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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · June 26, 1912 · Chapter 182

Chapter 182. 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 thirteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 182.— 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 thirteen, and for other purposes.June 26, 1912. [[H. R. 17681](/us/bill/62/hr/17681).] [[Public, No. 201](/us/pl/62/201).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia appropriations.Half from District revenues. That the half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. Executive Office: Two commissioners, at five thousand dollarsExecutive office.Salaries of commissioners, etc.Assistants to engineer commissioner. each; engineer commissioner, so much as may be necessary (to make salary five thousand dollars); additional compensation for two assist-ants to the engineer commissioner, detailed from the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, under Act of Congress approved JuneVol. 20, p. 103. eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two, at two hundred and fifty dollars each; secretary, two thousand four hundred dollars; 140two assistant secretaries to commissioners, one at one thousand five hundred dollars, and one at one thousand two hundred dollars; clerks—one at one thousand six hundred dollars, one at one thousand five hundred dollars, one at one thousand three hundred dollars, two at one thousand two hundred dollars each, one who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars, one at eight hundred and forty dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, one at six hundred dollars; messengers—one at six hundred dollars, one at four hundred and eighty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, eight hundred and forty dollars; two drivers, at six hundred dollars each;
Veterinary surgeon, etc.Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars. Medicines, surgical and hospital supplies, one thousand dollars; Purchasing division.Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, who shall hereafter, under the direction of the commissioners, supervise the purchase and distribution of all supplies, stores, and construction materials for the use of the government of the District of Columbia, and who shall give bond in such sum as the commissioners may determine, three thou-sand dollars; deputy purchasing officer, one thousand six hundred dollars; computer (transferred from per diem roll), one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerks—one at one thousand three hundred dollars, six at one thou-sand two hundred dollars each, three at nine hundred dollars each, six at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; inspector of fuel, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant inspector of fuel, one thou-sand one hundred dollars; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; driver, tour hundred and eighty dollars; inspector, nine hundred dollars; inspector, seven hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; inspector of property, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; property-yard keeper, one thousand dollars; inspector of materials, one thousand two hundred dollars; temporary labor, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Building inspection division.Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, three thou-sand dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant inspectors of buildings—eleven at one thousand two hundred dollars each; fire-escape inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, three thousand dollars: two civil engineers or computers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerks—one at one thousand and fifty dollars, one at one thousand dollars, one who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars, one at nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; assistant inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Motorcycles for elevator inspectors.To reimburse two elevator inspectors for the provision and maintenance by themselves of two motor cycles for use in their official inspection of elevators in the District of Columbia, fifteen dollars per month each, three hundred and sixty dollars; Motor vehicle.For the purchase and maintenance of one motor vehicle for the official use only of the employees of the building division in inspection work, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Plumbing inspection division.Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, two thou-sand dollars; principal assistant inspector of plumbing, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; assistant inspectors of plumbing—one at one thousand two hundred dollars, four at one thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, one thousand seven 141hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; sewer tapper, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; three members of the plumbing board, at one hundred and fifty dollars each; maintenance of motor cycle, one hundred and twenty dollars;
In all, one hundred and fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars. Care of District building: Clerk and stenographer, two thousandCare of District Building. dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two dynamo tenders, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three coal passers, at six hundred dollars each; electrician’s helper, eight hundred and forty dollars; eight elevator conductors, at six hundred dollars each; laborers—two at six hundred and sixty dollars each, two at five hundred dollars each; two chief cleaners, who shall also have charge of the lavatories, at five hundred dollars each; thirty cleaners, at two hundred and forty dollars each; chief watchman, one thousand dollars; assistant chief watchman, six hundred and sixty dollars; eight watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; pneumatic-tube operator, six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand five hundred and thirty dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Appointments.
That the employees herein authorized for the care of the District building shall be appointed by the assistants to the engineer commissioner, with the approval of the commissioners. Maintenance expenses.For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics and labor not to exceed three thousand five bundled dollars, and miscellaneous sup-plies, twenty thousand dollars. Assessor’s office: Assessor, three thousand five hundred dollars,Assessor’s office. and five hundred dollars additional as chairman of the excise and personal tax boards; two assistant assessors, at two thousand dollars each; clerks—four, including one in arrears division, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, four, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, seven, including one in charge of records, at one thousand dollars each, two at nine hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thou-sand two hundred dollars; assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant inspector of licenses, one thousand dollars; messengers—one at six hundred dollars; one at four hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant assessors, at three thousand dollars each; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars; record clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.
Excise board: Chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerks—one at one thousand two hundred dollars, one atExcise board. one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Personal tax board: Two assistant assessors of personal taxes,Personal-tax board. at three thousand dollars each; appraiser of personal property, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Collector’s office: Collector, four thousand dollars; deputy collector,Collector’s office. two thousand dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand four hundred dollars; book-keeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerks—three at one thou 142sand four hundred dollars each, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, one at one thousand dollars, three at nine hundred dollars each; clerk and bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars.
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 typewriters and clerks, eight hundred dollars. Auditor’s office.Auditor’s office: Auditor, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerics—three at one thousand six hundred dollars each, three at one thousand four hundred dollars each, one at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, three at one thousand two hundred dollars each, six at one thousand dollars each, one at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars, two at nine hundred dollars each, two at seven hundred and twenty dollars each:messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, three thousand dollars; deputy disbursing officer, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerks—one at one thousand two hundred dollars, two at one thousand dollars each, one at nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, forty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars.
Corporation counsel’s office.Office of corporation counsel: Corporation counsel, four thou-sand five hundred dollars; first assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; second assistant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; third assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourth assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; fifth assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, eight hundred and forty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
Sinking-fund office.Sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: One clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars. Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office: Coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; hostler and janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Market masters, etc.Market masters:
Two market masters, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant market masters, who shall also perform the necessary labor in cleaning the markets, and one laborer for duty at Eastern Market, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Produce market.Farmers’ Produce Market: Market master, nine hundred dollars; assistant market master, who shall also act as night watch-man, five hundred and forty dollars; watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; laborer for sweeping B Street sidewalk used for market purposes and the wholesale market square, three hundred and sixty dollars; sweeping B Street used for market purposes, four hundred and eighty dollars; hauling refuse (street sweepings), six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Eastern market.Eastern Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. Western market.Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars. Western market.Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets: Superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one 143thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
For the purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, and provisions,Purchases for investigations. and so forth, in connection with the investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, fifty dollars. Engineer Commissioner’s office: Engineer of highways, threeEngineer commissioner’s office.Engineers, superintendents, etc. thousand dollars; engineer of bridges, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of suburban roads, two thousand dollars; superintendent of sewers, three thousand three hundred dollars; inspector of asphalts and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars (*Provided*,*Proviso*.Asphalt inspector, restrictions.
That the inspector of asphalts and cements shall not receive or accept compensation of any kind from, or perform any work or render any services of a character required of him officially by the District of Columbia to, any person, firm, corporation, or municipality other than the District of Columbia); assistant inspector of asphalts and cements, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of trees and parkings, two thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of trees and parkings, one thousand two hundred dollars;Assistant engineers, etc. assistant engineers—one at two thousand two hundred dollars, one at two thousand one hundred dollars, four at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, two at one thousand six hundred dollars each, four at one thousand five hundred dollars each, one at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, one at one thousand two hundred dollars; transitmen—two at one thousand two hundred dollars each, one at one thousand and fifty dollars; rodmen—four at nine hundred dollars each, eight at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; twelve chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; drafts-men—one at one thousand five hundred dollars, one at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, two at one thousand two hundred dollars each, one at one thousand and fifty dollars; general inspectorInspectors, etc. of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; bridge inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspectors—two at one thousand five hundred dollars each, six, including three inspectors of streets, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, one at one thousand dollars, one at nine hundred dollars; foremen—twelve at one thousand two hundred dollars each, one at one thousand and fifty dollars, ten at nine hundred dollars each; foreman, Rock Creek Park, one thousand two hundred dollars; three subforemen, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; bridgekeepers—one at six hundred and fifty dollars, three at sixClerks, etc. hundred dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; permit clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant permit clerk, one thousand dollars; index clerk and type-writer, nine hundred dollars; clerks—one at one thousand eight hundred dollars, three at one thousand five hundred dollars each, two at one thousand four hundred dollars each, five at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two at one thousand dollars each, one at nine hundred dollars, one at eight hundred and forty dollars, two at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, one at six hundred dollars; messengers—one at six hundred dollars, six at five hundred and forty dollars each; skilled laborers—one at six hundred and twenty-five dollars, two at six hundred dollars each; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; principal steam engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three assistant steam engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; six oilers, at six hundred dollars each; six firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; 144superintendent of stables, one thousand five hundred dollars; black-smith, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; two watchmen, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; two drivers, at six hundred Inspector of gas, etc.and thirty dollars each; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; assistant inspectors of gas and meters—one at one thousand dollars, two at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
Municipal architect’s office.Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect, whose duty hereafter it shall be to prepare or supervise the preparation of plans for, and superintend the construction of, all municipal buildings, and the repair and improvement of all buildings belonging to the District of Columbia, and serve under the direction of the engineer commissioner of the District of Columbia, three thousand six hundred Superintendents, draftsmen, etc.dollars; superintendent of construction, two thousand dollars; chief draftsman, one thousand seven hundred dollars; draftsmen—one at one thousand four hundred dollars, one at one thousand three hundred dollars; heating, ventilating, and. sanitary engineer, two thousand dollars; superintendent of repairs, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss carpenter, boss tinner, boss painter, boss plumber, boss steam fitter, five in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; boss grader, one thousand dollars; clerks—one at one thousand and fifty dollars, one at six hundred and twenty dollars; copyist, eight hundred and forty dollars; driver, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Repair shop, etc.For alterations and repair of the repair shop and storage yard by day labor or otherwise, three thousand five hundred dollars. Motor truck.For maintenance of the motor truck of the superintendent of repairs, four hundred and eighty dollars. Special assessment office.Special assessment office: Special assessment clerk, two thou-sand dollars; clerks—seven at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two at nine hundred dollars each, one at seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Street-cleaning division.Street-cleaning division: Superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; chief inspector, one thousand three hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand three hundred dollars; four inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four foremen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one inspector, one clerk, and eight fore-men, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three assistant foremen, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, and two assistant foremen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; foreman, one thousand dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; fore-man of repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer and clerk; one thousand dollars; in all, forty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Board of examiners, steam engineers.Board of examiners, steam engineers: Three members of board of examiners of steam engineers, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Automobile board.Automobile board: Secretary or acting secretary of the automobile board, three hundred dollars. Insurance department.Department of insurance: Superintendent of insurance, three thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, one thousand seven hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand seven hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and 145twenty dollars; temporary clerk hire, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of metal or other suitable files for the records ofRecord files. the Department of Insurance, five hundred dollars. Surveyor’s office: Surveyor, three thousand dollars; assistantSurveyor’s office. surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerks—one at one thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars, one at nine hundred and seventy-five dollars, one at six hundred and seventy-five dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; computer, one thousand two hundred dollars; record clerk, one thou-sand and fifty dollars; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars; drafts-man, nine hundred dollars; assistant computer, nine hundred dollars; three rodmen, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; chain-men—three at seven hundred dollars each, two at six hundred and fifty dollars each; computer and transitman, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additionalTemporary services. field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, exchange and maintenance of a motor vehicle, six thousand dollars, all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. In all, for surveyor’s office, thirty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch:
Librarian,Free public library, including Takoma Park branch. three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand five hundred dollars; chief circulating department, one thousand two hundred dollars; children’s librarian, one thousand dollars; librarian’s secretary, nine hundred dollars; reference librarian, one thousand dollars; assistants—one at one thousand dollars, six, including one in charge of Takoma Park branch, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, four at six hundred dollars each, three at five hundred and forty dollars each, three, including one in charge of Takoma Park branch, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; copyist, four hundred and eighty dollars; classifier, nine hundred dollars; cataloguers—one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, one at six hundred dollars, two at five hundred and forty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; attend-ants—six at five hundred and forty dollars each, five at four hundred and eighty dollars each; collator, four hundred and eighty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; ten pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two janitors, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one of whom shall act as night watch-man; janitor of Takoma Park branch, three hundred and sixty dollars; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; workman, six hundred dollars; library guard, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two cloakroom attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; six charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand three hundred dollars.
For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at the discretionSubstitutes, etc. of the librarian, one thousand dollars. For keeping the library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’clockSunday opening. postmeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, five holidays from nine o’clock antemeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, and for extra services three hours on Saturday afternoons during July, August, and September, one thousand seven hundred dollars. 146 Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous, Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch:
For purchase of books, seven thousand five hundred dollarsFor binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, three thousand five hundred dollars; For fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, including lunch-room equipment, purchase or exchange, and maintenance of motor cycle., and other contingent expenses, eight thousand dollars; In all, nineteen thousand dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, namely:
For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed eight hundred dollars; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, Board of Charities, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, superintendent of weights, measures, and markets office, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, thirty-six thousand dollars; and the commissioners shall so *Proviso*.Restriction on use of horses, etc.apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall not be used by the commissioners for any other purpose than to visit such points within the District of Columbia as it may be necessary to visit in order to enable them to inspect or inform themselves concerning any public work or property belonging to the said District or to do any other act necessary to the administration of its affairs.
Limit on expenditure for horses, etc.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, dr 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. Postage.For postage for strictly official mail matter, eleven thousand dollars. Collecting personal taxes.For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, four thousand dollars. 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, four thousand dollars.
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 147unidentified bodies, four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter*Provisos*.Inquests limited. the coroner shall not summon or hold any jury of inquest over the body of any deceased person where it is known that the deceased cameSuicides. to his death by suicide, accident, mischance, or natural causes: *Provided*, That in cases where it is not known that the deceased came to his death by suicide the coroner may, in his discretion, summon such jury.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forAdvertising.General. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, four thousand seven hundred dollars. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundredTaxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24. and twelve, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised.
For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District ofGame and fish laws enforcement. Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, two hundred dollars. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first,Removing dangerous, etc., buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” to pay the members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed ten dollars for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, two thousand dollars.
For the erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in theHistorical tablets. District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five hundred dollars, and the unexpended balances of the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts ofBalances available.Vol. 34, pp. 489, 1126; Vol. 35, pp. 281, 695; Vol. 36, pp. 382, 974. 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 thirteen.
For the office of the register of wills: For furnishing to the office ofCopies of wills, etc. to assessor. the assessor copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, nine hundred dollars. For the purchase of enamel metal or leather identification numberVehicle tags. tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, one thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
The appropriation of ten thousand dollars appropriated for theRepairing fire injuries.Vol. 36, p. 975. fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten for repair of buildings owned and used by the District of Columbia when injured by fire is hereby reappropriated and continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen. For making surveys to obtain accurate data with reference to oldSurveying old sub-divisions. subdivisions in the District of Columbia, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For maintenance and repairs to the District of Columbia markets,Market repairs. three thousand five hundred dollars. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedExchange of office equipment, etc., allowed. and empowered hereafter, when in their discretion it shall be deemed to the advantage of the public service, to exchange type-writers, adding machines, pianos, machinery, and other equipment, in part or full payment for new articles of similar or improved character, credit for the value of said personal property so exchanged to be allowed on vouchers in payment for such new articles as may be purchased, the balance remaining due after said credit to be paid out of the appropriation to which said purchase is properly chargeable. 148 Improvements and repairs.improvements and repairs.
Assessment and permit work.Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Work on streetsand avenues.Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix M, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and thirteen, seventy thousand one hundred dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the commissioners upon streets and avenues specifier! in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Schedules.Georgetown schedule: Three thousand dollars. Northwest section schedule (including Florida Avenue from Sixteenth Street to V Street): Twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Southwest section schedule: Five thousand six hundred dollars. Southeast section schedule (including Pennsylvania Avenue, north side, from Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, and E Street from Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street): Twenty thousand dollars. Northeast section schedule (including K Street from Fourth Street to Fifth Street):
Thirteen thousand dollars. *Proviso*.Streets paved with Belgian block, etc.*Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Limit for asphalt pavements.Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior *Proviso*.Increase allowed.to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base, nor more than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for laying standard asphalt block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in tiie judgment of the commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.
Paving G street SE.For paving G Street southeast, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Fourteenth Street, thirty-five foot roadway, six thousand dollars. Paving alley, square 1043.For paving alley connecting E and G Streets, in square numbered one thousand and forty-three, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Roadway, B street and Virginia avenue NW.For paving the north roadway of B Street northwest, between Seventeenth Street and Virginia Avenue, and Virginia Avenue north-west, between B Street and Eighteenth Street, seven thousand two hundred dollars.
Union Station Plaza.Authority is given for the expenditure of not more than six thou-sand dollars of the existing appropriation for elimination of grade crossings, purchase of land, grading, and so forth, for the paving of the central island in the Union Station Plaza in connection with the cur-rent appropriation for elimination of grade crossings, improvement of the Plaza. 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, fifteen thousand dollars. 149 Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys:
For purchase orCondemnation. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. Construction of suburban roads: For construction of suburbanSuburban roads and streets.Construction. roads and suburban streets, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Construction of suburban roads and suburban streets,” and for that purpose it shall constitute one fund, as follows: Northwest. Belmont Street, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Streets, pave, six thousand three hundred dollars;
Northwest. Irving Street, Eleventh to Thirteenth Streets, pave, five thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest. Fairmont Street, Eleventh to Thirteenth Streets, pave, five thousand nine hundred dollars; Northwest. Ninth Street, Barry Place to Euclid Street, grade, one thousand two hundred dollars; Northeast. Fourteenth Street, Newton to Jackson Streets, grade, two thousand one hundred dollars; Northwest. Thirty-fourth Street, Macomb to Newark Streets, grade, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
Northwest. Columbia Road, Georgia Avenue to Park Place, grade and improve, seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; Northwest. Ninth Street, Kansas Avenue to Allison Street, grade and improve, four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; Northwest. Allison Street, Georgia Avenue to Ninth Street, grade and improve, one thousand seven hundred dollars: Northwest. Jefferson Street, Georgia Avenue to Ninth Street, grade and improve, three thousand dollars; Northwest. Thirty-fourth Place, from Newark to Ordway Streets, grade and improve, two thousand nine hundred dollars;
Southeast. Raleigh Place, Waclark Place to Nichols Avenue, grade and gravel, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Southeast. Brothers Place, Highview to Esther Place, grade and gravel, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; Northeast. Twentieth Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Jackson Street, grade and improve, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; Northwest. Thirty-sixth Street, Macomb to Newark Streets, grade and improve, two thousand six hundred dollars; Southeast.
Bruce Place, gravel, eight hundred dollars; Northwest. Seventh Street, from Taylor to Upshur Streets, grade and improve, two thousand and fifty dollars; Northeast. Jackson Street, from Seventeenth to Eighteenth Streets, grade and improve, one thousand four hundred and twenty-five doles; Northwest. Ninth Street, from Rittenhouse to Sheridan Streets, and Sheridan Street, from Ninth Street to Georgia Avenue, grade and improve, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; Southeast.
Twenty-second Street, Minnesota Avenue to Railroad Avenue, grade and improve, three thousand eight hundred dollars; Northwest. Upshur Street, Georgia Avenue to Eighth Street, grade and improve, two thousand dollars; Northeast. Kearney Street, from Tenth to Twelfth Streets, grade and improve, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; Southeast. Minnesota Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue to Twenty-eighth Street, grade and gravel, three thousand four hundred dollars; Northeast. Jackson Street, from Tenth to Twelfth Streets, and Tenth Street, from Jackson to Kearney Streets, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred dollars;
Southeast. Streets in Anacostia, grade and improve, three thousand dollars; Northwest. Fessenden Street, Wisconsin Avenue to River Road, grade and improve, six thousand two hundred dollars; 150 Northwest. Tilden Street, from end of asphalt to Rock Creek Park, grade and improve, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; Northeast. Monroe Street, Fifteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, grade and improve, three thousand five hundred dollars; Southeast. Twenty-third Street, Naylor Road to R Street, and R Street, Naylor Road to Twenty-second Street, grade, three thousand five hundred dollars;
Northeast. Hunt Place, Dean Avenue, and Grant Street, Minnesota Avenue to Division Avenue, five thousand dollars; Northeast. Hamlin Street, from Rhode Island Avenue to Twentieth Street, grade and improve, two thousand six hundred dollars; Northeast. Eighteenth Street, from Newton to Irving Streets, grade and improve, seven thousand three hundred dollars; Northeast. Seventeenth Street, from Hamlin Street to Rhode Island Avenue, grade and improve, seven thousand six hundred dollars;
Northeast. Jackson Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-second Streets, grade and improve, one thousand six hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. Use of bituminous macadam.Hereafter the use of bituminous macadam is authorized on streets, avenues, and roads to be improved or paved. Repairs of streets, etc.Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of 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, three hundred and sixty thousand *Provisos*.Street railways.dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of the street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad company Vol. 20, p. 105.as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are Municipal asphalt plant.Investigating cost, etc., of.collected: *Provided further*, That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make a thorough investigation of the desirability and cost of establishing a municipal asphalt plant, including personal services and necessary expenses, Report.report to be made to Congress at the beginning of the next session: *Provided further*, That the facts upon which the conclusions are based Portable asphalt plant.shall be fully stated in said report: *Provided further*, That the Com-missioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to purchase from this appropriation a portable asphalt plant at a cost not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars and to operate said plant under their immediate direction in doing such work of repairs to asphalt pavements as in their judgment may be economically performed by the use of said plant, and so much of this appropriation as is necessary for this purpose is hereby made available for such work.
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 hereby made applicable to such 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. 151 For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around publicSidewalks and curbs. reservations and municipal buildings, seven thousand dollars.
Repairs suburban roads: For current work of repairs of suburbanSuburban roads, repairs. roads and suburban streets, including the maintenance of one motor vehicle, four motor cycles, and one truck, and purchase or hire of four motor cycles for the official use of foremen or inspectors, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Bridges: For construction and repairs of bridges, including notBridges.Calvert street. exceeding six thousand dollars for repair of the Calvert Street Bridge, twenty-three thousand dollars.
Highway Bridge across Potomac River: Two draw operators, at oneHighway Bridge. thousand and twenty dollars each; draw operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; labor, one thousand five hundred dollars; lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, nine thousand three hundred and forty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.
Operation of the Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneousAnacostia Bridge. supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to the operation and maintenance of the bridge, five thousand six hundred dollars. For continuing the construction of the bridge across Rock CreekQ Street Bridge. on the line of Q Street, including the approaches thereto, eighty thousand dollars. SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, sixty-five thousandCleaning, etc. dollars.
And the commissioners are authorized to purchase from the appropriationMotor trucks. for cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, two motor trucks, at a cost not to exceed one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars each. For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service,Pumping station. including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and the employment of mechanics, laborers, and watchman, the purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of motor trucks, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, sixty-five thousandMain and pipe. dollars. For suburban sewers, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.Suburban. For assessment and permit work, sewers, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,Rights of way. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Anacostia main intercepter: For continuing the construction of theAnacostia intercepter.
Anacostia main intercepter along the Anacostia River between the outfall sewer, sewage-disposal system, at Poplar Point, and Benning, District of Columbia, forty thousand dollars. Rock Creek main intercepter: For continuing the construction ofRock Creek intercepter. the Rock Creek main intercepter from P Street to Military Road, forty thousand dollars. STREETS.Streets. Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust prevention,Cleaning, etc. sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, side-walks,Snow and ice. crosswalks, and gutters, in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and the purchase and maintenance of equipment, 152rent 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 official 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, two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, and the commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Removal of snow and ice by street railways.Hereafter every street railway company in the District of Columbia shall keep its tracks and the spaces between and for a distance of two feet outside thereof at the crossings of the several streets which intersect their railroads, at all times free from snow and ice, and shall not spoil or deposit the same in such location and quantity as to impede or hinder traffic. And in the event of any street railway company fading and refusing to comply with this Act, the necessary work may be done by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in their discretion, after notice to said company, the cost to be paid from the appropriation available for cleaning snow and ice from streets, Vol. 20, p. 106.sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters and collected from such street railway company in the manner provided for in section five of an Act providing a permanentform of government for the District of Columbia, approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which it is collected.
Disposal of city refuse.Disposal of city refuse: For the collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; for collection and disposal of night soil in the District of Columbia; and for the payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars. Parking commission.Parking commission:
For contingent expenses, including laborers, 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, purchase and maintenance of automobile truck, and miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars of which shall be immediately available for labor and for the purchase of machinery and materials to exterminate insects injurious to trees, forty-five thousand dollars.
Bathing beach.Bathing beach: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for repairs to buildings, pools, and the upkeep of the grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars. Public scales.Public scales: For replacement and repair of public scales, two hundred dollars. Playgrounds.Maintenance.Playgrounds:
For maintenance, repairs, including labor, equipment, supplies, and necessary incidental and contingent expenses, four thousand dollars; Repairs, etc.For repairs and replacement of apparatus and other equipment on the playgrounds, including painting, grading, fencing, cutting grass, and resurfacing, to be immediately available so that the grounds may be fully equipped and ready for operation on July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, three thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia; 153 For equipment for new playground for the Bloomingdale section,Bloomingdale section. including grading, fencing, and so forth, to be immediately available, one thousand dollars;
For salaries: Clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; supervisor,Salaries. ten months, at one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month; directors, assistant directors, and watchmen, to be employed not exceeding seven months, as follows: Eleven directors, at seventy-five dollars per month each; two assistant directors, at sixty dollars per month each; one assistant director, at fifty dollars per month: one watchman, at twenty-five dollars per month. To be employed not exceeding three months, as follows:
Seven assistant directors, at sixty dollars per month each; three assistant directors, at fifty dollars per month each; five assistants, at forty-five dollars per month each; nine assistants, at forty dollars per month each; two watch-men, at forty-five dollars per month each; and eight watchmen, at forty-five dollars per month each for twelve months; in all, seventeenWholly from District revenues. thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars, the appropriations for which purpose shall hereafter be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
In all, for playgrounds, twenty-three thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public conveniencePublic convenience stations. stations, including compensation of necessary employees, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings: For allInsanitary buildings, etc.Vol. 34, p. 167. expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal services, when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, two thousand five hundred dollars.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department. Electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistantSalaries. electrical engineer, two thousand dollars; three electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; expert repair man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; four repairmen, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone operators— three at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, four at five hundred and forty dollars each, one at four hundred and fifty dollars; electrical inspector, two thousand dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; cable splicer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant cable splicer, six hundred and twenty dollars; clerks—one at one thousand four hundred dollars, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, two at one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars each, one at one thousand and fifty dollars, one at seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant repair men—one at six hundred and twenty dollars, two at five hundred and forty dollars each; laborers—one at six hundred and thirty dollars, two at five hundred and forty dollars each, one at four hundred and sixty dollars, two at four hundred dollars each; storekeeper, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; in all, forty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies,Supplies, etc. telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph 154and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, and other necessary items, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Placing wires underground.For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, and telephone service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Police patrol system.For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, three thousand dollars.
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 *Post*, p. 181.of stables and storerooms, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of section seven of this Act and other laws applicable thereto, livery and extra labor, three hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars.
Fire-alarm boxes.For the purchase and installation of ten fire-alarm boxes, and for the purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, two thousand dollars. Additional underground cables.For beginning the purchasing and installing additional lead-covered cables to increase the capacity of the underground cable system in the congested downtown section, four thousand dollars.
Motor vehicle.For the purchase and maintenance of one motor vehicle for the use of the electrical department, with extra tires and equipment, one thousand five hundred dollars. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.Washington Aqueduct. Maintenance.For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of the Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit Road, the McMillan Park Reservoir, the Washington Aqueduct tunnel, and also including the maintenance of one motor truck, horses, vehicles, and harness, and the. care and maintenance of the stable, thirty-three thousand dollars.
Conduit Road, improvement.For beginning surfacing and improvement of the Conduit Road, from Foxhall Road to Great Falls, fifteen thousand dollars. Filtration plant, etc.For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, 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, ninety-one thousand dollars.
Emergency fund.For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break requiring immediate repair in one of the important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery; all expenditures from this appropriation to be reported in detail to Congress, five thousand dollars. McMillan Park Reservoir.For continuation of parking grounds around McMillan Park Reservoir, formerly known as Washington City Reservoir, two thousand dollars. 155 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, ten thousand dollars.
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 Marine Barracks, Soldiers’ Home, Howard University, Freedman’s Hospital, Walter Reed Hospital, and Zoological Park, 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, four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For remodeling the Georgetown Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct,Georgetown Reservoir.Remodeling, etc. to complete the works for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, fifty-eight thousand dollars. The Chief of Engineers, United States Army, is authorized andTransfer of lots to District Commissioners. directed to transfer to the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as a public highway the strip of land fifty feet in width, designated as lots fifteen and eighteen, square twenty-five hundred and twenty-seven, and extending from Wyoming Avenue to Kalorama Road, said lots having been purchased in connection with the construction of the Washington Aqueduct tunnel: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Air shaft.
That when said highway is improved the air shaft now located thereon shall be turned at a sufficient depth below the street level and brought up into a vault, to be constructed under the sidewalk. GREAT FALLS WATER POWER.Great Falls of the Potomac. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed, through theInvestigation and report on water supply. Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, to investigate and report to Congress at the beginning of its next session on the questions of the present water supply in the District of Columbia and the sufficiency of its source at the Great Falls of the Potomac River to supply the present and future needs of the United States and of the District of Columbia for water; also the availability of the waterAs power for electric light, etc. power at said Great Falls or vicinity on the Potomac River, or etween Great Falls and the District of Columbia, for the purpose of supplying light and power for uses of the United States and of the government of the District of Columbia, and to prepare complete plans, maps, specifications, and estimates for the production, distribution, and utilization of the maximum electrical power that can be economically created and employed for such uses, including street lighting in the District of Columbia; said plans, maps, and specificationsDetails. shall be sufficient in detail to form the basis of a contract or contracts for the execution of the work, and the map, supplemented if necessary by a report, shall indicate all of the lands that are required to be taken or flowed and the water and water rights that are required to be taken for the purpose of the execution of the project.
ForAppropriation for expenses. expenses of this investigation and report, including all necessary expert and other personal services, there is appropriated the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. ROCK CREEK PARK.Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, and of the PineyCare, etc. 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, twenty-five thousand dollars. 156 PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools.
Salaries.Officers.Officers: Superintendent of public schools, five thousand dollars; two assistant superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, and supervisor of manual training, fifteen in all, at a minimum salary of two thousand two hundred dollars each; secretary, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk to cany out the provisions of the child-labor law, nine hundred dollars; two stenographers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand seven hundred dollars.
Attendance officers.Attendance officers: Two attendance officers, at six hundred dollars each; attendance officer, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. TeachersTeachers: For one thousand seven hundred and fifty teachers, to be assigned as follows: Principals of normal, high, and manual training schools, nine in all, at a minimum salary of two thousand dollars each; Director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each; Assistant director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand four hundred dollars; Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each; Heads of departments in high and manual training schools in group B of class six, twelve in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars each;
Teachers of the normal, high, and manual training schools promoted for superior work, group B of class six, seven in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars each; *Provisos*.Grading of manual training, etc., teachers.Teachers in group A of class six, including two principals of grade manual training schools, two hundred and eighty-four in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand dollars each: *Provided*, That all teachers of manual training, drawing, domestic science, domestic art, music, and physical culture in the normal, high, and manual training high schools now in the service of the public schools and hereafter to be appointed, shall be placed in class six, group A:No reductions. *Provided further*, That no such teacher shall receive a salary less than that received at the time of the passage of this Act:Requirements for future appointments. *Provided further*, That hereafter no teacher of any of these subjects shall be appointed without like qualifications to those required of teachers of academic and scientific subjects in the high schools, and that teachers of these subjects now in the service of the public schools and those hereafter to be appointed shall receive their longevity increase according to their previous number of years of experience in teaching in accredited normal, high, and manual training high schools;
Teachers in class five, one hundred and eighteen in all, at a minimum salary of nine hundred and fifty dollars each; Teachers in class four, four hundred and fourteen in all, at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars each; Teachers in class three, four hundred and eighty-eight in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each; Teachers in class two, three hundred and thirty-seven in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each; 157 Teachers in class one, sixty-six in all, at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each;
Special beginning teacher in the normal school, eight hundred dollars; In all for teachers, one million three hundred and fifty-four thou-sand six hundred dollars. No class in any year of any of the high schools shall consist of lessMinimum class. than ten pupils for a period not longer than fifteen days. Librarians and clerks: Twenty-three librarians and clerks, toLibrarians and clerks. be assigned as follows: Librarian in class four, one at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars;
Librarians and clerks in class three, twelve in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each; Librarians and clerks in class two, five in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each; Librarians and clerks in class one, five in all, at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each; In all for librarians and clerks, fourteen thousand one hundred dollars. Longevity pay: Longevity pay for director of intermediate instruction,Longevity pay. supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, principals of the normal, high, and manual training 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 pro-visions 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, nine-teen hundred and six, as amended by the Acts approved May twenty-sixth,Vol. 35. p. 289.Vol. 36, p. 393. nineteen hundred and eight, and May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, three hundred and nineteen thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars, together with the unexpended balance of seventy-five thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars andUse of balance.Vol. 36, p. 984. six cents of the appropriation made for “longevity pay” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven.
Allowance to principals: Allowance to principals of grade schoolPrincipals.Additional pay. buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, schoolVol. 34, p. 320. officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, thirty-three thousand dollars. *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 shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades. *Provided further*, That no teacher, of the whole number 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, includingNight schools.Salaries. teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools,Equipment. including equipment and the purchase of all necessary articles and 158supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Kindergarten supplies.Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, three thou-sand dollars. Janitors and care of buildings.Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: Superintendent of janitors, one thousand two hundred dollars; Central High School and annex, janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars; Business High School, janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars;
Normal School Numbered One, janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, two thousand and forty dollars; Jefferson School, janitor, eight hundred dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; Western High School, janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars;
Franklin School, janitor, eight hundred and forty dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars; Normal School Numbered Two, janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, two thousand and forty dollars; Eastern High School and Stevens School, two janitors, at nine hundred dollars each; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars;
McKinley Manual Training School, janitor, nine, hundred dollars; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; Armstrong Manual Training School, janitor, nine hundred dollars; assistant janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, one thousand dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, four thousand and sixty dollars;
M Street High School and Douglass and Simmons Schools, engineer, one thousand dollars; janitor, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars; Emery, the new Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Van Buren, and Wallach Schools, five janitors, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; five laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, six thousand dollars; 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 in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-four laborers, at three hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. 159 Abbott, Berrett, Sayles J.
Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, old Mott, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley Schools, in all, ten janitors, at seven hundred dollars each; Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur. Banneker, Bell, Benning (white), Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Cardozo, Chevy Chase, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Dent, Eaton, Edmunds, Eckington, Fillmore, French, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hub-bard, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Petworth, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Potomac, Powell, Ross, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatly, Wilson, Woodbum, Wormly, and West Schools, and one eight-room building located at Randle Highlands, in all, seventy-six janitors, at six hundred dollars each;
Ivy City School, and one six-room building to be located on site of old High Street School, and one six-room building to be located on grounds of Cardozo School, and one six-room building in the twelfth division; in all, four janitors, at five hundred and forty dollars each. Brightwood Park and Kenilworth Schools, two janitors, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; Bunker Hill, Deanwood, Hamilton, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Smothers, Stanton, Threlkeld, Military Road, and Burrville Schools; in all, twelve janitors, at three hundred dollars each;
Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Fort Road, and Fort Slocum Schools; in all, four janitors, at one hundred and fifty dollars each; In the event of the absence of any engineer, assistant engineer,Employing substitutes. 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, one hundred and twenty thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cookingCare of smaller buildings, etc. and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed seventy-two dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, eight thousand dollars. Medical inspectors: Twelve medical inspectors of public schools,Medical inspectors.Woman added. one of whom shall be a woman, two of whom shall be dentists, and four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said inspectors shall be*Proviso*.Competitive examination, etc. appointed by the commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of medicine or dentistry in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him, winch 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, twenty-two thousand dollars. 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, five thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds andRepairs, etc. for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating appa 160ratus, and the installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with the same, eighty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Manual-training expenses.For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Fuel, lights, etc.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, eighty-five thousand dollars. Furniture, etc.For furniture, including also clocks, pianos, and window shades for new school buildings, additions to buildings, kindergartens, and also tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: One four-room building at Burrville, one thousand dollars; one four-room building at Military Road, one thousand dollars; one six-room manual-training building in the twelfth division, one thousand five hundred dollars; three kindergartens, one thousand dollars; one manual-training shop, three hundred dollars; one sewing school, one hundred and fifty dollars; one cooking school, three hundred dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for high-school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of three hundred dollars each for livery of horse or garage of an automobile for the superintendent of schools, and for the superintendent of janitors, and including not exceeding one thousand dollars for books, books of reference, and periodicals, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Pianos.For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Supplies to pupils.For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of text-books and supplies, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred dollars, sixty-five thousand *Proviso*.Exchanges.dollars: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use.
Flags.For purchase of United States flags, eight hundred dollars. Playgrounds.For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school play-grounds, nine hundred dollars. For maintenance and repairing thirty-six playgrounds now established, one thousand five hundred dollars. School gardens.For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, one thousand dollars. Telephones to new school buildings.For extending the telephone system to new school buildings, including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, poles, cross arms, braces, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, to be expended under the electrical department, one thousand four hundred dollars.
Physics department apparatus.For purchase of apparatus and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of the physics department in the Central, Eastern, Western, and M Street High Schools, three thousand dollars. Chemistry and biological laboratories.For the purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials for the laboratories of the departments of chemistry and biology in the Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and M Street High Schools, Normal School Number One, and Normal School Number Two, and the installation of the same, two thousand one hundred dollars. 161 Buildings and grounds:
For the purchase of land adjacent to theBuildings and grounds. Brookland School, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may-be necessary. For completion of a normal-school building for colored pupils, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of additional ground adjacent to the Corcoran School, for the extension of said school, eleven thousand dollars. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedArchitectural services.Payment from amount for new high schools.Vol. 36, pp. 988. 989. to use so much as may be necessary of any unexpended balances remaining in the appropriations for the purchase of a site for a new Central High School, and for the purchase of a site for a new M Street High School, contained in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, for the employment of architectural services in the preparation of plans and specifications for said high schools, and for such other personal services and expenses in connection therewith as may be necessary: *Provided*, That the plans for the new Central*Proviso*.Accommodations required.
High School shall provide accommodations for not less than two thousand five hundred pupils. For additional amount for “Repairs and improvements to schoolFire protection to buildings. buildings and grounds” for the purpose of completing fire protection, such as fireproofing heating apparatus, fireproofing corridors, alterations to heating and vent flues, and the construction of fireproof structures for fuel and ashes, and the purchase and erection of fire extinguishers and fire gongs, to be immediately available, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Pupils shall not be admitted to or taught free of charge in theNonresident pupils.Children denied free admission. public schools of the District of Columbia who do not reside in said District, or who during such tutelage do not own property in and pay taxes levied by the government of the District of Columbia in excess of the tuition charged hereunder to other nonresident pupils, or whose parents do not reside or are not engaged in public duties therein, or during such tutelage pay taxes levied by the government of the District of Columbia in excess of the tuition charged hereunder to other nonresident pupils: *Provided*, That any other nonresident*Proviso*.Charges for tuition. pupil may be admitted to and taught in said public schools on the payment of such amount, to be fixed by the board of education with the approval of the Commissioners of said District, as will cover the expense of tuition and cost of text-books and school supplies used by such pupil; and all payments hereunder shall be paid 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.
That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respectiveLimit of cost of sites, etc. buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. That the plans and specifications for all buildings provided for inPlans.Preparation and approval. 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.
School buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall beDoors to open outward, etc. 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. 162 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](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as Vol. 81, 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, eleven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, 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 Vol. 33, p. 901.for Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized in an Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, four thousand five hundred dollars, 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, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. Salaries.Major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, with rank of inspector, two thousand five hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each: eleven captains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk and stenographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, who shall be assistant property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; additional compensation for twenty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, four thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; thirteen lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; forty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; five hundred and twenty privates of class three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eighty-seven privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; fifty-one privates of class one, at nine hundred dollars each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, one thou-sand seven hundred and twenty dollars and fifty cents; six telephone operators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; fourteen janitors, at six hundred dollars each; messenger, seven hundred dollars; messenger, five hundred dollars: inspector, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; fifty-five captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, on bicycles, at fifty dollars each; twenty-six drivers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Reduction in force.After June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, there shall be no appointments, except by promotion, to fill vacancies occurring in classes one, two, and three of privates in the Metropolitan police until the whole number of privates in all of said classes shall have been reduced to six hundred and forty. 163 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, two hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous: For fuel, four thousand dollars;Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds, toRepairs. be immediately available, five thousand five hundred dollars; For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchaseMiscellaneous expenses. of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photograph’s, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase of horses, horse and vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to the same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, and patrol wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, and otherDetection of crime. necessary expenses, thirty-four thousand dollars; of which amount a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for the prevention and detection of crime, under his 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,*Proviso*.Mounted equipment. furnish the District Commissioners, for the use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required;
For flags and halyards, one hundred dollars;Flags. In all, forty-three thousand six hundred dollars. 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 under seventeen years of age and, in the discretion of the com-missioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including salaries of two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four drivers, at six hundred dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; six guards, at six hundred dollars each; and three matrons, at six hundred dollars each; miscellaneous expenses, including rent, forage, fuel, gas, horseshoeing, ice, laundry, meals, horses, wagons and harness and repairs to same, and other necessary expenses, three thousand four hundred and forty dollars; thirteen thousand five hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Harbor patrol: Two engineers, at one thousand dollars each;Harbor patrol. watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; two deck hands, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, two thousand dollars; In all, five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. Chief engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars; deputy chiefSalaries. engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at two thousand dollars each; fire marshal, two thousand dollars; deputy fire marshal, one thousand four hundred dollars; two 164inspectors, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; thirty-seven captains, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; thirty-nine lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of machinery, two thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of machinery, one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-three engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty-three assistant engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two pilots, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two marine firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-nine drivers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; thirty-nine assistant drivers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two hundred and nineteen privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; forty-two privates of class one, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; hostler, srx hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five hundred and forty-eight thousand and twenty dollars.
Restriction on leaving the District.No member of the fire department shall, unless on leave of absence, go beyond the confines of the District of Columbia, or be absent from duty without permission; and leaves of absence exceeding twenty Leaves of absence.days in any one year shall be without pay, and require the consent of the commissioners, and such year shall be from January first to December thirty-first, both inclusive, and thirty days shall be the Extension for sickness or injuries.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, twelve thousand dollars; For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven apparatus, and for new apparatus and new appliances, fourteen thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, fifteen thousand dollars; For fuel, fifteen thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, fifteen thousand dollars; For forage, thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs and improvements of the fire boat, one thousand dollars;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric fighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, twenty-six thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and thirty thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Hook-and-ladder truck.Increase, fire department: For one aerial hook-and-ladder truck, ten thousand dollars. Motor-drawn apparatus.For one motor-drawn combination fire engine and hose wagon, nine thousand dollars.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health department. Salaries.Health officer, four thousand dollars; assistant health officer, who shall be a physician, and during the absence or disability of the health officer shall act as health officer and discharge the duties incident to that position, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and deputy health officer, two thousand five hundred dollars; 165clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; five clerks, two of whom may act as sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; chief sanitary inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief food inspector, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourteen sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two inspectors, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; sanitary and food inspector, who shall be a veterinary surgeon and act as inspector of five stock and dairy farms, one thousand two hundred dollars; four inspectors of dairies and dairy farms, at least two of whom shall be veterinary surgeons, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectors of dairies and dairy farms, at least one of whom shall be a veterinary surgeon, at one thousand dollars each; five sanitary and food inspectors, to assist in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws and the regulations relating thereto, at nine hundred dollars each; sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; driver, six hundred dollars; pound master, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceeding fifty dollars per month each, two thousand dollars; in all, sixty-two thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent thePreventing spread of diseases.Vol. 29, p. 635. spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for theVol. 34, p. 889. 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 casesTuberculosis registration.Vol. 35, p. 126. of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, under the direction of the health officer of said District, and for the prevention of other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services not exceeding ten*Post*, p. 917. thousand dollars when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, purchaseHorses, wagons, etc. and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, rent of stables, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, twenty-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist employed under*Proviso*.Bacteriological examination of milk, etc. this appropriation shall not be paid more than six dollars per day and may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and of other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases.
For maintenance of the disinfecting service, including salaries orDisinfecting service. compensation for personal services when ordered in writing, by the commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, six thousand dollars. 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, one thousand dollars.
For special services in connection with the detection of the adulterationFood adulterations. of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars. 166 Laboratory.For the equipment and maintenance of the bacteriological laboratory, including the purchase of reference books and scientific journals, seven hundred dollars. 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 ninety-five;
Adulteration of food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and Enforcing pure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768.ninety-eight; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred 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, one thousand dollars.
Inspecting dairy farms, etc.For necessary expenses of inspection of daily 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 two hundred and forty dollars per annum, and other necessary traveling expenses, five thou-sand five hundred dollars, 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, six thousand dollars and four thousand dollars, respectively, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, ten thousand dollars. Public crematory.For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, one thousand five hundred dollars. 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, two hundred dollars.
Congress on Hygiene and Demography.Preparation of exhibit for, etc.For the preparation and display, in connection with the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, to be held in the District of Columbia, in September, nineteen Hundred and twelve, of an exhibit on behalf of the District of Columbia, including personal services when necessary and authorized in writing by the commissioners and for the subsequent care and preservation of said exhibit, one thousand dollars.
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 twenty-nine of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two volumes, at five dollars each, namely, eleven copies each of volumes thirty-eight and thirty-nine, one hundred and ten dollars.
Probation officers.Probation system: For probation officer, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars; probation officer, police court, District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant probation officer, police court, District of Columbia, one thousand two hundred dollars; contingent expenses, five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Juvenile court.Salaries.Juvenile court: For judge, three thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, two thousand dollars; deputy clerk, who is authorized to act as clerk in the absence of that officer, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief probation officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand two hundred dollars; probation officer, 167one thousand dollars; bailiff, seven hundred dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.Miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, one thousand dollars; For rent, two hundred and forty dollars; For furniture, fixtures, and equipments, and repairs to the court-house and grounds, three hundred dollars; For fuel, ice, gas, and laundry work, stationery, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, typewriter and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars;
In all, two thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Police court: For two judges, at three thousand six hundredPolice court.Salaries. dollars each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, at one thou-sand two hundred dollars each; deputy financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; deputy marshal, one thousand dollars; janitor, six hundred dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollar; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fireman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two assist-ant janitors, at three hundred dollars each; matron, six hundred dollars; three charmen, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For printing, law books, books of reference, directories,Miscellaneous. 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, two thou-sand two hundred and fifty dollars;
For witness fees, three thousand dollars; For furniture for the police court and repairing and replacing same, two hundred dollars; For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, twenty-five dollars; For compensation of jurors, seven thousand dollars; For repairs to the police-court building, seven hundred and fifty dollars; In all, thirteen thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars. Municipal court: For five judges, at two thousand five hundredMunicipal court.Salaries. dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three assistant clerks, at one thousand dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars;
For rent of building, one thousand five hundred dollars;Rent, etc. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, seven hundred and fifty dollars; In all, for the municipal court, nineteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionLunacy writs.Vol. 33, p. 740. of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including the employment of an alienist at not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum, two thousand eight hundred dollars. 168 INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.Interest and sinking fund.
For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars. EMERGENCY FUND.Emergency fund. 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 *Provisos*.Purchases.provided for, in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected, and new bids received or the Written contracts with bond.purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That hereafter formal written contracts with bond for work or the purchase of supplies and materials for the District of Columbia shall not be required in cases where the cost of such work or supplies or materials does not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars.
FOR COURTS AND PRISONS.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, forty-eight thousand dollars. 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, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at six hundred dollars each; three messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand six hundred and eighty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Court of appeals building, 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 seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one elevator operator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at four hunched and eighty dollars each; mechanician, under the direction of the Superintendent of the *Proviso*.Custodian.Capitol Building and Grounds, one thousand two hundred dollars: *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, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
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, eight hundred dollars. 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, thirteen thousand dollars.
Jurors’ fees.Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, fifty-three thousand dollars. 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 169the expense of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same when ordered by the court, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Miscellaneous expenses:
For payment of such miscellaneousMiscellaneous. expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the supreme court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, fifteen thousand dollars. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections.
Board of Charities: Secretary, three thousand five hundred dollars;Board of Charities.Salaries, etc. clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; two inspectors, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; driver, seven hundred and eighty dollars; three drivers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand and sixty dollars. reformatories and correctional institutions.Reformatories, etc.
Washington Asylum and Jail: Superintendent, one thousandWashington Asylum and Jail.Salaries. eight hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand two hundred dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two assistant engineers at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month each; night watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred dollars; driver for dead wagon, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; one hostler and driver, and one driver for supply and laundry wagon, at two hundred and forty dollars each; hospital cook, six hundred dollars; assistant cook, three hundred dollars; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, eight hundred and forty dollars; two graduate nurses, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; two nurses for annex wards, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six orderlies, and two orderlies for annex wards, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed one hundred and twenty dollars per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum during second year of service), three thousand dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; gardener, five hundred and forty dollars; seamstress, and housekeeper, at three hundred dollars each; laundryman, six hundred dollars; assistant laundryman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; six laundresses, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two chambermaids, three waiters, and six ward maids, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; temporary labor, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, thirty-five thousand dollars; 170 For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, one thousand five hundred dollars; Additional hospital accommodation.For alterations and repairs of the buildings known as the “old almshouse building” and the “almshouse annex” to provide additional accommodation for hospital patients and nurses, two thousand dollars.
For hospital furnishings; including bedsteads, mattresses, ward and bedside tables and chairs, one thousand dollars. Report on cost, etc., of using buildings for municipal hospital.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to report to Congress at the beginning of its next session as to the cost and feasibility of adapting one or more of the vacant buildings upon the site of the Washington Asylum and Jail, reservation numbered thirteen, for use for municipal hospital purposes.
Payments to families, etc.Vol. 34, p. 87.Payments to destitute women and children: For payment to the beneficiaries named in section three of “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person or his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District;
Support of jail prisoners.Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance 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, forty-two thousand dollars; Transportation of prisoners.Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to the Washington Asylum and Jail, including salary of driver, not to exceed seven hundred and twenty dollars, and the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, two thousand dollars.
Superintendent to execute judgment in capital cases.The superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, be, and he is hereby, directed, authorized, and required to execute the judgments of the law heretofore pronounced and hereafter to be pronounced in the District of Columbia by the courts thereof in all capital cases. In all, under Washington Asylum and Jail, one hundred and thirteen thousand six hundred and thirty-five dollars.
Home for aged and infirm.Salaries.Home for the Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; one matron, and one chief cook, at six hundred dollars each; one baker, and one laundryman, at five hundred and forty dollars each; chief engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one physician and pharmacist, and one second assistant engineer, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two male attend-ants, and two nurses, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two female attendants, three firemen, and one assistant cook, at three hundred dollars each; assistant cook, one hundred and eighty dollars: one blacksmith and woodworker, and one farmer, at five hundred and forty dollars each; three farm hands, one dairyman, and one tailor, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one seamstress, one hostler and driver, at two hundred and forty dollars each; three servants, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; temporary labor, one thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars;
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, twenty-seven thousand dollars; 171 For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; For furnishing new dormitory and dining room, one thousand two hundred dollars; For additional amount for extension of colored men’s ward and ofAdditions. dining room, six thousand dollars;
For removal of two two hundred and fifty horsepower boilers and anRemoving boilers, etc., from Capitol. electric generator transferred from the United States Capitol Building to the Home for the Aged and Infirm and installation of same at Blue Plains, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; In all, for Home for Aged and Infirm, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars. National Training School for Boys : For care and maintenanceNational Training School for Boys.Care, etc., of inmates. of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Reform School for Girls: Superintendent, one thousand twoReform School for Girls.Salaries. hundred dollars; treasurer, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; three teachers, at six hundred dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; six teachers of industries, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; night watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred dollars each; in all, nine thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars;
For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles,Contingent expenses. clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding three hundred and fifty dollars 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 one hundred and fifty dollars, thirteen thousand dollars;
For an additional building and heating plant to be connected withAdditions. existing buildings, including architect’s fees, under a contract to be made by the board of trustees, sixty thousand dollars; The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directedReport on reform school for white girls, etc. to report to Congress at the beginning of its next session whether or not there is a necessity for the construction and operation within the District of Columbia of a reform school for white girls; and in this report the commissioners shall state what facilities now exist in public or private institutions for the care of wayward white girls and the cost of their maintenance in such institutions, and shall also state the estimated cost of constructing and maintaining a reform school for white girls.
In all, for Reform School for Girls, one hundred and two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. From and after the passage of this Act the Reform School for GirlsName changed to National Training School for Girls. of the District of Columbia shall be known and designated as the National Training School for Girls. medical charities.Medical charities. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contractFreedmen’s Hospital. to be made with the Freedmen’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, thirty-four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 172 Admission of pay patients.Hereafter patients may be admitted to Freedmen’s Hospital for care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges Use of receipts.therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.
All money so collected shall be paid into the Treasury to the credit of Freedmen’s Hospital, to be disbursed under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior for subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses incident to the management of the hospital. A report as to the expenditure thereof to be made annually to Congress. Columbia Hospital for Women.For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs to Columbia Hospital, two thousand dollars. For recovering awnings on main building, two hundred and fifty dollars. Plans, etc., for new building.For the preparation of plans, estimates, and specifications for a modern fireproof hospital building or buildings for the treatment of diseases peculiar to women and a lying-in asylum, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred Vol. 17, p. 860.and seventy-two (Seventeenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty), to be erected on the site belonging to the United States, to replace the present building of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, five thousand dollars.
Children’s Hospital.For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars. Homeopathic Hospital.For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand dollars. Emergency Hospital.For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, fifteen thousand dollars.
Construction of new building.Toward the construction of a new building for the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, to be erected on the site recently purchased by said hospital, fifty thousand dollars. Eastern Dispensary.For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, eleven thousand dollars. Home for Incurables.For the care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with the Washington Home for Incurables by the Board of Charities, five thousand dollars.
Georgetown University Hospital.For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with the Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, four thousand dollars. George Washington University Hospital.For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, four thousand dollars. Tuberculosis Hospital.Salaries.Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; one pharmacist and clerk, one superintendent of nurses, and one engineer, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; pathologist, three hundred dollars; one matron, one chief cook, one assistant engineer, one laundryman, and seven graduate nurses, at six hundred dollars each; assistant cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; elevator conductor, three hundred 173dollars; three laundresses, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one farmer, one laborer, one night watchman, three orderlies, and one assistant laundryman, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two ward maids, and four servants, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, seventeen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed fifty dollars, temporary services not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other necessary items, thirty thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, seven hundred and fifty dollars; For necessary equipment and supplies for the pathological laboratory, six hundred and forty-two dollars;
In all, for Tuberculosis Hospital, forty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars. child-caring institutions.Care of children. Board of children’s guardians: For administrative expenses,Board of Children’s Guardians.Expenses. including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding twentyve dollars, and all office and sundry expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk, oneSalaries. thousand two hundred dollars; placing officer, one thousand dollars; two placing officers, at nine hundred dollars each; investigating clerk, nine hundred dollars; one record clerk, and two visiting inspectors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;
For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored),Feeble-minded children. sixteen thousand dollars; For board and care of all children committed to the guardianshipBoard, etc. of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than one thousand five hundred dollars to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than three hundred dollars for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, for board of children’s guardians, seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances to agent. advance to the agent of the board of children’s guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed two hundred dollars at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children : Superintendent,Industrial Home School for Colored Children.Salaries. one thousand two hundred dollars; matron of school, four hundred and eighty dollars; two caretakers, two assistant caretakers, and one sewing teacher, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; manual training teacher, six hundred dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; 174blacksmith and wheelwright, four hundred and eighty dollars; one stableman, and one watchman, at three hundred dollars each; one cook, and one laundress, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, seven thousand and eighty dollars;
Expenses.For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For furniture and manual-training equipment, including piano to cost not more than two hundred dollars, four hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand dollars; *Proviso*.Use of receipts from products, etc.In all, for Industrial Home School for Colored Children, sixteen thousand and thirty dollars: *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 thirteen.
Industrial Home School.Salaries.Industrial Home School: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; matron, four hundred and eighty dollars; three matrons, one housekeeper, and one sewing teacher, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant matrons, and one nurse, at three hundred dollars each; manual-training teacher, six hundred dollars; florist, eight hundred and forty dollars; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; farmer, five Hundred and forty dollars; one cook, and one laundress, at two hundred and forty dollars each; two house-maids, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; temporary labor, not to exceed four hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand six hundred and twenty dollars;
Expenses.For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and harness, sixteen thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thou-sand seven hundred dollars. In all, for the Industrial Home School, twenty-six thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; Home for destitute colored children.For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed nine thousand nine hundred dollars.
Foundlings’ 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, six thousand dollars. 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, six thousand dollars. temporary homes.Temporary homes. Municipal lodging house.Municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely: Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; foreman, three hundred and sixty dollars; night watchman for six months, at twenty-five dollars per month, one hundred and fifty dollars; maintenance, one thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
Grand Army Soldiers’ Home.Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, namely: Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, four thousand dollars; in all, five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 175 For the care and maintenance of women and children under a contractHope and Help Mission. to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, three thousand dollars.
Hospital for the Insane: For support of the indigent insane ofSupport of indigent insane. the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law, three hundred and ten thousand dollars. For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresidentDeporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand dollars.
That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of theAdvances to Board of Charities. District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as theCommissioners of the District of Columbia may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.
Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay ofRelief of the poor. physicians to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand dollars. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, twoTransporting paupers. thousand five hundred dollars. Workhouse—For the following now employed or authorized underWorkhouse.Administration salaries. the appropriation for the Workhouse, namely:
Administration— Superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, seven hundred and twenty dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; stenographer and officer, six hundred dollars. Operation: Foreman, sawmill, nine hundred dollars; foreman, construction,Operation salaries. nine hundred dollars; foreman, stone-crushing plant, nine hundred dollars; chief engineer and electrician, nine hundred dollars; superintendent brick kiln, one thousand five Hundred dollars; clay worker, four hundred and eighty dollars; superintendent tailor shop, four hundred and eighty dollars;
Maintenance: Physician, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;Maintenance salaries. superintendent of clothing and laundry, seven hundred and twenty dollars; storekeeper, six hundred and sixty dollars; steward, nine hundred dollars; stewardess, four hundred and eighty dollars; veterinary and officer, seven hundred and eighty dollars; captain of guards, one thousand two hundred dollars; captain of the night watch, nine hundred dollars; receiving and discharging officer, one thousand dollars; receiving and discharging officer, nine hundred dollars; superintendent laundry, four hundred and eighty dollars; thirty-two day guards, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; fifteen night guards, at six hundred dollars each; two day officers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; four night officers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; care of Belvoir tract, one hundred and eighty dollars; hospital nurse, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars;
For the maintenance and operation of the District of ColumbiaExpenses of operation. Workhouse at 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 operation of plants, including machinery, 176material, and 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, including salary of captain of boat, at nine hundred dollars per annum, and of a fireman, at eight hundred and forty dollars per annum; and supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, seventy-five thousand dollars;
Miscellaneous.To duplicate water pump, cement for construction and repair work, erecting cow barn, wagon sheds, blacksmith and repair shops, buildings to house pumps and machinery, enlargement of brick plant, hoisting machinery for unloading barges at dock, and repairs for tugboats and barges, and other miscellaneous items, construction work to be done by contract or otherwise, thirty-seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Fuel.For fuel for maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars; fuel for manufacturing and construction, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Sales of products to institutions.Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized, under such regulations as they may prescribe, to sell to the various departments and institutions of the government of the Receipts to be deposited.District of Columbia the products of said workhouse, and all moneys derived from such sales shall be paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
In all, for workhouse, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.Milltia. 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 storeouses, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, telephone service, and for general incidental expenses of the service, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Rent, etc.For rent of armories, offices, storehouses, and quarters for noncommissioned officers of the Army detailed for duty with the militia, seventeen thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars. For printing, stationery, and postage, one thousand five hundred dollars. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, one thousand dollars. For clerk, office of the adjutant general, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of target practice and matches, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Pay of troops.For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, twenty-four thousand dollars. EXTENSION OF WATER MAINS.Extension of water mains. Refund in annual installments on account of expenses for.One half of the following sums appropriated in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve, chargeable one half to the 177revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half to any moneys in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as may be expended, for the purposes of extending water mains, shall be refunded to the Treasury or the United States out of the revenues of the water department in four equal annual installments, at the rate of twenty thousand dollars per annum, namely:
Fifty thousand dollars toward the installation of water trunk mains to Congress Heights, District of Columbia, contained in theCongress Heights.Vol. 36, pp. 412, 1005. District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, and fifty-six thousand dollars for the completion of said water trunk mams contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve; twenty-four thousand dollars for the extension of twelve-inch water main from Elliott Place along the Conduit Road to Weaver Terrace,Conduit Road, etc.Vol. 36, p. 412. and for laying eight-inch water mains in Forty-seventh Place, Ashby Street, Edmund Street, and Sherrier Place, contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, and forty-five thousand one hundred dollars for the extension of water trunk main to Benning, District of Columbia, containedBenning.Vol. 36, p. 1005. in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve; in all, one hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred dollars.
The provision contained in the District of Columbia appropriationAssessments to be credited to water department.Vol. 36, p. 412. Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, that all assessments on account of water trunk mains to Congress Heights, and for the extension of twelve-inch water main from Elliott Place along the Conduit Road to Weaver Terrace, and for laying eight-inch water mains in Forty-seventh Place, Ashby Street, Edmund Street, and Sherrier Place, when collected shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the revenues of the United States in equal parts, is hereby repealed, and such assessments heretofore and hereafter collected shall be credited to the revenues of the water department. anacostia river flats.Anacostia River Flats.
For continuing the reclamation and development of the AnacostiaReclamation, etc. River and Flats, from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, to be expended under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, upon plans to be prepared under the direction of and to be approved by a board of engineers to consist of the EngineerBoard of engineer officers in charge. Commissioner of the District of Columbia, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and the engineer officer in charge of the improvement of the Potomac River; said sum to be available for the preparation of plans, the prosecution of the work, the employment of personal service, and for such other purposes as may in the judgment of said board be necessary to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, one hundred thousand dollars.
ROCK CREEK DRIVE AND LOVERS’ LANE.Rock Creek Drive and Lovers’ Lane. For grading and improving Rock Creek Drive and Lovers’ Lane,Grading, etc. between Massachusetts Avenue and R Street northwest, nine thousand five hundred dollars. Under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapterCondemning land to extend Drive and Montrose Park.Vol. 34, p. 151. one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to institute in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary to extend Rock Creek Drive northwest, from Massachusetts Avenue southerly 178to Montrose Park, and to condemn any private interest in the land in Lovers’ Lane lying between land taxed as parcels thirty-nine-ten and thirty-nine-eleven, and Montrose Park from T Street southerly to R Street northwest, as shown on plans filed in the office of the *Proviso*.Damages to be assessed as benefits.engineer commissioner of the District of Columbia: *Provided, however*, 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, as provided for herein plus the costs and expenses of the proceedings hereunder shall be assessed by the jury as benefits.
Appropriation for expenses, etc.There is hereby appropriated entirely out of the revenues of the District of Columbia a sum sufficient to pay the cost and expenses of Awards.the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto, and for the payment of the amounts awarded as damages, the amounts assessed as benefits, when collected, to be repaid to the District of Columbia *Proviso*.Jurisdiction over roadway transferred to District.to the credit of the revenues of said District: *Provided further*, That the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, is hereby directed to transfer to the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for highway purposes so much of Montrose Park as they may deem necessary for the connecting highway herein authorized.
FORT DAVIS AND FORT DUPONT PARKS, AND SO FORTH.Fort Davis and Fort Dupont Parks. New highway plan southeast directed.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to prepare a highway plan to change the location and width of Alabama Avenue southeast, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Hillside Road, and to make such changes in the location of intersecting streets as may be necessary to provide proper *Provisos*.Condemning land for the parks.Vol. 84, p. 151.connection with the new location of Alabama Avenue: *Provided further*, That under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to institute in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary to preserve the sites of Fort Davis and Fort Dupont for park purposes, and to provide a connecting highway between these sites by widening Alabama Avenue to one hundred and fifty feet, comprising in all approximately forty-one and twenty-five one-hundredths acres of land, as shown on plans filed in the office of the Engineer Commissioner of Appropriation for expenses.the District of Columbia.
There is hereby appropriated an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of said condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto, and for the payment of Damages assessed as benefits.amounts awarded as damages: *Provided, however*, That of the amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages for and in respect of the land to be taken in the condemnation proceedings herein authorized plus the costs and expenses of the proceedings, not less than one-third and all in excess of twenty-one Deposit.thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars shall be assessed by the jury as benefits, which when collected shall be covered 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.
Condemnations for street extensions.Hereafter the United States shall not bear any part of the cost of Cost assessed as benefits.the acquisition of land for street extensions, but when the condemnation of any land for such purposes is authorized by law the total cost of the land and the expenses of the condemnation proceedings shall be One-half of cost of parkways assessed as benefits.assessed as benefits; in any case where land is condemned for a park-way, including a street or streets, where such parkway is of considerable length with relation to its width, not less than one-half of the cost of the land including the same fraction of the expenses of the One-third of cost of parks assessed as benefits.condemnation proceedings shall be assessed as benefits; and in any case where land is condemned for a public park, not less than one- 179third of the cost of the land including the same fraction of the expenses of the condemnation proceedings shall be assessed as benefits.
The public parks authorized and established by this Act shallParks authorized, to be under Chief of Engineers. become a part of the 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 are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsPayable from water revenues. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: For revenue and inspection branch:
Water registrar, who shall alsoRevenue and inspection branch. perform the duties of chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; clerks—one at one thousand five hundred dollars, one at one thou-sand two hundred dollars, two at one thousand dollars each; index clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three meter computers, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, one thousand dollars; meter clerk, one thousand dollars; tap clerk, one thousand dollars; inspector’s—eight at nine hundred dollars each; eleven at eight hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollar’s.
For distribution branch: Superintendent, three thousand threeDistribution branch. hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerks—one at one thousand five hundred dollars; one at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; four at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one at one thousand dollars; one at nine hundred dollars; time keeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; assistant engineers—one at two thousand four hundred dollars; one at one thousand five hundred dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; two rodmen, at nine hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollar’s; storekeeper, one thousand dollars; assistant store-keeper, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant foremen—one at one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; one at one thousand two hundred dollars; one at one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; chief steam engineer, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant steam engineers, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; four oilers, at six hundred and ten dollars each; three firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, nine hundred dollars; watchmen—one at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one at seven hundred dollars; one at six hundred and ten dollars; one driver, seven hundred dollars; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; driver, six hundred and thirty dollars; chief inspector of valves, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, eighty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery,Contingent expenses. printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and other necessary items, three thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipeOperating expenses. distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, maintenance of motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, and including a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars for the purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the water department, thirty-seven thousand dollars. 180 High-service system, 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 busmess places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. Temporary drafts-men, 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, *Proviso*.Maximum expenditure.and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed seventy thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
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 with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to earning 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. Horses, wagons, etc.Special orders from Commissioners for using. That all horses, harness, and horse-drawn vehicles necessary 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 Report.said work; and the Commissioners of the District in 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 181in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such*Proviso*.Temporary work under Commissioners. 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. 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 DistrictReport. in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed thirteen thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 5. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorizedMiscellaneous trust fund.Expenses paid from.Vol. 33, p. 368. to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account.
Sec. 6. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall notLimit on requisitions. make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Sec. 7. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen noLighting.*Ante*, p. 154.Maximum rates, 1913. more than the following rates shall be paid for lighting avenues, streets, roads, alleys, and public spaces.
For mantle gas lamps of sixty candlepower, eighteen dollars andMantle gas lamps. forty cents per lamp per annum. For mantle gas lamps of not less than one hundred and twenty candlepower, twenty-seven dollars per lamp per annum. For street designation lamps, using flat-flame burners, consumingStreet designation lamps, etc. not more than two and one-half cubic feet of gas per hour, or eight-candlepower incandescent electric lamps, with posts and lanterns furnished by the District of Columbia, ten dollars per lamp per annum.
For forty candlepower, fifty watt, incandescent electric lamps onIncandescent electric lamps. 182 overhead wires, fifteen dollars per lamp per annum. *Proviso*.Maximum expenditure. Work under Commissioners.Temporary laborers, etc. For forty candlepower, fifty watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, nineteen dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. For sixty candlepower, seventy-five watt, incandescent electric lamps on overhead wires, seventeen dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum.
For sixty candlepower, seventy-five watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, twenty-three dollars per lamp per annum. For eighty candlepower, one hundred watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, twenty-six dollars per lamp per annum. For one hundred candlepower, one hundred and twenty-five watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. For one hunched and fifty candlepower, one hundred and eighty-seven watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, thirty-six dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum.
For two hundred candlepower, two hundred and fifty watt, incandescent electric lamps on underground wires, forty-six dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. Nernst lamps.For four-glower Nernst lamps on underground wires, fifty-two dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. Series inclosed are lamps.For six and six-tenths ampere, five hundred and twenty-eight watt, direct-current, seriesinclosed arc lamps, eighty dollars per lamp per annum. Multiple-inclosed are lamps.For five-ampere, five-hundred-and-fifty-watt, direct-current, multipleinclosed arc lamps, eighty dollars per lamp per annum.
Magnetite, etc., arc lamps.For four-ampere, three-hundred-and-twenty-watt magnetite, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, on overhead wires, fifty-nine dollars per lamp per annum. For four-ampere, three-hundred-and-twenty-watt magnetite, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Com-missioners of the District of Columbia, on underground wires, seventy-two dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum.
For six and six-tenths ampere, five-hundred-watt magnetite, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, on overhead wires, eighty-four dollars per lamp per annum. For six and six-tenths ampere, five-hundred-watt magnetite, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Com-missioners of the District of Columbia, on underground wires, ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents per lamp per annum. Flame arc lamps.For flame arc lamps, five-hundred-watt, General Electric type, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, one hundred and fifty dollars per lamp per annum. *Proviso*.Present inclosed lamps to be replaced.*Provided*, That except as otherwise directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, all seriesinclosed and multipleinclosed arc lamps now in service shall be replaced by the lighting company, without expense to the District of Columbia, with four-ampere, three-hundred-and-twenty-watt magnetite, or other arc lamps of equal illuminating value acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, by April first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and such replacement shall be effected to the number of not less than four hundred lamps per annum until completed.
Maintenance, fixtures, etc., by lighting companies.For the rates named above it shall hereafter be the duty of each gaslight company and each electric-fight company doing business in the District of Columbia to erect and maintain such street lamps as the Commissioners of said District may direct; and each such company shall furnish, install, and maintain all posts, lamps, lanterns, 183burners, wires, cable, conduits, gas pipes, street designations, and fixtures necessary for the respective lamps maintained by each of them, including lighting and extinguishing lamps, and repairing, painting, and cleaning.
Hereafter the cost of each lamp-post for incandescent electricCost allowed for lamp-posts.Incandescent electric lights. lighting furnished by any lighting company under the above rates shall not exceed fifteen dollars, except as hereinafter provided, which cost shall include only the lamp-post, the globe, the ornamental top, and the street-designation frame and signs. All other fixtures, parts, fittings, lamps, sockets, wires, cables, and appurtenances necessary for the lamps maintained by said lighting company on said posts, including the cost of erection, shall not be included in said cost.
The cost of each lamp-post for gas lighting furnished by anyGas lights. lighting company under the above rates shall not exceed fifteen dollars, except as hereinafter provided, which cost shall include only the lamp-post and the street-designation frame and signs. All other fixtures, parts, fittings, burners, lamps, pipes, and appurtenances necessary for the lamps maintained by said lighting company on said posts, including the cost of erection, shall not be included in said cost.
The cost of each lamp-post for arc lighting furnished by anArc electric lights.y lighting company under the above rates shall not exceed fifty dollars, except as hereinafter provided, which cost shall include only the lamp-post, the street-designation frame and signs, and the arm or top from which the lamp is hung. All other fixtures, parts, fittings, lamps, cables, wires, and appurtenances necessary for the lamps maintained by said lighting company on said posts, including the cost of erection, shall not be included in said cost.
Each lamp-post and its equipment shall be of a design and qualityDesign, etc. acceptable to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For each such lamp-post furnished by a fighting company byAllowance for greater cost. direction of the District Commissioners which shall cost in excess of fifteen dollars for gas or electric incandescent lamps, or which shall cost in excess of fifty dollars for electric arc lamps, the company furnishing the same shall receive, in addition to the above rates, eleven per centum per annum on such additional or excess cost.
Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia areEquipment furnished by Commissioners. authorized, in their discretion, to purchase or construct from street-lighting appropriations made in this Act posts, lanterns, street designations, and all necessary fixtures or appurtenances for any of the systems of fighting above named: *Provided*, That whenever the*Proviso*.Deduction therefor. said commissioners shall furnish a lamp-post, including only the globe, the ornamental top, and the street-designation frame and signs for the electric incandescent lamps, or including only the street-designation frame and signs for gas lamps, or including only the street-designation frame and signs and the arm or top for arc lamps, one dollar and sixty-five cents per lamp per annum for gas or electric incandescent lamps and four dollars and forty cents per lamp per annum for electric arc lamps shall be deducted from the rates above fixed.
Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are furtherAdoption of other forms of lighting. authorized, in their discretion, to adopt other forms of electric street lighting than those named, in which event payments under appropriations made in this Act shall be made for the fighting service rendered at not to exceed three cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed, and, in addition thereto, eleven per centum per annum of the cost to the lighting company of furnishing and installing lamps, posts, street designations, fixtures, and the cable from lamps to the nearest point of current supply, and a fair sum for the cost of maintenance 184 Moving lamps, etc.When ordered to do so by the said commissioners, lighting companies shall move and readjust any lamps maintained by them at the following rates:
Rates allowed.For each electric arc lamp, ten dollars. For each electric incandescent lamp, five dollars. For each gas lamp moved not more than six feet, two dollars and fifty cents. For each gas lamp moved more than six feet, four dollars. For each gas lamp raised or lowered to new grade, one dollar and fifty cents. Naphtha and oil lamps.Contracts authorized.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, with any responsible person, firm, company, or corporation for the maintenance of naphtha or oil lamps, equipped with mantle burners of not less than sixty candlepower, at a price not to exceed twenty-two dollars and eighty cents per lamp per annum, which price shall include the entire cost of furnishing, installing, and maintaining all necessary posts, lanterns, burners, street designations, and fixtures.
Discontinuance of lamps.Hereafter when ordered by the commissioners to do so, lighting companies in the District of Columbia shall discontinue any public lamps maintained by them without further payment therefor, and shall remove from the streets, at their own expense, all posts, lanterns, and fixtures connected therewith. Sec. 8. Express authority required for paying membership dues by Government or District employees.*Post*, p. 488. No money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be expended for membership fees or dues of any officer or employee of the United States or of the District of Columbia in any society or association or for expenses of attendance of any person at any meeting or convention of members of any society or association, unless such fees, dues, or expenses are authorized to be paid by specific appropriations for such purposes or are provided for in express terms in some general appropriation.
Sec. 9. Prohibition on expenditures in excess of appropriation made applicable to District. The provisions of section thirty-six hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by section three of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved Vol. 34, p. 49.February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-four, page forty-nine), known as the anti-deficiency Act, are hereby extended and made applicable in all respects to appropriations made for and expenditures of and to all of the officers and employees of the government of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 10. Fees.To be deposited half to credit of United States and half to District. On and after July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, fees collected by the District of Columbia shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, as follows, namely, fees of Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets; fees of Surveyor’s Office; Health Department fees; Pound fees; fees for railing permits; fees for building permits; fees for electrical permits;
Bathing Beach fees; fees from public convenience stations; fees for tax certificates; fees of the Municipal Court; and fees collected by the building inspection division on account of permits, certificates, and transcripts of records issued by the inspector of buildings; and the surplus fees of the Recorder of Deeds and Register of Wills; together with the tuition of nonresident pupils in public schools, and the tax of one-half of one cent paid by any street or other railroad company for each passenger carried across the Highway Bridge; and the annual wheel tax on all automobiles or other motor vehicles.
Sec. 11. Superintendent of Capitol, etc., may transfer discontinued apparatus, etc. Hereafter the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds may transfer apparatus, appliances, equipments, and sup-plies of any kind, discontinued or permanently out of service, to such other branches of the service of the United States, or District 185 of Columbia, whenever, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in his judgment the interests of the Government service may require it.
A detailed statement of all such transfers shall be submitted in the annual report to Congress of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds. Approved, June 26, 1912.
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