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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · March 4, 1913 · Chapter 150

Chapter 150. 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 fourteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 150.— 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 fourteen, and for other purposes.March 4, 1913. [[H. R. 28499](/us/bill/62/hr/28499).] [[Public, No. 435](/us/pl/62/435).] *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 riot 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 fourteen, namely: 939 GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses.
Executive Office: Two commissioners, at $5,000 each; engineerExecutive office.Salaries of commissioners, etc. commissioner, so much as may be necessary (to make salary $5,000); secretary, $2,400; assistant secretaries to commissioners.—one $1,500, one $1,200; clerks—one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, one, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $1,000, one $840, one $720, one $600; messengers—one $600, one $480; stenographer and typewriter, $840; two drivers, at $600 each;
Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departmentsVeterinary surgeon, etc. of the District government, $1,200; Medicines, surgical and hospital supplies, $1,000.Purchasing division. Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasing officer, $1,600; computer, $1,440; clerk, $1,500; clerks—one $1,300, six at $1,200 each, three at $900 each, six at $720 each; inspector of fuel, $1,500; assistant inspector of fuel, $1,100; storekeeper, $1,000; messenger, $600; driver, $600; inspector, $900; inspector, $780; two laborers, at $600 each; two property-yard keepers, at $1,000 each; inspector of materials, $1,200; temporary labor, $150;
Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000;Building inspection division. principal assistant inspector of buildings, $1,800; assistant inspectors of buildings—eleven at $1,200 each; fire-escape inspector, $1,400; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, $3,000; civil engineers or computers—one $1,800, one $1,500; chief clerk, $1,500; clerks— one at $1,050, one at $1,000, one who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $1,000, one at $900; messenger, $480; assistant inspector, $1,500;
To two elevator inspectors for the provision and maintenance byMotor cycles for elevator inspectors. themselves of two motor cycles for use in their official inspection of elevators in the District of Columbia, $10 per month each, $240; For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for the official use onlyMotor vehicle. of the employees of the building division in inspection work, or so much thereof as may be necessary, $480; For transportation, for means of transportation, and for maintenanceTransportation, etc. of means of transportation, $1,000;
Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, $2,000;Plumbing inspection division. principal assistant inspector of plumbing, $1,550; assistant inspectors of plumbing—one at $1,200, four at $1,000 each; clerks—one at $1,200, one at $900; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, $2,400; draftsman, $1,350; sewer tapper, $1,000; three members of the plumbing board, at $150 each; to three assistantMotor cycles. inspectors of plumbing for the provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia, $10 per month each, $360: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Maintenance. more of said sum shall be expended than is actually necessary for the maintenance of said motor cycles.
In all, $115,830. Care of District Building: Clerk and stenographer, $2,000;Care of District Building. chief engineer, $1,400; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrician, $1,200; two dynamo tenders, at $875 each; three firemen, at $720 each; three coal passers, at $600 each; electrician’s helper, $840; eight elevator conductors, at $600 each; laborers—two at $660 each, two at $500 each; two chief cleaners, who shall also have charge of the lavatories, at $500 each; thirty cleaners, at $240 each; chief watchman, $1,000; assistant chief watchman, $660; eight watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube operator, $600; in all, $36,530: *Provided*, That the employees herein authorized for the care of the*Proviso*.Appointments.
District Building shall be appointed by the commissioners. 940 Maintenance expenses.For fuel, tight, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics and labor not to exceed $3,500, and miscellaneous supplies, $20,000. Assessor’s office.Assessor’s office: Assessor, $3,500; two assistant assessors, at $2,000 each; clerks—four, including one in arrears division, at $1,400 each, four, at $1,200 each, seven, including one in charge of records, at $1,000 each, two at $1,000 each; draftsman, $1,200; assistant or clerk, $900; license clerk, $1,200; inspector of licenses, $1,200; assistant inspector of licenses, $1,000; messengers—one $600, one $450; three assistant assessors, at $3,000 each; clerk to board of assistant assessors, $1,500; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, $600; two clerks, at $720 each; temporary clerk hire, $500; record clerk, $1,500; in all, $47,790.
Excise board.Excise board: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,000; *Post*, p. 997.messenger, $600; in all, $4,800. Personal tax board.Personal tax board: Two assistant assessors of personal taxes, at $3,000 each; appraiser of personal property, $1,800; clerk, $1,400; assistant clerk, $1,000; three inspectors, at $1,200 each; extra clerk hire, $2,000; in all, $15,800. Collector’s office.Collector’s office: Collector, $4,000; deputy collector, $2,000; cashier, $1,800; assistant cashier, $1,500; bookkeeper, $1,600; clerks—three at $1,400 each, one $1,200, one $1,000, three at $900 each; clerk and bank messenger, $1,200; messenger, $600; in all, $21,800.
Tax-sale certificates, etc.For extra labor in the preparation of tax-sale certificates and data, which the law requires this office to furnish the recorder of deeds and the assessor, with authority to employ typewriter and clerks, $800. Auditor’s office.Auditor’s office: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,250; book-keeper, $1,800; accountant, $1,500; clerks—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, one $1,350, four at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, one $936, two at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger, $600; disbursing officer, $3,000; deputy disbursing officer, $1,600; clerks— one $1,200, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger, $480; in all, $43,656.
Corporation counsel’s office.Office of corporation counsel: Corporation counsel, $4,500; first assistant, $2,500; second assistant, $1,800; third assistant, $1,600; fourth assistant, $1,500; fifth assistant, $1,500; stenographers, one $1,200, one $840; clerk, $720; in all, $16,160. Sinking-fund office.Sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: Clerk, $1,600. Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistant morgue master and janitor, $600; hostler and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600.
Market masters, etc.Market masters: Two market masters, $1,200 each; assistant market masters, who shall also perform the necessary labor in cleaning the markets, and one laborer for duty at Eastern Market, $2,280; in all, $4,680. Produce market.Farmers’ Produce Market: Market master, $900; assistant market master, who shall also act as night watchman, $600; watch-man, $600; laborer for sweeping B Street sidewalk, used for market purposes, and the farmers’ produce market square, $360; sweeping Street, used for market purposes, $480; hauling refuse (street sweepings), $600; in all, $3,540.
Erection of shelters.For the erection of shelters on the open space at the intersection of Ohio and Louisiana Avenues with Tenth and Twelfth Streets, bounded by Tenth and Twelfth and B and Little B Streets Northwest, known and designated as the farmers’ produce market, and the necessary paving in connection therewith, $32,000; and the limitation of Charge for space.10 cents per day for each space at the above-mentioned market contained in the Act of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, Vol. 34, p. 485.is hereby revoked, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 941are authorized to charge hereafter not to exceed 20 cents per day for each space in accordance with the provisions of the aforesaid Act.
Eastern Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street whereEastern market. used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $300. Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street whereWestern market. used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $300. Fish wharf and market: Market master and wharfinger, whoFish wharf and market. shall have charge of the landing of vessels, the collection of wharfage and dockage rentals, and the collection of rents for fish houses at the municipal fish wharf and market hereinafter established, for not exceeding sixteen months at the rate of $75 per month, beginningSalaries for.
March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,200; assistant market master, who shall also act as laborer, for the same period, at the rate of $50 per month, not exceeding $800; in all, $2,000, to be immediately available; and the Commissioners of the District of ColumbiaOperation, etc., by Commissioners. are authorized and directed in the name of the District of Columbia to take over, exclusively control, regulate, and operate as a municipal fish wharf and market, the water frontage on the Potomac River lying south of Water Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, including the buildings and wharves thereon, and said wharf shall constitute the sole wharf for the landing of fish and oysters for sale in the District of Columbia; and said commissioners shall have power toLeases, fees. etc. make leases, fix and determine rentals, wharfage and dockage fees, and to collect and pay the same into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to theDeposit of receipts. credit of the District of Columbia, and to make and amend, from time to time, all such regulations as they may deem proper for the control, regulation, and operation of said municipal fish wharf and market; and all leases,Termination of present leases, etc. subleases, and other private rights of occupancy in and to any or all of said property are terminated on, from, and after March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen; and all laws and parts of laws requiringRepeal of inconsistent laws.Vol. 34, p. 72. the advertisement and sale of rights and privileges for a fish wharf or dock, and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are repealed.
Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and marketsSuperintendent of weights, measures, and markets.: Superintendent, $2,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; clerk, $1,200; laborer, $480: in all, $6,580. For the purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, and provisions,Purchases for investigations. and so forth, in connection with the investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $50. Engineer Commissioner’s office: Engineer of highways, $3,000;Engineer Commissioner’s office.Engineers, superintendents, etc. engineer of bridges, $2,250; superintendent of streets, $2,000; superintendent of suburban roads, $2,000; superintendent of sewers, $3,300; inspector of asphalts and cements, $2,400 (*Provided*, That*Proviso*.Asphalt inspector, restrictions. the inspector of asphalts and cements shall not receive or accept compensation of any kind from, or perform any work or render any services of a character required of him officially by the District of Columbia to, any person, firm, corporation, or municipality other than the District of Columbia); assistant inspector of asphalts and cements, $1,500; superintendent of trees and parkings, $2,000; assistant superintendent of trees and parkings, $1,200; assistantAssistant engineers, etc. engineers—one $2,200, one $2,100, four at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, four at $1,500 each, one $1,350, one $1,200; transitmen—two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; rodmen—four at $900 each, eight at $780 each; twelve chainmen, at $650 each; draftsmen—one $1,500, one $1,350, two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; general inspector ofInspectors, etc. sewers, $1,300; inspector of sewers, $1,200; bridge inspector, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,500 each, six, including three inspectors of streets, at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; foremen-twelve at $1,200 each, one $1,050, ten at $900 each; foreman, Rock Creek 942Park, $1,200; three subforemen, at $1,050 each; bridge keepers— Clerks, etc.one $650, three at $600 each; chief clerk, $2,250; permit clerk, $1,500; assistant permit clerk, $1,000; index clerk and typewriter, $900; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,500 each, two at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, one $840, two at $750 each, one $600; messengers—one $600, six at $540 each; skilled laborers—one $625, two at $600 each; janitor, $720; principal steam engineer, $1,800; three steam engineers, at $1,200 each; three assistant steam engineers, at $1,050 each; six oilers, at $600 each; six firemen, at $875 each; inspector, $1,400; storekeeper, $900; superintendent of stables, $1,500; blacksmith, $975; two watchmen, at Municipal architect’s office.$630 each; two drivers, at $630 each; inspector of gas and meters, $2,000; assistant inspectors of gas and meters—one $1,000, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, $180,410.
Inspector of gas, etc.*Post*, p. 987.Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect, $3,600; superintendent of construction, $2,000; chief draftsman, $1,700; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,300; heating, ventilating, and sanitary engineer, $2,000; superintendent of repairs, $1,800; assistant superintendent of repairs, $1,200; boss carpenter, boss tinner, boss painter, boss plumber, boss steam fitter, five in all, at $1,200 each; boss grader, $1,000; machinist, $1,200; clerks—one $1,050, one $620; copyist, $840; driver, $540; in all, $26,250.
Motor truck.For maintenance and repair of the motor truck of the superintendent of repairs, or so much thereof as may be necessary, $480. Special assessment office.Special assessment office: Special assessment clerk, $2,000; clerks—seven at $1,200 each, two at $900 each, one $750; in all, $12,950. Street-cleaning division.Street-cleaning division: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent and clerk, $1,600; chief clerk, $1,400; stenographer and clerk, $1,000; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,100, one $1,000, two at $720 each; chief inspector, $1,300; inspectors—four at $1,200 each, one $1,100; foreman of repairs, $1,200; foremen—one $1,300, four at $1,200 each, eight at $1,100 each, one $1,000, one $900; assistant foremen—three at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger and driver, $600; in all, $41,180.
Board of examiners, steam engineers.Board of examiners, steam engineers: Three members of board of examiners of steam engineers, at $300 each, $900. Automobile board.Automobile board: Secretary or acting secretary of the automobile board, $300. Insurance department.Department of insurance: Superintendent of insurance, $3,500; examiner, $1,700; statistician, $1,700; clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $720; temporary clerk hire, $1,200; in all, $10,020. Surveyor’s office.Surveyor’s office:
Surveyor, $3,000; assistant surveyor, $2,000; clerks—one at $1,225, one at $975, one at $675; three assistant engineers, at $1,500 each; computer, $1,200; record clerk, $1,050; inspector, $1,200; draftsmen—one $1,225, one $900; assistant computer, $900; three rodmen, at $825 each; chainmen—three at $700 each, two at $650 each; computer and transitman, $1,200; in all, $25,925. Temporary services.For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, and maintenance of a motor vehicle, $6,000, 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, $31,925. Free public library, including Takoma Park branch.Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch: Librarian, $3,500; assistant librarian, $1,500; chief circulating department, $1,200; children’s librarian, $1,000; librarian’s secretary, $900; reference librarian, $1,000; assistants—one $1,000, one in charge of periodicals, $1,000, five, including one in charge of Takoma Park branch, at $720 each, five, including one for the Takoma Park branch, at $600 each, three at $540 each, three, including one in charge of 943Takoma Park branch, at $480 each; copyist, $480; classifier, $900; cataloguers—one $720, one $600, two at $540 each; stenographer and typewriter, $720; attendants—six at $540 each, five at $480 each; collator, $480; two messengers, at $480 each; ten pages, at $360 each; two janitors, at $480 each, one of whom shall act as night watchman; janitor of Takoma Park branch, $360; engineer, $1,080; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $180 each; in all, $42,180; and hereafter the Takoma Park branch shall be kept open at least seven hours per day on the same week days as the Free Public Library shall be open to the public.
For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at theSubstitutes, etc. discrétion of the librarian, $1,000. For keeping the library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’clockSunday opening. postmeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, five holidays from nine o’clock antemeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, and for extra services three hours on Saturday afternoons during July, August, and September, $1,700. Miscellaneous, Free Public Library, including TakomaMiscellaneous.
Park branch: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $7,500; For binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, $3,500; For maintenance, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment purchase or exchange and maintenance of bicycles and motor cycle and other contingent expenses, $8,000. In all, $19,000. Library for the Blind:
For aid, for one year only, of the LibraryLibrary for the Blind. for the Blind, located at seventeen hundred and twenty-nine H Street northwest, $5,000. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent expenses of the Government of the District ofContingent expenses. Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; 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 homes and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, Board of Charities, including an allowance to the purchasing officer and to the secretary of the Board of Charities of not exceeding $360 each per annum for maintenance of vehicle for use in the discharge of their official duties, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, superintendent of weights, measures, and markets office, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, $36,000; and the commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles*Proviso*.Restriction on use of horses, etc. appropriated for in this Act shall not be used by the commissioners for any other purpose than to visit such points within the District of Columbia as it may be necessary to visit in order to enable them to inspect or inform themselves concerning any public work or property belonging to the said District or to do any other act necessary to the administration of its affairs. 944 Limit on expenditure for horses.No part of the money appropriated by this Act, except appropriations for the militia, shall be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
Fire insurance prohibited.No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Specific residence telephones allowed.*Ante*, p. 414.Telephones connected with the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent of the water department, superintendent of sewers, secretary of the Board of Charities, health officer, chief engineer of the fire department, and superintendent of police, of the District of Columbia, under appropriations contained in this Act.
Postage.For postage for strictly official mail matter, $11,000. Collecting personal taxes.For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, $4,000. Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $4,500.
Coroner’s expenses.For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,000. Advertising.General.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $4,700.
Taxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $2,500, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. Game and fish laws, enforcement.For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, $200. Removing dangerous, etc., buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923.For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioner’s 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 $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen is reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Historical tablets.Balances available.Vol. 34, pp. 489, 1126; Vol. 35, pp. 281, 695; Vol. 36, pp. 282, 974:*Ante*, p. 147.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, $500, and the unexpended balances of the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and subsequent District of Columbia appropriation Acts, are continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
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, $900. 945 For the purchase of enamel metal or other metal identificationVehicle tags. number tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $1,350. For repair of buildings owned and used by the District of Columbia,Repairing fire injuries.Vol. 36, p. 975. when injured by fire, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000 appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
For making surveys to obtain accurate data with reference to oldSurveying old subdivisions. subdivisions in the District of Columbia, $2,500. For maintenance and repairs to the District of Columbia markets,Market repairs. $2,900. For maintenance and repair of fish wharf and market, to be immediatelyFish wharf.*Ante*, p. 941. available, $800. Hereafter materials for fireproof buildings, other structural materials,Testing purchased materials. and all materials, other than materials for paving and for fuel, purchased for and to be used by the government of the District of Columbia, when necessary in the judgment of the commissioners to be tested, shall be tested by the Bureau of Standards under the same conditions as similar testing is required to be done for the United States Government.
IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work,Assessment and permit work. $220,000. Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenuesWork on streets and avenues. named in Appendix P, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $67,800, to be expended in the discretion of the commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Georgetown schedule: $6,500.Schedules. Northwest section schedule (including Vermont Avenue, V Street, and Eighteenth Street, as described in said schedule): $16,500. Southwest section schedule (including I Street from Sixth Street to Seventh Street): $6,300. Southeast section schedule (including South Carolina Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, as described in said schedule, and also $11,000 for A Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Fourteenth Street, and Thirteenth Street from Massachusetts Avenue to B Street): $19,000.
Northeast section schedule: $19,500. *Provided*, That streets and avenues named hi said schedules already*Proviso*.Streets paved with Belgian block, etc. paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall beLimit for asphalt pavements. made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than $1.80 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 $1.80 per square yard for laying standard asphalt block pavement equal to the best laid in the Distinct of Columbia prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall*Proviso*.Increase allowed. not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, 946a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to $2 per square yard.
Paving C Street NW.For paving C Street northwest, from Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $5,800. Repaving C Street NE.Repaving with asphalt or asphalt block the roadway of C Street northeast from First Street to Fourth Street, thirty-two feet wide, $12,000. Paving Twenty-third Street NW.For paving Twenty-third Street from Kalorama Road to S Street, with concrete pavement, including curb on both sides where not already set, for a roadway twenty-four feet wide, $8,000. Railroad track to navy yard.So much of the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes, approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, as requires that within thirty days after the completion of the new track connection with the United States navy yard in the District of Columbia, therein provided for, the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company shall, at its own expense, Portion of track to he removed.Vol. 36, p. 615.remove the existing track connection with said navy yard, is hereby amended by limiting the portion of the existing track connection to be removed to that portion of track which lies east of the west Portion of grade siding continued.building line of Second Street east; and the portion of said existing track connection lying within public space west of the west building line of Second Street east, as the same now exists or may hereafter be changed under the authority of the Commissioner of the District of Columbia, is hereby authorized to remain as a grade siding and spur tracks or sidings therefrom, constructed at the grade of the abutting public space, are authorized to be extended into property abutting on the public space occupied by this portion of said track connection, with the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and upon such conditions as may be imposed by them.
Grading.Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For labor and for the purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses, and the inmates of the Washington Asylum and Jail may be used in connection with this work, $15,000. Condemnation.Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. Suburban roads and streets.Construction.Construction of suburban roads: For construction of suburban roads and suburban streets, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Construction of suburban roads and suburban streets,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund, as follows:
Northwest. Girard Street, Fourteenth to Fifteenth Streets, pave (thirty feet), $7,300; Northwest. Euclid Street, Eleventh to Thirteenth Streets, pave (thirty feet), $5,900; Northeast. U Street, Lincoln Road to North Capitol Street, pave (thirty feet), $4,900; Northeast. Rhode Island Avenue, Lincoln Road to North Capitol Street, pave (forty feet), $7,900; Northeast. Rhode Island Avenue, Lincoln Road to Fourth Street, improve, $11,000; Northwest. Connecticut Avenue, Newark to Tilden Streets, grade and improve, $15,500;
Northwest. Eleventh Street, Clifton Street to Columbia Road, improve, $11,000; Northwest. Adams Street, North Capitol Street to First Street, improve, $3,200; Northwest. Randolph Place, First to Second Streets, pave (thirty feet), $4,800; Northwest. Third Street, Florida Avenue to T Street, pave (forty feet), $4,000; 947Northwest. Seventeenth Street, Euclid Street to Columbia Road, grade and improve, $3,200; Northwest. Ontario Road, Columbia Road to 300 feet south of Euclid Street, grade and improve, $3,500;
Northeast. Sixteenth Street, Gales Place to Rosedale Street and Rosedale Street, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Streets, grade and improve, $6,200; Northwest. Fuller Street, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Streets, grade and improve, $3,800; Northwest. Colorado Avenue from Fourteenth to Sixteenth Streets, grade and improve, $8,400; Northwest. Kalmia Street, end of macadam to Rock Creek Park, grade and improve, $10,200; Northwest. Sherman Avenue, Florida Avenue to Columbia Road, improve, $25,000.
Northeast. Franklin Street, Twenty-second Street eastward, grade and improve, $5,500; Northeast. Thirteenth Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Franklin Street, grade, $3,400; Northwest. For paving, with asphalt, Connecticut Avenue northwest, between Calvert Street and the north end of the Connecticut Avenue Bridge, $2,800; Northeast. Hamlin Street, Twelfth to Thirteenth Streets, grade, $4,450; Northwest. Chesapeake Street, Wisconsin Avenue to River Road, grade and improve, $3,000;
Northwest. Illinois Avenue, Kennedy Street to Ingraham Street, and Kennedy Street, Ninth Street to Georgia Avenue, grade and improve, $8,700; Northwest. Eighth Street, Jefferson to Longfellow Streets, grade and improve, $2,300; Northwest. V Street, Flagler Place to First Street, pave (thirty feet), $3,800; Northwest. Nineteenth Street, Park Road to Newton Street, grade and improve, $3,500; Northwest. Macomb Street, Thirty-third to Thirty-sixth Streets, grade and improve, $8,500;
Northwest. From Connecticut Avenue to Ross Place, grade and improve, $6,000; Northwest. Kalorama Road, Twenty-third Street to Connecticut Avenue, pave (thirty feet), $6,500; In all, $194,250. The part of Twentieth Street northwest, in the District of Columbia,Twentieth street NW.Part designated Park Road. beginning at Park Road and extending north along the west side of square twenty-six hundred and seventeen to the north end of said square, shall hereafter be designated Park Road; and the part ofPart designated Walbridge Place. said Twentieth Street beginning at Park Road and extending south along square twenty-six hundred and four to Adams Mill Road shall hereafter be designated Walbridge Place.
Hereafter Sixteenth Street northwest shall be known and designatedSixteenth Street named Avenue of the Presidents. as “Avenue of the Presidents.” Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work ofRepairs of streets, etc. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and maintenance of motor vehicle for use of Engineer Commissioner and his assistants, and this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of the street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroadStreet railways.Vol. 20, p. 105. companies as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved 948June 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, $365,000.
Operation of portable asphalt plant.The portable asphalt plant purchased under the appropriation for repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, may be operated under the immediate direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in doing such work of resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements, in the repair of macadam streets by constructing on such macadam streets and asphalt macadam wearing surface and in the construction of asphaltic macadam surfaces on concrete base, as in their judgment may be economically performed by the use of said plant, and so much of this appropriation as is necessary for the purposes aforesaid is hereby *Proviso*.Resurfacing limited to capacity of plant.made available for such work: *Provided*, That at no time hereafter shall more work of resurfacing and repairs be done with the portable asphalt plant than can be accomplished with the single portable plant now owned by the District of Columbia.
Changing curb lines, etc.Vol. 34, p. 1130.The authority given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in the Act making appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia, approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, to make such changes in the lines of the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved under *Proviso*.Condition.appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That no such change shall be made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement.
Sidewalks and curbs.For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal buildings, $10,000. Patent Office.For new sidewalks and curbs around the Patent Office, $1,500. Old Post Office Building.For replacing sidewalks and curbs around old Post Office Building, Seventh and Eighth, E and F Streets, northwest, $2,500. Suburban roads, repairs.Repairs suburban roads: For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburban streets, including the maintenance of motor vehicles, four motor cycles, and one truck, and the commissioners are authorized to purchase, at a cost not exceeding $1,600, from this appropriation one motor vehicle, $140,000.
Bridges.Highway Bridge.Bridges: For construction and repairs of bridges, $17,000. Highway Bridge across Potomac River: Draw operators—two at $1,020 each, one $720; four watchmen, at $600 each; labor, $1,500; lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $8,620; in all, $15,280. Anacostia Bridge.Operation of the Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to the operation and maintenance of the bridge, $5,600.
Q Street Bridge.For completion of construction of the bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Q Street, including the approaches thereto, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into a Contracts.contract or contracts for the construction of said bridge and its approaches, at a total cost not to exceed $275,000, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations therefor may he made by law; Use of balances.and the unexpended balances of other appropriations heretofore made for this project shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $95,000.
Rock Creek.Bridge at Pennsylvania Avenue.For the construction of a bridge across Rock Creek on the lines of Pennsylvania Avenue, in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the said Contracts authorized.commissioners are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for said work at a total cost not to exceed $160,000 of which so much thereof 949as may be necessary is authorized to be used for carrying suitable water mains across Rock Creek, to replace those now carried overReplacing water mains. said creek, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $25,000.
And the Capital Traction Company is authorized and required,Capital Traction Company.To remove tracks, etc., from Twenty-sixth and M Streets on completion of new bridge. within ninety days after said bridge shall be ready for the reception thereof, to remove its track from Twenty-sixth Street northwest between Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street and from M Street northwest between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth Streets, and relocate the same in Pennsylvania Avenue and across the bridge herein provided for to a junction with their present tracks at Twenty-ninth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, and to repave the said street space and the space on the M Street Bridge over Rock Creek from which said trades are removed, all in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and to their satisfaction, and the same law now governing the paving and repairing of street pavements between rails and for a distance of two feet exterior thereto shall govern on the bridge herein provided for.
And the Capital Traction Company shall, after the completion ofPayment of one-third at cost. said bridge, pay into the Treasury of the United States, one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia and one-half to the credit of the United States, a portion of the total cost of said bridge and all incidental work thereto equal to one-third thereof, and the same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and property of said Capital Traction Company, and shall be a legal indebtedness of said company in favor of the District of Columbia, jointly for its use and the use of the United States, as aforesaid, and the said lien may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by bill of equity brought by the Commissioners of the said District of Columbia in the Supreme Court of said District or by any other lawful proceedings against the said Capital Traction Company, and the CommissionersCondemnation of land, etc.Vol. 34, p. 151. of the District of Columbia arc hereby further authorized and directed, under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, to institute in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land necessary to open Pennsylvania Avenue northwest between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-eighth Streets to sufficient width for the construction of this bridge, the cost of said condemnation to be paid out of this appropriation: *Provided, however*,*Proviso*.Damages assessed as benefits.
That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said opening, plus the costs and expenses of said proceedings, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits. The amounts assessed as benefits when collected shall be coveredDeposit of collections. into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the United States in equal parts. And the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, is authorizedJurisdiction transferred to Commissioners. and directed to transfer to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia the land under his jurisdiction in square eleven hundred and ninety-four which is necessary, in the judgment of said commissioners, for the construction of the aforesaid bridge and approaches.
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are herebyHighway plans.Commissioners authorized to substitute new, when required. authorized, whenever in their judgment the public interests require it, to prepare a new highway plan for any portion of the District of Columbia, and submit the same for approval, after public hearing, to the highway commission, created by Act of Congress approved MarchVol. 27, p. 534.Vol. 30, p. 519. second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled, “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities”; that such highway plans shall be prepared under the provisions of said Act of Congress and an 950amendment thereto approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and that upon approval and recording of any such new highway plan it shall take the place of and stand for any previous plan for the portion of the District of Columbia affected.
Extension, etc., of streets, roads, etc., outside of cities to conform to highway plan.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to open, extend, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway to conform with the plan of the permanent system of highways in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, adopted under the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as amended by the Act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, Condemnation of lands, etc.Vol. 34, p. 151.eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by condemnation under the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law *Provisos*.Damages assessed as benefits.for the District of Columbia; *Provided*, That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury under such proceedings as damages for and in respect of the land condemned, plus the cost and expenses of said proceedings, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits:Payment of costs, etc., wholly from District revenues. *And provided further*, That the costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken under the provisions hereof, and the amounts awarded as damages for and in respect of the land condemned, shall be paid entirely from the revenues of the District of Repayment.Columbia, and shall be repaid to said District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury of the United Appropriation for expenses.States to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia; and such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year to end June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby appropriated, payable entirely from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sewers.SEWERS. Cleaning, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, $68,000. Pumping station.For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and the employment of mechanics, laborers, and watchman, the purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of motor trucks, $44,500. Main and pipe.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $65,000. Suburban, Rights of way.For suburban sewers, $155,000.
For assessment and permit work, sewers, $125,000. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Anacostia interceptor.Anacostia main interceptor: For continuing the construction of the Anacostia main interceptor along the Anacostia River between the outfall sewer, sewage-disposal system, at Poplar Point, and Benning, District of Columbia, $50,000. Rock Creek interceptor.Rock Creek main interceptor:
For continuing the construction of the Rock Creek main interceptor from P Street to Military Road, $40,000. Streets.STREETS. Cleaning, etc.Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Commissioners of the Snow and ice.District of Columbia, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and the purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables, hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; allowance to inspectors for maintenance of horses and vehicles used in the performance of 951official duties, not to exceed thirty dollars per month for each inspector; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in operation and supervision; and necessary incidental expenses, $260,000, and the commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Disposal of city refuse: For the collection and disposal of garbageDisposal of city refuse. and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; for collection and disposal of night soil in the District of Columbia; and for the payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, $179,945. Parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers,Parking commission. trimmers, nurserymen, repair men, 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, maintenance of automobile truck, and miscellaneous items, $42,500.
Bathing beach: For superintendent, $600; watchman, $480;Bathing beach. temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $2,250; for repairs to buildings, pools, and the upkeep of the grounds, $1,500, to be immediately available; in all, $4,830. For the construction, by contract or otherwise, of an undergroundDrain from fountain in White House grounds to bathing beach. drain from the fountain lying south of the White House, across the grounds of the White House (reservation number one) and of the Washington Monument (reservation number two) to the bathing beach near Seventeenth and B Streets northwest, $2,500; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter said reservations for the purpose of installing said drain: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Approval of plans, etc.
That the time, plans, and manner of doing the work shall first be approved by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds in accordance with such restrictions as he may decide to be necessary for the protection of the property and interests of the United States. The commissioners shall submit for the consideration of Congress,Estimates for two public tidal water bathing beaches to be submitted. in the annual estimates for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, detailed estimates for the construction of not exceeding two public bathing beaches, with all necessary buildings, on separate sites other than that now used and where tidal water shall be constantly available for bathing purposes.
Public scales: For replacement and repair of public scales, $200.Public scales. For the purchase and installation of a new twenty-five-ton railroadNew railroad scale. scale, to be immediately available, $850. For overhauling, transferring, and installing scales at Eleventh andTransferring, etc., scales. B Streets northwest to M and Potomac Streets northwest, and from M and Potomac Streets northwest to Eleventh Street and Virginia Avenue southeast, to be immediately available, $250.
Playgrounds: For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, constructionPlaygrounds.Maintenance. of toilet facilities and wading pools, fencing, grading and repairs, including labor and materials, and necessary incidental and contingent expenses for all playgrounds, including not to exceed $100 for rent of storage houses, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $7,535; For salaries: Clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $900; supervisor,Salaries. $2,500; to be employed not exceeding ten months, as follows— thirteen directors of playgrounds or recreation centers at $65 per month each, assistant director at $60 per month; to be employed not exceeding seven months, as follows—two assistant directors at $60 per month each, assistant director at $50 per month; to be employed not exceeding three months, as follows—one assistant director at $60 per month, thirteen assistants at $45 per month each; watchmen, to be employed not exceeding twelve months, as follows—ten at $45 per month each, one at $25 per month; in all, $21,275; 952 Wholly from District revenues.In all, for playgrounds, $28,810, which sum shall be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Substitute employees.In case of unauthorized absence or disability of any member of the playgrounds staff, the salary during such absence or disability shall be available to pay substitute employees during the fiscal year. Willow Tree Alley park.Interior park: For the development of the land acquired in square five hundred and thirty-four, heretofore known as Willow Tree Alley, $1,000. Public convenience stations.Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $7,500.
Insanitary buildings, etc.Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings: For all expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an Act entitled Vol. 34, p. 157.“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, $2,500. Electrical departmentELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.
Salaries.Electrical engineer, $2,500; assistant electrical engineer, $2,000; three electrical inspectors, at $1,200 each; inspector of lamps, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; two draftsmen, at $1,000 each; three telegraph operators, at $1,000 each; three inspectors, at $900 each; expert repairman, $960; four repairmen, at $900 each; telephone operators— three at $720 each, four at $540 each, one $450; electrical inspectors, one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,350; cable splicer, $1,200; assistant cable splicer, $620; clerks—one $1,400, one $1,200, two at $1,125 each, one $1,050, one $750; assistant repairmen—one $620, two at $540 each; laborers—one $630, two at $540 each, one $460, two at $400 each; storekeeper, $875; in all, $46,495.
Supplies, etc.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, washing, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, purchase and maintenance of means of transportation, and other necessary items, $13,500.
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, $7,000, 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, $3,000.
Lighting.All expenses.Lighting: For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, this sum to be expended in accordance Vol. 36, p. 1008.with the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, approved March second, nineteen hundred and *Ante*, p. 181.eleven, and with the provisions of the Act for the same purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, 953approved June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and other laws applicable thereto, livery and extra labor, $391,000.
Hereafter, all railroads other than street railroads shall pay to theRailroads to pay for lighting streets through which tracks laid. District of Columbia for the lighting, under the direction and control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, of the public roads, streets, avenues, and alleys, for their full width, through which their tracks may be laid, for the length of the street occupied by the said tracks, whether the said tracks be laid above, below, or at grade; as well as for the lighting of the subways and bridges over or under which the tracks of said railroads pass; and in default of payment of such bills, actions at law may be maintained by the District of Columbia against said railroads or their successors, transferees, or lessees therefor: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be held to repeal*Proviso*.Terminal Company not affected. the Act of May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, relating to the Washington Terminal Company.
For the purchase and installation of ten fire-alarm boxes, and forFire-alarm boxes. the purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $2,000. For completing purchasing and installing additional lead-coveredAdditional underground cables. cables to increase the capacity of the underground cable system in the congested downtown section, $5,000. 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, the 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, $34,500. For continuing surfacing and improvement of the Conduit Road,Conduit Road, improvement. from Foxhall Road to Great Falls, $15,000.
For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,Filtration plant, etc. and operation of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, filtration plant, and the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $91,000. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious breakEmergency fund. requiring immediate repair in one of the important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery, the unexpended balanceUse of balance. of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen*Ante*, p. 154. is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress.
For continuation of parking grounds around McMillan ParkMcMillan Park. Reservoir, $2,000. For continuing the lining of such portions of the unlined sectionsLining tunnels. of the tunnels of the Washington Aqueduct as may be necessary to prevent the disintegration and fall of rock, $10,000. For completing the purchase, installation, and maintenance ofWater meters.Placing, in specified public institutions, etc. water meters, to be placed on the water services of the National Museum, Washington Aqueduct, Naval Hospital, Naval Medical School, Library of Congress, and Hygienic Laboratory Buildings and for each and every purpose connected therewith, said meters to be purchased, installed, and maintained by and remain under the observation of the officer in charge of the Washington Aqueduct, $4,700. 954 Rock Creek Park.ROCK CREEK PARK.
Care, etc.For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, and of the Piney Branch Parkway, exclusive of building for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park in the manner now provided by law for other expenditures of the District of Columbia, $21,000. Public schools.PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Salaries.Officers.Officers: Superintendent of public schools, $6,000; two assistant superintendents, at $3,000 each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, and supervisor of manual training, fifteen in all, at a minimum salary of $2,200 each; secretary, $2,000; clerks—one $1,400, two at $1,000 each, one to carry out the provisions of the child-labor law, $900; two stenographers, at $840 each; messenger, $720; in all, $53,700.
Attendance officers.Attendance officers: Attendance officers—two at $600 each, one $900; in all, $2,100. Teachers.Teachers: For one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one teachers, to be assigned as follows: Principals of normal, high, and manual training schools, nine in all, at a minimum salary of $2,000 each; Director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of $1,800. Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six in all, at a minimum salary of $1,500 each;
Assistant director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of $1,400; Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six in all, at a minimum salary of $1,300 each; Heads of departments in high and manual training high schools in group B of class six, twelve in all, at a minimum salary of $1,900 each; Teachers of the normal, high, and manual training high schools promoted for superior work, group B of class six, fourteen in all, at a minimum salary of $1,900 each;
Teachers in group A of class six, including three principals of grade manual training schools, two hundred and seventy-eight in all, at a minimum salary of $1,000 each; Teachers in class five, one hundred and eighteen in all, at a minimum salary of $950 each; Teachers in class four, four hundred and fourteen in all, at a minimum salary of $800 each; Teachers in class three, four hundred and eighty-eight in all, at a minimum salary of $650 each; Teachers in class two, three hundred and thirty-seven in all, at a minimum salary of $600 each;
Teachers in class one, sixty-six in all, at a minimum salary of $500 each; Special beginning teacher in the normal school, $800; In all for teachers, $1,361,900. Librarians clerks.Librarians and clerks:Twenty-six librarians and clerks, to be assigned as follows: Librarian in class four, one at a minimum salary of $800; Librarians and clerks in class three, twelve in all, at a minimum salary of $650 each; Librarians and clerks in class two, five in all, at a minimum salary of $600 each; 955 Librarians and clerks in class one, eight in all, at a minimum salary of $500 each;
In all for librarians and clerks, $15,600. Longevity pay: Longevity pay for director of intermediateLongevity pay. instruction, supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, principals of the normal, high, and manual training high schools, principals of the grade manual training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salariesVol. 34, p. 320. of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth,Vol. 35, p. 289. nineteen hundred and six, as amended by the Acts approved MayVol. 36, p. 393. twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight.
May eighteenth, nineteen*Ante*, p. 156. hundred and ten, and June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $375,000. Allowance to principals: Allowance to principals of gradePrincipals. school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to theirAdditional pay. grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers,Vol. 34, p. 320. school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, $34,000. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination*Provisos*.No sex discriminations. shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade and performing a like class of duties; and it snail not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades. *Provided further*, That no teacher, of the whole number appropriatedRestrictions as to clerks, etc. for herein, shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of, a clerk or librarian.
Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools,Night schools.Salaries. including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $17,500. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools,Equipment. including equipment and the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $2,500. Kindergarten supplies:
For kindergarten supplies, $3,000.Kindergarten supplies.Janitors and care of buildings. Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: Superintendent of janitors, $1,200; Central High School and annex, janitor, $900; laborer, $420; three laborers, at $360 each; in all, $2,400; Business High School, janitor, $900; laborer, $420; three laborers, at $360 each; in all, $2,400; J. Ormond Wilson Normal School and Ross School, engineer, $900; janitor, $600; laborer, $420; three laborers, at $360 each; in all, $3,000;
Jefferson School, janitor, $800; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $1,520; Western High School, janitor, $900; laborer, $420; three laborers, at $360 each; in all, $2,400; Franklin School, janitor, $840; laborer, $420; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $1,980; Normal School Numbered Two, janitor, $900; laborer, $420; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $2,040; 956 Eastern High School, janitor, $900; laborer, $420; laborer, $360; in ail, $1,680; Stevens School, janitor, $900; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $1,620;
McKinley Manual Training School, janitor, $900; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,500; assistant engineer, $1,000; two assistant janitors, at $720 each; fireman, $420; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $5,980; Armstrong Manual Training School, janitor, $900; assistant janitor, $720; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,200; assistant engineer, $720; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $4,260. M Street High School and Douglas and Simmons Schools, engineer, $1,000; janitor, $900; laborer, $420; three laborers, at $360 each; in all, $3,400;
Emery, the new Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Van Buren, and Wallach Schools, five janitors, at $840 each; five laborers, at $360 each; in all, $6,000; Birney and annex, Brookland, Bryan, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gage, Gales, Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Grover Cleveland, Henry, Johnson and annex, Langdon, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Miner, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, Strong John Thomson Schools, twenty-four janitors, at $720 each; twenty-four laborers, at $300 each; in all, $24,480;
Abbott, Benning (white), Berrett, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, Dent, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley Schools; eleven janitors, at $700 each; in all, $7,700. Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Cardozo, Chevy Chase, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Eaton, Edmunds, Eckington, Fillmore, French, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Petworth, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Potomac, Powell, Randle Highlands, Slater, Smallwood, Takotna, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatly, Wilson, Woodburn, Wormley, and West Schools; seventy-three janitors, at $600 each; in all, $43,800;
Crummell School, Wisconsin Avenue Manual Training School, Cardozo Manual Training School, and one six-room building in the twelfth division; four janitors, at $540 each; in all, $2,160; Brightwood Park and Kenilworth Schools, two janitors, at $360 each; in all, $720; Bunker Hill, Deanwood, Hamilton, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Smothers, Stanton, Threlkeld, Military Road, and Burrville Schools, twelve janitors, at $300 each; in all, $3,600; Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, and Fort Slocum Schools, three janitors, at $150 each; in all, $450;
Employing substitutes.In the event of the absence of any engineer, assistant engineer, janitor, assistant janitor, laborer, fireman, or caretaker at any time during school sessions the board of education is hereby authorized to appoint a substitute, who shall be paid the salary of the position in which employed, and the amount paid to such substitute shall be deducted from the salary of the absent employee; In all, $122,790. Care of smaller buildings, etc.For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $72 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, $8,000.
Medical inspectors.Medical inspectors: Thirteen medical inspectors of public schools, one of whom shall be a woman, two of whom shall be den 957tists, and four of whom shall be of the colored race, at $500 each; in all, $6,500: *Provided*, That said inspectors shall be appointed by the*Proviso*.Competitive examination, etc. commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least three years’ experience in the practice of medicine or dentistry in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him, which shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the commissioners.
Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, repair shop, storageMiscellaneous.Rent. and stock rooms, $17,000. For amount required to equip temporary rooms for classes aboveTemporary rooms, etc. 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, $5,000.
For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds andRepairs, etc. for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and the installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not. supplied with the same, $100,000. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, andManual training expenses. . books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, $25,000.
For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $85,000.Fuel, lights, etc. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Contingent expenses.stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for high-school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of $300 for livery of horse for the superintendent of janitors, and including not exceeding $1,000 for books, books of reference, and periodicals, $47,500. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergartenPianos. schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $900.
For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eightSupplies to pupils. 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 textbooks and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of textbooks and supplies, at $1,200, and one assistant, at $600, $65,000: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its discretion,*Proviso*.Exchanges. is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use.
For purchase of United States flags, $800.Flags. For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds,Playgrounds. $900. For maintenance and repairing forty-two playgrounds now established, $2,100. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenanceSchool gardens. of school gardens, $1,200. For purchase of apparatus and for extending the equipment and forPhysics department apparatus. the maintenance of the physics department in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, and M Street High Schools, $3,000.
For the purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materialsChemistry and biological laboratories. for the laboratories of the departments of chemistry and biology in the Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and M Street High Schools, J. Ormond Wilson Normal School, and Normal School Numbered Two, and the installation of the same, $2,100. For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture, $1,000.Cabinetmaker. Buildings and grounds: For the complete equipment of the normal-schoolBuildings and grounds. building for colored pupils, $20,000. 958 For the construction of a four-room addition to the Congress Heights School, $33,000.
For the construction of a six-room addition to the Birney School, $51,000. New Central High School.Toward the construction of a new Central High School on the site purchased for that purpose and toward the grading and other work necessary to prepare the site, the grading of an athletic field, the construction of retaining walls, and the construction of an athletic Limit of cost.stadium, and the total cost of said work shall not exceed $1,200,000, under contracts which are hereby authorized therefor, $300,000.
M Street High School for colored pupils.Toward the construction of a new M Street High School for colored pupils, on the site purchased for that purpose, and toward the grading Limit of cost.of said site, and the total cost of said building shall not exceed $550,000, under contracts which are hereby authorized therefor, $150,000. For the purchase of ground adjacent to the Petworth School, $15,000. For the purchase of ground adjacent to the Briggs School, for additional playground space, approximately nine thousand square feet, $7,500.
For the purchase of lots seven, eight, and nine, square five hundred and eleven, as a site for an annex to the John F. Cook School, $8,500. For the purchase of ground north of Rhode Island Avenue on which to erect an additional school building for the Woodridge and Langdon neighborhood, $12,000. Limit of 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, etc.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. Deaf and dumb pupils.Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942.Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as Vol. 31, p. 844.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, $11,900, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Colored pupils.For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Vol. 33, p. 901.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, $4,550, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Indigent blind children.For the instruction of indigent blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $7,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 959 METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police.
Major and superintendent, $4,000; assistant superintendent, withSalaries. rank of inspector, $2,500; three inspectors, at $1,800 each; eleven captains, at $1,500 each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, $2,000; clerk and stenographer, $1,500; clerk, who shall be assistant property clerk, $1,200; three clerks, at $1,000 each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at $720 each; additional compensation for twenty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, $4,800, or so much thereof as may be necessary; thirteen lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at $1,320 each; forty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,250 each; four hundred and ninety-one privates of class three, at $1,200 each; one hundred privates of class two, at $1,080 each; fifty-eight privates of class one, at $900 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 fourteen, $2,729; six telephone operators, at $720 each; fourteen janitors, at $600 each; messenger, $700; messenger, $500; inspector, mounted, $240; fifty-five captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at $240 each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $50 each; eighteen drivers, at $720 each; three police matrons, at. $600 each; in all, $907,789.
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, $200. Miscellaneous: For fuel, $4,000;Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds,Repairs. $5,500;
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchaseMiscellanous expenses. of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase of horses, horse and vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to the same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses,Detection of crime. $29,500; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for the prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided*, That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish*Proviso*.Mounted equipment. the District Commissioners, for the use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required;
For five motor patrol wagons, at $2,500 each, $12,500;Motor patrol wagons. For maintenance of motor vehicles, $2,500, or so much thereof asMaintenance. may be necessary; In all, $54,000. House of Detention: To enable the Commissioners of the DistrictHouse of Detention. 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 u rider seventeen years of age and, hi the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the 960police 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 $900 each; four drivers, at $600 each; hostler, $600; six guards, at $600 each; three matrons, at $600 each; miscellaneous expenses, including rent, forage, fuel, gas, horseshoeing, ice, laundry, meals, horses, wagons and harness and repairs to same, and other necessary expenses, $3,440; in all, $13,640 or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Harbor patrol.Harbor patrol: Two engineers, at $1,000 each; watchman, $540; two deck hands, at $540 each; in all, $3,620; For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $2 000; In all, $5,620. Fire department.FIRE DEPARTMENT. Salaries.Chief engineer, $3,500; deputy chief engineer, $2,500; three battalion chief engineers, at $2,000 each; fire marshal, $2,000; deputy fire marshal, $1,400; two inspectors, at $1,080 each; chief clerk, $1,800; clerk, $1,200; thirty-seven captains, at $1,400 each; thirty-nine lieutenants, at $1,200 each; superintendent of machinery, $2,000; assistant superintendent of machinery, $1,200; twenty-five engineers, at $1,150 each; twenty-five assistant engineers, at $1,100 each; two pilots, at $1,150 each; two marine engineers, at $1,150 each; two assistant marine engineers, at $1,100 each; two marine firemen, at $720 each; thirty-nine drivers, at $1,150 each; thirty-nine assistant drivers, at $1,100 each; two hundred and nineteen privates of class two, at $1,080 each; forty-two privates of class one, at $960 each; hostler, $600; laborer, $480; in all, $552,520.
Restriction on leaving the District.Hereafter no member of the fire department shall, unless on leave of absence, go beyond the confines of the District of Columbia, or be Leaves of absence.absent from duty without permission; and leaves of absence exceeding twenty days in any one year shall be without pay and require the consent of the commissioners, and such year shall be from January Extension for sickness or injuries.first to December thirty-first, both inclusive, and thirty days shall be the term of total sick leave in any year without disallowance of pay; and leave of absence with pay of members of the fire department of the District of Columbia may be extended in cases of illness or injury incurred in line of duty, upon recommendation of the board of surgeons approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, for such period exceeding thirty days in any calendar year as in the judgment of the commissioners may be necessary.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, including not exceeding $4,000 for special and urgent repairs, $16,000; For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven apparatus, and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, and new appliances, $14,000; For purchase of hose, $15,000; For fuel, $15,000; For purchase of horses, $12,750; For forage, $32,250; For repairs and improvements of the fire boat, $800; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $26,000.
In all, $131,800. Repair and storage building.Permanent improvements, fire department: For repair and storage building, including cost of excavating, covering, and lining a cistern, and connecting said building with fire-alarm headquarters, $20,000; 961 For one fire engine, $10,000; For one combination chemical engine and hose wagon, $6,000;New apparatus. For two two-wheel tractors, motor driven, $8,000; For one combination chemical engine and hose wagon, $6,000; In all, $50,000.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health department Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, who hereafter shallSalaries. 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, $2,500; chief clerk and deputy health officer, $2,500; clerks—one at $1,400, five at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, one at $720; chief sanitary inspector, $1,800; sanitary inspectors—eight at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; chief food inspector, $1,600; food inspectors—five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; chemist, $1,800; assistant chemist, $1,200; assistant bacteriologist, $1,200; skilled laborer, $600; messenger and janitor, $600; driver, $600; pound master, $1,200; laborers, at not exceeding $50 per month each, $2,000; in all, $63,620.
Not less than twelve of the sanitary and food inspectors aboveMilk and dairy inspection, etc. provided for shall be employed in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws and the regulations relating thereto and in the inspection of dairies and dairy farms. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent thePreventing spread of diseases.Vol. 29, p. 635.Vol. 34, p. 889. 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 cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination ofTuberculosis registration.Vol. 35, p. 126. sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, under the direction of the health officer of said District, and for the prevention of other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services, not exceeding $12,000, when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purchaseHorses, wagons, etc. of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, $24,000: *Provided*, That any*Proviso*.Bacteriological examination of milk, etc. bacteriologist employed under this appropriation shall not be paid more than $6 per day and may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary work as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases.
For maintenance of the disinfecting service, including salaries orDisinfecting service. compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $5,000. For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for theDrainage of lots,etc.Vol. 29, p. 125. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the abatementAbatement of nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114. of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, $1,500. 962 Food adulterations.For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $100.
Laboratory.For the equipment and maintenance of the bacteriological laboratory and for reference books and scientific journals, $1,000. Milk regulations.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 Adulteration of food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.ninety-five; 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 Enforcing pure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768.and 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, $1,000.
Inspecting dairy farms, etc.For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including amounts that may be allowed the health officer, and assistant health officer, medical inspector in charge of contagious-disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for the maintenance by each of a horse and vehicle, or motor vehicle, for use in the discharge of his official duties, not to exceed $240 per annum, and allowances for such other inspectors in the service of the health department as the commissioners may determine, of not exceeding $100 per annum for the maintenance of a motor cycle each, or of not exceeding $25 per annum for the maintenance of a bicycle each, for use in the discharge of their official duties, and other necessary traveling expenses, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Isolating wards in hospitals.Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $6,000 and $4,000, respectively, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, $10,000. Public crematory.For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, $2 000. Additional furnace.For the installation of an additional furnace at the public crematory, $3,000. Treatment of ponds of stagnant water.For treatment of ponds of stagnant water, for the creation or maintenance of which the District government is responsible, so as to prevent propagation of mosquitoes therein, including payment for personal services when necessary, $200.
Pound, etc.Location approved.The action of the commissioners in locating a pound and stable for the health department on reservation numbered two hundred and ninety, located along James Creek Canal at the intersection of Vol. 36, p. 994.South Capitol and I Streets southeast, under the authorization contained in the District appropriation Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, is ratified and confirmed, and the Jurisdiction.jurisdiction and control over said reservation is transferred to the *Proviso*.Payment for land transferred.Commissioners of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the District of Columbia shall pay to the United States as compensation for the land contained in said reservation one-half the estimated value thereof, namely, $4,100, and there is hereby appropriated, From District revenues.entirely from the revenues of the District of Columbia, said sum of $4,100, which shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States, and thereafter the title to said reservation shall be in the name of the District of Columbia.
Courts.COURTS. Court of appeals, reports.Vol. 32, p. 609.To pay the reporter of the Court of Appeals 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 hundred and 963twenty-nine of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two volumes, at $5 each, namely, eleven copies each of volumes forty and forty-one, $110. Probation system: Probation officer, Supreme Court, District ofProbation officers.
Columbia, $2,000; probation officer, police court, District of Columbia, $1,500; assistant probation officer, police court, District of Columbia, $1,200; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $5,200. Juvenile court: Judge, $3,600; clerk, $2,000; deputy clerk, whoJuvenile court.Salaries. is authorized to act as clerk in the absence of that officer, $1,200; chief probation officer, $1,500; probation officers—one $1,200, one $1,000; bailiff, $700; janitor, $540; in all, $11,740. Miscellaneous:
For compensation of jurors, $1,300;Miscellaneous. For rent, $240; For furniture, fixtures, and equipments, and repairs to the court-house and grounds, $300; 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, $1,000;
In all, $2,840. Police court.Salaries.Police court: Two judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $2,200; deputy clerks—one $1,600, one $1,500, two, at $1,200 each; deputy financial clerk, $1,500; seven bailiffs, at $900 each; deputy marshal, $1,000; janitor, $600; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman, $480; two assistant janitors, at $300 each; matron, $600; three charmen, at $360 each; in all, $28,680. 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 of every kind not otherwise provided for, $2,250;
For witness fees, $3,000; For furniture for the police court and repairing and replacing same, $200; For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $25; For compensation of jurors, $7,000; For repairs to the police-court building, $1,000; In all, $13,475. Municipal court.Salaries.Municipal court: Five judges, at $2,500 each; clerk, $1,500; three assistant clerks, at $1,000 each; janitor, $600; in all, $17,600; Rent, etc.For rent of building, $1,500;
For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $750; In all, for the municipal court, $19,850. Lunacy writs.Vol. 33, p. 740.Writs or 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 authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including the employment of an alienist at not exceeding $1,000 per annum, $3,500. 964 Interest and sinking fund.INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.
For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, $975,408, which sum shall be paid out of funds and accounted for in accordance with the Acts of Congress in relation thereto. Emergency fund.EMERGENCY FUND. Expenditures.To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District *Proviso*.Purchases.of Columbia, $8,000: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid or any such articles, and till bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or the purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia.
Courts and prisons.FOR COURTS AND PRISONS. Support of convicts out of District.Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $60,000. Courthouse, care, etc.Courthouse, District of Columbia: For the following force necessary for the care and protection of the courthouse in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia:
Engineer, $1,200; three watchmen, at $720 each; three firemen, at $720 each; five laborers, at $600 each; three messengers, at $720 each; in all, $10,680, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Court of appeals building, care, etc.Court of appeals building, District of Columbia: For the following force, necessary for the care and protection of the court of appeals building: Two watchmen, at $720 each; elevator operator, at $720; three laborers, at $480 each; mechanician (under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds), *Proviso*.Custodian.$1,200: *Provided*, That the clerk of the court of appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court; in all, $4,800.
Expenses.For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electric current, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, for the court of appeals building, District of Columbia, $800. Supreme Court.Witness fees.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses in the 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, $13,000.
Juror’s fees.Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $55,000. Pay of bailiffs, etc.Pay of bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for the expense of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same when ordered by the court, $27,000. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous expenses: For payment of such 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 965or 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, $15,000.
CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections. Board of Charities: Secretary, $3,500; clerk, $1,200; stenographer,Board of Charities.Salaries, etc. $1,200; messenger, $600; inspectors—one at $1,200, three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, two at $840 each; drivers—one at $780, three at $720 each; hostler, $540; traveling expenses, including attendance on conventions, $400; in all, $18,060. REFORMATORIES AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS.Reformatories, etc. Washington Asylum and Jail:
Superintendent, $1,800; visitingWashington Asylum and Jail.Salaries. physician, $1,200; resident physician, $480; clerk, $840; engineer, $900; three assistant engineers, at $600 each; two assistant engineers at hospital for seven and one-half months, at $50 per month each; night watchman, $480; blacksmith and woodworker, $500; driver for dead wagon, $365; one hostler and driver, and one driver for supply and laundry wagon, at $240 each; hospital cook, $600; assistant cooks—one at $300, two, at $180 each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, $900; two graduate nurses, at $425 each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, $425; two nurses for annex wards, at $480 each; eight orderlies, and two orderlies for annex wards, at $300 each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed $120 per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed $150 per annum during second year of service), $3,000; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, $720; gardener, $540; seamstress, and housekeeper, at $300 each; laundryman, $600; assistant laundryman, $365; six laundresses, at $360 each; two chambermaids, three waiters, and seven ward maids, at $180 each; temporary labor, not to exceed $1,200; in all, $28,335;
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $35,000; For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, trades, steam heating and cooking apparatus, $2,000; Payments to destitute women and children: For payment to thePayments to abandoned families, etc.Vol. 34, p. 87. 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, $4,000, 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;
Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of jail prisonersSupport of jail prisoners. of the District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, $44,000; For four one hundred and fifty horsepower water-tube boilers andBoilers. all appurtenances, $15,000; Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to the WashingtonTransportation of prisoners. Asylum and Jail, including salary of driver, not to exceed $720, and the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $2,000;
In all, under Washington Asylum and Jail, $130,335. 966 Home for Aged and Infirm.Home for the Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk, $900; matron, $600; chief cook, $720; Baker, and laundryman, at $540 each; chief engineer, $1,000; assistant engineer, $720; physician and pharmacist, and second assistant engineer, at $480 each; two male attendants, and two nurses, at $360 each; two female attendants, three firemen, and assistant cook, at $300 each; assistant cook, $180; blacksmith and woodworker, and farmer, at $540 each; three farm hands, dairyman, and tailor, at $360 each; seamstress, laundress, hostler and driver, at $240 each; three servants, at $144 each; temporary laborer, $1,000; in all, $15,632;
Contingent expenses.For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $27,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500; For road construction, $850; For repairs and improvements of the heating and lighting plant, including conduit, new piping, and faucets, to be immediately available, $8,700; In all, for Home for Aged and Infirm, $54,682.
National Training School for Boys.Care, etc., of inmates.National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenance 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 Framing School for Boys, $48,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. National Training School for Girls.Salaries.National Training School for Girls: Superintendent, $1,200; treasurer, matron, and three teachers, at $600 each; overseer, $720; six teachers of industries, at $480 each; engineer, $600; assistant engineer, $480; night watchman, $480; two laborers, at $300 each; in all, $9,960;
Contingent expenses.For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $350 for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, and for rewards for their recapture, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, not exceeding $150, $13,000;
For the erection of a barn and warehouse, $600; For a covered porch extension, $350; In all, for National Training School for Girls, $23,910. medical charities.Medical charities. Freedmen’s Hospital.For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Freedmen’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, $34,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Columbia Hospital for Women.For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $20,000.
For repairs to Columbia Hospital, $400. 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 $14,000. 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 $8,500. Emergency Hospital.For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with 967the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, $17,000.
For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary serviceEastern Dispensary. to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, $12,500. For the care and treatment of indigent patients under aHome for Incurables. contract to be made with the Washington Home for Incurables by the Board of Charities, $5,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to beGeorgetown University Hospital. made with the Georgetown University hospital by the Board of Charities, $5,000.
For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to beGeorge Washington University Hospital. made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $5,000. Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician,Tuberculosis Hospital.Salaries. $480; pharmacist and clerk, superintendent of nurses, and engineer, at $720 each; pathologist, $300; matron, dietician, chief cook, assistant engineer, laundryman, and seven graduate nurses, at $600 each; assistant cooks—one $360, one $180; assistant engineer, $480; elevator conductor, $300; three laundresses, at $240 each; farmer, laborer, night watchman, three orderlies, and assistant laundryman, at $360 each; two ward maids, at $180 each; four servants at $240 each; in all, $17,820;
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and betiding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $30,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,000; For purchase and installation of disinfecting plant, $800; For incinerator for burning sputum, $750;
For vacuum cleaners, $450; For new high-pressure boiler, $1,000; For erection of buildings to afford additional accommodations for incipient cases, $2,000; In all, for Tuberculosis Hospital, $54,820. child-caring institutions.Care of children. Board of children’s guardians: For administrative expenses, including expensesBoard of Children’s Guardians.Expenses. in placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $25, and all office and sundry expenses, $3,100;
For agent, $1,800; executive clerk, $1,200; placing officers—one atSalaries. $1,000, two at $900 each; investigating clerk, $900; record clerk, and two visiting inspectors, at $720 each; clerk, $660; messenger, $360; in all, $9,880; For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored),Feeble-minded children. $18,000; For board and care of all children committed to the guardianshipBoard, etc. of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 toAmount for sectarian institutions. institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $300 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $45,000;
In all, for board of children’s guardians, $75,980. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances to agent. advance to the agent of the board of children’s guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent 968by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $200 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.Salaries.Industrial Home School for Colored Children: Superintendent, $1,200; matron of school, $480; two caretakers, two assistant caretakers, nurse, and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two teachers, at $480 each; manual training teacher, $600; farmer, and blacksmith and wheelwright, at $480 each; stableman, and watchman, at $300 each; cook, and laundress, at $240 each; in all, $7,440; Expenses.For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $8,000;
For furniture and manual-training equipment, $250; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,000; For fire protection, including fire plugs, $300; *Proviso*.Use of receipts from products, etc.In all, for Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $16,990: *Provided*, That all moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board, of instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to be expended by them in the support of the school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Industrial Home School.Salaries.Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; matron, $480; three matrons, housekeeper, and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two assistant matrons, and nurse, at $300 each; manual-training teacher, $600; florist, $840; engineer, $720; farmer, $540; cook, and laundress, at $240 each; two housemaids, at $180 each; temporary labor, not to exceed $400; in ail, $8,620; Expenses.For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and harness, $16,000.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,700; In all, for the Industrial Home School, $26,320. 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 $9,900. Foundling’s Home.For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the Washington Home for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, $6,000.
Saint Ann’s Infant 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, $6,000. Temporary homes.temporary homes. Municipal lodging house.Municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely: Superintendent, who shall also act as foreman, $1,200; cook, $360; night watchman for six months, at $25 per month, $150; maintenance, $1,820; in all, $3,530. Grand Army Soldiers’ Home.Temporary Home for ex-Union soldiers and sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, namely:
Superintendent, $1,200; janitor, $360; cook, $360; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $5,920, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 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, $3,000. 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, $350,000.
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 969Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, $3,000. 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 officer of the District of Columbia.
The reimbursement required to be made to the United States by theAmount of reimbursement for deficiency in care of indigent insane.*Ante*, p. 461. District of Columbia under the provisions of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August twenty fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, on account of deficiencies in payments for the care and maintenance of the insane of said District during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-one to nineteen hundred and eleven, inclusive, is hereby fixed at $719,536.09.
Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay ofRelief of the poor. physicians to the poor at not exceeding $1 per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, $12,000. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers,Transporting paupers. $3,000. Workhouse—For the following now employed or authorizedWorkhouse. under the appropriation for the workhouse, namely:Administration salaries.
Administration—-Superintendent, $2,500; chief clerk, $1,200; assistant superintendent, $720; stenographer, $720; stenographer and officer, $600; Operation: Foreman, construction, $900; foreman, stone-crushingOperation salaries. plant, $900; chief engineer and electrician, $900; superintendent rick kiln, $1,500; clay worker, $480; superintendent tailor shop, $480. Maintenance: Physician, $1,350; superintendent of clothing andMaintenance.Salaries. laundry, $720; storekeeper, $660; steward, $900; stewardess, $480; veterinary and officer, $780; captain of guards, $1,200; captain of the night watch, $900; receiving and discharging officers—one $1,000, one $900; superintendent laundry, $480; two day guards, at $720 each; thirty day guards, at $660 each; fifteen night guards, at $600 each; two day officers, at $480 each; four night officers, at $480 each; hospital nurse, $480; captain of steamboat, $900; engineer of steam-boat, $840; in all, $55,610.
For the maintenance of the District of Columbia Workhouse atExpenses of operation. Occoquan, Virginia, including the superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, maintenance, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; the purchase of tools and equipment; the purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation, and means of transportation; and supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, $70,000:
For fuel for maintenance, $15,000; fuel for manufacturing and construction,Fuel, etc. oils and repairs to plant, $30,000; in all, $45,000. For tugboat, $25,000;Tugboat. For construction or purchase of not less than four barges, includingBarges. personal services if one or more of them are constructed in an established shop of the District of Columbia, $12,000; For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000;Material for repairs. That the sum of $33,000 appropriated in the Act making appropriationsPurchase of additional land from fund for Belvoir tract. for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 970*Ante*, p. 589.thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to reimburse the government of the District of Columbia for the site acquired for a reformatory for said District, is hereby made available for the acquisition, by purchase or condemnation, of land adjacent or contiguous to the present workhouse site at Occoquan, Virginia, the title to such land to be Condemnation.taken directly to and in the name of the United States; and in case a price satisfactory to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia can not be agreed upon for the purchase of such land or in ease the title can not be made satisfactory to the Attorney General of the United States, then the latter is directed to procure such land by condemnation, and the expenses of procuring evidence of title, or condemnation, Restriction on extent of site repealed.Vol. 35, p. 717.or both, shall be paid out of said appropriation; and the provision of existing law which requires the site for a reformatory to be not less than one thousand acres in extent and all other laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are repealed;
In all, for workhouse, $211,610. Militia.MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Expenses.For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Camps, etc.For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills, and parades, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, telephone service, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $25,000.
Rent, etc.For rent of armories, offices, storehouses, and quarters for non-commissioned officers of the Army detailed for duty with the militia, $17,664. For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, $600. For printing, stationery, and postage, $1,500. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $2,000. For custodian in charge of United States property and store-rooms, $1,000. For clerk, office of The Adjutant General, $1,000.
For expenses of target practice and matches, $1,250. Pay of troops.For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be dis burned under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $24,000. REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS. Refund of erroneous collections, fees, etc.To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, rents, or fees of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District appropriation Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Anacostia River Flats.ANACOSTIA RIVER FLATS. Reclamation, etc.For continuing the reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Flats, from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, to be expended under the supervision of the Chief of En 971gineers, United States Army, upon plans heretofore authorized to be prepared; said sum to be available for the preparation of plans, the prosecution of the work, the employment of personal service, and for such other purposes as may in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers be necessary to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, $100,000.
In connection with said reclamation and development of the AnacostiaAcquisition of land along Anacostia River for highway and park purposes. River and flats from the Anacostia Bridge to the District line, the Secretary of War is authorized to acquire by purchase or by condemnation, for highway and park purposes, the fee simple and absolute title to the land along the Anacostia River on both sides thereof between the high-water lines of said river, as determined by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and lines following approximately the contour of ten feet elevation on each side of said river above mean low water at the United States Navy Yard, from the Anacostia Bridge to the northeast boundary line between the District of Columbia and Maryland; and also all land below the high-water lines on each side of said Anacostia River between the limits named that is not now owned by the United States;Fund for reclamation, etc., made available. and the appropriation herein made for the reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Flats from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, and all appropriations heretofore made for said purpose are hereby made available for the purchase or condemnation of said land and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages for said land and the costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings in the event that it is necessary to institute such condemnation proceedings: *Provided*, That if said land or any part*Proviso*.Condemnation proceedings.Vol. 34, p. 151. thereof can not be acquired by purchase from the owners thereof at a price satisfactory to the Secretary of War, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon the request of the Secretary of War, shall institute condemnation proceedings to acquire such land under the pro visions of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia. small parks.Small parks.
For the condemnation of small park areas at the intersections ofCondemnation of land outside of city limits for. streets outside the limits of the original city of Washington, to be acquired from such areas shown on the map on file in the office of the Engineer Commissioner, in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $25,000: *Provided*, That such condemnation*Proviso*.Proceedings.Vol. 34, p. 151. shall be under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That of the amount found to be due and awardedOne half of damages to be assessed as benefits. by the jury in any such proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said parks, plus the costs and expenses of the proceeding thereunder, not less than one-half thereof shall be assessed by the jury as benefits, which, when collected, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
The public parks so acquired shall become a part of thePlaced under Chief of Engineers. park system of the District of Columbia and be under the control of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army. water department.Water department. The following sums arc appropriated to carry on the operations ofPayable from water revenues. the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shallRevenue and Inspection branch. also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; three meter 972computers, at $1,000 each; chief inspector, $1,000; meter clerk, $1,000; tap clerk, $1,000; inspectors—eight at $900 each; eleven, at $800 each; messenger, $600;
Distribution branch.For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; draftsman,$1,600; foreman, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,500 each, four at $1,200 each, one at $1,000, one $900; time keeper, $900; assistant foreman, $900; three steam engineers, at $1,100 each; assistant engineers—one at $2,400, one at $1,600; leveler, $1,200; two rodmen, at $900 each; two chain-men, at $675 each; draftsman, $1,050; storekeeper, $1,000; assistant storekeeper, $750; assistant foremen—one $1,275, one $1,200, one $1,125; chief steam engineer, $1,750; three assistant steam engineers, at $875 each; four oilers, at $610 each; three firemen, at $875 each; inspector, $1,200; janitor, $900; watchmen—one $875, one $700, one $610; driver, $700; two messengers, at $540 each; driver, $630; chief inspector of valves, $1,400; in all, $84,885;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $75 and other necessary items, $4,800. Operating expenses.For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, maintenance of motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, and including a sum not exceeding $800 for the purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the water department, $37,000.
High-service system, water meters, etc.For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to 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 homes, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, and for the purchase and maintenance of one motor runabout, not to exceed in cost $1,000, to be used for purposes of inspection, so much as may be available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. Temporary draftsmen, etc. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers. transitmen, rodmen chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Proviso*.Maximum expenditure.*Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $70,000 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Work under Commissioners.Temporary laborers, etc.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection 973with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or special engineering or construction or repair 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, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 3. That all horses, harness, and horse-drawn vehicles necessaryHorses, wagons, etc.Special orders from Commissioners for using. for use in connection with the construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including the maintenance of said horses and harness, and the maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District inReport. the annual estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Temporary work under commissioned.That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, 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. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers, Water department.Temporary engineers, draftsmen, etc.rodmen, chainmen, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employeesReport. performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provider*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed*Proviso*.Maximum expenditure. $13,000 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorizedWork under Commissioners.Temporary laborers, etc. to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required 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. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia areMiscellaneous trust fund.Expenses paid from.Vol. 33, p. 368. 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 974 “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account.
Sec. 6. Limit on requisitions.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Sec. 7. Real estate sale or rent signs.Location on side-walk or parking forbidden.Limit on placing on lots, etc.That hereafter no sign or advertisement relating to the sale, rent, or lease of land or premises shall be located on the sidewalk or parking of any street, avenue, or road in the District of Columbia.
One painted or printed sign or advertisement for the sale, rent, or lease of lands or premises may, with the written consent of the owner or legal representative of the owner, be placed, by any one of not exceeding three real estate agents, on any lot, piece, or parcel of land abutting on a street, avenue, or road in said District, or attached to Prosecutions.the exterior of any building fronting thereon. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to use the police authority vested in them, to require the removal of any sign or advertisement in violation of this provision, and to institute prosecutions, in the Police Court of the District of Columbia, against persons violating the Penalty for violations.provisions hereof, and every such person, upon conviction of such violation, shall be fined in the sum of not less than $5 nor more than $25.
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.Public Utilities Commission. Sec. 8. Par. 1. Meaning of terms.That for the purpose of this section the term “Commission.”“commission” when used herein shall mean the public utilities commission of the District of Columbia created by this section. “Commissioner. ”The term “commissioner” when used in this section shall mean one of the members of such commission. “Public utility.”The term “public utility” as used in this section shall mean and embrace every street railroad, street railroad corporation common carrier, gas plant, gas corporation, electric plant, electrical corporation, water power company, telephone corporation, telephone line, telegraph corporation, telegraph line, and pipe line company.
“Service.”The term “service” is used in this section m its broadest and most inclusive sense. “Corporation.”The term “corporation” when used in this section includes a corporation, company, association, and joint-stock company or association. “Person.”The word “person” when used in this section includes an individual and a firm or copartnership. “Joint rates.”The term “joint rates” when used in this section with reference to street railways shall be taken to mean rates between unrelated lines now in effect under existing law or under contract, or which may hereafter be specifically authorized by law.
“Extension or extensions.”The term “extension or extensions” when used in this section shall include the reasonable extension of the service and facilities of every street railroad, street railroad corporation, gas plant, gas corporation, electric plant, electrical corporation, telephone corporation, telephone line, telegraph line, and telegraph corporation as the same are defined in this section. “Street railroad.”The term “street railroad” when used in this section includes every such railroad, whether wholly or partly in the District of Colum 975bia, by whatsoever power operated, or any extension or extensions, branch or branches thereof, for public use in the conveyance of persons or property for compensation, and includes all equipment, construction, maintenance, repairs, switches, spurs, tracks, terminals, terminal facilities of every kind, trackage, joint or reciprocal trackage, transfers of passengers between street railways having connecting lines and street railways having independent lines, subways, tunnels, and stations, used, operated, or owned by or in connection with any such street railroad, and all the property of the same used in the conduct of its business.
The terms “street railroad corporation” when used in this section“Street railroad corporation. includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, and person doing business in the District of Columbia, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, controlling, or managing any street railroad or any cars or other equipment used thereon or in connection therewith. The term “common carrier” when used in this section includes“Common carrier.” express companies and every corporation, street railroad corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, and person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, controlling, or managing any agency or agencies for public use for the conveyance of persons or property within the District of Columbia for hire.
Steam railroads, the Washington Terminal Company, and the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company, and all companies engaged in interstate traffic upon the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay are excluded from the operation of this section, and are not included in the term “common carrier.” The term “gas plant” when used in this section includes all“Gas plant.” buildings, easements, real estate, mains, pipes, conduits, service pipes, services, pipe galleries, meters, boilers, water-gas sets, retorts, fixtures, condensers, scrubbers, purifiers, holders, materials, apparatus, personal property, and franchises, and property of every kind used in the conduct of the business operated, owned, controlled, used or to be used for or in connection with or to facilitate the manufacture, distribution, sale, or furnishing of gas (natural or manufactured) for light, heat, or power.
The term “gas corporation” when used in this section includes“Gas corporation.” every corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, or person manufacturing, making, distributing, or selling gas for light, heat, or power, or for any public use whatsoever in the District of Columbia, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, and in said district owning, operating, controlling, or managing any gas plant, except where the gas is made or produced and distributed by the maker on or through private property solely for its own use or the use of its tenants and not for sale to or for the use of others.
The term “electric plant” when used in this section includes all“Electric plant.” engines, boilers, dynamos, generators, storage batteries, converters, motors, transformers, cables, wires, poles, lamps, meters, easements, real estate, fixtures, and personal property, materials, apparatus, and devices of every kind operated, owned, used or to be used for or in connection with or to facilitate the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, or furnishing of electricity for light, heat, or power, and any conduits, ducts, or other devices, materials, apparatus, or property for containing, holding, or carrying electrical conductors used or to be used wholly or in part for the transmission of electricity for light, heat, or power, except where electricity is made, generated, produced, or transmitted by a private person or private corporation 976on or through private property solely for its own use or the use of tenants of its building and not for sale to or for the use of others.
“Electrical corporation.”The term “electrical corporation” when used in this section includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, or person doing business in the District of Columbia, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, controlling, or managing any electric plant, including any water plant, or water property, or water falls, or dam, or water-power stations, except where electricity is made, generated, produced, or transmitted by a private person or private corporation on or through private property solely for its own use or the use of tenants of its building and not tor sale to or for the use of others.
“Water-power company.”The term “water-power company” when used in this section includes every corporation, company association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, and person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, managing, or controlling any plant or property, dam or water supply, canal, or power station for the development of water power for the generation of electrical current or other power or for the distribution or sale of such electrical current or other power.
“Telephone corporation.”The term “telephone corporation” when used in this section includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, and persons, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, controlling, or managing any plant, wires, poles for the reception, transmission, or communication of messages by telephone, telephonic apparatus or instruments, or any telephone line or part of telephone line, used in the conduct of the business of affording telephonic communication for hire, or which licenses, lets, or permits telephonic communication for hire.
“Telephone line.”The term “telephone line” when used in this section includes conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, cross arms, receivers, transmitters, instruments, machines, and appliances, and all devices, real estate, franchises, easements, apparatus, fixtures, property, appurtenances, and routes used, operated, controlled, or owned by any telephone corporation to facilitate the business of affording telephonic communication for hire, or which licenses, lets, or permits telephonic communication.
“Telegraph corporation.”The term “telegraph corporation” when used in this section includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, and person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, controlling, or managing any plant, wires, poles, or property for the purposes of communication, or of transmitting or receiving messages by telegraph, or by any telegraphic apparatus or instrument, or any telegraph line or part of telegraph line used in the conduct of the business of affording for hire communication by telegraph, or which licenses, lets, or permits telegraphic communication for hire.
“Telegraph line.”The term “telegraph line” when used in this section includes conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, cross arms, instruments, machinery, appliances, and all devices, real estate, franchises, easements, apparatus, fixtures, property, and routes used, operated, controlled, or owned by any telegraph corporation to facilitate the business of affording communication by telegraph for hire. “Pipe-line company.”The term “pipe-line company” when used in this section includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, or person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, managing, or controlling the supply of any liquid, steam, or air through pipes 977or tubing to consumers for use or for lighting, heating, or cooling purposes, or for power.
This section shall apply to the transportation of passengers, freight,Applicable to transportation within the District.No conflict with interstate commerce. or property from one point to another within the District of Columbia, and any common earner performing such service; and this section shall be so applicable and be so construed as to be free from conflict with those provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the laws in pursuance thereof relating to interstate commerce.
Corporations formed to acquire property or to transact businessCorporations not transacting business, etc., included. which would be subject to the provisions of this section, and corporations possessing franchises for any of the purposes contemplated by this section shall be deemed to be subject to the provisions of this section, although no property may have been acquired, business transacted, or franchises exercised. Par. 2. That every public utility doing business within the DistrictService and facilities to be safe, adequate, and reasonable. of Columbia is required to furnish service and facilities reasonably safe and adequate and in all respects just and reasonable.
The charge made by any such public utility for any facility or services furnished or rendered, or to be furnished or rendered, shall be reasonable, just, and nondiscriminatory. Every unjust or unreasonable or discriminatoryDiscriminations unlawful. charge for such facility or service is prohibited and is hereby declared unlawful. Every public utility is hereby required to obey the lawful orders of the commission created by this section. Par. 3. That every public utility doing business in the District ofMutual use of tracks, facilities, etc., to be permitted.
Columbia having tracks, conduits, subways, poles, wires, switch-boards, exchanges, works, or other equipment shall, for a reasonable compensation, permit the use of the same by any other public utility whenever public convenience and necessity require such use, and such use will not result in irreparable injury to the owners or other users of such equipment; nor in any substantial detriment to the service to be rendered by such owners or other users. In case of failure toCommission to direct rates, etc., on failure of parties to agree. agree upon such use, or the conditions or compensation for such use, any public utility or any person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation interested may apply to the commission, and if after investigation the commission shall ascertain that public convenience and necessity require such use and that it would not result in irreparable injury to the owners or other users of such equipment nor in any substantial detriment to the service to be rendered by such owners or other users of such equipment, it shall by order direct that such use be permitted and prescribe the conditions and compensation for such joint use.
Such use so ordered shall be permitted and suchRecourse to courts, etc. conditions and compensation so prescribed shall be the lawful conditions and compensation to be observed, followed, and paid, subject to recourse to the courts upon the complaint of any interested party, as hereinafter provided, which provisions, so far as applicable, shallRevision of orders. apply to any action arising on such complaint so made. Any such order of the commission may be from time to time revised by the commission upon application of any interested party or upon its own motion after hearing and notice by order in writing.
Par. 4. That the commission shall have power, after hearing andPower to compel compliance with laws and regulation. notice by order in writing, to require and compel every public utility to comply with the provisions of this section, and with all other laws of the United States applicable, and any municipal ordinance or regulation relating to said public utility, and to conform to the duties upon it thereby imposed or by the provisions of its own charter, if any charter has or shall be granted it: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained *Proviso*.Utilities not relieved from present liabilities, etc.shall be held to relieve any public utility, its officers, agents, or servants, from any punishment, fine, forfeiture, or penalty for violation of any such law, ordinance, regulation, or duty imposed by its charter, nor to limit, take away, or restrict the jurisdiction of any 978court or other authority which now has or which may hereafter have power to impose any such punishment, fine, forfeiture, or penalty.
Par. 5. Action of commission on proposed changes of laws. That whenever any public utility or person shall propose any change in any law relating directly or indirectly to the property or operations of any public utility the said proposed change shall also and at the same time be submitted to the commission, which may take testimony and give a public hearing thereon, and the commission shall recommend such bills as will in its judgment protect the interests of the public and such public utility and transmit the same to the proper committees of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Par. 6. Physical valuation of utilities.Original cost, etc. That the commission shall ascertain, as soon and as nearly as practicable, the amount of money expended in the construction and equipment of every public utility, including the amount of money Reconstruction.expended to procure any right of way; also the amount of money it would require to secure the right of way, reconstruct any roadbed, track, depots, cars, conduits, subways, poles, wires, switchboards, exchanges, offices, works, storage plants, power plants, machinery, and any other property or instrument not included in the foregoing enumeration used in or useful to the business of such public utility, and to Stock, etc., issued.Details.replace all the physical properties belonging to the public utility.
It shall ascertain the outstanding stock, bonds, debentures, and indebtedness, and the amount, respectively, thereof, the date when issued, to whom issued, to whom sold, the price paid in cash, property, or labor therefor, what disposition was made of the proceeds, by whom the indebtedness is held, so far as ascertainable, the amount purporting to be due thereon, the floating indebtedness of the public utility, the credits due the public utility, other property on hand belonging to it, the judicial or other sales of said public utility, its property or franchises, and the amounts purporting to have been paid, and in what manner paid therefor, and the taxes paid thereon.
Receipts and disbursements.The commission shall also ascertain in detail the gross and net income of the public utility from all sources, the amounts paid for salaries to officers and the wages paid to its employees, and the maximum hours Printing.of continuous service required of each class. Whenever the information required by this paragraph is obtained it shall be printed in the annual report of the commission. In making such investigation the commission may avail itself of any information in possession of any department of the Government of the United States or of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
Par. 7. Valuation of property in use. That the commission shall value the property of every public utility within the District of Columbia actually used and useful for the convenience of the public at the fair value thereof at the time of said valuation. Par. 8. Public hearings to determine. That before final determination of such value the commission shall, after notice of not less than thirty days to the public utility, hold a public hearing as to such valuation in the manner hereinafter provided for a hearing, which provisions, so far as applicable, Statement of valuation.shall apply to such hearing.
The commission shall, within ten days after such valuation is determined, serve a statement thereof upon the public utility interested, and shall file a like statement with the District Committees in Congress. Par. 9. Revaluation. That the commission may at any time, on its own initiative, make a revaluation of the property of any public utility. Par. 10. Uniform system of accounting. That every public utility shall keep and render to the commission, in the manner and form prescribed by the commission, uniform accounts of all business transacted.
Every public utility engaged directly or indirectly in any other business than that of the conduct of a street railway, or the production, transmission, or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power, or the conveyance of telegraph or telephone messages, shall, if required by the commission, Separation.keep and render separately to the commission in like manner and 979form the accounts of all such other business, in which case all the provisions of this section shall apply with like force and effect to the books, accounts, papers, and records of such other business.
Par. 11. That the commission shall prescribe the forms of all books,Forms of accounts to be prescribed. accounts, papers, and records required to be kept, and every public utility is required to keep and render its books, accounts, papers, and records accurately and faithfully in the manner and form prescribed by the commission, and to comply with all directions of the commission relating to such books, accounts, papers, and records. In so far as practicable for the purposes of this section, the form prescribed shall be the form accepted by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Par. 12. That the commission shall cause to be prepared suitableBlanks. blanks for carrying out the purposes of this section, and shall when necessary furnish such blanks to each public utility. Par. 13. That each public utility shall have an office within theOffice for records, etc. District of Columbia in which it shall keep all such books, accounts, papers, and records as shall be required by the commission to be kept within the District of Columbia. No books, accounts, papers,Removal of books from District forbidden. or records required by the commission to be kept within the District of Columbia shall be at any time removed from the District of Columbia, except upon such condition as may be prescribed by the commission: *Provided*, That public utilities operating in the District of*Proviso*.Production of papers, etc., by outside corporations.
Columbia and elsewhere who have their general or executive offices outside of the District, may continue to keep their books, accounts, records, and so forth, at their executive or general offices, such public utilities being required, however, to produce before the commission such books, accounts, records, and papers from time to time as the commission may order. Par. 14. That the accounts shall be closed annually on the thirty-firstAnnual balance sheet to be filed, etc. day of December, and a balance sheet of that date promptly taken therefrom.
On or before the first day of February following such balance sheet, together with such other information as the commission shall prescribe, verified by an owner or officer of the public utility, shall be filed with the commission, and a copy thereof transmitted to Congress. Par. 15. That the commission shall provide for the examinationAudit of accounts. and audit of all accounts, and all items shall be allocated to the accounts in the manner prescribed by the commission. The agents,Authority of examiners. accountants, or examiners employed by the commission shall have authority, under the direction of the commission, to inspect and examine any and all books, accounts, papers, records, and memoranda kept by such public utilities.
Par. 16. That every public utility shall carry a proper and adequateDepreciation account. depreciation account. The commission shall ascertain and determine what are the proper and adequate rates of depreciation of the several classes of property of each public utility. These rates shall be such as will provide the amounts required over and above the expense of maintenance to keep such property in a state of efficiency corresponding to the progress of the industry. Each public utility shall conform its depreciation accounts to such rates so ascertained and determined by the commission.
The commission may makeDetermination of. changes in such rates of depreciation from time to time as it may find to be necessary. The commission shall also prescribe rules, regulations, and forms of accounts regarding such depreciation which the public utility is required to carry into effect. The commission shall provide for such depreciation in fixing the rates, tolls, and charges to be paid by the public. All moneys in this fund may beUse of depreciation fund. expended in keeping the property of such public utility in repair and good and serviceable condition for the use to which it is devoted, or 980invested, and, if invested, the income from the investments shall also Restriction.be carried in the depreciation fund.
This fund and the proceeds thereof shall be used for no other purpose than as provided in this paragraph, unless with the consent and by order of the commission. Par. 17. Notice of new construction, etc. That the commission shall keep itself informed of all new construction, extensions, and additions to the property of all public utilities, and shall prescribe the necessary forms, regulations, and instructions to the officers and employees of all public utilities for the keeping of construction accounts, which shall clearly distinguish all operating expenses and new construction.
Par. 18. Sliding scale of rates and dividends. That nothing in this section shall be taken to prohibit a public utility, with the consent of the commission, from providing a sliding scale of rates and dividends according to what is commonly known as the Boston sliding scale, or other financial device that may be practicable and advantageous to the parties interested. No such arrangement or device shall be lawful until it shall be found by the commission, after investigation, to be reasonable and just and not Supervision, etc., of commission.inconsistent with the purposes of this section.
Such arrangement shall be under the supervision and regulation of the commission. The commission shall ascertain, determine, and order such rates, charges, and regulations, and the duration thereof, as may be necessary to give effect to such arrangement, but the right and power to make such other and further changes in rates, charges, and regulations as the commission may ascertain and determine to be necessary and reasonable, and the right to alter or amend all orders relative thereto, is reserved and vested in the commission notwithstanding any such arrangement and mutual agreement.
Par. 19. Itemized reports to be made.Details. That each public utility shall furnish to the commission in such form and at such times as the commission shall require, such accounts, reports, and information as shall show in itemized detail: Depreciation; salaries and wages; legal expenses; taxes and rentals; quantity and value of material used; receipts from residuals, by-products, services, or other sales; total and net costs; net and gross profits; dividends and interest; surplus or reserve; prices paid by consumers; and in addition such other items, whether of a nature similar to those hereinbefore enumerated or otherwise, as the commission may prescribe, in order to show completely and in detail the entire operation of the public utility in furnishing its product or service to the public.
Par. 20. Reports of proceedings. That the commission shall publish annual reports showing its proceedings relating to all the public utilities of each kind in the District of Columbia, and such other occasional reports as it may Valuations, rates, etc., to be included.deem advisable. The commission shall also publish in its annual reports the value of all property actually used and useful for the convenience of the public, of every public utility as to whose rates, charges, service, or regulations any hearing has been held by the commission or the value of whose property has been ascertained by it under the provisions of this section.
Par. 21. Standards of service to be established. That the commission shall ascertain and fix adequate and serviceable standards for the measurement of quality, pressure, initial voltage, or other condition pertaining to the supply of the product or service rendered by any public utility, and prescribe reasonable regulations for examining and testing such product or service and for the Measurements.measurement thereof. It shall establish reasonable rules, regulations, specifications, and standards to secure the accuracy of all meters and appliances for measurements, and every public utility is required to carry into effect all orders issued by the commission relative thereto.
Par. 22. Testing appliances, etc. That the commission shall provide for the examination and testing of any and all appliances used for the measuring of any Fees.product or service of a public utility. Any consumer or user may have any such appliance tested upon payment of the fees fixed by the com 981mission. The commission shall declare and establish reasonable fees to be paid for testing such appliances on the request of the consumers or users, the fee to be paid by the consumer or user at the time of his request, but to be paid by the public utility and repaid to the consumer or user if the appliance be found defective or incorrect to the disadvantage of the consumer or user.
Par. 23. That the commission may purchase such materials, apparatus,Apparatus for tests. and standard measuring instruments for such examination and tests as it may deem necessary. The commission, its agents, experts,Authority to examine, etc. or examiners, shall have power to enter upon any premises occupied by any public utility for the purpose of making the examinations and tests provided for in this section, and to set up and use on such premises any apparatus and appliances and occupy reasonable space therefor.
Par. 24. That every public utility shall file with the commission,Schedules of rates, etc., to be filed. within a time to be fixed by the commission, schedules, which shall be open to public inspection showing all rates, tolls, and charges which it has established and which are in force at the time for any service performed by it within the District of Columbia, or for any service in connection therewith or performed by any public utility controlled or operated by it. The rates, tolls, and charges shown on such schedulesRestriction of charges. shall not exceed the rates, tolls, and charges now allowed by law, and shall be the lawful rates, tolls, and charges within the District of Columbia, and shall remain and be in force until set aside by the commission.
Par. 25. That every public utility shall file with and as a part ofRules, etc., affecting rates. such schedule all rules and regulations that in any manner affect the rates charged or to be charged for any service. Par. 26. That a copy of so much of said schedules as the commissionPublic display of rates. shall deem necessary for the use of the public shall be printed in plain type and kept on file in every station and office of such public utility where payments are made by the consumers or users, open to the public, in such form and place as to be readily accessible to the public and so as to be conveniently inspected.
Par. 27. That whore a schedule of joint rates or charges is, or maySchedules of joint rates. be, in force between two or more public utilities, such schedule shall in like manner be printed and filed with the commission, and so much thereof as the commission shall deem necessary for the use of the public shall be filed in every such station or office, as provided in the preceding paragraph. Par. 28. That no change shall thereafter be made in any schedule,Changes restricted. including schedules of joint rates, except upon ten days’ notice to the commission, and all such changes shall be plainly indicated upon existing schedules, or by filing new schedules in lieu thereof ten days prior to the time the same are to take effect: *Provided*, That the commission,*Proviso*.Reductions. upon application of any public utility, may prescribe a less time within which a reduction may be made.
Par. 29. That copies of all new schedules shall be filed, as hereinbeforeNew schedules to be filed. provided, in every station and office of such public utility where payments are made by consumers or users ten days prior to the time the same are to take effect, unless the commission shall prescribe a less time. Par. 30. That it shall be unlawful for any public utility to charge,Charges greater or less than in schedules unlawful. demand, collect, or receive a greater or less compensation for any service performed by it within the District of Columbia, or for any service in connection therewith, than is specified in such printed schedules, including schedules of joint rates, as may at the time be in force, or to demand, collect, or receive any rate, toll, or charge not specified in such schedules.
The rates, tolls, and charges named thereinPermanence of rates. shall be the lawful rates, tolls, and charges until the same are changed as provided in this section. 982 Par. 31. Forms of schedules. That the commission may prescribe such changes in the form in which the schedules are issued by any public utility as may be found to be expedient. Par. 32. Regulation of inspections, etc. That the commission shall have power to adopt reasonable and proper rules and regulations relative to all inspections, tests, audits, and investigations, and to adopt and publish reasonable and proper rules to govern its proceedings and to regulate the mode and manner of all investigations and hearings of public utilities and other parties before it.
Par. 33. Information of business methods, etc. That the commission shall keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the business of all public utilities is conducted, and shall have the right to obtain from any public utility all necessary information to enable the commission to perform its duties. Par. 34. Inspection of books by commission or employees. That the commission or any commissioner or any person or persons employed by the commission for that purpose shall, upon demand, have the right to inspect the books, accounts, papers, records, and memoranda of any public utility, and to examine, under oath, any officer, agent, or employee of such public utility in relation to its business and affairs.
Any person other than one of said commissioners who shall make such demand shall produce his authority to make such inspection or examination. Par. 35. Production of papers, etc., from outside the District. That the commission may require, by order or subpoena, to be served upon any public utility in the same manner that a summons is served in a civil action in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the production within the District of Columbia at such time and place as it may designate of any books, accounts, papers, or records kept by such public utility in any office or place without the District of Columbia, or verified copies in lieu thereof, if the Penalty for refusal.commission shall so order, in order that an examination thereof may be made by the commission under its direction.
Any public utility failing or refusing to comply with any order or subpoena shall for each day it shall so fail or refuse forfeit and pay to the District of Columbia the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in an action to be brought in the name of said District. Attendance of witnesses, etc.Attendance of witnesses and the production of such documentary evidence may be required from any place in the United States. And in case of disobedience to a subpoena the commission, or any party Assistance of courts.to a proceeding before the commission, may invoke the aid of any court of the United States or the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and documents under the Enforcement by district attorneys, etc.provisions of this section.
And the said commission is hereby given power to call on any district attorney of the United States, the corporation counsel of the District of Columbia, or any counsel of the commission to enforce the provisions of this section hi the proper courts of the United States, and on such call it shall be the duty of the said district attorney, corporation counsel, or any counsel of the commission, upon request of said commission, to enforce the provisions of this paragraph, the costs and expenses incurred to be paid out of the appropriations for the expenses of the courts of the United States.
Par. 36. Investigation agents. That for the purpose of making any investigation with regard to any public utility the commission shall have power to appoint, by an order in writing, an agent, whose duties shall be Power and authority.prescribed in such order. In the discharge of his duties such agent shall have every power whatsoever of an inquisitorial nature granted in this section to the commission and shall have power to administer oaths and take depositions. The commission may conduct any number of such investigations contemporaneously through different 983agents, and may delegate to such agent or agents the taking of all testimony bearing upon any investigation or hearing.
The decision of the commission shall be based upon its examination of all testimony and records. The recommendations made by such agents shallEffect of recommendations. be advisory only, and shall not preclude the taking of further testimony, if the commission so order, nor further investigation. Par. 37. That every public utility shall furnish to the commissionInformation to be furnished by utilities. all information required by it to carry into effect the provisions of this section, and shall make specific answers to all specific questions submitted by the commission.
Any public utility receiving from theAnswers required. commission any blanks with directions to fill the same shall cause the same to be properly filled out so as to answer, fully and correctly, each question therein propounded, and in case it is unable to answer any question it shall give a good and sufficient reason for such failure; and said answer shall be verified under oath by the president, secretary, superintendent, or general manager of such public utility, and returned to the commission at its office within the period fixed by the commission.
Whenever required by the commission, every publicDocuments, etc. utility shall deliver to the commission any or all maps, profiles, contracts, reports of engineers, and all documents, books, accounts, papers, and records, or copies of any or all of the same, with a complete inventory of all its property, in such form as the commission may direct. Par. 38. That upon its own initiative or upon reasonable complaintInvestigation of alleged unreasonable rates, schedules, etc. made against any public utility that any of the rates, tolls, charges, or schedules, or services, or time and conditions of payment, or any joint rate or rates, schedules, or services, are in any respect unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, or that any time schedule, regulation, or act whatsoever affecting or relating to the conduct of any street railway or common carrier, or the production, transmission, delivery, or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power, or any service in connection therewith, or the conveyance of any telegraph or telephone message, or any service in connection therewith, is in any respect unreasonable, insufficient, or unjustly discriminatory, or that any service is inadequate or can not be obtained, the commission may, in its discretion, proceed, with or without notice, to make such investigation as it may deem necessary or convenient.
But no order affectingFormal hearings before issue of orders. said rates, tolls, charges, schedules, regulations, or act complained of shall be entered by the commission without a formal hearing. Par. 39. That the commission shall prior to such formal hearingNotification of complaint. notify the public utility complained of that a complaint has been made, and ten days after such notice has been given the commission may proceed to set a time and place for a hearing and an investigation as hereinafter provided.
Par. 40. That the commission shall give the public utility and theNotice of hearings, etc. complainant, if any, ten days’ notice of the time and place when and where such healing and investigation will be held and such matters considered and determined. Both the public utility and complainant shall be entitled to be heard and shall have process to enforce the attendance of witnesses. Par. 41. That if upon such investigation the rates, tolls, charges,Order substituting just and reasonable rates, charges, etc. schedules, or joint rates shall be found to be unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, or unjustly discriminatory, or to be preferential or otherwise in violation of any of the provisions of this section, the commission shall have power to determine and by order fix and order to be substituted therefor such rate or rates, tolls, charges, or schedules as shall be just and reasonable.
If upon such investigationTime schedules, etc. it shall be found that any regulation, time schedule, act, or service complained of is unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, preferential, unjustly discriminatory, or otherwise in violation of any of the provisions of this section, or if it be found that reasonable service 984is not supplied, the commission shall have power to determine and substitute therefor such other regulations, time schedules, service, or acts and to make such orders respecting and such changes in such regulations, time schedules, service, or acts as shall be just Extension of service, etc.and reasonable.
And upon any investigation for the purpose of determining upon and requiring any reasonable extension or extensions of lines or of service that shall promise to be compensatory within a reasonable time, the commission shall have power to fix, determine, and require every such extension or extensions to be made and the terms and conditions upon which the same shall be made: *Proviso*.Notice to utility required.*Provided*, That no hearing shall be had and no order shall be made respecting such extension or extensions without notice to the public utility affected thereby, as provided in paragraph forty of this section.
Par. 42. Expenses of investigation to be paid by utility if rates, etc., found unjust. That if upon investigation it shall be found that any rate, toll, charge, schedule, or joint rate, or rates, is unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, or unjustly discriminatory or preferential, or otherwise in violation of any of the provisions of this section, or that any time schedule, regulation, act, or service complained of is unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, preferential, or otherwise in violation of any of the provisions of this section, or if it be found that reasonable service is not supplied, the public utility found to be at fault shall pay the expenses incurred by the commission upon such investigation.
Par. 43. Separate hearings of complaints. That the commission may, in its discretion, when complaint is made of more than one rate or charge, order separate hearings thereon, and may consider and determine the several matters complained of separately and at such times as it may prescribe. No complaint shall of necessity at any time be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant. Par. 44. Summary investigations. That whenever the commission shall believe that any rate or charge may be unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, or that any reasonable service is not supplied, or that an investigation of any matter relating to any public utility should for any reason be made, it may, on its own motion, summarily investigate the same with or without notice.
Par. 45. Notification for formal hearing. That if after making such investigation the commission becomes satisfied that sufficient grounds exist to warrant a formal hearing being ordered as to the matters so investigated, it shall furnish such public utility interested a statement notifying the public utility of the matters under investigation. Ten days after such notice has been given the commission may proceed to set a time and place for a hearing and an investigation as hereinbefore provided.
Par. 46. Conduct of proceedings. That notice of the time and place for such hearing shall be given to the public utility and to such other interested persons as the commission shall deem necessary, as provided in paragraph forty of this section, and thereafter proceedings shall be had and conducted in reference to the matter investigated in like manner as though complaint had been filed with the commission relative to the matter investigated, and the same order or orders may be made in reference thereto as if such investigation had been made on complaint.
Par. 47. Complaints by a public utility. That any public utility may make complaint as to any matter affecting its own product or service with like effect as though made by the commission or upon reasonable complaint as herein-before provided. Par. 48. Power to administer oaths, issue subpoenas, etc.*Ante*, p. 982. That each of the commissioners and every agent provided for in paragraph thirty-six of this section, for the purposes mentioned in this section, shall have power to administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, 985and testimony.
In case of disobedience on the part of any personAttachment in case of disobedience of witness, etc. or persons to comply with any order of the commission or any commissioner, or any subpoena, or on the refusal of any witness to testify to any matter regarding which he may be interrogated before the commission or its agent authorized, it shall be the duty of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or a judge thereof, on application of a commissioner, to compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from such court or a refusal to testify therein.
Par. 49. That each witness who shall appear before the commissionWitness fees. or its agent by its order shall receive for his attendance the fees and mileage now provided for witnesses in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, which shall be audited and paid in the same manner as fees in criminal cases within the District of Columbia are audited and paid, upon the presentation of proper vouchers, sworn to by such witnesses and approved by the chairman of the commission.
No witnesses subpoenaed at the instance of parties other than theRestriction. commission shall be entitled to compensation for attendance or travel unless the commission shall certify that his testimony was material to the matter investigated, and that his attendance as a witness was reasonably necessary. Par. 50. That the commission or any party may, in any investigation,Depositions. cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the District of Columbia to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in circuit courts.
Par. 51. That a full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedingsRecord of all proceedings. had before the commission or its agents on any formal investigation had, and all testimony shall be taken down by a stenographer appointed by the commission. Par. 52. That whenever any complaint is served upon the commissionCertified transcript of proceedings, etc., to be filed in court. under the provisions of this section the commission shall, before said action is reached for trial, cause a certified transcript of all proceedings had and testimony taken upon such investigation to be filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Par. 53. That a transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings,Effect as evidence of stenographer’s certified transcripts. or any specific part thereof, in any investigation taken by a stenographer appointed by the commission, being certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript of all the testimony in the investigation or of a particular witness, or of other specific part thereof carefully compared by him with his original notes, and to be a correct statement of the evidence and proceedings had in such investigation so purporting to be taken and transcribed, shall be received in evidence with the same effect as if such reporter were present and testified to the fact so certified.
A copy of such transcript shall beCopies. furnished on demand, free of cost, to any party to such investigation. Par. 54. That no franchise nor any right to or under any franchiseNo transfer of franchises. etc., without approval of commission. to own or operate any public utility as defined in this section or to use the tracks of any street railroad shall be assigned, transferred, or leased, nor shall any contract or agreement with reference to or affecting any such franchise or right be valid or of any force or effect whatsoever unless the assignment, transfer, lease, contract, or agreement shall have been approved by the commission in writing.
TheEffect of transfers. permission and approval of the commission to the assignment, transfer, or lease of a franchise under this paragraph shall not be construed to revive or validate any lapsed or invalid franchise or to enlarge or add to the powers and privileges contained in the grant of any franchise or to waive any forfeiture. It shall be unlawful for anyRestriction on acquiring stock of other utilities. street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electric corporation, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, or other public utility 986corporation, directly or indirectly, to acquire the stock or bonds of any other corporation incorporated for or engaged in the same or similar business as it is, unless authorized in writing to do so by the commission, and every contract, transfer, agreement for transfer, or assignment of any such stock or bonds without such written authority shall be void and of no effect.
Par. 55. Jurisdiction of commission. That the commission shall, within its jurisdiction— Supervision of gas and electric corporations.Have general supervision of all gas corporations and electrical corporations having authority under any general or special law or under any charter or franchise to lay down, erect, or maintain wires, pipes, conduits, ducts, or other fixtures in, over, or under the streets, highways, and public places in the District of Columbia for the purpose of furnishing or distributing gas or of furnishing or transmitting electricity for light, heat, or power, or maintaining underground conduits or ducts for electrical conductors, and all gas plants and electric plants owned, leased, or operated by any corporation.
Investigating, etc., products.Investigate and ascertain, from time to time, the quality and quantity of gas supplied by persons or corporations; examine or investigate the methods employed by such persons and corporations in manufacturing, distributing, and supplying gas or electricity for Power to order improvements, etc.light, heat, or power, and in transmitting the same, and have power to order such reasonable improvements as will reasonably promote the public interest, preserve the public health, and protect those using such gas or electricity and those employed in the manufacture and distribution thereof or in the manufacture and operation of the works, wires, poles, lines, conduits, ducts, and systems connected therewith, and have power to order reasonable improvements and extensions of the works, wires, poles, lines, conduits, ducts, and other reasonable devices, apparatus, and property of gas corporations and electrical corporations.
To fix standards for products.Have power by order to fix from time to time standards for determining the purity or the measurement of the illuminating power of gas to be manufactured, distributed, or sold by persons or corporations for lighting, heating, or power purposes, and to prescribe from time to time the efficiency of the electric supply system, of the current supplied, and of the lamps furnished by the persons or corporations generating and selling electric current, and by order to require the gas so manufactured, distributed, or sold to equal the standards so fixed by it, and to prescribe from time to time the reasonable minimum and maximum pressure at which gas shall be delivered by said Examination of plants, etc.persons or corporations.
For the purpose of determining whether the gas manufactured, distributed, or sold by such persons or corporations for lighting, hearing, or power purposes conforms to the standards of illuminating power, purity, and pressure, and for the purpose of determining whether the efficiency of the electric supply system, of the current supplied, and of the lamps furnished conforms to the orders issued by the commission, the commission shall have power, of its own motion, to examine and investigate the plants and methods employed in manufacturing, delivering, and supplying gas or electricity, and shall have access, through its members or persons employed and authorized by it to make such examinations and investigations, to all parts of the manufacturing plants owned, used, or operated for the manufacture, transmission, or distribution of gas Penalty for divulging information by agent.or electricity by any such person or corporation.
Any employee or agent of the commission who divulges any fact or information which may come to his knowledge during the course of any such inspection or examination, except in so far as he may be directed by the commission, or by a court or judge thereof, or authorized by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500 for each offense. 987 Par. 56. That no gas corporation or electrical corporation shallAuthority for new plants. begin the construction of a gas plant or electric plant without first having obtained the permission and approval of the commission.
Par. 57. That the commission shall appoint inspectors of gasInspectors of gas meters.Appointment and duties. meters, whose duty it shall be, when required by the commission, to inspect, examine, prove, and ascertain the accuracy of any and all gas meters used or intended to be used for measuring or ascertaining the quantity of gas for fight, heat, or power furnished by any person or corporation to or for the use of any person or corporation, and when found to be or made to be correct, the inspector shall seal all such meters and each of them with some suitable device, which device shall be recorded in the office of the commission.
No corporation or person shall furnish, set, or put in use anyInspection required prior to use. gas meter which shall not have been inspected, proved, and sealed by an inspector of the commission. The commission shall appoint inspectors of electric meters, whoseInspectors of electric meters.Appointment and duties. duty it shall be, when required by the commission, to inspect, examine, and ascertain the accuracy of any and all electric meters used or intended to be used for measuring and ascertaining the quantity of electric current furnished for light, heat, or power by any person or corporation to or for the use of any person or corporation, and to inspect, examine, and ascertain the accuracy of all apparatus for testing and proving the accuracy of electric meters; and when found to be or made to be correct the inspector shall stamp or mark all such meters and apparatus with some suitable device, which device shall be recorded in the office of the commission.
No corporationInspection required prior to use. or person shall furnish, set, or put in use any electric meter the type of which shall not have been approved by the commission or any meter not approved by an inspector of the commission. Every gas corporation and electrical corporation shall provide,Testing facilities to be provided. repair, and maintain such suitable premises and apparatus and facilities as may be required and approved by the commission for testing and proving the accuracy of gas and electric meters furnished for use by it, and by which apparatus every meter may be tested.
If any consumer to whom a meter has been furnished shall requestInspection of meters on complaints. the commission in writing to inspect such meter, the commission shall have the same inspected and tested; if the same, on being so tested, shall be found to be more than four per centum, if an electric meter, or more than two per centum, if a gas meter, defective or incorrect to the prejudice of the consumer, the inspector shall order the gas or electrical corporation forthwith to remove the same and to place instead a correct meter, and the expense of such inspection andExpenses. test shall be borne by the corporation; if the same, on being so tested, shall be found to be correct, the expense of such inspection and test shall be borne by the consumer.
The commission shall prescribe such rules and regulations to carryRules and regulations. into effect the provisions of this paragraph as it may deem necessary and shall fix uniform reasonable charges for the inspection and testing of meters upon complaint. Par. 58. That if it be alleged and established in an action broughtEffect of excessive price in actions for collection of charges. in any court for the collection of any charge for gas or electricity that a price has been demanded in excess of that fixed by the commission or by statute no recovery shall be had therein, but the fact that such excessive charges have been made shall be a complete defense to such action.
Par. 59. That the appointment and power to remove the inspectorInspectors of gas and meters.Under authority of commission. of gas and meters and assistant inspectors of gas and meters from office is hereby vested in the commission. All the powers and duties of such inspectors conferred and imposed by statute shall be exercised 988and performed under the supervision and control of the *Proviso*.Salaries.Vol. 32, p. 952.*Ante*, p. 942.commission: *Provided*, That the salaries of the inspector of gas and meters and every assistant inspector of gas and meters shall continue to be paid as heretofore and as now provided by Act of Congress.
Par. 60. Transfer of records, etc. That the inspector of gas and meters now provided for by law shall transfer and deliver to the commission all books, maps, papers, records, apparatus, and the property of whatsoever description in his possession, and said commission is authorized to take possession of all books, maps, papers, records, apparatus, and property of whatsoever description. Par. 61. Schedules of utilities to conform to orders of commission. That all public utilities to which an order of the commission applies shall make such changes in their schedules on file as may be necessary to make the same conform to said order, and no change shall thereafter be made by any public utility in any such rates, tolls, or charges, or in any joint rate or rates, without the approval of the commission.
Certified copies of all other orders of the commission shall be delivered to the public utility affected thereby in like manner, and the same shall take effect within such reasonable time thereafter as the commission shall prescribe. Par. 62. Alterations of rates, schedules, etc. That the commission may, at any time, upon notice to the public utility and after opportunity to be heard as provided in paragraph forty of this section, rescind, alter, or amend any order fixing any rate or rates, toils, charges, or schedules, or any other order made by the commission, and certified copies of the same shall be served and take effect as herein provided for original orders.
Par. 63. Rates, etc., prima facie reasonable. That all rates, tolls, charges, time and condition of payment thereof, schedules, and joint rates fixed by the commission shall be in force and shall be prima facie reasonable until finally found otherwise in an action brought for that purpose. Par. 64. True valuation.Proceedings in equity to determine elements of. That if at any time the commission shall be in doubt of the elements of value to be by them considered in arriving at the true valuation under the provisions of this section, they are authorized and empowered to institute a proceeding in equity in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia petitioning said court to instruct them as to the element or elements of value to be by them considered as aforesaid, and the particular utility under valuation at the time shall be made party defendant in said action.
Proceedings in equity against orders, etc., of commission.That any public utility and any person or corporation interest being dissatisfied with any order or decision of the commission fixing any valuation, rate or rates, tolls, charges, schedules, joint rate or rates, or regulation, requirement, act, service or other thing complained of may commence a proceeding in equity in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against the commission, as defendants, to vacate, set aside, or modify any such decision or order on the ground that the valuation, rate or rates, tolls, charges, schedules, joint rate or rates, or regulation, requirement, act, service or other thing complained of fixed in such order is unlawful, inadequate, or unreasonable.
The answer of the commission, on any such action being instituted against it, or the answer of any public utility on any such action being commenced by said commission against it. shall be filed within ten days, whereupon said proceeding shall be at issue and stand ready for trial. Precedence to be given.All such proceedings shall have precedence over any civil cause of a different nature pending in such court, and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia shall always be deemed open for the trial thereof, and the same shall be tried and determined as are equity proceedings in Appeals.said court.
Any party, including said commission, may appeal from the order or decree of said court to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, and therefrom to the Supreme Court of the United States, winch shall thereupon have and take jurisdiction in Suspension.every such appeal. Pending the decision of said appeal the commission may suspend the decision or order appealed from for such a period 989as it may deem fair and reasonable under the circumstances: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Effect of appeal.
That no appeal, unless the court or the commission shall so order, shall operate to stay any order of the commission: *And provided further*,Commission relieved from costs, etc. That said commission shall not, nor shall any of its members, officers, agents, or employees, be taxed with any costs, nor shall they or any of them be required to give any supersedeas bond or security for costs or damages on any appeal whatsoever. SaidNonliability for damages, etc. commission, or any of its members, officers, agents, or employees shall not be liable to suit or action or for any judgment or decree for any damages, loss, or injury claimed by any public utility or person, nor required in any case to make any deposit for costs or pay for any service to the clerks of any court or to the marshal of the United States.
Par. 65. That every proceeding, action, or suit to set aside, vacate,Time limit for actions against orders of commission. or amend any determination or order of the commission, or to enjoin the enforcement thereof, or to prevent in any way such order or determination from becoming effective shall be commenced, and every appeal to the courts or right of recourse to the courts shall be taken or exercised, within one hundred and twenty days after the entry or rendition of such order or determination, and the right to commence any such action, proceeding, or suit, or to take or exercise any such appeal or right of recourse to the courts, shall terminate absolutely at the end of such one hundred and twenty days.
Par. 66. That no injunction shall issue suspending or staying anyIssue of injunctions restricted. order of the commission, except upon application to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia or a judge thereof, and only upon notice to the commission and after hearing had. Par. 67. That if upon trial of such proceeding or suit evidence shallProceedings.Introduction of new evidence. be introduced by the plaintiff which is found by the court to be different from that offered upon the hearing before the commission or its authorized agent, or additional thereto, the court, before proceeding to render judgment, unless the parties to such action stipulate in writing to the contrary, shall transmit a copy of such evidence to theTransmittal to commission. commission, and shall stay further proceedings in said proceeding for fifteen days from the date of such transmission.
Upon the receiptAction thereon by commission. of such evidence the commission shall consider the same and may alter, modify, amend, or rescind its order relating to such valuation, rate or rates, tolls, charges, schedules, joint rate or rates, time schedules, regulations, act, or service complained of in said action, and shall report its action thereon to said court within ten days fromReport to court. receipt of such evidence. Par. 68. That if the commission shall rescind its order complainedEffect of action.If order amended, etc. of the proceeding or suit shall be dismissed; if it shall alter, modify, or amend the same, such altered, modified, or amended order shall take the place of the original order complained of and judgment shall be rendered thereon as though made by the commission in the first instance.
If the original order shall not be rescinded or changedIf order not changed. by the commission, judgment shall be rendered upon such original order, and costs shall be taxed as may be deemed proper under the circumstances. Par. 69. That in all trials, actions, and proceedings arising underBurden of proof on party adverse to commission. the provisions of this section or growing out of the exercise of the authority and powers granted herein to the commission, the burden of proof shall be upon the party adverse to such commission or seeking to set aside any determination, requirement, direction, or order of said commission to show by clear and satisfactory evidence that the determination, requirement, direction, or order of the commission complained of is inadequate, unreasonable, or unlawful, as the case may be.
Par. 70. That no person shall be excused from testifying or fromNo person excused from testifying. producing books, accounts, and papers in any proceeding based upon 990or growing out of any violation of the provisions of this section, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him Immunity from prosecution.or subject him to penalty or forfeiture; but no person having so testified shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he may have testified or produced any documentary evidence: *Proviso*.No exemption from perjury.*Provided*, That no person so testifying shall he exempted from prosecution or punishment for perjury: *Provided further*, That the Immunity only to natural persons.immunity hereby conferred shall extend only to a natural person who, in obedience to a subpoena, gives testimony under oath or produces evidence, documentary or otherwise, under oath.
Par. 71. Effect of copies of orders. That upon application of any person the commission shall furnish certified copies, under the seal of the commission, of any order made by it, which shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. Par. 72. Liens on property subject to control, etc., of commission. That the power to create hens on corporate property by public utilities in the District of Columbia is hereby declared to be a special privilege, the right of supervision, regulation, restriction, and control of which is hereby vested in the public utilities commission of the District of Columbia, and such power shall be exercised according to the provisions of this section.
Par. 73. Issue of stock, etc.Authority of commission. That no public utility shall hereafter issue any stocks, stock certificates, bonds, mortgages, or any other evidences of indebtedness payable in more than one year from date, until it shall have first obtained the certificate of the commission showing authority for such issue from the commission. Par. 74. Record of certificate. That no public utility shall issue any stocks, certificates of stock, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness for money, property, or services, either directly or indirectly, nor shall it receive any money, property, or services in payment of the same, either directly or indirectly, until there shall have been recorded upon the books of such public utility the certificate of the commission in this section provided for.
Par. 75. Stock dividends, etc., forbidden. That no public utility shall declare any stock, bond, or scrip dividend or divide the proceeds of the sale of any stock, bond, or scrip among its stockholders. Par. 76. Reorganizations, etc.Restriction on issue of stock, etc., for purposes of consolidations. That no public utility shall issue any stocks, certificates of stock, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness secured on its property in the District of Columbia for the purpose of any reorganization or consolidation in excess of the total amount of the stocks, certificates of stock, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness then outstanding against the public utilities so reorganizing or consolidating, and no such public utility shall purchase the property of any other public utility for the purpose of effecting a consolidation until the commission shall have determined and set forth in writing that said consolidation will be in the public interest, nor until the commission shall have approved in writing the terms upon which said consolidation shall be made.
Par. 77. Application of proceeds of stock. That no public utility shall apply the proceeds of any such stock, certificates of stock, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness to any other purpose or issue the same on any less favorable terms than that specified in the certificate issued by the commission. Par. 78. Issues contrary to provisions void. That all stocks, certificates of stock, bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness issued contrary to the provisions of this section shall be void.
Par. 79. Penalty for illegally issuing stock, etc. That any public utility, or any agent, director, or officer thereof, who shall, directly or indirectly, issue or cause to be issued any stocks, certificates of stock, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness contrary to the provisions of this section, or who shall apply the proceeds from the sale thereof to any purposes other than that 991specified in the certificate of the commission, shall forfeit and pay into the Treasury of the United Stated, one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia, not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000 for each offense.
Par. 80. That each and every director, president, secretary, orMaking false statements to secure issue of stock, etc., a felony. other official of any such public utility who shall make any false statement to secure the issue of any stock, certificate of stock, bond, mortgage, or other evidence of indebtedness, or who shall, by false statement knowingly made, procure of the commission the making of the certificate herein provided, or issue, with knowledge of such fraud, negotiate, or cause to be negotiated, any such stock, certificate of stock, bond, mortgage, or other evidence of indebtedness in violation of this section, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000, orPunishment. by imprisonment for a term of not less than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Par. 81. That if any public utility or any agent or officer thereofDiscrimination in charges, etc., prohibited. shall, directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever, or otherwise, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person, firm, or corporation a greater or less compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered by it in or affecting or relating to the conduct of a street railroad or street railroad corporation, common carrier, gas plant, gas corporation, electric plant, electric corporation, water power company, telephone line, telephone corporation, telegraph line, or telegraph corporation, or pipe line company, or to the production, transmission, delivery, or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power, or the conveyance of telephone or telegraph messages, or for any service in connection therewith than that prescribed in the public schedules or tariffs then in force or established as provided herein, or than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other person, firm, or corporation other than one conducting a like business for a like and contemporaneous service, such public utility shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared to be a misdemeanor and unlawful, and upon convictionPenalty. thereof shall forfeit and pay to the District of Columbia not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 for each offense; and such agent or officer so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, andPunishment of agent offending. upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $100 for each offense.
Par. 82. That it shall be unlawful for any public utility to demand,Deductions for facilities furnished unlawful. charge, collect, or receive from any person, firm, or corporation less compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered by said public utility in consideration of the furnishing by said person, firm, or corporation of any part of the facilities incident thereto: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Renting incidental facilities allowed. That nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting any public utility from renting any facilities incident to the production, transmission, delivery or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power, or the supply of any liquid, steam, or air, through pipes or tubing, or the conveyance of telegraph or telephone messages, and paying a reasonable rental therefor; or as requiring any public utility to furnish anyAppliances on consumers’ premises. part of such appliances which are situated in and upon the premises of any consumer or user, except telephone station equipment upon the subscriber’s premises, and, unless otherwise ordered by the commission, meters, and appliances for measurements of any product or service.
Par. 83. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporationRebates, etc., unlawful. to solicit, accept, or receive any rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect to any service in or affecting or relating to any public utility or the production, transmission, delivery, or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power, or any liquid, steam, or air, or the conveying of telegraph or telephone messages within the District of 992Columbia, or for any service in connection therewith whereby any such service shall, by any device whatsoever or otherwise, be rendered free or at a less rate than that named in the schedules and tariffs in force as provided in this section, or whereby any service or advantage Penalty.is received other than is in this section specified.
Any person, firm, or corporation violating the provisions of this paragraph shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000 for each offense. Par. 84. Penalty for refusal to furnish information, etc. That any officer, agent, or employee of any public utility who shall fail or refuse to fill out and return any blanks, as required by this section, or shall fail or refuse to answer any question therein Sounded, or shall knowingly or willfully give a false answer to any question, or shall evade the answer to any such question where the fact inquired of is within his knowledge, or who shall, upon proper demand, fail or refuse to exhibit to the commission or any commissioner, or any person authorized to examine the same, any book, paper, account, record, or memoranda of such public utility which is in his possession or under his control, or who shall fail to properly use and keep his system of accounting, or any part thereof, as prescribed by the commission under this section, or who shall refuse to do any act or thing in connection with such system of accounting when so directed by the commission or its authorized representative shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon Penalties on utility and person offending.conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000 for each offense, and a penalty of not less than $500 nor more than $2,000 shall, on conviction, be imposed on the public utility for each such offense when such officer, agent, or employee acted in obedience to the direction, construction, or request of such public utility or any general officer thereof.
Par. 85. Penalty for violating provisions of Act. That if any public utility shall violate any provision of this section, or shall do any act herein prohibited, or shall fail or refuse to perform any duty enjoined upon it for which a penalty has not been provided, or shall fail, neglect, or refuse to obey any lawful requirement or order made by the commission, or any judgment or decree made by any court upon its application, for every such violation, failure, or refusal such public utility shall forfeit and pay to Responsibility for acts of officers.the District of Columbia the sum of $200 for each such offense.
In construing and enforcing the provisions of this paragraph, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any public utility acting within the scope of his employment and instructions shall in every case be deemed to be the act, omission, or failure of such public utility. Par. 86. Penalty tor Injuries, etc., to apparatus of commission. That any person who shall destroy, injure, or interfere with any apparatus or appliance owned or operated by or in charge of the commission or its agent shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding thirty days, or both.
Par. 87. Every day of failure to comply with orders a separate offense. That every day during which any public utility, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof, shall fail knowingly or willfully to observe and comply with any order or direction of the commission, or to perform any duty enjoined by this section, shall constitute a separate and distinct violation of such order, or direction, or of this section, as the case may be. Par. 88. Authority of commission to regulate charges, etc.
That whenever, after hearing and investigation as provided in this section, the commission shall find that any rate, toll, charge, regulation, or practice of any public utility within the District of Columbia is unreasonable or discriminatory, it shall have the power to regulate, fix, and determine the same as provided in this section. Par. 89. Report of accidents. That every public utility shall, whenever an accident attended with loss of human life or personal injury without loss of human life occurs within the District of Columbia, upon its premises, 993or directly or indirectly arising from or connected with its maintenance or operation, give immediate notice thereof to the commission.
In the event of any such accident, the commission, if it deem the publicInvestigation by commission. interest requires it, shall cause an investigation to be made forthwith. Par. 90. That the commission shall inquire into any neglect orInquiry into violation of laws, etc., by utilities. violation of the laws or regulations in force in the District of Columbia by any public utility doing business therein, or by the officers, agents, or employees thereof, or by any person operating the plant of any public utility, and shall have the power, and it shall be its duty, to enforce the provisions of this section as well as all other laws relating to public utilities.
Par. 91. That the corporation counsel of the District of ColumbiaCorporation counsel to be general counsel. shall be the general counsel of the commission and shall receive from and be paid out of the appropriations provided and to be provided for the expenses of the commission in addition to his compensationAdditional compensation. otherwise provided by law the sum of $1,000 per annum, payable in equal monthly installments. It shall be the duty of the generalDuties. counsel to represent and appear for the commission in all actions and proceedings involving any question under this section, or under or in reference to any act, order, or proceeding of the commission, and if directed to do so by the commission, to intervene, if possible, in any action or proceeding in which any such question is involved; to commence and prosecute all actions and proceedings directed or authorized by the commission, and to expedite, in every way possible, final and just determination of all such actions and proceedings; to advise the commission and each commissioner, when so requested, in regard to ail matters in connection with the powers and duties of the commission and of the members thereof, and generally to perform all duties and services as attorney and counsel to the commission which the commission may reasonably require of him.
TheDuties of assistants. assistants to the corporation counsel shall perform such duties relating to matters arising under this section and all other matters as the corporation counsel may prescribe. The commission may, if at anyEmployment of additional assistants. time it deems necessary, employ other attorneys at law as additional assistants to the said general counsel for the performance of such extraordinary legal services for or in behalf of the commission at such special compensation for such additional assistants as the commission may prescribe, which said compensation shall be paid out of the appropriations herein provided and hereafter to be provided for the expenses of the commission.
The said corporation counsel and anyAppearance in court. of his assistants designated by him or by the commission shall have the right to appear and prosecute any civil, quasi criminal, or criminal case to recover any penalty, forfeiture, fine, or for the imposition of any punishment provided for in this section whether instituted by or on behalf of the United States of America or by or on behalf of the District of Columbia or otherwise, and on every appeal provided by law. The commission may enforce its orders in any case byEnforcement of orders. mandamus or other legal or equitable remedy in any court of competent jurisdiction, and it shall be the duty of the corporation counsel or his assistants to represent the commission in every such proceeding.
Par. 92. That the provisions of this section shall be interpretedProvisions to be construed liberally. and construed liberally in order to accomplish the purposes thereof, and where any specific power or authority is given the commission by the provisions of this section the enumeration thereof shall not be held to exclude or impair any power or authority otherwise in this section conferred on said commission. The commission hereby createdAdditional powers. shall have, in addition to the powers in this section specified, mentioned, and indicated ail additional, implied, and incidental power 994which may be proper and necessary to effect and carry out, perform, and execute all the said powers herein specified, mentioned, and Substantial compliance sufficient.indicated.
A substantial compliance with the requirements of this section shall be sufficient to give effect to all the rules, orders, acts, and regulations of the commission, and they shall not be declared inoperative, illegal, or void for any omission of a technical nature in respect thereto. Each paragraph declared independent.That each paragraph of this section, and every part of each paragraph, are hereby declared to be independent paragraphs, and the holding of any paragraph or paragraphs or part or parts thereof to be void, ineffective, or unconstitutional for any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other paragraph or part thereof.
Par. 93. No release of rights, etc., under other laws. That this section shall not have the effect to release or waive any right of action by the United States, or by the District of Columbia, or by any person, for any right, penalty, or forfeiture which may have arisen or which may hereafter arise under any law of the United States or any regulation in force in the District of Columbia; Penalties, etc., cumulative.and all penalties and forfeitures accruing under this section shall be cumulative, and a suit for any recovery of one shall not be a bar to the recovery of any other penalty.
Par. 94. Present rates not to be increased. That, first, unless the commission shall otherwise order, it shall be unlawful for any public utility within the District of Columbia to demand, collect, or receive a greater compensation for any service than the charge fixed on the lowest schedules of rates for the same service under the law in force at the date of the passage of this section; Schedules to be filed in thirty days.second, every public utility in the District of Columbia shall, within thirty days after the passage and publication of this section, file in the office of the commission copies of all schedules of rates and charges, Applications for changes.including joint rates, in force at the date of the passage of this section; third, any public utility desiring to advance or discontinue any such rate or rates may make application to the commission in writing, stating the advance in or discontinuance of the rate or rates desired, Hearings on applications.giving the reasons for such advance or discontinuance; fourth, upon receiving such application the commission shall fix a time and place for hearing, and give such notice to interested parties as shall be proper Action.and reasonable; if, after such hearing and investigation, the commission shall find that the change or discontinuance applied for is reasonable, fair, and just, it shall grant the application, either in whole or in Proceedings in court.part; fifth, any public utility being dissatisfied with any order of the commission made under the provisions of this paragraph may commence a proceeding against it in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in the manner as is in this section hereinbefore provided, which action shall be tried and determined in the same manner as is in this section hereinbefore provided.
Par. 95. Office force authorized. The commission shall have the power in each and every instance to employ and to prescribe the duties of such officers, clerks, stenographers, typewriters, inspectors, experts, and employees as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this section, and to fix and pay their compensation within the appropriations provided by Congress. The commission is hereby authorized, within the appropriation made Incidental expenses, etc.by Congress, to incur and pay incidental expenses for postage, printing, blanks, books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, stationery, binding, rebinding, repairing and preservation of records, desks, office furniture and supplies, traveling expenses of the commission, the commissioners, and every officer, agent, and employee thereof, and all other general expenses reasonably necessary Disbursements.to be incurred in carrying out the purposes of this section.
All payments and disbursements, as provided in this section, shall be made by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia upon proper Designation of District employees to perform duties.vouchers, certified as required by the commission; and the commission is hereby also granted power and authority to designate and appoint during its pleasure such officers, clerks, inspectors, and 995employees of the District of Columbia and members of the Metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia to perform any of the duties which the commission may from time to time, respectively,Other assistance. assign to them, and to employ any assistance and fix compensation therefor within the limits of the appropriations for its use herein or hereafter made by Act of Congress.
Par. 96. That the said commission shall hereafter exercise all the powers and have all thePowers over street railways transferred from Interstate Commerce Commission.Vol. 35, p. 250. authority now vested by law in the Interstate Commerce Commission by virtue and under the Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act authorizing certain extensions to be made of the lines of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company, the Washington Railway and Electric Company, the City and Suburban Railway of Washington, and the Capital Traction Company, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” and said power and authority shall no longer be exercised by said Interstate Commerce Commission: *Provided*, That the orders, rules, and regulations made by the Interstate*Proviso*.Orders etc., continued in force.
Commerce Commission shall continue to be in force until changed, repealed, altered, or amended by the commission created by this section, which said commission is hereby given power and jurisdiction to issue and, at its pleasure, to revoke all permits, or licenses, to carry this section into effect, and its rules and regulations shall be valid and binding on all public-service corporations and on all persons. Whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after hearing hadPower to order repairs, improvements, etc., by public utilities. upon its own motion or upon complaint, that repairs, improvements, or changes in any street railroad, gas plant, electric plant, telephone line, telegraph line, pipe line, water-power plant, or the facilities of any common carrier ought reasonably to be made, or that any addition of service or equipment ought reasonably to be made thereto, or that the vehicles or cars of any street railroad or common carrier are unclean, insanitary, uncomfortable, inconvenient, or improperly equipped, operated, or maintained, or are in need of paint, or unsightly in appearance, or that any addition ought reasonably to be made thereto, in order to promote the comfort or convenience of the public or employees, or in order to secure adequate service or facilities, the commission shall have power to make and serve an order directing that such repairs, improvements, changes, or additions to service or equipment be made within a reasonable time and in a manner to be specified therein, and every such public utility is hereby required and directed to obey every such order of the commission.
Par. 97. That all the powers created by this section and the duty ofPowers of commission vested in Commissioners of the District. carrying this section into effect and enforcing the provisions thereof are hereby vested in and imposed on the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as a governmental and administrative agency, and said powers shall be exercised and said duties performed as additional and superadded powers to their powers and duties as Commissioner’s of the District of Columbia.
The powers, authority, and duties herebyAuthority permanent in present commissioners and successors. imposed on and granted said commissioners shall be permanent and are hereby imposed on and granted to the present Commissioners of the District of Columbia and their successors in office. The commissionOrganization, etc. created by this section shall, so soon as convenient after its passage, organize by electing one of its number chairman, who shall serve until the first Monday in January, nineteen hundred and fourteen.
On the first Monday in January in each odd-numbered year the commissioners shall meet and elect a chairman, who shall serve for two years and until his successor is elected. A majority of said commissioners shall constitute a quorum to do business, and any vacancy shall not impair the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the commission. Any investigation, inquiry,Investigations, etc. or hearing within the powers of the commission may be made or held 996by any commissioner, whose acts and orders, when approved by the Rules, etc.commission, shall be deemed to be the order of the commission.
The commission shall have power to adopt and publish rules to govern its proceedings and to regulate the mode and manner of all investigations and hearings pertaining to public utilities. Interest of commissioner in public utility, stock, etc., forbidden.No commissioner shall be directly or indirectly interested in any public utility or in any stock, bond, mortgage, security, or contract of any such public utility; and if any such commissioner shall voluntarily become so interested his office shall ipso facto become vacant; and if any such commissioner shall become so interested otherwise than voluntarily he shall, within a reasonable time, divest himself of such Oath.interest, and if he fails so to do his office shall become vacant.
Before entering upon the duties of his office each commissioner, the secretary of the commission, the counsel of the commission, and every employee of said commission shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, and shall in addition thereto make oath or affirmation before and file with the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia that he is not pecuniarily interested, voluntarily or involuntarily, in any public utility in the District of Columbia or elsewhere.
Par. 98. Appropriation for expenses, half from District revenues. That the sum of $40,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions of this section, one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and all moneys received from fines, forfeitures, and penalties shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
Par. 99. Authority, etc., of the Commissioners of the District continued in full force.Municipality continued. That all the duties, powers, and authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall continue and remain in full force and effect no the with standing this section; and all powers, authority, and duties of the municipality known as the District of Columbia and all rights vested in said municipality shall continue and Lawful ordinances and regulations continued.remain in full force and effect notwithstanding this section.
All the lawful ordinances and regulations made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as such, and all other lawful municipal ordinances and regulations, shall continue and remain in full force and effect, and may be altered, changed, or amended, and new ordinances and regulations may be made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, acting as such, hereafter, notwithstanding this section: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Orders of commission superior to municipal regulations, etc.when any order of the commission created by this section shall be made which shall be inconsistent and repugnant to any municipal ordinance or regulation, or any ordinance or regulation made or to be made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, acting as such, then and in such event the order of the commission created by this section shall be given full force and effect, notwithstanding such municipal ordinance or regulation.
Par. 100. Boards of directors of utilities limited. That the board of directors of every public utility shall consist of not more than fifteen nor less than seven members, within which limitation the membership may be in any case increased or diminished, as the stockholders may from time to time determine. Par. 101. Charters, laws, etc., continued. That, except as modified or changed by this section and until modified or changed under its provisions, all charters, statutes, laws, ordinances, and regulations now in force shall remain and continue to be in full force and effect until altered, amended, or repealed *Proviso*.Inconsistent provisions repealed.according to law: *Provided*, That all charters, statutes, Acts, and parts of Acts, laws, ordinances, and regulations inconsistent and repugnant to the provisions of this section, and only so far as inconsistent and repugnant thereto, are hereby repealed.
Par. 102. Pending actions not affected. That this section shall not affect pending actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, or quasi criminal, but the same may be prosecuted or defended as heretofore provided by law or regulation. Par. 103. Right to amend, etc. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this section. 997 EXCISEExcise. Sec. 9. Paragraph 1. That no person, company, copartnership,Sale, etc., of intoxicating liquors restricted. association, club, or corporation shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, keep for sale, traffic in, barter, exchange for goods, give away, or otherwise furnish, in the District of Columbia, any intoxicating liquors, except as hereinafter provided.
Wherever the term “intoxicating Meaning of term.liquors” is used in this section it shall be deemed to include whisky, brandy, gin, wine, cordials, rum, ale, porter, beer, hard or fermented cider, and all other fermented, distilled, spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors, and every mixture of liquors which shall contain more than two per centum, by weight, of alcohol, and any mixture of liquor which shall contain less than two per centum of alcohol, if the same shall be intoxicating.
Par. 2. That there shall be, and is hereby, constituted an exciseExcise board constituted. board for the District of Columbia, which shall be composed of three members, to be appointed by the President of the United States,Appointment by the President. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall serve for a term of three years, and until their successors are appointedService. and qualified, except that the members first appointed shall serve for one, two, and three years, respectively, as may be designated by the President, or until their successors are appointed and qualified.
The salary of said commissioners shall be at the rate of $2,400 perSalary. annum. Hereafter no license shall be issued to a hotel having less thanHotel restrictions. fifty bedrooms for guests, nor to any hotel the character of which, or the character of the proprietor or manager of which, is shown to be objectionable to said board. Not more than three saloons or barrooms other than in hotels orLocation of barrooms restricted. clubs shall be permitted on one side of a street between intersecting streets, nor more than four on both sides of a street between intersecting streets.
No saloon, barroom, or other place where intoxicating liquor isAdjacent to occupied alleys, etc. sold at retail shall be licensed, allowed, or maintained within three hundred feet of any alleyway occupied for residences or of places commonly called slums, except upon the unanimous vote of all three members of said excise board. No saloon, barroom, or other place wherein intoxicating liquor isDistance from schools, churches, etc., required. sold at retail or wholesale, other than hotels and clubs, shall be licensed, allowed, or maintained within four hundred feet of any public schoolhouse, or a now located or established college, or university, or within four hundred feet of any now established house of religious worship, measured between the nearest entrances to each by the shortest course of travel between such places of business and such public schoolhouse, college, or university, or established house of religious worship.
No license shall be granted to sell intoxicating liquors in theNo license to railroad station waiting room. waiting room of any station or depot of any steam or electric railroad or other carrier for the transportation of passengers within the District of Columbia. Hereafter no license shall be granted for the establishment or No barroom allowed in residence section.maintenance of a barroom or other place for the sale of intoxicating liquors, otherwise than in sealed packages and not to be drunk on the premises, in any residence portion of the District of Columbia; and it shall be the duty of the excise board to determine in the caseDetermination. of each application for license whether the location where the bar-room is to be located is or is not within the business portion of the District, and if not the license shall be denied: and the excise board is hereby authorized and required to determine in each case what is so far devoted to business as to constitute it a business street or 998*Proviso*.Restriction.section: *Provided*, That no license shall be granted for any saloon or barroom on any side of any square, block, or tract of land where less than fifty per centum of the foot frontage, not including saloons or hotels and clubs having barroom licenses under this section, is Wholesale.used for business purposes; nor shall intoxicating liquors be sold at wholesale outside of the business districts as above provided.
Territory excluded any license.No saloon, barroom, or wholesale liquor business shall be licensed, maintained, or allowed in the territory west of the following lines: The westerly line of the fire limits as now established from its southerly limits to where the same intersects with the mile Limit of the Soldiers’ Home; thence westerly and northerly along the said mile limit until the same intersects with Kansas Avenue; thence along Kansas Avenue to its intersection with the northern boundary of the District of Columbia.
Action of board final.Said board shall consider and act upon all applications for license to sell intoxicating liquors, and may require a report thereon by the chief of police, and the action of said board shall be final and Reduction of number of barrooms.conclusive, In the issuing of licenses for barrooms it shall be the duty of the excise board to adopt such a policy as will reduce the number of barrooms, including those in hotels and clubs, to not exceeding three hundred by November first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, but no licensee who shall conduct his business within the law shall be deprived of his license or required to change his location before Issue of license.November first, nineteen hundred and fourteen.
On the granting by said board of a license to sell intoxicating liquors, the assessor shall Rules, etc.issue a license to the applicant. Said board shall make such rules and regulations for carrying into effect this section as it may deem Annual report of board.requisite and proper. It shall make an annual report to Congress setting forth the number of applications for license, whether favorably or unfavorably acted upon, the number of persons convicted for violation of this statute, and the number and amount of fines collected Authority of board.and uncollected; and said excise board is hereby authorized and empowered to summon any person before it to give testimony, under oath or affirmation, as to any matter affecting the operation of the laws regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia; and any member of the board shall have the power to administer Testimony of witnesses.oaths or affirmations for all purposes of administering said laws.
Such summons may be served by any member of the Metropolitan police force, and the refusal or neglect of a witness to appear before the said board or to testify when required, may be punished in the Vol. 29, p. 10.same manner as a refusal to appear before the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, as provided for in the Acts of February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to punish false swearing before trial boards Vol. 27, p. 28.of the Metropolitan police force and fire department of the District Vol. 32, p. 591.of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,” and July first, nineteen hundred and two, 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 Witness fees.purposes.
” Witnesses so summoned shall be entitled to a fee of $1.25 for each day’s attendance before the said board, payable out of the contingent fund of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and any witness knowingly making a false statement to the said board on any material matter shall be guilty of perjury and punishable accordingly. Par. 3. Clerk and inspector. That the said board shall appoint a clerk at a salary of $1,500 per annum and an inspector with police powers at a salary of Duty of inspector.$1,500 per annum.
Said inspector shall make inspections as may be required by this section, under the orders of the board, and make full 999report of such inspections to the board. He shall wear a badge indicating that he is such inspector of the excise board. The board shallRecord of board. keep a full record of all applications for license, of all recommendations for and remonstrances against the granting of licenses, and the actions taken thereon. Par. 4. That every person applying for a license to sell intoxicatingPetition for license. liquors in said District shall file with the said board a petition for such license, and such petition shall be considered and acted upon by the board in the order in which such petition is filed and numbered.
SaidContents. petition shall contain— First. A statement giving the name and residence of the applicantName, etc. and the time he has resided in the District of Columbia. Second. A statement describing the particular place for which aPlace desired. license is desired, designating the same by street and number, if practicable, and if not, by such other apt description as will definitely locate it, and how long said applicant has been engaged in business at said place. Third. The full name and residence of the owner of the premisesOwner’s name. upon which the business is to be carried on.
Fourth. A statement that the applicant is a citizen of the UnitedPersonal statement. States and a bona fide resident of the District of Columbia, and not less than twenty-one years of age, and whether such applicant has, since March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, been adjudged guilty of violating the laws governing the sale of intoxicating liquors or for the prevention of gambling in the District of Columbia. Fifth. A statement that he intends to, and if licensed will, carryTo conduct as principal. on such business for himself and not as the agent of any other person, company, copartnership, or corporation.
Sixth. A statement that he intends to superintend in person theManagement. management of the business for which he asks a license, and that if licensed he will so superintend the management of the business so licensed. Said petition must be sworn to by the petitioner before a notaryAffidavit. public or other person duly authorized to administer oaths and affirmations. If any false material statement is knowingly made in anyPunishment for false statements. part of said petition, the petitioner making said affidavit shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalty now provided by law for that offense; and in case a license has been issued to said petitioner the same shall be immediately revoked by said board.
Notice of the filing of said petition shall beNotice of filing. given by the applicant in such manner as may be prescribed by general rules and regulations adopted by the excise board; and if protestsHearing of protests. against the granting of such license are filed no final action shall be taken by the excise board until the protestants shall have had an opportunity to be heard, under rules and regulations prescribed by said board. Par. 5. That the licenses authorized and provided for by thisLicense fees. section shall be of two classes, wholesale liquor licenses and barroom licenses.
The fee for a wholesale liquor license until November first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall be $500 per annum, and for a barroom license $1,000 per annum until November first, nineteenAfter November 1, 1914. hundred and fourteen; and thereafter the fee for a wholesale liquor license shall be $800, and the fee for a barroom License shall be $1,500Deposit. per annum. Every applicant for a liquor license shall deposit the amount of the license fee with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia at the time of filing the application with the exciseIssue of license. board.
If, upon consideration of the application for license by the board as provided for in this section, the board shall decide to grant the license prayed for it shall notify the assessor, and the applicant shall thereupon receive his license; and only on the granting by said 1000Deposit returned on refusal.board of a license to any applicant to soil intoxicating liquor shall the assessor issue a license to such applicant. Whenever a license shall be refused by said board, the collector of taxes shall forthwith Barroom licenses.refund the deposit aforesaid.
A barroom license shall be required for every hotel, tavern, barroom, club, or other place in which intoxicating liquors are sold or dispensed at retail. A wholesale liquor license shall authorize the licensee to sell Wholesale licenses.intoxicating liquors in sealed packages only and in quantities not less than one quart in the aggregate, except in sealed original or bonded package in quantity not less than approximately a pint, and not to be drunk on the premises where sold; and no wholesale license shall be granted until it is satisfactorily shown that the place where it is intended to carry on such business is properly arranged for selling such liquors as Barroom defined.merchandise.
Every place where intoxicating liquors are sold to be drunk on the premises or in quantities less than one quart, except in sealed original or bonded packages as aforesaid whether drunk on the premises or not, shall be regarded as a barroom; and the possession of intoxicating liquors, with the means and appliances for carrying on the business of dispensing the same to be drunk where sold, shall be prima facie evidence of a barroom within the meaning of this section, and the license therefor shall be known as a barroom Brewers, etc., to take wholesale licenses.license.
All makers, brewers, and distillers of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia, shall be required to take out the wholesale *Proviso*.License for each place.Club requirements.license provided for in this section: *Provided*, That when such business is carried on at more than one place a license shall be required for each place. Before the excise board may grant a License to a club it must be satisfactorily shown that such club is duly incorporated; that its membership is bona fide, all being on an equal status with equal privileges and responsibilities; that its purposes are legitimate; and that the sale of liquor intended is no more than an incident, and is not a prime source of revenue.
A license to a club may be issued in the name of its president, and in case of violation of the provisions of this section in such club, he and the secretary, the treasurer, and the manager of the club shall be proceeded against collectively or severally in their individual capacities and, if convicted, be subject to the penalties prescribed in paragraph fourteen of this section, and the license of said club shall be immediately revoked by Number of clubs limited.the excise board: *Provided further*, That after November first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, there shall not be granted licenses to more than twenty-five clubs, including those now licensed.
Par. 6. Disposal to minors and drunkards forbidden. That under the license issued in accordance with this section no intoxicating liquors shall be sold, given away, or in any way disposed of to any minor, intoxicated person, or habitual drunkard, and ignorance of the age of any such minor shall not be a defense Prohibited hours and days.to any action instituted under this section; and no licensee under this section shall sell, give away, or dispense any intoxicating liquors to any person between the hours of one o’clock a. m. and seven o’clock a. m., nor on Sundays, or Inauguration Day; and between said hours, and on Sundays, and Inauguration Day every barroom and other Minors excluded.place where intoxicating liquors are sold shall be kept closed; that no minor under the age of eighteen years shall be allowed to enter or be permitted to remain in any place where intoxicating liquors are Exposure of interior.sold, other than a hotel, restaurant, or club; that the interior of every barroom shall at all times when selling is prohibited be exposed to full view from the street, without obstruction by screens, blinds, curtains, stained glass, bottles, boxes, signs, or other material, except in the case of clubs licensed under this section and hotels having only an interior barroom, which shall be exposed to full view from the corridors or passageways leading to the entrance or entrances to such barroom. 1001 Par. 7.
That any minor, who falsely represents his age for thePunishment of minors for false statement of age. purpose of procuring intoxicating liquors shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined for each offense not more than $50, and in default in the payment of such fine shall be imprisoned in the reformatory or workhouse of said District not exceeding thirty days. Par. 8. That no license under this section shall be issued for aYearly licenses. longer period than one year, and the year shall begin on the first day of November and end on the last day of October following; andTransfers restricted. no license shall be transferred by the licensee to any other person or to any other place, except with the written consent of the excise board upon a regular application therefor in writing and after notice and hearing as in this section provided upon an original application for a license; and the fee to be paid by the party applying for such transfer shall be $2, which shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District before such transfer is made: *Provided*, That the excise*Proviso*.Refusal of transfer. board shall not allow the transfer of the license of any person against whom there are pending in the courts or before the excise board charges of keeping a disorderly house or violating the excise laws or the laws against gambling in the District of Columbia.
Par. 9. That every person receiving a license to sell liquor underDisplay of license. this section shall frame the same under glass and place it in a conspicuous place in his place of business, so that anyone entering such place may easily read such license. Par. 10. That all applicants for license and poisons holdingInspection of premises, etc. licenses under this section shall allow any member of the excise board or the duly authorized inspector of the said board full opportunity and every facility to examine, at any time during business hours, the premises where intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, or for which a license is asked or has been granted; and the same opportunity and facility shall be afforded, by the licensee or some person acting in his stead, any member of the Metropolitan police force, who has reasonable belief that the law is being violated, to enter and examine at all times such licensed places, and no person or persons shall obstruct, hinder, or in any manner molest such inspector or officer, provided such inspector or officer exhibits a badge showing he is such inspector or officer.
Par. 11. That regularly licensed druggists or pharmacists shallDruggists.Restriction on sale of alcoholic medicines, etc., by. not be required to obtain license under the provisions of this section, but they shall not sell intoxicating liquors, nor compound, nor mix any composition thereof, nor sell any malt extract, or other proprietary medicines containing more than two per centum of alcohol, except such compounds, compositions, malt extracts, or proprietary medicines be so medicated as to be medicinal preparations or compounds unfit for use as beverages, except upon a written and bona fidePrescriptions required. prescription of a duly licensed and regularly practicing physician in the District of Columbia, whose name shall be signed thereto.
Such prescription shall contain a statement that the disease of the patient required such a prescription, shall be numbered in the order of receiving, and shall be canceled by writing on it the word “canceled” and the date on which it was presented and filled, and kept on file in consecutive order, subject to public inspection at all times during business hours. No such prescription shall be filled more than once. Every druggist or pharmacist selling intoxicating liquorsRecord to be kept. as herein provided shall keep a book provided for the purpose, and shall enter therein at the time of every sale a true record of the date of the sale, the name of the purchaser, who shall sign his name in said book as a part of the entry, his residence (giving the street and house number, if there be such), the kind and quantity and price of such liquor, the purpose for which it was sold, and the name of the 1002physician giving the prescription therefor.
Such book shall be open to public inspection during business hours, and shall be in form substantially as follows: Form. *Provisos*.Sale of grain alcohol.Said book shall be produced before the excise board or the courts when required: *Provided*, That pure grain alcohol may be sold without a physician’s prescription for mechanical, medicinal, and scientific purposes by registered druggists or pharmacists, who shall keep a book for the purpose of registering such sales in a similar manner or form as required for the sale of intoxicating liquors as provided in this Punishment for false statements in procuring.section: *Provided further*, That any person who shall make any false statement as to the purpose or use of alcohol purchased under the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined for each offense not more than fifty dollars, and in default of the payment of such fine shall be imprisoned in the workhouse of said District not exceeding thirty days.
Punishment for violations by druggists.Any druggist or pharmacist who shall sell or dispense any intoxicating liquors, except in such manner as provided in this section, or who shall fail or refuse to keep the record herein required, or who shall refill any prescription, or who shall violate any other provisions of this paragraph, shall be guilty of illegal selling, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in paragraph twelve Revocation of license on second offense.of this section.
Upon a second conviction for said offense, in addition to the penalties prescribed in said paragraph twelve, it shall be a part of the judgment of conviction that the license of such druggist or pharmacist to practice pharmacy shall be revoked, and the court before which such person is tried and convicted shall cause a certified copy of such judgment of conviction to be certified to the board having authority to issue licenses to practice pharmacy in the District of Columbia.
Punishment for physicians prescribing liquor,except for treatment.Any physician who shall prescribe any intoxicating liquor except for treatment of disease which, after his own personal diagnosis, he shall deem to require such treatment, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $200, and in default of payment of said fine shall be imprisoned in the District jail or workhouse for not less than thirty Revocation of license to practice on second offense.nor more than ninety days, and upon a second conviction for said offense, in addition to the penalty above provided, it shall be a part of the judgment of conviction that the license of such physician to practice medicine be revoked, and the court before which such physician is tried and convicted shall cause a certified copy of such judgment of conviction to be certified to the board having authority to issue licenses to practice medicine in the District of Columbia.
Par. 12. Punishment for illegal sale, etc., of intoxicating liquors. That any person, company, copartnership, corporation, club, or association manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, keeping for sale, trafficking in, bartering, exchanging for goods, or otherwise 1003furnishing any intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia, with out first having obtained a license as herein provided, or shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, keep for sale, traffic in, barter, exchange for goods, or give away intoxicating liquors in any part, section, or district of the District of Columbia wherein the same is prohibited by law, upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $250 nor more than $800, and in default in the payment of such fine be imprisoned in the District jail or workhouse for not less than two months nor more than six months; and upon every subsequent conviction for such offense shall, in addition to the penalty named, to wit, a fine of not less than $250 nor more than $800 be imprisoned in the workhouse of the District of Columbia not less than three months nor more than one year.
Par. 13. That any person, company, copartnership, corporation,Penalty for violation of license. or club having obtained a license under this section, who shall violate any of its provisions shall, upon conviction of such violation, be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500, and the excise board may, in its discretion, revoke the license; and upon a second conviction of such violation such licensee shall be fined not less than $200 nor more than $500, and in addition to such fine the excise board shall immediately revoke the license.
That upon the conviction of anyImmediate revocation on conviction of keeping a disreputable place. licensee of keeping a disorderly or disreputable place, it shall be the duty of the excise board to immediately revoke the license of such convicted licensee, and after such revocation no license shall again be granted to him for said place or elsewhere, nor shall a license be granted to anyone else for said place for a period of three years from the date of said revocation of license.
Par. 14. That no licensee under this section shall allow any femaleSales by females, etc., prohibited. or any minor or any person convicted of crime, to sell, give, furnish, or distribute any intoxicating liquors, or any admixture thereof, to any person or persons, or except in the cases of hotels, restaurants,Restriction on pool rooms, music, etc. and clubs shall permit the playing of pool or billiards, or any other games whatever, in the room where such liquors are sold or drunk, or in any adjoining or intercommunicating room; nor shall he, except in the case of hotels, restaurants, and clubs, permit the playing of music or theatricals of any kind, or provide other amusements in his place of business or in connection therewith.
Nor shall any barroomBarroom restrictions. licensee establish more than one bar under his license, and the sale or dispensing of liquors, except in case of hotels, restaurants, and clubs, shall be confined to the room in which said bar is located; nor provide or permit to be used more than one entrance to said barroom from the street, which entrance shall be the one mentioned in his application for license, unless the excise board shall especially permit an extra entrance. Nor shall any barroom licensee sell, give, furnish, or distributeFemales not allowed in. any intoxicating liquors to any female, nor permit any female to enter or remain in his barroom: *Provided*, That bona fide guests*Provisos*.Sale to guests. of hotels, restaurants, and clubs having a license to sell intoxicating liquors may be served with liquors at meals in such hotels, restaurants, and clubs during the time liquor may be sold: *Provided further*, That no place shall be deemed a restaurant within the meaning ofRestaurants. this paragraph until the same shall have been declared such by action of the excise board.
Par. 15. That all applicants who have had a license during theRenewal of licenses. preceding year who so desire shall apply for a renewal of such license on or before the first day of September of each license year: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Return of fee in case of death.That in the event of the death of a person having a license under this section during a license year there shall be refunded to the personal representative of the deceased such amount of the license fee in proportion to the unexpired part of the license year: *Provided further*, Part to be retained.That the minimum portion of said license fee to be retained for any portion of the license year, irrespective of its proportion to the entire 1004year, shall be $200 in the case of barroom licenses and $100 in the Transfer permitted.case of wholesale licenses: *Provided further*, That the personal representative of any deceased licensee may within thirty days after the death of such licensee transfer said license in accordance with the provisions of this law, touching transfers of licenses.
Par. 16. Special territory excluded from, licenses. That no license, either wholesale or barroom, shall be issued to any person or for any place located within one thousand feet of the grounds of the marine barracks, the War College, and engineer barracks, or of the navy yard, in the District of Columbia. Par. 17. Punishment for assisting ,etc., violations. That any person assisting in or aiding and abetting the violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $100 or be imprisoned in the District jail or workhouse for not more than three months for each and every offense: *Proviso*.No witness excused.*Provided*, That no witness shall be excused from testifying in any case brought under this section on the ground that his answers may tend to incriminate him in connection with any violation of this section, Immunity from prosecution.and such witness so testifying shall not thereafter be prosecuted for violation of any provision of this section concerning which such witness may have testified.
Par. 18. Prosecutions in police court on information. That prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this section shall be on information filed in the police court by the corporation counsel of the District of Columbia or any of his assistants duly authorized to act for him, and said corporation counsel or his assistants shall file such information upon the presentation to him or his assistants of sworn information that the law has been violated; and such corporation counsel and his Powers of corporation counsel, etc.assistants shall have power to administer oaths to such informant or informants, and such others as present themselves, and anyone making a false oath to any material fact shall be deemed guilty of perjury and subject to the same penalties as now provided by law for such offense.
Par. 19. Information of selling without license.That if one or more persons who are competent witnesses shall charge on oath or affirmation before the corporation counsel of the District of Columbia or any of his assistants duly authorized to act for him, representing that any person, company, copartnership, association, club, or corporation has or have violated or is violating the provisions of this section, by manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, keeping for sale, trafficking in, bartering, exchanging for goods, giving away, or otherwise furnishing intoxicating liquor without license, and shall request said corporation counsel or any of his Issue of warrant.assistants duly authorized to act for him, to issue a warrant, said attorney or any of his assistants shall issue such warrant, in which warrant the room, house, building, or other place in which the violation is alleged to have occurred or is occurring shall be specifically described, and said warrant shall be placed in the hands of the captain or acting captain of the police precinct in which the room, house, building, or other place above referred to is located, commanding him at once to thoroughly search said described room, house, building, or other place and Search and seizure.the appurtenances thereof, and if any such shall be found, to take in to his possession and safely keep, to be produced as evidence when required, all intoxicating liquors (if the same shall be found in quantities and in condition to suggest that it is kept for sale), and all the means of dispensing same, also all the paraphernalia or part of the paraphernalia of a barroom or other intoxicating-liquor establishment, and any United States internal-revenue tax receipt or certificate for the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor effective for the period of time covering the alleged offense, and forthwith report all Evidence.the facts to the corporation counsel of the District of Columbia, and such intoxicating liquor or the means for dispensing same, or the paraphernalia of a barroom or other intoxicating-liquor establish 1005meat, or any United States internal-revenue tax receipt or certificate for the sale of intoxicating liquor effective as aforesaid, shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of the provisions of paragraph one of this section as charged or presented.
If the accused shall be foundDisposition after trial. guilty, the intoxicating liquor so seized shall, after the trial and time for writ of error, if no writ of error is taken, be destroyed by the police department; if the accused be found not guilty, the whole shall be held as his, its, or their property, or the property of the real owner. Par. 20. That it shall not be necessary in order to convict anyActual sale not required if evidence of liquor on hand, etc. person, company, association, club, or corporation, his, its, or their agents, officers, clerks, or servants, of manufacturing or selling intoxicating liquors without license, or in any section of the District of Columbia where the manufacture and sale is prohibited, to prove the actual sale, delivery of, or payment for any intoxicating liquors, but the evidence of having or keeping them in hand and offering to sell or barter, exchanging for goods or merchandise, shall be sufficient to convict; nor shall it be necessary in a warrant or in information to specify the particular kind of liquor manufactured, sold, offered for sale, kept for sale, trafficked in, bartered or exchanged for goods or merchandise, but it shall be sufficient to allege in the warrant or information that the accused manufactured, sold, offered for sale, kept for sale, trafficked in, bartered or exchanged for goods or merchandise, or kept it deposited to sell or barter.
Par. 21. That every person who shall, within the District ofPunishment for keeping unlicensed clubroom. Columbia, directly or indirectly keep or maintain, by himself or by associating or combining with others, or who shall in any manner aid, abet, or assist in keeping or maintaining any clubroom or other place in which any intoxicating liquors, the sale of which without a license is prohibited by this section, is received or kept for the purpose of use, sale, barter, giving away, or otherwise furnishing, or for distribution or division among the members of any club or association by any means whatever, without first having a license so to do, or in sections of the District wherein the sale of intoxicating liquor is prohibited, and every person who shall use, sell, barter, give away, or otherwise furnish, distribute, or divide any such liquors so received or kept shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalties prescribed in paragraph twelve of this*Ante*, p. 1002. section.
Par. 22. That any person who shall, in the District of Columbia,Punishment for drinking in public places, etc. in any street or alley, in any public place, or in or upon any street car, or in or upon any other vehicle commonly used for the transportation of passengers, or in or about any depot, platform, or waiting station, drink any intoxicating liquor of any kind, or if any person shall be drunk or intoxicated in any street, alley, or public or private road or in any passenger coach, street car, or any public place or building, or at any public gathering, or if any person shall be drunk or intoxicated and shall disturb the peace of any person, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100, or by imprisonment for not less than five days nor more than thirty days in the workhouse or jail of the District of Columbia, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Par. 23. That the issuance of an internal-revenue special taxInternal-revenue special tax certificate prima facie evidence of sale. receipt or certificate by the United States to any person as a wholesale or retail dealer in distilled liquors or in malt liquors at any place within the District of Columbia shall be prima facie evidence of the sale of intoxicating liquors by such person at such place, or at any other place of business of such poison in the District where such special tax receipt is posted and at the time charged in any prosecution under this section, but such time must be within the life of such receipt or certificate. 1006 Par. 24.
Interpretation of words. That in the interpretation of this section words of singular number shall be deemed to include their plurals, and words of masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine, as the case may be. Par. 25. In effect after July 1, 1913.To be in lieu of existing laws, etc. That this section shall be in full force and effect from and after July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and shall be in lieu of and as a substitute for all existing laws and regulations in the District of Columbia in relation to the sale of intoxicating liquors in said District, except such laws as prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in certain defined sections or parts of the District and laws of Congress pertaining to persons, premises, and territory Inconsistent laws repealed.over which the Federal Government exercises jurisdiction; and all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this section, except such laws above referred to, be, and they are hereby, repealed.
Sec. 10. Personal tax exemptions.Vol. 32, p. 620, amended. That paragraph ten of section six of the Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, 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, is hereby amended by adding at the end of said paragraph the following: " “Fourth. Household effects of officials, temporary residents. Household and other belongings not held for sale and owned by any person in the public service temporarily residing in the District of Columbia who is a citizen of any State or Territory and who is taxed on such personal property in such State or Territory.
” " Sec. 11. Antimerger provisions.Restriction on buying or selling utilities in District by other corporations. That it shall be unlawful for any foreign public utility corporation, or for any foreign or local holding corporation, or for any local street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electric corporation, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, or any other local public utility corporation, directly or indirectly, to own, control, or hold or vote stock or bonds of any public utility corporation organized under any general incorporation law or special Act of the United States or authorized under any law of the United States to do business in the District of Columbia, except as heretofore or hereafter expressly authorized by Congress; and it shall be unlawful for any public utility corporation organized or authorized as aforesaid to sell or transfer any portion of its stock or bonds to any other public utility corporation or holding corporation whatsoever, unless heretofore or hereafter expressly authorized by Congress so to do; and every contract, transfer, agreement to transfer, or assignment by any said public utility corporation organized or authorized as aforesaid of any portion of its stock or bonds without such authority shall Jurisdiction of equity court to dissolve corporation for violation, etc.be utterly void and of no effect.
That the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on application of the District of Columbia by its Commissioners or attorney, or on application of the United States by its proper officer, or on application of any shareholder interested in any such corporations, shall have jurisdiction in equity to dissolve any public utility corporation organized under any general incorporation law or special section of the United States, or authorized under any law of the United States to do business in the District of Columbia, for violation of any of the provisions of this section or of Disposal of holdings.their charters; and further, to require any foreign public utility corporation, or foreign or local holding corporation which owns, holds, or controls, or which shall hereafter own, hold, or control any such stock or bonds contrary to any of the provisions of this section, to sell or dispose of the same and to refrain from voting such stock or *Proviso*.Quantity of interest required.bonds: *Provided*, That in case the allegations in any bill filed in said court relate to the ownership of stock or bonds of a local corporation by any foreign corporation, then it must be shown to the satisfaction of the court that such ownership includes at least twenty per centum of the capital stock of the local corporation. 1007 That the word “foreign” when used in this section shall be construedMeaning of words. to mean foreign to the District of Columbia, and the word “local” when used in this section shall be construed to mean local in the District of Columbia.
That each provision of this section and every part of each provisionIndependence of each provision declared. is hereby declared to be an independent provision, and the holding of any provision or provisions, or part or parts thereof, to be void, ineffective, or unconstitutional for any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other provision or part thereof. Approved, March 4, 1913.
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