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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · March 3, 1915 · Chapter 80

Chapter 80. 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 sixteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 80.— 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 sixteen, and for other purposes.March 3, 1915.[[H. R. 19422](/us/bill/63/hr/19422).][[Public, No. 268](/us/pl/63/268).] *Be it enacted by the Senate a nd House of Representatives of the United States of Am erica in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia appropriations.Half from District revenues. That one half of the following sums, respectively, is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriateci, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the following expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, namely:
Joint Congressional Committee to report on proportionate snare of expenses.That a joint select committee shall be appointed, consisting of three Senators, to be named by the Presiding Officer of the Senate, and three Members of the House, to be named by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, whose duty it shall be to prepare and submit to Congress a statement of the proper proportion of the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, or any branch thereof, including interest on the funded debt, which shall be borne by said District and the United States, respectively, together Expenses.with the reasons upon which their conclusions may be based; and in discharge of the duty hereby imposed said committee is authorized to employ such assistance as it may deem advisable, at an expense not to exceed the sum of $5,000; and said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for *Proviso*.Time for submission.that purpose: *Provided*, That the report of said committee shall be submitted to the Congress not later than the first day of January, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
General expenses.GENERAL EXPENSES. Executive office.Salaries, Commissioners, etc.Executive Office: Two commissioners, at $5,000 each; engineer commissioner, so much as may be necessary (to make salary $5,000); secretary, $2,400: assistant secretaries to commissioners—three at $1,600 each; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,400, three 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 and typewriter, $840; 895 Veterinary division:
Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments of the District government, Veterinary surgeons, etc.$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—one of materials $1,200, two at $900 each; two laborers, at $600 each; two property-yard keepers, at $1,000 each; temporary labor, $150;
Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistant Building inspection division.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 be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,000, one $900; messenger, $600; assistant inspector, $1,500;
To reimburse two elevator inspectors for provision and maintenance Motor cycles for inspectors.by themselves of two motor cycles for use in their official inspection of elevators, $10 per mouth each, $240; For transportation, means of transportation, and maintenance of Transportation.means of transportation, $1,000; Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, $2,000; Plumbing inspection division.assistant inspectors of plumbing—principal $1,550, one $1,200, five 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, 82,400; draftsman, $1,350; sower tapper, $1,000; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each;
To reimburse three assistant inspectors of plumbing for provision Motor cycles for inspectors.and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official inspections m the District of Columbia, $10 per month each, $360: *Provided*, That no more of said sum shall be expended than is *Proviso*.Maintenance.actually necessary for the maintenance of said motor cycles; In all, Executive Office, $117,230. Care of District Building: Clerk and stenographer, $2,000; Care of District Building.chief engineer, $1,400; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrician, $1,200; two dynamo tenders, at $875 each; three firemen, at $720 each; three coal passers, at $600 each; electrician’s helper, $840; eight elevator conductors, at $600 each; laborers—two at $660 each, two at $500 each; two chief cleaners (who shall also have charge of the lavatories), at $500 each; thirty cleaners, at $240 each; chief watchman, $1,000; assistant chief watchman, $660; eight watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube operator, $600; in all, 836,530.
For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics and labor, not Maintenance, etc.to exceed $3,500, and miscellaneous supplies, $17,000. Assessor’s office: Assessor, $3,500; two assistant assessors, at Assessor’s office.$2,000 each; clerks—four (including one in arrears division) at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, seven (including one in charge of records) at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; draftsman, $1,200; assist-ant or clerk, $900; license clerk, $1,200; inspector of licenses, $1,200; assistant inspector of licenses, $1,000; messengers—two at $600 each; 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, $47,940.
Personal tax board: Two assistant assessors of personal taxes, Personal tax board.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. 896 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$900 each; clerk and bank messenger, $1,200; messenger, $600; in all, $21,800. Tax sale certificates.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; bookkeeper, $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; property survey officer, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,000 each; disbursing officer, $3.000; deputy disbursing officer, $1,600; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger, $600; in all, $47,576. Corporation counsel’s office.Office of corporation counsel:
Corporation counsel, $4,500; assistants—first $2,500, second $1,800, third $1,600, fourth $1,500, fifth $1,500; stenographers—one $1,200, one $840; clerk, $720; in all, $16,160. Sinking-fund office.Sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: 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’s office: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistant morgue master and janitor, $600; hostler and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600. Market masters.Market masters: Two market masters, at $1,200 each; assistant market masters, who shall also perform the necessary labor in cleaning the markets, and one laborer for duty at Eastern Market, $2,520; in all, $4,920. Produce market.Farmers’ Produce Market: Market master, 3900; assistant market master, who shall also act as night watchman, $600; watchman, $600; 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, $480; laborer to remove market refuse from streets and from sidewalks around Farmers’ Produce Market and to assist in the care of the interior of the market, $480; hauling refuse (street sweepings), $600; in all, $3,660.
Eastern market.Eastern Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (fanners’ market), $300. Western market.Western Market; Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $300. Fish wharf and market.Fish wharf and market: Market master and wharfinger, who 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; laborer, to be employed not exceeding six months, during the busy seasons, at $40 per month, $240; in all, $1,740.
Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets: Superintendent, $2,500; assistants—two at $1,200 each, one $1,000; clerk, $1,200; laborer, $600; in all, $7,700. 897 For purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, provisions, Purchases for investigations.and so forth, including personal services, 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; superintendents—one of streets $2,000, one of suburban roads $2,000, one of sewers $3,300; asphalts and cements—inspector $2,400: *Provided*, That the inspector of asphalts *Proviso*.Asphalt inspector, restriction.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—one Assistant engineers, etc.$2,200, one $2,100, four at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, four at $1,500 each, two at $1,350 each, 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; general inspector of sewers, $1,300;
Inspectors.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 Creek Park, $1,200; three subforemen, at $1,050 each; bridgekeepers—one $650, three at $600 each; chief clerk, $2,250; permit clerk, $1,500; assistant Clerks, etc.permit clerk, $1,000; index clerk and typewriter, $900; clerks—one $1,800, two 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—seven at $600 each; skilled laborers—one $625, two at $600 each; janitor, $720; steam engineers—principal $1,800, three at $1,200 each, three assistants 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, $173,870.
Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect, $3,600; Municipal architect’s office.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 $720; copyist, $840; driver, $540; in all, $26,350.
Public Utilities Commission: For salaries (including inspector Public Utilities Commission.of gas and meters, $2,000; assistant inspectors of gas and meters— one $1,000, two at $900 each; messenger, $600, transferred from engineer commissioner’s office); in all, $25,479.96; For valuation work as required by law, $40,000;Valuation work, etc. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, $4,000; In all, Public Utilities Commission, $69,479.96. Special assessment office:
Special assessment clerk, $2,000; Special assessment office.clerks—seven at $1,200 each, two at $900 each, one $750; in all, $12,950. Street-cleaning division: Superintendent, $2,500’; assistant Street-cleaning division.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. 898 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 all, $25,925;
Temporary services.For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $5,575, all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the commissioners; In all, $31,500. Female employment inspectors.*Ante*, p. 291.Employment of females: To carry out the Act to regulate the hours of employment and safeguard the health of females employed in the District of Columbia, approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, namely:
For three inspectors (two of whom shall be women) at $1,200 each; stenographer and clerk, $900; in all, $4,500. Free public library, and Takoma Park branch.Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch: Librarian, $3,500; assistant librarian, $1,500; chief circulating department, $1,200; children’s librarian, $1,000; 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 $600 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, $47,100.
Substitutes.For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at the discretion of the librarian, $1,000. Sunday, etc., opening.For keeping the central library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’clock postmeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, five holidays from nine o’clock antemeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, and for extra services on Saturday afternoons in July, August, and September; for keeping the Takoma Park branch open on holidays and for extra services there on Saturday half holidays, $2,000.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park branch: For books, 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, lunchroom equipment, purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles; and other contingent expenses, $9,000;
In all, $22,000. 899 CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, Contingent expenses.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.
For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motor cycles, and Motor vehicles. Maintenance.motor trucks, acquired for the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise herein provided for, including such personal services in connection therewith not otherwise herein authorized, as the com-missioners shall in writing specially order: and for the purchase of six Purchases authorized.additional motor vehicles herein specified, namely: Automobiles for the offices of the civilian commissioners and the Automobiles.engineer commissioner, including the assistants to the engineer com-missioner, the building inspection and street cleaning divisions, surveyor’s office, electrical department, the superintendent of construction, seventeen in all, including six, seating not more than two persons each, to be purchased hereunder, as follows:
Three for the assistants to the engineer commissioner, one for the superintendent of construction, and two for the surveyor’s office in lieu of old one to be exchanged. Motor cycles: One for the plumbing inspection division, four for Motor cycles.the street-cleaning department, and three for the electrical department, eight in all: Motor trucks: One for the municipal architect’s office, one for the Motor trucks.electrical department, and one for the parking commission, three in all;
In all, for motor vehicles, $15,284. All of said motor vehicles and Use of vehicles restricted.all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by 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 com-missioners, 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 District: *Provided*, That no *Provisos.*Limit of cost.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 persons or $500 for one seating not more than two persons: *Provided further*, That all motor vehicles and Distinctive color and marking required.all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by 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 vehicle, the words, “District of Columbia.
” Appropriations in this Act shall not be expended for the purchase Restriction on use of horses.or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for the use of the commissioners, or fór the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse900drawn vehicles for inspection or other purposes for those officials or employees provided with motor vehicles. Limit on expenses for horses.Appropriations in this Act, except appropriations for the militia, shall not 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.Appropriations in this Act shall not 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.For postage for strictly official mail matter, $11,000. Official use of car tickets.The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of car tickets from *Provisos*.Limit.appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of Fire and police not included.$5,000: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments.
Free street car rides to police and firemen.The several street railway companies in the District of Columbia are authorized and required to transport free of charge all members of the Metropolitan Police, crossing police, park police, and Fire Department of the District of Columbia when in uniform and in the performance of their duties. Collecting personal taxes.For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, in collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, $4,000.
Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $4,500. Coroner’s expenses.For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,000.
Morgue.For repair of the morgue building, $3,500. Advertising.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for General.tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $4,700. Taxes in arrears.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen Vol. 26, p. 24.hundred and fifteen, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $3,500, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised.
Game and fish laws.For enforcement of game and fish laws, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, $200. Removing dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923.For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” to 901pay 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 Reappropriation.Vol. 37, p. 147.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 sixteen.
For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the Historical tablets.Reappropriation.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 *Ante*, p. 523.subsequent District of Columbia appropriation Acts, is continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
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 the further equipment of the office of register of wills with File cases, register of wills office.metal file cases for the protection of the wills and records filed therein, $4,500. 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 in juries.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 hunched and sixteen. 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 a new roof at Eastern Market, $2,000.Eastern market. For constructing market buildings on the site of the present municipal Fish market, etc.New building.fish wharf and market, including refrigerating and cold-storage plant, which shall be equipped for the accommodation of such retail business as may obtain at that point and shall serve as the wholesale receiving and distributing point for marine and other products to be retailed elsewhere in the District, within a limit of cost of $185,000 which is hereby fixed, $125,000.
IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, Assessment and permit work.$220,000. Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenues Work on streets and avenues.named in Appendix M, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $110,700, to be expended in the discretion of the commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in Schedules.said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Georgetown schedule: $5,500. Northwest section schedule: $12,700. Southwest section schedule: $28,500. Southeast section schedule: $35,000. Northeast section schedule: $29,000. *Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already *Proviso*.Streets paved with Belgian block, etc.paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order 902in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Limit for asphalt pavement.Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be 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 *Proviso*.Increase allowed.four: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to $2 per square yard.
Repaving Seventh Street NW.Repave with asphalt the roadway of Seventh Street northwest, from New York Avenue to Q Street, $30,000. Repaving Tenth Street NW.Repave with asphalt the granite block roadway pavement of Tenth Street northwest, from Pennsylvania A venue to the south side of B Street, forty-five feet wide, $1*3,500. Repaving Florida Avenue NW.Repave with asphalt the granite block roadway pavement of Florida Avenue northwest, from Seventh Street to Ninth Street, forty-six feet wide, $5,200.
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. Sherman Avenue, Columbia Road to Park Road, grade and improve, $13,200; Northeast. V Street, Lincoln Road to Second Street, grade and improve, $5,300; Southeast. Naylor Road, east of Good Hope Road to District of Columbia line, grade and improve, $8,000; Northwest. Canal Road, south side, retaining wall, reconstruct, grade and improve, $5,000; Northeast. For improving a roadway from Division Avenue and Grant Street toward the District fine near Chesapeake Junction, in accordance with plans on file in the office of the Engineer Commissioner, grade and improve, $9,300, and so much as may be necessary of the appropriation for grading streets in Burrville authorized by *Ante*, p. 527.the Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen is authorized to be used for grading this roadway Northwest.
Georgia Avenue, Irving Street to Rock Creek Church Road, grade and improve, $24,500; Northeast. Myrtle Street, South Dakota Avenue to Central Avenue, grade and improve, $2,200; Northwest. W Street, North Capitol Street to Flagler Place, pave, $12,100; Northeast. Monroe Street, Twelfth Street to Thirteenth Street, grade and improve, $2,800; Northeast. Sheriff Road, end of macadam to District of Columbia line, grade and improve, $6,000; 903 Northeast. Division Avenue, Washington Court to Deane Avenue, grade, $3,600;
Southeast. Seventh Street, Alabama Avenue to Nichols Avenue, grade and improve, $2,300; Southeast. Pennsylvania Avenue, Branch Avenue to Bowen Road, widen, $7,000; Southeast. Seventeenth Street, Good Hope Road to Minnesota Avenue, grade and improve, $2,000; Northwest. Albemarle Street, Connecticut Avenue to Reno Road, grade, $6,000; Northwest. Kenyon Street, Georgia Avenue to Park Place, grade and improve, $9,400; In all, $118,700. To carry out the provisions contained in the District of Columbia Permanent system of highways.Extending streets, etc., to conform with.Vol. 37. p. 950.appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, which authorizes the commissioners to open, extend, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway to conform with the plan of the permanent system of highways in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, there is appropriated, payable entirely from the revenues of the District Solely from District revenues.of Columbia, such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Repairs—Streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of Repairs of streets, etc.repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, $315,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing Street railways.pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government Vol. 20, p. 105.for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.
The authority given the Commissioners in the District of Columbia Changing curbs, etc.appropriation Act, approved March second, nineteen hundred and Vol. 34, p. 1130.seven, to make such changes in the lines of the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved under approEnations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That no such change shall *Proviso*.Conditions.be made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement.
For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public Sidewalks and curbs.reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $10,000. Repairs to suburban roads: For current work of repairs to Suburban roads, repairs.suburban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles, four motor cycles, and one truck, $145,000. Bridges: For construction and repairs, $22,000. This appropriation Bridges.Construction and repairs.Street bridges over railroads.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 amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railway company in the manner provided in section five Vol. 20, p. 105.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 across Potomac River: Draw operators—two Highway bridge.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. 904 Anacostia Bridge.Operation of Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the Bridge, $5,600.
Sewers.SEWERS. Cleaning, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, $68,000. Pumping station.For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and 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, $75,000. Suburban.For suburban sewers, $160,800.
Assessment and permit.Rights of way.For assessment and permit work, sewers, $125,000. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Anacostia intercepter.Anacostia main intercepter: For continuing construction of the Anacostia main intercepter along the Anacostia River between the outfall sewer, sewage-disposal system, at Poplar Point, and Benning, District of Columbia, $50,000.
Streets.STREETS. Cleaning, etc.Removing snow and ice.Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, 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 or motor vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed $27.50 per month for each inspector or foreman; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $280,000, and the commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Disposal of city refuseDisposal of city refuse: For collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; collection and disposal of night soil in the District of *Proviso*.Removal of night soil.Columbia: *Provided*, That hereafter night soil may be collected and disposed of by any process satisfactory to the commissioners; payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, $179,945.
Parking commission.Parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repair men, and teamsters, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, and miscellaneous items, $45,000, of which sum not to exceed $5,000 shall be immediately available. Bathing beach.Bathing beach: Superintendent, $600; watchman, $480; temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $2,250; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,400 to be immediately available; m all, $4,730.
Public scales.Sale authorized.Public scales: All public scales now owned by the District of Columbia, shall be sold to the highest bidder or Didders therefor, 905under sealed proposals which shall be invited by the Commissioners, after the value of said scales shall have been appraised and for a sum or sums not less than the appraised value of each or the total appraised value of all of them; any or all of the sealed proposals received here-under may be rejected and new proposals invited at any time prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen.
The commissioners are authorized to grant licenses for the location Licenses for locating, etc., public scales.and operation of public scales in the District of Columbia under such regulations as they may prescribe and for such fees as they shall approve, and they may grant permits, revocable on thirty days’ notice, for the location of such scales on public spaces under their control. Playgrounds: For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, construction Playgrounds.Maintenance.of toilet facilities, wading pools, installation of telephones and telephone service, fencing, grading, and repairs, including labor and materials and transportation of material, equipment and sup-plies, and necessary incidental and contingent expenses for all play-grounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $15,890;
For salaries: Clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $900; supervisor, Salaries.$2,500; to be employed not exceeding ten months—thirteen directors of playgrounds or recreation centers at $65 per month each, assistant director at $60 per month; to be employed not exceeding seven months—two assistant directora at $60 per month each, assistant director at $50 per month; to be employed not exceeding three months—assistant director at $60 per month, thirteen assistants at $45 per month each; watchmen to be employed not exceeding twelve months—thirteen at $50 per month each; general utility man at $60 per month for seven months; in all, $23,795;
For supplies, repairs, and necessary expenses of operating two Supplies.swimming pools already provided, and purchase of bathing suits, to be immediately available, $500; Two guards or swimming teachers for four months at $60 per month Guards.each, to be immediately available, $480; For construction of swimming pool, shower baths and equipment, Swimming pool in Georgetown.purchase and installation of toilets, lockers, and screens, including necessary personal services, for Georgetown Playground, to be immediately available, $3,750.
Authority is granted the commissioners to make rules and regulations Rules for playgrounds.governing the conduct of the municipal playgrounds and recreation centers coming under their control. In all, for playgrounds, $44,415, which sum shall be paid wholly out Wholly from District revenues.of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience Public convenience stations.stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $10,500;
For remodeling a portion of the interior of station numbered one, at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, $2,200. For new public convenience station numbered four, to be located New station, north-east section.above ground on public space at the intersection of Fifteenth Street and Maryland Avenue and H Street northeast, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings: For all Condemning insanitary buildings.Vol. 34, p. 157.expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an Act en-titled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal Services, when authorized by the commissioners, $2,500. 906 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 repair-man, $1,200; three repairmen, at $900 each; telephone operators— three at $720 each, five, 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; laborera—one $630, three at $600 each, two at $540 each; storekeeper, $875; in all, $49,015.
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, and other necessary items, $11,050. 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, $1,200. Lighting.Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, this sum to be expended in accordance with Vol. 36, p. 1008.the provisions of sections seven and eight of the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve Vol. 37, p. 181.and with the provisions of the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and other laws applicable thereto, livery and extra labor, $395,000.
Shorter periods of illumination permitted.The commissioners are authorized in their discretion to maintain part of the lamps on any street, avenue, alley, road, or public space, or portion thereof, for a shorter period each night after the hour of one o’clock antemeridian than that required by the provisions of the above-mentioned acts, at such reduced rates for said lamps as may be agreed upon by and between said commissioners and the fighting companies maintaining them. Fire-alarm boxes.For purchase and installation of ten fire-alarm boxes, and purchase 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. Maintenance.For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, Filtration plant, etc., Included.McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, the Filtration Plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, motor trucks, an for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the erection of a new storehouse at the Filtration Plant, and including maintenance of motor truck, horses, vehicles, and harness, $119,000.
Conduit Road.For widening and improving Conduit Road, $15,000. 907 For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, $5,000. 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, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 531.hundred and fifteen is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress.
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 Relining tunnels.tunnels of the Washington Aqueduct as may be necessary to prevent disintegration and fall of rock, $10,000. 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 provided by law for other expenditures of the District of Columbia, $18,000.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. Officers: Superintendent, $6,000; two assistant superintendents, Salaries.Officers.at $3,000 each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen super-vising 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, three 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, $56,900.
Attendance officers: Attendance officers—one $900, two at $600 Attendance officers.each; in all, $2,100. Teachers: For one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, Teachers.teachers at minimum salaries as follows: Principals of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, nine Principals.at $2,000 each; Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, Directors, etc.domestic art, and kindergartens, six at $1,500 each; Assistant director of primary instruction, $1,400;
Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six at $1,300 each; Heads of departments in high and manual-training high schools in Teachers.group B of class six, twelve at $1,900 each; Normal, high, and manual-training high schools, promoted for superior work, group B of class sLx, fourteen at $1,900 each; Group A of class six, including three principals of grade manual-training schools, two hundred and ninety-two at $1,000 each;
Class five, one hundred and eighteen at $950 each; Class four, four hundred and thirty-five at $800 each; Class three, four hundred and eighty-nine at $650 each; Class two, three hundred and forty-one at $600 each; Class one, seventy-four at $500 each; Special beginning teacher in the normal school, $900; In all for teachers, $1,398,050. Librarians and clerks at minimum salaries as follows:Librarians and Clerks. Librarian in class four—one $800; librarians and clerks—twelve in class three at $650 each, five in class two at $600 each, eight in class one at $500 each; in all, $15,600. 908 Longevity pay.Longevity pay:
Longevity pay for director of intermediate 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 Vol. 34, p. 320.entitled “ An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, Vol. 35, p. 289.Vol. 36, p. 393.Vol. 37, p. 156.as amended by the Acts approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $425,000.
Principals.Additional pay.Allowance to principals: Allowance to principals of grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of Voi. 34, p. 320.the Act entitled “ An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, $35,000. No sex discrimination.In assigning salaries to teachers of public schools in the District of Columbia no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade and performing a like class of duties; nor shall it be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of such teachers any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades;
Restriction as to clerks, etc.and no such teacher shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of, a clerk or librarian. Night schools.Salaries.Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $20,000. Equipment.For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $2,750.
Kindergarten supplies.Janitors and care of buildings.Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, $3,000. 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; 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; 909two 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, New Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Van Buren, and Wallach Schools, and sixteen-room building on the site purchased west of Soldiers’ Home Grounds, south of Rock Creek Road: Seven janitors, at $840 each; seven laborers, at $360 each; in all, $8,400. Brookland, Bryan, Congress Heights, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gage, Gales, Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Grover Cleveland, Henry, John-son and annex, Langdon, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, Strong John Thomson Schools:
Twenty-three janitors, at $720 each; twenty-three laborers, at $300 each; in all, $23,460. Abbot, Benning (white), Berret, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Crunch, 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 Training School, Cardozo Manual Training School, and one six-room building in the twelfth division: Four janitors, at $540 each; in all, $2,160; Brightwood Park and Kenilworth Schools: Two janitors, at $360 each; in all, $720; Bunker Hill, Deanwood, Hamilton, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Smothers, Stanton, Threlkeld, Military Road, and Burrville Schools: Twelve janitors, at $300 each; in all, $3,600;
Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, and Fort Slocum Schools: Three janitors, at $150 each; in all, $450; In all, $123,570. For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking Smaller buildings and rented rooms.and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $72 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, $10,000. Medical inspectors: Thirteen medical inspectors of public Medical inspectors.schools, one of whom shall be a woman, two shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, at $500 each; in all, $6,500.
For five graduate nurses, one of whom shall be colored, who shall Graduate nurses.act as public-school nurses, at $900 each, $4,500. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, repair shop, storage Miscellaneous.Rent.and stock rooms, $16,500. For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the second Equipping temporary rooms, etc.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. 910 Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, and the taking down, transferring, and the reerection of portable schools, $100,000.
Annual statement required.A detailed statement of the expenditure of the appropriation made for the purposes expressed in the foregoing paragraph shall be submitted to Congress in the Book of Estimates for the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and seventeen, and annually thereafter. Manual training expenses.For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $27,500.
Fuel, lights, etc.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $85,000. Furniture.For furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades for additions to buildings and also equipment for kindergartens, and also tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing Specified schools.schools, as follows: One sixteen-room building on site purchased west of Soldiers’ Home Grounds and south of Rock Creek Road, $4,800; three kindergartens, $1,020; one sewing school, $150; one cooking school, $300; one manual training shop, $300; in all, $6,570.
Western High School.Equipment.Contingent expenses.For complete equipment and furnishing of the Western High School, including necessary repairs to existing equipment, $50,000. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for high-school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, . including an allowance of $300 for livery of horse or garage for each the superintendent of schools and the superintendent of janitors, and including not exceeding $1,000 for books, books of reference, and periodicals, $47,500.
Pianos.For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,200. Supplies to pupils.For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education, and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of textbooks and *Proviso:*Exchanges.supplies, at $1,200, and one assistant, at $600, $66,000: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use.
Flags.For purchase of United States flags, $800. Playgrounds.For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds, $900. For maintenance and repairing fifty-four playgrounds now established, $2,700. School gardens.For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $1,200. Physics department supplies.For purchase of apparatus, and extending the equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, and M Street High Schools, $3,000.
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, $2,500. Cabinet maker.For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture, $1,000. Free tuition to children of employees in District.Hereafter all pupils whose parents are employed officially or otherwise in the District of Columbia shall be admitted and taught free of charge in the schools of said District. 911 Buildings and grounds:
For completing the construction of the Buildings and grounds.Central High School.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 Construction.of an athletic stadium, $450,000. So much as may be necessary of the appropriations for the construction Equipment of building, athletic field, and stadium.of a new Central High School building are made available for the complete equipment and for furniture, furnishings, and pianos for said building, and for the complete equipment of the athletic field and the stadium connected therewith, in accordance with the plans and specifications on file in the office of the engineer commissioner.
For completing the construction of the new M Street High School M Street High School.Construction.for colored pupils, on the site purchased for that purpose, and toward grading of said site, $250,000. For an eight-room addition, including an assembly hall, to the Powell School.Powell School, $66,000. The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings Limit of cost for sites and 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.
Appropriations in this Act shall not be paid to any person employed Soliciting subscriptions, etc., forbidden.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 tiling of value from pupils enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials or for any purposes other than for the Exceptions.promotion of school athletics, including school playgrounds, school gardens, school publications, and commencement exercises of high schools.
The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Preparation of plans.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. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall Doors to open outward, etc.be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having in excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits.
Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attending the Deaf and dumb pupils.[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 844.instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $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, $2,800, 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, $7,350, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 912 Police.METROPOLITAN POLICE.
Salaries.Major and superintendent, $4,000; assistant superintendent, with 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-four privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, $5,760, or so much thereof as may be necessary; thirteen lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at $1,320 each; forty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,250 each; four hundred and ninety privates of class three, at $1,200 each; one hundred and twenty-four privates of class two, at $1,080 each; twenty-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 sixteen, $2,080.49; six telephone operators, at $720 each; fourteen janitors, at $600 each; messengers—one $700, one $600; inspector, mounted on horse or motor cycle, $240; fifty-five captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on horses or motor cycles, 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, $917,260.49.
Criminal Identification Bureau.To aid in support of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, 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. Fuel.Miscellaneous: For fuel, $4,000; Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds, $6,000;
Miscellaneous expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including purchase of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modem 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 and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol Detection of crime.wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, $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 *Proviso*.Mounted equipment.voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided*, 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; Motor vehicles.For maintenance of motor vehicles, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Patrol wagon.For one additional motor patrol wagon, $2,500; In all, $48,600. House of Detention.House of Detention: To enable the commissioners to provide transportation, including purchase and maintenance of necessary 913horses, 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, $3,930; in all, $14,330, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Harbor patrol: Two engineers, at $1,000 each; two firemen, at Harbor patrol$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. Chief engineer, $3,500; deputy chief engineer, $2,500; three battalion Salaries.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-eight captains, at $1,400 each; forty lieutenants, at $1,200 each; superintendent of machinery, $2,000; assistant superintendent of machinery, $1,200; twenty-seven engineers, at $1,150 each; twenty-seven 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; forty drivers, at $1,150 each; forty assistant drivers, at $1,100 each; two hundred and twenty-three privates of class two, at $1,080 each; forty-four privates of class one, at $960 each; hostler, $600; laborer, $600; in all, $568,230.
Hereafter no removal from the force of the fire department of the Restriction on removals.District of Columbia shall be made except on written charges and after an opportunity for defense on the part of the person against whom such charges may be made. Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houses Miscellaneous.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, $15,000;
For hose, $18,000; For fuel, $15,000; For purchase of horses, $10,000; For forage, $35,000; For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $800; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, Contingent expenses.medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $26,000. In all, $131,800. Permanent improvements: For two tractors, motor driven, New apparatus, etc.$9,200; For installing steam heat in engine and truck houses, $5,000.
For two combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, $12,000; In all, $26,200. 914 Health departmentHEALTH DEPARTMENT. Salaries.Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerk and deputy health officer, $2,500; clerks—one $1,400, five at $1,200 each, tour 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 $1,600, five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; chemist, $2,000; assistant chemist, $1,200; assist-ant bacteriologist, $1,200; skilled laborers—one $720, one $600; messenger and janitor, $600; driver, $600; poundmaster, $1,200; la-borers, at not exceeding $50 per month each, $2,400; in all, $64,940.
Milk and dairy inspection.Not less than twelve of the sanitary and food inspectors above provided 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. Preventing spread of diseases.Vol. 29, p. 635.Vol. 34, p. 889.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred Tuberculous registration, etc.Vol. 35, p. 126.and seven, and an Act to Provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, under the direction of the health officer of said District, and for the prevention of other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services, not exceeding $12,000, when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase and maintenance of Horses, wagons, etc.necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and *Proviso*.Bacteriological examination of milk, etc.smallpox hospital, $25,000: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist employed under this appropriation shall not be paid more than $6 per day and may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary work as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases.
Smallpox hospital.For repairs to the smallpox hospital and administration building, $1,000. Quarantine station.For repairing and painting quarantine station, $400. Disinfecting service.For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the com-missioners 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, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.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 lab-oratory.Bacteriological laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $l,000; Chemical laboratory.Chemical laboratory: For the purchase and installation of new apparatus and equipment, $2,080; for the replacement of apparatus 915and equipment, $755; and for maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $500; in all, $3,335.
For contingent expenses incident to enforcement of an Act to Milk regulations enforcement.Vol. 28, p. 709.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 drugs in the District Adulteration of food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.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; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation Pure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768.of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious , drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, $1,000.
For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including Inspecting dairy farms, etc.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 dis-charge 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.
The examinations, inspection, rules and regulations concerning Milk supply from States.the milk supply of the District of Columbia shall be applied alike to each State shipping milk into said District. Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minor Isolating wards in hospitals.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.
For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, Crematory.$2,000. For maintenance of one motor vehicle for the sanitary and food Motor vehicle maintenance.inspection service, $400. COURTS.Courts. For eleven copies of volumes forty-four and forty-five of the Court of Appeals reports.Vol. 32, p. 609.reports of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, authorized to be furnished under section two hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, at $5 each, $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 m clerk’s office, $900; probation officers—chief $1,800, two at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each; clerk for probation office, $900; bailiff, $900; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $18,690.
Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900;Jurors. For rent of building at two hundred and three I Street northwest, Rent.$2,400; For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to the courthouse Furniture, etc.and grounds, $1,000; 916 Miscellaneous.For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters 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 all, $6,300. Police court.Salaries.Police court: Two judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $2,200, deputy clerks—one $1,600, one $1,500, two at $1,200 each; 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 assist-ant janitors, at $300 each; matron, $600; three charmen, at $360 each; telephone operator, $480; in all, $30,180.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painters’ and plumbers’ supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $2,250;
For witness fees, $3,250; 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, $13,750. Municipal court.Salaries.Municipal court: Five judges, at $2,500 each; clerk, $1,500; three assistant clerks, at $1,000 each; messenger, $600; janitor, $600; in all, $18,200; Rent.For rent of building, $1,500; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $750;
In all, municipal court, $20,450. Lunacy writs.Vol. 33, p. 740.Writs of lunacy: For 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. 917 COURTS AND PRISONS.Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation Support of convicts out of district.*Ante*, p. 869.of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; for expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and for expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; 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, $90,000.
Courthouse, District of Columbia: For care and protection, Courthouse, care, etc.under direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, $1,200; three watchmen, at $720 each; three firemen, at $720 each; five laborers, at $600 each; three messengers, at $720 each; in all, $10,680, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Court of Appeals Building, District of Columbia: Two Court of appeals building, care, etc.watchmen, at $720 each; elevator operator, $720; three laborers, at $480 each; mechanician (under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds), $1,200: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Custodian.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.
For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electric current, electrical Expenses.supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, S800. Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses and Supreme court witness fees, etc.payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the [R. S., sec. 250, p. 160](/us/rs/s250/p160).United States, $13,000.
Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors, $57,000.Jurors’ fees. Pay of bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding one crier in each Pay of bailiffs, etc.court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for 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. Miscellaneous expenses: For payment of such miscellaneous Miscellaneous expenses.expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, $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 sis superintendent of nursing, $1,000; two graduate nurses, at $480 each; graduate nurse for 918receiving ward, $480; two nurses for annex wards, at $480 each; eight orderlies, and two orderlies for annex wards, at $300 each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one in number (nurses to be paia 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; seam-stress, and housekeeper, at $300 each; laundryman, $600; assistant laundryman, $365; three laundresses, at $360 each; two chamber-maids, three waiters, and seven ward maids, at $180 each; temporary labor, not to exceed $1,200; operator of X-ray machine, $600; pathologist, $600; anaesthetist, $300; in all, $28,510;
Contingent expenses.For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $40,000; For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, $2,000; For purchase and installation of an X-ray machine, $2,750; For purchase and installation of pathological equipment, $1,000;
Payment to abandoned families, etc.Vol. 34, p. 87.Payments to destitute women and children: For payment to beneficiaries named in section three of “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, $6,000, 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 jail prisoners.Support of prisoners: For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, $46,000; Kitchen outfit.For new kitchen outfit, including steam kettles, urns, and range and other appurtenances, $1,500; Transporting prisoners.Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to Washington Asylum and Jail, including salary of driver, not to exceed $720, and purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $2,000;
Home for Aged and Infirm.Salaries.In all, Washington Asylum and Jail, $129,760. 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 attendants, 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, $240; 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, $300; For purchase of material and erection of permanent fence, $500; In all, Home for Aged and Infirm, $45,932. 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 919the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. National Training School for Girls: Superintendent, $1,200; National Training School for GirlsSalaries.treasurer, matron, and four 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, $11,880;
For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, Contingent expenses.clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding $350 for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates and for rewards for their capture, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, not exceeding $150, $13,500;
For repairing roofs, gutters, and spouting, administration building, Repairs, etc.preparatory building, male dormitory, and stable, $220; In all, National Training School for Girls, $25,600. 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 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.
Toward the construction of a new building for the Central Dispensary Construction of new building.and Emergency Hospital, erected on the site purchased and owned by said hospital, $50,000. For emergency care and treatment of and free dispensary service to Eastern Dispensary.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 be Georgetown University Hospital.made with Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $5,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be George Washington University Hospital.made with George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $5,000. Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician, Tuberculosis Hospital.Salaries.$600; 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 920engineer, $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 $240 each; four servants, at $240 each; in all, $18,360.
Contingent expenses.For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $32,000; Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $2,000; In all, Tuberculosis Hospital, $52,360. Care of children.child-caring institutions.
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, six at $900 each; record clerk, $900; clerk, $720; messenger, $360; in all, $12,580; Feeble-minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $20,000;
Board, etc., of children.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 to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 to institutions Amount for sectarian institutions.adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $300 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $60,000; In all, board of children’s guardians, $96,080.
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 com-missioners, 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; three caretakers, two assist-ant caretakers, nurse, and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two teachers, at $480 each; manual training teacher, $600; fanner, and blacksmith and wheelwright, at $480 each; stableman, and watchman, at $300 each; cook, $240; laundress, $240; temporary labor not to exceed $300 in all, $8,100; Expenses.For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $9,000;
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,000; For fire protection, including fire plugs, $200; *Proviso*.Use of proceeds from sales.In all, Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $18,300; *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 sixteen.
Industrial Home School.Salaries.Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisor of boys, $720; matron, $480; three matrons, at $360 each; house921keeper, 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; For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and Expenses.harness, $16,000;
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,700; For new boiler, $2,000; In all, Industrial Home School, $29,280. For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made Home for destitute colored children.with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $9,900. For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made Foundlings’ Home.with Washington Home for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, $6,000.
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, $2,000; in all, $4,190. 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. 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. 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, $6,000.
Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the Support 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 Charities.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.$2,000. Workhouse.—Administration: Superintendent, $2,500; chief clerk, Workhouse.Administration salaries.$1,200; assistant superintendent, $900; stenographer, $720; stenographer and officer, $600; 922 Operation salaries.Operation:
Foreman, construction, $900; foreman stone-crushing plant, $900; foreman sawmill, $900; chief engineer and electrician, $1,100; superintendent brick kiln, $1,500; clay worker, $480; superintendent tailor shop, $480; Maintenance salaries.Maintenance: Physician, $1,350; superintendent of clothing and 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.
Expenses of operation, etc.For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; pro-visions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase ana 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, dynamite, oils, and repairs to plant, $30,000; in all, $45,000; Repair material.For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000; In all, $175,990, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Reformatory.Development work.Reformatory: For construction of roads, grading of sites, and other development work, $15,000, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Commissioners.
Sale of products of workhouse, etc.The commissioners are authorized, under such regulations as they may prescribe, to sell to the various departments and institutions of the government of the District of Columbia the products of said Proceeds.work-house and said reformatory, and all moneys derived from such sales shall be paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia. Militia.MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Expenses.For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Camps, drills, 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, $30,000.
Rent, etc.For rent of armories, offices, storehouses, and quarters for non-commissioned officers of the Army detailed for duty with the militia, $17,064. 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, $2,500. 923 For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to he disbursed Pay of troops.under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $24,000. REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS.Refund of erroneous collections. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, Payment of.school tuition charges, rents, or fees of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia appropriation Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and Vol, 36, p. 967.eleven, if 1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Prior years.That this 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.River and Flats from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, to be expended for the purposes and under the conditions specified in the item for this improvement contained in the “District of *Ante*, p. 549.Contracts authorized.Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen,” $100,000, and authority is hereby granted to the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, to enter into a contract or con-tracts for and on account of said work in an amount not exceeding $100,000, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated.
SMALL PARKS.Small parks. For the condemnation of small park areas to be acquired in accordance Condemnation expenses.*Ante*, p. 625.with the provisions relating to small parks in the District of Columbia contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $25,000. WATER DEPARTMENT.Water department. The following sums are appropriated to carry on the operations Payable from water revenues.of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely:
For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall Revenue and inspection branch.also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; four meter computers, at $1,000 each; chief inspector, $1,000; meter clerk, $1,000; tap clerk, $1,000; inspectors—eight at $900 each, eleven at $800 each; messenger, $600. For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400; Distribution branch.assistant engineers—one $1,800, one $1,600; master mechanic, $2,000; foreman, $1,800; assistant foremen—one $1,275, one $1,200, one $1,125, one $900; steam engineers—chief $1,750, two at $1,100 each, three assistants at $875 each; chief inspector of valves, $1,600; leveler, $1,200; inspector, $1,200; draftsman, $1,050; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,500, four at $1,200 each, stores clerk $1,500, one $1,000, one $900; timekeeper, $900; two rodmen at $900 each; two chainmen at $675 each; four oilers at $610 each; three firemen at $875 each; janitor, $900; watchmen—one $875, one $700, one$610; drivers—one $700, one $630; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $87,355.
For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, Contingent expenses.printing, 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, 924including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, re-placing, 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.
Service expenses.For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk Water meters, etc.mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the commissioners, 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 sixteen, after providing for the expenditures herein before authorized, is appropriated.
Sec. 2. Construction work under Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed.That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, 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 *Proviso*.Limit.paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $70,000 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Temporary laborers, etc.The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, 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 m writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably 925charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners Report, etc.in the annual estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts *Proviso*.Temporary work on excavations, etc.as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.
Sec. 4. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers, Water department.Engineers, draftsmen. etc., temporarily employed.rodmen, chainmen, and inspectors temporarily required hi connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and the commissioners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services Report.and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Limit.expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $13,200 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily Temporary laborers, etc.such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 5. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the Miscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368.execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary engineering and other 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 sixteen 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 Custodians of property to make returns thereof to Commissioners.the government of 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. 926 Washington Gas Light Company.Price of gas for public buildings fixed.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment to the Washington Gas Light Company 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. Inconsistent laws repealed.That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, March 3, 1915.
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