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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 34 STAT. · June 27, 1906 · Chapter 3553

Chapter 3553. 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 seven, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 3553.— 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 seven, and for other purposes. June 27, 1906. [[H. R. 18198](/us/bill/59/hr/18198).] [[Public, No. 302](/us/pl/59/302).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia appropriations. That the half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money Half from District revenues. in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, namely:
General expenses. GENERAL EXPENSES. Executive office. Salaries of Commissioners, etc. For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousand dollars each; Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); secretary, two thousand one 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, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at six hundred dollars each; veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of buildings, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars; five assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand dollars each; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, two thousand four hundred dollars; two civil engineers or computers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; 483 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; janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars; steam engineer, nine hundred dollars; three firemen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two elevator operators, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, who shall also act as messenger and substitute elevator operator, three hundred and sixty-five dolIars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; property clerk, two thousand 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, four hundred and eighty 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 eighty dollars; inspector (now temporary, at three dollars per day), nine hundred dollars; inspector (now temporary, at two dollars and fifty cents per day), seven hundred and eighty dollars; laborer (now temporary, at two dollars per day), six hundred dollars; inspector of plumbing, two thousand dollars; seven assistant inspectors of plumbing, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, and six at one thousand dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three members of the plumbing board, at three Plumbing board.
Vol. 30, p. 477. hundred dollars each, and hereafter said board shall be composed of one master plumber, one journeyman plumber competent to be licensed as a master plumber, and one employee of the District of Columbia having a knowledge of plumbing, gas fitting, and sanitary work, whose compensation shall be three hundred dollars per annum each, payable monthly; in all, ninety-eight thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars. For assessor’s office: For assessor, three thousand five hundred Assessor’s office. dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as chairman of the excise and personal tax boards; two assistant assessors, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, arrears division, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk in charge of records, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant inspector of licenses, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; three assistant assessors, at three thousand dollars each; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars; in all, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; and the assessor of the Corporation returns.
District of Columbia is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to accept, without penalty, all returns of gross earnings made by companies or corporations on or before October eighteenth, nineteen hundred and five, as if the same had been made on the first day of August, nineteen hundred and five, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to refund any excess taxes paid on such returns by reason of such penalty. Excise board: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one Excise board. thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. 484 Personal tax board.
Personal tax board: For two assistant assessors of personal 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. Collector’s office. For collector’s office: For collector, four thousand dollars; deputy collector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand four hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two coupon clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk and bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.
Tax-sale certificates. For extra labor for preparation of tax-sale certificates, and so forth, with authority to employ clerks of this and other offices after office hours, eight hundred dollars. Auditor’s office. For auditor’s office: For auditor, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; 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; messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, two thousand five hundred dollars; deputy disbursing officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Corporation counsel’s office. For office of corporation counsel: For corporation counsel, four thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant corporation counsel, two thousand five hundred dollars; second assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; third assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourth assistant corporation counsel, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand and twenty dollars.
Sinking-fund office. For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. Coroner’s office. For coroner’s office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. Market masters. For market masters:
For two market masters, at one thousand 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 four hundred and eighty dollars. Cleaning, etc., produce markets. For necessary labor and services required to clean the market houses and the hauling and sweeping of refuse from the sidewalks and streets at the Farmers’ Produce Market, south side of B street, and. the Wholesale Producers’ Market square on B street northwest, and at the farmers’ market adjacent to the Eastern, Western, and Georgetown markets, respectively, including salary of watchmen, necessary labor, and for hauling and incidental expenses connected therewith, as follows: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Transfer of trust-fund deposits. That the amount remaining to the credit of “Miscellaneous trust fund deposits, District of Columbia, Wholesale Producers’ Market,” after the payment of all bills contracted prior to July first, nineteen hundred and six, shall be transferred to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia, and on and after July first, nineteen hun-485dred and six, all receipts of the Wholesale Producers’ Market, including the receipts for the occupation of the south side of B street northwest, and the farmers’ street markets adjacent to the Eastern, Western, and Georgetown markets, respectively, be paid through the sealer of weights and measures to the collector of taxes, to the credit of the revenues of the District, weekly.
And the Commissioners are hereby Charges for space, etc. authorized to make such reasonable charges for the use of space at the above-mentioned street markets as may be deemed just, but in no case shall the collections for such space and for labor, and the sweeping, cleaning, and hauling away of refuse at such space exceed the sum of ten cents per day for each space occupied, and the market masters of the several markets herein mentioned shall make such collections daily and make a return thereof, with a sworn statement, weekly to the sealer of weights and measures, who shall deposit the same with the collector of taxes to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Wholesale Producers’ Market: One market master, nine hundred Wholesale Producers’ Market. dollars; one assistant market master, who shall also act as night watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; one watchman for eight months’ service, three hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer for sweeping B street sidewalk used for market purposes and the wholesale market square, two hundred and forty dollars; sweeping B street used for market purposes, four hundred and eighty dollars; hauling refuse (street sweepings), three hundred dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Eastern Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where Eastern Market. used for market purposes (farmers’ market), one hundred and twenty dollars. Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where Western Market. used for market purposes (farmers1 market), two hundred and forty dollars. For office of sealer of weights and measures: For sealer of Sealer of weights and measures. weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; second assistant sealer of weights and measures, nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand and eighty dollars.
For engineer’s office: Record division: For chief clerk, one thousand Engineer’s office. Record division. nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; engineer of highways, three thousand dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; 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 three hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of parking, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; inspector of asphalt and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.
Restriction on asphalt inspector. 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 486 inspector of gas and meters, eight hundred and forty dollars; messenger, live hundred and forty dollars; inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; superintendent of sewers, three thousand dollars; general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectors of property, at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars each; permit clerk, one thousand 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 dollars 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; 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 (now employed at two dollars per diem), 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; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three 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 five hundred dollars; three assistant steam engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; four oilers, at six hundred dollars each; five 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 seventy-eight thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars. 487 Special assessment office:
For special assessment clerk, one thousand Special assessment office. seven hundred dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twelve thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Street-sweeping office: For superintendent, two thousand five Street-sweeping office. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; 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; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; 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.
Board of examiners, steam engineers: For compensation for Board of examiners, steam engineers. board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Department of insurance: For superintendent of insurance, three Insurance department. 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; in all, eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
For surveyor’s office: For surveyor, three thousand dollars; Surveyor’s office. 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;
For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborer, and drivers Temporary services. 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: For librarian, three thousand dollars; assistant Free public library. librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; children’s librarian, one thousand dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; four assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistants, at six hundred dollars each; three assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; copyist, four hundred and eighty dollars; cataloguer, nine hundred dollars; cataloguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; three temporary cataloguers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three 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 two hundred and forty dollars 488 each; two janitors, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one of whom shall act as a night watchman; engineer, nine hundred dollars; fireman, five hundred and forty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two cloakroom attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; five charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, twenty-eight thousand and sixty 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 dollars;
For fuel, lighting, fitting up building, and other contingent expenses, seven thousand dollars; In all, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses; painting; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; fuel, ice, gas, repairs, repairs to pound and vehicles, use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed five hundred dollars, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, board of charities, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, police court, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, forty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners shall so *Proviso*.
Restriction on use of horses, etc. apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this 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.
Limit on expenditures for horses, etc. No part of the money appropriated by this Act, except appropriations 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.
Fire insurance prohibited. No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Stables. For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department, including forage, 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 489 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, Judicial expenses. the 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, two thousand dollars. For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees, witness Coroner’s expenses. 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.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for Advertising. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, three thousand dollars. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred Tax-arrearages sales. and six, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District of Enforcing game and fish laws.
Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners, five hundred dollars. For continuing work on the municipal building for the District of Municipal building. Construction. Columbia, five hundred thousand dollars. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first, Removing dangerous buildings. Vol. 30, p. 923. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” to pay the members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed ten dollars each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, two thousand dollars.
For purchase of a site for property yard, and for the erection of Property yard. necessary buildings thereon, thirty thousand dollars. For surveying and marking the burial ground for the indigent dead, Almshouse cemetery. Vol. 30, p. 228. adjacent to the site of the municipal almshouse, as required by the Act of Congress approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred dollars. For the erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the Historical tablets.
District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five hundred dollars. To enable the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia to Recorder of deeds. Exchange of typewriters. secure for use in his office, by purchase and exchange, twenty Elliott-Fisher book typewriters, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the recording of all instruments filed for *Proviso*. Recording by typewriters hereafter. record in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Colum-490bia shall be done with book typewriters, except in those cases where, on account of the character of the work, the use of a pen shall be found by the recorder to be necessary.
Improvements and repairs. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Eliminating grade crossings, Union Station. Vol. 31, p. 767. Vol. 32, p. 909. *Post*, 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 or condemnation of the land necessary for the plaza and new streets, and for reconstructing, grading, and paving, together with the necessary incidental work in connection therewith, the streets, avenues, and ways changed in line or 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, fifty thousand dollars.
Assessment and permit work. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, one hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars. Work on streets and avenues. Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix W, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Schedules. Georgetown schedule: Three thousand dollars. Northwest section schedule: Eight thousand dollars. Southwest section schedule: Twelve thousand dollars. Southeast section schedule: Twenty-three thousand dollars. Northeast section schedule: Twenty-four thousand dollars: *Proviso*. Streets paved with Belgian blocks, etc. *Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Limit for asphalt pavements. Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and sixty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base, nor more than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for laying standard asphalt block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior *Proviso*.
Increase allowed. to July first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard. Grading. Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses, to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, ten thousand dollars. 491 Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys:
For purchase or Condemnation. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Opening alleys and minor streets: For opening, widening, and Opening alleys, etc. extending alleys and minor streets in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, fifty Vol. 33, p. 733. 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; and the Commissioners of said District are hereby authorized Counsel. to employ, for such time as may be necessary, an assistant to the corporation counsel, at a compensation of one hundred and fifty dollars a month, whose duty it shall be to institute proceedings for the condemnations Duties. necessary to be taken in opening, widening, extending, and straightening alleys and minor streets, and the compensation of such assistant to the corporation counsel shall be included in the costs and expenses of such proceedings and shall be assessed against lands benefited by reason of such opening, extension, widening, and straightening, as provided in section sixteen hundred and eight of said Code of Law; said appropriation to be reimbursed by the payment of assessments for benefits to be made under the provisions of said Code.
Construction of county roads: For construction of county roads County roads. Construction. and suburban streets, as follows: Massachusetts avenue, grade and improve, ten thousand dollars; Connecticut avenue extended, grade and improve, twenty thousand dollars; Lincoln road, north of R street, grade and improve, five thousand dollars; Pennsylvania avenue extended, grade and improve, five thousand dollars; Nichols avenue, Anacostia, grade and improve, five thousand dollars; T street, North Capitol street to First street, west, pave, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
Thirteenth street, Clifton to Euclid (Roanoke) street, pave, five thousand three hundred dollars; Girard street, between Twelfth street and Brentwood road, northeast, grade, four thousand five hundred dollars; Massachusetts avenue from Sheridan circle to S street, pave, six thousand nine hundred dollars; Massachusetts avenue, from S street to Belmont road, grade and improve, five thousand nine hundred dollars; Florida avenue between P and Q streets northwest, city of Washington, contiguous to Twenty-second street and north of the south line of lot twenty-four, block three, of Kalorama Heights addition to the city of Washington, pave, one thousand dollars;
Kalorama road from Columbia road to Nineteenth street extended, pave, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Rhode Island avenue, east of Brentwood road, grade and improve, provided the land necessary for the opening of this street be dedicated to the District of Columbia without cost, nine thousand five hundred dollars; Good Hope road (Harrison street extended), grade and improve, three thousand dollars; Sixteenth street extended, grade, ten thousand dollars; Bryant street, east of First street west, pave, one thousand dollars;
Gresham (Dearborn place), grade and improve, one thousand five hundred dollars; Monroe street (Sheridan avenue), Fourteenth to Seventeenth, grade and improve, five thousand dollars; 492 Shepherd (Philadelphia) street, Brightwood avenue to Eighth street, and Eighth street, Shepherd (Philadelphia) to Upshur (Richmond), grade and improve, three thousand and fifty dollars; Lanier place (Lanier street), grade and improve, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Clifton street, grade and improve, two thousand dollars;
Monroe street (Lydecker avenue) from Fourteenth street to Holmead place (avenue), and Thirteenth street, Park road (Whitney avenue) to Otis (Lamar) place, grade and improve, six thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Massachusetts avenue extended. For condemnation of land necessary for extending Massachusetts avenue from Wisconsin avenue to Nebraska avenue, and toward grading and improving said part of Massachusetts avenue, twenty-five thousand dollars, the proceedings for condemnation hereunder to be in accordance with the terms and provisions of sections four hundred and ninety-one a to four hundred and ninety-one n, inclusive, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia as established by Act of *Ante*, p. 151.
Congress approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia’ regulating proceedings for condemnation of land for streets.” Repairs. For repairing sustaining wall along canal road, one thousand dollars. Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior 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 railroad company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.
Sidewalks. For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal buildings, six thousand dollars. County roads. Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs of county roads and suburban streets, ninety thousand dollars. Bridges. Bridges: For construction and repairs of bridges, fourteen thousand dollars. Highway bridge. Highway bridge across Potomac River: For salaries of employees, lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every Maintenance. kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, eleven thousand six hundred dollars, and estimates in detail shall be submitted hereunder for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, and annually thereafter.
For completing the construction of the bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Connecticut avenue extended, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For completion of the bridge across Piney Branch on the line of Sixteenth street extended, thirty thousand dollars. For reconstruction of the K Street Bridge over Rock Creek, thirty-eight thousand dollars. Anacostia Bridge. For continuation of work on the reconstruction of the Anacostia Bridge, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Approaches. Condemnation, etc. For purchase or condemnation of an approach to the Anacostia end of the new Anacostia Bridge, and the grading and improving of such approach, and grading and improving the extension of Monroe street to the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River, and for constructing a suitable bridge to carry said extension of Monroe street over the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, all in accordance with plans 493 approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, fifty-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 construction of such bridge and approaches; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, the land necessary for the extension of Monroe street with a width of sixty feet from Harrison street northward to the Anacostia River and of the south approach to the new Anacostia Bridge, with a width of sixty feet, to connect with said extension of Monroe street by a curve passing over the tracks of the Alexandria branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; and such condemnation proceedings as may Proceedings. be necessary for this purpose shall be conducted under the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District *Ante*, p. 151. of Columbia, and such sums as are necessary to pay the expense of said condemnation proceedings and to pay any damages or excess of damages over benefits that may be allowed to owners of land taken is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That such portion of this cost shall be *Provisos*.
Payment by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Vol. 32, p. 918. 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 the 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 same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and 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 the said District, or by any other lawful proceeding, against the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company: *And provided further*, That the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company Payment by Anacostia, etc., Railroad Company. shall pay toward the balance of the cost of the construction of said approaches and bridge over the said tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company the sum of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, to be collected in the same manner as the cost of laying pavements between the rails and tracks of street railways, as provided for in section five of ‘An act providing a permanent form of government Vol. 20, p. 106. for the District of Columbia,’ approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
And the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company is hereby Extension of track, etc. authorized and directed to construct and operate a double-track street railway along the said south approach and extension of Monroe street provided for herein, to intersect with its existing tracks at Monroe and Harrison streets, said line to be completed and equipped by September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and within thirty days thereafter the said Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company shall remove its rails from and restore the paving on the portion of its line hereby directed to be abandoned, to wit:
Along Harrison or Bridge street, lying west of Monroe street and on the present Anacostia or Navy-Yard Bridge: *Provided*, That the said Anacostia and Potomac *Provisos*. Paving approaches. River Railroad Company shall within sixty days after the completion of its new line herein specified, pave that portion of the approaches to the Anacostia Bridge now being constructed and Monroe street extended lying between lines two feet exterior to the outer rails of its track, said paving to be of such character as the Commissioners 494 of the District of Columbia may determine: *And provided further*, Electric conduits.
That when in the judgment of said Commissioners they shall deem it safe and proper to construct over the newly filled approach to said bridge the necessary conduits and appurtenances to operate a street railway by the underground or conduit system, they are hereby authorized and directed to notify said Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company to construct such necessary conduits and appurtenances over so much of its lines between the said new bridge and Franklin street, Anacostia, and upon failure or neglect of said railroad company to complete the work of installing such conduits and appurtenances within six months after the date of such notification said railroad company shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars for each and every day during which it fails or neglects to install such conduits and appurtenances which fine shall be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of said Commissioners.
Additional payment toward building bridge. And the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company is hereby required to pay a final sum of fifteen thousand dollars toward the cost of construction and the use of the new Anacostia River bridge, in addition to any sum to be paid or expended by said Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company for approaches, and in addition to any sums required to be expended by said railroad under existing law for construction, maintenance and repairs, and the said sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby declared a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and property of said street 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.
And the said sum when paid or collected shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia. Sewers. SEWERS. Cleaning. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, thirty-eight thousand dollars. Maintenance. For the employment of mechanics, laborers, and watchmen, and the purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, thirty-seven thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars; and estimates in detail shall be submitted hereunder for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight and annually thereafter.
Main and pipe. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, forty-four thousand dollars. Suburban. For suburban sewers, one hundred thousand dollars. Rights of way. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Pumping station. For completing construction of the sewage-disposal system pumping station, and for machinery therefor, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For machine tools and furniture for sewage-pumping station, complete, Arizona avenue. ten thousand dollars. For continuing construction of the Arizona avenue sewer, including its completion to the river and for its continuation to Tenleytown, with a diameter not exceeding twenty-four inches, and for necessary lateral sewers, fifty thousand dollars. Falls Branch. For sewer in valley of Falls Branch, forty-one thousand dollars. East side intercepting. For beginning work on extension of east side intercepting sewer from boundary sewer to Brookland, forty thousand dollars.
Use of balances. All balances of former appropriations remaining after the execution of contracts for works of the sewage-disposal system may be applied by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in the execution of other portions of said sewage-disposal system. 495 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*, *Proviso*.
Contracts. That whenever it shall appear to the Commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards, in accordance with the specifications under which the same was last advertised for bids, it shall at once be their duty to advertise to let said work under said specifications to the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents per thousand square yards, they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications; two hundred and forty thousand dollars, and the Commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under the Removing snow and ice. Vol. 28, p. 809. Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand five hundred dollars. Disposal of city refuse: For the collection and disposal of garbage Disposal of refuse. and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; for collection and disposal of night soil in the District 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.
For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, including Parking commission. laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Bathing beach: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman, Bathing beach. 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, five thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
For public scales: For purchase, repair and replacement of public Scales. scales, five hundred dollars. For public pumps: For the repair of public pumps, cleaning and Pumps. protecting public wells, filling abandoned or condemned public wells, including the hire and maintenance of necessary horse and wagon, two thousand dollars. Playgrounds: For maintenance, supervision, and completing equipment Playgrounds. of outdoor playgrounds, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
Public convenience stations: For care and maintenance of public Public convenience stations. Vol. 33, p. 984. Reappropriation. convenience stations, the sum of five thousand dollars appropriated by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. Harbor and river front: For surveys, plan, and estimates for Harbor and river front.
Surveys, etc. improving the harbor front of the city of Washington, two thousand five hundred dollars. 496 Condemning, etc., insanitary buildings. *Ante*, p. 157. Condemnation of insanitary buildings: For all expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled “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 two hundred dollars.
Electrical department. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Salaries. For electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; two electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; expert repair man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; four repair men, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; 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; assistant 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-one thousand and fifteen dollars.
Supplies. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, and other necessary items, thirteen thousand dollars. Placing wires underground.
For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police patrol, and telephone 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-three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Police-patrol system. For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand three hundred dollars.
Fire-alarm boxes. For the purchase of twenty-five additional fire-alarm boxes, and for the purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand five hundred dollars. Lighting. Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, paint-497ing 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 *Provisos*.
Maximum per lamp. annum shall be paid for each gas lamp equipped with a self-regulating fiat-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-five dollars per annum for each gas or oil lamp equipped with an incandescent mantle burner of not less than sixty candlepower. And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven All expenses included. 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, on All-night service. the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: *And provided further*, That the Commissioners of the Street-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: *And provided further*, That Contracts for high-power lamps. the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to enter into one-year or three-year contracts for any one of the above systems of lighting by gas or oil lamps equipped with incandescent mantle burners of not less than sixty candlepower.
For electric are lighting, and for extensions of such service, not Electric lighting. exceeding ninety-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than *Proviso*. Maximum price. eighty-five dollars per annum shall be paid for any electric are light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wire; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. Washington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, Maintenance. and repair of the aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the Washington City reservoir, and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, and also including the purchase and maintenance of horses, vehicles, and harness, and the care and maintenance of the stable heretofore and now in use, thirty-three thousand dollars. For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, Filtration plant. and operation of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, and estimates hereunder shall be submitted in detail for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, eighty thousand dollars.
ROCK CREEK PARK. Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, exclusive of building Care, etc. for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park, fifteen thousand dollars. 498 Public schools. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Salaries. Officers. *Ante*, p. 316. For officers: For superintendent of public schools, five thousand dollars; two assistant superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; secretary, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, seventeen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; and members of the board of education shall serve without compensation.
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 thousand two hundred dollars. Teachers. For teachers: For one thousand five hundred and seventy-seven teachers, to be assigned as follows: For director of intermediate instruction, two thousand six hundred dollars; For thirteen supervising principals, at two thousand two hundred dollars each;
For supervisor of manual training, two thousand two hundred dollars; For principals of Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and M Street high schools, five in all, at two thousand dollars each; For principals of McKinley Manual Training School, and Armstrong Manual Training School, two, at two thousand dollars each; For principals of Normal School Number One, and Normal School Number Two, two, at two thousand dollars each; For principal of Jefferson School, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars;
For twelve heads of departments in high schools, at one thousand nine hundred 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 thirty dollars; For director of primary instruction, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For principals of Force, Beabody, 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 fifty dollars each;
For principal of Abbot school, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; For two high school teachers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For principals of Seaton, Henry, Webster, Grant, and Gales schools, five in all, at one thousand five hundred and ninety dollars each; For directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergarten instruction, six in all, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; For principals of Towers, Jackson, and Blake schools, three in all, at one thousand four hundred and seventy dollars each;
For assistant director of primary instruction, and one manual training school teacher, two in all, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For principals of Johnson and Annex, Brookland, Emery, Garnet, Randall, and Birney and Annex, six in all, at one thousand three hundred and ninety dollars each; For principal of Mott School, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars; 499 For assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergarten instruction, principals of Berret, Curtis, Sumner, and Cook schools, five high school teachers, three manual training school teachers, and two normal school teachers, twenty in all, at one thousand three 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, Cranch, Buchanan, Carbery, Hayes, Eckington, Briggs, Montgomery, Banneker, Logan, Jones, Lovejoy, Wilson, Garrison, and Bell schools, forty-six in all, at one thousand two hundred and seventy 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 thirty dollars each: For principal of Garfield School, one thousand two hundred and ten dollars; For one high school teacher, one thousand two hundred dollars; For principals of Ross, and Gage schools, two in all, at one thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; For principals of Harrison, Dent, Arthur, Amidon, Wormley, Patterson, Langston, Slater, Giddings, and Ambush schools, ten in all, at one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each;
For principals of Reservoir, Benning, Hamilton, Woodburn, Stanton, Langdon, Chevy Chase, and Petworth schools, eight in all, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; For principals of Greenleaf, Tyler, Phillips, Magruder, Anthony Bowen, Syphax, and Cardozo schools, twenty-three high school teachers, five manual training school teachers, and six normal school teachers, forty-one in all, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; For principals of Industrial Home, and Reno schools, two in all, at one thousand and seventy 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, sixteen in all, at one thousand and forty dollars each; For one grade teacher, one thousand and thirty dollars; For principal of Military Road school, one thousand and ten dollars; For teachers of normal, high, and manual training schools, eighty-nine in all, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred and ninety dollars each;
For five, at nine hundred and eighty dollars each; For eleven, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For one, nine hundred and twenty-five dollars; For four, at nine hundred and twenty dollars each; For eleven, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, eight hundred and ninety dollars; For four, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For eighty, at eight hundred and sixty dollars each; For six, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars each;
For eleven, at eight hundred and thirty dollars each; For fourteen, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For two hundred and seventy-eight, at eight hundred dollars each; For five, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For twelve, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; For sixteen, at seven hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For one hundred and fifty-five, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; 500 For two hundred and forty-one, at six hundred and fifty dollars each;
For twenty, at six hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For three hundred and nineteen, at six hundred dollars each; For three, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For nineteen, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For thirty-four, at five hundred dollars each; In all, one million two hundred and eighty-one thousand and fifteen dollars. *Provisos*. Use of vacated salaries. *Provided*, That when a salary in any class or group shall be vacated by resignation or otherwise the salary required to be paid to the teacher or officer promoted to fill such vacancy under the provisions of an Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of *Ante*, p. 316.
No sex discrimination. Columbia, approved June , nineteen hundred and six, may be substituted therefor: *Provided further*, 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 Division of salaries prohibited. class of duties; and it shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades.
Night schools. Night schools: For night schools for pupils, and teachers of night schools may also be teachers in the day schools, twelve thousand dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, seven hundred dollars. Kindergarten supplies. Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, two thousand five hundred dollars. Janitors, etc. For janitors and care of buildings and grounds: For superintendent of janitors, one thousand two hundred dollars; For care of Central High School and annex, two thousand dollars;
Of the Business High School, one thousand six hundred dollars; Of the Jefferson Building, Franklin Building, and the Western High School, three in all, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; Of the Eastern High School, M Street High School, McKinley Manual Training School, Armstrong Manual Training School, and Stevens School buildings, five in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; Of the Wallach Building, one thousand dollars; Of the Brookland, Curtis, Dennison, Emery, Force, Gales, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, and Webster school buildings, thirteen in all, at nine hundred dollars each;
Of the Birney, Lincoln, Miner, and Mott buildings, four in all, at eight hundred dollars each; Of the Abbott, Berrett, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley buildings, nine in all, at seven hundred dollars each; Of the Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, 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, Johnson, 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, Van Buren, Webb, Weightman, Wheatly, Wilson, and Wormly buildings, seventy-two in all, at six hundred dollars each; 501 Of the Garfield, Thomson, Van Buren annex, and Woodburn buildings, four 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, and Threlkeld buildings, fifteen in all, at three hundred dollars each;
Of the Bunker Flill, Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Military Road, Ivy City, and Burrville buildings, six in all, atone 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; For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinley Engineers. Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars;
For one assistant engineer at the McKinley Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand dollars; For one assistant engineer at the Armstrong Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; In all, ninety-six thousand seven hundred dollars. For medical inspectors: For twelve medical inspectors of public Medical inspectors. schools, four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said inspectors shall *Proviso*.
Competitive examination. be appointed by the Commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him, which shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the Commissioners. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and repair shop, fifteen Rent. thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For amount required to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms Temporary rooms, etc. 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-seven thousand three *Ante*, p. 219. hundred and seventy-two dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and Repairs. for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, forty-five thousand dollars; a detailed statement shall be submitted to Congress of the expenditure of the foregoing sum, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight estimates shall be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and books, Manual training. 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-two thousand Fuel, light, and power. dollars. For furniture for new school buildings, kindergartens, manual Furniture, new buildings. training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: One eight-room building in the fifth division (Anthony Hyde), numbered one hundred and forty-seven, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one eight-room building in the thirteenth division (Francis L. Cardozo), numbered one hundred and forty-eight, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; furniture for four new kindergartens, six hundred 502 dollars; furniture for one manual training school, two hundred dollars; furniture for two cooking schools, three hundred dollars; furniture for one sewing school, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, books, books of reference, and periodicals, stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipments for high school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including livery of horse for the superintendent, forty thousand dollars. Free lectures. For free evening lectures to be given in the public school buildings or such halls as may be designated under rules and regulations of the board of education, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Pianos. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, two thousand dollars. Supplies for pupils. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, including one custodian of text-books and supplies, at one thousand dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred *Proviso*.
Exchanges. dollars, fifty-four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. Flags. For purchase of United States flags, one thousand dollars. Playground equipments. For apparatus for the equipment and maintenance of school playgrounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. Telephones to new schools. For extending the telephone system to the John W.
Ross, Henry T. Blow, Anthony Hyde, and Francis E. Cardozo school buildings, including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, holes, cross arms, braces, conduit connections, manholes, telephone instruments, extra labor, and other necessary items, to be expended under the electrical department, five hundred dollars. Buildings and grounds. Buildings and grounds: For completion of eight-room building in the fifth division (Anthony Hyde), twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars. For completion of eight-room building, in the thirteenth division (Francis E.
Cardozo), twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For extension of the McKinley Manual Training School, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For purchase of lot fifteen, square four hundred and forty-four, containing two thousand five hundred and twenty square feet, adjoining McKinley Manual Training School on the south, five thousand dollars. For purchase of ground adjoining the John W. Ross School as a site for a future normal school, practice schools, and high school, being all of lots numbered seventy-six to one hundred and six, both inclusive, of Parker and Pulsifer subdivision of Columbia Heights, containing sixty-seven thousand nine hundred and forty-four square feet, fifty thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifteen cents.
For site for and toward the construction of an eight-room building in Anacostia (eighth division), to relieve the Van Buren, forty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars. For site and toward the construction of an eight-room school building to relieve the McCormick school, forty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract 503 which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars.
For site and erection of a four-room building in Brightwood Park (seventh division), thirty-five thousand dollars. For site and construction of one four-room building at or near Deanwood (eleventh division), thirty thousand dollars. That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respective Cost of sites, etc. buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes.
That the plans and specifications for school buildings shall be prepared Plans. Preparation and approval. under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District, and shall be constructed by the Commissioners in conformity therewith; and the plans and specifications for all other buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Superintendent of the Capitol building and the Commissioners of the District, and shall be constructed in conformity therewith.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons Deaf and dumb pupils. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four [R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942). of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved Vol. 31, p. 844. March first, nineteen hundred and one, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
And the directors of Colored children. said institution are hereby authorized to provide for the education of colored deaf-mute children properly belonging to the District of Columbia, in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-mutes, or some other suitable school, at a cost not exceeding the per capita expense of educating the State pupils in such schools. For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable Maryland School for Deaf-Mutes. age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-mutes, as authorized in an Act of Congress approved Vol. 33, p. 901.
March third, nineteen hundred and five, six thousand and fifty dollars. FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE. Police. For major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, Salaries. *Ante*, p. 221. with rank of inspector, two thousand five hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; ten captains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; 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 may be 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 twelve privates of class three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one hundred and four privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; one hundred and forty-three 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 504 and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, five thousand nine hundred, and seventy-nine dollars and one cent; six telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; janitor for police headquarters, seven hundred and twenty dollars; thirteen laborers, at six hundred dollars each; messenger, seven hundred dollars; messenger, five hundred dollars; major and superintendent, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; 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 six hundred dollars each; and two police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, nine hundred thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and one cent.
Rent, Anacostia. Miscellaneous: For rent of substation and stable at Anacostia, four hundred and eighty dollars; Fuel. For fuel, four thousand dollars; Repairs. For repairs to stations, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Contingent expenses. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchase 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, and other necessary expenses, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
Flags. For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; Rent. For rent of police department headquarters and property storerooms, two thousand four hundred dollars; In all, forty-four thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars. House of detention. House of detention: To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to provide transportation, including the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place 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. For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, two thousand dollars. In all, four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Fire department. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Salaries. *Ante*, p. 314. *Post*, p. 642.
For chief engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars, and this sum shall not be available to pay a chief engineer who has not had at least five years’ experience as a member of some organized municipal fire 505 department; deputy chief engineer, one thousand live hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars; fire marshal, one thousand six hundred dollars; machinist, one thousand dollars; twenty-nine captains, at one thousand dollars each; two pilots, at nine hundred dollars each; thirty lieutenants, at nine hundred dollars each; nineteen engineers, at one thousand dollars each; nineteen assistant engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; marine engineer, one thousand dollars; assistant marine engineer, nine hundred dollars; thirty drivers, at nine hundred dollars each, one hundred and ninety-eight privates, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-nine watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houses Miscellaneous. and grounds, eight thousand dollars; For repairs to apparatus and for new apparatus and new appliances, ten thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, thirteen thousand dollars; For fuel, fourteen thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, thirteen thousand dollars; For forage, twenty-two thousand dollars; For rent, three hundred and sixty dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical Contingent expenses. and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, twenty thousand dollars;
In all, one hundred thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Increase fire department: For brick house and furniture for House, etc., at Benning. chemical engine company to be located at or near Benning, District of Columbia, including cost of connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, twenty thousand dollars; For site, house, and furniture for a combination house, engine and House for combination apparatus. truck, to be located north of Florida avenue, east of Rock Creek, and west of Eighteenth street, including cost of connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For one combination chemical and hose wagon, two thousand dollars; New apparatus. For one aerial hook-and-ladder truck, three thousand five hundred dollars; For one fourth size steam fire engine, four thousand five hundred dollars; In all, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Health department. For health officer, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief inspector Salaries. 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; chief clerk and deputy health officer, two thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, two of whom may act as sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; pound master, one thousand five hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceeding forty dollars per month, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; driver, five hundred and forty dollars; four sanitary and food inspectors, 506 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, forty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty dollars: *Provisos*.
Private service prohibited. *Provided*, That no officer or employee of the health department shall, during his continuance in office, serve, in his private capacity, for fee, gift, or reward, any person licensed to keep or maintain a dairy or dairy farm in said District or to bring or to send milk into said District, or any person who has applied or is about to apply for such license, or any manufacturer or dealer in foods, drugs, or disinfectants, Dairies defined. or similar materials: *Provided further*, That every place where milk is sold shall be deemed a dairy under the law for purposes of inspection.
Prevention of contagious diseases. Vol. 26, p. 691. 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, Vol. 29, p. 635. and an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for investigating the cause of cases of typhoid fever reported Vol. 32, p. 3. 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, nineteen hundred and two, under the direction of the health officer of said District, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said acts, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, rent of stable, purchase of reference books, and maintenance of quarantine station and small-pox hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Rent. For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty 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 of lots. 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, Abating 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, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Food adulterations. For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars. Food, etc., inspection. 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, Vol. 30, p. 246. approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 30, p. 398. ninety-eight, and an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the maintenance of a chemical laboratory, and for the purchase of reference books, one thousand dollars.
Dairy inspection. For the necessary traveling expenses of sanitary and food inspectors while traveling outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milk, and other dairy products, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Isolating wards in hospitals. Garfield and Providence hospitals: For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield and Providence hospitals, maintenance, 507 each, four thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
COURTS. Courts. For amount required to pay the reporter of the court of appeals of Court of appeals reports. the District of Columbia for volumes of the reports of the opinions of said court, authorized to be furnished by him under section two hundred Vol. 32, p. 609. and twenty-nine of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two volumes, at five dollars each, namely, eleven copies of volume twenty-five and eleven copies of volume twenty-six, one hundred and ten dollars.
Juvenile court: For judge, three thousand dollars; clerk, two Juvenile court. *Ante*, p. 73. thousand dollars; chief probation officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; probation officer, nine hundred dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, seven thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, one thousand dollars; Miscellaneous. For rent, four hundred and eighty dollars; For furniture, fixtures, and equipments, six 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, two thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Police court: For two judges at three thousand dollars each; clerk, Police court. 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; assistant janitors, four hundred and fifty dollars; bailiff, six hundred dollars; three charmen, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For witness fees, four thousand dollars; Miscellaneous. For repairs to police court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dollars; For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, one hundred dollars; For compensation of jurors, eight thousand dollars; For repairs to the building in use as the police court, three hundred dollars; For fitting up and furnishing complete the new police court building, New building. six thousand dollars;
For expense of removal to new building, one hundred dollars; In all, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars. Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the execution Lunacy 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 Justices of the peace. thousand dollars each, and the further sum of four hundred dollars each for rent, clerical services, stationery, and other expenses; in all, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars. 508 INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. Interest and sinking fund. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars. EMERGENCY FUND. Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided *Proviso*.
Purchases. for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected. Courts and prisons. FOR COURTS AND PRISONS. Support of convicts out of District. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars.
Court-house. Court-house, District of Columbia: For the following force necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and 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.
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. Charities and corrections.
CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Board of Charities. 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 each; four drivers, at six hundred dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; traveling expenses, two hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Reformatories. reformatories and correctional institutions. Washington Asylum. Salaries. For Washington Asylum: For superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; property clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; baker, six hundred dollars; principal overseer, one thousand two hundred dollars; fifteen overseers, at six hundred dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; second assistant engineer, three hundred and sixty dollars; engineer at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dol-509lars 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 three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; six orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one in number, one thousand five hundred dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; gardener, five hundred and forty dollars; herdsman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; florist, three hundred dollars; tailor, one hundred and twenty dollars; temporary labor, not to exceed three thousand dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars.
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to Contingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, forty-six 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 Act Payments to families of prisoners. *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.
Home for the aged and infirm: Superintendent, one thousand two Home for aged and infirm. Salaries. hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; two female attendants, at one hundred and eighty 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; 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 three hundred and sixty dollars each; tailor, two hundred and forty dollars; seamstress, two hundred and forty dollars; laundryman, three hundred dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, nine thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to Contingent expenses. 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 installing a laundry plant, including washers, extractors, mangle, and all necessary machinery and equipment, four thousand dollars; For necessary furniture and equipment, to be immediately available, eight thousand dollars; 510 For grading, road making, purchase of farm implements, tools, seed, and so forth, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars;
Additional land. For acquiring, by purchase or condemnation, additional ground, being part of lot seven in the subdivision of Bellevue or Blue Plains, containing nineteen acres, more or less, bounded on three sides by the ground purchased by the District of Columbia for a site for a municipal almshouse and a burial place for the indigent dead, or so much thereof as may be necessary, four thousand dollars. Reform School. Maintenance of inmates. 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; For repairs to building, three thousand dollars; In all, twenty-four 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. Medical charities. Medical Charities. Freedmen’s Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum by the Board of Charities, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Columbia Hospital for Women. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. For repairs to Columbia Hospital building, two thousand dollars. Children’s Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars.
Homeopathic Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand dollars. Emergency Hospital. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Eastern Dispensary.
For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, two thousand dollars. Women’s Clinic. For the Women’s Clinic, maintenance, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Home for Incurables. For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, including elevator, seven thousand dollars. 511 For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be Georgetown University Hospital. made with the Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars.
For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be George Washington University Hospital. made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars. To enable the Board of Charities to provide for emergency care and Emergency cases. treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients, under contracts or agreements with hospitals and dispensaries, four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used to establish *Proviso*.
Restriction. or maintain any hospital or dispensary not now existing in the District of Columbia. For erection and equipment, complete, of a hospital for treatment Tuberculosis hospital. Construction, etc. of indigent tuberculosis patients only, said hospital to be located and erected on the site heretofore acquired for a municipal hospital, and to be situated and constructed on said site without reference to existing or proposed plans for any other hospital on said site, one hundred thousand dollars. child-caring institutions.
Care of children. Board of Children’s Guardians: For the Board of Children’s Board of Children’s Guardians. Vol. 27, p. 268. Expenses. 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; For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk, one Salaries. thousand and eighty dollars; placing officer, nine hundred dollars; placing officer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; investigating clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; record clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; visiting inspector, four hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars;
For maintenance of feeble-minded children, sixteen thousand dollars; Feeble-minded children. Care of children. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than one thousand 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-one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For completion of buildings for an industrial home school for colored Industrial home for colored children. children, fifty thousand dollars. For the Industrial Home School: For superintendent, one thousand Industrial Home School. Salaries. two hundred dollars; matron, four hundred and eighty dollars; two matrons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant matrons, at three hundred dollars each; housekeeper, three hundred and sixty dollars; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; nurse, three hundred dollars; manual training teacher, six hundred dollars; florist, six hundred dollars; engineer, six hundred dollars; farmer, 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 four hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and Maintenance, etc. harness, nine thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars; In all, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars. 512 For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand dollars. For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars. For erection of suitable fire escape, two hundred 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.
Children’s Aid Association. For the Working Boys’ Home and Children’s Aid Association, maintenance, five 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 and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the German Orphan Asylum by the Board of Charities not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars. Temporary homes. temporary homes. Municipal lodging house. For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely: For 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.
Grand Army Soldiers’ Home. For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand 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.
Hope and Help Mission. For the care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, two thousand dollars. Support of indigent insane. Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law, two hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred dollars. Deporting nonresident insane.
Vol. 30, p. 811. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “To change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand dollars. Advances to Board of Charities. That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.
Relief of the poor. Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay of 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 513 recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand three hundred dollars. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, three Transportation. thousand dollars. MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction Expenses. 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, one thousand five hundred 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 seven hundred dollars. For postage, one thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses of rifle practice and matches, four thousand seven hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For expenses of camps, instruction, practice marches, and practice Camp expenses. cruises, fifteen thousand dollars; and three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the sum appropriated for these objects for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six shall be available for expenses of rifle practice and matches and for repair of practice ships for that year.
For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed Pay. under the authority and direction of the commanding general, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That all moneys *Provisos*. Deductions for loss of property. 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: *Provided further*, That all moneys collected on account of deductions Use of fines, etc. made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said National Guard shall be held by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys so collected for necessary clerical and general expenses of the service, heretofore or hereafter incurred, including law books and books of reference, or for the pay of troops, other than Government employees; and for all moneys so collected and expended the commanding general shall make an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops.
For general incidental expenses of the service, five hundred dollars. Incidentals. WATER METERS. Water meters. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters to Purchase, installation, etc. be placed in such private residences as may be directed by the Com-514missioners of the District of Columbia; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia; to be repaid from revenues of the water department at the rate of twenty thousand dollars per annum, beginning with the fiscal year to end June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred thousand 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; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; nine inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; eight inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each; assistant tapper, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars;
Distribution branch. For distribution branch: For superintendent, three thousand dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; timekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; calker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; 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-five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars.
Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars. Operating expenses. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs and purchase and maintenance of 515 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-service High-service system. system of water distribution, and for laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of *Proviso*.
Holly Manufacturing Company. Refund of penalty. Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to cause to be paid from the appropriation for the water department, District of Columbia, extension of the high-service system, to the Holly Manufacturing Company, of Buffalo, New York, the sum of six thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, deducted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as a penalty under contract numbered thirty-three hundred and twenty-four, dated November eleventh, nineteen hundred and three, and supplemental contract numbered thirty-three hundred and twenty-four, dated February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five.
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 by 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 equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners Report. of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Maximum expenditure. That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized Work under Commissioners. Temporary laborers, etc. to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics, as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 3. All horses, harness, and wagons necessary for use in connection Horses, wagons, etc. Special order of Commissioners for using. with sewer, street, or road work, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or 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 516 *Proviso*.
Work under Commissioners. stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, wagons, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. Water department. 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 eight thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. Work under Commissioners. Laborers, etc. 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 be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 5. Miscellaneous trust fund. Expenses paid from. Vol. 33, p. 368. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are 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. Limit on requisitions. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not make requisitions upon the appropiations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District, except as otherwise provided herein. Sec. 7. Advances from the Treasury. That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, 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 *Provisos*.
Interest on advances. Vol. 31, p. 766. Vol. 32, pp. 616, 981. Vol. 33, pp. 390, 915. the support of the government thereof: *Provided*, That all advances 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 517 hundred and four, and March third, nineteen hundred and five, not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, 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 seven, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum until so reimbursed: *Provided further*, That the Auditor for Report. the State and other Departments and the auditor of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each fiscal year separately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any, due to the United States: *And provided further*, That nothing Street extensions from District revenues only. contained 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 are inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, June 27, 1906.
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