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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 35 STAT. · May 26, 1908 · Chapter 198

Chapter 198. 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 nine, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 198.— 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 nine, and for other purposes. May 26, 1908.[[H. R. 20063.]](/us/bill/70/hr/20063)[[Public,No. 139.]](/us/pl/70/139) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the half of the followingDistrict *of* Columbia appropriations.Half from District revenues. sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. For Executive Office: For two Commissioners, at five thousandExecutive office.Salaries of Commissioners. etc.Assistants to Engineer Commissioner.Additional compensation.Superintendents, municipal building.Vol. 20, p. 108. dollars each: Engineer Commissioner, seven hundred and eighty dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); additional compensation for two assistants to the Engineer Commissioner, detailed from the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, under Act of Congress approved dune eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two, at two hundred and fifty dollars each and said assistants shall also act jointly as superintendent of the municipal building; secretary, two thousand four hundred dollars: two assistant secretaries to Commissioners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars: three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at six hundred dollars each;
Care of rented District building during July, nineteen hundred andJanitors, etc. eight: Janitor, one hundred dollars; steam engineer, eighty-three dollarsand fifty cents; three tiremen, at forty dollars each; two elevator operators, at thirty dollars each; three watchmen, at forty dollars each: one laborer, who shall also act as messenger and substitute elevator operator, thirty dollars and fifty cents: two laborers, at thirty dollars each; Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departmentsVeterinary surgeon. of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars;
Property division: Property clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars;Property clerks. deputy property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars. the deputy property clerks shallDuties of deputy clerks. hereafter, during the absence of the property clerk from any cause, perform his duties without additional compensation, and shall, during the presence of the property clerk, perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the property clerk: and the property clerk may require the said deputy property clerks to give bond for the faithfulBond. performance of their duties: but the property clerk shall in every respect be responsible to the United States and the District of Columbia as now provided by law: 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; four clerks, at six hundred dollars each; inspector of fuel, at one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant inspector of fuel, at one thousand one hundred dollars; two messengers, at six hundred dollars each; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; inspector, nine hundred dollars; inspector, seven hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each:
Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, two thousandInspector of buildings, etc. seven hundred and fifty dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars; ten assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one fire-escape 275 inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, two thousand four hundred dollars; two civil engineers or computers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; superintendent of construction, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, two thousandInspector of plumbing. etc. dollars; principal assistant inspector of plumbing, one thousand four hundred dollars; five assistant inspectors of plumbing, one at one thousand two hundred dollars and four at one thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand two bundled dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; sewer tapper, one thousand dollars; three members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each;
In all, one hundred and two thousand and fifty-four dollars. For Care of District Building: Clerk and stenographer, one thousandCare of District building. two hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; one dynamo tender, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars: three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three coal passers, at six hundred dollars each; one electrician’s helper, eight hundred and forty dollars; eight elevator conductors, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; two chief cleaners, who shall also have charge of the lavatories, at five hundred dollars each; thirty-six cleaners, at two hundred and forty dollars each; chief watchman, one thousand dollars; assistant chief watchman, six hundred and sixty dollars; five watchmen, at six hundred dollars each: in all. thirty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars: *Provided*, That the employees*Proviso*, Appointments. herein authorized for the care of the District building shall be appointed by the assistants to the Engineer Commissioner with the approval of the Commissioners.
For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, twenty-fourFuel. etc. thousand dollars. For Assessor’S Office: For assessor, three thousand five hundredAssessor’s office. dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as chairman of the excise and personal tax boards: two assistant assessors, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, arrears division, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, 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.
For temporary clerk hire for preparing numerical book, to be immediatelyNumerical book.Appropriation immediately available. available, provided that the regular employees of the assessor’s otlice be employed on this work after office hours, with additional compensation, to be determined by the Commissioners upon the recommendation of the assessor, two thousand dollars. 276 Excise Board: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, oneExcise board. thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars: messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
Personal Tax Board: For two assistant assessors of personal taxes,Personal tax board. at three thousand dollars each; appraiser of personal property, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars. For Collector’S Office: For collector, four thousand dollars;Collector’s office. deputy collector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand four hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars: two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three coupon clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk and bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand three hundred dollars.
For extra labor in the preparation of tax-sale certificates,Tax-sale certificates. with authority to employ clerks of this and other offices after office hours, eight hundred dollars. For Auditor’S Office: For auditor, four thousand dollars; chiefAuditor’s office. 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; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, three thousand dollars: deputy disbursing officer, one thousand five hundred dollars: one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For Office of Corporation Counsel: For corporation counsel,Corporation counsel’s office. four thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant corporation counsel, two thousand five hundred dollars; second assistant corporation counsel, one thousand eight hundred dollars; third assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourth assistant corporation counsel, one thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For Sinking-Fund Office, Under Control of the Treasurer ofSinking-Fund Office. the United States: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars: clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all. two thousand five hundred dollars. For Coroner’S Office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundredCoroner’s office. dollars; morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars: in all, three thousand dollars. For Market Masters; For two market masters, at one thousandMarket masters. two hundred dollars each; for necessary labor for cleaning Eastern, Western, and Georgetown market houses, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Wholesale Producers’ Market: One market master, nine hundredProduce market. dollars; one assistant market master, who shall also act as night watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; one watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; one laborer for sweeping BCleaning, etc. street sidewalk used for market purposes and the Wholesale Market Square, three hundred and sixty dollars; sweeping B street used for market purposes, 277 four hundred and eighty dollars; hauling refuse (street sweepings), six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Eastern Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street whereEastern Market. used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street whereWestern Market. used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. For Office of Sealer of Weights and Measures: For sealer ofSealer of weights and measures. a 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 engineer of highways,Engineer’s office.Record division. three thousand dollars; engineer of bridges, two thousand one hundred dollars; superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of county roads, one thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as assistant engineer in RockCreek Park; superintendent of sewers, three thousand dollars; inspector of,Inspector of asphalts, etc.*Proviso.*Restriction. asphalts and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars (?ύwλ/evZ, That the inspector of asphalts 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); assistant inspector of asphalts and cements, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of treesand parkings, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of trees and parkings, one thousand dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand one hundred dollars; four assistant engineers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; live assistant engineers, one thousand five hundred dollars each; one assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two transitmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one transitman. one thousand and fifty dollars; four rodmen. at nine hundred dollars each; eight rodmen. at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; twelve chainmen, at si x hundred and fifty dollars each; two draftsmen, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each; two draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; one general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; one inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; one bridge inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three inspectors of streets, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one inspector, one thousand dollars: one inspector, nine hundred dollars; twelve foremen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one foreman.
Rock Creek Park, one thousand two hundred dollars; three subforemen, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; one foreman, one thousand and fifty dollars; ten foremen, at nine hundred dollars each; one bridgekeeper, six hundred and fifty dollars; three bridgekeepers, at six hundred dollars each; two inspectors of property, at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars each; two property yard keepers, at one thousand dollars each; one inspector of material, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; 278 two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; permit clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant permit clerk, one thousand dollars; index clerk and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, six hundred dollars; seven messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, six hundred and twenty-live dollars; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; principal steam engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three assistant steam engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; six oilers, at six hundred dollarseach; six firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; storekeeper, nine hundred 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; driver, five hundred and forty dollars; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, one thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, eight hundred and forty dollars; messenger, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars.
Special Assessment Office: For special assessment clerk, two thousand dollars;Special assessment office. 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 nine hundred and fifty dollars. Street-Sweeping Office: For superintendent, two thousand liveStreet Sweeping office. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; ten inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three assistant inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; foreman of public dumps, nine hundred dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; stable foreman, one thousand dollars; foreman of repairs, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; stenographer and clerk, nine hundred dollars; blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; mechanic, seven hundred and eighty dollars: mechanic’s helper, six hundred dollars; hostler, five hundred and fifty dollars; two hostlers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: seven dumpmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all. forty-five thousand two hundred dollars.
Board of Examiners, Steam Engineers: For compensation forBoard of examiners, steam engineers. board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Department of Insurance: For superintendent of insurance, threeInsurance department. thousand five hundred 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, nine thousand three 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 himdred 279 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 hundredand 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, for July, nineteen hundred and eight, nine dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars;
For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, and drivers when required, andTemporary services. for an additional field party when required, including the purchase of supplies and care or hire of teams, all expenditures under this sum to be made only on the written authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars; In all for surveyor’s office, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars. Free Public Library: For librarian, three thousand two hundredFree public library. and fifty dollars: assistant librarian, one thousand five hundred dollars; chief circulating department, one thousand two hundred dollars; children’s librarian, one thousand dollars; librarian’s secretary, nine hundred dollars; reference librarian, one thousand dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; four assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four assistants, at six hundred dollars each: three assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; copyist, four hundred and eighty dollars; cataloguer, nine hundred dollars; cataloguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; three temporary cataloguers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; five attendants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; five attendants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: collator, three hundred and sixty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; ten pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two janitors, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one of whom shall act as a night watchman; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; library guard, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two cloakroom attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; six charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.
For keeping the library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’clockSunday opening. postmeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, five holidays from nine o’clock antemeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, and for extra services three hours on Saturday afternoons during July, August, and September, one thousand seven hundred dollars. Miscellaneous, Free Public Library: For purchase of books,Miscellaneous. seven thousand five hundred dollars: For binding, three thousand five hundred dollars;
For fuel, lighting, fitting up building, and other contingent expenses, seven thousand five hundred dollars: In all. eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia,Contingent expenses. namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses; 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; 280 livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice, repairs to pound and vehicles, use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed five hundred dollars, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, Board of Charities, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, thirty-five thousand dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum*Proviso.*Restriction on use of horses, etc. 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, No part of the money appropriated by this Act, except appropriationsLimit on expenditure for horses, etc. for the militia, shall be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall .specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for theFire insurance prohibited. payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department,Stables including forage, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oils, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles and expenses, five thousand dollars; and no expenditure on account of the engineer department for the items named in this paragraph shall be made from any other fund, except as hereinafter authorized.
For postage for strictly official mail matter, seven thousand dollars.Postage.Rent. For rent of district offices for July, nineteen hundred and eight, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of old record vault for July, nineteen hundred and eight, fifty dollars. For rent of office for department of insurance for July, nineteen hundred and eight, seventy dollars. For rent of property yards, fifty dollars. For rent of storeroom for property clerk for July, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five 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 live hundred dollars. For rent of office for corporation counsel for July, nineteen hundred and eight, eighty-three dollars and fifty cents. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, theJudicial expenses. printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District eases before the supreme court of said District, five thousand dollars.
For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees,Coroner’s expenses. witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants. telephone service, anti other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, three thousand dollars. 281 For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forAdvertising. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundredTax-arrearage sales.Vol. 26. p. 24. and eight, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District ofEnforcing game and fish laws. Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners, five hundred dollars.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first,Removal of dangerous building*.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 the erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in theHistorical tablets. District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, andVol. 34, pp. 489, 1126. March second, nineteen hundred and seven, respectively, are continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine. For the office of the Register of Wills:
For furnishing to the officeRegister of wills’ office.Copies of wills, etc., to assessor. of the Assessor, copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, nine hundred dollars. For the purchase of enamel metal identification number tags forMotor vehicle tags. motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For constructing wharf on river front for storage of sand andWharf. gravel, four thousand dollars.
IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. Elimination of Grade Crossings: Toward carrying out the provisionsEliminating grade crossings. Union Station. 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,Vol. 31, p. 767.Vol. 32. p. 913. 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, one hundred thousand dollars.
The foregoing appropriation shall be available to develop, as a propertyProperty yard. yard for the use of the District of Columbia, and for other municipal purposes, so much of reservation numbered seventeen lyingPart of reservation No. 17 to be used for. south of the toe of slope of standard roadbed between the portal of the Virginia avenue tunnel and the east end of the south abutment of the New Jersey Avenue Bridge, and south of the south abutment of the New Jersey Avenue Bridge and east of the toe of slope on the west side of the embankment carrying the approach to the New Jersey 282 Avenue Bridge, when the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad shall release and convey to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia all right and title to the above-described portion of said reservation which the said company may have been granted by the diets of Congress providing for the elimination of grade crossings andVol. 31. p. 767.Vol. 32, p. 913. he construction of a union station in the District of Columbia, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, or by any other Act.
For completing the construction of fountains, lamp-posts, and otherFountains, etc., for Plaza. structures on the plaza in front of the new union railroad station, in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars, said sum to be expended under the provisions of existing law regarding the elimination of grade crossings and appropriations made therefor: *Provided*, That the total*Provisos.*Limit of cost. cost to the United States and the District of Columbia shall not exceed :me hundred thousand dollars: *And provided further*, That the WashingtonWashington Terminal Company to pay part of cost.
Terminal Company, its successors or assigns, shall defray the cost of so much of these constructions as lie within the limits of its present property north of Massachusetts avenue. Assessment and Permit Work: For assessment and permit work,Assessment and permit work. one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For paving roadways under the permit system, ten thousand dollars.Paving roadways. Work on Streets and Avenues: For work on streets and avenuesWork on streets and avenues. named in Appendix Y, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and nine, eighty-eight thousand eight bundled dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Georgetown Schedule: Three thousand dollars.Schedules. Northwest Section Schedule: Fourteen thousand dollars. Southwest Section Schedule: Eighteen thousand dollars. Southeast Section Schedule: Including Pennsylvania avenue only from Thirteenth street to Fifteenth street, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Northeast Section Schedule: Twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars. *Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already*Proviso.*Streets paved with Belgian blocks, etc. paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall beLimit for asphalt pavements. made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base, nor more than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for laying standard asphalt block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Increase allowed.
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. For replacing granite block with asphalt on the following streets:Asphalt to replace granite blocks.Streets affected. New Jersey avenue southeast, from B street to C street, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
B street southeast, from New Jersey avenue to South Capitol street, one thousand two hundred dollars. 283 First street southeast, from B street to C street, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Delaware avenue northeast, from B street to C street, eight thousand five hundred dollars. C street northeast, from Delaware avenue to First street, six thousand dollars. V street northwest, from Fifteenth street to New Hampshire avenue, pave thirty-two feet wide, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For additional amount for paving South Carolina avenue southeast, from Thirteenth street to Fifteenth street, nine thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Grading Streets, Alleys, and Roads: For purchase and repair ofGrading. cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, fifteen thousand dollars. Condemnation of Streets, Roads, and Alleys:
For purchase orCondemnation. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Construction of County Roads : For construction of county roadsCounty roads.Construction. and suburban streets, as follows: North. North Capitol street, T to V street, pave fifty feet wide, nine thousand six hundred dollars; Northeast. Mills avenue, Franklin street to Rhode Island avenue, grade, five thousand rive hundred dollars; Northeast. Seventh street, Girard street to Central avenue, grade and improve, one thousand dollars;
Northwest. Albemarle street east of Connecticut avenue, grade and improve, ten thousand dollars; Southeast. Minnesota avenue, from Pennsylvania avenue northward as far as the land may have been dedicated therefor, widening and grading, three thousand dollars; Northwest. Massachusetts avenue, from S street to T street, for paving, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Southeast. Barnaby road, from Livingston road to District line, graveling and drainage culverts, nine hundred dollars;
Northwest. Webster street, Fourteenth to Sixteenth street, grade and improve, four thousand dollars; Northeast. Monroe street, Michigan avenue to Tenth street, grade and macadamize, ten thousand dollars; Northwest. Reno road, grade and improve, three thousand dollars; Northwest. Longfellow street. Fifth street to Shepherd road, grade and improve, one thousand dollars; Northwest. Sixteenth street, grade and improve, twenty thousandSixteenth street.*Proviso.*Bridge over Piney Branch. dollars: *Provided*, That the bridge or concrete culvert across Piney Branch on said Sixteenth street shall be constructed the full width of the roadway and sidewalks of said street;
Northeast. Randolph place, North Capitol street to Lincoln road, pave thirty feet wide, one thousand three hundred dollars; Northwest. Girard street, Eleventh to Thirteenth street, pave thirty feet wide, six thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest. Holmead place, Park road to Otis place, grade and improve, four thousand dollars; Northwest. Fifth street. U to W street, grade and improve, two thousand four hundred dollars; Northwest. Forty-first street and Western avenue, grade and improve, provided these roadways from Livingston street to Chevy Chase circle be first dedicated to the District of Columbia without cost, eight thousand dollars;
Northwest. Second street, south of Bryant street, grade andSecond street NW. improve, seven thousand dollars: *Provided*, That section one of the*Proviso.* Act of Congress approved .January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, 284 entitled “An Act authorizing the extension of Second street northwest,Vol. 34. p. 845, amended. from Elm street north to Bryant street, of W street from its present terminus west of Flagler place to Second street, and of W street west of Second street eastwardly to Second street,” be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words “ within thirty days after the passage of this Act,” where they occur in said section;
Northeast. S street, North Capitol street to Lincoln road, pave thirty-two feet wide, two thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest. Manor street and Luray place, Warder street to Park place, and Warder street, northwest, Manor street to Luray place, grade and improve, five thousand dollars: Northwest. Rittenhouse street and Western avenue, Rock Creek Ford road to Chevy Chase circle, grade and improve, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Streets in Anacostia, grade and improve, four thousand dollars;
Northwest. Ingraham street. Brightwood avenue to Ninth street, grade and improve, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Northwest. Ontario place, grade and improve, two thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest. Ingleside Terrace, grade and improve, three thousand eight hundred dollars; Northeast. Kearney street. Twelfth to Thirteenth street, grade, one thousand eight hundred dollars: Northwest. Emerson street, Brightwood avenue to Fourteenth street, macadamize, provided the street shall first be graded free of cost to the District of Columbia, four thousand eight hundred dollars;
In all, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand four hundred dollars.Repairs, etc. Repairs Streets, Avenues, and Alleys: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of the 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 DistrictVol. 20, p. 105. of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventyeight. and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.
For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around publicSidewalks. reservations and municipal buildings, seven thousand dollars. That the street in the District of Columbia now known and designatedBrightwood avenue, name changed to Georgia avenue and Georgia to Potomac avenue. as Brightwood avenue shall hereafter be known and designated as Georgia avenue, and the street now known and designated as Georgia avenue shall hereafter be known and designated as Potomac avenue. Repairs County Roads:
For current work of repairs of countyCounty roads. roads and suburban streets, one hundred thousand dollars, and three thousand dollars of this sum shall be immediately available. Bridges: For construction and repairs of bridges, twenty thousandBridges. dollars. Highway bridge across Potomac River: For salaries of two drawHighway bridge. operators, at one thousand and twenty dollars each; one draw operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; for labor, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, nine thousand three hundred and forty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.
Operation of the Anacostia River bridge: For salaries of employees,Anacostia River bridge. miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to the operation and maintenance of the bridge, five thousand six hundred dollars. 285 SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, sixty thousand dollars.Cleaning. For maintenance and operation of sewage pumping station, includingPumping station. employment of mechanics, laborers, and watchman, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, forty-three thousand dollars.
For main and pipe sewersand receiving basins, fifty thousand dollars.Main and pipe. For suburban sewers, eighty thousand dollars. And the CommissionersSuburban. of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to construct service sewers in Conduit road and levy assessments for the sameConduit road. under the conditions prescribed in the Act of April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act authorizing the layingVol. 33. p. 241. of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia.
” For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,Purchase of rights of way. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing work on extension of east side intercepting sewerEast side intercepting. from boundary sewer to Brookland, forty thousand dollars. For trunk outlet sewer for Congress Heights, seven thousand dollars.Congress Heights. Toward constructing Fourth street southeast relief sewer from PennsylvaniaFourth street relief. avenue and Fourth street to Virginia avenue and Second street southeast, fifteen thousand dollars.
STREETS.Streets. Sprinkling, Sweeping, and Cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping,Cleaning, etc. and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, including rent of storage rooms: maintenance and repairs of stable, purchase and maintenance of horses; purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons and harness, and necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work done under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*Contracts. whenever it shall appear to the Commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards, in accordance with the specifications under which the same was last advertised for bids, it shall at once be their duty to advertise to let said work under said specifications to the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents per thousand square yards, they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications: two hundred and fifty 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 theRemoval of snow and ice.Vol. 28. p. 809. Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four thousand dollars. Disposal of City Refuse: For the collection and disposal of garbageDisposal of city 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 seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars.
For the Parking Commission: For contingent expenses, includingParking commission. laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of trees, tree spaces, and miscellaneous items, thirty-five thousand dollars. Bathing Beach: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman.Bathing beach. four hundred and fifty dollars; and for temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, two thousand dollars; for repairs and 286 improvement of bath houses and for improvement of wharves, five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Fok Public Scales: For purchase, repair, and replacement of publicScales. scales, two hundred dollars. Playgrounds: For completing equipment of outdoor playgrounds,Playgrounds. one thousand five hundred dollars. For grading, planting of hedges, trees, and other improvements atRosedale site. Rosedale site, five thousand dollars. Public-Convenience Stations: For maintenance of public-conveniencePublic-convenience stations. stations, including compensation of necessary employees, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For constructing public-convenience station to be located on publicOn reservation No. 8. reservation numbered eight in the city of Washington, twenty thousand dollars. And the jurisdiction and control of such portion of said public reservationTransfer of jurisdiction. etc., of. numbered eight as may be required for the location and operation of said station and approaches thereto is hereby transferred from the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, such transfer to take effect from the date of notice by said Commissioners to the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army of the portion of said reservation selected, and said Commissioners are further authorized to make all necessary rules and regulations for the management of said station and fix the charges to be made for the use thereof.
Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings: For all expenses necessaryInsanitary buildings. and incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitaryVol. 34, p. 157. buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal services, when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars, six thousand dollars.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department. For electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars: superintendent,Salaries. one thousand six hundred dollars; three electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars: electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each: expert repair man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; four repair men, at nine hundred dollars each: three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each: two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; electrical inspector. two thousand dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars: cable splicer, one thousand two hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand one hundred and twenty-live 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-four thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars. 287 For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies,Supplies telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars.
For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, and telephonePlacing wires underground. service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, thirteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of newPolice patrol system. boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand three hundred dollars.
Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing,Lighting. and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unlit for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items, two hundred anti sixty-five thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars: *Provided*, That*Provisos.*Washington Terminal Company. hereafter the Washington Terminal Company, its successors, or transferees shall pay to the District for the lighting of the streets, avenues, alleys and grounds over and under which its right of way may cross, as well as for the lighting of those streets, avenues, alleys and grounds bordering on its right of way. under the direction and control of the Commissioners; and in case of default of payment of such bills, actions at law may be maintained by the District of Columbia against said terminal company or its successors, or transferees therefor: *Provided*, That no more than eighteen dollars per annum shall beMaximum per lamp. paid for each gas lamp equipped with a self-regulating flat-flame burner so adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of live cubic feet of gas per hour, nor more than twenty dollars and eighty-five cents per annum for each gas and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents per annum for each oil lamp equipped with an incandescent mantle burner of not less than sixty candlepower.
And during the fiscal year nineteen hundredA11 expenses included. and nine the price prescribed by Congress for lighting each street lamp in the District of Columbia with gas or oil shall be construed to include the cost of the illuminating material used, lighting and extinguishing lamps, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expense, of erecting and maintaining lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures: *Provided*, That all of said lamps shall burn every night,All-night service. on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: *And provided further*, That the Commissioners of theStreet designation signs.
District of Columbia may purchase, erect, light, and maintain such posts, lanterns, signs, and fixtures for street designation purposes, in addition to those mentioned above, as in their judgment may be necessary, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph except as to the time of burning: And *provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized,Conduit road.Extension of lighting system to District line. in their discretion, to extend the street-lighting system, by incandescent forty-candlepower lamps, on and along the Conduit road, from its intersection with the Canal road to the District line and to use so much of this appropriation as may be necessary for maintaining the 288 lamps. the location of the necessary posts, poles, wires, fixtures, and so forth, and the use of the road therefor shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as may be prescribed by the officer in charge of the Washington Aqueduct.
Hereafter contracts shall not be entered into for lighting streets inContract time limit. the District of Columbia, by gas or electricity, for a period exceeding one year. For electric arc lighting, and for extensions of such service, not exceedingElectric are lights, etc. one hundred and twenty-three thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the Washington Terminal*Proviso.*Washington Terminal Company. Company, its successors, or transferees shall pay to the District for the lighting of the streets, avenues, alleys and grounds over and under which its right of way may cross, as well as for the lighting of those streets, avenues, alleys and grounds bordering on its right of way. under the direction and control of the Commissioners; and in case of default of payment of such bills, actions at law may be maintained by the District of Columbia against said terminal company or its successors. or transferees therefor: *Provided*, That not more than eighty-fiveMaximum per lamp. dollars per annum shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wile; 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.
For the purchase of twenty-five additional fire-alarm boxes, and forAdditional firealarm boxes. the purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross-arms, insulators. pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, five thousand dollars. For purchase and cost of replacing the present break wheels in fire-alarmReplacing break wheels. boxes with approved platinum point key breaks, one thousand seven hundred dollars. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.Washington Aqueduct.
For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,Maintenance. and repair of the Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the Washington City reservoir, and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, and also including the purchase and maintenance of horses, vehicles, and harness, and the care and maintenance of the stable, thirty three thousand dollars. For preliminary investigations and surveys for increasing the waterSurveys, etc., increasing water supply. supply, ten thousand dollars.
That any unexpended balances of the appropriations “ For removalDalecarlia reservoir. Use of balances.Vol. 34, p. 1135. by dredging of about one hundred and thirty-four thousand cubic yards of sediment from Dalecarlia reservoir, sixteen thousand dollars,” and “For riprapping the sides of the Dalecarlia reservoir for a width of about twenty feet, eighteen thousand dollars.” provided in the District of Columbia appropriation Act (Washington Aqueduct) for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, shall continue and be available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine for the purposes designated under said appropriation in said Act.
For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,Kiltrution plant.Salaries, etc. and operation of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, eighty-two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the appropriation*Proviso.*Parking.Vol. 34, p. 1185. for these purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight not exceeding six thousand dollars may be used for parking the grounds at the Washington City reservoir, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine. 289 For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious breakEmergency fund. requiring immediate repair in one of the important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery; all expenditures from this appropriation to be reported in detail to Congress, five thousand dollars.
ROCK CREEK PARK.Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, exclusive of buildingCare, etc. for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park, fifteen thousand dollars, of which sum two thousand dollars shall be immediately available. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. For Officers: For superintendent of public schools, five thousandSalaries.Officers. dollars: two assistant superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, and supervisor of manual training, fifteen in all, at a minimum salary of two thousand two hundred dollars each; secretary, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two stenographers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in alì, fifty-one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Attendance Officers: For two attendance officers, authorized byAttendance officers.Vol. 84. p. 220. the Act providing for compulsory education in the District of Columbia. approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, at six hundred dollars each: one attendance officer, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. For Teachers: For one thousand six hundred and forty-six teachers,Teachers. to be assigned as follows: For principals of normal, high, and manual training schools, nine in all. at a minimum salary of two thousand dollars each;
For director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars; For directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each;, For assistant director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand four hundred dollars; For assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art. and kindergartens, six in all. ata minimum salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each;
For heads of departments in high and manual training schools in Group B of class six, twelve in all. at a minimum salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars each; For teachers of the normal, high, and manual training schools promotedNormal, high, and manual schools.Minimum salary, Group H, etc.*Provisos*.Eligibility. for superior work, Group B of class six, seven in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars each: *Provided*, That hereafter no teacher shall be eligible toGroup B, class six. who has not attained the maximum of Group A; *And provided further.*, That teachers hereafter employed in normal, high, and manual training schools,Longevity. may be placed in Group A. class six, and receive their longevity increase according to their number of years of experience in teaching in accredited normal, high or manual training schools: *Provided further.* That hereafter no more than seven teachers shall bePromotions limited. promoted in any one year from Group A. class six. to Group B, class six;
For teachers in Group A of class six. one hundred and eighty-eight in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand dollars each; 290 For teachers in class live, one hundred and forty-three in all. at a minimum salary of nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For teachers in class four, four hundred and eleven in all, at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars each; For teachers in class three, four hundred and sixty-three in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars earn;
For teachers in class two, three hundred and thirty-six in all. at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each; For teachers in class one, fifty-eight in all. at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each; For teachers in the normal, high, and manual training schools notRestriction. eligible to the salary of class six by reason of the provisions of section four of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries ofVol. 84, p. 318. teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six. to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the said Act. as follows:
One at a salary of nine hundred and seventy-five dollars: Three at a salary of nine hundred and fifty dollars each; One at a salary of nine hundred dollars; In all for teachers, one million two hundred sixty-three thousand and twenty-five dollars. Librarians and Clerks: For eighteen librarians and clerks, to beLibrarians and clerks. assigned as follows: For librarian in class four, one at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars; For librarians and clerks in class three, eight in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each;
For clerks in class two, four in all. at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each; For librarians and clerks in class one. five in all. at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each: In all for librarian and clerks, ten thousand nine hundred dollars. For Longevity Pay: Longevity pay for director of intermediateLongevity pay. instruction, supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, principals of the normal, high, and manual training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art. and kindergartens, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate theVol. 34. p. 8145. salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.
For Allowance to Principals: For allowance to principals ofPrincipals.Additional pay. grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers,Vol. 34, p. 320. school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia.” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, thirty-two thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination*Provisos*.No sex discrimination. shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school and performing a like class of duties; and it shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grade. *Provided further*, That no teacher, or the whole number appropriatedRestriction on employment. for herein, shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of. a clerk or librarian. 291 *Provided further*, That the salaries of all teachers, and clerks andTen months to constitute n school year. librarians in the high and manual training schools, duly elected, whose services commence with the opening day of school and who shall perform their duties, shall begin on the first day of September and snail be paid in ten monthly installments, the first payment to be made onPayments in installments.Time of. the first day of October, or as near that date as practicable, and the payment for the month of June to be made upon the completion of the school term in June: *Provided.* That the salaries of other teachersOther teachers. shall begin when they enter upon their duties.
Hereafter the following rules for division of time and computationRules for computation of pay. of pay for services rendered are hereby established: Compensations of all teachers and librarians and clerks in the high and manual training schools shall he divided into ten equal installments, one of which shall be paid for each school month, and in making payments for a fractional part of a month one-thirtieth of one of such installments shall be the daily rate of pay. For the purpose of computing such compensation and for computing time for services rendered during a fractional part of a month in connection with the compensation of all teachers and librarians and clerks in the high and manual training schools, each and every month shall be held to consist of thirty days, without regard to the actual number of days in any calendar month, thus excluding the thirty-first day of any calendar month from the computation and treating February as if it actually had thirty days.
Any person entering the service of the schools during a thirty-one day month and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to pay for that month from the date of entry to the thirtieth day of said month, both days inclusive; and any person entering said service during the month of February and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to one month’s pay. less as many thirtieths thereof as there were days elapsed prior to the date of entry: *Provided*, That for one day’s unauthorizedUnauthorized absence. absence on the thirty-first day of any calendar month one day’s pay shall be forfeited.
Night Schools: For salaries of teachers and janitors of nightNight schools. schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools,Industrial, etc., instruction. including equipment and the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, three thousand three hundred dollars.
Kindergarten Supplies: For kindergarten supplies, two thousandKindergarten supplies. five hundred dollars. For Janitors and Care of Buildings and Grounds: For superintendentJanitors, etc. of janitors, one thousand two hundred dollars; For care of Central High School and annex, two thousand dollars; of the Business High School, one thousand six hundred dollars; of the Jefferson Building, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Western High School, one thousand four hundred dollars:
Of the Franklin School, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Eastern High School and M Street High School, two in all. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; Of the McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand four him dred dollars: For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinleyEngineers. Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one assistant engineer at the McKinley Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; Of the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars; 292 For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand dollars;
For one assistant engineer at the Armstrong Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; Of the Stevens School, one thousand two hundred dollars; Of the Wallach and Emery school buildings, one sixteen-room building to take the place of the Mott, and one sixteen-room building in the “first division,”four in all. at one thousand dollars each; Of the Van Buren School and annex, one thousand dollars; Of the Birney and annex, Brookland, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garnet. Grant, Henry, Johnson and annex, Peabody.
Seaton, Sumner, and Webster school buildings, fourteen in all. at nine hundred dollars each; Of the Lincoln, Mott. Gage, New Langdon, and Miner buildings, five in all. at eight hundred dollars each; Of the twelve-room building in the “ eighth division,” nine hundred dollars; Of the Abbot, Barret, 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. Carbery, Cardozo, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Dent, Douglass, Edmunds, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Eckington, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Jackson. Jones, Ketcham. Langston, Lenox, Logan, Lovejoy. Ludlow, Madison, Magruder. Maury, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Petworth, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Ross, Abby S. Simmons, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler.
Webb, Weightman, Wheatley, Wilson, and Wormley buildings, and one eight-room building in present eighth division, seventy-one in all, at six hundred dollars each; Of the B. B. French, Garfield, Thomson, and Woodburn buildings, four in all, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; Of the Benning (white), Benning (colored), Brightwood Park, Chevy Chase, Deanwood, Hamilton, High Street, Kenilworth, Langdon. McCormick, Orr, Potomac, Reno, Reservoir, Stanton, and Threlkeld buildings, sixteen in all. at three hundred dollars each;
Of the Bunker Hill, Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Fort Slocum, Military Road, Ivy City, and Burrville buildings, seven in all, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual training schools wherever located, at a rate not to exceed seventy-two dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, eight thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and five thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For Medical Inspectors:
For twelve medical inspectors of public schools,Medical inspectors. four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said inspectors shall*Proviso.*Competitive examinations. 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. w hich shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the Commissioners.
Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, repair shop,Rent. storage and stock rooms, twenty-five thousand dollars. For amount required to rent, equip, and care for temporary roomsTemporary rooms, etc. for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide 293 for the. estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory education law and for the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds andRepairs. for repairing and renewing beating and ventilating apparatus, seventy-five thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing schoolPlumbing repairs. buildings, fifty thousand dollars. A detailed statement shall be submitted to Congress of the expenditure of the foregoing sum, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine estimates shall be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing.
For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and books,Tools, etc. 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, ninety thousand dollars.Fuel, etc. For furniture and window shades for new school buildings, additions to buildings, kindergartens, manual training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: One four-room addition to Emery school building, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one six-room addition to Langdon school building, one thousand three hundred and twelve dollars; one four-room addition to Petworth school building, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars: one sixteen-room building to take the place of the Mott school building, three thousand five hundred dollars: one four-room addition to Gage school building, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one sixteen-room building in the “first division,” three thousand five hundred dollars; one twelve room building in the “eighth division,” two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; two kindergartens, three hundred dollars; one manual training shop, two hundred dollars; one cooking school, three hundred dollars; one sewing school, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars, to be immediately available.
For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Contingent expenses. stationery, printing, ice. purchase and repair of equipments for high school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of three hundred dollars livery of horse or garage of an automobile for the superintendent, and including not exceeding one thousand dollars for books, books of reference, and periodicals, forty-five thousand dollars. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergartenPianos. schools, at an average cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, one thousand dollars.
For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the firstSupplies for pupils. eight grades, who at the time, are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of text-books and supplies, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred dollars, sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its discretion,*Proviso.*Exchanges. is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not. be desirable for use.
For purchase of United States flags, eight hundred dollars.Flags.School garden equipments. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, one thousand two hundred dollars. For extending the telephone system to one sixteen-room building inTelephones to new schools. the “first division,” one twelve-room buildingin the “eighth division,” 294 including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, poles, cross arms, braces, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items to be expended under the electrical department, six hundred dollars.
For purchase of apparatus for the physics department and theApparatus for physics department, etc. installation of electrical equipment in the physical laboratory in those high schools which do not possess the same, namely, the, Central, Eastern, Western, and M street high schools, including conduits, switchboards with usual fittings, wiresand wiring, terminal boxes, motor generators or dynamotors, transformers, resistance boxes, electrical measuring instruments, and other accessories and extra labor and other necessary items, six thousand dollars;
Any unexpended balances in the “Act making appropriations toUnexpended balances immediately available.Vol. 34, pp. 501, 1140. provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal years ending.June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes, to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for the estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory education law,” is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for the purchase, erection, and maintenance of portable schoolhousesPortable school houses. for temporary use.
Buildings and Grounds: For complete equipment of the extensionBuildings and grounds. of the McKinley Manual Training-School, sixty thousand dollars to be immediately available. For completion of McKinley Manual Training School building as originally planned, to be immediately available, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For site for and toward the construction of one twelve-room building for the fourth division to relieve the Franklin and Thomson schools, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and the total cost of the said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars.
For excavating and walling cellar and lowering furnaces in John F. Cook School building, three thousand dollars. Toward an extension of the Business High School building, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said extension under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars. For the purchase of ground adjacent to the Johnson School, or in the immediate vicinity thereof, approximately fifty-one thousand square feet, and toward the construction thereon of an eight-room addition, or annex, to said school, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said addition, or annex, including cost of additional ground, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase of lot twenty-five, square five hundred and sixty three, adjoining Armstrong Manual Training School, as a site for the erection of an addition to this school, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For purchase of ground for and the erection of a four-room addition to the Monroe School, thirty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said addition, including cost of ground, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed fifty-four thousand dollars.
For purchase of ground for school in eighth division to replace Potomac School, approximately twenty-five thousand square feet, eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For purchase of ground, approximately ten thousand square feet, adjacent to the Morgan School, eleven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 295 For purchase of ground adjoining the Lovejoy School to provide for an extension of the present building, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For twelve-room building on the site of the Garfield School, thirteenth division, ninety-five thousand dollars. For purchase of lots adjacent to Phillips School, twenty-one thousand square feet, sixteen thousand live hundred dollars. For additional amount for “Repairs and improvements to schoolFireproof stairs, etc. buildings and grounds” for the purpose of replacing wooden stairs in brick buildings with those of fireproof construction, removal of old and unsuitable fire escapes, and erection of improved fire escapes, and improvement of approaches thereto, improving exits, and for such miscellaneous alteration and repair work as may be necessary to secure protection against fire in existing school buildings owned by the District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.
That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respectiveCost of sites, etc. buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. That the plans and specifications for school buildings shall be preparedPlans.Preparation and approval. under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District, and shall be constructed by the Commissioners in conformity therewith; and the plans and specifications for all other buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Superintendent of the Capitol building and the Commissioners of the District; and shall be constructed in conformity therewith.
School buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall beAll outside doors to open outward, etc. constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward and. if feasible, each of said buildings shall have at least four exits. No part of any appropriation carried in this bill shall be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day for one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours.
Columbia Institution for Thk Deaf and Dumb: For expensesDeaf and dumb pupils. attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first,R.S., sec. 4864, p. 942.Vol. 31. p. 844. nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said Institution by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachableColored children. age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized in an Act of Congress approvedVol. 33, p. 901 March third, nineteen hundred and live, and under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the instruction of indigent blind children of the District ofIndigent blind children.
Columbia, in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the indefinite permanent annual appropriation provided for this purposeR. S., sec. 3689. p.728, amended. is hereby repealed, to take effecton and after July first, nineteen hundred and eight. 296 FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. For major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; assistantSalaries. superintendent, 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 one thousand dollars each; four surgeons of the police and tire departments, at six hundred dollars each; additional compensation for twenty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, four thousand sight 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, it one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; tour hundred and thirty-one privates of class three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one hundred and twenty-three privates of class two. at one thousand and eighty dollars each; one hundred and five privates of class one, at nine hundred dollars each; for amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, eight thousand three hundred and three dollars and thirty-five cents; six telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; janitor for police headquarters for July, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty dollars; fourteen janitors, at six hundred dollars each; messenger, seven hundred dollars; messenger, five hundred dollars; major and superintendent, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; inspector, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; fifty-five captains, lieutenants, ‘ sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each: sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, on bicycles. at fifty dollars each; twenty-six drivers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and two police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, nine hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-five cents: *Provided*, That hereafter, in order that the full complement*Provisos*Vacancies in classes two and three. of the Metropolitan police force may at all times be maintained. as authorized by law, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when Vacancies occur in classesAppointment of privates in class one. two and three of said Metropolitan police force, which can not be filled by promotion. to appoint privates in class one equal in number to the positions vacated in saki classes-two and three; and the respective salaries specifically provided for such vacant positions may be reduced to pay the salaries of the privates so appointed in class one: *Provided further*, That within thirty day? after the passage of this Act and every two years thereafter persons on the pension rolls in the District of ColumbiaPensioners.Biannual medical examination required. for disabilities incurred while in the service of the police department or fire department of the District of Columbia shall undergo a medical examination and as a result of such examinations the Commissioners shall determine whether the pension being paid in each case shall continue in whole or in part.
Miscellaneous: For rent of substation and stable at Anacostia, fourRent of substation, etc., Anacostia. hundred and eighty dollars: For fuel, four thousand dollars;Fuel. For repairs to stations, five thousand five hundred dollars;Repairs. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchaseMiscellaneous v x-penses. of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, and periodicals, telegraphing. telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bedclothing, 297 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, saddles, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, repairsDetection of crime. to rented buildings, and other necessary expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars; of which amount a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for the prevention and detection of crime under his certificates approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided*, That the War Department may*Proviso.*Mounted equipment. furnish the District Commissioners for the use of the police, upon requisition, such unserviceable mounted equipment as may be required;
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred dollars;Flags, etc.Rent. For rent of police department headquarters and property rooms for .July, nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred dollars; For house, furniture, and equipment for same, stable and improvementAnacostia station. to grounds, for station house to be erected in Anacostia. twenty thousand dollars. In all, sixty-five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. House of Detention: To enable the Commissioners of the DistrictHouse of detention. of Columbia to provide transportation, including the purchase andTransportation, etc. 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 six hundred 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 nine hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For Harbor Patrol: For one engineer, one thousand dollars; oneHarbor patrol. 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 three hundred and eighty dollars. For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, twoFuel, etc. thousand dollars. In all, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire Department. For chief engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars: deputySalaries. chief engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at two thousand dollars each; fire marshal, two thousand dollars; deputy tire marshal, one thousand four hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; thirty-four captains, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; thirty-five lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of machinery, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of machinery, one thousand two hundred dollars: twenty engineers, at one thousand one. hundred and fifty dollars each: twenty assistant engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each: two pilots, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each: two assistant marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollar-each; two marine firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: thirty-five drivers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; 298 thirty-five assistant drivers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; one hundred and ninety-eight privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; thirty-five privates of class one, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; anti one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four hundred and ninety-two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.
Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine housesMiscellaneous. and grounds, nine thousand dollars: For repairs to apparatus and for new apparatus and new appliances, twelve thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, fifteen thousand dollars; For fuel, fifteen thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, fourteen thousand dollars; For forage, twenty-three thousand dollars; For rent, for July, nineteen hundred and eight, thirty dollars; For repairs and improvements of the fire boat, one thousand dollars;
For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medicalContingent expenses. and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and thirty dollars. Increase Fire Department: tor house, site, and furniture for anHouse, etc., west of Seventeenth st. NW., etc. engine company, to be located west of Seventeenth street northwest and south of Pennsylvania avenue, including cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, thirty-nine thousand dollars;
For one fourth-size steam fire engine, five thousand dollars;New apparatus. For one sixty-five-foot aerial hook-and-ladder truck, four thousand five hundred dollars; For one chemical engine for the house at Langdon, three thousandChemical engine. Langdon. five hundred dollars; Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorizedVolunteer organizations. to install under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe,Extra apparatus supplied to. in any suburb of the said District, such extra apparatus and appliances belonging to the fire department of the District of Columbia as may, in their opinion, be available for the use of any volunteer tire organization which may be created in such suburb: and that such apparatus and appliances shall be maintained in proper condition for service by l he purchase of the necessary supplies out of the appropriations provided for the lire department of the District of Columbia.
For one second-size steam fire engine, five thousand five hundred dollars; For one combination chemical engine and hose wagon, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; In all, fifty-nine thousand dollars. HEALTH DEPARTM ENT.Health department. For health officer, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerkSalaries. 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; chief inspector and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; fifteen sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one inspector, one thousand dollars; one inspector, nine 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; five sanitary and food 299 inspectors, who shall be veterinary surgeons, at one thousand dollars each, and five 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: sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars: driver, five hundred and forty dollars; poundmaster, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for laborers, at not exceeding forty dollars per month, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
The duties and the authority now conferred by law upon theSanitary and food inspectors.Duties. inspector of fish and other marine products are hereby vested in each of the sanitary and food inspectors. Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty dollars.Stable rent.Prevention of conagious diseases.Vol. 29, p. 686. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox. epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, nineteen hundredVol. 34, p. 889. and seven, 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 stables, purchase of referenceHorses, wagons, etc. books, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For maintenance of the disinfecting service, including salaries orDisinfecting service. compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, five thousand dollars. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for theDrainage.Vol. 29, p. 126.Abatement of nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six. five thousand dollars.
For special services in connection with the detection of the adulterationFood adulteration. of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act toContingent expenses.Sale of milk. etc.Vol. 28, p. 709. regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. oneVol. 34, p. 768. thousand dollars.
For the necessary traveling expenses of sanitary and food inspectorsTravelling expenses. while traveling outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milk, and other dairy products, three, thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Garfield and Providence hospitals: For isolating wards for minorHospitals.Isolating wards. contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence hospitals, maintenance, each, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory.Public crematory. three thousand dollars. 300 COURTS.Courts. For amount required to pay the reporter of the court of appeals ofCourt of appeals reports. the District of Columbia for volumes of the reports of the opinions of said court, authorized to be furnished by him under section two hundredVol. 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 each of volumes thirty and thirty-one, one hundred and ten dollars.
For four volumes of Torbert’s Digest of the Reports of the Court ofTorbert’s Digest. Appeals of the District of Columbia, forty dollars. Juvenile Court: For judge, three thousand dollars;Juvenile court. clerk, two thousand dollars; chief probation officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand two hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, nine thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Miscellaneous:
For compensation of jurors, one thousand sevenMiscellaneous. hundred and forty dollars; For rent, two hundred and forty dollars: For furniture, fixtures, and equipments, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, three hundred dollars; For fuel. ice. gas, and laundry work, stationery, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, typewriter and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars;
In all. three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Police Court: For two judges, at three thousand six hundredPolice court. dollars each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, atone 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; four bailiffs, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; deputy marshal, one thousand dollars: janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars: assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fireman, three hundred and sixty dollars: two assistant janitors, at three hundred dollars each: matron. six hundred dollars; three charmen, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For fuel, gas. laundry work,Miscellaneous. stationery, printing, preservation of records, mops, brooms, buckets, removal of ashes and other refuse, telephone service, electric current, and all other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for. two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For witness fees, four thousand dollars; For repairs to police court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dollars: For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, one hundred dollars;
For compensation of jurors, eight thousand dollars; For repairs to the police court building, three hundred dollars: For improving the heating and ventilating apparatus and for minor repairs to the police court building, to be immediately available, three thousand dollars. In all, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Writs Oe Lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionLunacy write.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 301 authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, two thousand five hundred dollars. .JUstices of the Peace:
For six justices of the peace, at two thousandJustices of the peace. five hundred dollars each, and the further sum of four hundred dollars each for rent, clerical services, stationery, and other expenses; in all, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.Interest and sinking fund. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars. EMERGENCY FUND.Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by Hood or tire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of*Proviso.*Purchases. all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected.
FOR COURTS AND PRISONS.Courts and prisons. Support of Convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts out of District. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars. Court-House, District of Columbia: For the following forceCourt-house. necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia:
Engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and 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. Warden of the Jail: For warden of the jail of the District ofJail.Warden. Columbia, two thousand dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General.
Support of Prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jailMaintenance. 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. Fees of Witnesses, Supreme Court: For fees of witnesses in theSupreme court.Witness fees. supreme court of t he District of Columbia, and for pay ment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundredR.
S. sec. 850, p. 160 and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars. Fees of Jurors, Supreme Court: For fees of jurors in the supremeJurors’ fees. court of the District of Columbia, fifty-five thousand dollars. Pay of Bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding one crier in eachPay of bailiffs. court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for the expense of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same when ordered by the court, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous Expenses: For payment of such miscellaneous expensesMiscellaneous. as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the supreme court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing 302 and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, twenty-three thousand dollars. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections.
Board of Charities: For secretary, three thousand dollars; clerk,Board of Charities.Salaries. one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, one thousand dollars; six inspectors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one driver, at six hundred and sixty dollars; three drivers, at six hundred dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. reformatories and correctional institutions.Reformatories.
For Washington Asylum: For superintendent, one thousand eightWashington Asylum.Salaries. hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; baker, six hundred dollars; principal overseer, one thousand five hundred dollars; fifteen overseers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars, assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; second assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; engineer at new workhouse for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; two watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two night watchmen, at five hundred and forty-eight dollars each; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred dollars; carpenter, five hundred dollars; driver for dead wagon, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; keeper at female workhouse, three hundred dollars; keeper at female workhouse, one hundred and eighty dollars; hospital cook, six hundred dollars; chief cook for workhouse, six hundred dollars; four assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two graduate nurses, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; two nurses for annex wards, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed one hundred and twenty dollars per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum during second year of service), two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; gardener, five hundred and forty dollars; herdsman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; florist, three hundred dollars; tailor, one hundred and eighty dollars; housekeeper, three hundred dollars; laundryman, six hundred dollars; temporary labor, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars.
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, fifty thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars. 303 For additional amount for the above-named purposes, one thousandAdditional. live hundred dollars.
For payment to the beneficiaries named in section three of “AnPayments to families.Vol. 34, p. 37. Act 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 thousand four 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.
The President is authorized to appoint three commissioners, one ofJail, workhouse, ete.Aüpointmentoí commissioners to investigate. whom may be nominated by the Attorney-General and one by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall investigate the condition of the jail of the District of Columbia, now under the control of the Attorney-General, and of the workhouse within said District and other buildings adjacent to said jail; and in connection with the investigation the commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, may visit and inspect similar institutions in other cities within the United States; and they shall report to the President on orReport. before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, concerning said condition and the expediency of removing said jail, workhouse, and other buildings to other sites more appropriate for their needs and located so near to railroad lines as to secure suitable facilities for the delivery thereto of material suitable or necessary for industries to be therein carried on; and shall also make such other recommendations on the subject as may seem to them expedient; for the expenses of theExpenses.
Commission there is hereby appropriated the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. Home for the Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, one thousandHome for Aged and infirm.Salaries. two hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; two female attendants, at three hundred dollars each; chief cook, six hundred dollars; two male attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; chief engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; two firemen, at three hundred dollars each; physician and pharmacist, four hundred and eighty dollars; two nurses, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred and forty dollars; 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, five hundred and forty dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; two servants, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; temporary labor, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars;
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, twenty thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; For necessary tire protection, water mains, plugs, and the necessary piping connections, and laying and installing the same, to be immediately available, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For duplicating the water supply, including an artesian well, deep well pump, tank, piping, and the necessary steam and water connections with pump and tank, to be immediately available, six thousand five hundred dollars; In all for Home for Aged and Infirm, forty-one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars. 304 For Reform School: For care and maintenance of boys committedReform School for boys.Maintenance. 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-two thousand dollars,*Past*, p. 380. or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Reform School for Girls: Superintendent, one thousand twoReform School for girls.Salaries. hundred dollars; treasurer, six hundred dollars: matron, six hundred dollars; three teachers, at six hundred dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; six teachers of industries, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and twenty dollars; night watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred dollars each: in all, nine thousand nine hundred dollars;
For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing,Contingent expenses. shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewingmachines,fixtures, hooks,stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars; For furnishing and erecting one eight-rack and one ten-rack clothes dryer, complete with stoves, in the laundries, four hundred and sixty-two dollars;
For furnishing and erecting two filters and tank of ten thousand gallons capacity for filtered water, two thousand dollars: For furnishing and erecting one motor-driven live by eight singleacting triplex pump, ten horse-power; sixty cycle, single phase, motor and all necessary accessories, one thousand and eighty dollars; For furnishing and erecting a hot-air furnace and necessary connections for heating the dormitory for male employees, one hundred and ninety-one dollars; In all, for Reform School for Girls, twenty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Transportation of Prisoners: For conveying prisoners to theTransportation of prisoners. 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. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toFreedmen’s Hospital. be made with the Freedman’s Hospital and Asylum by the Board of Charities, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toColumbia Hospital. be made with the Columbia Hospital for women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. For repairs to Columbia Hospital, three thousand dollars. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toChildren’s Hospital. be made with the Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, underHomeopathic Hospital. a contract to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand dollars.
For relief of the National Homeopathic Hospital Association, twenty-fivePayment of debt.*Provisos*.Restriction. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation hereby made shall be paid to said National Homeopathic Hospital Association unless said association shall have collected, on or before the thirtieth day of .lune, nineteen hundred and nine, in cash, through contributions, donations, and tike sources, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and shall have furnished the Commissioners of the District of Columbia satisfactory evidence of the collection and possession of said 305 sum: *Provided further.*, That the said sum of forty thousand dollarsUse of appropriation. shall be applied to the liquidation of the debt of said National Homeopathic Hospital Association.
For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary serviceEmergency Hospital. to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and equipment, Central Dispensary and EmergencyRepairs. Hospital, four thousand dollars. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to,Eastern Dispensary. indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, six thousand dollars.
For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, four thousandHome for Incurables. dollars. For the women’s clinic, maintenance, five hundred dollars.Women’s clinic. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to beGeorgetown 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 beGeorge Washington University Hospital. made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars.
Tuberculosis Hospital: For superintendent, one thousand twoTuberculosis Hospital.Salaries. hundred dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; pharmacist and clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of nurses, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; four graduate nurses, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; ten pupil nurses, at one hundred and twenty dollars each: chief cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant engineer, six hundred dollars; two firemen, at three hundred dollars each: elevator conductor, three hundred dollars; laundryman, four hundred and eighty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; four servants, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, twelve thousand one hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas. ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, temporary services not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other necessary items, twenty-five thousand dollars; In all for Tuberculosis Hospital, thirty-seven thousand one hundred and forty dollars. child-caking institutions.Care of children. Board of Children’S Guardians:
For the Board of Children’sBoard of Children’s Guardians.Vol. 27, p.268. Guardians, created under the Act approved J uly twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, and allExpenses. office and sundry expenses, three thousand one hundred dollars; For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk, oneSalaries. thousand and eighty dollars: placing officer, nine hundred dollars; placing officer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; investigating clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; record clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; visiting inspector, six hundred dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seven thousand live hundred and sixty dollars;
For maintenance of feeble-minded children, sixteen thousand dollars;Maintenance of feeble-minded children.Board, etc. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary 306 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, forty thousand dollars;
In all, for Board of Children’s Guardians, sixty-six thousand sixExpenses of agent. hundred and sixty dollars. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the agent of the board of children’s guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed two hundred dollars at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For superintendent,Industrial Home School for Colored Children.Salaries. one thousand two hundred dollars; matron of school, four hundred and eighty dollars; two caretakers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant caretakers, at three hundred dollars each; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; manual training teacher, four hundred and eighty dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; watchman, three hundred dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars;
For temporary services, not to exceed five hundred dollars;Temporary services. Maintenance. For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, vehicles, and harness, five thousand dollars; For necessary furniture and equipment, including farming implements,Furniture, etc. live stock, and tools, two thousand dollars, to be immediately available: For necessary tiling and pipes, five hundred dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, three hundred dollars;
In all, for Industrial Home School for Colored Children, fourteen*Proviso*.Receipts from sale of products, etc. thousand three hundred and sixty dollars: *Provided*, That all moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board or instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to be expended by them in the support of the school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine. Fok the Industrial Home School:
For superintendent, one thousandIndustrial 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, seven hundred and twenty dollars; engineer, six hundred dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; two housemaids, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each: temporary labor, not to exceed four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand tìve hundred and eighty-eight dollars;
For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon,Maintenance, etc. and harness, nine thousand four hundred and twelve dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, two thousandRepairs, etc. dollars. For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars. 307 In all. for the Industrial Home School, nineteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to beHome for destitute colored women. made with the National Association for the Relief of Destit ute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed nine thousand nine hundred dollars.
For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to beFoundlings’ Hospital. made with the Washington Hospital for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars. For renewing the heating apparatus and necessary alterations and repairs at the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, two thousand dollars. For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to beSaint Ann’s Asylum. made with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars.
For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to beGerman Orphan Asylum. made with the German Orphan Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed six hundred dollars. temporary homes.Temporary Homes. For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely: ForMunicipal lodging house. superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; and laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, including rent, one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars: in all, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, GrandGrand Army Soldiers’ Home. Army of the Republic, namely: For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; and cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, three, thousand five hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war shall also be admitted to the Home.
For the care and maintenance of women and children under a contractHope and Help Mission. to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, two thousand dollars. Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane ofSupport of indigent insane. the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law. two hundred and ninety-four thousand eight hundred dollars. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insaneDeporting 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.
That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of theAdvances to Board of Charities. District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the, District of Columbia may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.
Relief of the Poor: For relief of the poor, including pay of physiciansRelief of poor. to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand three hundred dollars. Transportation of Paupers: For transportation of paupers, threeTransporting paupers. thousand dollars. 308 MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and directionExpenses. of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely:
For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers requiredCamp, etc. to be mounted, and sucn hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and the accounting officers are directed to settle the accounts for camps, instruction, and practice marches for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight in accordance herewith, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills and parades, rent, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, and for telephone service, forty-five thousand three, hundred dollars.
For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For printing, stationery, and postage, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, two 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 rille practice and matches, one thousand dollars.
For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursedPay. under the authority and direction of the commanding general, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That all moneys*Prorvisos.*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 deductionsUse of tines, 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 cleiical 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: *Provided further*, That any of the moneys appropriated for the fiscalUse of appropriation. years nineteen hundred and eight and nineteen hundred and nine for the District of Columbia Militia may be used to supplement specific appropriations or allotments which may be found insufficient for the purposes for which made, and authority is hereby given to supplement the regular ration by purchase of such additional articles of subsistence as may be deemed necessary.Additions to rations.
For general incidental expenses of the service, five hundred dollars.Incidentals. Hereafter the purchase of supplies and the procurement of servicesPurchases in open market. for all blanches of the District of Columbia Militia service may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed one hundred dollars. 309 WATER DEPARTMENT.Water department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsPayable from water revenues. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely:
For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shallRevenueand inspection branch. also perform the duties of chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand live hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, one thousand dollars; nine inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each; assistant tapper, eight hundred and twenty-live dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars;
For distribution branch; For superintendent, three thousand dollars;Distribution branch. draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; timekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; assistant engineer, two thousand one 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; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; 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 thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing,Contingent expenses. purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and other necessary items and services, three thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipeOperating ex penses. 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, lay ing new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, and purchase and maintenance of two motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, forty-two thousand dollars.
For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-serviceHigh-service system. system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences as may be directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to include 310 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 is may be available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore mthorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. The services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,Temporary draftsnen. 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 my general or special engineering or construction work authorized by ippropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Com-nissioners 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 if the District in their annual estimates shall report the number ofReport. inch 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-six thousand dollars luring the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorizedWork under commissioners.Temporary laborers, etc. to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering ır 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 is 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 connectionHorses, wagons, etc.Special orders fromCommissioners 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 stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses,*Proviso.*Work under Commissioners. 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. The services of draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, andWater department.Temporary draftsmen, etc. inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may 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 311 and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*, That the expenditures*Proviso.*Maximum expenditure. hereunder shall not exceed ten thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorizedWork under Commissioners.laborers. 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. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorizedMiscellaneous trust fund.Expenses paid from.Vol. 33. p. 368. 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. From and after the approval of this Act all per diemLabor Day.Leave of absence to day laborers. employees and other day laborers of the District of Columbia who have been continuously employed for five working days next preceding the first Monday of September in each year (commonly called Labor Day), and whose employment continues through and beyond said day, may, in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, be granted leave of absence with pay for said day.
Sec. 7. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall notLimit on requisitions. make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Sec. 8. That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundredAdvances from the Treasury. and nine, 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 advancesVol. 31, p. 766.Vol. 32, pp. 616, 981.Vol. 83, 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, July first, nineteen hundred and two, March third, nineteen hundred and three, April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, March third, nineteen hundred and five, and JuneVol. 34. pp. 516, 1157 twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and March second, nineteen hundred and seven, not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, 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 nine, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centurm 312 per annum on annual balances until so reimbursed: *Provided further*,Report.
That the Auditor for 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*Street extensions from District revenues only. *further*, That nothing 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. 9. All lawsand parts of laws to the extent that they are inconsistentRepeal. with this Act are repealed. Approved, May 26, 1908.
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