Chapter 191. 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 fifteen, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 191.— 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 fifteen, and for other purposes. July 21, 1914.[[H. R. 10523](/us/bill/63/hr/10523).][[Public, No. 145](/us/pl/63/145).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the half of the following District of Columbia appropriations.Half from District revenues.sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. Executive Office: Two commissioners, at $5,000 each; engineer Executive office.Salaries, Commissioners, etc.commissioner, so much as may be necessary (to make salary of $5,000); secretary, $2,400; assistant secretaries to commissioners— one $1,500, one $1,200; clerks—one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,200, one $840, two at $720 each; messengers—two at $600 each; stenographer anti typewriter, $840; two drivers, at $600 each.
Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments Veterinary surgeons, etc.of the District government, $1,200; Medicines, surgical and hospital supplies, $1,000; Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasing Purchasing division.officer, $1,600; computer, $1,440; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,300, six at $1,200 each, three at $900 each, six at $720 each; inspector of fuel, $1,500; assistant inspector of fuel, $1,100; storekeeper, $1,000; messenger, $600; driver, $600; inspectors, two at $900 each; two laborers, at $600 each; two property-yard keepers, at $1,000 each; inspector of materials, $1,200; temporary laborer, $150;
Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; Building inspection division.assistant inspectors of buildings—principal $1,800, twelve at $1,200 each; fire-escape inspector, $1,400; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, $1,500; civil engineers or computers—one $1,800, one $1,500; clerks—chief, $1,500, one $1,050, one $1,000, one (who shall 518be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,000, one S900; messenger, $480; assistant inspector, $1,500;
Motor cycles for elevator inspectors.To reimburse two elevator inspectors for provision and maintenance by themselves of two motor cycles for use in their official inspection of elevators, $10 per month each, $240; Transportation.For transportation, means of transportation, and maintenance of means of transportation, $1,000; Plumbing inspection division.Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, $2,000; assistant inspectors of plumbing—principal $1,550, one $1,200, four at $1,000 each; clerks—one $1,200, one $900; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, $2,400; draftsman, $1,350; sewer tapper, $1,000; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each;
Motor cycles for inspectors.To reimburse three assistant inspectors of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia, $10 per month each, *Proviso.*Maintenance.$360: *Provided*, That no more of said sum shall be expended than is actually necessary for the maintenance of said motor cycles. In all, $115,610. Care of District Building.Care of District Building: Clerk and stenographer, $2,000; chief engineer, $1,400; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrician, $1,200; two dynamo tenders, at $875 each; three firemen, at $720 each; three coal passers, at $600 each; electrician’s helper, $840; eight elevator conductors, at $600 each; laborers—two at $660 each, two at $500 each; two chief cleaners (who shall also have charge of the lavatories), at $500 each; thirty cleaners, at $240 each; chief watchman, $1,000; assistant chief watchman, $660; eight watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube operator, $600; in all, $36,530.
Maintenance, etc.For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics and labor, not to exceed 83,500, and miscellaneous supplies, $17,000. Assessor’s office.Assessor’s office: Assessor, $3,500; two assistant assessors, at $2,000 each; clerks—four (including one in arrears division), at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, seven (including one in charge of records) at$l,000 each, two at $900 each; draftsman, $1,200; assistant or clerk, $900; license clerk, $1,200; inspector of licenses, $1,200; assistant inspector of licenses, $1,000; messengers—one $600, one $450; three assistant assessors, at $3,000 each; board of assistant assessors—clerk $1,500, messenger and driver $600; two clerks, at $720 each; temporary clerk hire, $500; record clerk, $1,500; in all, $47,790.
Personal tax board.Personal tax board: Two assistant assessors of personal taxes, at $3,000 each; appraiser of personal property, $1,800; clerk, $1,400; assistant clerk, $1,000; three inspectors, at $1,200 each; extra clerk hire, $2,000; in all, $15,800. Excise board.Excise board: Three members of excise board, at $2,400 each; clerk, $1,500; inspector, $1,500; messenger, $600; hire of means of transportation, $1,000; in all, $11,800. Collector’s office.Collector’s office: Collector, $4,000; deputy collector, $2,000; cashier, $1,800; assistant cashier, $1,500; bookkeeper, $1,600; clerks— three at $1,400 each, one $1,200, one $1,000, three at S900 each; clerk and bank messenger, $1,200; messenger, $600; in all, $21,800.
Tax-sale certificates, etc.For extra labor in 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, $800. Auditor’s office.Auditor’s office: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,250; book-keeper, $1,800; accountant, $1,500; clerks—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, one $1,350, four at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, one $936, two at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger, $600; disbursing officer, $3,000; deputy disbursing officer, $1,600; clerks— one $1,200, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger, $600; in all, $43,776. 519 Office of corporation counsel:
Corporation counsel, $4,500; Corporation counsel’s office.first assistant, $2,500; second assistant, $1,800; third assistant, $1,600; fourth assistant, $1,500; fifth assistant, $1,500; stenographers—one 81,200, one SS40; clerk, $720; in all, $16,160. Sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: Sinking-fund office.For additional compensation to the clerk in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, designated by the Treasurer to perform the necessary clerical service in connection with the sinking fund and payment of interest on the debt of the District of Columbia, $500.
Coroner’s office: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistant Coroner’s office.morgue master and janitor, $600; hostler and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600. Market masters: Two market masters, at $1,200 each; assistantMarket masters. market masters, who shall also perform the necessary labor in cleaning the markets, and one laborer for duty at Eastern Market, $2,280; in all, $4,680. Farmers’ Produce Market: Market master, $900; assistant market Produce market.master, who shall also act as night watchman, $600: watchman, S600; laborer for sweeping sidewalks on B, Little B, and Tenth and Twelfth Streets northwest and the center walk of the Farmers’ Produce Market Square, and raking up space used for market purposes, $360; hauling refuse (street sweepings), $600; in all, $3,060.
Eastern Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where Eastern market.used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $300. Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where Western market.used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $300. Fish wharf and market: Market master and wharfinger, who Fish market and wharves.shall have charge of the landing of vessels, the collection of wharfage and dockage rentals, and the collection of rents for fish houses at the municipal fish wharf and market, $900; assistant market master, who shall also act as laborer, $600; in all, $1,500.
Wharves for fish market: For reconstructing wharves at municipal Reconstructing wharves, etc.fish wharf and market, including preparation of plans and specifications and personal services, $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets: Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.Superintendent, $2,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; clerk, $1,200; laborer, $480; in all, $6,580. For purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, provisions, Purchases for investigations.and so forth, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $50.
Engineer Commissioner’s office: Engineer of highways, $3,000; Engineer Commissioner’s office.Engineers, superintendents, etc.engineer of bridges, $2,250; superintendent of streets, $2,000; superintendent of suburban roads, $2,000; superintendent of sewers, $3,300; asphalts and cements—inspector, $2,400: *Provided*, That the *Proviso.*Asphalt inspector, restrictions.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 $1,500; trees and parkings—superintendent $2,000, assistant superintendent $1,200; assistant engineers— Assistant engineers, etc.one $2,200, one $2,100, four at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, four at $1,500 each, one $1,350, one $1,200; transitmen—two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; rodmen—four at $900 each, eight at $780 each; twelve chainmen, at $650 each; draftsmen—one $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; assistant engineer, $1,350; general inspector of Inspectors, etc.sewers, $1,300; inspector of sewers, $1,200: bridge inspector, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,500 each, five (including two of streets) at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; transitman, $1,200; foremen— twelve at $1,200 each, one $1,050, ten at $900 each; foreman, Rock 520Creek Park, $1,200; three subforemen, at $1,050 each; bridgekeepers— Clerks, etc.one $650, three at $600 each; chief clerk, $2,250; permit clerk, $1,500; assistant permit clerk, $1,000; index clerk and typewriter, $900; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,500 each, two at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, one $840, two at $750 each, one $600; messengers—one $600, six at $540 each; skilled laborers— one $625, two at $600 each; janitor, $720; principal steam engineer, $1,800; three steam engineers, at $1,200 each; three assistant steam engineers, at $1,050 each; six oilers, at $600 each; six firemen, at $875 each; inspector, $1,400; storekeeper, $900; superintendent of stables, $1,500; blacksmith, $975; two watchmen, at $630 each; two drivers, at $630 each; in all, $175,010.
Municipal architect’s office.Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect, $3,600; superintendent of construction, $2,000; chief draftsman, $1,700; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,300; heating, ventilating, and sanitary engineer, $2,000: superintendent of repairs, $1,800; assistant superintendent of repairs, $1,200; boss carpenter, boss tinner, boss painter, boss plumber, boss steam fitter, five in all, at $1,200 each; boss grader, $1,000; machinist, $1,200; clerks—one $1,050, one $620; copyist, $840; driver, $540; in all, $26,250.
Public Utilities Commission.Vol. 37, p. 974.Public Utilities Commission: For salaries (including one inspector of gas and meters, $2,000; assistant inspectors of gas and meters—one at $1,000 and two at $900 each; messenger, at $600, transferred from engineer commissioner’s office); in all, $25,479.96. Expenses.For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized, by law, $2,799; In all, for Public Utilities Commission, $28,278.96. Special assessment office.Special assessment office:
Special assessment clerk, $2,000; clerks—seven at $1,200 each, two at $900 each, one $750; in all, $12,950. Street cleaning division.Street-cleaning division: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent and clerk, $1,600; chief clerk, $1,400; stenographer and clerk, $1,000; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,100, one $1,000, two at $720 each; chief inspector, $1,300; inspectors—four at $1,200 each, one $1,100; foreman of repairs, $1,200; foremen—one $1,300, four at $1,200 each, eight at $1,100 each, one $1,000, one $900; assistant foremen—three at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger and driver, $600; in all, $41,180.
Examiners, steam engineers.Board of examiners, steam engineers: Three members, at $300 each, $900. Automobile board.Automobile board: Secretary or acting secretary, $300. Insurance department.Department of insurance: Superintendent of insurance, $3,500; examiner, $1,700; statistician, $1,700; clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $720; temporary clerk hire, $1,200; in all, $10,020. Surveyor’s office.Surveyor’s office: Surveyor, $3,000; assistant surveyor, $2,000; clerks—one $1,225, one $975, one $675; three assistant engineers, at $1,500 each; computer, $1,200; record clerk, $1,050; inspector, $1,200; draftsmen—one $1,225, one $900; assistant computer, $900; three rodmen, at $825 each; chainmen—three at $700 each, two at $650 each; computer and transitman, $1,200; in ail, $25,925.
Temporary services, etc.For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $5,575, all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the commissioners; In all, surveyor’s office, $31,500. Female employment inspectors. Employment of females: To carry out the provisions of the Act approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, *Ante*, p. 291.entitled “An Act to regulate the hours of employment and safeguard the health of females employed in the District of Columbia,” as follows:
For three inspectors, two of whom shall be women, at the rate 521of $1,200 per annum; one stenographer and clerk at the rate of $900 per annum; in all, $4,500. Free Public Library, including Takoma Park Branch: Librarian, Free public library and Takoma Park branch.$3,500; assistant librarian, $1,500; chief circulating department, $1,200; children’s librarian, $1,000; assistant in charge of school work, $900; librarian’s secretary, $900; reference librarian, $1,000; assistants—one $1,000, one in charge of periodicals $1,000, one $900, six (including one in charge of Takoma Park Branch) at $720 each, six (including one for the Takoma Park Branch) at $600 each, three at $540 each, three (including one for Takoma Park Branch) at $480 each; copyist, $480; classifier, $900; cataloguers—one $720, one $600, two at $540 each; stenographer and typewriter, $720; attendants— six at $540 each, five at $480 each; collator, $480; three messengers, at $480 each; ten pages, at $360 each; three janitors, at $480 each, one of whom shall act as night watchman; janitor of Takoma Park Branch, $360; engineer, $1,200; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $47,640.
For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at the discretion Substitutes.of the librarian, $1,000. For keeping the central library open fifty-two Sunday, etc., opening.Sundays from two o’clock postmeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, five holidays from nine o’clock antemeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, and for extra services on Saturday afternoons in July, August, and September; also for keeping the Takoma Park Branch open on holidays and for extra services there on Saturday half holidays, $2,000.
Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park Branch: For books, Miscellaneous.periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $8,500; For binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, $4,500; For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment, purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $8,000;
For purchase and installation of eighty-horsepower auxiliary boiler, New boiler.$2,500; In all, $23,500. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, and Contingent expenses.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 and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, Board of Charities, including an allowance to the purchasing officer and to the secretary of the Board of Charities of not exceeding $360 each per annum for maintenance of vehicle for use in the discharge of their official duties, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, superintendent of weights, measures, and markets office, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, $36,925; and the commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. 522 Motor vehicles.Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motor cycles, and motor trucks, acquired for the government of the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise herein provided for, including such personal services in connection therewith not otherwise herein authorized, as Purchase authorized.the commissioners shall in writ ing specially order, and for the purchase of one additional motor vehicle herein specified; namely:
Automobiles.Automobiles for the offices of the civilian commissioners and the engineer commissioner, including the building inspection and street cleaning divisions, surveyor’s office, and electrical department, twelve in all, including one to be purchased hereunder for the service of the civilian commissioners; Motor cycles.Motor cycles: One for the plumbing division, four for the street cleaning department, and three for the electrical department, eight in all; Motor trucks.Motor trucks:
One for the municipal architect’s office, one for the electrical department, and one for the parking commission, three in all; Use of vehicles restricted.In all, for motor vehicles, $13,034. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the government of the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the *Provisos.*Limit of cost.District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no automobile shall be acquired hereunder, by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $2,000 for one seating more than two Distinctive color and marking required.persons or $1,000 for one seating not more than two persons: *Provided further*, That all motor vehicles and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the government of the District of Columbia shall be of uniform color and have painted conspicuously thereon, in letters not less than three inches high and markedly contrasting in color with the body color of the motor vehicle, the words:
District of Columbia. Restriction on use of horses.No part of any appropriation in this Act shall be expended for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for the use of the commissioners, or for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for inspection or other purposes for those officials or employees provided with motor vehicles. Limit on militia expenses for horses.No part of the money appropriated by this Act, except appropriations for the militia, shall be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
Fire insurance prohibited.No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Specific residence telephones allowed.Vol. 37, p. 414.Telephones connected with the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent of the water department, superintendent of sewers, chief inspector of the street cleaning division, secretary of the Board of Charities, health officer, chief engineer of the fire department, and superintendent of police, under appropriations contained in this Act.
Postage.Official use of car tickets.For postage for strictly official mail matter, $1,000. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the government of the District of Columbia by the purchase of car tickets from appropriations contained *Provisos.*Limit.in this Act: *Provided*, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $5,000 for the fiscal 523year nineteen hundred and fifteen: *Provided further*, That the provisions Fire and police excepted.*Post*, pp. 538, 539.of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments.
For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, in Collecting personal taxes.collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, $4,000. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the Judicial expenses.printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $4,500. For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation Coroner’s expenses.for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,000.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax Advertising.General.and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $4,700. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred Taxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24.and fourteen, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $2,500, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. For enforcement of game and fish laws, to be expended under the Game and fish laws.direction of the commissioners, $200.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first, Removing dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923.eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” to pay members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen is reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the Historical tablets.District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, not exceeding the sum of $500 of the unexpended balances of the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and Vol. 34, pp. 489, 1126.Vol. 35, pp. 281, 695.Vol. 36, pp. 282, 974.Vol. 37, pp. 147, 944.subsequent District of Columbia appropriation Acts, is continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Office of register of wills: For furnishing to the office of the assessor Copies of wills to assessor.copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, $900. For purchase of enamel metal or other metal identification number Vehicle tags.tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $1,350. For repair of buildings owned and used by the District of Columbia, Repairing fire injuries.Vol. 35, p. 695.when injured by fire, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000 appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
For making surveys to obtain accurate data with reference to old Surveying old subdivisions.subdivisions, $2,500. For maintenance and repairs to markets, $2,900.Market repairs. For maintenance and repair of fish wharf and market, $500.Fish wharf, etc. For the purchase of new apparatus in the office of the inspector Asphalt apparatus.of asphalts and cements, $1,000. For repairing retaining walls and copings and for work incidental K Street Market.thereto at the K Street Market, $1,000. 524 IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs.
Assessment and permit work.Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, $220,000. Work on streets and avenues.Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix P, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $110,700, to be expended in the discretion of the commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely: Schedules.Georgetown schedule: $6,000.
Northwest section schedule (except V Street, from Tenth Street to Florida Avenue, and K Street, from Washington Circle to Twenty-eighth Street): $8,200. Southwest section schedule: $21,000. Southeast section schedule (except I Street from Eleventh Street to Thirteenth Street, and Thirteenth Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to Potomac Avenue): $45,500. Northeast section schedule (except K Street from Seventh Street to Tenth Street): $30,000. *Proviso.*Streets paved with Belgian block, etc. *Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already paved with Belgian block or granite, except P Street northwest from Rock Creek to Twenty-eighth Street, 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.
New pavements for roadways.Assessment of proportionate cost on abutting property, etc.Hereafter whenever under appropriations made by Congress,, the roadway of any street, avenue, or road in the District of Columbia is improved by laying a new pavement thereon or completely resurfacing the same not less than one square in extent, from curb to curb, or from gutter to gutter where no curb exists, where the material used is sheet asphalt, asphalt block, asphaltic or bituminous macadam, concrete, or other fixed roadway pavement, such proportion of the total cost of the work, including all expenses of the assessment, to be made as hereinafter prescribed, shall be charged against and become a lien upon the abutting property, and assessments therefor shall be levied pro rata according to the linear frontage of said property on the street, avenue, or road, or portion thereof upon the roadway of *Proviso.*Spaces excepted.which said new pavement or resurfacing is laid: *Provided*, That there shall be excepted from such assessment the cost of paving the road-way space included within the intersection of streets, avenues, and roads, as said intersections are included within the building lines projected, and also the cost of paving the space within such roadways for which street railway companies are responsible under their charters or under law on streets, avenues, or roads where such railways have been or shall be constructed.
Computation of assessments.The assessments hereinbefore provided for shall be levied in the following proportion, namely: One-half of the total cost upon the abutting property owners and the remaining one-half and all of the expenses of maintenance and repairs to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and from the Treasury of the United States in *Proviso.*Excess of 40 feet width.equal parts: *Provided*, That where the width of the street, avenue, or road to be paved or completely resurfaced from curb to curb or gutter to gutter as the case may be, shall exceed forty feet, the excess including the cost of intersections or spaces within which street rail-ways *Post*, p. 565.are required to pave, shall be paid for one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 525 Assessments levied under the provisions hereof shall be payable and Payment and collection.collectible in the same manner and under the same penalty for non-payment as is provided for assessments for improving sidewalks and alleys in the District of Columbia, as set forth on page two hundred Vol. 28, p. 248.and forty-eight of volume twenty-eight, United States Statutes at Large: *Provided*, That the cost of publication of the notice of such *Proviso.*Paying for publication and notice.assessment upon the failure to obtain personal service upon the owner of the property to be assessed therein provided for and of the services of such notices shall be paid out of the appropriation for the work, and such assessments, when collected, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be Limit for asphalt pavements.made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than $1.80 per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base, nor more than $1.80 per square yard for laying standard asphalt-block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of *Proviso.*Increase allowed.base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to $2 per square yard.
Repaving with asphalt the granite roadway of P Street northwest, Repaving P street NW.between Rock Creek and Twenty-eighth Street, forty feet wide, $11,500. For constructing a suitable viaduct and bridge to carry Benning Benning Road.Viaduct and bridge for, over railroad tracks.Road over the tracks of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, and of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $110,000.
And authority is hereby given Condemnation proceedings to procure laud.said commissioners to acquire by purchase, or to condemn in accordance with existing law, the land necessary to carry out the construction authorized by this appropriation, and to construct said viaduct and bridge and the approaches thereto, and to reconstruct, grade, and pave, by day labor or otherwise, the streets, avenues, and ways changed in line or grade or newly created hereunder: *Provided*, That *Proviso.*Payments by rail-road companies.the cost of constructing said viaduct and bridge, including approaches thereto, shall be borne and paid one-half by said railroad companies in proportion to the widths of their respective rights of way, and the remaining one-half by the United States and the District of Columbia; and said sums shall be paid by said companies to the Treasurer of the United States, one halt to the credit of the District of Columbia and the other half to the credit of the United States; and the same shall Enforcement.be valid and subsisting liens against the franchise and property of said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, respectively, and shall be a legal indebtedness of said companies in favor of the District of Columbia, jointly for its use and the use of the United States as aforesaid; and the said lien or liens may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by bill in equity brought by the commissioners of said District in the Supreme Court of said District, or by any other lawful proceedings against the said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, or said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, or both; and any relocation in the line or change in the grade of the Relocation of street railway tracks.tracks of the Washington Railway and Electric Company necessary to permit the completion in accordance with approved plans of the viaduct and bridge and approaches herein provided for shall be made by and at the cost of said railway company; and in the event of said railway company failing or refusing to do such work the same shall be 526done by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the cost to be paid from the appropriation for said bridge and viaduct and collected from said street railway company in the maimer provided for in Vol. 20, p. 105.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 paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the, credit of the District of Columbia.
Grading.Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or hire of same, and horses; and inmates of the Washington Asylum and jail may be used in connection with this work, $15,000. Condemnation.Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. Suburban roads and Streets.Construction.Construction of suburban roads: For construction of suburban roads and suburban streets, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Construction of suburban roads and suburban streets,” and for that purpose it shall constitute one fund, as follows:
Northwest. Irving Street, Georgia Avenue to Park Place, grade and improve, $10,400; Northwest. Upshur Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Eighth Street, grade and improve, $3,800; Northwest. Nineteenth Street, Kalorama Road to Biltmore Street, pave, $12,700; Northwest. Taylor Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Eighth Street, grade and improve, $4,200; Northeast. Summit Place, Todd Place to V Street, grade and improve, $2,800; Northeast. Uhland Terrace, Summit Place to Second Street, grade and improve, $1,900.;
Northeast. U Street, Lincoln Road to Second Street, grade and improve, $6,800; Northeast. Second Street, end of present pavement to V Street, grade and improve, $5,200; Northwest. Harvard Street, from Sixteenth Street eastward to end of pavement, pave, $4,000; Northwest. Allison Street, Eighth Street to Ninth Street and Eighth Street, Webster to Allison Street, grade and improve, $5,200; Northwest. Newton Place, Park Place to alloy west of Warder Street, grade and improve, $3,900;
Northwest. Jefferson Street, Seventh Street to Ninth Street, grade and improve, $5,100; Northwest. Fifteenth Street, Euclid Street to Columbia Road, grade and improve, $7,200; Fort Place, made girt of Irving StreetNortheast. Fort Place, Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street, grade and improve, $1,800, and hereafter said street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets shall become a part of Irving Street, and be known and designated upon the plats and maps of the District of Columbia, as Irving Street;
Northwest. Shepherd Street, Sixteenth Street, to Piney Branch Road, grade and improve, $5,500; Northwest. Davenport Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Howard Street, grade and improve, $5,000; Northeast. Minnesota Avenue, Benning Road to Forty-second Street, grade and improve, $5,600; Southeast. Highview Place, Nichols Avenue to Brothers Place, grade and improve, $500; Southeast. Fifth Street, Alabama Avenue to Savannah Street, and Savannah Street, Fourth Street to Randle Place, grade and improve, $1,800; 527 Southeast.
Waclark Place, Nichols Avenue to Raleigh Street, grade and improve, $800; Northeast. Hunt Place, Deane Avenue, and Grant Street, from Minnesota Avenue to Division Avenue, grade and improve, $14,400; Northeast. Streets in Burrville, Division Avenue to District line, grade, $10,000; Southeast. Fourth Street, Nichols Avenue to Savannah Street, grade and improve, $1,000; Southeast. Sixth Street, Alabama Avenue to Savannah Street, grade and improve, $1,100; Southeast. Randle Place, Alabama Avenue to Savannah Street, grade and improve, $1,100;
Northeast. Twenty-fifth Street, Hamlin Street to Irving Street, grade and improve, $1,500; Northeast. Twenty-fourth Street, Irving Street to Hamlin Street, grade and improve, $3,300; Northeast. Otis Street, Twelfth Street to Fourteenth Street, grade, $4,200; Northwest. Harrison Street, Belt Road to Wisconsin Avenue, grade and improve, $5,400; Northwest. Forty-first Street, from Ingomar Street to Harrison Street, grade and improve, $800; Northeast. Kearney Street, Fourteenth Street to Eighteenth Street, grade and improve, $5,500;
In all, $142,500. Hereafter the street designated as the Avenue of the Presidents Avenue of the Presidents.Name restored to Sixteenth Street.shall be known and designated as “Sixteenth Street” in accordance with the original plans of the city of Washington. To pave with asphalt or bituminous concrete roadway, Nichols Nichols Avenue, etc.Avenue from Good Hope Road to present end of granite-block pavement south of Sheridan Street, forty feet wide, and of the south approach of the Navy Yard Bridge across the Eastern Branch from Good Hope Road to the bridge abutment, $30,500.
To carry out the provisions contained in the Act making appropriations Permanent system of highways.Extending streets, etc., to conform with.Vol. 37, p. 950.to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes, which authorizes the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway to conform with the plan of the permanent system of highways in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and George-town, there is hereby appropriated, payable entirely from the revenues Solely from District revenuesof the District of Columbia, such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year to end June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Repairs—Streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work Repairs of streets, etc.of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, am this appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus Street railways.expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided Vol. 20, p. 105.by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government ’for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected, $339,185.
The authority given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia Changing curbs, etc.Vol. 34, p. 1130.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 Ave528nue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved under appropriations *Proviso*.Conditions.contained in this Act: *Provided*, That no such change shall be made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement.
Sidewalks and curbs.For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal buildings, $10,000. Surburban roads, repairs.Repairs suburban roads: For current work of repairs to sub-urban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles, four motor cycles, and one truck, $145,000. Bridges.Construction and repairs.Available for street bridges over railroads.Reimbursements.Vol. 20, p. 105.Bridges: For construction and repairs, $20,000.
And this appropriation shall be available for repairing when necessary any bridge carrying a public street over the right of way or property of any railway company, and the amount thus expended shall be collected from such railway company in the manner provided in 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 in the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts.
Highway Bridge.Highway Bridge across Potomac River: Draw operators—two at $1,020 each, two at $720 each; four watchmen, at $600 each; labor, $1,500; lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $8,620; in all, $16,000. Paving approaches.For paving with asphalt the north approach to the Highway Bridge across the Potomac River from Water Street to the west intersecting park driveway nearest to the Highway Bridge, a distance of about nineteen hundred feet, and for paving with granite block the balance of the north approach from the west intersecting driveway to the bridge structure and the south approach to the *Provisos*.Use of portable asphalt plantbridge, $27,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to do this work with their portable asphalt plant if, in the judgment of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, such work can be economically performed Transfer of granite blocks removed from streets.by the use of said plant: *And provided further*, That the said Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to transfer to the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds for the above, work any granite blocks removed from streets in the District of Columbia whose roadways are authorized herein to be repaved with a smoother pavement, the cost of hauling the blocks so transferred from the streets to the site of the work to be charged against this appropriation.
Anacostia Bridge.Operation of the Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $5,600. Rock Creek.Bridge at Pennsylvania Avenue NW.For completion of the construction of a bridge across Rock Creek on the lines of Pennsylvania Avenue, in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $135,000. SEWERS.Sewers. Cleaning, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, $68,000.
Pumping service.For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks, $46,500. Main and pipe.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $67,500. Suburban.For suburban sewers, $190,000. Assessment and permit.For assessment and permit work, sewers, $125,000. 529 For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,Rights of way. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Anacostia main interceptor: For continuing construction of the Anacostia interceptor.Anacostia main interceptor along the Anacostia River between the outfall sewer, sewage-disposal system, at Poplar Point, and Benning, District of Columbia, $50,000. Rock Creek main interceptor: For continuing construction of the Rock Creek interceptor.Rock Creek main interceptor from P Street to Military Road, $40,000. STREETS.Streets. Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust Cleaning, etc.prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross-walks, Removing snow and ice.and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables, hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment, allowance to inspectors and foremen for maintenance of horses and vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed $25 per month for each inspector or foreman; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses,. $270,000, and the commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Disposal of city refuse: For collection and disposal of garbage Disposal of city refuse.and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; collection and disposal of night soil in the District of Columbia; payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, $179,945. For the purposes of investigating and reporting upon the collection Investigating garbage disposal.and disposal of garbage and other city waste originating in the District of Columbia, including the preparation of plans and specifications for the construction of disposal plants, the necessary accessories, and the employment of personal services and such other incidental expenses as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, $7,500: *Provided*, That this sum shall not be *Proviso.*Restriction.available for the payment of traveling or subsistence expenses.
Parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers, Parking commission.trimmers, nurserymen, repair men, and teamsters, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, maintenance of automobile truck, and miscellaneous items, $41,930. Bathing beach: Superintendent, $600; watchman, $480; temporary Bathing beach.services, supplies, and maintenance, $500 to be immediately available, $2,250; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,500, to be immediately available; in all, $4,830.
Public scales: For replacement and repair of public scales, and Public scales.all public scales may be used for weighing and verifying the weight of all commodities, $200. For the purchase and installation of a new twenty-five-ton railroad Railroad scale.scale, to be immediately available, $1,200. Playgrounds: For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, construction Playgrounds.Maintenance.of toilet facilities, wading pools, fencing, grading and repairs, including labor and materials, and necessary incidental and contingent expenses for all playgrounds, including not to exceed $100 for rent of storage houses, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $12,490; 530 Salaries.For salaries:
Clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $900; supervisor, $2,500; to be employed not exceeding ten months—thirteen directors of playgrounds or recreation centers at 865 per month each, assistant director at $60 per month; to be employed not exceeding seven months—two assistant directors at $60 per month each, assistant director at $50 per month; to be employed not exceeding three months—assistant director at 860 per month, thirteen assistants at $45 per month each; watchmen to be employed not exceeding twelve months—twelve (including one for recreation grounds in Rock Creek Park) at $45 per month each; general utility man at $60 per month for four months; in all, $22,295;
Swimming pools, Howard and Rosedale Playgrounds.For construction of swimming pools, shower baths and equipment, purchase and installation of toilets, lockers and screens, including necessary personal services, for the Rosedale and Howard Playgrounds, to be made immediately available, $7,500; For supplies, repairs, and necessary expenses of operating swimming pools, and purchase of bathing suits, to be made immediately available, $500; Two guards or swimming teachers for four months at $60 per month each, to be made immediately available, $480;
Wholly from District revenues.In all, for playgrounds, $43,265, which sum shall be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Public convenience stations.Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $10,500. Condemning in sanitary buildings.Vol. 34, p. 157.Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings: For all 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, ami for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal services, when authorized by the Commissioners, $2,500.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department. Salaries.Electrical engineer, $2,500; assistant electrical engineer, $2,000; four electrical inspectors, at $1,200 each; inspector, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; two draftsmen, at $1,000 each; three telegraph operators, at $1,000 each; four inspectors, at $900 each; expert repairman, $1,200; three repairmen, at $900 each; telephone operators—three at $720 each, four at $540 each, one $450; electrical inspectors—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,350; cable splicer, $1,200; assistant cable splicer, $620; clerks—one $1,400, one $1,200, two at $1,125 each, one $1,050, one $750; assistant repairmen—one $620, two at $540 each; laborers—one $630, two at $540 each, one $460, two at $400 each; storekeeper, $875; in all, $47,935.
Supplies, contingent expenses, etc.For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, washing, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, and other necessary items, $11,650. Placing wires underground.For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, and telephone service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, $7,000.
Police-patrol system.For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, $3,000. 531 Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public Lighting.lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act making Vol. 36, p. 1008.appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, and with the provisions of the Act for the same purpose for Vol. 37, p. 181.the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, approved June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and other laws applicable thereto, lively and extra labor, $395,000.
For purchase and installation of ten fire-alarm boxes, and purchase Fire-alarm boxes.and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $2,000. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.Washington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, Maintenance.and repair of the Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit Road, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, and also including purchase and maintenance of one motor truck, horses, vehicles, and harness, and care and maintenance of stable, $34,500.
For continuing surfacing and improvement of Conduit Road from Conduit Road.Foxhall Road to Great Falls, $15,000. For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, Filtration and coagulant plant.and operation of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, filtration plant, and the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $91,000. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break Emergency fund.requiring immediate repair in one of the important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress, $5,000.
For continuation of parking grounds around McMillan Park McMillan Park.Reservoir, $3,000. For continuing the lining of such portions of unlined sections of the Lining tunnels.tunnels of the Washington Aqueduct as may be necessary to prevent disintegration and fall of rock, $10,000. For completing purchase, installation, and maintenance of water Water meters.Placing in specified buildings.meters, to be placed on the water services of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and Department of Agriculture Buildings, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, said meters to be purchased, installed, and maintained by and remain under the observation of the officer in charge of the Washington Aqueduct, $4,300.
For erection of a house for the assistant to the overseer at Great Great Falls, Md.House for assistant overseer.Falls, Maryland, including purchase of necessary materials not now on hand, the work to be done by the present force of men engaged on the Washington Aqueduct when their services can be spared from other work, $1,000. ROCK CREEK PARK.Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, and of the Piney Care, etc.Branch Parkway, exclusive of building for superintendent’s residence, but including not exceeding $750 repairs to the foreman’s quarters necessary for the preservation thereof, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park in the manner now 532provided by law for other expenditures of the District of Columbia, $18,000.
Removing dead and down timber.For the removal of dead and down timber from the woods and streams of Rock Creek Park, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. Salaries.Officers.Officers: Superintendent, $6,000; two assistant superintendents, at $3,000 each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, and director of primary instruction, sixteen in all, at a minimum salary of $2,200 each; secretary, $2,000; clerks—one $1,400. two at $1,000 each, one to carry out the provisions of the child-labor law, $900; two stenographers, at $840 each; messenger, $720; in all, $55,900.
Primary instruction.Salary of director.The director of primary instruction now in the service of the schools, or hereafter to be appointed, shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,200, and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per year for five years. Attendance officers.Attendance officers: Attendance officers—two at $600 each, one $900; in all, $2,100. Teachers.Teachers: For one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight teachers, to be assigned as follows: Principals.Principals of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, nine, at a minimum salary of $2,000 each;
Directors.Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six, at a minimum salary of $1,500 each; Pay, domestic science, etc.Hereafter the directors of domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens shall receive a salary of $1,500 per annum, with an *Proviso.*Increase.increase of $100 per annum for five years: *Provided further*, That for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, each of said directors shall receive the salary next above his present salary.
Assistant director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of $1,400; Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six, at a minimum salary of $1,300 each; Heads of departments in high and manual-training high schools in group B of class six, twelve, at a minimum salary of $1,900 each; Teachers.Teachers of the normal, high, and manual-training high schools promoted for superior work, group B of class six, fourteen, at a minimum salary of $1,900 each;
Teachers in group A of class six, including three principals of grade manual-training schools, two hundred and eighty-three, at a minimum salary of $1,000 each; Teachers in class five, one hundred and eighteen, at a minimum salary of $950 each; Teachers in class four, four hundred and thirty, at a minimum salary of $800 each; Teachers in class three, four hundred and eighty-one, at a minimum salary of $650 each; Teachers in class two, three hundred and thirty-six, at a minimum salary of $600 each;
Teachers in class one, seventy-one, at a minimum salary of $500 each; Special beginning teacher in the normal school, $800; In all for teachers, $1,375,250. Librarians and clerks.Librarians and clerks: Librarian in class four, one, at a minimum salary of $800; 533 Librarians and clerks in class three, twelve, at a minimum salary of $650 each; Librarians and clerks in class two, five, at a minimum salary of $600 each; Librarians and clerks in class one, eight, at a minimum salary of $500 each;
In all, $15,600. Longevity pay: Longevity pay for director of intermediate Longevity pay.instruction, supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, principals of normal, high, and manual training high schools, principals of grade manual training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of Vol. 34, p.320.teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by the Acts approved May twenty-sixth, Vol. 35, p. 289.nineteen hundred and eight, May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and Vol. 36, p. 393.ten, and June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $425,000.Vol. 37, p. 156.
Allowance to principals: Allowance to principals of grade Principals.school buildings for service rendered as such, in addition to their Additional pay.grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, Vol. 34, p. 320.school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, $34,000. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination *Provisos.*No sex discriminations.shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade and performing a like class of duties; and it shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades. *Provided further*, That no teacher, of the whole number appropriated Restriction 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, including Night 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, $20,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment Equipment.and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $2,750. Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, $3,000.Kindergarten supplies.Janitors, and care of buildings.
Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: Superintendent of janitors, $1,200; Central High School and annex: Janitor, $900; laborers—one $420, three at $360 each; in all, $2,400; Business High School: Janitor, $900; laborers—one $420, three at $360 each; in all, $2,400; J. Ormond Wilson Normal School and Ross School: Engineer, $900; janitor, $600; laborers—one $420, three at $360 each; in all, $3,000; Jefferson School: Janitor, $800; two laborers at $360 each; in all, $1,520;
Western High School: Janitor, $900; laborers—one $420, three at $360 each; in all, $2,400; Franklin School: Janitor, $840; laborers—one $420, two at $360 each; in all, $1,980; Normal School Numbered Two: Janitor, $900; laborers—one $420, two at $360 each; in all, $2,040; 534 Eastern High School: Janitor, $900; laborers—one $420, one $360; in all, $1,680; Stevens School: Janitor, $900; two laborers at $360 each; in all, $1,620; McKinley Manual Training School: Janitor, $900; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,500; assistant engineer, $1,000; two assistant janitors, at $720 each; fireman, $420; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $5,980;
Armstrong Manual Training School: Janitor, $900; assistant janitor; $720; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,200; assistant engineer, $720; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $4,260. M Street High School and Douglass and Simmons Schools: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $900; laborers—one, $420; three, at $360 each; in all, $3,400. Birney and annex, Emery, the new Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Van Buren, and Wallach Schools: Six janitors, at $840 each; six laborers, at $360 each; in all, $7,200.
Brookland, Bryan, Congress Heights, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gage, Gales, Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Grover Cleveland, Henry. Johnson and annex, Langdon, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Miner, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, Strong John Thomson Schools:’ Twenty-four janitors, at $720 each; twenty-four laborers, at $300 each; in all, $24,480. Abbott, Benning (white), Berrett, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, Dent, Randall, Syphax and Tenley Schools: Eleven janitors, at $700 each; in all, $7,700.
Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Cardozo, Chevy Chase, Corcoran, Eaton, Edmunds, Eckington, Fillmore, French, Garrison, Giddings, Green-leaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Isaac Fairbrother, Jackson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Petworth, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Powell, Randle Highlands, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatly, Wilson, Woodburn, Wormley, and West Schools:
Seventy-two janitors, at $600 each; in all, $43,200. Crummell School, Wisconsin Avenue Manual Teaming School, Cardozo Manual Training School, and one six-room building in the twelfth division: Four janitors, at $540 each; in all, $2,160; Brightwood Park and Kenilworth Schools: Two janitors, at $360 each; in all, $720; Bunker Hill, Deanwood, Hamilton, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Smothers, Stanton, Threlkeld, Military Road, and Burrville Schools: Twelve janitors, at $300 each; in all, $3,600;
Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, and Fort Slocum Schools; Three janitors, at $150 each: in all, $450; In all, $123,390. Care of smaller buildings, etc.For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $72 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, $9,000. Medical inspectors.Medical inspectors: Thirteen medical inspectors of public schools, one of whom shall be a woman, two shall be dentists, and *Proviso.*Competitive examinations, etc.four shall be of the colored race, at $500 each; in all, $6,500: *Provided*, That said inspectors shall be appointed by the commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least three years’ experience in the practice of medicine or dentistry in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time 535to time by him, which shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the commissioners.
For five graduate nurses, one of whom shall be colored, who shall act Graduate nurses.as public-school nurses, at $900 each, $4,500. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, repair shop, storage Miscellaneous.Rent.and stock rooms, $18,000. For amount required to equip temporary rooms for classes above Equipping temporary rooms, etc.the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by operation of the compulsory education law, and for purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, $5,000.
For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and Repairs, etc.for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $115,000. A detailed statement of the expenditure of the appropriation made Annual statement required.for purposes expressed in the foregoing paragraph shall be submitted to Congress in the Book of Estimates for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and annually thereafter.
For purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and books, Manual training expenses.and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $25,000. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $85,000.Fuel, lights, etc. For furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades for Furniture.additions to buildings for kindergartens, and also tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows:
One Specified schools.four-room addition to the Congress Heights School, $1,000; one six-room addition to the Birney School, $1,500; five kindergartens, $1,700; one sewing school, $150; one cooking school, $300; one manual training shop, $300; in all, $4,950. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, Contingent expenses.stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for high-school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of $300 for livery of horse or garage for each the superintendent of schools and superintendent of janitors, and including not exceeding $1,000 for books, books of reference, and periodicals, $47,500.
For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten Pianos.schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $900. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first Supplies to pupils.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 purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of textbooks and supplies, at $1,200, and one assistant, at $600, $66,000: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its discretion, is *Proviso.*Exchanges.authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use.
For purchase of United States flags, $800.Flags. For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school Playgrounds.playgrounds, $900. Tor maintenance and repairing forty-eight playgrounds now established, $2,400. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance School gardens.of school gardens, $1,200. For purchase of apparatus, and extending the equipment and for Physics department supplies.maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, and M Street High Schools, $3,000. 536 Chemistry and biology laboratories.For purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials for laboratories of the departments of chemistry and biology in the Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and M Street High Schools, J.
Ormond Wilson Normal School, and Normal School Numbered Two, and installation of same, $2,100. Cabinetmaker.For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture, $1 000. Nonresident pupils.Application of tax for.Vol. 37, p. 161.Hereafter the taxes levied by the government of the District of Columbia and paid for the year next preceding the time of levying tutelage charges by nonresident pupils or the parents of nonresident pupils shall be accepted as a credit or part créent, as the case may be, on said tutelage.
Buildings and grounds.Central High School.Buildings and grounds: Toward the construction of the new Central High School on the site purchased for that purpose and toward grading and other work necessary to prepare the site, grading of an athletic field, construction of retaining walls, and construction of an athletic stadium, $450,000. M Street High School for colored pupils.Toward the construction of the new M Street High School for colored pupils, on the site purchased for that purpose, and toward grading of said site, $150,000.
For the purchase of ground adjacent to the Petworth School, $3,500. For the erection of a sixteen-room building on the site purchased west of Soldiers’ Home grounds, south of Rock Creek Road, $132,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Burrville School, $3,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Takoma School, $6,000. For the purchase of ground lying north of the Maury School, $2,800. For additional ground lying north of the Lenox School, $6,000.
Site for new Eastern High School.For the purchase of a site for a new Eastern High School, $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Limit of cost for sites and buildings.The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. Soliciting subscriptions for testimonials, etc., forbidden.No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be paid to any person, employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia, who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value, from pupils enrolled Objects permitted.in such public schools for presentation of testimonials or for any purposes other than for the promotion of school athletics, including school playgrounds, school gardens, school publications, and commencement exercises of high schools.
Franklin School Building.Occupation restricted.No greater amount of floor or room space shall be occupied in the Franklin School Building for office purposes of the Board of Education or of the superintendent of education than was so used January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen; and the remainder of said building shall, until otherwise provided, be devoted solely to the actual work of teaching. Preparation of plans.The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect and shall be approved by the commissioners, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto.
Doors to open outward, etc.The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having in excess of eight rooms shall nave at least four exits. No part of any appropriation carried in this Act shall be used for the maintenance of school 537in 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 after school hours.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attending the Deaf and dumb persons.instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section [R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 844.forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $12,250, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age Colored deaf-mutes.belonging to the District of Columbia in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $4,550, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For instruction of indigent blind children of the District of Columbia, Blind children.in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $7,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. Major and superintendent, $4,000; assistant superintendent, with Salaries.rank of inspector, $2,500; three inspectors, at $1,800 each; eleven captains, at $1,500 each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, $2,000; clerk and stenographer, $1,500; clerk, who shall be assistant property clerk, $1,200; three clerks, at $1,000 each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at $720 each; additional compensation for twenty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, $4,800, or so much thereof as may be necessary; thirteen lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at $1,320 each; forty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,250 each; four hundred and seventy-seven privates of class three, at $1,200 each; one hundred and seven privates of class two, at $1,080 each; fifty-six privates of class one, at $900 each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $4,881.53; six telephone operators, at $720 each; fourteen janitors, at $600 each; messengers—one $700, one $600; inspector, mounted, $240; fifty-five captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at $240 each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $50 each; twenty drivers, at $840 each; five police matrons, at $600 each, to possess police power of arrest; in all, $912,141.53.
To aid in support of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, Criminal Identification Bureau.to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, provided the several departments of the General Government may be entitled to like information from time to time as is accorded police departments of various municipalities privileged to membership therein, $500. Miscellaneous: For fuel, $4,000;Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds, Repairs.$6,000;
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including purchase of Miscellaneous expenses.new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase of horses, horse and vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, motor cycles, police equipments 538and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary-expenses, Detection of crime.$30,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided*, *Proviso.*Mounted equipment.That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required;
Flags.For flags and halyards, $100; Car tickets.For purchase of car tickets for strictly official use, $5,000; Motor vehicles.For maintenance of motor vehicles, $4,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Third precinct station house.For the reconstruction of cell corridors and the making, erecting, and placing therein in the third precinct station house modern locking devices, $4,520. Detective bureau.For one motor vehicle for the use of the detective bureau, $2,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
In all, $56,120. House of Detention.House of Detention: To enable the commissioners to provide transportation, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age and. in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including two clerks, at $1,000 each; four drivers, at $600 each; hostler, $600: six guards, at $600 each; three matrons, at $600 each, to possess police powers of arrest; miscellaneous expenses, including rent, forage, fuel, gas, horseshoeing, ice, laundry, meals, horses, wagons and harness and repairs to same, and other necessary expenses, $3,440; in all $13,840, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Harbor patrolHarbor patrol: Two engineers, at $1,000 each; two firemen, at $600 each; watchman, $540; two deck hands, at $540 each; in all, $4,820; For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $2,000; In all, $6,820. FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. Salaries.Chief engineer, $3,500; deputy chief engineer, $2,500; three battalion chief engineers, at $2,000 each; fire marshal, $2,000; deputy fire marshal, $1,400; two inspectors, at $1,080 each; chief clerk, $1,800; clerk, $1,200; thirty-seven captains, at $1,400 each; thirty-nine lieu-tenants, at $1,200 each; superintendent of machinery, $2,000; assist-ant superintendent of machinery, $1,200; twenty-five engineers, at $1,150 each; twenty-five assistant engineers, at $1,100 each; two pilots, at $1,150 each; two marine engineers, at $1,150 each; two assistant marine engineers, at $1,100 each; two marine firemen, at $720 each; thirty-nine drivers, at $1,150 each; thirty-nine assistant drivers, at $1,100 each; two hundred and nineteen privates of class two, at $1,080 each; forty-two privates of class one, at $960 each; hostler, $600; laborer, $480; in all, $552,520.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, $12,000; For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven apparatus, and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, and new appliances, $14,000; 539 For purchase of hose, $15,000; For fuel, $15,000; For purchase of horses, $10,000; For forage, $32,250; For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $800; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, Contingents expenses.medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $26,000;
For regrading and paving driveways and approaches to engine houses and other buildings of the fire department, $2,500; For purchase of car tickets for strictly official use, $650;Car tickets. In all, $128,200. Permanent improvements: For house, site, furniture, New houses, etc.and furnishings for an engine company to relieve number twenty engine company, Tenleytown, District of Columbia, including the cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, $40,500;
For house, site, furniture, and furnishings for truck company numbered one of the fire department of the District of Columbia, including cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, $55,000; For fire engine, motor driven, $10,000;New apparatus. For combination chemical and hose wagon, motor driven, $6,000; For two tractors, motor driven, $9,200; In all, $120,700. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health department. Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerk Salaries.and deputy health officer, $2,500; clerks—one $1,400, five at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, one $720; sanitary inspectors—chief $1,800, eight at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; food inspectors—chief $1,000, five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; chemist, $2,000; assistant chemist, $1,200; skilled laborer, $600; assistant bacteriologist, $1,200; skilled laborer, $720; messenger and janitor, $600; driver, $600; poundmaster, $1,200; laborers, at not exceeding $50 per month each, $2,000; in all, $64,540.
Not less than twelve of the sanitary and food inspectors above provided Milk and dairy inspection, etc.for shall be employed in enforcement of milk and pure-food laws and regulations relating thereto and in the inspection of dairies and dairy farms. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of Preventing spread of diseases.Vol. 29, p. 635.Vol. 34, p. 889.contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis Tuberculosis registration.Vol. 35, p. 126.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 $12,000, when ordered m writing by the commissioner’s and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase and maintenance Horses, wagons, etc.of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, $25,000: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist *Proviso.*Bacteriological examinations of milk, etc.employed under this appropriation shall not be paid more than $6 per 540day and may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary work as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases.
Disinfecting service.For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $6,000. Drainage of lots, etc.Vol. 29, p. 125.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, $1,500.
Food, etc., adulterations.For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $100. Bacteriological laboratory.Bacteriological laboratory: For the purchase and installation of new apparatus, $2,000; For the replacement of apparatus and supplies, $1,000; For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $300; In all, $3,300. Milk regulations enforcement.Vol. 28, p. 709.Adulterations of food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.For contingent expenses incident to 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; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and dings in the District of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight;
Pure food law.Vol.34, p. 768.an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, $1,000. Inspecting dairy farms, etc.For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including amounts that may be allowed the health officer, assistant health officer, medical inspector in charge of contagious-disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for maintenance by each of a horse and vehicle, or motor vehicle, for use in the discharge of his official duties, not to exceed $240 per annum, and allowances for such other inspectors in the service of the health department as the commissioners may determine, of not exceeding $100 per annum for maintenance of a motor cycle each, or of not exceeding $25 per annum for the maintenance of a bicycle each, for use in the discharge of their official duties, and other necessary traveling expenses, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Isolating wards in hospitals.Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $7,000 and $5,000, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $12,000. Public crematory.For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, $2000. Motor vehicle.For one motor vehicle for the sanitary and food inspection service of the health department, at a cost not exceeding $800, and for the maintenance thereof, $400; in all, $1,200.
Pound and stable.For completion of the pound and stable as follows: For metal folding shutter for the wagon shed, $1,000; painting inside walls, $50; erecting flagpole, $75; screens and awnings, $100; and fire hose, $100; in all, $1,325. 541 COURTS.Courts. To pay the reporter of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, reports.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 Vol. 32, p. 609.the Code of Law for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two volumes, at $5 each, namely, eleven copies each of volumes forty-two and forty-three, $110.
Probation system: Probation officer, Supreme Court, $2,000; Probation system.stenographer and typewriter and assistant, $800; police court— probation officer $1,500, assistant probation officer, $1,200; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $6,000. Juvenile court: Judge, $3,600; clerk, $2,000; deputy clerk, who Juvenile court.Salaries.is authorized to act as clerk in the absence of that officer, $1,350; stenographer and typewriter for judge’s work and to aid in keeping records in clerk’s office, $900; probation officers—chief $1,800, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; clerk for probation office, $900; bailiff, $900; janitor, $600; in all, $17,450.
Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900;Jurors. For rent, $2,400, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, Rent.*Proviso.*New quarters to be selected.That the selection of new quarters shall be made by the judge of the juvenile court subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; For furniture, fixtures, and equipments, cost of moving, and repairs Furniture, etc.to the courthouse and grounds, $1,500; For fuel, ice, gas, and laundry work, stationery, printing, law books, Miscellaneous.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, $2,000;
In ail, $6,800. Police court: Two judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $2,200; deputy Police court.Salaries.clerks—one $1,600, one $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one who shall be a stenographer and typewriter $900; deputy financial clerk, $1,500; seven bailiffs, at $900 each; deputy marshal, $1,000; janitor, $600; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman, $600; two assistant janitors, at $300 each; matron, $600; three charmen, at $360 each; telephone operator, $480; in all, $30,180.
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, $2,250;
For witness fees, $3,000; For furniture and repairing and replacing same, $200; For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $50; For compensation of jurors, $7,000; For repairs to building, $1,000; In all, $13,500. Municipal court: Five judges, at $2,500 each; clerk, $1,500; Municipal court.Salaries.three assistant clerks, at $1,000 each; janitor, $600; in all, $17,600; For rent of building, $1,500;Rent. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of Contingent expenses.reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $750;
In all, for the municipal court, $19,850. 542 Lunacy writs.Vol. 33, p. 740.Writs of lunacy: To defray expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including the employment of an alienist at not exceeding $1,000 per annum, $3,500.
INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.Interest and sinking fund. Amount.For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, which sum shall be paid out of funds and accounted for in accordance with the Acts of Congress in relation thereto, $975,408. 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 or storm, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, $8,000:*Proviso.*Purchases. *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 such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia.
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; for expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and for rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $70,000. Courthouse, care, etc.Courthouse, District of Columbia:
For the force for care and protection of the courthouse, under direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, $1,200; three watch-men, at $720 each; three firemen, at $720 each; five laborers, at $600 each; three messengers, at $720 each; in all, $10,680, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Court of appeals building, care, etc.Court of Appeals Building, District of Columbia: For the force for care and protection of Court of Appeals Building:
Two watchmen, at $720 each; elevator operator, $720; three laborers, at $480 each; mechanician (under the direction of the Superintendent *Proviso.*Custodian.of the Capitol Building and Grounds), $1,200: *Provided*, That the clerk of the Court of Appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court: in all, $4,800. Expenses.For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electric current, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800.
Supreme court.Witness fees, etc.Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $13,000. Jurors’ fees.Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors, $57,000. Pay of bailiffs, etc.Pay of bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expense of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, $27,000. 543 Miscellaneous expenses:
For payment of such miscellaneous Miscellaneous expenses.expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supremo 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, $15,000. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections. Board of Charities:
Secretary, $3,500; stenographer, $1,400; Board of Charities.Salaries, etc.clerk, $1,200; messenger, $600; inspectors—one $1,200, three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, two at $840 each; drivers—one $780, three at $720 each; hostler, $540; traveling expenses, including attendance on conventions, $400; in all, $18,260. reformatories and correctional institutions.Reformatories, etc. Washington Asylum and Jail: Superintendent, $1,800; visiting Washington Asylum and Jail.Salaries.physician, $1,200; resident physician, $480; two assistant resident physicians, at $120 each; clerk, $840; engineer, $900; assistant engineers—three at $600 each; night watchman, $480; blacksmith and woodworker, $500; driver for dead wagon, $365; one hostler and driver, and one driver for supply and laundry wagon, at $240 each; hospital cook, $600; assistant cooks—one $300, two at $180 each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, $900; two graduate nurses, at $425 each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, $425; two nurses for annex wards, at $480 each; eight orderlies, and two orderlies for annex wards, at $300 each; pupil nurses, not loss than twenty-one in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed $120 per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed $150 per annum during second year of service), $3,000; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, $720; gardener, $540; seamstress, and housekeeper, at $300 each; laundryman, $600; assistant laundryman, $365; six laundresses, at $360 each; two chambermaids, three waiters, and seven ward maids, at $180 each; temporary labor, not to exceed $1,200; in all, $27,825;
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to Contingent expenses.same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $35,000; For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, $2,000; For hospital furnishings, including sterilizers and accessories for operating room, and microscope for laboratory, $1,000;
Payments to destitute women and children: For payment to beneficiaries Payment to abandoned families, etc.Vol. 34, p. 87.named in section three of “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia, on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District;
Support of prisoners: For expenses of maintenance of jail prisoners Support 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, $46,000; For repairs to jail roof and chimney, $500;Repairs, etc. 544 For installing laundry plant in jail, including dry box, washing machine, and other appurtenances, $1,500; For material and labor for piping, conduit work, and extension of central heating plant, $4,500;
Transporting prisoners.Transportation of prisoners: For convoying prisoners to Washing-ton Asylum and Jail, including salary of driver, not to exceed $720, and purchase and maintenance of necessary homes, wagons, and harness, $2,000; In all, under Washington Asylum and Jail, $125,325. Home for Aged and Infirm.Salaries.Home for Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk, $900; matron, $600; chief cook, $720; baker, and laundryman, at $540 each; chief engineer, $1,000; assistant engineer, $720; physician and pharmacist, $480; second assistant engineer, $480; two male attend-ants, and two nurses, at $360 each; two female attendants, at $300 each; three firemen, at $300 each; assistant cooks—one $300, one $180; blacksmith and woodworker, $540; farmer, $540; three farm hands, dairyman, and tailor, at $360 each; seamstress, laundress, hostler and driver, at $240 each; three servants, at $144 each; temporary labor, $1,000; in all, $15,632;
Contingent expenses.For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $27,000; Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500; For purchase of material for permanent roads, $500; For purchase of two high-grade rubber and leaded electric-light cables and installation in underground conduit now in place, $1,965;
In all, for Home for Aged and Infirm, $47,597. National Training School for Boys.Care, etc., of inmates.National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $48,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. National Training School for Girls.Salaries.National Training School for Girls:
Superintendent, $1,200; treasurer, matron, and three teachers, at $600 each; overseer, $720; parole officer, $600; seven teachers of industries, at $480 each; engineer, $720; assistant engineer, $600; night watchman, $480; two laborers, at $300 each; in all, $11,280; Contingent expenses.For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $350 for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, and for rewards for their recapture, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, not exceeding $150, $13,500;
Use of balance for buildings, etc.Vol. 37, p. 171.That any and all unexpended balance of the sum of $60,000 appropriated for an additional building and heating plant to be connected with existing buildings, including architect’s fees, under a contract to be made by the board of trustees, by the Act of June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the District of Columbia, is made available for furnishing such additional building, for roads and approaches thereto, and the erection of a barn and storehouse.
In all, for National Training School for Girls, $24,780. 545 medical charities.Medical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Freedmen’s Hospital.be made with Freedmen’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Columbia Hospital for Women.be made with Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $20,000.
For new washer in laundry, $500. For repairs to Columbia Hospital, $600. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Children’s Hospital.be made with Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $14,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Homeopathic Hospital.be made with National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $8,500. For emergency care and treatment of and free dispensary service Emergency Hospital.to indigent patients, under a contract or agreement to be made with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, $17,000.
For emergency care and treatment of and free dispensary service Eastern Dispensary.to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, $12,500. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be Home for Incurables.made with Washington Home for Incurables by the Board of Charities, $5,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to Georgetown University Hospital.be made with Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $5,000.
For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to George Washington University Hospital.be made with George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $5,000. Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician, Tuberculosis Hospital.Salaries.$480; pharmacist and clerk, superintendent of nurses, and engineer, at $720 each; pathologist, $300; matron, dietician, chief cook, assistant engineer, laundryman, and seven graduate nurses, at $600 each; assistant cooks—one $360, two at $240 each; assistant engineer, $480; elevator conductor, $300; three laundresses, at $240 each; farmer, laborer, night watchman, three orderlies, and assistant laundryman, at $360 each; two ward maids, at $180 each; four servants at $240 each; in all, $18,120;
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to Contingent expenses.same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $32,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including Repairs, etc.roads and sidewalks, $4,000; For erection of residence for superintendent, $6,000;
In all, for Tuberculosis Hospital, $60,120. For the preparation of plans and specifications for the erection Gallinger Hospital.Preparing plans, etc., for municipal hospital to be known as.of hospital buildings, including power house and domestic-service building, for municipal purposes, to be located and erected on the site now owned by the District of Columbia at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets, and hereafter to be known as Gallinger Hospital, $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 546 child-caring institutions.Care of children.
Board of Children’s Guardians.Expenses.Board of children’s guardians: For administrative expenses, including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $25, and all office and sundry expenses, $3,500. Salaries.For agent, $1,800; clerk, $1,200; placing and investigating officers—one $1,200, one $1,000, five at $900 each; record clerk, $900; clerk, $720; messenger, $360; in all, $11,680. Feeble-minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $20,000.
Board, etc.For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place Amount for sectarian institutions.to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $300 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $55,000; In all, for board of children’s guardians, $90,180.
Advances to agent.The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to 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, sums of money not to exceed $200 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children.Salaries.Industrial Home School for Colored Children: Superintendent, $1,200; matron of school, $480; two caretakers, two assistant caretakers, nurse, and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two teachers, at $480 each; manual training teacher, $600; farmer, and blacksmith and wheelwright, at $480 each; stableman, and watchman, at $300 each; cook, and laundress, at $240 each; temporary labor, not to exceed $300; in all, $7,740; Expenses.For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $9,000;
For manual training equipment, $250; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500; For materials for construction of roads and sidewalks, $300; In all, for Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $19,790: *Proviso.*Use of proceeds from sales. *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 to be expended by them in the support of the school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Industrial Home School.Salaries.Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisor of boys, $720; matron, $480; three matrons, housekeeper, and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two assistant matrons, at $300 each; nurse, $360; manual-training teacher, $660; florist, $840; engineer, $720; farmer, $540; cook, and laundress, at $300 each; two housemaids, at $180 each; temporary labor, not to exceed $400; in all, $9,580; Expenses.For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and harness, $16,000;
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,700; In all, for Industrial Home School, $27,280. Home for destitute colored children.For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $9,900. Foundlings’ Home.For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with Washington Home for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, $6,000. 547 For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made Saint Ann’s Asylum.with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Charities, $6,000. temporary homes.Temporary homes.
Municipal lodging house and wood yard: Superintendent, $1,200; Municipal lodging house.foreman, $480; cook, $360; night watchman for six months, at $25 per month, $150; maintenance, $1,820; in all, $4,010. Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army Grand Army Soldiers’ Home.of the Republic: Superintendent, $1,200; janitor, $360; cook, $360; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $5,920, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners; and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish War and the War with Mexico shall be admitted to the home.
Southern Relief Society: For care and maintenance of indigent Southern Relief Society Home.and infirm men, women, and children under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society for the support of those under its care by the Board of Charities, $5,000. For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract Hope and Help Mission.to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, $3,000. Hospital for the Insane:
For support of indigent insane of theSupport of indigent insane. District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane, as provided by law, $385,000. For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811.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, $3,000.
In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District Advances to Board.of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of non-resident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia.
Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay of Relief of the poor.physicians to the poor at not exceeding $1 per day each, who shall be appointed by the commissioners on the recommendation of the health officer, $12,000. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, Transporting paupers.$3,000. Workhouse.—Administration: Superintendent, $2,500; chief clerk, Work house.Administration salaries.$1,200; assistant superintendent, $900; stenographer, $720; stenographer and officer, $600;
Operation: Foreman, construction, $900; foreman, stone-crushing Operation salaries.plant, $900; foreman, sawmill, $900; chief engineer and electrician, $1,100; superintendent brick kiln, $1,500; clay worker, $480; superintendent tailor shop, $480; Maintenance: Physician, $1,350; superintendent of clothing and Maintenance salaries.laundry, $720; storekeeper, $660; steward, $900; stewardess, $480; veterinary and officer, $780; captain of guards, $1,200; captain of night watch, $900; receiving and discharging officers—two at $1,000 each; superintendent laundry, $480; day guards—two at $720 each, thirty at $660 each; fifteen night guards, at $600 each; two day officers, at $480 each; four night officers, at $480 each; hospital nurse, $480; captain of steamboat, $900; engineer of steamboat, $840; in all, $56,990.
For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, Expenses of operation, etc.guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; prolusions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase 548of tools and equipment; 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; supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, $70,000;
Fuel, etc.For fuel for maintenance, $15,000; fuel for manufacturing and construction,, oils, and repairs to plant, $30,000; in all, $45,000; Repair material.For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000; Tugboat equipment.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 for tug-boat Vol. 37, p. 967.contained in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby made available for the purpose of equipping the tugboat now in use with electric light and such other additional repairs as in the judgment of the commissioners are necessary, and for the purchase of additional barges;
Farm implements, etc.For farm implements, including wagons, harness, plows, planters, harrows and drills, $1,500. In all, for workhouse, $177,490, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Reformatory.Preliminary operations.Reformatory: For grading, fencing, road making, water supply, sewerage, draining, and other necessary work of preparation for the erection of buildings for a reformatory, and for the beginning of construction of such buildings to be erected on the site authorized to be acquired for that purpose, to be constructed in accordance with Vol. 37, p.589.the provisions of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred Vol. 35, p. 717.and nine, authorizing the acquirement of land and the construction of buildings for a reformatory and workhouse and all Acts amendatory thereof, $15,000, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District or Columbia.
MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.Militia. Expenses.For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and em-powered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Camps, etc.For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills and parades, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, offices and storehouses, practice ships, boats, machinery and dock, dredging alongside of dock, telephone service, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $25,900.
Rent, etc.For rent of armories, offices, storehouses, and quarters for non-commissioned officers of the Armv detailed for duty with the militia, $17,064. For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, $600. For printing, stationery, and postage, $1,500. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $2,000. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, $1,000. For clerk, office of The Adjutant General, $1,000.
For expenses of target practice and matches, $1,250. Pay of troops.For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $24,000. REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS.Refund of erroneous collections. Payment of.To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, rents, or fees of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United 549States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District appropriation Vol. 36, p. 967.Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That this *Proviso.*Prior years.appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years.
ANACOSTIA RIVER FLATS.Anacostia River Flats. For continuing the reclamation and development of the Anacostia Continuing reclamation, etc., of.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 heretofore authorized to be prepared; said sum to be available for the preparation of plans, the prosecution of the work, the employment of personal service, and for such other purposes as may in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers be necessary to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, $100,000.
In Acquisition of lands along both sides of the river for highway and park purposes.connection with said reclamation and development of the river and flats from the Anacostia Bridge to the District line, the Secretary of War is authorized to acquire by purchase or by condemnation, for highway and park purposes, the fee simple and absolute title to the Description.land along the Anacostia River on both sides thereof between the high-water lines of said river, as determined by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and lines following approximately the contour of ten feet elevation on each side of said river above mean low water at the United States Navy Yard, from the Anacostia Bridge to the northeast boundary line between the District of Columbia and Maryland; and also all land below the high-water lines on each side of said Anacostia River between the Emits named that is not now owned by the United States; and the appropriation herein Payment for expenses of condemnation, etc.made for the reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Flats from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, and all appropriations heretofore made for said purpose are hereby made available for the purchase or condemnation of said land and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages for said land and the costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings in the event that it is necessary to institute such condemnation proceedings: *Provided*, That if said land or any part thereof can not be acquired *Proviso.*Condemnation proceedings.by purchase from the owners thereof at a price satisfactory to the Secretary of War, the Commissionci’s of the District of Columbia, upon the request of the Secretary of War, shall institute condemnation proceedings to acquire such land under the provisions of chapter Vol. 34, p. 151.fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.
There shall be assessed as special benefits for the reclamation and Assessment as special benefits on adjacent, etc., property.development of the Anacostia River and Flats from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District fine upon the aforesaid plans, such sum or sums as the jury hereinafter provided for may determine, on such lots, and pieces, or parcels of land abutting the area of improvement, and adjacent thereto, and any other lots, pieces, or parcels of land in the District of Columbia that such jury shall determine are specially benefited by reason of said reclamation and development, in the manner following, that is to say:
It shall be the duty of Proceedings.the Secretary of War, for the purpose of said assessment, to divide into sections, in such manner as he may deem best, the entire area of improvement; as soon as practicable after the reclamation and development of each section is completed, he shall furnish to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia a plat of such section showing the area reclaimed and developed, and thereupon it shall be the duty of said commissioners to institute in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as a district court, by petition, a proceeding in 550Vol. 34, p. 151.rem for the assessment of benefits.
The proceedings in such case shall be under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, Valuation by jury.in so far as the same are applicable. It shall be the duty of the jury provided for in said proceeding to find as special benefits the increase in value which such reclamation and development has added to each lot, piece, or parcel of land abutting such improvement, and adjacent thereto, and any other lot, piece, or parcel of land in the District of Columbia, which it may find will be specially benefited by reason of said improvement; and of the amount which said jury shall find such lots, pieces, or parcels of land so benefited it shall assess one-half thereof upon such lot, piece, or parcel of land.
In determining the amounts to be assessed against said lots, pieces, or parcels of land, the jury shall take into consideration the respective situations and topographical conditions of said lots, pieces, or parcels of land, and the benefits and advantages they may specially receive from such reclamation and development, and where any part of any lot, niece, or parcel of land has been dedicated for the purpose of such reclamation and development, the jury in determining whether the remainder of said lot, piece, or parcel of land is to be assessed for benefits and the amount of benefits, if any, to be assessed thereon, shall also take into consideration the fact of such dedication and the value of land so Collection and payment.dedicated.
The said assessments shall be levied and collected under the provisions of said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, and shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the United States and of the District of Columbia in equal parts, and when finally ratified and confirmed by the court shall severally be a lien upon the land assessed and shall be collected as special improvement taxes, in the District of Columbia, and shall be payable in five equal annual installments with interest at the rate of four per centum per annum from and after sixty days after the confirmation of the verdict of the jury.
Vol. 34, p. 151.Where not otherwise herein provided for, all of the provisions of said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said Code of Law for the District of Columbia shall be applicable to the levying and collecting of said special assessments. SMALL PARKS.Small parks. Condemnation of lands outside city limits for.*Post*, p. 625.For the condemnation of small park areas at the intersections of streets outside of the limits of the original city of Washington, to be acquired from such areas shown on the map on file in the.office of the engineer commissioner, in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District *Provisos.*Condemnation proceedings.Vol. 34, p. 151.Damages assessed as benefits.of Columbia, $25,000: *Provided*, That such condemnation shall be under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That of the amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in any such proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said parks, plus the costs and expenses of the proceeding thereunder, not less than one-half thereof shall be assessed by the jury as benefits, which, when collected, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States, one-half to. the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
Added to park system.The public parks so acquired shall become a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and be under the control of the Chief of Engineer’s of the United States Army. WATER DEPARTMENT.Water Department. Payable from water revenues.The following sums are appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: 551 For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall also Revenue and inspection branch.perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one SI,200, two at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; four meter computers, at $1,000 each; chief inspector, $1,000; meter clerk, $1,000; tap clerk, $1,000; inspectors—eight at S900 each, eleven at $800 each; messenger, $600;
For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400; Distribution branch.assistant engineers—one at $1,800, one at $1,600; foreman, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,500 each, four at $1,200 each, stores clerk $1,500, one at $1,000, one $900; time keeper, $900; assistant foreman, $900; leveler, $1,200; two rodmen, at $900 each; two chainmen, at $675 each; draftsman, $1,050; assistant foreman—one $1,275, one $1,200, one $1,125; master mechanic, $2,000; chief steam engineer, $1,750; two steam engineers, at $1,100 each; three assistant steam engineers, at $875 each; four oilers, at $610 each; three firemen, at $875 each; inspector, $1,200; janitor, $900; watchmen—one $875, one $700, one $610; drivers—one $700, one $630; two messengers, at $540 each; chief inspector of valves, $1,600; in all, $86,935;
For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, Contingent expenses.postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $4,800. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe Operating expenses.distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, and including a sum not exceeding $800 for purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the water department, $37,000.
For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service Service expenses.system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, ami maintaining water Water meters, etc.meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the commissioners, 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 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 fifteen, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, Construction work under Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily on.transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street cleaning or road work, or 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, 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 in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the expenditures *Proviso.*Limit.hereunder shall not exceed $70,000 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily Temporary laborers, etc.such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as 552may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 3. Horses, wagons, etc.Special authority from Commissioners for using. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and 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; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive Report.of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners m 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 *Proviso.*Temporary work on excavations, etc.provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.
Sec. 4. Water department.Temporary engineers, draftsmen, etc. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers, rod men, chain men, 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 Report.paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and the commissioners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services and *Proviso.*Limit.their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $13,200 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Temporary laborers, etc.The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 5. Miscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, 553foremen, sewer tappets, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and George-town 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. That the commissioners shall not make requisitions upon Limit on requisitions.the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Sec. 7. That all persons in the employment of the government of Custodians of property to make returns thereof to Commissioners.the District of Columbia having, as a result of such employment, custody of or chargeable with property, other than real estate, belonging to the District of Columbia, shall, at such times and in such form as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall require, make returns to said commissioners of all such property remaining in their possession, and the condition thereof, and, with reference to all property that may have come into their custody that shall have been consumed in use, a statement showing the quantity thereof and the purpose for which used.
No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment to the Washington Gas Light Company Washington Gas Light Company.Price of gas for public buildings fixed.for any gas furnished by said company at a rate in excess of 70 cents per one thousand cubic feet of gas so furnished for use in any of the public buildings of the United States or the District of Columbia. Sec. 8. That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are Inconsistent laws repealed.inconsistent with this Act are repealed.
Approved, July 21, 1914.