Chapter 248. 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 eleven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 248.— 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 eleven, and for other purposes. May 18, 1910.[[H. R. 14464](/us/bill/61/hr/14464).][[Public, No. 185](/us/pl/61/185).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia appropriations. Half from District revenues. That the half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, namely:
General expenses. GENERAL EXPENSES. Executive office. Salaries of Commissioners. Executive office: Two commissioners, at five thousand dollars each; engineer commissioner, two hundred and eighty dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); additional compensation for two Assistants to Engineer Commissioner. Vol. 20, p. 103. assistants to the engineer commissioner, detailed from the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, under Act of Congress approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two, at two Superintendents, District building. hundred and fifty dollars each, and the two assistants to the engineer commissioner shall hereafter also act jointly as superintendent of the municipal building; 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; three 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, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at six hundred dollars each;
Veterinary surgeon. Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars; Property division. Property division: Property clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; deputy property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three clerks, at six hundred 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, 375 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 dollars each; inspector of materials, one thousand two hundred dollars (the four foregoing employees transferred from engineer’s office);
Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, two thousand Building inspection division. seven hundred and fifty dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand eight hundred dollars; eleven assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand 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;
Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, two thousand Plumbing inspection division. 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 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; purchase and maintenance of motor cycle, three hundred dollars;
In all, one hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars. Care of District building: Clerk and stenographer, one thousand Care of District building. eight hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two dynamo tenders, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three coal passers, at six hundred dollars each; 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 seven hundred and thirty dollars: *Provided*, That the employees herein *Proviso*.
Appointment. authorized for the care of the District building shall be appointed by the assistants to the engineer commissioner, with the approval of the commissioners. For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics and labor not Maintenance expenses. to exceed three thousand dollars, and miscellaneous supplies, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Assessor’s office: Assessor, three thousand five hundred dollars, Assessor’s office. and five hundred dollars additional as chairman of the excise and personal tax boards; two assistant assessors, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, arrears division, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand 376 two hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk in charge of records, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant inspector of licenses, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and fifty dollars (transferred from street-cleaning department); three assistant assessors, at three thousand dollars each; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars; in all, forty-four thousand six hundred and seventy 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. Personal tax board: Two assistant assessors of personal taxes, at three thousand dollars each; appraiser of personal property, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Collector’s office. 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; book-keeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one 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 thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars.
Tax-sale certificates. For extra labor in the preparation of tax-sale certificates, with authority to employ clerks, eight hundred dollars. Auditor’s office. Auditor’s office: Auditor, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each (one transferred from engineer department); three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars (transferred from engineer department); three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars (transferred from engineer department); two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, six hundred dollars (transferred from property division); messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, three thousand dollars; deputy disbursing officer, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Corporation counsel’s office. Office of corporation counsel: Corporation counsel, 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; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty 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. 377 Coroner’s office: Coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Coroner’s office. 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, at one thousand two hundred Market masters. dollars each; assistant market masters, who shall also perform the necessary labor in cleaning the markets, and one laborer for 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, nine hundred Produce market. 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: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where Eastern market. used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where Western market. used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. Office of sealer of weights and measures: Sealer of weights Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets. *Post*, p. 874. and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand and eighty dollars.
For extra services in the sealer’s office, which are necessary to perform the additional clerical work pertaining to the District markets, public hay scales, inspectors of wood, lumber, flour, and the fish wharf and wood wharfage privileges, with authority to employ clerks, three hundred dollars. Engineer Commissioner’s office: Engineer of highways, three Engineer Commissioner’s office. Engineer, superintendents, etc. thousand dollars; engineer of bridges, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of county roads, one thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as assistant engineer in Rock Creek Park; superintendent of sewers, three thousand dollars; inspector Asphalt inspector. of asphalts and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars (*Provided*, That the inspector of asphalts and cements shall not *Proviso*.
Restriction. receive or accept compensation of any kind from, or perform any work or render any services of a character required of him officially by the District of Columbia to, any person, firm, corporation, or municipality other than the District of Columbia); assistant inspector of asphalts and cements, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of 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 Assistant engineers, etc. dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand one hundred dollars; four assistant engineers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; five 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; draftsman, one thousand five hundred 378 dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; two draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, Inspectors, etc. 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 sub-foremen, 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 Clerks, etc. six hundred dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand 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 three hundred and fifty dollars (one transferred to auditor’s office); five 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 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; store-keeper, 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 Inspector of gas, etc. drivers, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; 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 four hundred and ten dollars.
Municipal architect’s office. Duties, etc. 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 Draftsmen, etc. (transferred from the engineer’s office); chief draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars (transferred from inspector of buildings’ office); draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars (transferred from inspector of buildings’ office); superintendent of repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars (transferred from engineer’s office); boss carpenter, boss tinner, boss painter, boss plumber, and boss steam fitter, five in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each (all transferred from engineer’s office); boss grader, one thousand dollars (transferred from engineer’s office); clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars (transferred from engineer’s office); clerk, six hundred and twenty dollars (transferred from engineer’s office); driver, five hundred and forty dollars (transferred from the engineer’s office); in all, seventeen thousand two hundred and ten dollars. 379 Special assessment office:
Special assessment clerk, two thousand Special assessment office. 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: Superintendent, two thousand five Street-sweeping office. 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; 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; in all, forty-five thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
Board of examiners, steam engineers: Three members of Board of examiners, steam engineers. board of examiners of steam engineers, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Automobile board: Secretary or acting secretary of the automobile Automobile board. board, three hundred dollars. The Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, License tax on motor vehicles. Vol. 32, p. 629, amended. entitled “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 three, and for other purposes,” be, and the same hereby is, amended by adding to section seven of the said Act, at the end thereof, the following:
That hereafter there shall be assessed and collected an annual wheel tax on all automobiles, or other motor vehicles, owned or operated in the District of Columbia, having seats for only two persons, the sum of three dollars; and on all such vehicles having seats for more than two persons, an additional tax of two dollars for each additional seat. Department of insurance: Superintendent of insurance, three Insurance department. thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; temporary clerk hire, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand four hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter *Proviso*.
Printing annual reports. the annual reports of the superintendent of insurance shall be printed and bound in one volume and shall be ready for distribution not later than the first day of the next regular session of Congress thereafter. Surveyor’s office: Surveyor, three thousand dollars; assistant Surveyor’s office. 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 and 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, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; two rodmen, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; three chainmen, at seven hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and seventy-five dollars; computer and transitman, one thousand two hundred dollars; rodman, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; 380 Temporary services.
For services of temporary 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, one thousand dollars; four assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four assistants, at six hundred dollars each; three assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; copyist, four hundred and eighty dollars; cataloguer, nine hundred dollars; cataloguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; three temporary cataloguers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; 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 a night watchman; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; library guard, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two cloakroom attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; six charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
Substitutes, etc. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at the discretion of the librarian, one thousand dollars. Sunday opening. For keeping the library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’clock 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. Miscellaneous, Free Public Library:
For purchase of books, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For binding, three thousand five hundred dollars; For fuel, lighting, fitting up building, including lunch-room equipment, maintainance of one motorcycle, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand dollars; In all, nineteen thousand dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses; 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, 381 harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, thirty-seven thousand dollars; and the commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this *Provisos*.
Restriction on use of horses, etc. Act shall not be used by the commissioners for any other purpose than to visit such points within the District of Columbia as it may be necessary to visit in order to enable them to inspect or inform themselves concerning any public work or property belonging to the said District or to do any other act necessary to the administration of its affairs: *Provided further*, That hereafter no illustrations No illustrations in reports. shall be used in the annual report of any department of the government of the District of Columbia.
No part of the money appropriated by this Act, except appropriations Limit on expenditures for horses. for the militia, shall be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the Fire insurance prohibited. payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department, Stables. including forage, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oils, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles and expenses, five thousand dollars; and no expenditure on account of the engineer department for the items named in this paragraph shall be made from any other fund, except as hereinafter authorized.
For postage for strictly official mail matter, eight thousand dollars. Postage. For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, Collecting personal taxes. in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, four thousand dollars. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the Judicial expenses. 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 livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees, Coroner’s expenses. witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, four thousand dollars. For the purchase and maintenance of one motor vehicle for the Motor vehicle for inspection work. official use only of the engineer commissioner and of the assistants to the engineer commissioner in inspection work, two thousand four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.
Section four of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Restriction on horses, etc., applied to motor vehicles, etc. Vol. 33, p. 687. Act, approved February third, nineteen hundred and five, shall apply to carriages, motor, and other vehicles owned by and used in the several branches of the government of the District of Columbia. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax Advertising. and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, four thousand seven hundred dollars.
For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred Tax-arrearage sales. Vol. 26, p. 24. and ten, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, 382 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. Enforcing game and fish laws. For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, five hundred dollars.
Removing dangerous buildings. Vol. 34, p. 1126; Vol. 35, pp. 281, 695. That not exceeding two thousand dollars of the unexpended balances of the appropriations provided in the District appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and eight, nineteen hundred and nine, and nineteen hundred and ten, “for carrying out the provisions Vol. 30, p. 923. of the Act approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,’ to pay the members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed ten dollars for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal Reappropriation. or neglect of the owners so to do,” are hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven.
Historical tablets. For the erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, the appropriations made for this purpose Vol. 34, pp. 486, 1126; Vol. 35, pp. 281, 695. by the Acts of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, March second, nineteen hundred and seven, May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, and March third, nineteen hundred and nine, respectively, are continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven.
Copies of wills, etc., to assessor. For the office of the register of wills: For furnishing to the office of the assessor copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, nine hundred dollars. Motor vehicle tags. For the purchase of enamel metal or leather identification number tags for motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. Classifying, etc., old records.
For extra services necessary to complete classification, arrangement, and rebinding of the old records of the District of Columbia, including the corporations of Washington, Georgetown, and the levy court, with authority to employ clerks, of the auditor’s and other offices after office hours, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Repairs of fire injuries. Vol. 35, p. 695. The appropriation of ten thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten for repair of buildings owned and used by the District of Columbia when injured by fire is hereby reappropriated and continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven.
Exchanging typewriters and pianos. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered, when in their discretion it shall be deemed to the advantage of the public service, to exchange typewriters, adding machines, and pianos in part or full payment for new articles of similar or improved character, credit for the value of said personal property so exchanged to be allowed on vouchers in payment for such new articles as may be purchased, the balance remaining due after said credit to be paid out of the appropriation to which said purchase is properly chargeable.
Gravel wharf. For constructing conveyors, engines, and so forth, at the District sand and gravel wharf, five thousand dollars. Book typewriter for surveyor. *Proviso*. Recording permitted by. For the purchase of one book typewriter for use in the office of the surveyor of the district of Columbia: *Provided*, That hereafter the recording of all instruments filed for record in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia may be done with book typewriters, one hundred and fifty dollars. 383 The Chief of Engineers of the United States Army is hereby authorized Reservation 185.
Transfer for property yard. and directed to transfer to the Commissioners of the District of: Columbia the control and jurisdiction over reservation one hundred and eighty-five, to be used by said District as a property yard: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Use for park. That when in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army the use of said reservation for park purposes is desirable, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon his request, are authorized and directed to retransfer said reservation to his jurisdiction.
For fireproof steel file cases for the office of the register of wills of File case, register of wills. the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For testing materials for fireproof buildings, including necessary Testing fireproof materials. Vol. 30, p. 922. labor and implements, under “An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred dollars. For repairs to the Western and Georgetown District of Columbia Repairing markets. markets and the old part of the Eastern District of Columbia Market, 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, five thousand dollars. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Improvements and repairs. Elimination of grade crossings: Toward carrying out the Eliminating grade crossings, Union Station, etc. Vol. 31, p. 767; Vol. 32, p. 913. provisions of the Acts of Congress providing for the elimination of grade crossings and the construction of a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, for purchase or condemnation of the land necessary for the plaza and new streets, and for reconstructing, grading, and paving, together with the necessary incidental work in connection therewith, the streets, avenues, and ways changed in line or grade or newly created under the provisions of said Acts, including the employment, on the approval of this Act, of special assistant counsel, at a rate not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum, and one clerk, at a rate not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum, in connection with the settlement of claims for damages incident to changes of grade, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, seventy-five thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to transfer to Widening First street east, Union Station. the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, for street purposes, the portion of the area of square six hundred and seventy-eight necessary to widen First street east, from its present width of forty feet to a total width between building lines of sixty feet from G street to the south portico of the Union Station, and ninety feet thence to the plaza; in accordance with the plan for the “Plaza improvements, Union Station,” on file in the office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia.
And the Sale of public space not needed for streets. Vol. 32, p. 914. authority to sell or equitably exchange any portion of then existing public space in connection with the laying out of the plaza and its intersecting streets, given to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia by the Act to provide for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby extended to include any portion of public space necessarily acquired under the laws to provide for the elimination of grade crossings but not needed for street purposes.
And the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and Area for flagstaffs changed. Vol. 35, p. 696. nine, making appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia, which authorizes the use of a portion of the appropriation 384 for elimination of grade crossings, improvement of the plaza, for the construction of three flagstaffs, on condition that the Washington Terminal Company shall first convey to the United States a certain portion of the terminal area specifically described therein, is hereby amended by substituting for the area therein required to be conveyed the following:
New location. Vol. 32, p. 913. All that portion of the terminal area as described in the Act of February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, lying north of the north building line of Massachusetts avenue and south of a line running from a point
(A)at the intersection of the said north building line of Massachusetts avenue and the north curb line of the central island (extended) to a point
(B)on said north curb line (extended) east of the Delaware avenue axis of the plaza and symmetrical with respect to said axis with point (A), and thence to the intersection of the east line of the terminal area and the east and west axis of the plaza, as shown on the plans referred to. Use of unexpended balance. And the unexpended balance of said appropriation shall in any event be available for all necessary expenses for the improvement of the plaza, and also for the construction of said flagstaffs if and when the conveyance above specified shall be made by the Washington Terminal Company. Assessment and permit work. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Work on streets and avenues. Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix R, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and eleven, sixty thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely: Schedules. Georgetown schedule: Two thousand dollars. Northwest section schedule: Nine thousand dollars. Southwest section schedule: Eleven thousand dollars. Southeast section schedule: Twenty thousand dollars. Northeast section schedule: Eighteen thousand dollars. *Proviso*. Streets paved with Belgian blocks, etc. *Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated. Limit for asphalt pavements. Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and 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 *Proviso*. Increase allowed. prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard. Asphalt to replace granite blocks. Streets affected. For replacing with asphalt the granite block pavement on Market Space between Seventh and Eighth streets, forty feet wide, two thousand five hundred dollars. For replacing with asphalt the granite block pavement on D street northwest between Seventh and Eighth streets, thirty-six feet wide, four thousand dollars. 385 Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For purchase and repair Grading. *Post*, p. 1297. of cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, fifteen thousand dollars. Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or Condemnation. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Construction of county roads: For construction of county roads County roads. Construction. and suburban streets, as follows: Northeast: Rhode Island avenue, Lincoln road to Fourth street, grade, ten thousand dollars; Northwest: Otis street, Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets, twenty-five feet (Thirteenth to Holmead streets), thirty feet (Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets), grade and improve, five thousand four hundred dollars; Northeast: Twenty-fourth street, Rhode Island avenue to Irving street, grade and improve, one thousand nine hundred dollars; Northeast: Ninth street, Monroe to Newton streets, grade and improve, one thousand one hundred dollars; Northeast: Monroe street, Thirteenth to Fifteenth street, grade and improve, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Northwest: Varnum street, Georgia avenue to Eighth street, grade and improve, two thousand four hundred dollars; Northwest: Third street and Karlboro place, north of Shepherd street, grade and improve, two thousand six hundred dollars; Northeast: Twenty-second street, Rhode Island avenue to Lawrence street, grade and improve, two thousand three hundred dollars; Northeast: Evarts street, Twentieth to Twenty-second streets, grade, one thousand six hundred dollars; Northwest: Quincy street, between Fifth and Seventh streets, grade and improve, two thousand nine hundred dollars; Northwest: Colorado avenue, Fourteenth street to A road, grade and improve, seven thousand dollars; Northeast: Kearney street, Thirteenth to Eighteenth streets, grade, provided the land necessary to open this street is first dedicated to the District of Columbia without cost, four thousand seven hundred dollars; Northwest: Kennedy street from Fourteenth street to Sixteenth street, grade and improve, provided the land necessary to open this street within the limits named be first dedicated to the District of Columbia without cost, five thousand six hundred dollars; Northwest: Macomb street, between Ross place and Thirty-third street, eleven thousand two hundred dollars; Northeast: Fourth street, from end of present pavement to Rhode Island avenue, macadamize, one thousand four hundred dollars; Northeast: South Dakota avenue, Carlton street to Rhode Island avenue, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred dollars; Northeast: Girard street, Twelfth to Fourteenth streets, grade and improve, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; Northeast: Irving street, Twenty-fourth street to South Dakota avenue, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred dollars; Northwest: Longfellow street, Georgia avenue to Colorado avenue, grade, two thousand eight hundred dollars; Northeast: Seventeenth street, from Newton to Hamlin streets, grade and improve, five thousand dollars; That the name of the street lying in the County of Washington, Name of part of U street changed to Vernon street. District of Columbia, in the tract of land known as the Commissioners’ subdivision of Washington Heights, running from Florida avenue west to Nineteenth street extended and now called U street, be, and the same shall henceforth be, known as Vernon street. And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to 386 cause the name of Vernon street, from Florida avenue to Nineteenth street northwest, to be placed upon the plats and maps of the District of Columbia. In all, eighty-one thousand one hundred dollars. Repairs, streets, etc. Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, of which sum one hundred thousand dollars shall be immediately available, four hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of the street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected Vol. 20, p. 105. from such railroad company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. *Proviso*. Use of heater method. *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to expend not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars of the sum hereby appropriated in repairing such streets, avenues, and alleys, as they may deem advisable, by Contracts authorized. what is known as the heater method of repairs; and to enter into a supplemental contract for such repairs with the present contractor with the District of Columbia for work of resurfacing and repairing asphalt and coal-tar pavements, if a price satisfactory to said commissioners can be agreed upon between said contractor and said commissioners, and in the event that such a satisfactory price can not be agreed upon, the said commissioners are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to enter into a new contract for such work of repairs by the heater method, after competition, in an amount not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars. Changing width of roadways in specified streets. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to make the following changes of roadway widths between curbs: Eleventh street, northwest, between I street and K street, from thirty-five feet to fifty feet; I street, northwest, between New Jersey avenue and Third street, from thirty-five feet to thirty-two feet; O street, northwest, between Fifteenth street and Seventeenth street, from thirty-two feet to thirty feet; Third street, northwest, between D street and H street, from forty feet to thirty-two feet; Twenty-sixth street, northwest, between Pennsylvania avenue and M street, from thirty-two feet to fifty feet; Second street, northwest, between Indiana avenue and I street, from forty feet to thirty-two feet; Eighth street, southeast, between L street and M street, from fifty-five feet to fifty feet; Fourth street, northeast, between East Capitol street and Maryland avenue, from thirty-five feet to thirty-four feet; Washington circle, northwest, from fifty-six feet to forty-five feet; Third street, northeast, between East Capitol street and Massachusetts avenue, from thirty-two feet to thirty feet; P street, northwest, between Fourteenth street and Fifteenth street, from thirty-two feet to forty-five feet; O street, northwest, between Sixth street and Seventh street, from fifty-seven feet to thirty-two feet; Massachusetts avenue, northwest, between Third street and Fourth street, from thirty feet to fifty feet; H street, northwest, between Third street and Fourth street, from thirty-eight feet to thirty-five feet; Twenty-third street, northwest, between Washington circle and L street, from thirty-two feet to thirty feet; Corcoran street, northwest, between Thirteenth street and Fourteenth street, from thirty feet to twenty-four feet; Second street, northeast, between East Capitol street and Massachusetts avenue, from thirty-two feet to thirty-one feet; G street, northwest, from New Jersey avenue to Fifth street, from thirty-five feet to fifty feet; Second street, southeast, 387 between Pennsylvania avenue and C street, from thirty-five feet to thirty feet; Fifth street, northwest, between M street and N street, from thirty-two feet or less to thirty feet; Rock Creek Church road, northwest, east of Georgia avenue, from sixty feet to thirty-five feet: *And provided further*, That they are similarly authorized to change *Proviso*. General authority for minor changes. any roadway width by an amount not in excess of one foot whenever hereafter they consider the same necessary and advisable in connection with the resurfacing or other improvement of the street. For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public Sidewalks and curbs. reservations and municipal buildings, seven thousand dollars. Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs of county County roads, repairs. roads and suburban streets, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, including not exceeding nine hundred and sixty dollars for 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. Bridges: For construction and repairs of bridges, fifteen thousand Bridges. dollars. For the strengthening and stiffening, and all work incidental Rock Creek bridge. thereto, of bridge number thirty across Rock Creek on the line of Calvert street, twelve thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the street railway company occupying this bridge *Proviso*. Railway to contribute. shall contribute an equal sum under the provisions of existing law. Highway bridge across Potomac River: Two draw operators, at one Highway bridge. 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 dollars. Operation of the Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous Anacostia bridge. supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to the operation and maintenance of the bridge, five thousand six hundred dollars. For constructing a suitable subway and bridge to carry Cedar street Cedar street. Railroad bridge over. under the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, all in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars. Authority is hereby given to purchase or condemn, in accordance Widening street. with existing law, any land necessary to widen Cedar street to conform to the plans for constructing this subway, the cost of said purchase or condemnation to be paid out of this appropriation, and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to make the necessary expenditures for the construction of said subway and bridges and approaches under the conditions prescribed for the expenditures of Conditions. Vol. 32, p. 918. appropriations for the elimination of grade crossings in the Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, providing for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes; and of the appropriation for approaches, et cetera, Vol. 34, p. 492. Anacostia Bridge, District of Columbia, contained in the Act approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes: *Provided*, That such portion of this cost shall be *Provisos*. Payment by Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company. Vol. 32, p. 918. borne by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company as is provided in section ten of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, and said sum shall be paid by said company to the Treasurer of the United States, one half to the credit of the District of Columbia and the other 388 half to the credit of the United States, and the same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and property of the said Baltimore anti Ohio Railroad Company, and shall be a legal indebtedness of said company in favor of the District of Columbia, jointly for its use and the use of the United States as aforesaid, and the said lien may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by a bill in equity brought by the Commissioners of the said District of Columbia in the supreme court of said District, or by any other lawful proceeding against the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company: Use by street railway company. *Provided further*, That no street railway company shall use the subway herein authorized for its tracks until such company shall have paid to the Treasurer of the United States a sum equal to one-fourth of the total cost of said subway and bridge, one half thereof to be credited to the United States and the other half to the credit of the District of Columbia. Sewers. SEWERS. Cleaning, etc. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, sixty-five thousand dollars. Pumping station. For maintenance and operation of sewage pumping station, including employment of mechanics, laborers, and watchman, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, forty-three thousand dollars. Main and pipe. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, sixty thousand dollars. Suburban. For suburban sewers, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, and Motor trucks. the commissioners are authorized to purchase and maintain from the appropriation for suburban sewers two motor trucks for service in handling sewer construction and emergency repairs in the District outside the city of Washington, at a cost not to exceed one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars each. Rights of way. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Anacostia interceptor. Anacostia main intercepter: For beginning the construction of the Anacostia main intercepter along the Anacostia River between the outfall sewer, sewage-disposal system, at Poplar Point and Benning, District of Columbia (estimated cost, two hundred and forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars), fifty thousand dollars. Rock Creek interceptor. Rock Creek main intercepter: For beginning the extension of the Rock Creek main intercepter from P street to Military road (estimated cost, two hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars), forty thousand dollars. East side interceptor. For continuing work on extension of east side intercepting sewer from boundary sewer to Brookland, ten thousand dollars. Streets. STREETS. Cleaning, etc. Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, including rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stable, purchase and maintenance of horses; purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons and harness, allowance to inspectors for maintenance of horses and vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed thirty dollars per month for each inspector, and necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work done under the immediate direction of the commissioners *Provisos*. Contracts. without contract: *Provided*, That whenever it shall appear to the commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards, in accordance with the specifications under which the 389 same was last advertised for bids, it shall at once be their duty to advertise to let said work under said specifications to the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents per thousand square yards, they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications; two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided further*, That not exceeding Street-washing machines. eight thousand dollars of this appropriation shall be available, when ordered in writing by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, for the purchase of horse-propelled street-washing machines or other machines or apparatus for cleaning streets to be used in connection with hand-cleaning work performed under the immediate direction of said commissioners, and the expenditures on account of this service shall not be charged as a part of the cost of hand-cleaning work. For cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross walks, and Removal of snow and ice. gutters, in the discretion of the commissioners, including services, not exceeding ten thousand dollars of the existing appropriation for this service, is hereby reappropriated for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, and any additional balance of said appropriation unexpended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby covered into the Treasury. Disposal of city refuse: For the collection and disposal of garbage Disposal of city refuse. and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; for collection and disposal of night soil in the District of Columbia, and for the payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars. Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are Five-year contracts authorized. authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the collection and disposal of garbage, miscellaneous refuse, ashes, night soil, and dead animals, for periods not exceeding five years, subject to annual appropriations by Congress, under such conditions and specifications as they may prescribe. Parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers, Parking commission. 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, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Bathing beach: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman, Bathing beach. four hundred and fifty dollars; temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, two thousand dollars; for repairs and improvements to bath houses, bathing pools, and grounds, one thousand dollars; construction of additional swimming pools, one for the colored Additional pools. and one for the white bathers, five thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand and fifty dollars, to be immediately available. Public scales: For replacement and repair of public scales, four Public scales. hundred dollars. Deep wells: For drilling deep wells on school grounds, and for Deep wells. other public uses, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Playgrounds: For maintenance, repairs, equipment, and supplies, Playgrounds. Wholly from District revenues. seventeen thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia. For toilet facilities and shelter house for Rosedale playground, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For toilet facilities and shelter house for Georgetown playground, three thousand seven hundred dollars. 390 Public convenience stations. Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, fourteen thousand two hundred dollars. Insanitary buildings. Condemnation of insanitary buildings: That not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for expenses necessary and incident Vol. 34, p. 157. to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal services, when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, is hereby reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven. Electrical department. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Salaries. Electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant electrical engineer who shall perform the duties of the electrical engineer in the absence or disability of the latter and shall have the same qualifications as to ability and technical knowledge as is required by law of the head of the department, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; 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 hundred and sixty dollars; four repair men, at nine hundred dollars each; three telephone operators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; electrical inspector, two thousand dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand 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-five dollars each; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant cable splicer, six hundred and twenty dollars; assistant repair man, six hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant repair men, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; laborer, four hundred and sixty dollars; four telephone operators, at five hundred and forty dollars each; telephone operator, four hundred and fifty dollars; storekeeper, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; laborer, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, forty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars. Supplies. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, black-smithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, and other necessary items, thirteen thousand dollars. Placing wires underground. For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, and telephone service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Police-patrol system. For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand five hundred dollars. 391 Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, Lighting. and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unfit for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items, two hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no *Provisos*. Maximum per lamp. more than eighteen dollars per annum shall be paid for each gas lamp equipped with a self-regulating flat-flame burner so adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour, nor more than twenty dollars and eighty-five cents per annum for each gas and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents per annum for each oil lamp equipped with an incandescent-mantle burner of not less than sixty candlepower. And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven the price All expenses included. prescribed by Congress for lighting each street lamp in the District of Columbia with gas or oil shall be construed to include the cost of the illuminating material used, lighting and extinguishing lamps, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expense of erecting and maintaining lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures: *Provided*, That all of said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, All-night service. from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: *And provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Street-designation fixtures. Columbia may purchase, erect, light, and maintain such posts, lanterns, signs, and fixtures for street-designation purposes, in addition to those mentioned above, as in their judgment may be necessary, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph except as to the time of burning. Hereafter contracts shall be entered into for lighting avenues, Contracts for oil lamps. streets, roads, and alleys in the District of Columbia by oil for a period of not exceeding three years. For electric are lighting, and for extensions of such service, not Electric are lights. exceeding one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Maximum per lamp. That not more than eighty-five dollars per annum shall be paid for any electric are light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wire; and each are light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, in their discretion, Higher power lamps for Union Station Plaza. maintain electric are lamps of higher candlepower on posts already erected in the Union Station Plaza at a rate not to exceed one hundred dollars per lamp per annum for lamps burning from fifteen minutes after sunset until forty-five minutes before sunrise. For the purchase of twenty-five fire-alarm boxes, and for the Fire-alarm boxes. purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross-arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, five thousand dollars. 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. 392 Filtration plant. For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, and operation of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, eighty-two thousand dollars. Emergency fund. For 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. McMillan Park reservoir. For continuation of parking grounds around McMillan Park reservoir, formerly known as Washington City reservoir, two thousand dollars. Coagulant plant. For the construction of works to provide for the preliminary treatment of Potomac water by means of a coagulant, for purchase of coagulant, and for each and every purpose connected with the construction and operation of the plant, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Meters for Government Printing Office, etc. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters to be placed on water services of the Government Printing Office, the United States Navy-Yard, and the Municipal building of the District of Columbia, said meters to be purchased, installed, maintained and remain under the observation and control of the officer in charge of the Washington Aqueduct, seven thousand dollars. Rock Creek Park. ROCK CREEK PARK. Care, etc. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, and of the Piney Branch parkway entrance to said park from Sixteenth street extended, exclusive of building for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Public schools. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Salaries. Officers. Officers: Superintendent of public schools, five thousand dollars; two assistant superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising, principals, and supervisor of manual training, fifteen in all, at a minimum salary of two thousand two hundred dollars each; secretary, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk to carry out the provisions of the child labor 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. Attendance officers: Two 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 thirty-four 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; Assistant 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; 393 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: *Provided*, *Provisos*. Promotions to Group B, class 6. Restriction. That hereafter no teacher shall be eligible to Group B, class six, who has not attained the maximum of Group A: *And provided further*, That hereafter no more than seven teachers shall be promoted in anyone year from Group A, class six, to Group B, class six: *And Longevity to normal, etc., teachers. provided further*, That teachers now employed in Group A, class six, in the normal, high, and manual training schools, or hereafter to be appointed in the said normal, high, or manual training schools, may be placed in said Group A, class six, and receive their longevity increase according to their previous number of years of experience in teaching in accredited normal, high, or manual training schools: *Provided, however*, That nothing contained herein or in the Act Exclusions from Group A, class 6. Vol. 34, p. 316. approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, shall be construed to authorize the promotion or appointment to Group A, class six, of teachers of manual training, drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, and domestic art in the normal, high, and manual training schools, and those who have not passed the required examination and do not possess the qualifications provided in the said Act: *And provided further*, That teachers of manual training, drawing, Manual training, etc., teachers. physical culture, music, domestic science, and domestic art in the normal, high, and manual training schools shall continue in classes four and five, and be entitled only to the longevity pay provided for said classes. Teachers in Group A of class six, two hundred and eleven in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand dollars each; Teachers in class five, one hundred and fifty-nine in all, at a minimum salary of nine hundred and fifty dollars each; Teachers in class four, four hundred and thirty-five in all, at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars each; Teachers in class three, four hundred and eighty-six in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each; Teachers in class two, three hundred and thirty-six in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each; Teachers in class one, sixty-four in all, at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each; Teachers in the normal, high, and manual training schools not Restriction. Vol. 34, p. 316. eligible to the salary of class six by reason of the provisions of section four of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the said Act, as follows: One at a salary of nine hundred dollars; In all for teachers, one million three hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Librarians and clerks: Twenty-three librarians and clerks to be Librarians and clerks. 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. 394 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 Vol. 34, p. 320. with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, three hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. Principals. Additional pay. Allowance to principals: Allowance to principals of grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of Vol. 34, p. 320. the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. *Provisos*. No sex, etc., discriminations. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade and performing a like class of duties; and it shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion, or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades. Restriction on employment. *Provided further*, That no teacher, of the whole number appropriated for herein, shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of, a clerk or librarian. Night schools. Salaries. Night schools: Salaries of teachers 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. Supplies. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, including equipment and the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, two thousand five hundred dollars. Kindergarten supplies. Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Janitors and care of buildings and grounds. Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: Superintendent of janitors, one thousand two hundred dollars; For care of Central High School and annex, two thousand dollars; Of the Business High School, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Of the Jefferson Building, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Western High School, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Franklin School, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Eastern High School and M Street High School, two in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; Of the McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars. For assistant engineer at the McKinley Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; Of the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars; For engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand dollars; For assistant engineer at the Armstrong Manual Training School, six hundred dollars; Of the Stevens School, one thousand two hundred dollars; 395 Of the Emery, the new Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Van Buren, and Wallach buildings, five in all, at one thousand dollars each; Of the 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, and Webster school buildings, and one new building to relieve the Franklin and Thompson schools, twenty-three in all, at nine hundred dollars each; Of the Armstrong Manual Training, McKinley Manual Training, two in all, at eight hundred dollars each; Of the Abbott, Berrett, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, old Mott, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley buildings, ten in all, at seven hundred dollars each; Of the Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Benning (white), Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Cardozo, Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Dent, Douglass, Edmunds, Eckington, Fillmore, French, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Loganr Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Petworth, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Potomac, Ross, Abby S. Simmons, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Thomson, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatley, Wilson, Woodburn, and Wormley buildings, and one eight-room building adjacent to Johnson School, seventy-seven in all, at six hundred dollars each; Of the Benning (colored), Brightwood Park, Deanwood, Hamilton, Kenilworth, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Stanton, and Threlkeld buildings, eleven in all, at three hundred dollars each; Of the Bunker Hill, Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Fort Road, Fort Slocum, Military Road, Ivy City, and Burrville buildings, eight in all, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed seventy-two dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, ten thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. Medical inspectors: Twelve medical inspectors of public schools, Medical inspectors. four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said inspectors shall be appointed *Proviso*. Competitive examinations. by the commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him, which shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the commissioners. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, repair shop, storage Rent. 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. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and Repairs, etc. for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, sixty thousand dollars. 396 Plumbing repairs. For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, forty 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 eleven estimates shah be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing. Manual training expenses. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars. Fuel, etc. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, eighty-five thousand dollars. Furniture, etc. For furniture, 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 to take the place of the Potomac School, two thousand dollars; one eight-room building in or near Cleveland Park, two thousand dollars; one four-room addition to the Benning School, one thousand dollars; one four-room addition adjacent to Chevy Chase School, one thousand dollars; one four-room addition to Lovejoy School, one thousand dollars; one two-room building in or near Brookland, five hundred dollars; six kindergartens, two thousand dollars; two manual-training shops, six hundred dollars; one sewing school, one hundred and fifty dollars; one cooking school, three hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available. Contingent expenses. For 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. Pianos. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed three hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars. Supplies for pupils. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of text-books and supplies, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred dollars, sixty-seven thousand *Proviso*. Exchanges. dollars: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. Flags. For purchase of United States flags, eight hundred dollars. Playgrounds. For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds, one thousand dollars. For maintenance and repairing twenty-four playgrounds now established, one thousand two hundred dollars. School gardens. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, one thousand two hundred dollars. Telephones to new buildings. For extending the telephone system to one eight-room building in the third division (Johnson annex), one eight-room building in the second division (Cleveland Park), and one eight-room building in the eighth division (new Potomac), including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, poles, cross arms, braces, conduit connections, extra labor, and 397 other necessary items to be expended under the electrical department, one thousand dollars. For purchase of apparatus and for extending the equipment and for Apparatus for physics department. the maintenance of the physics department in the Central, Eastern, Western, and M Street high schools, two thousand dollars. Any unexpended balances in the “Act making appropriations to Portable school-houses. Use of unexpended balances. Vol. 35, p. 708. provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes,” to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms for classes above the second grade now on half time, and to provide for the estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory-education law, is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for the purchase, erection, equipment, and maintenance of portable schoolhouses for temporary use. Buildings and grounds: For complete equipment of the extension Buildings and grounds. to the Business High School, including class-room furniture, general building furnishings, furniture and equipment for the commercial department, drawing rooms, laboratories, library, teachers’ retiring rooms, gymnasium, and furnishing and installing automatic-clock system and extending telephone system to the entire building, eighteen thousand dollars. For complete equipment of the addition to the Western High School, including new furniture for the old building, rewiring for clock system, extension of telephone system, introduction of the vacuum cleaning system, and for electric lighting the whole building, fourteen thousand dollars. For the complete equipment of the third extension to McKinley Manual Training School, including necessary additions to the equipment of the shops, drawing rooms, and laboratories, for the purchase of a piano for the assembly hall, and for clock and telephone systems for the entire building, twenty-two thousand dollars. Toward the construction of a normal-school building on lots seventy-six to one hundred and six, of Parker and Pulsifer subdivision of Columbia Heights, and the total cost of said building under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed two hundred and fifty-seven thousand four hundred dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. For construction of an eight-room extensible school building on site north of Spring road and west of Thirteenth street, sixty-five thousand dollars. For purchase of additional ground in the immediate vicinity of the Orr School, not exceeding eight thousand dollars. For construction of a six-room manual training school building on site of old High Street School, forty-two thousand dollars. For construction of a twelve-room building west of Seventh street and north of Q street, and the total cost of said building under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars. For the construction of an eight-room building for Randle Highlands, District of Columbia, to be erected on a suitable site to be donated of not less than one acre of ground, the location thereof to be determined by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sixty-four thousand dollars. For central heating plant for the M Street High School, the Abby Simmons School, and the Douglass School, to be immediately available, thirty thousand dollars. For construction of an addition to the Armstrong Manual Training School, sixty-five thousand dollars. For purchase of a site adjacent to the Ivy City School, approximately thirty-two thousand square feet, not exceeding three thousand dollars. 398 For construction of a six-room building at Ivy City, forty-five thousand dollars. For site for Normal School Numbered Two, north of O street, west of North Capitol street, and east of Seventh street and Georgia avenue, not exceeding forty thousand dollars. For construction of a manual training school building on grounds of Cardozo School, forty thousand dollars. For purchase of seven thousand five hundred square feet of ground adjoining the Brookland School for playground, not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of ground for the erection of a schoolhouse west of the Soldiers’ Home Grounds, east of Sherman avenue and New Hampshire avenue, south of Rock Creek road and north of Girard street, approximately forty thousand square feet, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. McKinley Manual Training School. Use of unexpended balance. Vol. 35, p. 709. Any unexpended balance not obligated in the “Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the completion of the McKinley Manual Training School Building” is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for the further extension of that building. Fireproof stairways, etc. For additional amount for “Repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds” for the purpose of providing additional fire protection, such as fireproofing 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. Cost of sites, etc. That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. Plans. Preparation and approval. That the plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect of the District of Columbia and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. Doors to open outward. School buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward 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. Appropriations for sites, etc., immediately available. All appropriations for sites for school buildings and for the construction of school buildings contained in this Act are hereby made immediately available. Deaf and dumb pupils. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of [R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942). Vol. 31, p. 844. Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Colored pupils. Vol. 33, p. 901. For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School 399 for Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized in an Act of Congress 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 of the District of Indigent blind children. Columbia, in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. METROPOLITAN POLICE. Police. Major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, Salaries. with rank of inspector, two thousand five hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; eleven captains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk and stenographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, who shall be assistant property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at six hundred dollars each; additional compensation for twenty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, four thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; twelve lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; forty-five sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; five hundred and twenty-five privates of class three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; sixty-one privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; seventy-three 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 eleven, six thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine 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 thirty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. The major and superintendent of police shall detail two privates of Enforcing child labor law. Vol. 35, p. 420. the Metropolitan police for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act “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, four thousand dollars; Fuel. For repairs to stations, five thousand five hundred dollars; Repairs. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchase Miscellaneous expenses. of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, periodicals, telegraphing, 400 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 and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, repairs to rented buildings, and other necessary expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars; of which amount a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars may be expended by the Detection of crime. 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: *Proviso*. Mounted equipment. *Provided*, That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the District Commissioners for the use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required; Flags. For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred dollars; In all, forty-four thousand six hundred 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; fireman, six hundred dollars; watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; deck hand, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fuel, etc. For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, two thousand dollars. In all, five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fire department. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Salaries. Chief engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars; deputy chief engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at two thousand dollars each; fire marshal, two thousand dollars; deputy fire marshal, one thousand four hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; chief clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; thirty-six captains, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; thirty-seven lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of machinery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of machinery, one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-two engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty-two assistant engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two pilots, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two marine firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-seven drivers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; thirty-seven assistant 401 drivers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two hundred and seven privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; thirty-nine privates of class one, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five hundred and twenty thousand six hundred and thirty dollars. Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houses Miscellaneous. and grounds, ten thousand dollars; For repairs to apparatus and for new apparatus and new appliances, including motor vehicles and other motor-driven apparatus, thirteen thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, fifteen thousand dollars; For fuel, fifteen thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, fifteen thousand dollars; For forage, twenty-eight thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements of the fire boat, five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, Contingent expenses. medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, twenty-five thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars. Increase, fire department: For house, site, and furniture for an New house, northern suburbs. engine company, to be located in the northwest section of the city, in the vicinity of Rock Creek Church road and Georgia avenue, including the cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, thirty thousand dollars; For one fire engine, seven thousand five hundred dollars; New apparatus. For one chemical fire engine, three thousand six hundred dollars; In all, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Health department. Health officer, four thousand dollars; assistant health officer, who Salaries. shall be a physician, and during the absence or disability of the health officer shall act as health officer and discharge the duties incident to that position, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and deputy health officer, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; five clerks, two of whom may act as sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; chief inspector and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 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, and five sanitary and food inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each, to assist in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws and the regulations relating thereto; sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; driver, six hundred dollars; pound master, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for laborers, at not exceeding fifty dollars per month, three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, sixty-four thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty Stable rent. dollars. 402 Prevention of contagious diseases. Vol. 29, p. 635. Vol. 34, p. 889. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred Tuberculosis regulation, etc. Vol. 35, p. 126. and seven, and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, under the direction of the health officer of said District, including salaries or compensation for personal services not exceeding ten thousand dollars when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, purchase Horses, wagons, etc. and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, rent of stables, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, *Proviso*. Bacteriological examination of milk supply. twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist employed and paid under this appropriation may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination 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. Disinfecting service. For maintenance of the disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, five thousand dollars. Drainage of lots. Vol. 29, p. 125. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, Abatement of nuisances. Vol. 34, p. 114. eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand five hundred dollars. Food adulterations. For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars. Bacteriological laboratory. For the equipment and maintenance of the bacteriological laboratory, including the purchase of reference books and scientific journals, five hundred dollars. Expenses. Sale of milk, etc. Vol. 28, p. 709. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; Adulterations, food, candy, etc. Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398. an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and Pure food law. Vol. 34, p. 768. ninety-eight; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for the purchase and maintenance of a package motorcycle, one thousand dollars. Inspecting dairy farms. For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including amounts that may be allowed to the health officer, and assistant health officer, medical inspector in charge of contagious-disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for the maintenance of horse and vehicle, or motor vehicle, for use in the discharge of their official duties, not to exceed three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum each, and other necessary traveling expenses, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 403 Garfield and Providence hospitals: For isolating wards for minor Isolating wards in hospitals. contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence hospitals, maintenance, six thousand dollars and four thousand dollars, respectively, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, ten thousand dollars. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, Public crematory. three thousand 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 under section two Vol. 32, p. 609. 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-four and thirty-five, one hundred and ten dollars. Juvenile court: For judge, three thousand dollars; clerk, two Juvenile court. Salaries. thousand dollars; deputy clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars, who is authorized to act as clerk in the absence of that officer; chief probation officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand two hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand dollars; bailiff, seven hundred dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, eleven thousand one hundred and forty dollars. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, one thousand seven Miscellaneous. hundred and forty dollars; For rent, two hundred and forty dollars; For furniture, fixtures, and equipments, and repairs to the court-house and grounds, three hundred dollars; For fuel, ice, gas, and laundry work, stationery, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, typewriter and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars; In all, three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. *Provided*, That hereafter all moneys paid by order of the juvenile *Proviso*. Deposits of receipts for support of abandoned wife, etc. Vol. 34, p. 87. court under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “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 of his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” and Acts amendatory thereto, which are now collected and disbursed by the clerk of said court, shall be deposited weekly by said clerk with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the appropriated trust fund account denominated Miscellaneous Trust Fund Deposits, District of Columbia, and all expenditures therefrom shall be made Expenditures. and accounted for in the manner now required by law for other expenditures of the government of the District of Columbia, and the said expenditures shall be made weekly on pay rolls approved and certified by the juvenile court. Police court: For two judges, at three thousand six hundred Police court. Salaries. 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 clerk, to be known as financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; deputy marshal, one thousand dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fireman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two assistant janitors, at three hundred 404 dollars each; matron, six hundred dollars; three charmen, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Disposition of unclaimed moneys. Hereafter all moneys remaining in the hands of the clerk of the police court for a period of two years and more for which claim or demand has not been made by the persons entitled thereto shall be paid over by the said clerk to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia, to be by him deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia and of the United States in equal parts. 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, five hundred dollars; For the purpose of extending the cold-air inlet for the fans in the police court, so that it may insure pure air, and for other necessary work, as estimated for by the municipal architect, three hundred dollars; In all, seventeen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Lunacy writs. Writs of lunacy: 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 committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive Vol. 33, p. 740. authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Municipal court. Salaries. Municipal court: For five judges, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant clerks, at one thousand dollars each; janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; Expenses. For rent of building, one thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone rental, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, seven hundred and fifty dollars; For equipping the clerk’s office with two steel file cases for the safe preservation of records, and removing the old wooden ones now in use, nine hundred dollars. In all, for the municipal court, nineteen thousand six hundred and thirty dollars. Interest and sinking fund. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars. Emergency fund. EMERGENCY FUND. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently 405 provided for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase *Proviso*. Purchases. of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected. FOR COURTS AND PRISONS. Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation Support of convicts out of District. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-eight thousand dollars. Court-house, District of Columbia: For the following force Court-house, care, etc. necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; three messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand and eighty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General. Court of appeals building, District of Columbia: For the Court of appeals building, care, etc. 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; two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: *Provided*, That the clerk of the court of appeals shall be the custodian *Proviso*. Custodian. of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court; in all, three thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Warden of the jail: For warden of the jail of the District of Jail. Warden. Columbia, two thousand dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General. Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail Maintenance. of the District of Columbia, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, sixty thousand dollars. Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses in the Supreme court. Witness fees. supreme court of the District of Columbia, and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, fifteen [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). thousand dollars. Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors in the supreme Jurors fees. court of the District of Columbia, fifty-five thousand dollars. Pay of bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding one crier in each Pay of bailiffs, etc. 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. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Charities and corrections. Board of Charities: Secretary, three thousand dollars; clerk, one Board of Charities. Salaries, etc. thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand dollars each; 406 two inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; two inspectors, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; driver, at seven hundred and eighty dollars; three drivers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Reformatories. reformatories and correctional institutions. Washington Asylum. Salaries. Washington Asylum: Superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; baker, six hundred dollars; principal overseer, one thousand five hundred dollars; sixteen overseers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; second assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; engineer at new workhouse for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; two watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two night watchmen, at five hundred and forty-eight dollars each; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred dollars; carpenter, five hundred dollars; driver for dead wagon, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; keeper at female workhouse, three hundred dollars; keeper at female workhouse, one hundred and eighty dollars; hospital cook, six hundred dollars; chief cook for workhouse, six hundred dollars; four assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two graduate nurses, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; two nurses for annex wards, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed one hundred and twenty dollars per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum during second year of service), two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; gardener, five hundred and forty dollars; herdsman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; florist, three hundred dollars; tailor, one hundred and eighty dollars; housekeeper, three hundred dollars; laundryman, six hundred dollars; temporary labor, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and forty-one dollars. Contingent expenses. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, sixty-five thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars. For installing electric wiring and fixtures, one thousand dollars, Payments to families. Vol. 34, p. 87. For payment to the beneficiaries named in section three 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, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District. 407 Home for the Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, one thousand Home for Aged and Infirm. Salaries. two hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; baker, four hundred and eighty dollars; two female attendants, at three hundred dollars each; chief cook, six hundred dollars; two male attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; chief engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; second assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; three firemen, at three hundred dollars each; physician and pharmacist, four hundred and eighty dollars; two nurses, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant cooks, at two hundred and forty dollars each; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred and forty dollars; farmer, five hundred and forty dollars; three farm hands, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; dairyman, three hundred and sixty dollars; tailor, three hundred and sixty dollars; seamstress, two hundred and forty dollars; laundryman, five hundred and forty dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; three servants, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; temporary labor, six hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars; For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to Contingent expenses. same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, twenty-four thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; For completing fire protection, one thousand five hundred dollars; In all, for Home for Aged and Infirm, forty-one thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars. National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenance National Training School for Boys. Maintenance of inmates. of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, twenty-seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Reform School for Girls: Superintendent, one thousand two Reform School for Girls. Salaries. hundred dollars; treasurer, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; three teachers, at six hundred dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; six teachers of industries, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and 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, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, Contingent expenses. shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars; In all, for Reform School for Girls, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to the Transportation of prisoners. workhouse, including salary of driver, not to exceed seven hundred and twenty dollars, and the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, two thousand dollars. Medical Charities. Medical charities. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract Freedmen’s Hospital. to be made with the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum by the Board of Charities, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 408 Columbia Hospital for Women. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. For repairs to Columbia Hospital, three thousand dollars. For new boiler, one thousand five hundred dollars. Children’s Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars. Homeopathic Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand dollars. Emergency Hospital. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, fifteen thousand dollars. Eastern Dispensary. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, nine thousand dollars. Home for Incurables. For the care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with the Washington Home for Incurables by the Board of Charities, five thousand dollars. Georgetown University Hospital. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars. George Washington University Hospital. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars. Tuberculosis Hospital. Salaries. Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 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 four hundred and twenty dollars each; chief cook, five hundred and forty 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, four hundred and eighty dollars; two laundresses, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three orderlies, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two ward maids, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; four servants, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Contingent expenses. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed fifty dollars, temporary services not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other necessary items, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For necessary equipment for pathological laboratory, to be immediately available, three hundred dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Mortuary. For erection of mortuary, three thousand dollars; In all, for Tuberculosis Hospital, forty-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. 409 The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to Acceptance of voluntary medical service. accept voluntary medical service for public charitable institutions. child-caring institutions. Care of children. Board of children’s guardians: For administrative expenses, Board of Children’s Guardians. Expenses. including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, and all office and sundry expenses, three thousand one hundred dollars; For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk, Salaries. one thousand 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; visiting inspector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, nine thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; For maintenance of feeble-minded children, (white and colored), Feeble-minded children. twenty thousand dollars; For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship Board, etc., of children. 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 thousand dollars; In all, for board of children’s guardians, seventy-two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. The said board of children’s guardians is authorized to accept Acceptance of voluntary aid. voluntary aid in the placement and supervision of children under its care. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to Advances to agent. advance to the agent of the board of children’s guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed two hundred dollars at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. Industrial Home School for Colored Children: Superintendent, Industrial Home School for Colored Children. Salaries. one thousand two hundred dollars; matron of school, four hundred and eighty dollars; two caretakers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant caretakers, at three hundred dollars each; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; manual-training teacher, four hundred and eighty dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; watchman, three hundred dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars; For temporary services, not to exceed five hundred dollars; Expenses. 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 five hundred and ten dollars: *Provided*, That all moneys *Proviso*. Receipts from sale of products, etc. received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board of instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to 410 the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to be expended by them in the support of the school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven. Industrial Home School. Salaries. 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; housekeeper, three hundred and sixty dollars; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; nurse, three hundred dollars; manual-training teacher, six hundred dollars; florist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; engineer, 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 five hundred dollars; Expenses. For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and harness, thirteen thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; For new boiler, one thousand dollars; In all, for the Industrial Home School, twenty-four thousand dollars; Home for destitute colored children. For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Home for Foundlings. For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the Washington Home for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars. Saint Ann’s Asylum. For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars. Temporary homes. temporary homes. Municipal lodging house. Municipal 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 dollars; night watchman for six months, at twenty-five dollars per month, one hundred and fifty dollars; maintenance, including rent, one thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. Grand Army Soldiers’ Home. Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, namely: Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, four thousand dollars; in all, five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war and the war with Mexico shall also be admitted to the Home. Hope and Help Mission. For the care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, three thousand dollars. Support of indigent insane. Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law, three hundred and twelve thousand four hundred dollars. Deporting nonresident insane. Vol. 30, p. 811. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in 411 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 Advances to Board of Charities. District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia. Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay of physicians Relief of the poor. to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand dollars. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, Transporting paupers. three thousand dollars. MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction Expenses. of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required Camps, etc. to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills, and parades, rent, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, telephone service, and for general incidental expenses of the service, forty-seven thousand dollars. For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For printing, stationery, and postage, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, one thousand dollars. For clerk, office of the adjutant-general, one thousand dollars. For expenses of rifle practice and matches, one thousand dollars. For pay of troops, other than government employees, to be disbursed Pay. under the authority and direction of the commanding general, twenty-four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That all moneys collected on *Provisos*. Deductions for loss of property. account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia on account of government property lost or destroyed by such individual shall be repaid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the officer of the Militia of the District of Columbia who is accountable to the United States Government for such property lost or destroyed: *Provided Use of fines, etc. further*, That all moneys collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said national guard shall be held by the commanding general of the Militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys for necessary clerical and general expenses of the service, heretofore or hereafter incurred, including law books and books of reference, or for the pay of troops, other than government employees; and for all moneys so expended the commanding general shall make an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops: *Provided further*, That any Use of appropriations. 412 of the moneys appropriated 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 Additional rations. authority is hereby given to supplement the regular ration by purchase of such additional articles of subsistence as may be deemed Authority to deduct from pay. necessary: *Provided further*, That the commanding general of the District of Columbia Militia is hereby authorized to make such deductions from any pay of any officer or enlisted man derived from appropriations [R. S., sec. 1661, p. 290](/us/rs/s1661/p290). or allotments made under the provisions of section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, United States Revised Statutes or other Federal enactment 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. Congress Heights. Toward the extension of water trunk mains to Congress Heights, District of Columbia, said sum to be in addition to the sums herein appropriated from the revenues of the water department, fifty thousand dollars. Conduit road, etc. For the extension of twelve inch water main from Elliot place along the Conduit road to Weaver Terrace, and for laying eight inch water mains in Forty-seventh place, Ashby street, Edmund street, and Sherrier place, said sum to be in addition to the sums herein appropriated from the revenues of the Water Department, twenty-four *Provisos*. Levy of assessments. Vol. 33, p. 244. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That assessments for water mains hereinbefore provided for shall be levied in accordance with the provisions of an Act approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act authorizing the laying of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of assessments therefor, Deposit of assessments collected. and for other purposes”: *And provided further*, That all such assessments when collected shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the revenues of the United States in equal parts. Water department. WATER DEPARTMENT. Payable from water revenues. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: Revenue and inspection branch. For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; clerk, one. thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; index clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three meter computers, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, one thousand dollars; meter clerk, one thousand dollars; eight inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; eleven inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars; Distribution branch. For distribution branch: Superintendent, three thousand dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; timekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; assistant engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; two rodmen, at nine hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assist-413ant storekeeper, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; chief steam engineer, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant steam engineers, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; four oilers, at six hundred and ten dollars each; three firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, nine hundred dollars; watchman, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; watchman, seven hundred dollars; watchman, six hundred and ten dollars; two drivers, at seven hundred dollars each; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; driver, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, eighty-three thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars. For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, Contingent expenses. 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, pipe Operating expenses. 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 dollars. For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service High-service system, etc. 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 install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase 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 eleven, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, Temporary draftsmen, etc. transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District; and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners Report. of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*. Maximum expenditure. expenditures hereunder shall not exceed sixty-five thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized Work under Commissioners. Temporary laborers, etc. to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and 414 repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such Work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. Horses, wagons, etc. Special orders from Commissioners for using. That all horses, harness, and wagons necessary for use in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be purchased, hired, and maintained exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for Report. said work; and the Commissioners of the District in the annual estimates shall report the number of horses, wagons, and harness purchased, and horses and wagons hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation, and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables *Proviso*. Work under Commissioners. owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, wagons, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. Water department. Temporary draftsmen, etc. The services of draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, Report. and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services *Proviso*. Maximum expenditure. and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed ten thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven. Work under Commissioners. Temporary laborers, etc. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 5. Miscellaneous trust fund. Expenses paid from. Vol. 33, p. 368. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories, of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, and one laborer for the wholesale producers’ market, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the 415 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 Limit on requisitions. make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Sec. 7. That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are Inconsistent laws repealed. inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, May 18, 1910.