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CHAP. 192.— 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 twelve, and for other purposes. March 2, 1911.[[H.R. 31856](/us/bill/36/hr/31856).][[Public, No. 441](/us/bill/36/pl/441).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, District of Columbia appropriations.out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, Half from District revenues.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 twelve, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. Executive office: Executive office.Two commissioners, at live thousand dollars each; engineer commissioner, two hundred and eighty dollars Assistants to engineer commissioner.(to make salary five thousand dollars); additional compensation for two assistants to the engineer Salaries of commissioners, etc.commissioner, detailed from the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, under Act of Congress Vol. 20, p. 103.approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two, at two hundred and fifty dollars each; secretary, two thousand four hundred 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; clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; two clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, eight hundred and forty dollars; two drivers, at six hundred dollars each;
For services, supplies, and printing, in the preparation of an index of the laws of CongressIndex to District laws, etc.relating to the District of Columbia, and of the laws of former municipal governments in the District which are still in force, also consolidating indexes of orders and of opinions of the corporation counsel, and other records, one thousand six hundred dollars; • Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon Veterinary surgeon.for all horses in the departments of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars;
Purchasing division: Purchasing division.Purchasing officer, who shall, under the direction of the commissioners, supervise the purchase and distributionPurchasing officer, duties, bond, etc.of all supplies, stores, and construction materials for the use of the government of the District of Columbia, and who shall give bond in such sum as the commissioners may determine, two thousand seven 967hundred and fifty dollars; deputy purchasing officer, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dolíais each; six clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; inspector of fuel, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant inspector of fuel, one thousand one hundred dollars; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; inspector, nine hundred dollars; inspector, seven hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; inspector of property, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; two property-yard keepers, at one thousand dolíais each; inspector of materials, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Building inspection division: Building inspection division.Inspector of buildings, three thousand dolíais; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand eight hundred dollars; eleven assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thou- sand two hundred dollars each; fire-escape inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, three thousand dollars; two civil engineers or computers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, one thousand five 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; assistant inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars (transferred from water department) ;
To reimburse two elevator inspectors for the provision and maintenance by themselves of two motor cyclesMotor cycles for elevator inspectors.for use in their official inspection of elevators in the District of Columbia, fifteen dollars per month each, three hundred and sixty dollars; In any case where building permits have been issued and no work has been begun thereunder, the person who has paid the fee for said permit may returnReturn of unused permit fees.said permit for cancellation, and upon the cancellation thereof there shall ne refunded to him, in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding of erroneously paid taxes, the amount of said fee less the actual expense incident to the issuance of said permit, as determined by the inspector of buildings: *Provided,**Proviso.*That application for such refund shall be made within six months after theCondition.issuance of said permit;
Plumbing inspection division: Plumbing inspection division.Inspector of plumbing, two thousand dollars; principal assistant inspector of plumbing, one thousand four hundred dollars; five assistant inspectors of plumbing, one at one thousand two hundred dollars and four at one thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, two thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; sewer tapper, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; three members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each; maintenance of motor cycle, one hundred and twenty dollars;
In all, one hundred and fourteen thousand and eighty-six dollars. The provisions of the act approved Leaves of absence to annual employees.March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as amended by the act approvedVol. 30, pp. 316, 353.July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, regulating leave of absence to employees of the Federal Government, are hereby made applicable to the regular annual employees of the government of the District of Columbia, except the police and fire departments, and public-school officers, teachers, and employees.Police, firemen, and teachers excepted.
Care of District Building: Care of District Building.Clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three 968assistant 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; 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; pneumatic-tube operator, six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the employees herein authorized for the care of the District building shall be appointed by the assistantsAppointment.to the engineer commissioner, with the approval of the commissioners.
For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics and labor not to exceed Maintenance expenses.three thousand five hundred dollars, and miscellaneous supplies, twenty-five thousand dollars. Assessor’s office: Assessor’s office.Assessor, three thousand five hundred dollar’s, 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; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars (transferred from water department); four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; six 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; inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant inspector of licenses, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and fifty 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; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars; record clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fortyeight thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.
For temporary clerk hire for preparing numerical books,Preparing numerical books.to be immediately available, provided that the regular employees of the assessor’s office may he employed on this work after office hours, with additional compensation to be determined by the commissioners upon the recommendation of the assessor, two thousand dollars. Excise board: Excise board.Chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
Personal tax board: Two Personal tax board.assistant assessors of personal taxes, at three thousand dollars each; appraiser of personal property, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all. fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars. Collector’s office:Collector’s office.Collector, four thousand dollars; deputy collector, two thousand dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand four hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; three coupon clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk and bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thou 969 sand dollars: messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For extra labor in the preparation of tax-sale certificates, Tax-sale certificates, etc.and data, which the law requires this office to furnish the recorder of deeds and the assessor with authority to employ typewriters and clerks, eight hundred dollars. Auditor’s office:Auditor’s office.Auditor, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, Chief clerk, added duties.who shall hereafter, in the necessary absence or inability from any cause of the auditor, perform his duties without additional compensation, and who shall during the presence of the auditor perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the auditor; and the auditor may require the said chief clerk to give bond Bond, etc.for the faithful performance of such duties; but the auditor shall in every respect be responsible to the United States, the District of Columbia, and to individuals as now provided by law, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five clerks,atone thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars (now paid from appropriation for elimination of grade crossings): clerk, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, three thousand dollars; deputy disbursing officer, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, forty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars.
Office of corporation counsel: Corporation counsel, Corporation counsel's office.four thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; second assistant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; third assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourth assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; fifth assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, eight hundred and forty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
Sinking-fund office, Sinking-fund office.under control of the Treasurer of the United States: Clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. Coroner’s office: Coroner's office.Coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; hostler and janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Market masters: Two market masters,Market masters.at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant market masters, who shall also perform the necessary labor in cleaning the markets, and one laborer tor duty at Eastern Market, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Wholesale Producers’ Market: Market master, Produce market.nine hundred dollars; assistant market master, who shall also act as night watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars ; laborer for sweeping B street sidewalk used for market purposes and the wholesale market square, 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: Eastern market.Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. 970 Western Market: Western market.Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets:Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets, Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
For the purchase of small quantities of groceries, Purchases for investigations.meats, and provisions, and so forth, in connection with the investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, fifty dollars. Engineer Commissioner’s office: Engineer of highwaysEngineer Commissioner's office., three thousand dollars; engineer of bridges, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of county roads, two thousand dollars; superintendent Engineers, superintendents. etc.of sewers, three thousand dollars; inspector of asphalts Asphalt Inspector.and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars *(Provided,**Proviso.*That the inspector of asphalts and cements shall not receiveRestriction.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 Assistant engineers etc.of asphalts and cements, 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; two assistant engineers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; four assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two transitmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; transitman, one thousand and fifty dollars; 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;
Inspectors, etc.draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; two draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; 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; inspector, one thousand dollars; inspector, nine hundred dollars; twelve foremen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; foreman.
Rock Creek Park, one thousand two hundred dollars; three subforemen, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; foreman, one thousand and fifty dollars; ten foremen, at nine hundred dollars each; bridgekeeper, six hundred and fifty dollars; three bridgekeepers, at six hundred dollars each; Clerks, etc.chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand eight 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; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two clerks, at 971 seven hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; six 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 ; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars;
Inspector of gas, etc.assistant inspector of gas and meters, one thousand dollars; two assistant inspectors of gas and meters, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars. Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect’s office.Municipal architect, whose duty it shall be to prepare or supervise the preparation of plans for, and superintend the construction of, all municipal buildings, and the repair and improvement of all buildings belonging to the District of Columbia, and serve under the direction of the engineer commissioner of the District of Columbia, three thousand six hundred dollars; superintendent of construction, two thousand dollars (now overseer, at six dollars and fifty cents per diem);
Draftsmen, etc.chief draftsman, one thousand seven hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dol lars; heating, ventilating, and sanitary engineer, two thousand dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred dollars; superintendent of repairs, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss carpenter, boss tinner, boss painter, boss plumber, and boss steam fitter, five in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; boss grader, one thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, six hundred and twenty dollars; copyist (now on the roll at three dollars per diem), eight hundred and forty dollars; driver, five hundred and forty dollars; for the purchase and maintenance of one gasoline-motor truck,Motor truck.to be immediately available, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Special assessment office: Special assessment office.Special assessment clerk, two thousand dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Street-sweeping office: Street-sweeping office.Superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; chief inspector, one thousand three hundred dollars; chief inspector of machine work, one thousand three hundred dollars; eight 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: four assistant inspectora, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; inspector, one thousand dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; foreman of repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer and clerk, one thousand dollars; blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; mechanic, seven hundred and eighty dollars; blacksmith’s helper, seven hundred and twenty dollars; seven dumpmen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two mechanic’s helpers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; wheelwright, nine hundred dollars; 972 painter, seven hundred and eighty dollars; in all, fifty thousand one one hundred and twenty dollars.
Board of examiners, steam engineers: Board of examiners, steam engineers.Three members of board of examiners of steam engineers, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Automobile board: Automobile board.Secretary or acting secretary of the automobile board, three hundred dollars. Department of insurance: Insurance department.Superintendent of insurance, three thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, one thousand seven hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand seven hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, seven hundred ami twenty dollars; temporary clerk hire, one thousand two hundred dollars; m all, ten thousand and twenty dollars.
Surveyor’s office: Surveyor’s office.Surveyor, three thousand dollars; assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; computer, one thousand two hundred dollars; record clerk, one thousand anti fifty dollars; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars; clerk, nine hundred and seventy- five dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; assistant computer, nine hundred 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; computer and transitman, one thousand two hundred dollars; rodman, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For services of temporary Temporary services.draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, maintenance of a motor vehicle, five thousand dollars, all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; In all, for surveyor’s office, thirty thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Free public library: Free Public Library.Librarian, three thousand five hundred 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 in charge of work for the blind, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand dollars; five assistants, at seven hundred ad twenty dollars each; four assistants, at six hundred dolíais 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; two 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, four hundred and eighty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; ten pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two janitors, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one of whom shall act as night watchman; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; workman, six hundred 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, forty thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
For substitutes Substitutes, etc.and other special and temporary service, at the discretion of the librarian, one thousand dollars. 973 For keeping the library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’clock Sunday 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:
Miscellaneous.For purchase of books, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For binding, three thousand five hundred dollars; For fuel, lighting, fitting up building, including lunch-room equipment, maintenance of motorcycle, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand dollars; In all, nineteen thousand dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent expenses Contingent expenses.of the government of the District of Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; 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 sinking-fund office, Board of Charities, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, superintendent of weights, measures, and markets office, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars; and the commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided,**Proviso.*That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall not be used by the commissioners for any other purpose than to visit such points within the District of Columbia as it may be necessary to visit in order to enable them to inspect or inform Restriction on use of horses, etc.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 appropriations for the militia, Limit on expenditures for horses, etc.shall be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance.Fire insurance prohibited. For contingent expenses of stablesStables.of the engineer department, including forage, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oils, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles 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 postagePostage.for strictly official mail matter, ten thousand dollars. For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, in the collection of overdue personal taxesCollecting personal taxes.by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, four thousand dollars. 974 For judicial expenses, Judicial expenses.including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia., witness fees and expert services in District cases before the supreme court, of said District, five thousand dollars.
For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of moans of transportation for the coroner’s office Coroner’s expenses.and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, four thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso,*That the coroner shall not summon or hold any jury of inquest Inquests limited.over the body of any deceased person where it is known that the deceased came to his death by suicide, accident, mischance or natural causes; provided, that in cases where it is not known that the deceased came to his death by suicide the coroner may, in his discretion, summon such jury.
For general advertisingAdvertising., authorized and required by law, and for tax and school noticesGeneral.and notices of changes in regulations, four thousand seven hundred dollars. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears Tax-arrearages sales.July first, nineteen hundred and eleven, as required to be given by ActVol. 26, p. 24.of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised.
For the enforcement of the game and fish laws Game and fish laws, enforcing.of the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, five hundred dollars. That not exceeding two thousand dollars of the unexpended balancesRemoving dangerous, etc., buildings.of the appropriations provided in the District appropriation Acts Vol. 34, p. 1126; Vol.35, pp. 281, 695.for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and eight, nineteen hundred and nine, nineteen hundred and ten, and nineteen hundred and eleven, “for carrying out the provisions of the Act Ante, p. 382.approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,’ to pay the membersVol. 30, p. 923.of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed ten dollars for 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,” are hereby reappropriated Reappropriation.and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve.
For the erection of suitable tablets to mark historical placesHistorical tablets.in the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five hundred dollars, and the unexpended balances of the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts Ante, p. 382.of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, March second, nineteen hundred and seven, May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, March third, nineteen hundred and nine, and May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, respectively, are continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve.
The recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia is authorized to retain, and not pay into the Treasury Book typewriters for recorder of deeds.of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia, out of the surplus fees Purchase from fees allowed.and emoluments of his office during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, a sum not exceeding three thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents, and to expend the same in the purchase and exchange of twenty-five Elliott-Fisher book typewriters and desks for the same.
For the office of the register of wills: For furnishing to the office of the assessor copies of wills, Copies of wills, etc., to assessor.petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, nine hundred dollars. 975 For the purchase of enamel metal or leather identification number tags for motor vehicles Motor vehicle number tags.in the District of Columbia, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. For reconstructing the sand and gravel wharf, Sand wharf.in accordance with the plans on file in the office of the Engineer Commissioner, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
The appropriation of ten thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten for repair of buildings Repairing fire injuries.owned and used by the District of Columbia*Ante,* p. 382.when injured by fire is hereby reappronriated and continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve. For testing materials for fireproof buildings, Testing fireproof building materials.including necessary labor and implements, under “An Act Vol. 30. p. 922.to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred dollars.
Hereafter section thirty-seven hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed Purchases without advertising.to apply to any purchase or service rendered R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733.for the District of Columbia when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars. For making surveys Surveying old subdivisions.to obtain accurate data with reference to old subdivisions in the District of Columbia, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For maintenance and repairs Repairs to markets.to the District of Columbia markets, namely: Replacing old benches with sanitary stands, installing modern plumbing, new floors, and repairing cement floors, new meat blocks and ice boxes, painting, tinning, repairs to pavements, and such other repairs as are deemed necessary to place these markets in a sanitary condition, seven thousand dollars. For addition to cement warehouseCement warehouse.at Fourteenth and D Streets southwest, on tracks of Pennsylvania Railroad, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase of construction and other material, Purchase of construction material, etc.to continue available and to be reimbursed from the appropriations using material purchased hereunder, fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase of apparatus for office of the inspector of asphaltsAsphalt apparatus.and cements, five hundred dollars. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permitAssessment and permit work.work, three hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For paving roadwaysPaving roadways.vunder the permit system, ten thousand dollars. On and after July first, nineteen hundred and eleven, all collections Deposit of collections.for work done under the assessment and permit system shall be deposited by the collector of taxes in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the revenues of the United States and the District of Columbia in like proportion as the said revenues were charged with the appropriations provided for the respective purposes.
Work on streets and avenues: Work on streets and avenues.For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix L, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and twelve, seventy-nine thousand five hundred 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: Nineteen thousand dollars.
Southwest section schedule: Eight thousand five hundred dollars. 976 Southeast section schedule (except Thirteenth Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to Potomac Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue from Thirteenth to Fifteenth streets) : Nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. Northeast section schedule: Thirty thousand eight hundred dollars. *Provided,**Proviso.*That streets and avenues named in said schedules already paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, Streets paved with Belgian blocks, etc.and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made for making or relaying asphalt pavementLimit for asphalt pavements.at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base, nor more than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for laying standard asphalt block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided,**Proviso.*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 juice may be increased Increase allowed.to two dollars per square yard.
For removing granite block and repaving with asphalt E Street northwestAsphalt to replace granite block, E street NW.from Eleventh Street to Thirteenth Street, seven thousand dollars. For grading and improving Grading, etc.. Seventeenth Street NW.Seventeenth Street northwest from B Street to E Street, fourteen thousand dollars. For purchase or condemnation of necessary land, paving, and construction of walls, steps, and terraces for connecting Belmont and Fifteenth StreetsBelmont and Fifteenth streets NW.northwest, in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of ColumbiaConnecting., eight thousand dollars.
Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For labor and for the purchase and repair of Grading.cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses, and the inmates of the Washington Asylum may be used in connection with this work, fifteen thousand dollars. Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation Condemnation.of streets, roads, and alleys, when authorized by law, one thousand dollars. Construction of county roads: For construction of county roads and suburban streets,County roads.
Construction.to be disbursed and accounted for as “Construction of county roads and suburban streets,” and for that purpose it shall constitute one fund, as follows: Northeast. Rhode Island Avenue extended, from end of macadam on south side to South Dakota Avenue, grade and improve, nine thousand dollars ; Northwest. Butternut Street, Georgia Avenue to Fifth Street, and Sixth Street from Butternut Street to Cedar Street, and Fifth Street from Butternut Street to Cedar Street, grade and improve, eight thousand two hundred dollars;
Southeast. Streets in Anacostia, grade and improve, three, thousand dollars; Northeast. Seventeenth Street, Rosedale Street to Benning Road, improve, four thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest. Mount Pleasant Street, Sixteenth Street to Park Road, grade and improve, twelve thousand dollars; 977 Northwest. Blair Road, Cedar Street to District line, grade and improve, four thousand four hundred dollars; Northwest. Phelps Place north of S Street, pave, four thousand five hundred dollars;
Northwest. Fessenden Street, Belt Road to Wisconsin Avenue, grade and improve, five thousand four hundred dollars; Northwest. Keefer Place, Georgia Avenue to Sixth Street, and Lamont Street, Georgia Avenue to Sixth Street, and Sixth Street, Keefer Place to Lamont Street, grade and improve, nine thousand dollars ; Northwest. Sixteenth Street, Kennedy Street to Montague Street, grade and improve, four thousand six hundred dollars; Northwest. Twenty-third Street, north of Calvert Street, grade and improve, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
Northwest. Macomb Street, Thirty-sixth Street to Wisconsin Avenue, grade and improve, three thousand dollars; Northwest. Michigan Avenue, from First Street westward, grade and improve, five thousand seven hundred dollars; Northeast. Kearney Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, grade and improve, two thousand three hundred dollars; Northwest. Rock Creek Church Road, Georgia Avenue to Fifth Street, grade and improve, eight thousand eight hundred dollars; Northeast. Seventeenth Street, from Newton Street to Hamlin Street, to complete grading and improving, two thousand five hundred dollars ;
Northeast. Irving Street, Thirteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, grade, eight thousand four hundred dollars; Northwest. Massachusetts Avenue extended, Wisconsin Avenue to Idaho Avenue, grade and improve, nine thousand four hundred dollars; Northwest. Kennedy Street, Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, grade and improve, five thousand six hundred dollars; Northwest. T Street, Second Street to Rhode Island Avenue, pave, four thousand one hundred dollars ; Southeast. Fourteenth Street, from Good Hope Road to V Street, grade and improve (bituminous macadam), seven thousand dollars;
In all, one hundred and twenty-three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of repairsRepairs, streets, etc.of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and maintenance of motor vehicle for use of Engineer Commissioner and his assistant, of which sum one hundred thousand dollars shall be immediately available, four hundred and twenty-live 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 Vol. 20, p. 105.“An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,’’ approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.
The Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad CompanyAnacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company.is hereby authorized and required to remove its tracks from Maryland Avenue southwest, between Third and Four-and-a-half Streets, and from Third Street between Maryland Avenue and B Street southwest, and to relocateRelocation of tracks.the same in B Street southwest between Maryland Avenue and Third Street , and to repave the street space from which said tracks are removed, all in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and to their satisfaction. 978 For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs Sidewalks and curbs.around public reservations and municipal buildings, ten thousand dollars.
For setting curb and laying sidewalk on the east side of McMillan Park, McMillan Park.two thousand dollars. Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs of county roadsCounty roads, repairs.and suburban streets, including the maintenance of one motor vehicle for the use of the superintendent of county roads and one motor truck for the use of the field party engaged in the survey work pertaining to the construction and repair of county roads, one hundred and forty thousand dolíais, of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be immediately available.
Bridges:For construction and repairs of bridges,Bridges.sixteen thousand dolíais. Highway bridge across Potomac River: Highway bridge.Two draw operators, at one thousand and twenty dollars each; draw operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; labor, one thousand five hundred dollars; 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 dolíais.
Operation of the Anacostia River Bridge: Anacostia Bridge.For employees, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to the operation and maintenance of the bridge, five thousand six hundred dollars. Streets, etc., adjacent to Zoological Park.For grading and improving a connecting street Grading and improving.between the intersection of Sixteenth Street and Columbia Road and the Quarry Road entrance to the Zoological Park; for grading and improving Lanier Place from Quarry Road to the said connecting street; for grading and improving Eighteenth Street from Summit Place to the said connecting street; for grading and improving Geneseo Place between Eighteenth Street and Quarry Road; and for grading, improving, and constructing steps in Quarry Road, all in accordance with plans on file in the office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, sixty-seven thousand dollars.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to prepare a new highway planNew highway plan authorized.for that portion of the District of Columbia lying between Mount Pleasant Street, Irving Street, Adams Mill Road, Quarry Road, and Columbia Road,Vol. 27, p. 532.under the provisions contained in the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, providing for a permanent system of highways in the District of Columbia, as amended by the Vol. 30, p. 519.Act of Congress of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: *Provided,**Provisos.*That Lanier Place and Eighteenth Street may be extended under this authority with a minimum width Width, etc.of forty feet: *Provided further,* That under Condemnation.and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, Vol. 34, p. 151.the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to institute in the supreme court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary to open the connecting street above referred to, as well as Lanier Place and Eighteenth Street within the limits above described, as shown on plans filed in the office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia: *And provided further,* That of the amount found Damages assessed as benefits.to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for the extension of Lanier Place, Eighteenth Street, and the connectingstreet above described, plus the cost and expenses of the proceeding taken pursuant hereto, not less than two-thirds shall be assessed by the jury as benefits. 979 There is appropriated an amount sufficient to pay the cost and expenses Expenses.of the condemnation proceeding taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of the amounts awarded Awards.as damages.
The amounts assessed as benefits when collected shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia and of the United States in equal parts. Toward constructing a bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Q Street, Bridge across Rock Creek at Q Street.including the approaches thereto; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of said bridge and its approaches at a total cost not to exceed two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations therefor may be made by law, one hundred thousand dollars.
And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized Condemning land for widening, etc., Q Street NW.and directed, under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within six months after the passage of this Act, Vol. 34, p. 151.to institute in the supreme court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the widening and extension of Q Street from its terminus east of Twenty-eighth Street to Twenty-seventh Street, with a width of sixty feet, and from Twenty-seventh Street to Twenty-third Street with a width of ninety feet, upon such lines as the said commissioners may deem best for the public interest : *Provided, however,* *Proviso*.That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages Damages assessed as benefits.for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said widening and extension, plus the cost and expenses of said proceedings, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits.
And there is hereby appropriated an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses Expenses.of the said condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the paymentPayment of awards.of the amounts awarded as damages. The assessments for benefits when collected to be covered into the Treasury in equal parts to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia and of the United States. SEWERS.Sewers Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewersCleaning, etc.and basins, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, Pumping station.including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and the employment of mechanics, laborers, and watchman, the purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of motor vehicles, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars. For main and pipe Main and pipe.sewers and receiving basins, sixty-five thousand dollars. For suburban sewers, Suburban.one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For purchase or condemnation of rights of way Rights of way.for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Anacostia main intercepter: Anacostia intercepter.For continuing the construction of the Anacostia mam intercepter along the Anacostia River between the outfall sewer, sewage-disposal system, at Poplar Point, and Bennings, District of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars. Rock Creek main intercepter:
For continuing the extension of the Rock Creek main intercepterRock Creek intercepter.from P Street to Military Road, forty thousand dollars. For completing the construction of the boundary to Brookland division of the east side intercepter,East side intercepter.sewage-disposal system, as far as Bunker Hill Road, forty-nine thousand dollars. 980 STREETS.Streets. Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning Cleaning, etc.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 contract, as well as hand work done under the immediate direction of the commissioners without contract: *Provided,* *Provisos.*That whenever it shall appear to the commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards,Contracts.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: *Provided further,* That whenever it shall appear to said commissioners that the work now performed under contract, Authority to take over contract work.namely, street sweeping and cleaning alleys and unimproved streets, can, in their judgment, be performed under their immediate direction more advantageously to the District, then, in that event, said commissioners are hereby authorized to perform any part or all of said work in such manner, and to employ all necessary personal services, and purchase and maintain Purchase of equipment, etc. such street-cleaning apparatus, horses, harness, carts, wagons, tools, and equipment as may be necessary for the purpose, and of this appropriation the sum of forty thousand dollars is hereby made immediately available, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and the commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
For cleaning snow and ice Removal of snow and ice.from streets, sidewalks, cross walks, and gutters, in the discretion of the commissioners, including services, ten thousand dollars. Disposal of city refuse: For the collection and disposal Disposal of city refuse.of garbage and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; for collection and disposal of night soil in the District of Columbia, and for the payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, one hundred and seventy- nine thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars.
For the purchase or condemnation of a site or sites, and for the erection of a building or buildings thereon for a stable and storerooms Stable, etc., for street cleaning department.for the street-cleaning department of the District of Columbia and for the rebuilding of the present condemned stable of said department, to be immediately available, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand six hundred dollars. Parking commission:Parking commission.For contingent expenses, including 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, five thousand dollars of which shall be immediately available for labor and for the purchase of machinery and materials to exterminate insects injurious to trees, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Bathing beach: Bathing beach.For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, two thousand dollars; for repaire and improve- 981 ments to bathhouses, bathing pools, and grounds, one thousand two hundred dollars: in all, four thousand two hundred and eighty dollars, to be immediately available. Public scales: For replacement and repair of public scales, Public scales.two hundred dollars. Playgrounds:
Playgrounds, maintenance.For maintenance, repairs, including labor, equipment, supplies, and necessary incidental and contingent expenses, to be immediately available, three thousand dollars. For salaries: Salaries,Clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars: supervisor, ten months, at one hundred and fifty dollars per month; directors, assistant directors, and watchmen, to be employed not exceeding seven months, as follows: Nine directors, at seventy-five dollars per month each; two assistant directors, at sixty dollars per month each; one assistant director, at fifty dollars per month; one watchman, at twenty-five dollars per month.
To be employed not exceeding three months, as follows: One director, at seventy-five dollars per month; six assistant directors, at sixty dollars per month each; three assistant directors, at fifty dollars per month each; five assistants, at forty- five dollars per month each; eight assistants, at forty dollars per month each; two watchmen, at forty-five dollars per month each; and seven watchmen, at forty-five dollars per month each for twelve months; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars, which sum shall be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia,Wholly from District revenues.
Interior Park: Interior park, square 534.For the condemnation of land in the interior of square five hundred and thirty-four, within the limiting lines shown on approved plans in the office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, and for the development of the land so acquired as an interior park: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the said land shall be condemned Condemnation of lands.by a proceeding in rem in accordance with the provisions of sub-chapter one of chapter fifteen of the Vol. 34, p. 151.Code of Law for the District of Columbia within six months after the date of the passage of this Act: *And provided further,* That of the amount found to be duo and awarded by the jury in said condemnation Assessment of benefits. proceedings as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned, plus the cost and expense of said proceeding, not less than one-third thereof shall be assessed by the jury as benefits, seventy-eight thousand dollars.
Public convenience stations: Public convenience stations.For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Condemnation of insanitary buildings: Insanitary buildings.For all expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an ActVol. 34, p. 157.entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary bui dings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal services, when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, two thousand five hundred dollars.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department. Electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; Salariesassistant electrical engineer who shall hereafter 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, two thousand dollars; three electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; expert repair man, nine hun- 982 dred and sixty dollars : four repair men, at nine hundred dollars each; three telephone operatore, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; electrical inspector, two thousand dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; cable splicer, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand one hundred and twenty-live dollars each; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant cable splicer, six hundred and twenty dollars; assistant repair man, six hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant repair men, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each ; laborer, four hundred and sixty dollars; four telephone operators, at five hundred and forty dollars each; telephone operator, four hundred and fifty dollars; storekeeper, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; laborer, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, forty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For general supplies, Supplies.repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, wire forextension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulator’s, 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 five hundred dollars.
For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, and telephone service underground Placing wires underground.in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For extension of police-patrol system,Police-patrol system.including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, three thousand dollars.
Lighting: Lighting.For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expensesAll expenses.in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of section seven of this Act*Post* p.1007.and other laws applicable thereto, three hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are empowered to effect a settlementPotomac Electric Power Co.for arc lighting Settlement of arc light contract.under the existing contract with the Potomac Electric Power Company from the date of said contract to the date of approval of this Act and report the same to Congress. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.Washington Aqueduct For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, Maintenance.and repair of the Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the McMillan Park reservoir, and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, and also including the purchase and maintenance of one motor truck, 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, and operation of the Filtration plant.Washington Aqueduct. District of Columbia, filtration plant, and the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, ninety-one thousand dollars. 983 For emergency fund, Emergency fund.to be used only in case of a serious break requiring immediate repair in one of the important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery; all expenditures from this appropriation to be reported in detail to Congress, five thousand dollars.
For continuation of parking grounds around McMillan Park reservoir, McMillan Park reservoir.formerly known as Washington City reservoir, two thousand dollars. For beginning the lining of such portions of the unlined sections Lining tunnels.of the tunnels of the Washington Aqueduct as may be necessary to prevent leakage and the disintegration and fall of rock, eight thousand dollars. To complete the investigation and surveys for increasing the water supplyIncreasing water supply.by investigations and surveys to determine the availability and adaptability of the Patuxent River Investigation of Patuxent River.as a source of water supply for the District of Columbia, three thousand dollars.
For beginning remodeling the Georgetown reservoir, Georgetown reservoir.Washington Aqueduct, to complete the works for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, and for each and every purpose connected therewith,Remodeling.fifty thousand dollars. For the preservation and repair of Cabin John Bridge,Cabin John Bridge.including the installation of a metal lining to prevent leakage in the portion of the Washington AqueductRepair, etc.passing through the bridge, of which twenty thousand dollars shall be immediately available, thirty-five thousand dollars.
ROCK CREEK PARK.Rock Creek Park. For careCare, etc.and improvement of Rock Creek Park, and of the Piney Branch Parkway between Sixteenth Street and Rock Creek Park, which parkway shall hereafter be under the jurisdiction and control of the board of control of Rock Creek Park, exclusive of building for superintendent's residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park, twenty thousand dollars. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. Officers : Superintendent of public schools, five thousand dollars;
Salaries.two assistant superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, and supervisor of manual training, Officers.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; messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand seven hundred dollars.
Attendance officers: Two attendance officers,Attendance officers.at six hundred dollars each; attendance officer, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Teachers: Teachers.For one thousand seven hundred and fifty teachers, to be assigned as follows: , Principals of normal, high, and manual training schools, nine in all, at a minimum salary of two thousand dollars each; Director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars;
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; 984Assistant director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand four hundred dollars; 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; 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 ;
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. Teachers in Group A of class six, including two principals of grade manual training schools, two hundred and sixteen in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand dollars each ; Teachers in class five, one hundred and sixty-one in all, at a minimum salary of nine hundred and fifty dollars each ; Teachers in class four, four hundred and thirty-eight in all, at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars each ;
Teachers in class three, four hundred and eighty-eight in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each ; Teachers in class two, three hundred and thirty-eight in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each; Teachers in class one, sixty-six in all, at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each; Special beginning teacher in the normal school, eight hundred dollars ; In all for teachers, one million three hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Librarians and clerks:Librarians and clerks.Twenty-three librarians and clerks, to be assigned as follows: Librarian in class four, one at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars ; Librarians and clerks in class three, twelve in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each; Librarians and clerks in class two, five in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each; Librarians and clerks in class one, five in all, at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each;
In all for librarians and clerks, fourteen thousand one hundred dollars. Longevity pay: Longevity pay Longevity pay.for director of intermediate 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 Vol. 34, p. 320.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, three hundred and fifty-live thousand dollars.
Allowance to principals: Allowance to principals Principals.of grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition Additional pay.to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act Vol. 34, p. 320.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, thirty-six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. *Provided,* *Provisos.*That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination shall be made between male and female No sex discrimination.teachers employed in the 985 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 appropriated for herein, shall be employed as, or required Restriction on employment.to discharge the duties of, a clerk or librarian.
Night schools: Night schools.Salaries of teachersSalaries.and janitors of night 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 five hundred dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, including equipment Equipment.and the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, two thousand live hundred dollars.
Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, Kindergarten supplies.two thousand eight hundred dollars. Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: Superintendent of janitors, Janitors and cure of buildings and grounds.one thousand two hundred dollars; Central High School and annex, janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, two thousand and forty dollars ; Business High School, janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each ; in all, two thousand and forty dollars;
Jefferson School, janitor, eight hundred dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; Western High School, janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each ; in all, two thousand one hundred and forty dollars; Franklin School, janitor, eight hundred and forty dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dolíais; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dolíais each; in all, one thousand nine hundred and eighty dolíais ;
Eastern High School and Stevens School, two janitors, at nine hundred dollars each; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred and eighty dolíais; McKinley Manual Training School, janitor, nine hundred dollars; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, one thousand two hundred dolíais; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dolíais; assistant janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dolíais; two laboreis, at three hundred and sixty dolíais each; in all, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars ;
Armstrong Manual Training School, janitor, nine hundred dolíais; assistant janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, one thousand dolíais; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dolíais each : in all, four thousand and sixty dollars; M Street High School and Douglass and Simmons Schools, engineer, one thousand dollars; janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dolíais each; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars;
Emery, the new Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Van Buren, and Wallach Schools, five janitors, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; five laborers, at three hundred and sixty dolíais each; in all, six thousand dolíais ; 986 Birney and annex, Brookland, Bryan, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gage, Gales. Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Johnson and annex, Langdon, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Miner, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, and Strong John Thompson Schools, twenty-three in all, twenty-three janitors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand four hundred and sixty dollars;
Abbott, Berrett, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, old Mott, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley Schools, in all, ten janitors, at seven hundred dollars each; Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Benning (white), Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Cardozo, Chevy Chase, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Dent, Eaton, Edmunds, Eckington, Filmore, French, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Petworth, Phelps” Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Potomac, Powell, Ross, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatly, Wilson, Woodburn, and Wormly Schools, and one eight-room building located north of Spring Road, west of Thirteenth Street, and one eight-room building located at Randle Highlands, in all, seventy-six janitors, at six hundred dollars each;
Ivy City School, and one six-room building to be located on site of old High Street School, and one six-room building to be located on grounds of Cardozo School, in all, three janitors, at five hundred and forty dollars each; Brightwood Park and Kenilworth Schools, two janitors, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; Bunker Hill, Deanwood, Hamilton, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Smothers, Stanton, and Threlkeld Schools, in all, ten janitors, at three hundred dollars each;
Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Fort Road, Fort Slocum, Military Road, and Burnille Schools, in all, six janitors, at one hundred and fifty dollars each; In all, one hundred and thirteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. 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 school- room, ten thousand dollars. Medical inspectors: Medical inspectors.Twelve medical inspectors of public schools, two of whom shall be dentists, Dentists added.and four shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That said inspectors shall be appointed by the commissioners only after competitive examination, Competitive examination, etc.and shall have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of medicine or dentistry 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: Miscellaneous. Rent.For rent of school buildings, repair shop, storage and stock rooms, sixteen thousand dollars. For amount required to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms Temporary rooms, etc.for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for the estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory-education law 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, thirteen thousand dollars. 987 For repairs Repairs, etc.and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, seventy thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
For special repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, Plumbing repairs, etc.twenty-five thousand dollars. A detailed statement shall be submitted to Congress of the expenditure of the foregoing sum, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve estimates shall be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus Manual training expenses.to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
For fuel, gas, and electric light and power,Fuel, lights, etc.eighty-five thousand dollars. For furniture, Furniture, etc.including also clocks, pianos, and window shades for new school buildings, additions to buildings, kindergartens, and also tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, 'as follows: One eight-room building on Farragut Street northwest, two thousand dollars; one twelve-room building at Eighth and T Streets northwest, three thousand dollars; one eight-room building at Randle Highlands, two thousand dollars; one six-room building at Ivy City, one thousand five hundred dollars; one six-room manual- training building on site of High Street School, one thousand five hundred dollars; one six-room manual-training building on grounds of Cardozo School, one thousand five hundred dollars; six kindergartens, two thousand dollars; two manual-training shops, six hundred dollars; one sewing school, one hundred and fifty dollars; and one cooking school, three hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
For contingent expenses, Contingent expenses.including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for high- school 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, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of pianos Pianos.for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed three hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars. For text-books and school supplies Supplies to pupils.for use of pupils of the first eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of text-books and supplies, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred dollars, sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the board of education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges Exchanges.of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use.
For purchase of United States flags, Flags.eight hundred dollars. For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds, Playgrounds.one thousand dollars. For maintenance and repairing thirty playgrounds now established, one thousand five hundred dollars. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, one thousand two hundred dollars. 988 For extending the telephone systemTelephones to new school buildings.to new school buildings, 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, one thousand four hundred and twenty-live dollars.
For purchase of apparatus and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of the physics department Physics department apparatusin the Central, Eastern, Western, and M Street high schools, three thousand dollars. For the purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials for the laboratories of the departments of chemistry and biologyChemistry and biological laboratories.in the Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and M Street High Schools, Normal School Number One, and Normal School Number Two, and the installation of the same, two thousand one hundred dollars.
Any unexpended balances Portable school housesin the “Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year endingUse of balances.June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes,” to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms for classesAnte. p. 397.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, equipment, and maintenance of portable schoolhouses for temporary use.
Buildings and grounds: Buildings and grounds.For improvement and repair of Chevy Chase School, one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the completion of a normal school building on lots seventy-six to one hundred and six of Parker and Pulsifer subdivision of Columbia Heights, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand four hundred dollars. For the completion of a twelve-room building west of Seventh Street and north of Q Street, fifty thousand dollars. For complete equipment of the addition to the Armstrong Manual Training School, including necessary additions to the equipment of the shops, drawing rooms, and laboratories, and for the extension of the clock and telephone system to the entire building, twelve thousand dollars.
For the complete equipment of the normal school building on lots seventy-six to one hundred and six of Parker and Pulsifer subdivision of Columbia Heights, thirty thousand dollars. For complete equipment of the addition to the Western High School, including such modification of the present equipment as may be required, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the complete equipment of the third extension to McKinley Manual Training School, including necessary additions to, or modifications of, the equipment of the shops, drawing rooms, and laboratories, twelve thousand dollars.
For the purchase of ground adjacent to the Corcoran School for the extension of said school, approximately seven thousand two hundred square feet, nine thousand dollars. For purchase of ground adjacent to Fillmore School, approximately twenty-five thousand square feet, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of site for a new central high school, approximately four hundred thousand square feet, to be located north of Q Street north and west of Tenth Street west, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Toward the construction of a normal school building for colored pupils, and the total cost of said building under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed two bundled thousand dollars, seventy-five thousand dollars. 989 For the erection of a four-room building at or in the vicinity of Burrville, forty thousand dollars. For the erection of a four-room building on site of Military Road School, thirty-three thousand dollars. For purchase of site, approximately fifteen thousand square feet, and the erection thereon of a six-room manual-training building in the twelfth division, fifty-four thousand dollars.
For the purchase of a site for a new M Street High School, approximately sixty thousand square feet, to be located north of M Street north and west of North Capitol Street, sixty thousand dollars. For additional amount for “Repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds” for the purpose of providing additional fire protection, such as fireproofing Fireproof stairways, etc.heating apparatus, fireproofing corridors, alterations to heat and vent flues, and construction of fireproof storage for fuel and ashes, and the purchase and erection of fire extinguishers and fire alarms, to be immediately available, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
That the total cost of the sites Cost of sites, etc.and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, snail not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. That the plans and specificationsPlans.for all buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the Preparation and approval.supervision of the municipal architect of the District of Columbia and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto.
School buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward Doors to open out-ward, etc.and each of said buildings having in excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. No part of any appropriation carried in this Act shall be used for the 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.
All appropriations for sites for school buildings Money for sites, etc., available.and for the construction of school buildings contained in this Act are hereby made immediately available. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: Deaf and dumb pupils.For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and DumbR. S.,sec. 4864, p. 942.from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the ActVol. 31, p. 844.approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, eleven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes Colored pupils.of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized in an Act of CongressVol. 33, p. 901.approved 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 Indigent blind children.of the District of Columbia, in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 990 METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police.
Salaries.Major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, with rank of inspector, two thousand five hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; eleven captains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be propertv 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 seven hundred and twenty 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; thirteen lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; forty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; five hundred and thirty-seven privates of class three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; sixty-three privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; sixty privates of class one, at nine hundred dollars each; 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 twelve, two thousand seven hundred and nine dollars and fifty 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 sixty 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; three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, nine hundred and forty thousand and nine dollars and fifty cents.
Enforcing child labor law.The major and superintendent of police shall hereafter detail two privates of the Metropolitan police for the enforcement of the provisions of the ActVol. 35, p. 420.“to regulate the employment of child labor in the District of Columbia,” approved May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight. To aid in the support of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, Criminal Identification Bureau.to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, provided the several departments of the General Government may be entitled to like information from time to time as is accorded the police departments of various municipalities privileged to membership therein, three thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous: For fuel,Fuel.four thousand dollars; For repairs Repairs.and improvements to police stations and grounds, to be immediately available, five thousand five hundred dollars; For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, Miscellaneous 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 vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to the same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, and patrol wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted equipments, and Detection of crime.expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, thirty-six thousand dollars; of which amount a sum not 991 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,**Proviso*.That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the District Commissioners for the use. of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipmentMounted equipment.as may be required;
For reconstruction of cell corridors and the making,Reconstructing corridors in stations.erecting, and placing therein in the first, fourth, sixth, and eighth precinct station houses eight modern locking appliances, eighteen thousand and eighty dollars; In all, sixty-three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. House of Detention: House of Detention.To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to provide transportation, including the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age. and in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including salaries of two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four drivers, at six hundred dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; six guards, at six hundred dollars each; and three matrons, at six hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand five hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Harbor patrol: Harbor patrol.Two engineers, at one thousand dollars each; watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; two deck hands, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, two thousand dollars. In all, five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. Chief engineer, three thousand five hundred dollarsSalaries.; deputy chief engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at two thousand dollars each; fire marshal, two thousand dolíais; deputy fire marshal, one thousand four hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand and eighty dolíais each; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; thirty-seven captains, at one thousand four hundred dolíais each; thirty-eight lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dolíais each; superintendent of machinery, two thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of machinery, one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-three engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty-three assistant engineers, at one thousand one hundred dolíais each; two pilots, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dolíais each; two assistant marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two marine firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-eight drivers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; thirty-eight assistant drivers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two hundred and thirteen privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; forty privates of class one, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each ; hostler, six hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five hundred 992 and thirty-six thousand one hundred and seventy dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That no member of the fire department shall, unless on leave of absence, go beyond the confines of the District of Columbia,Restrictions on leaving District.or be absent from duty without permission; anil leaves of absence exceeding twenty days in any one year shall be without pay, and require the consent of the commissioners; and such year shall be from January first to December thirty-first, both inclusive, and thirty days shall be the term of total sick leave Leaves allowed.in any year, without disallowance of pay.
Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous.For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, twelve thousand dollars; For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor- driven apparatus, and for new apparatus anil new appliances, fourteen thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, fifteen thousand dollars; For fuel, fifteen thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, fifteen thousand dollars; For forage, thirty-one thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements of the fire boat, eight hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses, Contingent expenses.horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, Hags and halyards, and other necessary items, twenty-six thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars. Increase, fire department: For building and site for an addition to number twenty engine house, Tenleytown, New house. Tenley town.District of Columbia, nine thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars;
For one second-size New apparatus.steam fire engine, six thousand five hundred dollars ; For one fire engine, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For one combination chemical engine anil hose wagon, seven thousand five hundred dollars; The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to make an investigation as to the necessity of installing a High-pressure service.high-pressure fire service system in the business section of the city of Washington, and to report the results of such investigation Investigation and report of.to Congress at its next regular session.
In all, thirty-one thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health department. Health officer, four thousand dollars; Salaries.assistant health officer, 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 anil 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 ; 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; inspector of dairies and dairy farms, one thousand dollars; five sanitary and food inspectors, who shall be veterinary surgeons, at one thousand dollars each; five sanitary and food inspectors, to 993 assist in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws and the regulations relating thereto, at nine hundred dollars each; 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; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; driver, six hundred dollars; pound master, one thousand five hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceeding fifty dollars per month each, three thousand dollars; in all, sixty-three thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter any inspector of dairies and dairy farms may act as inspector of live stock when directed by the health officer.
Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, Stable rent.one hundred and twenty dollars. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases Prevention of contagious diseases.in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act Vol. 29. p. 635.for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, and an Act Vol. 34. p. 889.to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis Tuberculosis registration.in the District of Columbia, for free examination Vol. 35, p. 126.of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, under the direction of the health officer of said District, and for the prevention of other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, Horses, wagons, etc.rent of stables, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* *Proviso.*That any bacteriologist employed and paid under this appropriation may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination Bacteriological examinations of milk, etc.of milk and of other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases.
For maintenance of the disinfecting service, Disinfecting service.including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, five thousand dollars. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots Drainage of lots, etc.in the district of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act Vol. 29. p. 125.to provide for the abatement of nuisances Abatement of nuisances.in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, approved Vol. 34, p. 114.April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration Food adulterations.of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars. For the equipment and maintenance of the bacteriological laboratory, Laboratory.including the purchase of reference books and scientific journals, eight hundred dollars. For contingent expensesExpenses.incident to the enforcement of an Act to regulate the sale of milk Sale of milk, etc.in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, Vol. 28, p. 709.eighteen hundred and ninety-five; an Act relating to the adulteration Adulteration of food, candy, etc.of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; an Act Vol. 30. pp. 246. 398.to prevent the adulteration of 994 candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; an Act Pure food law.
Vol. 34. p. 768.for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for the maintenance of a package motor cycle, one thousand dollars. For necessary expensesInspecting dairy farms, etc.of inspection of dairy farms, including amounts that may be allowed 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 by each of a horse and vehicle, or motor vehicle, for use in the discharge of his official duties, not to exceed three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum, and other necessary traveling expenses, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Garfield and Providence hospitals: For isolating wards Isolating wards in hospitals.for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence hospitals, maintenance, six thousand dollars and four thousand dollars, respectively, or so much thereof as maybe necessary; in all, ten thousand dollars. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, Public crematory.two thousand five hundred dollars. For the construction of a pound and stable, Pound and stable.to be immediately available, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to build said pound and stable on public space owned or controlledSite.by said District adjacent to James Creek Canal.
For the destruction of rats, Destruction of rats.to be expended in such manner as the commissioners may deem proper, five hundred dollars. Courts. COURTS. For amount required to pay the reporter of the court of appeals Court of appeals reports.of the District of Columbia for volumes of the reports of the opinions of said court, authorized to be furnished by him Vol. 32, p. 609.under section two hundred 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-six and thirty-seven, one hundred and ten dollars.
Probation system: For probation officer, Probation officers.Supreme Court, District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars; probation officer, police court, District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant probation officer, police court, District of Columbia, one thousand two hundred dollars; contingent expenses, five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Juvenile court: Juvenile court.For judge, three thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, two thousand dollars: deputy clerk, who is authorized to act as clerk in the absence of that officer, Salaries.one thousand two hundred dollars; chief probation officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand two hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand dollars; bailiff, seven hundred dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous.For compensation of jurors, one thousand seven 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; 995 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;
' Ill all, three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Police court: Police court Salaries.For two judges, at three thousand six hundred dollars each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; deputy financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; deputy marshal, one thousand dollars; janitor, six hundred 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 eighty dollars.
Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous.For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painters’ and plumbers’ supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, United States flags and halyards, 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 furniture for the police court 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; For compensation of jurors, ten thousand dollars; For repairs to the police-court building, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available; In all, seventeen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Municipal court: Municipal court.For five judges, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Salaries and expenses.three assistant clerks, at one thousand dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars; For rent of building, one thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, seven hundred and fifty dollars: In all, for the municipal court, nineteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Writs of lunacy: Lunacy writs. Vol. 33, p. 740.To defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be com mitted to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including the employment of an alienist at not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. For interest and sinking fund Interest and sinking fund.on the funded debt, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars. 996 EMERGENCY FUND. To be expended only in case of emergency, Emergency fund.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,**Proviso.*That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paidPurchases.for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected.
FOR COURTS AND PRISONS.Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: Support of convicts out of District.For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, forty-eight thousand dollars. Courthouse, District of Columbia: For the following force necessary for the care and protection of the courthouse Courthouse, care, etc.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 six hundred dollars each; three messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand six hundred and eighty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Court of appeals building, District of Columbia: Court of appeals building, care, etc.For the following force, necessary for the care and protection of the court of appeals building:
Two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one elevator operator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the clerk of the court of appeals shall be the custodianCustodian.of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. For maps, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electric current, electrical supplies, books, telephone service in the clerk’s office, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, for the court of appeals building, District of Columbia, nine hundred dolíais.
Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of jail prisoners Jail prisoners.of the District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including payMaintenance. Post, p. 1002.of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, forty thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses in the supreme courtSupreme court, witness fees.of the District of Columbia, and for payment of the actual expenses R.
S., sec. 850, p. 160.of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars. Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors Jurors’ fees.in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, fifty-five thousand dollars. Pay of bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding Pay of bailiffs, etc.one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for the expense of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same when ordered by the court, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous expenses: For payment of such miscellaneous Miscellaneous.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 of appeals, District of Columbia, twenty-five thousand dollars. 997 CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections.
Board of Charities: Board of Charities.Secretary, three thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; inspector, one thousand two hundred dolíais; three inspectora, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectora, at Salaries, etc.nine hundred dollars each; two inspectora, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; driver, seven hundred and eighty dollars; three drivera, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand and sixty dollars.
REFORMATORIES AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS.Reformatories, etc. Washington Asylum and Jail: Washington Asylum and Jail.Superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, Salaries.eight hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two assistant engineers at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month each; night watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred dollars; driver for dead wagon, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; driver for supply and laundry wagon, two hundred and forty dollars; hospital cook, six hundred dollars; assistant cook, three hundred dollars; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, eight hundred and forty dollars; two graduate nurses, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars *Post,* p. 1003.each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, four hundred and twenty- five dollars; two nurses for annex wards, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; two orderlies for annex wards, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one 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), three thousand dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; gardener, five hundred and forty dollars; seamstress, three hundred dollars; housekeeper, three hundred dollars; laundryman, six hundred dollars; assistant laundryman, three hundred and sixty- five dollars; six laundresses, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two chambermaids, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; three waiters, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; six ward maids, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; temporary labor, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand and fifteen dollars.
For provisions,Contingent expenses.fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repaire to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, thirty thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars. Payments to Destitute Women and Children: For payment to Payments to families. etc.the beneficiaries named in section threeVol. 34, p. 87.of “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances, ” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, three thou- 998 sand 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: Home for Aged and Intimi.Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; baker, five hundred and forty 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; assistant cook, three hundred dollars: assistant cook, one hundred and eighty dollars; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred and forty dolíais; farmer, five hundred and forty dollars; three farm hands, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; dairyman, three hundred and sixty dolíais; tailor, three hundred and sixty dollars; seamstress, two hundred and forty dollars; laundryman, five hundred and forty dolíais; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; three servants, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; temporary labor, one thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars;
For provisions,Contingent expenses.fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, twenty-five thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, three thousand dollars; For purchase and laying farm-land drain tile, five hundred dollars; For extension of colored men’s ward and of dining room, twenty thousand dollars ;
For dredging and otherwise completing the drainage of the farm land, three thousand dollars; For erection of general barn, carriage house, and horse stable, three thousand dollars; For extension of sewer from its present terminus to tidewater, six hundred and fifty dollars; In all, for Home for Aged and Infirm, seventy thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars. National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for BoysNational 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 Maintenance of inmates.of said National Training School for Boys, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Reform School for Girls: Reform School for Girls.Superintendent, one thousand two 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, Salaries.at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; night watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred dollars each; in all, nine thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars;
For groceries, provisions, Contingent expenses.light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars; For fencing around farm and grounds, seven hundred and eighty- five dollars; 999 For plans and specifications for additional building Additional buildings, plans.and heating plant, to cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars, five hundred dollars ;
In all, for Reform School for Girls, twenty-three thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars. Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners Transportation of prisoners.to the workhouse, including salary of driver, not to exceed seven hundred and twenty dollars, and the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, two thousand dollars. MEDICAL CHARITIES.Medical charities. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Freedmen’s Hospital and AsylumFreedmen's Hospital.by the Board of Charities, thirty-four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum Columbia Hospital for Women.by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. For repairs to Columbia Hospital, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Children’s Hospital Children’s Hospital.by the Board of Charities, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars.
For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the National Homeopathic Homeopathic Hospital.Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand dollars. For emergency careEmergency Hospital.and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, fifteen thousand dollars. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service Eastern Dispensary.to indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, eleven thousand dollars.
For the care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with the Washington Home for Incurables Home for Incurables.by the Board of Charities, five thousand dollars. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with the Georgetown University HospitalGeorgetown University Hospital.by the Board of Charities, four thousand dollars. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with the George Washington University HospitalGeorge Washington University Hospital.by the Board of Charities, four thousand dollars.
Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Tuberculosis Hospital.resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; pharmacist and clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of nurses, seven hundred and twenty dollars; matron, six hundred dollars, pathologist, three hundred dollars; seven graduate nurses, at six hundred dollars each; chief cook, six hundred dollars; assistant cook, three hundred and sixty 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; laundryman, six hundred dollars; three laundresses, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; farmer, three hundred anil sixty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three orderlies, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; 1000 two ward maids, at one hundred and eighty dollars each ; four servants, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, seventeen thousand two hundred, and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
For provisionsContingent expenses., fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed fifty dollars, temporary services not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other necessary items, hirty thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand dollars; In all, for Tuberculosis Hospital, forty-eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
CHILD-CARING INSTITUTIONS.Care of children. Board of children’s guardians: For administrative expenses, Board of Children's Guardians.including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, and all office and sundry expensesExpenses., three thousand one hundred dollars; For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk, Salaries.one thousand two hundred dollars; one placing officer, one thousand dollars; two placing officers, at nine hundred dollars each; investigating clerk, nine hundred dollars; record clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two visiting inspectors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;
For maintenance of feeble-minded children Feeble-minded children.(white and colored), twenty thousand dollars; For board and care Board, etc.of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than one thousand five hundred dollars to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than three hundred dollars for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
In all, for board of children’s guardians, seventy-five thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the agentAdvances to 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 dolíais 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: Superintendent, Industrial Home School for Colored Children.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 and sixty 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; stableman, Salaries.three hundred dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; 1001 For temporary services, not to exceed Expenses.five hundred dolíais;
For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, six thousand dollars; For furniture and manual-training equipment, four hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, five hundred dollars; In all, for Industrial Home School for Colored Children, thirteen thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars: *Provided,**Provisio*That all moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board of instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to bo expended by them Receipts from sale of products, etc.in the support of the school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve.
Industrial Home School: Industrial Home School.Superintendent, one thousand five 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; Salaries.housekeeper, three hundred and sixty dollars; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars: nurse, three hundred dollars; manual-training teacher, six hundred dollars; florist, eight hundred and forty dollars; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; farmer, five hundred and forty 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 six hundred and twenty dollars;
For maintenance, Expenses.including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and harness, fourteen thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; In all, for the Industrial Home School, twenty-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and ChildrenHome for destitute colored 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 be made with the Washington Home for Foundlings Foundlings' Hospital.by the Board of Charities, six thousand dolíais. For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with Saint Ann's Infant AsylumSaint Ann's Asylum.by the Board of Charities, six thousand dollars. temporary homes.Temporary homes. Municipal lodging houseMunicipal lodging house.and wood and stone yard, namely: Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; foreman, three hundred and sixty dolíais; night watchman for six months, at twenty-five dollars per month, one hundred and fifty dollars; maintenance, one thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to accept, as a donation from the Night Lodging House Association Night Lodging House accepted.of the District of Columbia, the south half of lot nineteen, in square two hundred and ninety-three, in the city of Washington, and the improvements thereon, now known as the Night Lodging House, the same to become the property of the District of Columbia. Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, Grand Army Soldiers' Home.namely:
Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, three 1002 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 contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission Hope and Help Mission.by the Board of Charities, maintenance, three thousand 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 twenty-three thousand four hundred dollars. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insane Deporting nonresident insane.persons, in accordance with the Act of CongressVol. 30, p. 811.“to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand dollars.
That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance Advances to Board of Charities.to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollaro 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, Relief of the poor.including pay of physicians to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand dollars. Transportation of paupers : For transportation of paupersTransportation of paupers., three thousand dollars. *Provided,**Proviso.*That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act or of any appropriation heretofore made shall be expended No money for new institutions within 10 miles of Mount Vernon.for any purpose whatsoever for a reformatory or asylum or workhouse in the State of Virginia or Maryland, within a radius of ten miles of Mount Vernon, except the one now located at Occoquan, Virginia.
Workhouse: For the following purposes in connection with removal of jail and workhouseWorkhouse.prisoners from the District of Columbia to the site acquired for a workhouse in the State of Virginia,General expenses.in accordance with the provisions of existing lawVol. 35, p. 717., including superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, maintenance, care, and support of said prisoners; subsistence, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; the purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, seeds, and miscellaneous items, tools and equipment; transportation and the means of transportation; the maintenance and operation of the means of transportation; and supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, one hundred and ninety-three thousand dollaro, of which sum eighty thousand dollars shall be immediately available: *Provided,**Provisos.*That the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Attorney General, and the warden of the District of Columbia Jail, Delivery of prisoners from jail.when so requested by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, shall deliver into the custody of the superintendent or the authorized deputy or deputies of said superintendent of said workhouse, male and female prisoners sentenced to confinement in said jail for offenses against the common law or against statutes or ordinances relating to the District of Columbia, and, in the Employment of prisoners on construction work, etc.discretion of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and the Attorney General, male and female prisoners serving sentence in said jail for 1003 offenses against the United States, for the purposes named in the law authorizing the acquisition of the site for said workhouse and such other work or services as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Commissioners of said District, in connection with the construction, maintenance, and operation of said workhouse, or the prosecution of any other public work at said institution or in the District of Columbia: *Provided further,* That, on the direction of said commissioners, male and female prisoners confined in any existing workhouse Prisoners to be employed as at jail.or in the Washington Asylum and Jail of the District of Columbia shall be delivered into the custody of said superintendent or the authorized deputy or deputies of said superintendent aforesaid, to perform similar work or services to those hereinbefore required of male and female prisoners serving sentences in the District of Columbia Jail: *Provided further,* That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby vested with jurisdiction Jurisdiction vested in District Commissioners.over such male and female prisoners from the time they are so delivered into the custody of said superintendent or the duly authorized deputy or deputies of said superintendent, including the time when such prisoners are in transit between the District of Columbia and the site acquired for such workhouse, and during the period such prisoners are on such site or in the District of Columbia until they are released or discharged under due process of law: *Provided further,* That all the authority, duties, discretion, and powers now vested in the Attorney General of the United States, by law, in relation to the support of prisoners sentenced to confinement Custody of jail, etc., transferred to Commissioners.in the jail of the District, including the custody of the jail building, grounds, and appurtenances, and authority over the warden and employees thereof, and in relation to and accounting for all appropriations in connection with such prisoners, jail, warden, and employees, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to take effect and be in force on and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to receive and keep in the jail of the District of Columbia all other prisoners committed thereto for offenses against the United States: *Provided further,* That the jail of the District of Columbia and the Washington Asylum of said DistrictJail and Asylum merged into one institution., on and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall be combined as one institution, known as the Washington Asylum and Jail; and the Commissioners of said District are hereby authorized to appoint a superintendent Superintendent.of said institution, at a compensation of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and the positions of warden of the jail and superintendent of the institution now known as Washington Asylum are abolished Former positions abolished.on and after said date; and all the duties, discretion, and powers now vested in and exercised by the warden of the jail of said District and the superintendentDuties transferred to new officer.of the present Washington Asylum are hereby transferred to and vested in the superintendent herein provided for, who shall give bondBond.to the District of Columbia for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, as are now or may hereafter be prescribed, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with surety or sureties to be approved by said commissioners: *Provided further,* That whenever and wherever authority of law exists to sentence, commit, order committed, or confine any person Commitments.to or in said jail or asylum, said authority shall, on, from, and after July first, nineteen hundred and eleven, be exercised by sentence, commitment, order of commitment, or confinement to or in said W ashington Asylum and Jail: *Provided further,* That all of the powers, duties, and authority now vested in the supreme courtAuthority of District supreme court over jail, etc., transferred to Commissioners.of the District of Columbia in relation to the appointment and removal of the warden of the jail of the District 1004 of Columbia, and in relation to the making of rules for the government and discipline of the prisoners confined in the jail, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall also have the authority heretofore vested in the warden to appoint subordinate officers, guards, and employees, without the approval of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia: *Provided further,* That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized, under such regulations as they may prescribe, to sell to the various departments Sale of products.and institutions of the government of the District of Columbia the products of said workhouse, and all moneys derived from such Receipts.sales shall be paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.Militia. For the following, to be expended Expenses.under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For expenses of camps, Camps, etc.including hire of horses for officers required 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, telephone service, and for general incidental expenses of the service, forty-eight thousand dollars.
For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, one thousand dollars. For printing, stationery, and postage, two thousand one hundred and fifty dolíais. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, two thousand two hundred and fifty dolíais. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, one thousand dollars. For clerk, office of the adjutant general, one thousand dolíais. For expenses of target practice and matches, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For pay Pay.of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, twenty-four thousand dollars: *Provided,**Provisos.*That hereafter all moneys collected on account of deductions Deductions for loss of property.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 there may be paid to all commissioned officers (without discrimination, and in lieu of the limited pay authorized by this section) an allowance to be used by them m the purchase and maintenance of clothing Officers’ clothing.and equipment: *Provided further,* That hereafter all moneys collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations Use of fines, retained pay, etc.governing said national guard, and all moneys which, by reason of the absence of officers or enlisted men from duly ordered assemblies or other duty, are not expended for pay of troops, shall be held by the commanding general of the Militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys for necessary clerical and general expenses of the service, heretofore or hereafter incurred, including law books and books of 1005 reference, or for the pay of troops, other than Government employees; and for all moneys so expended the commanding general shall make an accountingAccounting.in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops: *Provided further,* That hereafter any of the moneys appropriated Use of appropriations.for the District of Columbia Militia may be used to supplement specific appropriations or allotments which may be found insufficient for the purposes for which made, and authority is hereby given to supplement the regular ration by purchase of such additional articles of subsistence Additional rations.as may be deemed necessary: *Provided further,* That hereafter the commanding general of the District of Columbia Militia is hereby authorized to make such deductions Authority to deduct from pay, etc.from any pay of any officer or enlisted man derived from appropriations or allotments made under the provisions of R.
S., sec. 1661, p 290.section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, United States Revised Statutes or other federal enactments as may be necessary to reimburse the United States or the District of Columbia for public property lost, destroyed, or damaged by such individual. EXTENSION OF WATER MAINS.Extension of water mains. For completion of water trunk mams to Congress Heights, Congress HeightsDistrict of Columbia, said sum to be in addition to the sums herein appropriated from the revenues of the water department, fifty-six thousand dollars.
For extension of water trunk mains to Benning, Benning.District of Columbia, said sum to be in addition to the sum herein appropriated from the revenues of the water department, forty-five thousand one hundred dollaro. ANACOSTIA river flats.Anacostia River flats. Toward the reclamation Reclamation, etc.and development of the Anacostia River and Flats, from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, to be expended under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, upon plans to be prepared under the direction of, and to be approved by, a board of engineers Board of engineers in charge.to consist of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and the engineer officer in charge of the improvement of the Potomac River; said sum to be available for the preparation of plans, the prosecution of the work, the employment of personal service, and for such other purposes as may in the judgment of said board be necessary to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, one hundred thousand dollars.
MONTROSE PARK.Montrose Park. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to acquireProcuring land for, on Georgetown Heights.for a park, by purchase or condemnation, the tract of land known as Montrose, lying immediately north of road or R Street and east of Lovers Lane, *Ante,* p. 701.on Georgetown Heights, containing sixteen acres, more or less, at an expense not exceeding one hundred and ten thousand dollars; and for that purpose the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated : *Provided,**Provisos.*That one-half of the said sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be expended, shall be reimbursed Reimbursement from District revenues.to the Treasury of the United States out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in four equal annual installments, beginning with the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, ami with interest at the rate of three per centum per annum upon the deferred payments: 1006 *And provided further,* That one-half of the sum that shall be annually appropriated and expended for the maintenance Maintenance, etc.and improvement of said lands as a public park shall be charged against and paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in the same manner now provided by law in respect to other appropriations for the District of Columbia, and the other half shall be appropriated out of the Treasury of the United States.
If said commissioners shall be unable to purchase Condemnation proceedings.said land at a price not exceeding the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars, then they shall proceed to acquire said land in the manner prescribed for providing a site for an addition to the Government Printing Office in so much of the Act Vol. 30, p. 649.approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as is set forth on pages six hundred and forty-eight and six hundred and forty-nine of Volume XXX of the Statutes at Large, and for the purposes of said acquisition the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have and exercise all powers conferred upon the Public Printer in said Act: *Provided,* That the public park authorized and established by this Act shall become a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and be under the control Control, etc.of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army.
WATER DEPARTMENT.Water department. The following sums Payable from water revenues.are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: For revenue and inspection branch: Revenue and inspection branch.Water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; index clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three meter computers, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, one thousand dollars; meter clerk, one thousand dollars; tap clerk, one thousand dollars; eight inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; eleven inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars.
For distribution branch: Distribution branch.Superintendent, three thousand three hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand six 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 five hundred 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, one thousand 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, nine hundred dollars; driver, six hundred 1007 and thirty dollars; chief inspector of valves, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, eighty-five thousand and thirty-five dollars.
For contingent expenses, Contingent expenses.including books, blanks, stationery, printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and other necessary items, five thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, Operating expenses.pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, and purchase and maintenance of two motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, and including a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars for the purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the water department, forty-one thousand dolíais.
For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service system High-service system.of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to inst all 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 and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec.2.That the services of Temporary draftsmen, etc.draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, 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 the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed Maximum expenditure.seventy thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia Work under Commissioners.are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, Temporary laborers, etc.and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec.3.That all horses, harness, and wagons Horses, wagons, etc.necessary for use in connection with sewer, street, street lighting, or road work, or on constructionSpecial orders from Commissioners for using.and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or 1008 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 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 Eracticable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided,**Proviso.*That such horses, wagons, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions Work under Commissioners.named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.
Sec.4.Water department.The services of draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, and inspectors temporarily required Temporary draftsmen, etc.in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report Report.the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed ten thousand dollars Maximum expenditure.during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia Work under Commissioners.are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics Temporary laborers, etc.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 Miscellaneous trustfund.are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost Expenses paid from.of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District appropriation ActVol. 83. p. 368.for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories, of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, 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 of the District of Columbia shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations Limit on requisitions.from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, or said District. Sec.7.Lighting.During the remainder of the current fiscal year and during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and *Ante,* p. 982.twelve no more than the following rates Maximum rates specified.shall be paid for lighting avenues, streets, roads, alleys, and 1009 public spaces, except as to the rate, for mantle gas lamps,Mantle lamps excepted.which rate herein specified shall apply only after the expiration of the existing contract for mantle gas lighting, but not for a longer period than until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve unless hereafter otherwise provided:
For mantle gas lamps Mantle gas lamps.of sixty candlepower, eighteen dollars and forty cents per lamp per annum. For street designation lamps, Street designation lamps. etc.using flat-flame burners, consuming not more than two and one-half cubic feet of gas per hour, or eight- candlepower incandescent electric lamps, with posts and lanterns furnished by the District of Columbia, ten dollars per lamp per annum. For forty candlepower, fifty watt, incandescent electric lamps Incandescent electric lamps.on overhead wires, fifteen dollars per lamp per annum.
For forty candlepower, fifty watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, nineteen dollars and fifty cents per lamp per an num. For sixty candlepower, seventy-five watt, incandescent electric lamps on overhead wires, seventeen dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. For sixty candlepower, seventy-five watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, twenty-three dollars per lamp per annum. For eighty candlepower, one hundred watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, twenty-six dollars per lamp per annum.
For one hundred candlepower, one hundred and twenty-five watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. For one hundred and fifty candlepower, one hundred and eighty- seven watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, thirty- six dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. For two hundred candlepower, two hundred and fifty watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, forty-six dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum.
For four-glower Nernst lamps Nernst lamps.on underground wires, fifty-two dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. For six and six-tenths ampere, five hundred and twenty-eight watt, direct-current, seriesinclosed arc lampsSeries-inclosed arc lamps., eighty dollars per lamp per annum. For five-ampere, five hundred and fifty watt, direct-current, multiple-inclosed arc lampsMultiple-inclosed arc lamps., eighty dollars per lamp per annum. For four-ampere, three-hundred-and-twenty-watt magnetite, Magnetite, etc., arc lamps.or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, on overhead wires, fifty-nine dollars per lamp per annum.
For four-ampere, three-hundred-and-twenty-watt magnetite, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia, on underground wires, seventy- two dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. For six and six-tenths ampere, five-hundred-watt magnetite, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, on overhead wires, eighty-four dollars per lamp per annum. For six and six-tenths ampere, five-hundred-watt magnetite, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia, on underground wires, ninety- seven dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum.
For flame arc lamps,Flame arc lamps. five hundred watt, General Electric type, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, one hundred and fifty dollars per lamp per annum. 1010 *Provided,**Proviso.*That except as otherwise directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, all series-inclosed and multipleinclosed arc lamps now Present inclosed lamps to be replaced.in service shall be replaced by the lighting company, without expense to the District of Columbia, with four-ampere, three-hundred-and-twenty-watt magnetite, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, by April first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and such replacement shall be effected to the number of not less than four hundred lamps per annum until completed.
For the rates named above Maintenance, fixtures, etc., by lighting companies.it shall be the duty of each gaslight company and each electric-light company doing business in the District of Columbia to erect and maintain such street lamps as the Commissioners of said District may direct; and each such company shall furnish, install, and maintain all posts, lamps, lanterns, burners, wires, cable, conduits, gas pipes, street designations, and fixtures necessary for the respective lamps maintained by each of them, including lighting amt extinguishing lamps, and repairing, painting, and cleaning.
The cost of each lamp-post Cost allowed for lamp-posts.(exclusive of erection), including the lantern, globe, and street designations, furnished by any lighting company under the above rates shall not exceed fifteen dollars for each gas or electric incandescent lamp nor fifty dollars for each electric arc lamp, except as hereinafter provided, and each post and its equipment shall be of a design and quality acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For each such lamp post furnished by a lighting company by direction of the District Commissioners which shall cost in excess Allowance for greater cost.of fifteen dollars for gas or electric incandescent lamps, or which shall cost in excess of fifty dollars for electric arc lamps, the company furnishing the same shall receive., in addition to the above rates, eleven per centum per annum on such additional or excess cost.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized in their discretion to purchase or construct from street-lighting appropriations Equipment furnished by Commissioners.made in this Act, posts, lanterns, street designations, and all necessary fixtures or appurtenances for any of the systems of lighting above named: *Provided,**Proviso.*That whenever the said commissioners shall furnish the said equipment, one dollar and sixty-five cents per lamp per annum for gas or electric incandescent lamps and four dollars and forty cents per lamp per annum for electric arc lamps shall be deducted Deductions therefor.from the rates above fixed.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized, in their discretion, to adopt other forms of electric street lighting Adoption of other forms of lighting.than those named, in which event payments under appropriations made in this Act, shall be made for the lighting service rendered at not to exceed three cents per kilowatt hour for current consumed, Maximum for current consumed.and, in addition thereto, eleven per centum per annum of the cost to the lighting company of furnishing and installing lamps, posts, street designations, fixtures, and the cable from lamps to the nearest point of current supply, and a fair sum for the cost of maintenance.
When ordered to do so by the said commissioners, lighting companies shall move Moving, etc., lamps.and readjust any lamps maintained by them at the following rates: Rates allowed.For each electric arc lamp, ten dollars. For each electric incandescent lamp, five dollars. For each gas lamp moved not more than six feet, two dollars and fifty cents. For each gas lamp moved more than six feet, four dollars. For each gas lamp raised or lowered to new grade, one dollar and fifty cents.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract, Naphtha or oil lamps.for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, 1011 with any responsible person, firm, company, or corporation for the maintenance of naphtha or oil lamps, equipped with mantle burners of not less than sixty candlepower, at a price not to exceed twenty-two dollars and eighty cents per lamp per annum, Contracts authorized.which price shall include the entire cost of furnishing, installing, and maintaining all necessary posts, lanterns, burners, street designations, and fixtures.
Sec.8.Hereafter each and every public gas, naphtha, or oil lamp in the District of Columbia shall burn each night from twenty minutes after sunset until forty minutes before sunrise, and each and every electric lamp shall burn from fifteen minutes after sunset All night service required.until forty-five minutes before sunrise, in accordance with schedules to be prepared by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Hereafter no public electric lamp shall be maintained by means of overhead wires No overhead wires in fire limits, etc.within either the city limits of Washington or the existing fire limits of the District of Columbia.
Hereafter proportionate deductions shall be made from the amounts due lighting companiesProportionate deductions for failing to furnish legal standard light.for failure to furnish the illumination required by law for public lighting in the District of Columbia, and each company shall furnish, at its own expense, when and as required by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, all proper and necessary facilities, testing places, and apparatus at its plant, and such help at points on its mains or circuits as to enable the said commissioners to determine whether the required illumination is being furnished.
For each and every lamp which shall be extinguished or not lighted during any portion of the schedule time of lighting, a pro rata deduction, Deduction pro rata for lampsnot burning.based upon the period of nonillumination and the price per lamp, shall be made from said amounts. Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not be required Contracts not required.to execute contracts for gas and electric lighting. Hereafter any gaslight company or any electric-light company doing business in the District of Columbia, which shall fail or refuse to furnish, erect, maintain, move, or discontinue Penalty for refusing to furnish lamps, etc.any street lamp in compliance with the foregoing provisions as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may direct, shall be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every day’s failure or refusal so to do, to be recovered at law in the name of the District of Columbia in any court of competent jurisdiction.
When ordered by the commissioners to do so, lighting companies in the District of Columbia shall discontinue any public lamps Discontinuance of lamps, etc.maintained by them without further payment therefor, and shall remove from the streets, at their own expense, all posts, lanterns, and fixtures connected therewith. Sec.9.The Superintendent of the Capitol Building Superintendent of Capitol, etc., may transfer discontinued apparatus, etc.and Grounds may transfer apparatus, appliances, equipments, and supplies of any kind, discontinued or permanently out of service, to such other branches of the service of the United States, or District of Columbia, whenever, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in his judgment the interests of the Government service may require it.
A detailed statement of all such transfers shall be submitted in the annual report Statement required.to Congress of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds. Sec.10.That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are inconsistent Inconsistent laws repealed.with this act are repealed. Approved, March 2, 1911.