Chapter 250. 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 ten, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 250.— 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 ten, and for other purposes. March 3, 1909.[[H. R. 25392](/us/bill/70/hr/25392).][[Public, No. 303](/us/pl/70/303).] *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.Hali 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 ten, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. For Executive Office: For two commissioners, at five thousandExecutive office.Salaries of Commissioners. dollars each; engineer commissioner, two hundred and eighty dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); additional compensation for two assistants to the engineer commissioner, detailed from the EngineerAssistants to Engineer Co mmissioner.Vol. 20, p. 103. Corps of the United States Army, under Act of Congress approved June 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 thousandSuperintendents, municipal building. four nundred dollars; two assistant secretaries to commissioners, one at one thousand four hundred dollars, and one at one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two clerks, at six hundred dollars each; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at six hundred dollars each;
Veterinary 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 hundredProperty division. dollars; deputy property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three 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 thousandBuilding inspection division. seven hundred and fifty dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars; eleven assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one fireescape 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 thousandPlumbing inspection division. dollars; principal assistant inspector of plumbing, one thousand four hundred dollars; five assistant inspectors of plumbing, one at one 689 thousand two hundred dollars and four at one thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, two thousand 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 five thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedFees, building inspection. and directed, from time to time, to prescribe a schedule of fees to be paid for permits, certificates, and transcripts of records issued by the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, for the erection, alteration, repair, or removal of buildings and their appurtenances, and for the location of certain establishments for which permits are now or hereafter may be required under the building regulations of the District of Columbia, said fees to cover the cost and expense of the issuance of said permits and certificates and of the inspection of the work done under said permits; said scheduleSchedule. shall be printed and conspicuously displayed in the office of said inspector of buildings; said fees shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia and shall be deposited by him in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
For Care of District Building: Clerk and stenographer, oneCare of District building. thousand eight hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two dynamo tenders, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; 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 laborers, at five hundred dollars each; two chief cleaners who shall also have charge of the lavatories, at five hundred dollars each; forty cleaners, at two hundred and forty dollars each; chief watchman, one thousand dollars; assistant chief watchman, six hundred and sixty dollars; eight watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; one pneumatictube operator, six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars: *Provided*, That the employees herein*Proviso.*Appointment. authorized for the care of the District building shall be appointed by the assistants to the engineer commissioner with the approval of the commissioners.
Hereafter policemen shall not be detailed for duty as watchmenDetail of police forbidden. at the Municipal building. For fuel, light, power, repairs, mechanics and labor not to exceedMaintenance expenses. three thousand dollars, and miscellaneous supplies, twenty-eight 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 690 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; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars; in all, forty-four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
Excise Board: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, oneExcise board. thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Personal Tax Board: For two assistant assessors of personalPersonal tax board. taxes, at three thousand dollars each; appraiser of personal property, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
For Collector’s Office : For collector, four thousand dollars; deputyCollector’s office. collector, two thousand 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 five hundred dollars.
For extra labor in the preparation of tax-sale certificates, withTax-sale certitl- cates. 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; five 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 six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand three 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 TreasurerSinking-fund office. of the United States: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. For Coroner’s Office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundredCoroner’s office. dollars; morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. For Market Masters: For two market masters, at one thousandMarket masters. two hundred dollars each; for assistant market masters, who shall also perform the necessary labor in cleaning the markets, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. 691 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 B street sidewalk used for market purposes, three hundred and sixty dollars; sweeping B street used for market purposes, 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. 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 two hundred and fifty 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 Rock Creek Park; superintendent of sewers, three thousand dollars; inspector of asphalts and cements, two thousand four hundred dollarsAsphalt inspector.
(*Provided*, That the inspector of asphalts and cements shall not*Proviso.*Restriction. 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 trees and parkings, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of trees and parkings, one thousand two hundred 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; five assistant engineers, at 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 six hundred and fifty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; 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 692 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 yardkeepers, at one thousand dollars each; one inspector of material, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; 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-five 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 dollars each; 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, nine hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; boss carpenter, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss painter, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss tinner, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss plumber, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss steam fitter, one thousand twoMunicipal architect.Office created; duties. hundred dollars; boss grader, one thousand dollars; municipal architect, whose duty it shall be to prepare and supervise the plans for, and superintend the construction of all municipal buildings, and the repair and improvement of all buildings belonging to the District of Columbia under the direction of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, three thousand six hundred dollars; andLaws repealed. all laws or parts of laws placing such duties upon the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia are hereby repealed; in all, two hundred thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars.
Special Assessment Office: For special assessment clerk, twoSpecial assessment office. thousand dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Street-Sweeping Office: For superintendent, two thousand fiveStreet-sweeping office. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; ten inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three assistant inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; foreman of public dumps, nine hundred dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; stable foreman, one thousand dollars; foreman of repairs, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; stenographer and clerk, nine hundred dollars; blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; mechanic, seven hundred and eighty dollars; mechanic’s helper, six hundred dollars; 693 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. Automobile Board: For secretary or acting secretary of the automobileAutomobile board. board, three hundred dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter there*Proviso.*Tax on motor vehicles. shall be assessed and collected an annual wheel tax on all automobiles or other motor vehicles owned and operated in the District of Columbia having seats for only two persons the sum of three, dollars, and on all such vehicles having seats for more than two persons an additional tax of two dollars for each additional seat.
Department of Insurance: For superintendent of insurance,Insurance department. three thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; temporary clerk hire, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand four hundred and twenty 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; three assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; computer, one thousand two hundred dollars; record clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; inspector, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; draftsman, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; clerk, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; assistant computer, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; two rodmen, at eight hundred and twenty- five dollars each; three chainmen, at seven hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and seventy-five dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additionalTemporary sendees. field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, purchase and maintenance of a motor vehicle, six thousand dollars; all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and may include the purchase of a motor vehicle at a cost not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, said vehicle to be driven by a member of the field party using the same.
In all for surveyor’s oilice, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars. Free Public Library: For librarian, three thousand five hundredFree public library. 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, one thousand dollars; four assistants, at seven hundred ami 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; six 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 694 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-nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For the employment of substitutes and other special and temporarySubstitutes, etc. service, at the discretion of the librarian, one thousand 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, including lunch-room equipment, purchase and maintenance of motor cycles, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand dollars; In all, nineteen thousand dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent expenses of the government of the District ofContingent expenses. Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses: 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 oflice of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; 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 eight hundred dollars, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinkingfund 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-six thousand dollars; and the commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall*Proviso*Restriction on use of horses. etc. 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. tor 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 bo paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used forFire insurance pro hibited. the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department,Stables. including forage, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase 695 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, eight thousand dollars.Postage.Collecting personal taxes. For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, four thousand dollars. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, theJudicial expenses. printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District cases before the supreme court of said District, 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, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, ami photographing unidentified bodies, three thousand dollars. 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 nine, 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 propertv 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,Removing dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, ami 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, MarchVol. 84, pp. 489, 1126.*Ante*, p. 281. second, nineteen hundred and seven, and May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, respectively, are continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.
For the office of the register of wills: For furnishing to the office ofRegister of wills.Copies to assessor. 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 or leather identification numberMotor vehicle tags. tags for motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For extra services necessary to classify, arrange, and rebind the oldClassifying, etc., old records. records of the District of Columbia, including the corporations of Washington, Georgetown, and the levy court, with authority to employ clerks of the auditor’s and other offices after office hours, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For repair of buildings owned and used by the District of ColumbiaRepairs of fire injuries. when injured by fire, ten thousand dollars. For tne installation of permanent electric wiring and gas systemsWestern market.Light and power for. for lighting and power in the Western District of Columbia Market, eight hundred dollars. 696 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, andVol. 31, p. 767.Vol. 32, p. 913.
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 and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia*Provisos.*Flagstaffs for plaza. are hereby authorized to use such portion of the unexpended balances of the appropriations for elimination of grade crossings, District of Columbia, improvement of plaza, as may be necessary for the construction of the three flagstaffs shown upon the approved plans for “Plaza Improvement, Union Station,” on file in the office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia: *And provided further*, That the Washington Terminal Company shall first convey toLand to to conveyed to United States. the United States all that portion of the terminal area, as described in the Act of February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, Eroviding for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, ring north of the north line of Massachusetts avenue and south of the line of balustrades of islands “C,” “D,” “E,” and “F,” and of the north line of lamp-posts of the central island, as shown on the plans referred to above.
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 streetsand avenues. named in Appendix T, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and ten, seventy-one thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Georgetown Schedule: Two thousand dollars.Schedules. Northwest Section Schedule: Including V street, from Tenth to Twelfth streets, fourteen thousand dollars. Southwest Section Schedule: Twenty thousand dollars. Southeast Section Schedule : Ten thousand dollars. Northeast Section Schedule: Including Eighth street from Maryland avenue to H street, and Fifth street from H street to I street, twenty-five thousand 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 697 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*Proviso.*Increase allowed. prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.
For replacing granite block pavement with asphalt on the followingAsphalt to replace granite blocks. streets: First street, between B and C streets northwest, five thousandStreets affected. eight hundred dollars. Second street, between B and C streets northwest, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Seventh street northwest, from Q to R streets, seven thousand dollars. 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 countyCounty roads.Construction. roads and suburban streets, as follows: Northwest: Massachusetts avenue, grade and improve, ten thousand dollars; And the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars for the condemnationExtension of Massachusetts avenue continued.Vol. 84, p. 492. of land necessary for extending Massachusetts avenue from Wisconsin avenue to Nebraska avenue and toward grading and improving said part of Massachusetts avenue, contained in the Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby made available for grading and improving Massachusetts avenue between the limits named during the nscal year nineteen hundred and ten;
Northeast: Lincoln road, from Truxtun circle to R street, pave thirty-five feet wide, five thousand six hundred dollars; Northwest: Sixteenth street, extended,grade, and improve,twenty thousand dollars; Northwest: U street, from North Capitol street to Flagler place, pave at present width, eight thousand eight hundred dollars; Northeast: Mills avenue, between Twenty-fourth street and Rhode Island avenue, grade and improve, four thousand four hundred dollars; Northwest: Harvard street, from Eleventh to Thirteenth street, pave thirty feet wide, six thousand six hundred dollars;
Northwest: School street, from Irving to Lamont street, grade and improve, two thousand dollars; Northwest: Todd place, between First and Second streets, pave thirty feet wide, four thousand four hundred dollars; Northwest: Warder street, from Manor street to Newton place and from Luray place to Kenyon street, and Park place from Lamont street to Manor street, grade and improve, four thousand seven hundred dollars; Northeast: Lawrence street, between Seventh and Eighth streets, grade and improve, one thousand eight hundred dollars: 698 Northeast:
Evarts street, between Twenty-second and TwentyfourthCounty roads—Continued streets, grade and improve, two thousand seven hundred dollars; Northwest: Garfield street, Connecticut avenue to Twenty-seventh street, pave thirty feet wide, four thousand four hundred dollars; Northwest: Eleventh street, Monroe to Otis street, grade and improve, two thousand six hundred dollars; Northwest: Newton street, Fourteenth street to Holmead place, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred dollars;
Northwest: Seaton place, from First to Second street, pave thirty feet wide, four thousand nine hundred dollars; Northwest: Meridian street, Center street to Holmead place, grade and improve, eight thousand dollars; Nortnwest: Fourth street, Elm to W street, pave thirty-five feet wide, four thousand nine hundred dollars; Southeast: Prout street, Twenty-second street to Pennsylvania avenue, grade and improve, three thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest; Third street, T to Elm street, pave forty feet wide, three thousand eight hundred dollars;
Northeast: Jackson street, Eighteenth to Twentieth street, grade and improve, two thousand five hundred dollars; Northeast: Todd place, North Capitol street to Lincoln road, pave twenty-four feet wide, two thousand dollars; Northwest: Upton street, east of Pierce Mill road, grade, fourteen thousand dollars; Northwest: Monroe street, Eighteenth to Nineteenth street, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred dollars; Nortneast: Kearney street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, grade and improve, one thousand six hundred dollars;
Northwest: Oak street, Fourteenth street to Holmead place, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred dollars; Nortnwest: Streets in Walbridge subdivision of Ingleside, grade and improve, four thousand dollars; Northwest: Otis street, Tenth to Thirteenth street, and Tenth street, Monroe to Otis street, grade and improve, five thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest: Ninth street, Ingraham to Kennedy street, grade and improve, two thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest: Thirteenth street, Euclid street to Park road, grade and improve, forty feet wide, seventeen thousand dollars;
Northeast: T street, Lincoln road to Second street, grade and improve, six thousand five hundred dollars; Southeast: Pennsylvania avenue, grade and improve, five thousand dollars; Southeast: Twenty-third street, Naylor road to Minnesota avenue, and from Q street, Twenty-third to Twenty-fifth street, grade and gravel, four thousand nine hundred dollars; Northwest: Rittenhouse street, from Georgia avenue to Blair road, grade and improve, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest:
To widen Thirteenth street extended ten feet on the easterly side between Park road and Monroe street, and grade and improve the same, two thousand five hundred dollars, and theWork to commence immediately. Commissioners of the District are hereby required to commence immediately the work herein provided for; Northeast: M street, Bladensburg road to Twenty-fourth street, grade, two thousand two hundred dollars; For paving with asphalt, Connecticut avenue extended from Macomb street to Newark street, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; 699 In all, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
Repairs Streets, Avenues, and Alleys: For current work ofRepairs, streets, etc. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferioi material, of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available, three hundred thousand dollars; 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 providingVol. 20, p. 105. a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the*Proviso.*Use of heater method.
District of Columbia are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to expend not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars of the sum hereby appropriated in repairing such streets, avenues, and alleys, as they may deem advisable, by what is known as the heater method of repairs; and to enter into a supplemental contract for such repairContracts authorizcd. with the present contractor with the District of Columbia for work of resurfacing and repairing asphalt and coal tar pavements, if a price satisfactory to said commissioners can be agreed upon between said contractor and said commissioners, and in the event that such a satisfactory price can not be agreed upon, the said commissioners are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to enter into a new contract for such work of repairs by the heater method, after competition, in an amount not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around publicSidewalks and curbs. reservations and municipal buildings, seven thousand dollars. Repairs County Roads: For current work of repairs of countyCounty roads. roads and suburban streets, one hundred thousand dollars, of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be immediately available. Forpurchase and maintenance of one motor vehicle for the use of theMotor vehicles. superintendent of county roads, and of one motor truck for the use of field party engaged in survey work pertaining to the construction and repair of county roads, or so much thereof as may be necessary, three thousand dollars.
Bridges: For construction and repairs of bridges, fifteen 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 bridge. miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to the operation and maintenance of the bridge, five thousand six hundred dollars. For removal of the superstructure and substructure of the oldRemoving old bridge.*Proviso.*Completing bridge, etc. Anacostia Bridge, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the construction of the new Anacostia River Bridge and its approaches shall continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten for all necessary expenses to complete said bridge and its approaches.
Sixteenth Street Bridge across Piney Branch: For widening bridgePiney Branch bridge.WideningSixteenth street. across Piney Branch on the line of Sixteenth street, said bridge to be widened to a width over all of sixty-five feet, eighty-five thousand dollars. 700 Anacostia Flats : For employment of special counsel to investigateAnacostia flats.Investigating titles, etc. and determine the ownership of the land and riparian rights along the Anacostia River, for the purpose of improvement of the Anacostia flats, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, sixty-three thousandCleaning. five hundred dollars. 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 sewers and receiving basins, fifty thousandMain and pipe. dollars. For suburban sewers, seventy-five thousand dollars.Suburban.Rights of way.
For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, 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 completing construction of Fourth street southeast relief sewerFourth street relief. from Pennsylvania avenue and Fourth street to Virginia avenue and Second street southeast, sixteen thousand eight hundred and seventy- five dollars.
For Piney Branch valley trunk sewer: For beginning the constructionPiney Branch valley trunk. of the Piney Branch valley trunk sewer between Sixteenth street and Georgia avenue (estimated cost three hundred thousand dollars), thirty 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, allowance to inspectors for maintenance of horses and vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed thirty dollars per month for each inspector, and necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work: done under the immediate direction of the commissioners without contract: *Provided*, That whenever it shall appear to*Proviso.*Contracts. 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 streets, sidewalks, cross walks, andRemoval of snow and ice. gutters, in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purchase of necessary implements, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available and until expended. Disposal of City Refuse: For the collection and disposal ofDisposal of city refuse. garbage and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely 701 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, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, and teamsters, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, and miscellaneous items, forty thousand dollars. Bathing Beach: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman,Bathing beach. four hundred and fifty dollars; for temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, one thousand five hundred dollars; for repair of houses, bathing pools, and grounds, five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand and fifty dollars.
For Public Scales: For purchase, repair, and replacement ofPublic scales. public scales, two hundred dollars. Deep Wells: For drilling deep wells and maintenance of same,Deep wells. five thousand dollars. Playgrounds: For maintenance and renewal of equipment andPlaygrounds. planting trees for outdoor playgrounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the improvement and equipment of the Georgetown site, fiveGeorgetown site. thousand dollars. Public-Convenience Stations: For maintenance of public-conveniencePublic-convenience stations. stations, including compensation of necessary employees, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For one new public-convenience station under the sidewalk on theNew stations.Ninth street NW. east side of Ninth street northwest, between F and G streets, twenty- two thousand five hundred dollars. For one public-convenience station on the triangle west ofDupont Circle. Dupont Circle, between Twentieth and P streets and Massachusetts avenue, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the above publicconvenience*Proviso.*Transfer of jurisdiction, etc. stations be located on public space to be selected by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the jurisdiction and control of such portion of any public reservation so selected as shall be required for the location of such stations and their approaches is hereby transferred from the United States official having charge of said reservation to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, such transfer to take effect on the date of notice by the said commissioners to the said United States official of the location of the sites for said stations.
Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings: For all expensesInsanitary buildings. 34, p. 157. necessary and incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including Êersonal services, when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars, three thousand dollars.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department. For electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistantSalaries. electrical engineer who shall perform the duties of the electrical engineer in the absence or disability of the latter and shall have the same qualifications as to ability and technical knowledge as is required by law of the head of the department, one thousand eight 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 702 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 seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; electrical inspector, two thousand dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand eignt 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-five dollars each; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant cable splicer, six hundred and twenty dollars; assistant repair man, six hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant repair men, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; laborer, four hundred and sixty dollars; four telephone operators, at five hundred and forty dollars each; telephone operator, four hundred and fifty dollars; storekeeper, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; and one laborer, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, forty-five thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies,Supplies. telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, and other necessary items, thirteen thousand dollars. For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, andPlacing wires under ground. telephone service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, eleven 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 five hundred dollars. Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing,Lighting. repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unfit for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more*Provisos.*Maxim u m perlamp. than eighteen dollars per annum shall be paid for each gas lamp equipped with a self-regulating flat-flame burner so adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour, nor more than twenty dollars and eighty-five cents per annum for each gas and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents per annum for each oil lamp equipped with an incandescent mantle burner of not less than sixty candlepower.
And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten the priceAll expenses included. rescribed by Congress for lighting each street lamp in the District of oluinbia with gas or oil shall be construed to include the cost of the illuminating material used, lighting and extinguishing lamps, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expense of erecting and maintaining lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures: *Provided*, That all of said lamps shall burn every night, on the average,All-night service. from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: 703 *And provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District ofStreet designation fixtures.
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 to be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph except as to the time of burning: *And providedfurther*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are herebyConduit road. authorized, 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 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 be entered into for lighting avenues,Three-year contracts. streets, roads, and alleys in the District of Columbia by gas or electricity for a period of not exceeding three years: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*Gas companies.Provision for increasing capital stock repealed.Vol. 29, p. 252. section five of an Act entitled “An Act relating to the sale of gas in the District of Columbia,” approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and all remedies therein provided, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and all pending proceedings thereunder shall be vacated, and no judgment, decree, finding, permit, or valuation of any kind mentioned or intended to be mentioned in said section shall be made or ascertained.
On and after the passage of this Act every corporation engagedForm of books to be kept. in the manufacture and sale of gas or electricity in the District of Columbia shall open and keep a set of books in manner and form prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The charter of the Washington Gaslight Company is hereby amendedWashington Gaslight CompanyDirectors increased.Vol. 9, p. 722, amended.Electric arc lights. so as to increase the membership of its board of directors to seven.
For electric arc lighting, and for extensions of such service, not*Proviso.*Maximum per lamp. exceeding one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*,Additional firealarm boxes. That not more than eighty-five dollars per annum shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wire: and each arc fight 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 fifteen additional fire-alarm boxes, and forWashington Aqueduct.Maintenance. the purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross-arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand dollars. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.Filtration plant. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of the Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the McMillan Park 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 care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,Emergency fund. and operation of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, eighty-two thousand dollars. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious breakRock Creek Park. 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 704 appropriation to bo reported be detail to Congress, live, thousand dollars.
ROCK CREEK PARK.Care, etc. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, and of the PineyAdditional ground. Branch parkway entrance to said park from Sixteenth street extended, exclusive of building for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park, fifteen thousand dollars; and the said board of control is hereby authorized toPublic schools. purchase eight hundred and sixty-seven one-thousandths acre, more or less, of land adjoining the northern boundary of Rock Creek Park, assessed as parcel sixty-four-three, for a sum not to exceed four hundred dollars, chargeable to said appropriation.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Salaries.Officers. For Officers: For superintendent of public schools, five thousandAttendance officers.Vol. 34, p. 220. 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; clerk to carry out the provisions of the childlabor law, nine hundred dollars; two stenographers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand seven hundred dollars.
Attendance Officers: For two attendance officers, authorized byTeachers. the Aet 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 seven hundred and ten teachers,*Proviso.*Promotions to Group B. 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, at a 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 promoted for superior work, Group B of class six, seven in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars each: *Provided*,Restriction.Vol. 34. p. 318. That hereafter no teacher shall be eligible to Group B, class six, who has not attained the maximum of Group A;
For teachers in Group A of class six, two hundred and three in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand dollars each; For teachers in class five, one hundred and fifty-four in all, at a minimum salary of nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For teachers in class four, four hundred and twenty-five in all, at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars each; 705 For teachers in class three, four hundred and seventy-seven in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each;
For teachers in class two, three hundred and forty-eight in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each; For teachers in class one, sixty in all, at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each; For teachers in the normal, high, and manual training schools notLibrarians and clerks. 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 of 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 eight hundred dollars: In all for teachers, one million three hundred and thirteen thousand and fifty dollars. Librarians and Clerks: For twenty-two librarians and clerks, toLongevity pay. be assigned as follows: For librarian in class four, one at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars; For librarians and clerks in class three, twelve in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each; For librarians and clerks in class two, five in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each;
For librarians and clerks in class one, four in all, at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each; In all for librarians and clerks, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. For Longevity Pay: Longevity pay for director of intermediateVol. 34, p. 316. 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 andPrincipals.Additional pay. regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For Allowance to Principals: For allowance to principals ofVol. 34, p. 320. grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid hi strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries*Provisos.*No sex discrimination, etc. of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, thirty-five thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers no discriminationRestriction on employment. shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade and performing a like class of duties; and it shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of, the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage’ thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades. *Provided further*, That no teacher, of the whole number appropriatedNight schools. for herein, shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of, a clerk or librarian.
Night Schools: For salaries of teachers and janitors of nightIndustrial, etc., in struction. 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, seventeen thousand dollars. 706 For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools,Kindergarten supplies. including equipment and the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Kindergarten Supplies: For kindergarten supplies, two thousandJanitors, etc. five hundred dollars. For Janitors and Care of Buildings and Grounds: For superintendentEngineers. 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 hundred dollars; For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinleyMedical inspectors. Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one assistant engineer at the McKinley Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; Of the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars;
For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand dollars; For one assistant engineer at the Armstrong Manual Traming School, six hundred dollars; Of the Stevens School, one thousand two hundred dollars; Of the Emery school building, one sixteen-room building to take the place of the Mott, and the Henry D. Cooke building, three in all, at one thousand dollars each; Of the Van Buren School and annex, and the Wallach School, at one thousand dollars each;
Of the Birney and annex, Brookland, Bryan, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gage, Gales, Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Johnson and annex, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, and Webster school buildings, and one new building to relieve the Franklin and Thompson schools, twenty-one in all, at nine hundred dollars each; Of the Mott, New Langdon, and Miner buildings, three in all, at eight hundred dollars each; Of the Abbott, Berrett, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F.
Cook, Cranch, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley buildings, nine in all, at seven hundred dollars each; Of the Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Bennings (white), Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Cardozo, Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Dent, Douglass, Edmunds, Eckington, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Logan.
Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Mont- gomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Petworth. Phelps, Phillips, ’ierce, Polk, Potomac, Ross, Abby S. Simmons, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatley, Wilson, and Wormley buildings, and one eight-room building adjacent to Johnson school, seventy-four in all, at six hundred dollars each; Of the B. B. French, Thomson, and Woodburn buildings, three, in all. at four hundred and twenty dollars each; 707 Of the Benning (colored), Brightwood Park, Brookland (colored), Deanwood, Hamilton, Kenilworth, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Stanton, and Threlkeld buildings, twelve in all, at three hundred dollars each;
Of the Bunker Hill, Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Ford Road, Fort Slocum, Military Road, Ivy City, and Burrville buildings, eight in all, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual training schools wherever located, at a rate not to exceed seventy-two dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, nine thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and ten thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For Medical Inspectors:
For twelve medical inspectors of public*Proviso.*Competitive examination. schools, four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said inspectorsRent. shall be appointed by the commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him, which shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the commissioners.
Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, repair shop, storageTemporary rooms, etc. and stock rooms, twenty thousand dollars. For amount required to rent, equip, and care for temporary roomsRepairs. 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 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, fifteen thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds andPlumbing repairs for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, seventy-five thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existingManual training expenses. school buildings, fifty thousand dollars. A detailed statement shall be submitted to Congress of the expenditure of the foregoing sum, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten 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, andFuel, etc. books, 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-two thousandFurniture. five hundred dollars. For furniture including also clocks, pianos, and window shades forContingent expenses. new school buildings, additions to buildings, kindergartens, manual training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows:
One four-room addition to Monroe School building, nine hundred dollars; one twelve-room building to take place of the Garfield School building, three thousand dollars; one eight-room building, Johnson Annex, two thousand dollars; one twelve-room building to relieve Franklin and Thomson schools, three thousand dollars; six kindergartens, one thousand five hundred dollars; two manual training shops, five hundred dollars; one cooking school, three hundred dollars; one sewing school, one hundred and fiftv dollars; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available. 708 For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Pianos. stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for highschool cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of three hundred dollars each for livery of horse or garage of an automobile for the superintendent of schools and for the superintendent of janitors, and including not exceeding one thousand dollars for books, books of reference, and periodicals, fortyseven thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergartenSupplies for pupils. schools, at an average cost not to exceed three hundred dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight*Proviso.*Exchanges. 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, isFlags.Playgrounds. 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.School gardens. For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds, seven hundred and fifty dollars; For maintenance and repairing eighteen playgrounds now established, nine hundred dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenanceTelephones to new schools. of school gardens, one thousand two hundred dollars. For extending the telephone system to one twelve-room buildingApparatus for physics department, etc. in the “fourth division.” one eight-room building in the “third division,” the Bunker Hill School, 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, four hundred dollars.
For purchase of apparatus and for extending the equipment ofPortable school houses.Unexpended balances for.Vol. 34, pp. 501, 1140. the physics department in the Central, Eastern, and Western High schools, including the purchase of pipes and fittings and extra labor, four thousand dollars. Any unexpended balances in the “Act making appropriations toBuildings and grounds. 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 schoolhouses for temporary use.
Buildings and Grounds: For the completion of the twelve-roomMcKinley Manual Training School.Additions. building in the fourth division to relieve the Franklin and Thomson schools, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For the completion of extension of the Business High School building, thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For completion of eight-room annex to the Johnson School building, fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
For the completion of four-room addition to the Monroe School building, twenty-four thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For erection of eight-room school building to take the place of Potomac School, sixty-four thousand dollars. 709 For one eight-room building and site in or near Cleveland Park, eighty thousand dollars. For the erection of a four-room addition to the Benning School building, thirty-two thousand dollars. For purchase of ground, approximately, thirty-five thousand square feet, adjacent to Chevy Chase School, and the erection thereon of a four-room addition thereto, forty-five thousand dollars.
For purchase of lots adjacent to Phelps School, twelve thousand dollars. For erection of a four-room addition to Lovejoy School building, thirty-two thousand dollars. For addition to Western High School building, nine class rooms, seventy-two thousand dollars. For purchase of ground, approximately forty-five thousand square feet, for the erection of an eight-room building between Thirteenth and Sixteenth streets and north of Spring road northwest, fifteen thousand dollars. For purchase of ground adjacent to the Seaton School, six thousand dollars.
For purchase of ground for school in ninth division, approximately thirty thousand square feet, eighteen thousand dollars. For purchase of site for building north of Q street and west of Seventh street northwest, fifty thousand dollars. For purchase of additional ground adjacent to the Garfield School, approximately eighty-five thousand square feet, three thousand dollars. That the appropriation of twenty-six thousand dollars made in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, for one four-room building and site, Brookland (colored), seventh division, is hereby made available for the purchase of site and construction of a two-room school building at such point in or near Brookland as may be selected by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
For the purchase of additional ground for further extension ofFireproof stairways, etc. McKinley Manual Training School, one hundred thousand dollars. For construction of a further extension of McKinley Manual Training School, ninety-five thousand dollars. For purchase of lots adjacent to Petworth School, approximately eight thousand seven hundred and fifteen square feet, four thousand dollars. For additional amount for “Repairs and improvements to schoolCost of sites, etc. buildings and grounds” for the purpose of replacing wooden stairways in brick buildings with those of fireproof construction, removal of old and unsuitable fire ladders and fire escapes, improving exits, and for such miscellaneous alterations and repair work as may be necessary to secure protection against fire in existing school buildings owned by the District of Columbia, sixty 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 respectivePlans.Preparation and approval. 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 all buildings provided forDoors to open outward. in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect of the District of Columbia and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and shall he constructed in conformity thereto.
School buddings authorized and appropriated for herein shall beDeaf and dumb pupils. constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward and each of said buildings having in excess of 710 eight rooms shall have at least four exits. No part of any appropriation carried in this Act shall he used for tne maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For expensesR.S., see, 4864, p.942.Vol. 31, p. 844. 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 theColored children. Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution bv 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 teachableVol. 33, p. 901. age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized in an Act of Congress approvedIndigent blind children. March third, nineteen hundred and five, and 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. For the instruction of indigent blind children of the District of Columbia,Police. 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.
FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE.Salaries. For major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; assistant*Proviso.*Promotion to class three. superintendent, with rank of inspector, two thousand five hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; eleven captains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk and stenographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, who shall be assistant property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at six hundred dollars each; additional compensation for twenty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, four thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; twelve lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; forty-five sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; four hundred and eighty-two privates of class three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eighty-nine privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; eighty-eight 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 ten, seven thousand and forty-three dollars and fifty-two cents; six telephone operators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; 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 three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all. nine hundred and twenty-seven 711 thousand four hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-two cents:Vagrants described. *Provided*, That any private of the Metropolitan police force who served for a period of five years prior to the Act of June eight h, nineteen hundred and six, shall be included in class three.
That the following-described persons in the District of ColumbiaIdle persons without means. are hereby declared to be vagrants: Idle persons who, not having visible means of support, live withoutLeading immoral, etc., lives. lawful employment; persons wandering abroad and visiting tippling shops or houses of ill fame, or lodging in groceries, outhouses, market places, sheds, barns, or in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves; persons wandering abroad and begging, or who go about from door to door or place themselves in the streets, highways, passages, or other public places to beg or receive alms.
All persons leadmg an idle, immoral, or profligate life who have noKnown thieves, etc. property to support them and who are able of body to work and do not work, including all able-bodied persons without other visible means of support who shall live in idleness upon the wages or earnings of their mother, wife, or minor child or children. Every person known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar, or confidencePersons having burglars’ tools, etc. operator, either by his own confession or by his having been convicted in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of either of such offenses, and having no visible or lawful means of support, when found loitering around in any building, park, highway, street, avenue, alley, or reservation, steamboat landing, railroad depot, station, banking institution, broker’s office, place of amusement, room, store, shop, public place, or car or omnibus or other vehicle, or at any public gathering or assembly.
Persons upon whom shall be found any instrument, tool, or otherBond required of convicted vagrants. implement used for the commission of burglary or the commission of any other crime against property, or for picking locks or pockets who shall fail to give a good account of the possession of the same, and all persons who by the common law are vagrants whether embraced in any of the foregoing classifications or not. That every person in the District of Columbia who shall be convictedCommitment on failure to furnish. of vagrancy under the provisions of this Act shall be required to enter into security in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, conditioned upon his good behavior and industry for the period of one year, and if he shall fail to give such security he shall be committed toApproval of security. the workhouse in the said District for a term not to exceed one year.
The security herein mentioned shall be in the nature of a recognizanceJury trials.Vol. 81, p. 1196. to the District of Columbia with a surety or sureties to be approved by the police court of the said District, in which court all prosecutions under this Act shall be conducted in the manner now provided by law for the prosecution of offenses against the laws and ordinances of the said District, but nothing contained in section forty-four of theRent of substation, etc., Anacostia.
Code of Law for the District of Columbia shall be so construed as to create or give to the accused, in prosecutions under this Act, any right to trial by jury not existing by force of the Constitution of the United States. Miscellaneous: For rent of substation and stable at Anacostia,Fuel.Repairs.Miscellaneous expenses. four hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; For fuel, four thousand dollars;Detection of crime. For repairs to stations, five thousand five hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchase of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase of horses, horse and 712 vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, police equipments and repairs to the same, narness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, and patrol wagons and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, repairs to rented buildings, and other necessary expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars; of which*Proviso.*Mounted equipment. 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 certificate, 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, inFlags.Motor patrol wagon. its discretion, furnish the District Commissioners for the use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required;
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred dollars;House of detention. For one motor patrol wagon, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; In all, forty-eight thousand and eighty dollars. House of Detention: To enable the Commissioners of the DistrictHarbor patrol. of Columbia to provide transportation, including the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age and, in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including salaries of two clerks at nine hundred dollars each; four drivers, at six hundred dollars each; one hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; six Suards, at six hundred dollars each: and three matrons, at six hun- red dollars each, thirteen thousand five hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For Harbor Patrol: For one engineer, one thousand dollars;Fuel, etc. two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; one watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; one deck hand, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, twoFire department. thousand dollars; In all, five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.Salaries. For chief engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars; deputyMiscellaneous. chief engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at two thousand dollars each; fire marshal, two thousand dollars; deputy fire marshal, one thousand four hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; chief clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; thirty-five captains, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; thirty-six lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of machinery, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of machinery, one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-two engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty-two assistant engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two pilots, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two marine firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-six drivers, 713 at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; thirty-six assistant drivers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two hundred and two privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; thirty-seven privates of class one. at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine housesContingent expenses. and grounds, ten 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, fifteen thousand dollars; For forage, twenty-seven thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements of the fire boat, one thousand dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil,New house for No. 2 company. medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, twenty-four thousand dollars;
In all, one hundred and nineteen thousand dollars. Increase Fire Department: For house, site, and furniture forHouse. Twining City. engine company numbered two of the fire department of the District of Columbia, including cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, eighty- five thousand dollars; For house and furniture for a chemical engine company to be located*Proviso*,Dedication of site. at a point in the neighborhood of Minnesota avenue and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, including the cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, twenty-six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That a site of not lessNew apparatus. than seven thousand two hundred square feet at a point satisfactory to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be first dedicated to the District of Columbia without cost;
For one second-size steam fire engine, five thousand five hundredHealth department. dollars; For one combination chemical engine and hose wagon, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; In all, one hundred. and eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Salaries. For health officer, four thousand dollars; assistant health officer,Stable rent. who shall be a physician, and during the absence or disability of the health officer shall act as health officer and discharge the duties incident to that position, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and deputy health officer, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; five clerks, two of whom may act as sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; chief inspector and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant chief inspector, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourteen sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two inspectors, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; 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 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 714 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; pound master, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for laborers, at not exceeding fifty dollars per month, three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, sixty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
Miscellaneous: Fox- rent of stable, one hundred and twentyPrevention of contagious diseases.Vol. 29, p. 635. dollars. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent theVol. 34, p. 889. spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for theTuberculosis registration.*Ante*, p. 126. 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 hundred and seven, and an Act to provide forHorses, wagons, etc. registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuber culosis in said District, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, under the direction of the health officer of said District, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners anti necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts purchase anti maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, rent of stables, purchase of referenceDisinfecting service. books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For maintenance of the disinfecting service, including salaries orDrainage.Vol. 29, p. 125. compensation for personal services wnen 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 theAbatement 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 abatementFood adulterations. of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, three thousand dollars.
For special services in connection with the detection of the adulterationExpenses.Sale of milk. etc.Vol. 28, p. 709. of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act toPure-food law.Vol. 34, p. 768. 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 transportationInspecting dairy farms. of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, anti liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, one thousand dollars.
For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, includingAdditional pound wagon. amounts that may be allowed to the health officer, and assistant health officer, medical inspector in charge of contagious disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for the maintenance of horse and vehicle, or motor vehicle, for use in the discharge of their official duties,not to exceed three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum each, and other necessary traveling expenses, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the maintenance of an additional pound wagon, including compensationIsolating wards in hospitals. for personal services when ordered in writing by the com- missioneis and necessary for the maintenance of said wagon, and all 715 other extra expenses whatsoever connected therewith, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Garfield and Providence hospitals: For isolating wards for minorPublic crematory. contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence hospitals, maintenance, six thousand dollars, and four thousand dollars, respectively, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, ten thousand dollars.
For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory,Courts. three thousand dollars. COURTS.Court of appeals report For amount required to pay the reporter of the court of appeals ofVol. 82, p. 609. the District of Columbia for volumes of the reports of the opinions of said court, authorized to be furnished by him under section two hundredJuvenile court.Salaries. 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-two and thirty-three, one hundred and ten dollars.
Juvenile Court: For judge, three thousand dollars; clerk, twoMiscellaneous. thousand dollars; deputy clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars, who is hereby authorized to act as clerk in the absence of that officer; 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, ten thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, one thousand sevenPolice court.Salaries 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 hundred dollarsMiscellaneous. each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; deputy clerk, to be known as financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; deputy marshal, one thousand dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fireman, four hundred and eighty 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-eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For fuel, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing,Lunacy writs. preservation of records, mops, brooms, buckets, city directory, removal of ashes and other refuse, telephone service, electric current, and all other necessary and 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 repairing 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; 716 For compensation of jurors, ten thousand dollars;
For repairs to the police-court building, four hundred dollars; In all, sixteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Writs of Lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionVol. 33, p. 740. of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to beMunicipal court.Salaries.*Ante*, p. 623. committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Municipal Court: For five judges, at two thousand five hundredRent.Contingent expenses. dollars each; one judge, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum for six months; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars; For rent of building, one thousand five hundred dollars;Expenses to June 30, 1909. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone rental, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all for the municipal court, eighteen thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
For the following from March first to the end of the fiscal year,Justices of the peace.Appropriations continued for municipal court judges.*Ante*, p. 301. nineteen hundred and nine: One clerk, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, five hundred dollars; one assistant clerk, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; one janitor, at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, one hundred and sixty dollars; for rent of building, five hundred dollars; for furniture and equipment of rented building, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation provided for the compensationMiscellaneous expense.Reappropriated for municipal court. of the six justices of the peace by the District of Columbia appropriation- Act, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the compensation of the judges of the municipal court from March first to the end of the fiscal year, nineteen hundred and nine. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of four hundred dollarsInterest and sinking fund. each for justices of the peace, for rent, clerical services, stationery, and other expenses, provided by the District of Columbia appropriation Act, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available from March first to the end of the fiscal year, nineteen hundred and nine, for contingent expenses of the municipal court, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone rental, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies.
INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.Emergency fund. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars. EMERGENCY FUND.*Proviso.*Purchases. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of allCourts and prisons. 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. 717 FOR COURTS AND PRISONS.Support of convicts out of District.
Support of Convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationCourt-house. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-eight thousand dollars. Court-House, District of Columbia: For the following forceJail.Warden. 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 ofMaintenance. Columbia, two thousand dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General. Support of Prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail ofSupreme court.Witness fees. 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 theR. S., sec. 850. p. 160. supreme court of the District of Columbia, and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, fifteenJurors’ fees. thousand dollars. Fees of Jurors, Supreme Court: For fees of jurors in the supremePay of bailiffs, etc. court of the District of Columbia, fifty-five thousand dollars. Pay of Bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding one crier in eachMiscellaneous. 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 miscellaneousReformatory and work house.Sites to be selected. expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the supreme court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the court or appeals, District of Columbia, twenty-three thousand dollars.
Sites for Reformatory and Workhouse: The Commissioners ofCommission to prepare plans, etc. the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to purchase two tracts of land, widely separated, of not less than one thousand acres each, either or both of which to be situated in the State of Maryland, or in the State of Virginia; one of said tracts shall be used as a site for the construction and erection of a reformatory of sufficient capacity to accommodate at least one thousand inmates, and the other for the construction and erection of a workhouse of sufficient capacity to accommodate at least five hundred prisoners, and to build necessary temporary structures on each tract; the said commissionersConstruction. are hereby authorized and directed to appoint a commission to consist of three persons, one of said commissioners shall be chairman, which commission shall employ an architect skilled in the construction of such buildings to prepare all plans, specifications, and estimates deemed necessary or required by said commission, and which shall first be approved before acceptance by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who are hereby required to construct saidLabor of work house prisoners. reformatory and workhouse; and on their direction the prisoners atAmount for sites, etc. the time confined in any existing workhouse of said District shall 718 clear and prepare any or all such tracts of land for building, and assist in the construction of any or all of said buildings; and the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and the Attorney-General, and the warden of the jail of said District are hereby authorized and directed, on the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to require male prisoners at the time serving sentence in said jail to do the said work.
For the purchase or condemnation of said sites, workUnexpended balance available.Vol. 34, p. 1149. of preparing same for buddings, and erection of said temporary structures and the means necessary thereto, the sum of sixteen thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-four cents is hereby appropriated, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance amounting*Proviso.*No expense for permanent buildings until authorized. to eighty-three thousand three hundred and three dollars and thirty-six cents of the appropriation of eighty-live thousand dollars for the erection of an administrative building for the workhouse for males in the District of Columbia appropriat ion Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby reappropriated and made available for these purposes: *Provided*, That no expense for theExpenses of commission. actual erection of permanent buildings shall be incurred until an appropriation shall be made for such purpose.
For architects’ services and necessary expenses of said commission,*Proviso.*Immediately available. to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That all appropriations herein made for said reformatory and workhouse are hereby made immediately available. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections. Board of Charities: For secretary, three thousand dollars;Board of Charities.Salaries. clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, one thousand dollars; six inspector’s, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one driver, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three drivers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. reformatories and correctional institutions.Reformatories.
For Washington Asylum: For superintendent, one thousandWashington Asylum. Salaries. eight hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollar’s; 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; sixteen overseers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twentv 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 719 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 tweuty-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- nine thousand three hundred and thirty-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, sixty thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars. For payment to the beneficiaries named in section three of “An ActPayments to families.Vol. 34, p. 87. making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District.
Home for the Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, one 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, seven hundred and twenty dollars; second assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; three 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; three 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; three servants, at one hundred and forty- four dollars each; temporary labor, six hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-two 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-two thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; For installing a dairy, including the erection of buildings, purchase of cattle, and the necessary fixtures for the same, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For purchase and laving of farm land drain tile, five hundred dollars: In all, for Home for Aged and Infirm, forty thousand nine hundred and ninety-two dollars. 720 For National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenanceNational TrainingSchool for Boys.Maintenance of inmates. of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, twenty-two thousand dollars, 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,Contingent expenses. clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars; For completing dormitory for male employees in accordance with original plan, six hundred and seventy-five dollars; For painting and repairing preparatory building, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
In all, for Reform School for Girls, twenty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-five 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 contractFreedmens Hospital. to 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 contractColumbia Hospital for Women. to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. For repairs to Columbia Hospital, two thousand dollars.Children’s Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contractHomeopathic Hospital. to be made with the Children’s Hospital by t he Board of Charities, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars.
For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract*Proviso.*Limitation extended.*Ante*, p. 304. to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand dollars: *Provided*,Emergency Hospitai. That the limitation of time fixed in the provision to the appropriation for the relief of the National Homeopathic Hospital Association in the District of Columbia appropriation Act approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby extended to January first, nineteen hundred and ten.
For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary serviceEastern Dispensary. 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 emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 721 For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, four thousandHome for Incurables. dollars.
For the Women’s Clinic, maintenance, two hundred and fifty dollars.Women’s Clinic.Georgetown University Hospital. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toGeorge Washington University Hospital. be made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars.
For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract toSibley Hospital. be made with the Sibley Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars. Tuberculosis Hospital: For superintendent, one thousand eightTuberculosis 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; pathologist, three hundred dollars; seven graduate nurses, at three hundred and sixty-five 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; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; two firemen, at three hundred dollars each; elevator conductor, three hundred dollars; laundry man, four hundred and eighty dollars; laundress, one hundred and eighty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; ward maid, one hundred and eighty dollars; four servants, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five 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, books and periodicals not to exceed fifty dollars, temporary services not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other necessary items, twenty-five thousand dollars; For necessary equipment for pathological laboratory, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
In all, for Tuberculosis Hospital, forty thousand and twenty-five dollars. child-caring institutions.Care of children. Board of Children’s Guardians: For the board of children’sBoard of Children’s Guardians.Vol. 27, p. 268.Expenses. guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, and all office and sundry expenses, three thousand one hundred dollars;
For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk,Salaries. one thousand and eighty dollars; placing officer, nine hundred dollars; two placing officers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; 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, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; For maintenance of feeble-minded children, sixteen thousandFeeble-minded children. dollars;
For board and care of all children committed to the guardianshipBoard, etc. of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred 722 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, thirty-five thousand dollars:
In all, for board of children’s guardians, sixty-one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances to agent. 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 anil sixty dollars;
For temporary services, not to exceed five hundred dollars;Expenses. For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, five thousand dollars: For necessary furniture and manual training equipment, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, two hundred and fifty dollars; For necessary tiling and pipes, three hundred dollars; In all, for Industrial Home School for Colored Children, thirteen thousand one hundred and ten dollars: *Provided*, That all moneys*Proviso.*Receipts from sale of products, etc. 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 ten.
For the Industrial Home School: For superintendent, one thousandIndustrial Home School.Salaries. two hundred dollars; matron, four hundred and eighty dollars; three 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 eighty dollars each; temporary labor, not to exceed four hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand and twenty dollars;
For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, andExpenses. harness, twelve thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars; 723 For new boiler, one thousand dollars; In all, for the Industrial Home School, twenty-three thousand and seventy dollars; For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to beHome for destitute colored children. made with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed nine thousand nine hundred dollars.
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 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 three hundred dollars. temporary homes.Temporary homes.
For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely:Municipal lodging house. For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; foreman, three hundred and sixty dollars; and night watchman for six months, at twenty-five dollars per month, one. hundred and fifty dollars; maintenance, including rent, one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and fifty 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, four thousand dollars; in all, five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war and the war with Mexico 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 five hundred dollars.
Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insaneSupport of indigent insane. of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law, three hundred and one thousand four hundred dollars. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresidentDeporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. 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 secre- tarv, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.
Relief of the Poor: For relief of the poor, including pay ofRelief of the poor. physicians to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand dollars. 724 Transportation of Paupers: For transportation of paupers, threeTransporting parpers. thousand dollars. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be authorizedPublic vehicles.commissioners to set scale of charges. and directed, after due investigation, to prepare and put in immediate operation, subject to change from time to time, a reasonable scale of charges by cabs, taxicabs, and public vehicles, for the transportation of passengers in the District of Columbia, and the tariffs so prepared shall be the maximum charges that may be collected in the District of Columbia.
The said commissioners are hereby empowered to prescribe the penalty or penalties for violation of any charge fixed by them. 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 requiredCamps, etc. to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, 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, one thousand dollars. For expenses of rifle 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*Provisos.*Deductions for loss of property. collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia on account of government property lost or destroyed by such individual shall be repaid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the officer of the militia of the District of Columbia who is accountable to the United States Government for such property lost or destroyed: *Provided further*, That all moneys collected on account of deductionsUse of fines, etc. made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said national guard shall be held by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys so collected for necessary clerical and general expenses of the service, heretofore or hereafter incurred, including law books and books of reference, or for the pay of troops, other than government employees; and for all moneys so collected and expended the commanding general shall make an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops: *Provided further*, That any of the moneys appropriated for theUse of appropriations.
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 supplementAdditions to rations. the regular ration by purchase of such additional articles of subsistence as may be deemed necessary. For general incidental expenses of the service, five hundred dollars.Incidentals. 725 WATER DEPARTMENT.Water department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsPayable from water revenues. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely:
For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shallRevenue and inspection branch. also perforin the duties of chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; index clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; meter computer, one thousand dollars; 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- five 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 four 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-one thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery,Contingent expenses. printing, 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, pipeOperatingexpenses. distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, anil purchase and maintenance of two motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work and including a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for the purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the water department, forty-one thousand dollars.
For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-serviceHigh-service system. system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mams for low service, including a twelve-inch main for the general use of and to afford fire protection to the National Training School 726 for Boys, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase ami maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. The services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,Temporary draftsmen, etc. transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District: and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report theReport. number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Maximum expenditure.
That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed sixty-two thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorizedWork under Commissioners.Temporary laborers, etc. to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to earn ing on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 3. All horses, harness, and wagons necessary for use in connectionHorses, wagons, etc.Special orders from Commissioners for using. with sewer, street, or road work, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be purchased, hired, and maintained exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District in the annual estimates shall report the number of horses, wagons, and harness purchased, and horses and wagons hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation, and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such*Proviso.*Work under Commissioners. horses, wagons, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 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 727 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 and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Maximum expenditure.
That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed ten thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorizedWork under commissioned.Termporary laborers, etc. to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 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 streetrailway 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. The Commissioners or 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 ten than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Sec. 7. That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundredAdvances from the Treasury. and ten, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to advance, on the requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, made in the manner now prescribed by law, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary from time to time to meet the general expenses of said District, as authorized by Congress, and to reimburse the Treasury for the portion of said advances payable by the District of Columbia out of the taxes and revenues collected for the support of the government thereof: *Provided*, That all advances*Provisos.*Interest on advances.Vol. 31, p. 766.Vol. 32, pp. 616, 981.Vol. 33, pp. 390, 915.Vol. 31, pp. 516, 1157.*Ante*, p. 311. 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, June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, March second, nineteen hundred and seven, and May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, 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 ten, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum on annual balances until so reimbursed: *Provided further*, 728 That the Auditor for the State and other Departments and the auditorReport. of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each fiscal year separately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any, due to the United States: *And provided further*, That nothing contained herein shall be so construed as toStreet extensions from District revenues only. 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.
HereafterAnnual estimates limited. the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not submit, nor shall the Secretary of the Treasury transmit to Congress regular annual estimates for expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for any fiscal year that shall exceed in the aggregate a sum equal to twice the amount of the total estimated revenues of the District of Columbia for such fiscal year. Said estimates shall take into consideration and embrace all charges against the said revenues arising under appropriations other than the regular District of Columbia bill.
Such annual estimates shall not be published inPublication before submitting to Congress forbidden. advance of their.submission to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof. Sec. 8. All laws and parts of laws to the extent that they areRepeal. inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, March 3, 1909.