maintenance of necessary horse and wagon, three thousand dollars. Playgrounds: For equipment and maintenance of playgrounds, twoPlaygrounds. thousand dollars. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Electrical department.
For electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars: superintendent,Salaries. one thousand six hundred dollars; two electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; 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 repair man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; four repair men, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
For the following, now authorized and being paid from general Appropriations, namely: For two electrical inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollarsEmployees paid from general appropriations. each: one electrical inspector, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; one cable splicer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars each; one clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant cable splicer, six hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant repair man, six hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant repair men, at live hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred and sixty dollars; four telephone operators, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one telephone operator, four hundred and fifty dollars; one storekeeper, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; and one laborer, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all. eighteen thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies,Supplies. telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of896 poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, for age, extra labor, new boxes, rent of stable and storeroom, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars.
For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, and police telephone servicePlacing wires underground. 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, twenty-three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of newPolice-patrol system. boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand three hundred dollars.
For the purchase of twenty-five additional fire-alarm boxes, and forFire-alarm boxes. the purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand five hundred dollars. Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing,Lighting. and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-frosts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unlit for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items, two hundred and eleven thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no more than twenty dollars*Provisos*.Maximum perlamp. per annum shall be paid for each gas lamp equipped with a self-regulating flat-flame burner so adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of live cubic feet of gas per hour, nor more than twenty-six dollars per annum for each gas or oil lamp equipped with an incandescent mantle burner of not less than sixty candlepower, And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six 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: *Provided,* That all of said lumpsAll night service. shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; *And provided further, *Street designation signs.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may purchase, erect, light, and maintain such posts, lanterns, signs, and fixtures for street designation purposes, in addition to those mentioned above, as in their judgment may be necessary, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph except as to the time of burning: *And provided further,* That the Commissioners of the District ofContracts for highpower lamps.
Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to enter into one-year or three-year contracts for any one of the above systems of lighting by gas or oil lamps equipped with incandescent mantle burners of not less than sixty candlepower; and hereafter the illuminating power of gas furnished by any gas-lighting company, person, or persons in the District of Columbia shall be equal to twenty-two candles. For electric arc lighting, and for extensions of such service, notElectric lighting. exceeding eighty-four thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided,* That*Proviso*.Maximum price. not more than eighty-five dollars per annum shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of under-ground wire; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part, of this appropriation shall be used for897 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, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,Maintenance. and repair of the aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the Washington City reservoir, and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, and also including the purchase and maintenance of horses, vehicles, and harness, and the care and maintenance of the stable heretofore and now in use, thirty-three thousand dollars. For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,Filtration plant.s and operation of the Washington, District of Columbia, Aqueduct filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, a sum not exceeding seventy thousand dollars may be used out of the appropriations heretofore made for the construction of said filtration plant, and estimates hereunder shall be submitted in detail for the fiscalEstimates. year nineteen hundred and seven.
ROCK CREEK PARK. Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, to be expendedCare, etc. under the direction of the board of control of said park, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Public schools. For officers: For seven members of the board of education, atBoard of education. five hundred dollars each, three thousand five hundred dollars, not more than one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars of which shall be used during the first half of the fiscal year; superintendent of publicSuperintendents, etc schools, four thousand dollars; two assistant superintendents, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; secretary, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For teachers: For one thousand four hundred and forty-threeTeachers. teachers, to be assigned as follows: For director of high schools, two thousand five hundred dollars; For thirteen supervising principals, at two thousand dollars each; For director of manual training, two thousand dollars; For five principals of high schools, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For principal of McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For principal of Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand eight hundred dollars:
For principal of Normal School Number One and principal of Normal School Number Two, two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For teacher of kindergarten work in Normal School Number Two, one thousand dollars; For director of primary instruction, four heads of departments of high schools, and three grammar school principals, eight in all, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; For director of music, director of drawing, and director of physical culture, three in all, at one thousand four 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;898 For assistant director of drawing, 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, director of cooking, director of sewing, and ten principals of buildings, thirty-four in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;
For director of primary work and one high school teacher, two in all at one thousand one hundred dollars each: For one hundred and twenty-one, at one thousand dollars each; For twenty-one, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For thirty-four, at nine hundred dollars each; For twenty-three, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For sixteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For ninety-seven, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each: For forty, at eight hundred dollars each;
For one hundred and four, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For twenty-six, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; For one hundred and fifty-nine, at seven hundred dollars each; For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and sixty-three, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For two hundred and sixteen, at six hundred dollars each; For five, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and thirty-nine, at five hundred and fifty dollars each;
For one hundred and forty-five, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For sixty, at five hundred dollars each; In all, one million fifty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. *Provided, *That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination*Proviso*.No sex discrimination.Division of salaries prohibited. 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, and teachers of nightNight schools. schools may also lie teachers in the day schools, ten thousand dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, live hundred dollars. Kindergarten teachers: For ninety-three kindergarten teachers,Kindergarten. to be assigned as follows: For one director of kindergartens, one thousand four hundred dollars; For one assistant director of kindergartens for the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth school divisions, one thousand dollars:
For one teacher, nine hundred dollars; For one teacher, seven him died dollars: For twelve teachers, at six hundred and fifty dollars each: For thirty-three teachers, at six hundred dollars each; For seventeen assistants, at five hundred dollars each: For twenty-seven assistants, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; For kindergarten supplies, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For janitors and care of buildings and grounds:
For superintendentJanitors, etc. of janitors, one thousand two hundred dollars; For care of Central High School and annex, two thousand dollars; Of the Business High School, one thousand six hundred dollars; Of the Jefferson Building, Franklin Building, and the Western High School, three in all, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;899 Of the Eastern High School, M Street High School, McKinley Manual Training School, Armstrong Manual Training School, and Stevens School buildings, five 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 school 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, Edmunds, Fillmore, Gage, Garrison, Giddings, Eckington, Green-leaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Lovejoy, Ludlow, McCormick, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Abby S.
Simmons, Slater, Smallwood, Takotna, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Buren, Webb, Weightman, Wheafly, Wilson, and Worndy buildings, sixty-eight in all, at five hundred and forty dollars each; Of the Garfield, Thomson, Van Buren annex, and Woodburn buildings, four in all, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; Of the Benning (white), Benning (colored), Chevy Chase, Stanton, Hamilton, High Street, Langdon, Kenilworth, B. B. French, Orr, Petworth, Potomac, Reno, Reservoir, and Threlkeld buildings, fifteen in all, at two hundred and forty dollars each;
Of the Bunker Hill, Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Military Road, Ivy City, and Burrville buildings, six in all, at one hundred and twenty dollars each, seven hundred and twenty dollars; 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 dollars; For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinleyEngineers.
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-eight thousand and eighty dollars. For medical inspectors: For twelve medical inspectors of publicMedical inspectors. schools, four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided, *That said inspectors shall*Proviso*.Competitive examination. 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.
Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and repair shop, fifteenRent. thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, andRepairs. for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, sixty-two thousand dollars.900 For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, forty thousand dollars; a detailed statement shall be submitted to Congress of the expenditure of the foregoing sum and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven estimates shall he submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing.
For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, andManual training. books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars. For fuel, forty-five thousand dollars.Fuel. For furniture for new school buildings and additions to buildings,Furniture. as follows: One eight-room building in the sixth division numbered Blow, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one eight-room building in the first division numbered John W.
Ross, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; furniture and equipment, of the new Business High School, namely, for pupils’ desks and chairs, teachers’ desks, sectional bookeases, window shades and rollers, hat and coat lockers, furnishing recitation and teachers’ rooms, furnishing and installing automatic clock system and interior telephone system, oak gun racks and sword cases, drawing room equipment, library equipment, geography department, laboratory department, library books, equipment of gymnasium, equipment for the department of book-keeping and business arithmetic and department of typewriting and shorthand, and seats for assembly hall, all complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Contingent expenses. hooks, 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-eight thousand dollars. For free evening lectures to be given in the public school buildingsFree lectures. or such halls as may be designated under rules and regulations of the board of education, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of pianos for school buildings, at an average cost notPianos. to exceed two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, two thousand jive, hundred dollars. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the firstSupplies for pupils. eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including one custodian of textbooks and supplies, at one thousand dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred dollars, fifty-two thousand one hundred dollars: *Provided, **Provisos*.Exchanges.That the board of education in its discretion is authorized to make exchanges of such hooks and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use..
For purchase of United States flags, one thousand dollars.Flags. For apparatus for the equipment of school playgrounds, one thousandPlayground equipments. five hundred dollars. Bindings and grounds: For the completion of the Business HighBuildings and grounds. School, forty-nine thousand six hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For completion of one eight-room building, in the sixth division, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars. For completion of one eight-room building, first division, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars.
For site for and toward construction of one eight-room building in the fifth division to relieve Curtis School, thirty-four thousand eight901 hundred 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 site for and toward the construction of one eight-room building, thirteenth division, to relieve the Randall and Bell schools, thirty-four thousand eight hundred 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 replacing wooden stairways with iron or stone in the following buildings: Cook, Randall, Thompson, Van Buren annex, twelve thousand dollars. That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respectiveCost of sites, etc. 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. That the plans and specifications for school buildings shall be preparedPlans.Preparation and approval. 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 personsDeaf 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).Vol. 31, p. 844. of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, and this provision shall apply to appropriations made for the same object for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
And theColored children. directors of said institution are hereby authorized to provide for the education of colored deaf-mute children properly belonging to the District of Columbia, in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-Mutes, or some other suitable school, at a cost not exceeding the per capita expense of educating the State pupils in such school. FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE. Police. For major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; captain andSalaries. assistant superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four captains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars: clerk, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four surgeons of the police and tire departments, at five hundred mid 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; eleven lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; forty sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; three hundred and seventy privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; two hundred and sixty-five privates, class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each: twenty-four station keepers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; janitor902 for police headquarters, seven hundred and twenty dollars; thirteen laborers, at six hundred dollars each; 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-five lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each: sixty-four sergeants anil privates, mounted, on bicycles, at forty dollars each; twenty-six drivers, at six hundred dollars each: and three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all. seven hundred and sixty-nine thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of substation and stable at Anacostia,Rent, Anacostia. four hundred and eighty dollars; For fuel, three thousand five hundred dollars;Fuel. For repairs to stations, four thousand seven hundred and fiftyRepairs. dollars; For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchaseContingent expenses. of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, installation of card system and maintenance of the same in the police department, stationery, books, books of reference and periodicals, telegraphing, photographs, printing, landing, gas. ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, 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, and patrol wagons, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, thirty-two thousand live hundred dollars;
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred and twenty-fiveFlags. dollars; For rent of police department headquarters and property store-rooms,Rent. two thousand four hundred dollars; In all, forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars. House of detention; To enable the Commissioners of the DistrictHouse of detention. of Columbia to provide transportation, including the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, mid a suitable place for flic reception, transportation, and detention of 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, including salaries of two clerks, at seven hundred dollars each; four drivers, at four hundred dollars each: one hostler, five hundred mid forty dollars: and three guards, at five hundred and eighty-five dollars each, now authorized and being paid from the general appropriation; ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided, *That all such persons held or detained under*Proviso*.Time of detention. public authority prior to the adjudication of cases in which they may be involved shall be held at the place so provided.
For harbor patrol: For one lieutenant in the police department,Harbor patrol. who shall also be harbor master for the District of Columbia, to which position the present harbor master shall be eligible, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; one sergeant, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars; one engineer, eight hundred mid forty dollars; one fireman, four hundred and eighty dollars; one watchman,” four hundred and twenty dollars; one deck hand, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, one thousand five hundred dollars. In all, six thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. The major and superintendent of the Metropolitan police shall hereafterHarbor and river front assigned to police department. be charged with the enforcement of all laws and regulations903 relating to the harbor, and employ the lieutenant, force, and means provided for this service in the execution of the duties appertaining thereto.
FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Fire department. For chief engineer, two thousand live hundred dollars, and this sumSalaries. 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 lire department; deputy chief engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; tire marshal, one thousand six hundred dollars; machinist, one thousand dollars; twenty-nine, captains, at one thousand dollars each; two pilots at nine hundred dollars each; thirty lieutenants, at nine hundred dollars each; eighteen engineers, at one thousand dollars each; eighteen assistant engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; marine engineer, one thousand dollars; assistant marine engineer, nine hundred dollars; thirty drivers, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and ninety-six privates, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-nine watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three hundred and twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
Miscellaneous; For repairs and improvements to engine housesMiscellaneous. and grounds, eight thousand dollars; For repairs to apparatus and for new apparatus and new appliances, nine thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, twelve thousand dollars; For fuel, twelve thousand dollars: For purchase of horses, thirteen thousand dollars; For forage, eighteen thousand dollars; For rent, three hundred and sixty dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil,Contingent expenses medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, fifteen thousand dollars;
In all, eighty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Increase fire department; For house and furniture for the fireIncrease fire department. boat, including cost of constructing a wharf and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, eighteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For one third-size steam fire engine, four thousand eight hundredNew apparatus. dollars; For one combination chemical engine and hose wagon, two thousand dollars; For one second-size steam lire engine, five-thousand three hundred dollars;
In all, thirty thousand one hundred dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Health department. For health officer, three thousand live hundred dollars; chief inspectorSalaries.s 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 arid 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 hundred904 dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, two of whom may act as sanitary arid 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 dob lars; ambulance driver, five hundred and forty dollars; four sanitary and food inspectors, who shall be veterinary surgeons, at one thousand dollars each, and three sanitary and food inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each, to assist in the enforcement of the milk and purefood laws, and the regulations relating thereto; in all, forty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; *Provided, *That no officer or employee*Provisos*.Private service prohibited. of the health department shall, during his continuance in office, serve in his private capacity for fee, gift, or reward any person licensed to keep or maintain a dairy or dairy farm in said District, or to bring or to send milk into said District, or any person who has applied or is about to apply for such license, or any manufacturer or dealer in foods, drugs, or disinfectants, or similar materials: *Provided further, *ThatDairies defined. every place where milk is sold shall be deemed a dairy under the law for purposes of inspection.
Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twentyRent. dollars. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent thePrevention of contagious diseases.Vol. 26, p. 691. spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District ofVol. 29, p. 635. Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for investigating the cause of cases of typhoid fever reported to the health department under the provisions of an Act to require casesVol. 32, p. 3. 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 salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, rent of stable, purchase of reference books, and rent and maintenance of quarantine station, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For maintenance of the disinfecting service, including salaries orDisinfecting service. compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, four thousand five hundred dollars. For emergency fund for the enforcement of the provisions of sectionDrainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 126. four of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For special services in connection with the detection of the adulterationFood adulteration. of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act toFood, etc., inspection. regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five;Vol. 28, p. 709. an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the DistrictVol. 30, p. 246. of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in theVol. 30, p. 398.
District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the maintenance of a chemical laboratory, and for the purchase of reference books, one thousand dollars.905 For the necessary traveling expenses of sanitary and food inspectorsDairy inspection. while traveling outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milky and other dairy products, one thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Garfield and Providence hospitals:
For isolating wards for minorIsolating wards in hospitals. 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. For amount required to pay the reporter of the court of appeals ofCourt of appeals reports. the District of Columbia for volumes of the reports of the opinions of said court, authorized to be furnished by him under section two hundredVol. 31, p. 1226. and twenty-nine of the Code of Laws for the District of ColumbiaVol. 32, p. 609. as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two volumes, at five dollars each, namely, eleven copies of volume twenty-three and eleven copies of volume twenty-four, one hundred and ten dollars.
For the police court: For two judges at three thousand dollarsPolice court. each; clerk, two thousand dollars: two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; 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: For witness fees, four thousand dollars;Miscellaneous. 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 compensation of jurors, eight thousand dollars; In all, twelve thousand three hundred dollars. For the erection of a new police-court building, seventy-five thousandNew building. dollars. For rent of temporary quarters until the new police court is readyRent. for occupancy, three thousand dollars.
Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionLunacy writs.Vol. 32, p. 1043.*Ante*, pp. 316, 740. 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 existing law, two thousand five hundred dollars. Justices of the peace: For ten justices of the peace, at two thousandJustices 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 andInterest and sinking fund. seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars. EMERGENCY FUND. To be expended only in ease of emergency, such as riot, pestilence,Emergency fund. public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like906 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 transportationSupport of convicts out of District. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direct ion of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars. Courthouse, District of Columbia: For the following force necessaryCourthouse. for the care and protection of the courthouse 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; seven assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General. Warden of the jail: For warden of the jail of the District ofJail.Warden. Columbia, two thousand dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General.
Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail ofMaintenance. the District of Columbia, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the AttornevGeneral, fifty thousand dollars. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Charities and corrections. Board of Charities: For secretary, three thousand dollars; clerk,Board of Charities. one thousand dollars; stenographer, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; four inspectors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; four drivers, at six hundred dollars each; hostler, live hundred and forty dollars; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For one inspector now authorized and being paid from the appropriation for relief of the poor, nine hundred dollars, reformatories and correctional institutions. Reformatories. For Washington Asylum: For superintendent, one thousand fiveWashington Asylum. 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, six hundred dollars; baker, four hundred andd 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; engineer at new workhouse for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; two watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; 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 dol-907lars; keeper at female workhouse, three hundred dollars; keeper at female workhouse, one hundred and eighty dollars; two female attendants at almshouse, one hundred and eighty dollars each; hospital cook, six hundred dollars; chief cook for almshouse and workhouse, six hundred dollars; two assistant cooks, at one-hundred and eighty dollars each; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, six hundred dollars; two graduate nurses, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, three hundred and sixty-five dollars: two nurses for tuberculosis wards, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; six orderlies, at. three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one in number, one thousand five hundred dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For the following, now authorized and being paid from the appropriation for contingent expenses, namely: For gardener, five hundred and forty dollars; herdsman, three hundredEmployees under contingent expenses. and sixty-five dollars; florist, three hundred dollars; tailor, one hundred and twenty dollars; and for temporary labor not to exceed three thousand dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars. For contingent expenses, including provisions, fuel, forage, harness,Contingent expenses. and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen, utensils, and other necessary items, sixty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars. For completion of a workhouse for males, sixty thousand dollars.Workhouse. For completion of a municipal almshouse, consisting of one or moreAlmshouse. plain, substantial buildings, including water supply, heating, ventilating. and lighting apparatus, seventy-five thousand dollars. For installing new baths in workhouse buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For installing a laundry plant, including metallic washers, extractors, mangle, engine, pulleys, shafting, belting, and dry box, four thousand dollars. For Reform School: For care and maintenance of boys committedReform School.Maintenance of inmates. to the Reform School by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said Reform School, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Reform School for Girls:
Superintendent, one thousand two hundredReform School for Girls.Salaries. dollars; treasurer, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; two teachers, at six hundred dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; five teachers of industries, at four hundred and eighty 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, eight thousand four hundred and five dollars.
For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing,Expenses. 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, eighteen thousand four hundred and five dollars. Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to theTransporting prisoners. workhouse, including salary of driver not to exceed seven hundred908 and twenty dollars, as now authorized and being paid, and the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, two thousand dollars.
Medical Charities. Medical charities. For the rare and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toFreedmen’s Hospital. be made with the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum by the Board of Charities, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may he necessary. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toColumbia Hospital. be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs to Columbia Hospital building, including installation ofRepairs. new boilers, two thousand dollars. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toChildren’s Hospital be made with the Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toHomeopathic Hospital. be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional amount to aid in the reconstruction and completionBuilding. of the building for the National Homeopathic Hospital, provided forVol. 32, p. 978. by the District of Columbia appropriation Art approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, eighteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents, to be immediately available. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary serviceEmergency Hospital. to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, ten thousand dollars.
For emergency care find treatment of, and free dispensary service to,Eastern Dispensary. indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, two thousand dollars. For the Women's Clinic, maintenance, seven hundred and fiftyWomen’s Clinic. dollars. For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, three thousandHome for Incurables. five hundred dollars. To enable the Board of Charities to provide for emergency care andEmergency cases. treatment of, and free dispensary service to indigent patients, under contracts or agreements with hospitals and dispensaries: *Provided, **Proviso*.Restrictions.That no part of this sum shall be used to establish or maintain any hospital or dispensary not now existing in the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars. child-caring institutions.
Care of children. Board of Children’s Guardians: For the Board of Children‘sBoard of Children’s Guardians.Vol. 27, p. 268. Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including expenses in placing and visiting children, and all office and sundry expenses, three thousand one hundred dollars; For the following, now authorized and being paid from the appropriation for administrative expenses, namely:
For agent, one thousand five hundred dollars; probation officer, oneSalaries. thousand two hundred dollars; executive clerk, one thousand and eighty dollars; placing officer, nine hundred dollars; placing officer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; investigating clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars: record clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; visiting inspector, four hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seven thousand six hundred and twenty dollars;
For maintenance of feeble-minded children, twelve thousand dollars:Feeble-minded children.909 For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship ofCare of children. 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 undercharge of the Board, forty thousand dollars;
In all, for Board of Children’s Guardians, sixty-two thousand four hundred dollars. The Board of Children’s Guardians is hereby directed to contractHart Farm School. 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. Toward the erection of plain, substantial brick building or buildingsIndustrial home school for colored children. for an industrial home school for colored children, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the whole work at a cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
For the Industrial Home School: For the following, nowIndustrial Home School.Salaries. authorized and being paid from a general appropriation: Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; matron, four hundred and eighty dollars; two matrons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant matrons, at three hundred dollars each; housekeeper, three hundred and sixty dollars: sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; nurse, three hundred dollars: manual-training teacher, six hundred dollars; florist, six hundred dollars; engineer, six hundred dollars; farmer, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, two hundred and sixteen dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; two housemaids, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; temporary labor, not to exceed four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars;
For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, andMaintenance. harness, nine thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars; In all, seventeen thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, two thousandRepairs, etc. dollars, For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars. For the rare and maintenance of children under a contract to beHome for Destitute Colored Women. made with the National Association for the Belief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed nine thousand nine hundred dollars.
For the Working Bovs’ Home and Children’s Aid Association, maintenance,Children’s Aid Association. seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to beFoundlings’ Hospital. made with the Washington Hospital for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, six thousand dollars. For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to beSaint Ann’s Asylum. made with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars.
For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to beGerman Orphan Asylum. made with the German Orphan Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars. temporary homes. Temporary homes. For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely: ForMunicipal lodging house. superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; and910 laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars, now authorized and being paid from the general appropriation; and for maintenance, including rent, one thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand live hundred dollars.
For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, GrandGrand Army Soldiers’ Home. Army of the Republic, namely: For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; and cook, three hundred and sixty dollars, now authorized and being paid from the general appropriation; and for maintenance, three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars; in all, live 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, two thousandWomen’s Christian Association. dollars. For the care and maintenance of women and children under a contractHope and Help Mission. to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, two thousand dollars. Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane ofSupport of indigent insane. 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/p939/940). mid forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, two hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insaneDeporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “To change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand dollars.
That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of theAdvances to Board of Charities. District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.
Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay ofRelief of the poor. physicians to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand three hundred dollars. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, twoTransportation. thousand dollars. MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and directionExpenses. of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely:
For rent, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, and for telephone, service, twenty 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, one thousand two hundred dollars. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, nine hundred dollars.911 For clerk, office of the Adjutant-General, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For expenses of drills and parades, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For expenses of rifle practice and matches, four thousand seven hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For expenses of camps, instruction, practice marches, and practiceCamp expenses. cruises, including fuel for' cruising purposes, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursedPay. under the authority and direction of the commanding general, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter*Provisos*.Status of members. 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 trustor profit, or discharging any official function under or in connection with any Executive Department of the Government of the United States within the provisions of section fifty-four hundred and ninety-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States: *Provided further,* That all moneys collected on account of deductions made fromDeductions for loss of property. 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: *Provided further,* That all moneysUse of fines, etc. 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 expenses of the service, heretofore or hereafter incurred, including law books and books of reference, 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. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsPayable from water revenues. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shallRevenue and inspection branch. also perform the duties of chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 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:
For distribution branch: For superintendent, three thousand dollars;Distribution branch. draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; time keeper, 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, thirty thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For the following, now authorized and being paid from general appropriations for the water department, namely: For one assistant engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; oneEmployees paid from general appropriations. assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; one912 leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; two rodmen, at nine hundred dollars each; two elm in men, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; one clerk, one thousand live hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; one assistant storekeeper, seven hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; one assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant foreman, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; one chief Steam engineer, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant steam engineers, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; four oilers, at six hundred and ten dollars each; three firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollar’s each;
One machinist, one thousand two hundred dollars; two machinists, at nine hundred and seventy-five dollars each; one carpenter, one thousand mid fifty dollars; one inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; one blacksmith, one thousand and fifty dollars; two plumbers, at one thousand mid fifty dollars each; one janitor, nine hundred dollars; one watchman, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one watchman, seven hundred dollars; one watchman, six hundred and ten dollars; two drivers, at seven hundred dollars each; one charwoman, one hundred and fifty dollars; eight inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each; one inspector, nine hundred dollars; one assistant tapper, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one clerk, one thousand three hundred mid fifty dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand mid fifty dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars: one driver, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing,Contingent expenses. purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, 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. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipeFuel, etc. distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire 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, forty-two thousand dollars.
For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-serviceHigh-service system. system of water distribution, and for laying necessary trunk mains for low service, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, mid appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase mid 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 six, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
For purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters, to beWater meters for private residences placed in such private residences as may be directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said meters at all times to remain the property of the water department, five thousand dollars. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedRefund of erroneously paid water rents. to cause all water rents erroneously paid hereafter in the District of Columbia to be refunded in the maimer prescribed by law for the refunding of erroneously paid taxes: *Provided,* That application for*Proviso*.Applications. refund shall be made within two years after such erroneous payment.
And hereafter the said Commissioners are authorized to cause to beRefund of water payments. refunded in the same manner and subject to the same limitations all money paid for water for any special purpose where the project is913 abandoned and the water not used, and for tapping water mains and for furnishing stopcock where the service is not rendered and the material is not furnished: and all money refunded under this provision of this Act shall be paid from and charged to the water fund.
Sec. 2. That no civil officer, clerk, draftsman, copyist, messenger,Clerks, etc., to be paid at rates specifically appropriated. assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, or other employee shall, after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, be employed in any office, department, or branch of the government of the District of Columbia, except only at such rates and in such numbers, respectively, as may be specifically appropriated for by Congress for such clerical and other personal services for each fiscal year; and no civilPayments from general appropriations limited. officer, clerk, draftsman, copyist, messenger, assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, or other employee shall, after said date, he employed in any office, department, or other branch of the govern mem of the District of Columbia or be paid from any appropriation made for contingent expenses, or for any specific or general purpose, unless such employment is authorized and payment therefor specifically provided in the law granting the appropriation or is authorized as hereinafter provided, and then only for services actually rendered in connection with and for the purposes of the appropriation from which payment is made and at the rate of compensation usual and proper for such services, and on and after duly first, nineteen hundred and five, all moneys accruing from lapsed salaries, or for unused appropriations for salaries, shall be covered into the Treasury as are the balances of other unexpended appropriations for the support of the government of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 3. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,Temporary drafts men, etc. transitmen, rodmen. chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be. employed exclusively to carry into affect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District; and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the CommissionersReport. of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided, *That the*Proviso*.Maximum expenditure. expenditures hereunder shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorizedWork under Commissioners.Temporary laborers, etc. to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers and mechanics, as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not, be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services arid expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 4. All horses, harness, and wagons necessary for use in connectionHorses, wagons, etc.Special authority of Commissioners for using. with sewer, street, or road work, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or const ruction work authorized by appropriations may be purchased, hired, and maintained, exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations. when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all such expenditures necessary for914 the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work, and the Commissioners of the District, in the annual estimates, shall report the number of horses, wagons, and harness purchased, and horses and wagons hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation, and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may lie practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided, *That such*Proviso*.Work under Commissioners. horses, wagons, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section three of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.
Sec. 5. The services of draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, andWater department.Temporary draftsmen, etc. inspectors, temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations, may lie employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimatesReport. shall report the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided, *That the expenditures*Proviso*.Maximum expenditures. hereunder shall not exceed eight thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorizedWork under Commissioners.Temporary laborers, etc. to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics, as may be required in connection with water-department, work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done, under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 6. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorizedMiscellaneous trust fund.*Ante*, p. 368.Expenses authorized under. to employ in the execution of work, the cost of which is payable, from the appropriation account created in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year, nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred anil four, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street railway crossings. one inspector of gas lifting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant marker master, watchman, and one laborer for the wholesale producers market, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account.
Sec. 7. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall notLimit on requisitions. make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasure of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District, except as otherwise provided herein. Sec. 8. That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundredAdvances from the Treasury. and six, 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 the915 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*Provisos*.Interest on advances.Vol. 31, p. 766;
Vol. 32, pp. 616, 981.*Ante*, p. 390. made under this Act and under the Acts of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and one, June first, nineteen hundred and two, March third, nineteen hundred and three, and April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. 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 six, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum until so reimbursed: *Provided further,* That the Auditor for the State and other Departments and the auditorReport. of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each fiscal year Separately, mid also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any. due to the United States: *And Provided further,* That nothing contained herein shall be so construed as toStreet extensions. 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. 9. That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, March 3, 1905.
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