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Chapter 1628. 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 five, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1628.— 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 five, and for other purposes. April 27, 1904.[[H. R. 12833](/us/bill/34/hr/12833).][[Public, No. 187](/us/pl/34/187).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the half of the following sumsDistrict of Columbia appropriations.Half from District revenues. named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, 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 five thousand dollars); secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; two assistant secretaries to Commissioners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand.two hundred dollars each; clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at 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 timeas their services may be necessary, two thousand four hundred dollars; two civil engineers or computers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars; steam engineer, nine hundred dollars; three firemen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two elevator operators, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two laborers, one of whom shall also act as messenger and substitute elevator operator, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; property clerk, who shall give bond in such sum as the CommissionersBond of property clerk, duties. may determine, and who shall, under the direction of the Commissioners, supervise the purchase and distribution and have custody of all supplies and stores for the use of the government of the District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred 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 at one thousand dollai> each; five members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each; harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, seventy-five thousand and sixty-four 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 dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: clerk, arrears division, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; assist-364ant 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; in all, forty-three *Proviso*Personal taxes on tapestries of late General Sheridan, canceled.thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the personal tax for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, levied against certain tapestries, which were presented to the late Lieutenant-General Philip H.
Sheridan for gallant and meritorious services, and which are on exhibition in the. National Museum, be canceled, and that no personal taxes be levied against said tapestries so long as they are exhibited in said museum. Excise board.Excise board: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Personal tax board.Personal tax board: For two assistant assessors of personal taxes, at three thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; four inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars.
Collector’s office.For collector’s office: For collector, four thousand dollars; deputy collector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand four hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two coupon clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk and bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.
Tax-sale certificates.For extra labor for preparation of tax-sale certificates, and so forth, with authority to employ clerks of this and other offices after office hours, eight hundred dollars. Auditor’s office.For auditor’s office: For auditor, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; 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.
Corporation counsel’s office.For office of corporation counsel: For corporation counsel, four thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant corporation counsel, two thousand five hundred dollars; second assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; third assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourth assistant corporation counsel, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars.
Sinking-fund office.For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. Coroner’s office.For coroner’s office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. 365 For market masters: For two market masters, at one thousandMarket masters. two hundred dollars each; one market master, nine hundred dollars; for hire of laborers for cleaning markets, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
For office of sealer of weights and measures: For sealer ofSealer of weights and measures. weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; second assistant sealer of weights and measures, nine hundred dollars; clerk, 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 four hundred and eighty 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 and eighty dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of streets, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant inspectors of streets, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of county roads, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of parking, one thousand three hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of parking, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; inspector of asphalt and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That said inspector of asphalt and cements shall*Proviso*.Restriction on asphalt inspector. not 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, four hundred and eighty dollars; inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; superintendent of sewers, three thousand dollars; general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectors of property, at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars each; permit clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant permit clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; index clerk and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, sixty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars.
Special assessment office: For special assessment clerk, one thousandSpecial assessment office. seven hundred dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred dollars. Street-sweeping office: For superintendent, two thousand fiveStreet-sweeping office. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; four inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three assistant inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; foreman of public dumps, nine hundred dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand one hundred dollars. 366 Board of examiners, steam engineers.Board of examiners, steam engineers:
For compensation for board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Temporary overseers, etc.That overseers, inspectors, and other employees temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special work authorized by appropriations, including all necessary clerical and other services and all necessary horses, harness, and wagons, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and all expenses incidental to or necessary for the proper execution of said work, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District, in their annual report to Congress, shall report the number of such overseers, inspectors, and other employees performing clerical or other services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation, together with the sums expended for horses, harness, and wagons; and all horses, buggies, or carriages owned or maintained by the District of Columbia shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District.
Insurance department.Department of insurance: For superintendent of insurance, three thousand dollars; examiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; statistician, one thousand four hundred dollars; temporary clerk hire, six hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Surveyor’s office.For surveyor’s office: For surveyor, three thousand dollars; assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for such Vol. 28, p. 689.additional employees as may be required, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand dollars.
Free public library.Free public library: For librarian, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand dollars; three assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three assistants, at six hundred dollars each; three assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; cataloguer, nine hundred dollars; cataloguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; three temporary cataloguers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two attendants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; four attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two messengers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; four 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 hundred and forty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; four charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, twenty-one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For purchase of books, five thousand dollars; For binding, three thousand dollars; Contingent expenses.For fuel, lighting, fitting up building, and other contingent expenses, six thousand dollars; In all, fourteen thousand dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses; painting; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and 367preservation 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 five 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 and*Proviso.*Use of horses. 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 expenditures 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 hereinbefore authorized.
No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for thePayment of fire 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 be made from any other fund.
For postage for strictly official mail matter, five thousand dollars.Postage. For rent of District offices, nine thousand dollars.Rent. For rent of old record vault, six hundred dollars. For rent of office for department of insurance, eight hundred and forty dollars. For rent of property yards, three hundred dollars. For rent of storeroom for property clerk, three hundred dollars. For necessary expenses in the collection of overdue personal taxesCollecting personal taxes. by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, two thousand five hundred 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 cases before the supreme court of said District, one thousand dollars. For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees,Coroner’s expenses. 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 of 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 arrearage sales. and four, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, three thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. 368 Enforcing game and fish laws.For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners, five hundred dollars.
Resurveys.For resurvey of Meridian Hill subdivision, four hundred and fifty dollars. For resurvey of certain squares in the eastern part ot the city ot Washington, and placing monuments at corners of same, to replace original monuments destroyed during the civil war, one thousand two hundred dollars. Municipal building.For continuing work on the municipal building, three hundred thousand dollars. Recorder of deeds’ office.For metal shelving, bookcases, and racks in the office ot the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol.
Register of wills’ office.For metallic cases for card index for office ot register ot wills ot the District of Columbia, Seven hundred and fifty dollars. Removing dangerous buildings.Vol. 3O, p. 923.For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first, 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.
PERMANENT SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS.Highway system. Expenses.Vol. 27, p. 532.To pay the expenses of carrying out the plan for the extension of a permanent system of highways in conformity with the Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two thousand, five hundred dollars, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs.
Eliminating grade crossings Union station.Vol. 31. p. 767.Elimination of grade crossings: Toward carrying out the provisions 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 Vol. 32, p. 909.one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, for 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, avenues, and ways changed in line or in grade or newly created under the provisions of said Acts, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, three hundred thousand dollars.
Assessment and permit work.Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits.Disposition of moneys received.That hereafter all moneys received by the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia in the nature of trust-fund deposits, the disposition of which is not provided for by law, and which have been and now are deposited by said collector with the Treasurer of the United States to the official credit of the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia, shall be deposited by the said collector in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of a permanent appropriation account, to be known and designated as “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits.
District of Columbia;” and the balances now-standing to the official 369credit of said disbursing officer with the Treasurer of the United States on account of such trust-fund deposits, known as the “Wholecost deposit fund, District of Columbia,” or otherwise, shall be withdrawn and deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said permanent appropriation account denominated “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia.” Necessary advances from said permanent appropriation accountAdvances authorized. shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury to the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia, upon requisition of the Commissioners, for such amounts as may be required from time to time for necessary disbursements.
The said disbursing officer shall make disbursements from such advances only upon itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and the accounts of said disbursing officer for all such disbursements shall be rendered to and audited by the Auditor for the State and other Departments. It shall be the duty of the auditor of the District of Columbia toAccounts. keep separate accounts with each depositor for all trust-fund deposits received and deposited in accordance with the provisions of this Act, showing the amounts received and deposited and the payments made on each individual account.
Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenuesWork on streets and avenues. named in Appendix Cc, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and five, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely: Georgetown schedule: Five thousand one hundred dollars.Allotment. Northwest section schedule: Sixteen thousand two hundred dollars.
Southwest section schedule: Seven thousand five hundred dollars. Southeast section schedule: Twenty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Northeast section schedule: Eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty 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 paved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be madeLimit for asphalt pavements 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 case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.
For repaving with asphalt Tenth street between G and Water streetsRepaving.Tenth street SW. southwest, two thousand dollars. For paving with asphalt Seventh street northwest, from PennsylvaniaSeventh street NW. avenue to E street and from G street to north side of New York avenue, twenty-four thousand dollars. 370 Grading.Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses, to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, ten thousand dollars.
Condemnation.Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Opening alleys.Vol. 31, p. 1129.Opening alleys: For opening, widening, and extending alleys and minor streets in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, the sum of twenty-five Balances available.Vol. 32, p. 962.thousand dollars appropriated for this purpose in the District of Columbia appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, which sum shall be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, together with any balance of the appropriation of forty thousand dollars made out of the funds of the District of Vol. 27, p. 653.Columbia in the deficiency Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for opening, widening, and extending alleys in the District of Columbia, shall be available for use in opening, widening, extending, and straightening alleys and minor streets under the provisions of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, the same to be reimbursed by the payment of assessments to be made under the provisions of said code.
Deduction of benefits from awards for damages.In all cases of payments for opening, widening, extending, and straightening alleys and minor streets under the provisions of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, the accounting officers shall take into account the assessment for benefits and the award for 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.
Suburban surveys.Plats of subdivisions outside of Washington: To pay the expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to enable the Commissioners of the District to determine whether, plats of subdivisions of Vol. 25, p. 451.land within said District offered for record have been made in conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within the District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars. County roads.Construction.Construction of county roads:
For construction of county roads and suburban streets as follows: For Columbia road between Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets, pave, five thousand two hundred dollars; For Yale street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, pave, six thousand dollars; For Pennsylvania avenue extended, grade, five thousand dollars; For California avenue from Phelps place to Massachusetts avenue, grade and improve, six thousand five hundred dollars; For Woodley road from Wisconsin avenue to Idaho avenue, grade and improve, two thousand dollars;
For Twenty-second street from Decatur place to S street northwest, improvement, five thousand dollars; For S street, North Capitol to First street west, grade and pave, seven thousand two hundred dollars; For Quincy street from North Capitol street to Florida avenue, pave, six thousand three hundred dollars; For Dover street, Brookland, from Twelfth to Thirteenth streets, grade and improve, two thousand dollars; For Eighth street. Petworth, from Richmond to Trenton streets, grade and improve, four thousand dollars;
For Grant street northwest, between Eighteenth street and Nineteenth street, grade and improve, seven thousand five hundred dollars; 371 For Q street between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets northwest, pave, five thousand dollars; For Seventh street northeast, from Bunker Hill road to Rhode Island avenue, grade and improve, five thousand dollars. For Rhode Island avenue northeast from Fourth street to Brentwood road, grade and improve, twenty thousand dollars; For Wisconsin avenue northwest, grade and improve, five thousand dollars;
For Rhode Island avenue northwest from First to Second streets, pave, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For Benning and Anacostia roads, grade and improve, five thousand dollars; For Harrison street, Anacostia, grade and improve, five thousand dollars; And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorizedGrant street, etc. to straighten and adjust the lines of the north side of Grant street and the east side of Mount Pleasant street at the northeast corner of the intersection of said streets; and the part of Piney Branch road abandoned by such straightening shall revert to the adjoining property in exchange for the area donated within the lines of Grant street; in all, one hundred and six thousand seven hundred dollars.
For grading and macadamizing according to the plans of the firstFourteenth street extension. section permanent system of highways, Fourteenth street from its present terminus at Ly decker avenue, with the same width of roadway now open immediately south of said avenue to the junction, near Brightwood, of said street extended with Piney Branch road, including connecting line of avenue where Fourteenth street is shifted from its direct extension, and for the removal, with the assent of owners, of houses and barns or other improvements which may be within the lines of said street to adjacent sites of present owners, twenty thousand dollars, the whole cost of said work under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, not to exceed fifty-nine thousand dollars.
To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to purchaseSecuring lands. the pieces or parcels of ground necessary for the right of way of said street, which they are hereby authorized to do, or for paying in condemnation proceedings hereby authorized pursuant to sections four hundredVol. 31, p. 1265. and eighty-three to four hundred and ninety-one, inclusive, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, any damages or excess of damages over benefits that may be allowed to the owner or owners of land to be taken, should there be any damages found in such proceedings or any damages found in excess of benefits, seven thousand five hundred dollars: *And provided further*, That if the Commissioners of the*Proviso*.Discretion of Commissioners.
District of Columbia, in their discretion, pursuant to said section four hundred and ninety-one, reject the award or awards in such condemnation proceedings, or if the benefits exceed the damages to an amount over seven thousand dollars, the appropriations aforesaid of twenty thousand dollars and seven thousand five hundred dollars shall revert to the Treasury of the United States, except five hundred dollars of the latter appropriation, which shall be chargeable with the costs of the proceedings in respect to said condemnations.
Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work ofRepairs. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, two hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shallStreet railways. be available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroadVol. 20, p. 106. company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and 372shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation of the fiscal year in which they are collected.
Sidewalks.For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal buildings, including not exceeding five Lincoln Park.thousand five hundred dollars for sidewalks and curbs around Lincoln Park, ten thousand dollars. County roads.Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs of county roads and suburban streets, ninety thousand dollars. Bridges.Bridges: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, oil, lamps, and matches, four thousand dollars.
For construction and repairs of bridges, fifteen thousand dollars. Connecticut Avenue Bridge.For continuing the construction of the bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Connecticut avenue extended, one hundred thousand dollars. Highway bridge, Potomac River.Vol. 31, p. 772; Vol. 32, p. 598.For continuing construction, including approaches, of the highway bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, District of Columbia, and for any and all purposes connected therewith, four hundred and Cost increased.twenty-eight thousand dollars; and the total cost of said bridge and approaches shall not exceed one million one hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars.
Anacostia bridge.Reconstruction.*Post*, p. 898.For the reconstruction of the Anacostia bridge, under direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, one hundred thousand dollars, and the said Commissioners are authorized to- enter into a contract or contracts for the reconstruction of said bridge, to be completed Cost, etc.within two years from July first, nineteen hundred and four, at a cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid from *Proviso.*Payment by Anacostia, etc., Railroad Company.time to time as appropriations therefor may be made by law: *Provided*, That the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company shall pay the entire cost of the pavement between the exterior rails of its tracks on said bridge and for a distance of two feet from the said exterior rails of said tracks on each side thereof and the cost of the entire floor system supporting said pavement, to be collected in the same manner as the cost of laying pavements between the rails and tracks of street Vol. 20, p. 106.railways as provided for in section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and paid into the Treasury one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to Use by other railroads.the credit of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That any other railroad company now or hereafter authorized by Congress to use said bridge shall have the right to use the tracks of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company thereon upon such reciprocal trackage and such compensation as may be mutually agreed upon, and in case of failure to reach such an agreement that the supreme court of the District of Columbia shall, upon petition filed by either party, Maintenance, etc.fix and determine the same.
And hereafter one-half of the cost of the maintenance and repairs of this bridge shall be borne by the said railway company or companies, and shall be collected in the same manner as the cost of laying pavements between the rails and tracks of street railways, and paid into the Treasury, as provided for above. SEWERS.Sewers. Cleaning.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, fifty-eight thousand dollars. Main and pipe.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, fifty thousand dollars.
Suburban.For suburban sewers, fifty thousand dollars. Rights of way.For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Boundary.For completing the construction of the extension of the boundary sewer to the vicinity of Twenty-second and A streets northeast, now under contract, ten thousand dollars. 373 For continuing construction of the sewage-disposal system pumpingPumping station. station, and for machinery therefor, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For continuing construction of the B street and New Jersey avenueB street and New Jersey avenue trunk. trunk sewer, two hundred thousand dollars. For continuing the outfall sewer siphon and outlet, including costOutfall sewer, etc. of securing rights of way for outfall sewer by purchase or condemnation, three hundred thousand dollars. For completion of work on the low-area trunk sewer, forty-fiveLow area. thousand dollars. For lower section of Rock Creek and B street intercepting sewer,Rock Creek and B street.Contract. twenty-five thousand dollars.
And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the whole work at a cost not to exceed fifty-four thousand dollars. For Water and L street intercepting sewer, fifty thousand dollars.Water and L street.Contract. 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 and ninety-eight thousand dollars. For Four-and-a-half street intercepting sewer, fifty thousand dollars.Four-and-a-half street.Contract.
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 and fourteen thousand dollars. For outlet to old B street sewer, ten thousand dollars. And theB street outlet.Contract. Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the whole work at a cost not to exceed thirty-five thousand dollars. For constructing and maintaining the necessary outlet sewer for theTakoma Park. drainage of Magnolia avenue, Takoma Park, District of Columbia, said sewer to be connected with the sewer system of Takoma Park, Maryland, upon agreement with the proper authorities of that town, one 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 handwork done under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract: *Provided*, That whenever it shall appear*Proviso*.Contracts permitted to the Commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards, in accordance with the specifications under which the same was last advertised for bids, it shall at once be their duty to advertise to let said work under said specifications to the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents per thousand square yards, they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications; one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, and the Commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorizedSale of sweepings. to sell sweepings from the streets, the amounts realized from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury, one half to the credit of the United States and the other half to the credit of the District of Columbia. 374 Removing snow and fee,Vol. 28, p. 809.*Ante*, p. 12.For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Disposal of refuse.Disposal of city refuse: For the collection and disposal of garbage 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 of Columbia, and for the payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Parking commission.For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars.
Harbor and river front.Harbor and river front: For the improvement and protection of the harbor and river front, the enforcement of laws and regulations, construction and maintenance of wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, three thousand five hundred dollars. Bathing Leach.Bathing beach: For the care, operation, maintenance, and repair of bathing beach, and floating baths, three thousand dollars. Scales.For public scales: For repair and replacement of public scales, two hundred dollars.
Pumps.For public pumps: For the purchase, replacement, and repair of public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, filling abandoned or condemned public wells, three thousand dollars. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department. Salaries.For superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; three telegraph operators, atone thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; expert repair man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; three 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, sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
Supplies.For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of stable and storeroom, *Provisos*.Telephone rates specified.and other necessary items, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used for payment to any telephone company doing business in the District of Columbia for the use of any telephone within said District, for communicating therefrom, to any other telephone connected to a central office of such company in the District of Columbia at rates in excess of the following:
Sixty dollars per annum for a telephone on an individual metallic circuit, forty-eight dollars per annum for each telephone on the same premises, there being not more than two on the same metallic circuit, and no contract shall be made with any telephone company for such Rates to private residences.use of such telephones in excess of the rates herein specified: *Provided*, That until the population of the city of Washington shall be three hundred and fifty thousand or over, no more than the above specified rates shall be charged by any telephone company doing business in the District of Columbia for such use of such telephones at private residences within the District of Columbia, and any Acts or parts of Acts heretofore enacted fixing telephone rates for grounded circuits in the District of Columbia are hereby repealed: *Provided further*, That the Penalty for violation.refusal of the company to comply with the provisions of this Act shall 375be a misdemeanor, and such refusal shall subject the company to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every offense.
That every telephone company doing business in the District of Columbia shall annually on or before the fifteenthReport from telephone company. of January of each year report under oath to the Congress a classified statement of its receipts and expenditures for the previous calendar year dividing them into receipts and expenditures on account of capita] as well as income and operation in the District of Columbia, and that such report for the first year shall state the actual cost of their works in the District of Columbia.
For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, and police telephonePlacing wires underground. service under ground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, thirty-five thousand dollars. 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, five thousand dollars.
Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing,Lighting. and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unfit for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items and services, two hundred and nineteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty*Provisos*.Maximum per lamp. dollars per annum for each street lamp shall be paid for gas and no more than twenty-six dollars for oil, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expenses of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures, under any expenditure provided for in this Act.
And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five 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 saidAll-night service. lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: *Provided further*,Regulators.
That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour: *Provided further*, That not more than twenty thousand dollars of said appropriation mayHigh-power lamps. be expended for lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, and cleaning public lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above, and not less than sixty candlepower, which lamps shall not cost to exceed twenty-eight dollars per lamp, and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph: *And provided further*, ThatAverage candle-power. during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five the illuminating power of the gas furnished by any gas-lighting company, person, or persons in the District of Columbia shall be equal to twenty-two candles, notwithstanding the requirements as to candlepower prescribed by section three of the Act regulating the sale of gas in the District of Columbia, approved June sixth, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 252 ninety-six.
For electric arc lighting, including necessary inspection, and forElectric lighting. extensions of such service, not exceeding eighty-eight thousand seven 376Provisos.Maximum price. hundred dollars: *Provided*, That 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 underground wire; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Potomac Electric Power Company.Connections authorized.Washington: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to permit the Potomac Electric Power Company to make connections between its conduits and the conduits of the Washington Railway and Electric Company and all other companies controlled by the Washington Railway and Electric Company for the purpose of furnishing electric current through the said conduits for public and private uses, the use of said railway companies’ conduits to be upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the said companies.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.Washington Aqueduct. Maintenance.For operation, maintenance, and repair of the aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the Washington City reservoir and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, thirty-three thousand dollars. Filtration plant.For completing a slow sand-filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the preparation of plans, and for the purchase of such scientific books and periodicals as may be approved by the Secretary of War, one million five hundred and sixty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars, to be available immediately and until expended.
ROCK CREEK PARK.Rock Creek Park. Care, etc.For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park, fifteen thousand Accepting lands dedicated.dollars; and the board of control is hereby authorized to accept dedications of land for the purpose of adding to said park, without expense to the United States or the District of Columbia, and such land, when accepted, shall become a part of said park and be under the jurisdiction of the said board of control.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. Board of education.For officers: For seven members of the board of education, at five hundred dollars each, three thousand five hundred dollars, not more than one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars of which shall Superintendents, etc.be used during the first half of the fiscal year; one superintendent of public schools, four thousand dollars; two assistant superintendents, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one secretary, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Teachers.For teachers: For one thousand three hundred and ninety-two 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; 377 For principal of Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For principal of Normal School Numbered One and principal of Normal School Numbered Two, two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; 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;
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 highschool 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 fourteen, at one thousand dollars each;
For eighteen, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For twenty-two, 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 thirty-four, at eight hundred dollars each; For one hundred and four, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For seventeen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; For one hundred and fifty-one, at seven hundred dollars each;
For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and fifty-eight, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For two hundred and eight, 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 twenty thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination*Provisos*.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.
For night schools for pupils and teachers of night schools may alsoNight school. be teachers in the day schools, eight thousand dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. For kindergarten instruction, including supplies, forty-three thousandKindergarten. six hundred 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; 378 Of the Jefferson Building, Franklin Building, and the Western High School, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
Of the Eastern High School, Business High School, M Street High School, McKinley Manual Training School, Armstrong Manual Training School, and Stevens School buildings, six in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; Of the Wallach Building, one thousand dollars; Of the Brookland, Curtis, Dennison, Emery, Force, Gales, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, and Webster 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, Greenleaf, 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, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Buren, Webb, Weightman, Wheatley, Wilson, and Wormley, sixty-eight in all, at five hundred and forty dollars each; Of the Garfield, Thompson, Van Buren annex, and Woodburn buildings, four in all, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; Of the Bennings (white), Bennings (colored), Chevy Chase, Stanton, Hamilton, High Street, Langdon, Kenilworth, Manual Training School, Seventh and G streets southeast, Orr, Petworth, Potomac, Reno, Reservoir, and Threlkeld buildings, fifteen in all, at two hundred and forty dollars each;
For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual training schools wherever located, at a rate not to exceed forty-eight dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, five thousand five hundred dollars; Engineers.For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one assistant engineer at the McKinley Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand dollars;
For one assistant engineer at the Armstrong Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; In all, eighty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Medical inspectors.For medical inspectors: For twelve medical inspectors of public schools, four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred *Proviso*.Competitive examination.dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said inspectors shall be appointed by the Commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him, which shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the Commissioners.
RentMiscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and repair shop, fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars. Repairs.For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, sixty thousand dollars. 379 For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existingDetailed statement. school buildings, thirty-five 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 six estimates shall be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing.
For repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, three thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and books,Manuel training. 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 (Ludlow), one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one eight-room building in the second division (Gage), one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Contingent expenses. books, books of reference, and periodicals, stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipments for high school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including livery of horse for the superintendent, thirty-eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.No insurance on arms for cadets. arms authorized to be issued by the War Department to high school cadets of the District of Columbia shall hereafter be issued without requiring that the same shall be insured from loss by fire.
For free evening lectures to be given in the public school buildingsFree lectures. or such balls 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 five hundred dollars. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eightSupplies for pupils. grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its discretion, is*Proviso*.Exchanges. authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use.
For purchase of United States flags, one thousand dollars.Flags. For extending the telephone system to the public school buildings,Telephones. including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, holds, cross-arms, braces, conduit connections, manholes, telephone instruments, extra labor, and other necessary items, to be expended under the electrical department, five thousand dollars. Buildings and grounds: Toward the completion of the BusinessBuildings and grounds. High School, fifty thousand dollars.
For completion of one eight-room building, second division (Gage), thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For completion of one eight-room building, sixth division (Ludlow), thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For site for and toward construction of one eight-room building in the sixth division, thirty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars.
For site and toward the construction of one eight-room building, first division, to relieve the Johnson and Hubbard schools, thirty 380thousand 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 the purchase of the two lots adjoining the Magruder School building on the east, to provide a playground for the children of the Magruder and Sumner schools, nine thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars.
Takoma school.Use of balance.Vol. 32, p. 971.That any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the four-room addition to the Takoma school made in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four shall be available for the purchase of additional land for a site for said school. Cost of sites.That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized *Proviso*.Day labor.for such purposes: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in case they shall consider the bids received for the construction of any number of the school buildings herein provided for, not exceeding three, to be in excess of a reasonable amount, are hereby authorized to construct such building or buildings by day labor, and the purchase of material in open market, if the same can be completed within the amount appropriated or authorized therefor.
Plans.Preparation and approval of.That the plans and specifications for school buildings shall be prepared 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. Deaf and dumb pupils.For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons, admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four [R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).of the Revised Statutes, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. Salaries.For major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; captain and assistant superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four captains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at five hundred and forty dollars each; additional compensation for 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; janitor for police headquarters, seven hundred and twenty dollars; thirteen 381laborers, 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 and 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, fourRent, Anacostia. hundred and eighty dollars; For fuel, three thousand five hundred dollars;Fuel. For repairs to stations, five thousand dollars;Repairs. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchaseContingent expenses. of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, installation of card system in the police department, stationery, books, books of reference, and periodicals, telegraphing, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bedclothing, insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, horse and vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, police equipments, and repairs to the same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, and patrol wagons, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
Hereafter the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia mayAdvances. advance to the major and superintendent of the Metropolitan police, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, from the appropriation for miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the Metropolitan police department of the District of Columbia, sums of money, not exceeding three hundred dollars at any one time, to be used only for the prevention and detection of crime, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For rent of police department headquarters and property storerooms, two thousand four hundred dollars; For additional ground and completing of substation in Tennallytown, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; In all, forty-five thousand and five dollars. House of detention: To enable the Commissioners of the DistrictHouse of definition. of Columbia to provide transportation and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of the children under seventeen years of age, and in the discretion of the Commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may 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 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. For chief engineer, two thousand five 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 fire department; deputy chief engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; fire marshal, one thousand six 382hundred dollars; machinist, one thousand dollars; twenty-seven captains, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-seven lieutenants, at nine hundred dollars each; sixteen engineers, at one thousand dollars each; sixteen assistant engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-eight drivers, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and seventy-nine privates, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-seven watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, two hundred and ninety-nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs to apparatus and for new apparatus and new appliances, nine thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, nine thousand dollars; For fuel, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of horses, thirteen thousand dollars; For forage, eighteen thousand dollars; For rent, three hundred and sixty dollars; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, fifteen thousand dollars;
In all, eighty thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. House, etc., southeastern section.Increase fire department: For house and furniture for an engine company to be located in the southeastern section of the city, on ground owned by the United States Government, including cost of connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, twenty-three thousand dollars; Fire boat.For construction, under the direction of the Commissioners of the District, of a fire boat, sixty-three thousand dollars;
New apparatus.For one second-size steam fire engine, five thousand three hundred dollars; For one fourth-size steam fire engine, four thousand five hundred dollars; For one combination chemical engine and hose wagon, two thousand dollars; For one fifty-five foot aerial hook-and-ladder truck, to be placed in number five chemical engine house, Congress Heights, District of Columbia, three thousand five hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and one thousand three hundred dollars.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health department. Salaries.For health officer, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief inspector and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; thirteen sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; sanitary and food inspector, who shall be a veterinary surgeon and act as inspector of five stock and dairy farms, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of marine products, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk and deputy health officer, two thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, two of whom may act as sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; pound master, one thousand five hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceeding forty dollars per month, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; ambulance driver, 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 383nine hundred dollars each, to assist in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws, and the regulations relating thereto; in all, forty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars: *Provided*, That no*Provisos*.Private service prohibited. officer or employee 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*, That every place where milk is sold shall be deemedDairies defined. a dairy under the law for purposes of inspection.
Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty dollars.Rent. For the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent thePrevention of contagious disease. spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District ofVol. 26, p. 691.Vol. 29, p. 635. Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for investigating the causes of cases of typhoid fever reported to the health department under the provisions of an Act to require cases of typhoid fever occurring in the District of Columbia to be reported to the health department of said District, approved February fourth,Vol. 32, p. 3. nineteen hundred and two, under the direction of the health officer of said District, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and for rent of stable, and rent and maintenance of quarantine station, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For maintaining the disinfecting service, including purchase andDisinfecting service. maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, five thousand dollars. For emergency fund for the enforcement of the provisions of sectionDrainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 126. four of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand five hundred dollars. For special services in connection with the detection of the adulterationFood adulterations. 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 District of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred andVol, 30, p. 246. ninety-eight, and an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,Vol. 80. p. 398. and for the maintenance of a chemical laboratory, one thousand dollars.
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, milk, 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.Vol. 32, p. 609. and twenty-nine of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two volumes, at five dollars each, one hundred and ten dollars. 384 Police court.For the police court:
For two judges, at three thousand dollars each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; deputy clerk, to be known as financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; deputy marshal, one thousand dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant janitors, four hundred and fifty dollars; bailiff, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand and ninety dollars.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For witness fees, four thousand dollars; For repairs of police court building, eight hundred dollars; For repairs to police court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dollars; For purchase of linoleum or other coverings for the halls, court room, and other rooms of the police court building, six hundred dollars; For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, one hundred dollars; For rent of property adjoining police court building, for police court and other purposes, six hundred dollars;
For compensation of jurors, eight thousand dollars; In all, fourteen thousand three hundred dollars. Additional land.For acquiring, by purchase, or condemnation, additional ground in square numbered four hundred and eighty-nine, in the city of Washington, for a site for a new police-court building, thirty-five thousand Plans for new building.five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for preparation of plans for said building, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand dollars.
Lunacy writs.Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the execution 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 Vol. 32, p. 1043.*Ante*, p. 316.authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, six hundred dollars. Justices of the peace.Justices of the peace: For ten justices of the peace, at two thousand 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. Interest and sinking fund.For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars. EMERGENCY FUND. Emergency fund.To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided *Proviso*.Purchases.for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected.
FOR COURTS AND PRISONS.Courts and prisons. Support of convicts out of District.Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars. 385 Court-house, District of Columbia: For the following forceCourt-house. necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia:
Engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and seven assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General. Warden of the jail: For warden of the jail of the District ofJail. 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, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-six thousand dollars. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections. Board of Charities: For secretary, three thousand dollars; clerk,Board of Charities. one thousand dollars; stenographer, nine hundred 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; in all, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty 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 and twenty dollars; principal overseer, one thousand two hundred dollars; fifteen overseers, at six hundred dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; second assistant engineer, three hundred and sixty dollars; engineer at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; two watchmen, at 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 dollars; keeper at female workhouse, three hundred dollars; keeper at female workhouse, one hundred and eighty dollars; two female attendants at almshouse, at one hundred and fifty dollars each; hospital cook, 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; graduate nurse, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; graduate nurse for receiving ward, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; six orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than fifteen in number, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirty thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For contingent expenses, including provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen 386utensils, and other necessary items and services, sixty-five thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars. Workhouse.Contract.For continuing erection of a workhouse for males, fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the whole work at a cost not to exceed one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Almshouse.Toward the erection of a municipal almshouse consisting of one or more plain, substantial buildings, including water supply, heating, Limit of cost.ventilating, and lighting apparatus, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said almshouse, including water supply, heating, ventilating, and lighting apparatus under a contract or contracts, which are hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For establishment of a workhouse cooking department, dining room for officers, dining room for female prisoners, building and fixtures, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional oven, five hundred dollars. For improvement of hospital kitchen and purchase of kitchen and cooking appliances, two thousand dollars. For purchase of bedside tables, chairs, and window shades for hospital, and for the construction of porches for the use of patients, three thousand dollars. Reform School.For Reform School: For superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, five thousand seven hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; four matrons of families, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; two foremen of workshops, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at three hundred dollars each; laundress, one hundred and eighty dollars; two dining-room servants, seamstress, and chambermaid, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; florist, three hundred and sixty dollars; watchmen, not to exceed six in number, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; secretary and treasurer to board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding nine hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, all under the control of the Commissioners, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For repairs, one thousand dollars. Reform School for Girls.Reform School for Girls: Superintendent, one thousand two hundred 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 watchmen, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; laborer, three hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand four hundred and five dollars: 387 For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, ten thousand dollars;
In all, eighteen thousand four hundred and five dollars. Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to theTransporting prisoners. workhouse, two thousand dollars. Medical Charities.Hospitals, etc. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, as follows:Freedmen’s Hospital. For subsistence, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; two assistant surgeons, clerk, assistant clerk, pharmacist, assistant pharmacist, steward, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters,, watchmen, and laborers, sixteen thousand dollars;
For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; In all, fifty thousand dollars. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toColumbia Hospital. be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Eying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars.
For minor repairs to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, 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 Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance,Emergency Hospital. fifteen thousand dollars. For Eastern Dispensary, maintenance, two thousand dollars.Eastern Dispensary. For the Women’s Clinic, maintenance, one thousand dollars.Women’s Clinic. For the Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, four thousandHome for Incurables. 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. 208.
Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including salaries of agents, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars, expenses in placing and visiting children, and all office and sundry expenses, ten thousand dollars; For maintenance of feeble-minded children, twelve thousand dollars;Feeble-minded children. 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 under charge of the Board, forty thousand dollars;
In all, for Board of Children’s Guardians, sixty-two thousand 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 388Farm School at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum each, and for this purpose the sum of twelve thousand dollars is hereby appropriated. Industrial home school for colored children.Plans, etc.To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to procure a plan or plans for a plain substantial brick building or buildings for an industrial home school for colored children to cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars and to be located on the ground purchased Vol. 31, p. 841.for a municipal almshouse under the provisions of the District of Columbia appropriation Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Industrial Home School.For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance, seventeen thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, two thousand dollars. For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars. Home for Destitute Colored Women.For the National Association for the relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Children’s Aid Society.For the Newsboys’ and Children’s Aid Society, maintenance, one thousand dollars.
Foundlings Hospital.For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, maintenance, six thousand dollars. Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum.For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, maintenance, five thousand four hundred dollars. German Orphan Asylum.For the care and maintenance of children in the German Orphan Asylum, not to exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars. temporary homes.Temporary homes. Municipal lodging house.For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, maintenance, including rent, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Grand Army Soldiers’ Home.For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, five thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war shall also be admitted to the Home. Women’s Christian Association.For the Women’s Christian Association, maintenance, four thousand dollars. Young Women’s Christian Home.For Young Women’s Christian Home, maintenance, one thousand dollars.
Hope and Help Mission.For Hope and Help Mission, maintenance, two thousand dollars. Support of Indigent insane.Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in [R. S., secs. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 940](/us/rs/s4844/s4850/p939/p940).said District, as provided in sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, two hundred and fifty-eight-thousand five hundred dollars.
Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30. p. 811.For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “To change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand dollars. Advances to Board of Charities.That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the 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 389persons, 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, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, thirteen thousand dollars. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, twoTransportation. thousand dollars. MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority of the commandingExpenses. general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, and to be accounted for in like manner as the appropriations disbursed for pay of troops, 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, eighteen 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 and fifty dollars. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, nine hundred dollars.
For clerk, office of the Adjutant-General, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For expenses of drills and parades, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For expenses of rifle practice and matches, three thousand six hundred dollars. For expenses of camps, instruction, practice marches, and practiceCamp expenses. cruises, including fuel for cruising purposes, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursedPay. under the direction of the commanding-general, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That members of the National*Proviso.*Status of members.
Guard of the District of Columbia who receive compensation for their services as such shall not be held or construed to be officers of the United States, or persons holding any place of trust or profit, or discharging any official function under or in connection with any Executive Department of the Government of the United States within the provisions of section fifty-four hundred and ninety-eight of the Revised[R. S., sec. 5498, p. 1065](/us/rs/s5498/p1065). Statutes of the United States: *Provided further*, That all moneys collectedDeductions for loss of property. on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia on account of Government property lost or destroyed by such individual shall be repaid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the officer of the militia of the District of Columbia who is accountable to the United States Government for such property lost or destroyed: *Provided further*, That all moneys collected on account of deductionsFines, etc. made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said National Guard shall be held by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys so collected for necessary clerical and general incidental expenses of the service, including books, or for the pay of troops, other than Government employees; and for all moneys so collected and expended the commanding general shall make 390an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops.
For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars. WATER DEPARTMENTWater department. Payable from water revenues.The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: Revenue and inspection branch.For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; eight inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars;
Distribution branch.For distribution branch: For superintendent, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; timekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; calker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and six dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, 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. Fuel, etc.For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and 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, one hundred thousand dollars.
Government use of water.For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of Potomac water used by the Departments and offices of the United States Government in the District of Columbia, by meter or otherwise, three thousand dollars. High-service system.For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service system of water distribution, and for laying necessary trunk mains for low service, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. Pierre Charles L’Enfant.Report to be made on monument, etc.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to report to Congress at its next session a plan for the removal to a suitable place within the city of Washington of the remains of Pierre Charles L’Enfant and erecting a proper monument or gravestone over them, or erecting such monument or stone where they are now buried, as may seem to them most desirable. Sec. 3. Limit on requisitions.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five than they make on the appropriations arising’ from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District, except as otherwise provided herein.
Sec. 4. Advance from the Treasury.That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to 391advance, on the requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, made in the manner now prescribed by law, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary from time to time to meet the general expenses of said District, as authorized by Congress, and to reimburse the Treasury for the portion of said advances payable by the District of Columbia out of the taxes and revenues collected for the support of the government thereof: *Provided*, That all advances*Provisos*.Interest on advances.Vol. 31, p. 766;
Vol. 32, pp. 616, 981. made under this Act and under the Acts of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and one, June first, nineteen hundred and two, and March third, nineteen hundred and three, not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, 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 five, 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 DepartmentsReport. and the auditor of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each fiscal year separately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any, due to the United States: *And provided further*, That nothing contained herein shall be so construedStreet extensions. as to require the United States to bear any part of the cost of street extensions, and all advances heretofore or hereafter made for this purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be repaid in full from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 5. That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, April 27, 1904.
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