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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 34 STAT. · March 2, 1907 · Chapter 2510

Chapter 2510. 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 eight, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 2510.— 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 eight, and for other purposes. March 2, 1907. [[H. R. 24103](/us/bill/59/hr/24103).] [[Public, No. 169](/us/pl/59/169).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the half of the followingDistrict of Columbia appropriations. sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out ofHalf from District revenues. 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 eight, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousand dollars each; Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-fourExecutive office.Salaries of Commissioners, etc. dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); secretary, two thousand1120one hundred and sixty dollars; two assistant secretaries to Commissioners. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars: 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: ten assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, two thousand four hundred dollars; two civil engineers or computers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand dollars: clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; superintendent of construction, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars; steam engineer, one thousand dollars; three tiremen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: two elevator operators, at three hundred and sixty dollars each: three watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: one laborer, who shall also act as messenger and substitute elevator operator, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; property clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; deputy property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: three clerks, at six hundred dollars each; clerk, six hundred dollars; inspector of fuel, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant inspector of fuel, one thousand one hundred dollars: two messengers, at six hundred dollars each; driver, four hundred and Plumbing Inspectors.eighty dollars; inspector, nine hundred dollars; inspector, seven hundred and eighty dollars; laborer, 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 Additional assistants.dollars each; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; sewer tapper, one thousand dollars; three members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and four thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars.
Assessor’s office.For assessor’s office: For assessor, three thousand five hundred 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, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars: four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk in charge of records, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant inspector of licenses, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; three assistant assessors, at three thousand dollars each; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred 1121dollars; temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars; in all, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Excise board: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars: clerk, oneExcise board. thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Personal tax board: For two assistant assessors of personalPersonal tax board. taxes, at three thousand dollars each; appraiser of personal property, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars: three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
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; three coupon clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk and bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars: in all, twenty-one thousand three hundred dollars.
For extra labor in the preparation of tax-sale certificates, withTax-sale certificates. authority to employ clerks of this and other offices after office hours, eight hundred dollars. For auditor’s office: For auditor, three thousand six hundredAuditor’s office. dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, three thousand dollars; deputy disbursing officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For office of corporation counsel: For corporation counsel,Corporation counsel’s office. four thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant corporation counsel, two thousand five hundred dollars; second assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; third assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourth assistant corporation counsel, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer ofSinking-fund office. the United States: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars: in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. For coroner’s office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundredCoroner’s office. dollars; morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. For market masters: For two market masters, at one thousandMarket masters. two hundred dollars each; for necessary labor for cleaning Eastern, Western, and Georgetown market houses, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Wholesale Producers Market: One market master, nine hundredProduce markets. dollars; one assistant market master, who shall also act as night watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; one watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; one laborer for sweeping B street sidewalkCleaning, etc. used for market purposes and the wholesale market square, three hundred and sixty dollars; sweeping B street used for market purposes, 1122four bundled and eighty dollars: hauling refuse (street sweepings), six hundred dollars: in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Eastern Market.Eastern Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. Western Market.Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. Sealer of weights and measures.For office of sealer of weights and measures: For sealer of weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars: first assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; second assistant sealer of weights and measures, nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand and eighty dollars.
Engineer’s office. Record division.For engineer’s office: Record division: For chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; engineer of highways, three thousand dollars: assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each: three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three chairmen. at six hundred and fifty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three 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, and five hundred dollars additional as assistant engineer in Rock Creek Park; superintendent of parking, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of parking, one thousand dollars: clerk, nine Inspector of asphalt, etc.*Proviso*.Restriction.hundred dollars; inspector of asphalt and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the inspector of asphalt and cements shall not receive or accept compensation of any kind from or perform any work or render any services of a character required of him officially by the District of Columbia to any person, firm, corporation, or municipality, other than the District of Columbia; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, one thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, eight hundred and forty dollars: messenger, five hundred and forty dollars; inspector of sewers, one. thousand two hundred dollars; superintendent of sewers, three thousand dollars; general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; two assistant engineers at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; 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 five hundred dollars; assistant permit clerk, nine hundred dollars: index clerk and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each; inspector of material, one thousand two hundred dollars; two property-yard keepers, at one thousand dollars each; engineer of bridges, two thousand one hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars: assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars: two transitmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; transitman, one thousand and fifty dollars: three rodmen, at nine hundred dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty 1123dollars each; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, six hundred dollars; three messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; bridge inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars: eight foremen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three subforemen, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; bridge keeper, six hundred and fifty dollars; three bridge keepers, at six hundred dollars each; foreman, Rock Creek Park, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and fifty dollars; four foremen, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; inspector, one thousand dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; rodman, nine hundred dollars; chainman, six hundred and fifty dollars; assistant inspector of asphalts and cements, one thousand five hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; inspector, nine hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars: two skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, six hundred and twenty-five dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand one hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars; inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; two rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each: two chainmen. at six hundred and fifty dollars each; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; four foremen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six foremen, at nine hundred dollars each; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars: principal steam engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three assistant steam engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; six oilers, at six hundred dollars each; six firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; superintendent of repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, six hundred and twenty dollars; driver, five hundred and forty dollars; superintendent of stables, one thousand five hundred dollars: blacksmith, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; two watchmen, at six hundred and thirty dollars each: two drivers, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; in all, one hundred and eighty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars.
Special assessment office: For special assessment clerk, oneSpecial assessment office. thousand seven hundred dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twelve thousand six hundred and fifty 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; ten 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; stable foreman, one thousand dollars; foreman of repairs, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: stenographer and clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; mechanic, seven hundred and eighty dollars; mechanic’s helper, six hundred dollars; hostler, five hundred and fifty dollars; hostler, four hundred and eighty dollars; eight dumpmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, forty-five thousand and twenty dollars. 1124 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. Insurance department.Department of insurance: For superintendent of insurance, three thousand dollars; examiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars: stenographer, six hundred dollars; temporary clerk hire, one thousand two hundred dollars; appraisers, six hundred dollars: in all, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
Surveyor’s office.For surveyor’s office: For surveyor, three thousand dollars; assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; computer, one thousand two hundred dollars; record clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; inspector, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars: draftsman, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; clerk, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; assistant computer, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; two rodmen, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; three chainmen, at seven hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and seventy-five dollars; charwoman, one hundred and four dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand and twenty-nine dollars;
Temporary services.For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, and drivers when required, and for an additional field party when required, all expenditures under this sum to be made only on the written authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, four thousand five hundred dollars; In all, twenty-six thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars. Free public library.Free public library For librarian, three thousand dollars ; assistant librarian, one thousand five hundred dollars; children’s librarian, one thousand dollars; librarian’s secretary, nine hundred dollars; reference librarian, one thousand dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; four assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four assistants, at six hundred dollars each; three assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; copyist, four hundred and eighty dollars; cataloguer, nine hundred dollars; cataloguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; three temporary cataloguers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; five attendants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; five attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; collator, three hundred and sixty dollars; two messengers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; ten pages, at three hundred and sixty 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, seven hundred and twenty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two cloakroom attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; six charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-four thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
Sunday opening.For keeping the library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’clock postmeridian to ten o’clock postmeridian (eight hours), five holidays from ten o’clock antemeridian to ten o’clock postmeridian (twelve hours), and for extra services three hours on Saturday afternoons during July, August, and September, one thousand seven hundred dollars. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous, Free Public Library: For purchase of books, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For binding, three thousand five hundred dollars;
For fuel, lighting, fitting up building, and other contingent expenses, seven thousand dollars: In all, eighteen thousand dollars. 1125 CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent expenses of the government of the District ofContingent expenses. Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses; painting; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials: binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; fuel, ice, gas, repairs, repairs to pound and vehicles, 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, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, thirty-nine thousand dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this*Proviso*.Restriction on use of horses, etc.
Act shall not be used by the Commissioners for any other purpose than to visit such points within the District of Columbia as it may be necessary to visit in order to enable them to inspect or inform themselves concerning any public work or property belonging to the said District or to do any other act necessary to the administration of its affairs. No part of the money appropriated by this Act, except appropriationsLimit on expenditure for horses, etc. for the militia, shall be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used forFire insurance prohibited. the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department,Stables. including forage, 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, except as hereinafter authorized.
For postage for strictly official mail matter, seven 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, including services of collectors or bailiffs,Collecting personal taxes. in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of office for corporation counsel, one thousand dollars. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, theJudicial expenses. printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District cases before the supreme court of said District, four thousand dollars. 1126 Coroner’s expenses.For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants. telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Advertising.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, four thousand dollars. Tax arrearage sales.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundredVol. 26, p. 24. and seven, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. 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.
Municipal building.Construction.For completing work on the municipal building for the District of Columbia, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Removal of dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, 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.
Historical tablets.For the erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five hundred dollars. Property yard, etc.Vol. 31, p. 774.For cement storehouse with property yard, located on the south side of D street southwest, on land dedicated to the District of Columbia by the railroad company, in compliance with the Act of Congress approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, ten thousand dollars.
Repair shop.For alteration of a building to be used as a repair shop for the District of Columbia, to be immediately available, two thousand five hundred dollars. Eastern Market House.Addition.Motor vehicles, tags, etc.For addition to the Eastern Market House. Seventh street and North Carolina avenue southeast, thirty thousand dollars. For the purchase of enamel metal identification number tags for motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to amend the regulations controlling motor vehicles so as to provide that for such identification tag and registration thereof the owner of each mot or vehicle shall pay the sum of one dollar and the secretary of the automobile board shall, after the payment of said fee to the collector of taxes, District of Columbia, issue to said owner the identification number tag.
Register of Wills, office.Card index.For completing the card index for office of Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, and to correct and transcribe the indexes of copies, correct the dockets, and index all wills filed from eighteen hundred and one to the present time, and for necessary clerical assistance, three thousand dollars. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. Eliminating grade crossings, Union Station.Vol. 31, p. 767.Vol. 32, p. 913.*Ante*, pp. 619, 624.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 one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, for purchase 1127or 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 grade or newly created under the provisions of said Acts, including the employment on the approval of this Act of special assistant counsel, at a rate not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum, and one clerk, at a rate not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum, in connection with the settlement of claims for damages incident to changes of grade, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Toward the construction of fountains, lamp-posts, and other structuresFountains, etc., for plaza. on the plaza in front of the new union railroad station, in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars, said sum to be expended under the provisions of existing law regarding the elimination of grade crossings and appropriations made therefor: *Provided*, That the total cost*Provisos*.Limit of cost. to the United States and the District of Columbia shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars: *And provided further*, That the WashingtonWashington Terminal Company to pay part cost.
Terminal Company, its successors or assigns, shall defray the cost of so much of these constructions as lie within the limits of its present property north of Massachusetts avenue. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work,Assessment and permit work.*Proviso*.Repayments. one hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter repayments from the permit fund to the appropriation for assessment and permit work shall be credited to said appropriation for the fiscal year in which the repayment is made.
For paving roadways under the permit system, ten thousand dollars.Paving roadways. Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenuesWork on streets and avenues. named in Appendix Aa. Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty 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: *Provided*, That hereafter no*Proviso*.Restriction. street or avenue in the District of Columbia shall be paved less in width than the width now provided by law except by express authority of Congress upon estimates to be submitted to Congress by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia:
Georgetown schedule: Three thousand dollars.Schedules. Northwest section schedule: Nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Southwest section schedule: Six thousand nine hundred dollars. Southeast section schedule: Sixteen thousand two hundred dollars. Northeast section schedule: Thirty-one thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already*Proviso*.Streets paved with Belgian blocks, 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 beLimit for asphalt pavements. made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base, nor more than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for laying standard asphalt 1128block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior *Ante*, p. 490.to July first, nineteen hundred and four, and these limitations shall also apply to the unexpended balances of appropriations made in the Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, *Proviso*.Increase allowed.in lieu of the limitations made in said Act: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.
Approaches to ConnecticutAvenue Bridge.For paving approaches to Connecticut Avenue Bridge, thirty-one thousand dollars; and the time within which this bridge shall be completed is hereby extended to July first, nineteen hundred and eight. Sewerage pumping station.For paving approaches to the sewerage pumping station, six thousand dollars. Twenty-third street northwest.For paving Twenty-third street northwest, from Q street to Sheridan Circle, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
South Carolina avenue southeast.For paving South Carolina avenue southeast, from Thirteenth street to Fifteenth street, nine thousand dollars. Florida avenue.For completing the paving of Florida avenue from Eighteenth street to Connecticut avenue, two thousand five hundred dollars. Grading.Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses, to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, fifteen thousand dollars.
Condemnation.Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Opening alleys, etc.Vol. 33, p. 738.Opening alleys and minor streets: For opening, widening, and extending alleys and minor streets in the District of Columbia, under the provisions of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, and this sum, together with any balance of appropriations heretofore made for said purpose, shall be available for use in opening, widening, extending, and straightening alleys and minor streets under the provisions of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia: said appropriation to be reimbursed by payment of assessments for benefits to be made under the provisions of said Code; and the Commissioners of said District are hereby authorized to employ, Counsel.for such time as may be necessary, an assistant to the corporation counsel, at a compensation of one hundred and fifty dollars per month, Duties.payable from said appropriation, whose duty it shall be to institute Repeal of assessment of expenses for condemning, etc.*Ante*, p. 491.and conduct proceedings for the condemnations necessary to be taken in opening, widening, extending, and straightening alleys and minor streets; and the clause contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, requiring that the compensation of an assistant to the corporation counsel, provided for in the appropriation for opening alleys and minor streets, shall be included in the costs and expenses of the proceedings instituted for the condemnations necessary to be taken for the opening, widening, extending, and straightening alleys and minor streets and shall be assessed against lands benefited by reason of such Vol. 33, p. 733.opening, extension, widening, and straightening, as provided in section sixteen hundred and eight of said Code of Law. is hereby repealed.
County roads. Construction.Construction of county roads: For construction of county roads and suburban streets, as follows: Northwest: Albemarle street east of Connecticut avenue, grade, ten thousand dollars; 1129 Northeast: Brookland avenue, grade, two thousand dollars; Northwest: Rittenhouse street and Western avenue, grade, two thousand dollars; Northwest: Newark street, Cleveland Park, grade and improve, four thousand dollars: Northwest: Kenyon street, Sherman avenue to Thirteenth street, grade and improve, four thousand dollars;
Northwest: Chesapeake street, Brookville road to Grant road, grade and improve, four thousand dollars; Northeast: Lincoln road, grade and improve (thirty-five feet wide), five thousand dollars; Northwest: Kalorama road, Eighteenth street to Champlain avenue, pave, three thousand dollars; North: Randolph street, North Capitol street to First street west, pave (thirty feet wide), eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Northeast: Sheriff road, grade and macadamize, three thousand dollars;
North: Seaton place, North Capitol street to First street west, pave (thirty feet wide), eight thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; Northwest: Sixteenth street extended, grade and improve, twenty thousand dollars; Northeast: Rhode Island avenue east of Brentwood road, grade and improve, provided the land necessary to open this avenue to its full width be dedicated to the District of Columbia without cost, ten thousand dollars; Northwest: Fifteenth street, Florida avenue to Euclid street, grade and improve, five thousand dollars;
Southeast: Nichols avenue and Livingstone road, macadamize, three thousand dollars; Northwest: Massachusetts avenue, Wisconsin avenue to Nebraska avenue, grade and improve, twenty thousand dollars; Northwest: Euclid street, Champlain avenue to Columbia road, grade and improve, one thousand dollars; Northwest: Nineteenth street, Kalorama road to Biltmore street, grade, one thousand dollars; North: Shepherd street, east of Eighth street, grade and improve, four thousand dollars;
Northeast: T street, North Capitol street to Lincoln road, pave (thirty-five feet wide), three thousand four hundred dollars; North: Longfellow street, Fifth street to Shepherd road, grade, one thousand dollars; North: Rittenhouse street, Brightwood avenue to Blair road, grade and improve, six thousand dollars: Northwest: Harvard street, west of Fourteenth street, pave (thirty feet wide), five thousand dollars; Northwest: Eighteenth street, Irving street to Lamont street, grade and improve, two thousand five hundred dollars;
North: Rhode Island avenue. North Capitol street to First street west, pave (forty feet wide), nine thousand six hundred dollars; Northwest: For paving Eleventh street between Columbia road and Irving street, two thousand five hundred dollars. In all, one hundred and forty-seven thousand four hundred dollars. Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work ofRepairs, etc. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, three hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary: the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroadVol. 20, p. 105. company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved 1130 June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected; and such changes may be made in the lines of curb of Pennsylvania avenue and its intersecting streets, in connection with their resurfacing, as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia *Proviso*.Immediately available.may consider necessary and advisable: *Provided*, That all appropriations under this paragraph shall be immediately available.
Sidewalks.For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal buildings, six thousand dollars. New highway plan for northwest section.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to prepare a new highway plan for that portion of the District of Columbia lying north of Tilden street, south of Albemarle street, east of Reno road, and west of Connecticut avenue, under the Vol. 27, p. 532.provisions contained in the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia Vol. 30. p. 519.lying outside of cities,” and an amendment to said Act approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, that upon the completion and recording of said new highway plan it shall take the place of and stand for any previous plan for said portion of the District of Columbia.
County roads.Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs of county roads and suburban streets, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Bridges.Bridges: For construction and repairs of bridges, twenty thousand dollars. Aqueduct Bridge.Aqueduct Bridge: For reconstruction of pier numbered one of the Aqueduct Bridge across the Potomac River at Georgetown, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, eighty thousand dollars; and the unexpended balance, amounting to about fourteen thousand dollars, of the appropriations for the reconstruction of piers numbered four and five of said bridge is hereby reappropriated and made available for the periodical examination of the remaining piers of the bridge and making of such repairs as may be found necessary.
Highway bridge.Highway bridge across Potomac River: For salaries of two draw operators, at one thousand and twenty dollars each; three watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; for labor, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, ten thousand six hundred and sixty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars. Anacostia River bridge.Operation of the Anacostia River bridge:
For salaries of employees, lighting, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to the operation and maintenance of the bridge, two thousand eight Time of completion extended.hundred dollars: and the time within which this bridge shall be completed is hereby extended to July first, nineteen hundred and eight. Bridge, Monroe street. Brookland, D. C.For constructing a suitable bridge to carry Monroe street, Brook land, over the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, all in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, forty-four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the said Commissioners are authorized to enter into a contract with the said railroad company or other parties for the *Provisos*.Railroad company to pay part of cost.Vol. 32, p. 917.construction of such bridge and approaches: *Provided*, That such portion of this cost shall be borne by the.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company as is provided in section ten of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, and said sum shall be paid by said company to the Treasurer of the United States, one half to the credit of the District of Columbia and the other half to the credit of the United States, and the 1131same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises andLien. property of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and shall be a legal indebtedness of said company in favor of the District of Columbia, jointly for its use and the use of the United States as aforesaid, and the said lien may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by bill in equity brought by the Commissioners of the said District in the supreme court of said District, or by any other lawful proceeding against the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company: *Provided further*, That no street railway company shall use the bridgeUse by street railways.Restriction. herein authorized for its tracks until such company shall have paid to the Treasurer of the United States a sum equal to one-sixth of the total cost of said bridge, one half thereof to be credited to the United States and the other half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
For preparation of plans and estimates for the treatment of theRock Creek valley. Improvement of. valley of Rock Creek from Massachusetts avenue to the mouth of the creek, both by the open-valley method and by conduit, including necessary surveys, borings, test pits, plan, and estimates of cost, four thousand dollars. SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, forty-four thousandCleaning. five hundred dollars. For maintenance and operation of sewage pumping station, includingMaintenance. employment of mechanics, laborers, and watchman, purchase of coal, oil, waste, and other supplies, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, forty-four thousandMain and pipe. dollars. For suburban sewers, one hundred thousand dollars.Suburban. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,Rights of way. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing work on extension of east side intercepting sewerEast side intercepting. from boundary sewer to Brookland, fifty thousand dollars. For sewer in the valley of Broad Branch, between Rock Creek andBroad Branch, etc.
Soapstone Branch, and in valley of Soapstone Branch, between Broad Branch and Wisconsin avenue, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars. All balances of former appropriations remaining after the executionUnexpended 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 storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stable, purchase, and maintenance, of horses; purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons and harness, and necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work done under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Contracts. whenever it shall appear to the Commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards, in accordance with the specifications under which the same was last advertised for bids, it shall at once be their duty to advertise to let said work under said specifications to the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents per thousand square yards, 1132they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications; two hundred and forty thousand dollars, and the Commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Removal of snow and ice.Vol. 28, p. 809.For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four thousand dollars. Disposal of city 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 sixty-eight thousand three hundred and forty 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 trees, tree spaces, parks, and miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars. Bathing beach.Bathing beach: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman, four hundred and fifty dollars; and for temporary services, maintenance, and repairs, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; construction of bath houses and for improvement of wharves and floating baths, seven thousand dollars, and the appropriation of five thousand dollars for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven is hereby made available, in addition to the five thousand dollars herein provided; in all, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
Scales.For public scales: For purchase, repair, and replacement of public scales, two hundred dollars. Playgrounds.Playgrounds: For maintenance, supervision, and completing equipment of outdoor playgrounds, five thousand dollars. Purchase of sites.For the purchase of playgrounds sites, to be immediately available, seventy-five thousand dollars. Public convenience stations.Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, five thousand dollars.
Insanitary buildings.Condemnation of insanitary buildings: For all expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled*Ante*, p. 157. “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal services, when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars, six thousand dollars.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department. Salaries.For electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; three electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; expert repair man. nine hundred and sixty dollars; four repair men. at nine hundred dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; two electrical inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each: electrical inspector, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; cable splicer, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars: two clerks, at one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars each; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars:1133assistant cable splicer, six hundred and twenty dollars; assistant repair man. six hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant repair men, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; laborer, four hundred and sixty dollars; four telephone operators, at five hundred and forty dollars each; telephone operator, four hundred and fifty dollars: storekeeper, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; and one laborer, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, forty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies,Supplies. telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase 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 storeroom, and other necessary items, fifteen thousand dollars. For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police patrol, and telephonePlacing wires underground. service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, twenty-one thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of newPolice-patrol system. boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand three hundred dollars. For moving the fire-alarm apparatus from its present location toRemoval, etc., of fire-alarm apparatus to Municipal Building. the new Municipal Building, including cost of new metal cabinet work, remodeling switch boards, new batteries, battery racks, wire, cable, conduits, manholes, miscellaneous supplies, extra labor, and services, and other items necessary to effect its complete transfer, seventeen thousand two hundred and sixty 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than eighteen dollars per annum shall be paid for each gas lamp equipped with a self-regulating*Provisos*.Maximum per lamp. flat-flame burner so adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour, nor more than twenty dollars and eighty-five cents per annum for each gas and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents per annum for each oil lamp equipped with an incandescent mantle burner of not less than sixty candlepower.
And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred andAll-night service. eight the price prescribed by Congress for lighting each street lamp in the District of Columbia with gas or oil shall be construed to include the cost of the illuminating material used, lighting and extinguishing lamps, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expense of erecting and maintaining lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures: *Provided*, That all of said lamps shall burn every night,All expenses included. on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: *And provided further*, that the Commissioners of theStreet designation signs.
District of Columbia may purchase, erect. light, and maintain such posts, lanterns, signs, and fixtures for street designation purposes, in addition to those mentioned above, as in their judgment may be necessary, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph except as to the time of burning: *Provided*, That any association orGas companies. corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of gas for illuminating and fuel purposes in the District of Columbia, through its pres 1134identAnnual statement to Congress. or other duly authorized officer, shall make a sworn statement to Congress annually, on or before the first day of February in each year.
Contents of report.Said report shall contain a detailed statement of the condition of the business of said association or corporation for the year ending December thirty-first next preceding, and such statement shall set forth the actual cost and also present value of the property of such association or corporation used in the conduct of its business, the amount of paid up capital stock, the amount and character of the indebtedness of such association or corporation, the amount and cost of materials used in making gas. the amount of gas manufactured, the amount of gas sold, the average price, per thousand cubic feet received for gas sold, the revenue from the sale of all by-products, the revenues from all other sources, the extensions and improvements made in the plant and works, the actual cost of the same, the amount expended for labor, the amount set aside for depreciation, the amount set apart for insurance and renewals, the amount paid out of earnings for betterments, the amount paid for betterments from other sources, the amount set aside and paid in interest and dividends, the surplus after paying the operating expenses and fixed charges, the statement of the operating expenses to be itemized and classified as is done by other public utility corporations. in the District of Columbia, the names of the stockholders and the amount of stock held in such association or corporation by each of them on December thirty-first next preceding the date of such report.
Sworn report showing condition of business.Any such association or corporation, not later than the fourth day of December in the year nineteen hundred and seven shall make to Congress a sworn report in accordance with the requirements of this provision and showing the condition of its business as near as its present method of bookkeeping will permit, for the year ending December thirty first, nineteen hundred and six. Electric lighting.For electric arc lighting, and for extensions of such service, not *Provisos*.exceeding one hundred thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, Maximum price.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 Washington: *Provided further*, Unexpended balance.That any unexpended balances not to exceed in all ten thousand dollars of the appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for lighting, and of the appropriation of ninety-five thousand dollars for electrical arc lighting, provided in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, shall continue and be available for the services of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, for the lighting purposes designated under said appropriation in Electric light, etc., companies.said Act: *Provided*, That any company, association orReport on business condition. corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of (electricity for illuminating or heating or power purposes, or either, in the.
District of Columbia, Annual statement to Congress.Contents of report.through its president or other duly authorized officer, shall make a sworn statement to Congress annually, on or before the first day of February in each year. Said report shall contain a detailed statement of the condition of the business of said company, association or corporation for the year ending December thirty-first next preceding, and such statement shall set forth the actual cost and also present value of the property of such company, association or corporation used in the conduct of its business, the amount of paid-up capital stock, the amount and character of the indebtedness of such company, association, or corporation, the amount and cost of materials used in making electricity, the quantity of electricity manufactured, the quantity of electricity sold, the amount received per annum for each 1135public arc light, the amount received per kilowat for each public incandescent light, the average price received per annum for each arc light furnished to others than the public, the varying discounts allowed to consumers using arc lights during a part of or the entire night, the average price charged per kilowat for incandescent lights furnished to others than the public, with the varying discounts, and the price charged per kilowat hour for power or heat furnished, and the gross revenues from each source, the revenues from all other sources, the extensions and improvements made in the plant and works, the actual cost of the same, the amount expended for labor, the amount set aside for depreciation, the amount set aside for insurance and renewals, the amount paid out of earnings for betterments, the amount paid for betterments from other sources, the amount, set aside and paid in interest and dividends, the surplus after paying the operating expenses and fixed charges, the statement of the operating expenses to be itemized and classified as is done by other public utility corporations in the District of Columbia, the names of the stockholders and the amount of stock held in such company, association or corporation by each of them on December thirty-first next preceding the date of such report.
Any such company, association or corporation, not later than the fourth day of December in the year nineteen hundred and seven, shall make to Congress a sworn report in accordance with the requirements of this provision and showing the condition of its business as near as its present method of bookkeeping will permit for the year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.Washington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,Maintenance. and repair of the aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the Washington City reservoir, and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, and also including the purchase and maintenance of horses, vehicles, and harness, and the care and maintenance of the. stable, thirty-three thousand dollars.
For purchase of a dredge and accessories for removing sedimentDalecarlia reservoir.Dredge. from Dalecarlia reservoir, thirty thousand dollars. For removal by dredging of about one hundred and thirty-fourRemoval of sediment. thousand cubic yards of sediment from Dalecarlia reservoir, sixteen thousand dollars. For riprapping four hundred linear feet of the shore of DalecarliaRiprapping. reservoir in order to protect the biconduit, two thousand dollars. For riprapping the sides of the Dalecarlia reservoir for a width of about twenty feet, eighteen thousand dollars.
For parking the grounds at the Washington City reservoir, threeWashington City reservoir. thousand dollars. For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,Filtration plant.Salaries, etc. and operation of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, ninety thousand dollars. ROCK CREEK PARK.Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, exclusive of buildingCare, etc. for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park, fifteen thousand dollars.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. For officers: For superintendent of public schools, five thousandSalaries.Officers.*Ante*, p. 316. dollars: two assistant superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; director of intermediate instruction, two thousand seven hundred dol1136lars; thirteen supervising principals, at two thousand three hundred dollars each; supervisor of manual training, two thousand three hundred dollars; secretary, two thousand dollars: clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two stenographers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.
Attendance officers.*Ante*, p. 220.For two attendance officers, authorized by the Act providing for compulsory education in the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six. at six hundred dollars each, one attendance officer, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Teachers.For teachers: For one thousand six hundred and three teachers, librarians, and clerks, to be assigned as follows: For principals of Central, Eastern. Western, Business, and M Street high schools, five in all, at two thousand one hundred dollars each;
For principals of McKinley Manual Training School, and Armstrong Manual Training School, two, at two thousand one hundred dollars each: For principals of Normal School Number One, and Normal School Number Two, two, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; For principal of Jefferson School, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; For twelve heads of departments in high schools, at two thousand dollars each; For principal of Stevens School, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars;
For principal of Franklin and Thomson schools, one, at one thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars: For director of primary instruction, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; For principals of Force. Peabody, Dennison, and Lincoln schools, four in all, at one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars each: For principals of Wallach, and Van Buren and Annex schools, two in all, at one thousand six hundred and ninety dollars each; For principal of Abbot school, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars;
For one high school teacher, one thousand seven hundred dollars; For principals of Seaton, Henry, Webster, Grant, and Gales schools, five in all, at one thousand six hundred and thirty dollars each: For directors of music, drawing; physical culture, three in all, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For directors of domestic science, domestic art, and kindergarten instruction, three in all, at one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars each; For principals of Towers, Jackson, and Blake schools, three in all, at one thousand five hundred and ten dollars each;
For one manual training school teacher, one thousand five hundred dollars; For assistant director of primary instruction, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars: For principals of Johnson and Annex, Brookland, Emery, Garnet, Randall, and Birney and Annex, six in all, at one thousand four hundred and thirty dollars each; For principal of Mott School, one thousand three hundred and seventy dollars; For assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergarten instruction, six in all, at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each; 1137 For principals of Berret, Curtis.
Sumner, and Cook schools, four inTeachers, continued. all, at one thousand three hundred and forty dollars each; For six high school teachers, three manual training school teachers, and two normal school teachers, eleven in all, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For principals of Adams. Morgan, Hubbard, Polk, Phelps. Morse. Twining, Hilton, Maury, Edmonds, Lenox. Brent, Smallwood, Bradley, Sayles J. Bowen. Addison, Fillmore, Corcoran, Weightman, Toner, Ludlow, Blair, Taylor, Madison, Webb.
Wheatley, Pierce, Takoma, Tenley, Brightwood, Monroe, Congress Heights, Crunch. Buchanan. Carberry, Hayes, Eckington, Briggs, Montgomery, Banneker, Logan, Jones, Lovejoy, Wilson, Garrison, and Bell schools, forty-six in all, at one thousand three hundred and ten dollars each: For principal of Bruce School, two high school teachers, and three manual training school teachers, six in all, at one thousand two hundred and seventy dollars each; For principal of Garfield School, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
For principals of Ross and Gage schools, two in all, at one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars each; For principals of Harrison, Dent, Arthur, Amidon, Wormley, Patterson, Langston, Slater, Giddings, Ambush. Langdon. Reservoir, Benning, Hamilton. Woodburn. Stanton, Chevy Chase, and Pet-worth schools, eighteen in all, at one thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; For twenty-three high school teachers, five manual training school teachers, and six normal school teachers, thirty-four in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each:
For principals of Greenleaf, Tyler, Phillips. Magruder. Anthony Bowen, Syphax, Cardozo, Hyde, and of one eight-room building in the eighth division, nine in all, at one thousand one hundred and thirty dollars each: For principals of Industrial Home, and Reno schools, two in all, at one thousand one hundred and ten dollars each; For principals of Blow, Douglass. Payne, and Simmons schools, seven manual training school teachers, three teachers of music, one teacher of drawing, and one teacher of physical culture, and one grade teacher, seventeen in all, at one thousand and seventy dollars each:
For principal of Military Road school, one thousand and fifty dollars; For nine normal school teachers, sixty-eight high school teachers, and fifteen manual training school teachers, ninety-two in all, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; For four eighth grade teachers, at one thousand and thirty dollars each; For principals of a new building in the fourth division, and Bennings Road and annex schools, two in all, at one thousand and forty dollars each: For principals of Orr, Kenilworth.
Deanwood, one manual training school teacher, one assistant director of primary instruction, five in all, at one thousand and ten dollars each; For seventeen, at one thousand dollars each; For nine, at nine hundred and eighty dollars each; For librarian in the teachers’ library, nine hundred and eighty dollars; For one high school teacher, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; For two high school teachers, five manual training school teachers, principal of Threlkeld School, and principal of Ivy City School, nine in all, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each:
For six, at nine hundred and twenty dollars each; 1138 For sixteen, at nine hundred dollars each; For principal of Orphans’ Home School and seventy-six teachers, seventy-seven in all, at eight hundred and ninety dollars each; For two, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For principal of Potomac School, eight hundred and seventy dollars; For ten, at eight hundred and sixty dollars each; For fourteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For two hundred and sixty-eight, at eight hundred and thirty dollars each;
For one, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; For principal of Brightwood Park School, eight hundred and twenty dollars; For fifteen at eight hundred dollars each; Librarians.For librarians of the Eastern and the Central High Schools, two in all, at eight hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars; For sixteen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For one hundred and fifty-two, at seven hundred dollars each;
For two hundred and forty, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; Clerks.For clerk to assistant superintendent of white schools, six hundred and seventy-five dollars; For thirty-one, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For clerk in office of custodian of free text-books, six hundred and fifty dollars; For clerk to director of manual training, six hundred and fifty dollars; For three hundred and nineteen, at six hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For five, at six hundred dollars each;
For clerk to principal of M Street High School, six hundred dollars; For one, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars; For clerk to principal of the Business High School, five hundred and seventy-five dollars; For librarian of the M Street High School, five hundred and seventy-five dollars; For eighteen, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For clerk and librarian of the Western High School, five hundred and fifty dollars; For twenty-nine, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each;
For clerk to the director of intermediate instruction, clerk and exchange operator in the secretary’s office, clerk to colored assistant superintendent. clerk to principal of Central High School, clerk to principal of McKinley Manual Training School, and librarian of teachers’ library to the colored school, six in all, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For ten, at five hundred dollars each; In all, one million three hundred and thirty-four thousand six hundred and five dollars. *Provisos*.No sex discrimination. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school and performing a like class of duties: and it shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades, except Use of appropriation In case of death, etc.as hereinafter provided: *Provided*, That the. amounts herein specifically appropriated for the pay of teachers and officers in the public schools of the District of Columbia which are unused in whole or in part by reason of the death, resignation, transfer, promotion, reduction, or the 1139separation from the school service from any cause whatever of a teacher or officer, may be used for the purpose of changing the amounts specifically appropriated for the salaries of the positions made vacant as aforesaid and those of the lower group or classes affected thereby, by addition thereto, reductions therefrom, or the division thereof, so as to provide the proper salary of the class for newly appointed teachers or officers and the necessary additions or reductions in the salaries of the teachers or officers promoted, reduced, or changed by reason of said death, resignation, transfer, promotion, reduction, or separation from the school service as aforesaid. *Provided, however*, That the changes herein authorized shall notRestriction.*Ante*, p. 318. increase or reduce the number of teachers or officers provided in the Act making appropriations therefor, or exceed in the aggregate the sum specifically appropriated for the salaries of said teachers and officers: *Provided further*, That the changes in the amounts specificallyRestriction. appropriated for the salaries herein authorized shall only be made to pay the salaries of teachers and officers appointed, promoted, reduced, transferred, or changed, in strict conformity with the provisions of*Ante*, p. 316. the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District, of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six. *Provided further*, That except as specified, no teacher, of the wholeTeachers not to act as clerks, etc. number appropriated for herein, shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of, a clerk or librarian.
Night schools: For night schools for pupils, and teachers of nightNight schools. schools may also be teachers in the day schools, twelve thousand dollars. For industrial and commercial instruction in night schools, includingIndustrial, etc., instruction. salaries of teachers and equipment and other necessary expenses, five thousand dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, eight hundred dollars. Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, two thousandKindergarten supplies. five 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; Of the Business High School, one thousand six hundred dollars; Of the Jefferson Building, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Western High School, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Franklin School, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Eastern High School and M Street High School, two. at one thousand two hundred dollars each;
Of the McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinleyEngineers. Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one assistant engineer at the McKinley Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; Of the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand two 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; Of the Stevens School, one thousand two hundred dollars; Of the Wallach School, one thousand dollars; Of the Van Buren School and annex, one thousand dollars; Of the Birney and annex, Brookland, Curtis, Dennison, Emery, Force, Gales, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Johnson and annex. Peabody, 1140Seaton. Sumner, and Webster school buildings, fifteen in all, at nine hundred dollars each; Of the Lincoln, Miner, and Mott buildings, three 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. Blow. Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry. Cardozo, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Dent. Douglass, Edmunds. Fillmore. Gage, Garrison. Giddings, Eckington, Greenleaf, Harrison. Hayes. Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Lovejoy, Ludlow, McCormick, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan.
Morse, Pattison, Payne, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Ross, Abby S. Simmons. Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Webb, Weightman, Wheatlev, Wilson, and Wormley buildings, one eight-room building in eighth division, and one eight-room building in fourth division, seventy-two in all, at six hundred dollars each; Of the Garfield, Thomson, and Woodburn buildings, three in all, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; Of the Benning (white), Benning (colored), Chevy Chase, Stanton, Hamilton, High Street.
Langdon. Kenilworth. B. B. French, Orr, Petworth, Potomac, Reno. Reservoir. Brightwood Park. Deanwood, and Threlkeld buildings, seventeen in all, at three hundred dollars each; Of the Bunker Hill. Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Fort Slocum, Grant Road, Military Road, Ivy City, and Burrville buildings, eight in all, at one hundred and twenty 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, six thousand dollars;
In all, ninety-nine thousand one hundred and twenty 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.
Rent.Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and repair shop, fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars. Temporary rooms.*Ante*, p. 219.For amount required to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for the estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory education law, twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairs.For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, seventy thousand dollars.
For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, fifty 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 nine estimates shall be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing. Tools, etc.For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and books, 1141 and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars.
For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, eighty-five thousandFuel, etc. dollars. For furniture and window shades for new school buildings, kindergartens,Furniture for new buildings. manual training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: One eight-room building in the eighth division, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: one eight-room building in the fourth division, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one four-room building at Brightwood Park, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one four-room building at Deanwood, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; eight new kindergartens, one thousand two hundred dollars: one manual training shop, two hundred dollars; one cooking school, one hundred and fifty dollars, and one sewing school, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Contingent expenses. stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipments for high school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of three hundred dollars livery of horse or garage of automobile for the superintendent, and including not exceeding one thousand dollars for books, books of reference, and periodicals, forty thousand dollars. Hereafter every male pupil in attendance at the high schools shallHigh school cadet service. be admitted to and shall serve in the high school cadets unless excused from such service by the principal, on certificate of one of the medical inspectors of schools that he is physically disqualified for such service, or on the written request of his parent or guardian.
For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools,Pianos. at an average cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, one thousand dollars. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the firstSupplies for pupils. eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of text-books and supplies, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred dollars, fifty-four thousand two hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its*Proviso*.Exchanges. discretion, is 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 apparatus for the equipment and maintenance of school playgrounds,Playground equipment. one thousand live hundred dollars. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenanceSchool gardens. of school gardens, one thousand dollars. For extending the telephone system to one eight-room building inTelephones to new schools. the eighth division, one eight-room building in the fourth division, one four-room building in the seventh division, the Brightwood Park, one four-room building in the eleventh division.
Deanwood, and Fort Slocum School building, including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, poles, cross arms, braces, conduit connections, manholes, telephone instruments, extra labor, and other necessary items to be expended under the electrical department, eight hundred dollars. For the expenses of the Commission, created by section eleven ofCommission to report on consolidation of buildings, etc.*Ante*, p. 321. the Act of Congress approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, to regulate the salaries of school teachers, officers, and employees of the District of Columbia, including traveling expenses, personal 1142 services, printing, and other incidental items, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be, immediately available.
Buildings and grounds.Buildings and grounds: For completion of an eight-room building in eighth division, twenty thousand dollars. For completion of an eight-room school building in fourth division, twenty thousand dollars. For the purchase of part of lot five, Howard University subdivision. adjoining the Mott School on the west (one hundred and seventy-two feet six inches by one hundred and fifty feet nine inches), approximately twenty-six thousand square feet of ground, or other suitable lot in that vicinity, and the erection of a sixteen-room school building, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For purchase of site for and erection of a sixteen-room building in the first division, west of Fourteenth street and north of Florida avenue, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For a twelve-room building and site, eighth division, one. hundred and four thousand dollars. Cost of sites, etc.For purchase of site for and erection of a six-room addition to the Langdon School, at Langdon. District of Columbia, twenty-five thousand dollars. For a four-room addition to the Petworth School building, in the seventh division, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For a four-room addition to the Gage School, in the second division, thirty thousand dollars. For purchase of site for and erection of a four-room addition to the Emery School building, in accordance with the original plans, thirty-three thousand dollars. 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 for such purposes.
Plans.Preparation and approval.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 pf 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 R. S, sec. 4864, p. 942.the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and Vol 31, p. 844.sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Colored children.For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Vol. 33. p. 901.Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized in an Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, six thousand and fifty dollars. FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. Salaries.*Ante*, p. 221.For major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, with rank of inspector, two thousand five hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each: ten cap-1143tains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars: clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars: three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at six hundred 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 maybe necessary: twelve lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; forty-five sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each: four hundred and twenty-two privates of class three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: one hundred and ten privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each: one hundred and twenty-seven privates of class one. at nine hundred dollars each; for amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, nine thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-three cents, six telephone, operators, at six hundred dollars each; janitor for police headquarters, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fourteen laborers, at six hundred dollars each; messenger, seven hundred dollars; messenger, five hundred dollars; major and superintendent, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; inspector, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars: fifty-five captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, on bicycles, at fifty dollars each; twenty-six drivers. at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and two police matrons, at six hundred dollars each: in all, nine hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-three cents.
Miscellaneous: For rent of substation and stable at Anacostia,Rent, Anacostia. four hundred and eighty dollars: For fuel, four thousand dollars;Fuel. For repairs to stations, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;Repairs. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchaseContingent expenses. of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, installation of card system and maintenance of the same in the police department, stationery, city directories, 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, repairs to rented buildings, and other necessary expenses, thirty-three thousand dollars, of which amount a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars may be expended by the Major and Superintendent of Police for the prevention and detection of crime under his certificates approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended:
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred and twenty-fiveFlags. dollars; For rent of police department headquarters and property rooms, twoRent. thousand four hundred dollars; For purchase of a lot to be used as a site for a station house in Anacostia,Site for station, Anacostia. three thousand dollars; In all, forty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars. House of detention: To enable the Commissioners of the DistrictHouse of detention. of Columbia to provide transportation, including the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable 1144place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age and, in the discretion of the Commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including salaries of two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four drivers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; six guards, at six hundred dollars each; and two matrons, at six hundred dollars each; twelve thousand seven hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Harbor patrol.For harbor patrol: For one engineer, eight hundred and forty dollars: one fireman, four hundred and eighty dollars; one watchman, four hundred and twenty dollars; one deck hand, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Fuel, etc.For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, two thousand dollars. In all, four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. Salaries.*Ante*, p. 315.For chief engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars; deputy chief engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at two thousand dollars each; fire marshal, two thousand dollars; deputy fire marshal, one thousand four hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand and eighty dollars each: clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; thirty-two captains, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; thirty-three lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of machinery, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of machinery, one thousand two hundred dollars: twenty engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty assistant engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each: two pilots, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each: thirty-three drivers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each: thirty-three assistant drivers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; one hundred and eighty-five privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each: thirty-three privates of class one, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each: and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four hundred and sixty-five thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, eight thousand dollars; For repairs to apparatus and for new apparatus and new appliances, eleven thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, fifteen thousand dollars; For fuel, fifteen thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, thirteen thousand dollars; For forage, twenty-two thousand dollars; For rent, three hundred and sixty dollars: Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, twenty-one thousand dollars;
In all, one hundred and five thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Home, etc., at Langdon.Increase fire department: For house and furniture for chemical engine company to be located at Langdon, District of Columbia,1145 including cost of connecting said house with tire-alarm headquarters, twenty thousand dollars; For house, site, and furniture for a truck company to be located inHouse for truck company. the southwest section of the city, including the cost of connecting said house with tire-alarm headquarters, thirty thousand dollars;
For additional amount for one aerial hook-and-ladder truck, providedNew apparatus. for by the District of Columbia appropriation act for nineteen*Ante*, p. 505. hundred and seven, five hundred dollars, to be immediately available; For one second-size steam fire engine, five thousand dollars; For one second-size steam tire engine, five thousand dollars; For one aerial hook-and-ladder truck, four thousand dollars; For one combination chemical and hose wagon, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
For one chemical engine, three thousand five hundred dollars; In all, seventy thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health Department. For health officer, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief inspectorSalaries. and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; fourteen sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars: sanitary and food inspector, who shall be a veterinary surgeon and act as inspector of live stock and dairy farms, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of marine products, one thousand two hundred dollars: one inspector, one thousand dollars: one inspector, nine 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, atone 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, two thousand four hundred dollars; driver, five hundred and forty dollars: five sanitary and food inspectors, who shall be veterinary surgeons, at one thousand dollars each, and three sanitary and food inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each, to assist in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws and the regulations relating thereto; in all, fifty-one thousand nine hundred and forty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter no officer or employee of*Provisos*.Private service prohibited. 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*,Dairies defined.
That every place where milk is sold shall be deemed a dairy under the law for purposes of inspection. Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty dollars.Miscellaneous. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an Act to prevent thePrevention of contagious diseases.*Post*, p. 1349. spread of contagious diseases in the District ofVol. 26, p. 691.Vol. 29, p. 635.*Ante*, p. 889.
Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for investigating the cause of cases of typhoid fever reported to the health department under the provisions of an Act to require 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 1146 said District, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the Rent.enforcement and execution of said acts, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, rent of stable, purchase of reference books, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Disinfecting service.For maintenance of the disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, five thousand dollars. Drainage.Vol. 29, p. 125.For emergency fund for the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, Abatement of nuisances.*Ante*, p. 114.approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, five thousand dollars.
Food adulteration.For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars. Food. etc., inspection.For contingent expenses, including a proper allowance by the Commissioners for the maintenance of a horse and vehicle by one inspector Vol. 28, p. 709.for official use, incident to the enforcement of an Act to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, *Ante*, p. 768.approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five: an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, one thousand dollars.
Traveling expenses.For the necessary traveling expenses of sanitary and food inspectors while traveling outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milk, and other dairy products, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Hospitals.Garfield and Providence hospitals: For isolating wards for minor Isolating wards.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.
Repairs.For painting and repairs to the isolating ward building at Garfield Hospital and repairs to plumbing therein, and other minor repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For repairs to the portico at the west entrance to the isolating wards at Providence Hospital, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Smallpox hospital roadways.For the construction of roadways in reservation thirteen to the smallpox hospital and the quarantine station, and between said institutions, eight hundred dollars.
Public crematory.For maintenance of the public crematory, three thousand dollars. COURTS.Courts. Court of appeals reports.For amount required to pay the reporter of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia for volumes of the reports of the opinions Vol. 32, p. 609.of said court, authorized to be furnished by him under section two hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia as amended duly first, nineteen hundred and two, thirty-three volumes, at five dollars each, namely, eleven copies of volumes twenty-seven, twenty-eight, and twenty-nine, one hundred and sixty-five dollars. 1147 Juvenile court:
For judge, three thousand dollars; clerk, twoJuvenile court. thousand dollars; chief probation officer, one thousand five hundred*Ante*, p. 73. dollars: probation officer, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, two thousand threeMiscellaneous. hundred and forty dollars: For rent, two hundred and forty dollars; For furniture, fixtures, and equipments, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, three hundred dollars:
For fuel, ice, gas, and laundry work, stationery, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, typewriter and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for. nine hundred dollars: In all, three thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Police court: For two judges at three thousand dollars each:Police court. 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 engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fireman, three hundred and sixty dollars; two assistant janitors, at three hundred dollars each; four bailiffs, at six hundred dollars each; matron, six hundred dollars; three charmen, at three hundred and sixty dollars each: in till, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous: For fuel, gas. laundry work, stationery, printing,Miscellaneous. preservation of records, mops, brooms, buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, and all other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For witness fees, four thousand dollars: For repairs to police court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dollars: For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, one hundred dollars;
For compensation of jurors, eight thousand dollars; For repairs to the police court building, three hundred dollars; In all, fourteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionLunacy writs. Vol. 33, p. 740. of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Justices of the peace: For six justices of the peace, at two thousandJustices of the peace. five hundred dollars each, and the further sum of four hundred dollars each for rent, clerical services, stationery, and other expenses; in all, seventeen thousand four 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 1148character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently *Proviso*.Purchases.provided 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 the District.Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars. Court-house.Court-house, District of Columbia: For the following force necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia:
Engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen. at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and three messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand and eighty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General. Supreme court.Metal file cases.For the purchase and installation of fireproof metal file cases in the clerk’s office of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Preservation of records.To rebind, repair, and preserve the records of the old circuit court of the District of Columbia, covering the period from eighteen hundred and one to eighteen hundred and sixty-three, two thousand dollars. Jail.Warden.Warden of the jail: For warden of the jail of the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General. Maintenance.Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail of the District of Columbia, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty thousand dollars.
Supreme court.Witness fees.Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, twelve thousand dollars. Jurors fees.Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, fifty-four thousand dollars. Pay of bailiffs.Pay of bailiffs:
For payment of not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for the expense of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same when ordered by the court, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous expenses: For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the supreme court or the District of Columbia, and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, twenty-two thousand dollars.
CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections. Board of Charities.Salaries.Board of Charities: For secretary, three thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, nine hundred dollars; six inspectors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars 1149each: one driver, at six hundred and sixty dollars; three drivers, at six hundred dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars: traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
REFORMATORIES AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS.Reformatories. For Washington Asylum: For superintendent, one thousand fiveWashington Asylum. Salaries. hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars: property clerk, one thousand dollars; baker, six hundred dollars; principal overseer, one thousand four hundred dollars: fifteen overseers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars: assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars: second assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars: engineer at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; engineer at new workhouse for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; two watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: two 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; hospital cook, six hundred dollars; chief cook for workhouse, six hundred dollars; four assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, six hundred dollars; two graduate nurses, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; two nurses for tuberculosis wards, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed ninety-six dollars per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed one hundred and twenty dollars per annum during second year of service), two thousand one hundred dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; gardener, five hundred and forty dollars; herdsman. three hundred and sixty-five dollars; florist, three hundred dollars: tailor, one hundred and eighty dollars; housekeeper, three hundred dollars; laundryman, six hundred dollars; temporary labor, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-one dollars.
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, forty-eight thousand dollars.. For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars.. For payment to the beneficiaries named in section three of “An ActPayments to families.*Ante*, p. 87. making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances.” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District.
For erection of administration building for the workhouse for males,Administration building. eighty-five thousand dollars. 1150 Repairs.For repairing the main almshouse building, including painting, brickwork, carpenter work, plumbing, heating, and other necessary items and repairs, three thousand dollars. Home for Aged and Infirm.Salaries.Home for the Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; two female attendants, at three hundred dollars each; chief cook, six hundred dollars; two male attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; chief engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one tireman, three hundred dollars: physician and pharmacist, four hundred and eighty dollars; one nurse, three hundred and sixty dollars: two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; farmer, five hundred and forty dollars; two farm hands, at throe hundred and sixty dollars each; tailor, two hundred and forty dollars; seamstress, two hundred and forty dollars; laundryman, five hundred and forty dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; one servant, one hundred and forty-four dollars; temporary labor, six hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars;
Contingent expenses.For 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 utensils, and other necessary items, twenty thousand dollars; For beds, bedding, furniture, and carpets, to be immediately available, one thousand five hundred dollars; For grading, road making, purchase of farm implements, stock, tools, seed, and so forth, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For installing a refrigerating plant, including erection of building, to be immediately available, two thousand five hundred dollars; For additional steam boiler, including foundations, piping, and necessary expenses of installation, to be immediately available, one thousand nine hundred dollars: For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand dollars; In all, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars. Reform School for Boys.Maintenance.For Reform School:
For care and maintenance of boys committed to the Reform School by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said Reform School, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Reform School for Girls.Salaries.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; seven teachers of industries, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and twenty dollars: night watchman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars: laborer, three hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars;
Contingent expenses.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, twelve thousand dollars; In all, twenty-one thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars. Transporting prisoners.Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to the workhouse, including salary of driver, not to exceed seven hundred and twenty dollars, and the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, two thousand dollars. 1151 Medical Charities.Medical charities.
For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toFreedman’s Hospital. be made with the Freedman’s Hospital and Asylum by the Board of Charities, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toColumbia Hospital. be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. For repairs to Columbia Hospital, 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 fourteen 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 dollars. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary serviceEmergency Hospital. to indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, fifteen thousand dollars.
For repairs and equipment, Central Dispensary and EmergencyRepairs. Hospital, four thousand dollars. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary serviceEastern Dispensary, to indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, two thousand dollars. For the Women’s Clinic, maintenance, seven hundred and fiftyWomen’s Clinic. dollars. For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, includingHome for Incurables.*Proviso*.Electric lights. elevator. four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That grounded electrical circuits may be used for lighting and power purposes at said Home.
For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toGeorgetown University Hospital. be made with the Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toGeorge Washington University Hospital. be made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars. Tuberculosis Hospital: For the following for such time, after theTuberculosis Hospital.Salaries. beginning of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, as their services may be actually required, and at the following annual rates of compensation, namely:
Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; pharmacist and clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars: superintendent of nurses, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars: four graduate nurses, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each: ten pupil nurses, at ninety-six dollars each: chief cook, four hundred and eighty dollars: two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant engineer, six hundred dollars; two tiremen, at three hundred dollars each: elevator conductor, three hundred dollars; laundryman, four hundred and eighty dollars: laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty dollars; two orderlies, at three hundred dollars each: four servants, at one hundred and eighty dollars each: in all, eleven thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, fifteen thousand dollars: 1152 Furniture, etc.For furniture, beds, bedding, cooking utensils, and other necessary hospital furnishings, seven thousand five hundred dollars; In all, thirty-four thousand one hundred dollars. CHILD-CARING INSTITUTIONS.Care of children.
Board of Children’s Guardians.Vol. 27, p. 268.Expenses.Board of Children’s Guardians: For the Board of Children’s Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. namely: For administrative expenses, including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, and all office and sundry expenses, three thousand one hundred dollars; Salaries.For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk, one thousand and eighty dollars; placing officer, nine hundred dollars; placing officer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; investigating clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; record clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; visiting inspector, four hundred and eighty dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars;
Maintenance of feeble-minded children.Board, etc.For maintenance of feeble-minded children, sixteen thousand dollars; For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than one thousand five hundred 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, fifty-four thousand dollars;
In all, for Board of Children’s Guardians, eighty thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Industrial home for colored children.Salaries.Industrial home school for colored children: For superintendent. one thousand two hundred dollars; matron of school, four hundred and eighty dollars; two matrons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant matrons, at three hundred dollars each; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; manual training teacher, four hundred and eighty dollars; farmer, six hundred dollars; watchman, two hundred and forty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars: in all, six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars;
Maintenance.For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, five thousand dollars: Furniture, etc.For necessary furniture and equipment, four thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Stable.For erection and equipment of stable, one thousand five hundred dollars; In all, sixteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Industrial Home School.Salaries.For the Industrial Home School: For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; matron, four hundred and eighty dollars; two matrons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant matrons, at three hundred dollars each; housekeeper, three hundred and sixty dollars; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; nurse, three hundred dollars; manual training teacher, six hundred dollars; florist, seven hundred and twenty dollars: engineer, six hundred dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; two housemaids, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; temporary labor, not to exceed four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars;
Maintenance.For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and harness, nine thousand four hundred and twelve dollars; In all, seventeen thousand dollars. Repairs.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including rebuilding of greenhouses, three thousand dollars. 1153 Sewage plant.For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars. Home for destitute colored women.For the care and maintenance of children under a contract, to be made with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed nine thousand nine hundred dollars.
Foundlings Hospital.For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the Washington Hospital for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars. Saint Ann’s Asylum.For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars. German Orphan Asylum.For the care anti maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the German Orphan Asylum by the Board of Charities not to exceed nine hundred dollars.
TEMPORARY HOMES.Temporary homes. For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely: ForMunicipal lodging house. superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars: cook, three hundred and sixty dollars: and laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, including rent, one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors. GrandGrand Army Soldiers’ Home. Army of the Republic, namely:
For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars: janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; and cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars: in all, five thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war shall also be admitted to the Home. For the care and maintenance of women and children under a contractHope and Help Mission. to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, two thousand dollars.
Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane ofSupport of indigent insane. the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law, two hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insaneDeporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “To change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand dollars.
That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the DistrictAdvances to Board of Charities. of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.
Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay ofRelief of poor. physicians to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand three hundred dollars. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, threeTransporting paupers. thousand dollars. 1154 MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.Militia. Expenses.For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely:
For rent, fuel (including fuel for cruises), light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, and for telephone service, twenty-four thousand dollars. For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For printing and stationery, six hundred and fifty dollars. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, one thousand dollars. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, one thousand dollars.
For clerk, office of the adjutant-general, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For expenses of drills and parades, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For postage, one thousand five hundred dollars. For expensed of rifle practice and matches four thousand seven hundred dollars. Camp expenses.For expenses of camps, instruction, practice marches, and practice cruises, fifteen thousand dollars. Pay.For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, *Provisos*.Deductions for loss of property.eighteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That all moneys collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia on account of Government property lost or destroyed by such individual shall be repaid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the officer of the militia of the District of Columbia who is accountable to the United States Government for such property lost or destroyed:
Use of fines, etc. *Provided further*, That all moneys collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said National Guard shall be held by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys so collected for necessary clerical and general expenses of the service, heretofore or hereafter incurred, including law books and books of reference, or for the pay of troops, other than Government employees: and for all moneys so collected and expended the commanding general shall make an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops.
Incidentals.For general incidental expenses of the service, five hundred dollars. WATER DEPARTMENT.Water Department. Payable from water revenues.The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: Revenue and inspection branch.For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; nine inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each; assistant tapper, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; 1155 For distribution branch:
For superintendent, three thousand dollars;Distribution branch. draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; 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; assistant engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; two rodmen. at nine hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant storekeeper. seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; chief steam engineer, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant steam engineers, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; four oilers, at six hundred and ten dollars each: three firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each: machinist, one thousand two hundred dollars; two machinists, at nine hundred and seventy-five dollars each; carpenter, one thousand and fifty dollars; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; blacksmith. one thousand and fifty dollars; two plumbers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; janitor, nine hundred dollars; watchman, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; watchman, seven hundred dollars; watchman, six hundred and ten dollars; two drivers, at seven hundred dollars each; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; driver, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, eighty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For contingent expenses, including books. blanks, stationery, printing,Contingent expenses. purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and other necessary items and services, three thousand dollars. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipeOperating expenses. distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and tire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, and purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, forty-two thousand dollars.
For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-serviceHigh-service system. system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences as may be directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, 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 eight, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,Temporary draftsmen, etc. transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized 1156by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District ; and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and Report.equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work: and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Proviso*.Maximum expenditures.Work under Commissioners.Temporary laborers, etc. *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics, as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 3. Horses, wagons, etc.Special orders of Commissioners for using. All horses, harness, and wagons necessary for use in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be purchased, hired, and maintained, exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work, and the Commissioners of the District, in the annual estimates, shall report the number of horses, wagons, and harness purchased, and horses and wagons hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation, and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated*Proviso. *Work under Commissioners. by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, wagons, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with work’s authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.
Sec. 4. Water Document.Temporary draftsmen, etc. The services of draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, and inspectors, temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations, may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services *Proviso. *Limit.and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed ten thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.
Work under Commissioners.Laborers.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics, as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to he employed to perform such work as may 1157 not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 5. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia areMiscellaneous trust fund.Expenses paid from.Vol. 33, p. 368. authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, and one laborer for the wholesale producers’ market, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account.
Sec. 6. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shallLimit on requisitions. not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Sec. 7. That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundredAdvances from the Treasury. and eight, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to advance, on the requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, made in the manner now prescribed by law, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. such sums as may be necessary from time to time to meet the general expenses of said District, as authorized by Congress, and to reimburse the Treasury for the portion of said advances payable by the District of Columbia out of the taxes and revenues collected for the support of the government thereof: *Provided*, That all advances*Provisos.*Interest on advances.Vol. 31, p. 766.Vol. 32, pp. 616, 981.Vol. 33, pp. 390, 915.*Ante*, p. 516. made under this Act and under the Acts of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and one.
June first, nineteen hundred and two. March third, nineteen hundred and three, April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and March third, nineteen hundred and five, and June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six. not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, 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 eight, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum until so reimbursed: *Provided further*, That the Auditor for the State andReport other Departments and the auditor of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each fiscal year separately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any, due to the United States: *And provided further*, That nothing containedStreet extensions from District revenues only. herein shall be so construed as to require the United States to bear any part of the cost of acquisition of land for 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. 8. That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they areRepeal. inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, March 2, 1907.
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