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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · March 3, 1917 · Chapter 160

Chapter 160.

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CHAP. 160.— 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 eighteen, and for other purposes. March 3, 1917.[[H. R. 19119](/us/bill/64/hr/19119).][[Public, No. 378](/us/pl/64/378).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That one half of the following District of Columbia appropriations.
Half from District revenues.sums, respectively, is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the following expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, namely: 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; three assistant secretaries to commissioners at $1,600 each; clerks—one $1,500, two art $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,200, one $840, two at $720 each; two messengers, at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $840;
Veterinary division. Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments of the District government, $1,200; Medicines, surgical and hospital supplies, $1,000; Purchasing division. Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasing officer, $1,600; computer, $1,440; clerks—two at $1,500 each, 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, $1,200; 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. Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistant inspectors of buildings—principal $2,000, one $1,500, one $1,400, ten at $1,200 each; fire-escape inspector, $1,400; temporary employment of additional assistant inspection for such time as their services may be necessary, $1,500; civil engineers or computers— one $2,000, 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 by themselves of two motorcycles for use in their official inspection of elevators, $12 per month each, $288; For transportation, means of transportation, and maintenance of means of transportation, including allowances to inspectors for automobiles at the rate of $25 per month each and for horse and buggy at the rate of $20 per month, $1,000; Plumbing inspection division. Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, $2,000; assistant inspectors of plumbing —principal, $1,550, six at $1,200 1005each; clerks—two at $1,200 each, one $900; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, $2,400; draftsmen, $1,350; sewer tapper, $1,000; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each;
To reimburse three assistant inspection of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motorcycles for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia, $12 per month each, $432; In all, executive office, $121,050. Care of District Building: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; Care of District Building. Salaries.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-three cleaners, at $240 each; chief watchman, $1,000; assistant chief watchman, $660; eight watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube operator, $600; in all, $37,250.
For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor, not Maintenance.to exceed $3,500, and miscellaneous supplies, $17,000. Assessor’s office: Assessor, $3,500; assistant assessors—three at Assessor’s office. Salaries.$3,000 each, two at $2,000 each; five field men at $2,000 each; record clerks—one $1,800, two at $1,500 each, one $1,200; clerks—three (including one in arrears division) at $1,400 each (one transferred to License Bureau), four at $1,200 each, seven (including one in charge of records) at $1,000 each (one transferred to License Bureau), two at $900 each, two at $720 each; draftsmen—one $1,600, one $1,200; two stenographers and typewriters at $1,200 each; assistant or clerk, $900; two messengers, at $600 each; board of assistant assessors—clerk $1,500, vault clerk, $900; messenger and driver, $600; temporary clerk hire, $500; in all, $62,540.
So much of existing law as provides that the assessor of the District Permanent tenure of assessor, etc., repealed.of Columbia and the members of the permanent board of assistant assessors shall not be removed except for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office, is repealed: *Provided,* That on and after the *Provisos.* Records and accounts of taxes transferred to office of collector.date of the approval of this Act all records and accounts in any way relating or pertaining to the bookkeeping, accounting, and collection of taxes and assessments now prepared and kept in the office of the assessor of the District of Columbia shall be transferred to and kept in the office of the collector of taxes of said District; and the collector Collector to issue tax bills; etc.of taxes shall hereafter be charged with the duties heretofore required of the assessor in relation to the preparation and issuance of tax bills and bills for special taxes and assessments; the preparation for public inspection of lists of all real estate in the District of Columbia heretofore sold, or which may hereafter be sold, for the nonpayment of any general or special tax or assessment; and said collector shall furnish, whenever called upon, a certified statement, over his hand and official seal, of all taxes and assessments, general and special, that may be due at the time of making the said certificate; and he shall prepare the lists of taxes on real property in said District subject to taxation on which taxes are levied and in arrears on the first day of July of each year: *Provided further,* That on or before November first of each year Tax ledgers to be prepared by assessors and delivered to collector.the assessor shall prepare and deliver to the collector of taxes of said District tax ledgers in completed form, showing the assessed owners, amount, description, and value of real property listed for taxation in the District of Columbia; and on or before April first of each year the assessor shall prepare and deliver to the said collector personal tax ledgers in completed form, showing the names and addresses of assessed owners and the location and value of property assessed: *And provided further,* That the register of wills of the District of 1006 Copies of wills, etc., to collector and assessor.Columbia shall hereafter furnish copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved to the collector of taxes and the assessor of said District.
Special assessment office. Special assessment office: Special assessment clerk, $2,000; clerks—seven at $1,200 each, two at $900 each, one $750; in all, $12,950. Personal tax board. Personal tax board: Two assistant assessors of personal taxes, at $3,000 each; appraiser of personal property, $1,800; clerk, $1,400; assistant clerk, $1,000; three inspectors, at $1,200 each; extra clerk hire, $2,000; intangible personal property—for two clerks at the rate of $1,500 each per annum, and five inspectors at the rate of $1,200 each per annum, from March first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, both dates inclusive, $12,000; in all, $27,800.
License bureau created. Salaries. License bureau: Superintendent of licenses (who shall also be secretary to the automobile board without additional compensation), $2,000; clerks—one $1,400 (transferred from assessor’s office), one $1,200 (formerly license clerk, assessor’s office), one $1,000 (transferred from assessor’s office), one $900 (formerly index clerk and typewriter, engineer commissioner’s office); inspector of licenses, $1,200 (transferred from assessor’s office); assistant inspector of licenses, $1,000 (transferred from assessor’s office); in all, $8,700.
Authority, etc., vested in superintendent. All the authority, duties, discretion, and powers now vested by law in the assessor of the District of Columbia with respect to licenses and the issuance thereof, shall, on and after July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be transferred to and vest in the superintendent of licenses provided for in this Act. Excise board.*Post,* p. 1130. Excise board: Three members, at $2,400 each; clerk, $1,500; inspector, $1,500; messenger, $600; hire of means of transportation, *Proviso.* No pay to rejected nominee.$1,000; in all, $11,800: *Provided,* That the term of office of any member of the excise board whose nomination has been or may be rejected by the Senate shall be terminated by such rejection and no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any member of the board whose nomination has been rejected by the Senate.
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. For extra labor in preparation of tax-sale certificates, and data which the law requires this office to furnish the recorder of deeds and the assessor, with authority to employ typewriters and clerks, $800.
Auditor’s office. Auditor’s office: Auditor, $4,000: chief clerk, $2,250; book keeper, $1,800; accountant, $1,500; clerks—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, one $1,350, four at $1,200 each, seven at $1,000 each, one $936, two at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger, $600; property survey officer, $1,800; disbursing officer, $3,000; deputy disbursing officer, $1,600; clerks—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger, $600; in all, $48,776. Corporation counsel’s office.
Office of corporation counsel: Corporation counsel, $4,500; assistants—first $2,500, second $2,500, third $2,000, fourth $1,800, fifth $1,500, sixth $1,500: stenographers—one $1,200, one $840, one $720; clerk, $720; in all, $19,780. 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. 1007 Coboner's office:
Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistant Coroner’s office.morgue master and janitor, $600; hostler and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600. Market masters: Two market masters, at $1,200 each; assistant Market masters.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. Farmers’ Produce Market: Market master, $900; assistant market Produce market.master, who shall also act as night watollman, $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: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where Eastern Market.used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $300. Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street Western Market.where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $300. Fish wharf and market: Market master and wharfinger, who Fish wharf and market.shall have charge of the landing of vessels, the collection of wharfage and dockage rentals, and the collection of rents for fish houses at the municipal fish wharf and market, $900; assistant market master, who shall also act as laborer, $600; laborer, $480; in all, $ 1,980.
Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets: Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.Superintendent, $2,500; inspectors—three at $1,200 each, two at $ 1,000 each; clerk, $ 1,200; three laborers at $600 each; in all, $ 11,100. For purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, provisions, and so forth, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $100. Engineer Commissioner’s office:
Engineer of highways, $3,000; Engineer Commissioner’s office. Engineers, superintendents, etc.engineer of bridges, $2,500; superintendents—one of streets $2,000, one of suburban roads $2,250, one of sewers $3,300; asphalts and cements—-inspector $2,400, assistant inspector $1,500; trees and park- ings—superintendent $2,000, assistant superintendent $1,350; Assistant engineers, etc.assistant engineers—two at $2,200 each, four at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, four at $1,500 each, two at $1,350 each, one $1,200; transitmen—three 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; 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; 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; bridge keepers—one $650, three at $600 each; chief clerk, $2,250; permit clerk, $1,500; assistant permit clerk, Clerks, etc.$1,000; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,500 each, one $1,400, two at $1,350 each (including one transferred from per diem roll), seven at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, one $840, two at $750 each, one $720, one $600; seven messengers, 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, $179,640.
Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect, $3,600; engineering assistant, $2,400; superintendent of construction, $2,000; chief draftsman, $1,800; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,300; heating, ventilating, and sanitary engineer, $2,000; superintendent of repairs, 1008$1,800; assistant superintendent of repairs, $1,200; boss carpenter, boss tinner, boss painter, boss plumber, boss steam fitter, boss grader, six in all, at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,050, one (office of superintendent of repairs) $1,000, one $720; copyist, $840; driver, $600; in all, $31,310.
Public Utilities Commission. Public Utilities Commission: For salaries (including inspector of gas and meters, $2,000; assistant inspectors of gas anti meters—one $1,000, two at $900 each; messenger, $600); in all, $34,000: *Proviso.* Pay limit.*Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum; For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, $25,000;
In all, Public Utilities Commission, $59,000. Street cleaning division. Street-cleaning division: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent and clerk, $1,800; chief clerk, $1,400; stenographer and clerk, $1,000; clerks—two at $1,200 each (including one transferred from per diem roll), one $1,100, one $1,000, two at $720 each; chief inspector, $1,300; inspectors—four at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each; 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, $44,180.
Examiners, steam engineers. Board of examiners, steam engineers: Three members, at $300 each, $900. Insurance department. Department of insurance: Superintendent of insurance, $3,500; deputy and examiner, $2,000; statistician, $1,700; clerks—one $1,200, two at $900 each; stenographer, $840; temporary clerk hire, $300; in all, $11,340. 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, $1,275; 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, $26,000;
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, $31,575. Female employment inspectors. Vol. 38, 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. Salaries. Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch: Librarian, $4,000; assistant librarian, $1,500; chief circulating department, $1,200; director of children’s work, $1,500; children’s librarian, $1,000; assistant in charge of school work, $1,000; librarian’s secretary, $1,000; Takoma Park branch librarian, $1,000; chiefs of divisions—order and accessions $1,200; industrial $1,200; reference librarian $1,000; assistants—one $1,000, one in charge of periodicals $1,000, one $900, seven at $840 each, seven (including one for the Takoma Park branch) at $720 each, three at $600 each, three (including one for Takoma Park branch) at $540 each; copyist, $540; classifier, $900; cataloguers—one $840, one $720, two at $600 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $900, one $720; attendants — one $720, six at $600 each, five at $540 each; collator, $540; three messengers, at $600 each; ten pages, at $420 each; three janitors, at $480 each, one of whom shall act as night watchman; janitor of Takoma Park branch, 1009$360; engineer, $1,200; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom, attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $59,420.
For substitutes and other special and temporary service, including Substitutes.the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the discretion of the librarian, $2,000. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $2,000. Sunday, etc., opening. Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park branch: For books, Miscellaneous.periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $10,000;
For binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, $5,000; 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, $24,000. 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 $300 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, $39,000; and the commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
For printing all annual and special reports of the government of the Printing reports, fiscal year 1917.District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for submission to Congress, $5,000. That the property situated in square one hundred and seventy-three Daughters of American Revolution.Lots exempt from tax.*Ante,* p. 514.in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, described as lots four, five, six, seven, and eleven, inclusive, occupied by the Daughters of the American Revolution, be, and the same is hereby, exempt from and after February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, from all taxation so long as the same is so occupied and used, subject to the provisions of section eight of the Act approved March third, Vol. 19, p. 399.eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, providing for exemptions of church and school property, and Acts amendatory thereof; and there Refund.is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $99.19, the proportion of taxes upon said lots since February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay said sum of $99.19 to the treasurer of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motorcycles, and Motor vehicles. Maintenance, etc.motor trucks, acquired for the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise herein provided for, including such personal services in 1010connection therewith not otherwise herein authorized, as the commissioners shall in writing specially order; and for the purchase of two new and exchange of five motor vehicles herein specified, namely: Automobiles. Automobiles for the offices of the civilian commissioners, including the assessor’s office and office of Board of Children’s Guardians, and the engineer commissioner, including the assistants to the engineer commissioner, building-inspection and street-cleaning divisions, surveyor’s office, electrical department, the superintendent of construction, twenty in all, including one to be purchased new and three to be purchased in lieu of old ones to be exchanged hereunder, as follows:
For the superintendent of streets, one automobile, to be purchased new; for the sanitary and food inspection service, health office, one automobile to be purchased in lieu of one to be exchanged; and for the street-cleaning division, two automobiles to be purchased in lieu of two automobiles to be exchanged; Motorcycles. Motorcycles: One for the plumbing-inspection division, five for the street-cleaning division, including two to be purchased in lieu of two motorcycles to be exchanged, and four for the electrical department, including one to be purchased new, ten in all;
Motor trucks. Motor trucks: One for the municipal architect’s office, two for the electrical department, one for the street-cleaning division, and one for the parking commission, five in all; Use by officials restricted. In all, for motor vehicles, $18,860. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of *Provisos.* Limit of cost.the same by officials and employees of the District: *Provided,* That no automobile shall be acquired hereunder, by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $700 for one seating more than two persons, $500 for one seating not more than Distinctive color and marking.two persons, or $2,000 for a motor truck: *Provided further,* That hereafter all motor vehicles and 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.
” Restriction on use of horses, etc. Appropriations in this Act shall not be expended for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for the use of the commissioners, or for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horsedrawn vehicles for inspection or other purposes for those officials or employees provided with motor vehicles. Limit of expenses for horses, etc. Appropriations in this Act, except appropriations for the militia, shall not be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of homes, 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 costs of fire insurance. Specified residence telephones allowed. Telephones 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, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm 1011system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men under appropriations contained in this Act.
The commissioners may connect Connections authorized.any or all of these telephones to either the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia, as in their judgment may be most economical to the District, For postage for strictly official mail matter, $12,000. Postage. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish Car tickets for official use.necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of car tickets from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided,* That the expenditures *Provisos.* Limit.heroin authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $5,000: *Provided further,* That the provisions of this paragraph shall Firemen and police not included.not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments.
For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, Collecting personal taxes.in collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, $4,000, For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, Judicial expenses.the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supremo Court of said District, $5,000. For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation Coroner’s expenses.for the coroner’s office and the morgue,, jurors’ fees, witnessees, 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, $4,800.
For the establishment of an ice or cold-storage plant at the morgue, $1,500. Morgue. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for Advertising. General.tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $5,000. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen Taxes in arrears. Vol. 26, p. 24.hundred and seventeen, 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.
For enforcement of game and fish laws, to be expended under the Game and fish laws.direction of the commissioners, $200. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first, Removing dangerous buildings. Vol. 30, p. 923.eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” to pay members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, the unexpended Reappropriation.*Ante,* p. 683.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 eighteen.
For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the Historical tablets.District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library not exceeding the sum of $500 of the unexpended Reappropriation.*Ante,* p. 683.balances of the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and subsequent District of Columbia appropriation Acts, is continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Office of register of wills: For furnishing to the office of the assessor Copies of wills to assessor, etc.*Ante,* p. 1005.copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, $900. 1012 Book typewriters for recorder of deeds. Office of recorder of deeds; For the purchase and exchange of twenty-five Elliott-Fisher bound-hook recording typewriters and desks for the same, $5,409. Pay for copying deeds, etc. The recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed to pay for copying instruments filed for record in his office forty per centum of the fees collected by him for filing, indexing, and recording said instruments, and the same rate of compensation for Employees’ pay.making copies of the records of his office, and employees of the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia when employed therein by the day shall receive compensation at the rate of $2.50 for each day so employed, payable out of the .fees and emoluments of said office.
Vehicle tags. For purchase of enamel metal or other metal identification number tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $1,500. Motor vehicles licenses. On and after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, all licenses, including identification tags and registrations, for motor vehicles heretofore granted shall expire and become null and void, and on and after January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, Annual charge hereafter.there shall be charged annually for the licensing and registration of motor vehicles the following fees, which shall be paid annually to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia and which shall include Rates.registration and the furnishing of an identification number tag—$5 for each vehicle of more than twenty-four horsepower and not exceeding thirty horsepower, $10 for each vehicle of more than thirty horsepower, $3 for each vehicle of twenty-four horsepower or less, *Provisos.* Vehicles included.and $2 for each motor cycle or similar motor vehicle: *Provided,* That the term “motor vehicle“ used herein shall include all vehicles propelled by internal-combustion engines, electricity, or steam, except traction engines, road rollers, and vehicles propelled only upon rails and No charge for Government owned.tracks: *Provided further,* That motor vehicles owned and maintained in the District of Columbia by the United States or the government of the District of Columbia shall be registered and furnished identification Rules, etc., for enforcement.tags without cost: *And provided further,* That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to establish such rules and regulations and to affix thereto such fines and penalties as in their judgment are necessary for the enforcement of this Act and the Not required of nonresidents if registered in State, according reciprocal privilege.regulations authorized hereunder: *Provided further,* That motor vehicles, owned or operated by persons not legal residents of the District of Columbia but who shall have complied with the laws of the State of their legal residence requiring the registration of motor vehicles or licensing of operators thereof and the display of identification or registration numbers on such vehicles and which identification numbers shall be displayed on such motor vehicles as provided by the laws and regulations of the District of Columbia while used or operated within the District, shall not be required to be licensed or registered or bear other identification numbers under the laws and regulations of the District if the State in which the owner or operator of such motor vehicle has his legal residence extends the same privilege to the motor vehicles owned or operated by legal residents of the District Speed, etc., limitations.of Columbia: *Provided further,* That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to make and enforce all regulations governing the speed of motor vehicles in the Vol. 34, p. 621.District of Columbia, subject to the penalties prescribed in the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.
Repairing fire injuries. Reappropriation.*Ante,* p. 684. For repair of buildings owned and used by the District of Columbia, when injured by fire, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000 made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. 1013 For maintenance and repairs to markets, $3,500. Repairs to markets. For repainting interior of Eastern Market, $2,300. For repainting interior of Western Market, $2,700.
For repainting exterior of Western Market, $750. For repainting roof of small shelter at the Farmers’ Produce Market, $200. For maintenance and repair of fish wharf and market, $500. Fish wharf and market. For lighting the new municipal fish wharf and market, $500. For maintenance, operation, and repairs to refrigerating plant, including Refrigerating plant.salary of engineer at not exceeding $1,000 per annum, and watchman at not exceeding $600 per annum, $3,000. Superintendent weights, measures, and markets office:
Vehicles, superintendent of weights, etc. For one auto truck, to be used on the lighter work of the inspectors of weights and measures, $600. For maintenance and repair of two auto trucks at $300 each, $600. For allowance to the superintendent of weights, measures, and markets for maintenance of motor vehicle used in the performance of official duties, at not to exceed $25 per month, $300, For the construction of wharf including revetment wall on land Constructing wharf, etc., Water Street SW.belonging to the United States lying south of Water Street, between M and N Streets Southwest, $53,000.
IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Improvement and repairs. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, Assessment and permit work.including purchase of one motor truck and the maintenance of motor vehicles, $220,000. Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenues Work on streets and avenues.named in Appendix K, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $153,100, to be expended in the discretion of the commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Georgetown schedule: $4,000. Schedules. Northwest section schedule: $55,900. Southwest section schedule: $27,500. Southeast section schedule: $32,600. Northeast section schedule: $33,100. *Provided,* That streets and avenues named in said schedules shall *Proviso.* Order of contracts.be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be Limit for asphalt pavements.made for making or relaying sheet asphalt or asphalt block pavement at a higher price than $1.80 per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia during the years nineteen hundred and fourteen to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, and with same depth of base: *Provided,* That these conditions as to *Proviso.* Increase for heavy traffic, etc.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.
For repaving with asphalt the granite block roadway of Fourteenth Repaving Fourteenth Street SW.Street southwest, from B Street to D Street, fifty-five feet wide, $7,200. For repaving with asphalt the granite block roadway of K Street Repaving K Street NW., Washington Circle to Rock Creek.northwest, from Washington Circle to Twenty-sixth Street, forty feet wide, $14,500. 1014 For repaving with asphalt the granite block roadway of K Street northwest, from Twenty-sixth Street to Rock Creek, forty feet wide, $11,500.
Repaving First Street NW. For repaving with asphalt the granite block roadway of First Street northwest, from Pennsylvania Avenue to B Street, present width, $4,000. Repaving Thirteenth Street NW. For repaving with asphalt the roadway of Thirteenth Street northwest, from E Street to F Street, sixty feet wide, $7,500. Repaving D Street NW. For repaving with asphalt the roadway of D Street northwest, from Twelfth Street to Thirteenth Street, forty feet wide, $3,800. Repaving Twentieth Street NW.
For repaving with asphalt the roadway of Twentieth Street northwest, from I Street to K Street, thirty-two feet wide, $3,500. Repaving Wisconsin Avenue NW. For repaving with asphalt tire roadway of Wisconsin Avenue northwest, from M Street to P Street, present width, forty-seven feet and thirty-five feet, $10,000. Repaving First Street NW. For repaving with asphalt the granite block roadway of First Street northwest, between Defrees Street, and I Street, thirty-two feet wide, $1,350.
Fourteenth Street NW.Property owners to modify vault roofs to permit street widening.*Ante,* p. 685. In connection with the item contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen providing for repaving with asphalt the roadway of Fourteenth Street northwest, from Pennsylvania Avenue to F Street, seventy feet wide, the owners of the abutting property are hereby required to modify the roofs of the vaults now under the sidewalk on said street between the limits named, at their own expense, so as to permit the widening of tire roadway of said street to seventy feet, Barry Farm subdivision.
New highway plan for, authorized. Vol. 37, p. 950. Under the authority contained in the Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes, which authorizes the commissioners to prepare a new highway plan for any portion of the District of Columbia in the conditions therein named, the said commissioners are authorized and directed to prepare a new highway plan for that portion of the District of Columbia included within the subdivision known as *Proviso.* Width of highways.Barry Farm: *Provided,* That the width of any highway shown on said new plan shall be not less than forty feet.
Openings, extensions, etc., authorized. Upon the approval of said new highway plan for said subdivision of Barry Farm, the said commissioners are authorized to open, extend, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway laid down on said plan, and in the interest of economy where buildings project beyond the highway fines shown on said plans, and it is practicable to move such Condemnation proceedings, etc.buildings back to such highway lines, the said commissioners are authorized to designate such buildings in the petition of condemnation as buildings to be moved, and when so designated the condemnation jury shall allow in its verdict for damages to such buildings no greater amount than may be necessary to move such buildings; and the commissioners are further authorized to include in such highways any land owned by the District of Columbia that they shall deem Payment of costs, etc.necessary.
The cost of said condemnation proceedings and all expenses incident thereto, including the cost of surveys and of the preparation of plats, shall be paid from the appropriation herein made for the extension of streets and avenues. Grading. Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or hire of same, and horses; and labor of the inmates of the Washington Asylum and Jail may be used in connection with this work, $25,000. Condemnation.
Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. Suburban roads and streets. Construction of suburban roads: For construction of suburban roads and surburban streets, to be disbursed and accounted for as 1015“Construction of suburban roads and surburban streets,” and for Construction of designated streets, etc.that purpose it shall constitute one fund, as follows: Northwest. Morrison Street, Connecticut Avenue to Thirty-ninth Street, pave, $6,400;
Northwest. Livingston Street, Connecticut Avenue to Forty-first Street, pave, $12,800; Northwest. Legation Street, Connecticut Avenue to Thirty-ninth Street, pave, $7,000; Northwest. Connecticut Avenue, Tilden Street to Pierce Mill Road, pave, $5,800; Northwest. Shepherd Street, Fourth to Fifth Streets, pave, $3,800; Northwest. Shepherd Street, Georgia Avenue to Fourteenth Street, pave, $16,600; Northeast. Douglas Street, Tenth to Twelfth Streets, pave, $3,600; Northeast. Twentieth Street, Jackson Street to Lawrence Street, grade and improve, $3,700;
Northeast. Kearney Street, Twentieth to Twenty-second Streets, grade and improve, $2,100; Northwest. Jocelyn Street, east of Connecticut Avenue, pave, $2 900; Northwest. Buchanan Street, Fourteenth to Sixteenth Streets, pave, $7,900; Northwest. Allison Street, Fourteenth to Fifteenth Streets, pave, $4,200; . Northwest. Fifth Street, Rock Creek Church Road to Shepherd Street, pave, $5,500; Southeast. Twenty-fifth Street, Pennsylvania Avenue to Q Street, grade, $4,700; Northwest.
Adams Mill Road, Clydesdale Place to Harvard Street, grade, $6,400; Northwest. Thirty-eighth Street, Massachusetts Avenue to Macomb Street, pave, $13,700; Northwest. Woodley Road, Wisconsin Avenue to Idaho Avenue, grade and improve, $7,200; Southeast. Talbert Street, Nichols Avenue to Shannon Place, pave, $2,700; Southeast. Shannon Place, Chicago Street to south terminus Shannon Place, pave, $6,800; Northwest. Ninth Street, IT to V Streets, pave, $2,800; Northwest. Allison Street, Georgia Avenue to Iowa Avenue, pave, $4,200;
Northwest. Webster Street, Georgia Avenue to Iowa Avenue, pave, $2,400; Northwest. Iowa Avenue, Webster Street to Allison Street, pave, $6,000; Northeast. Sixteenth Street, Brentwood Road to Rhode Island Avenue, grade and improve, $2,500; Northeast. Hamlin Street, Twelfth to Thirteenth Streets, grade and improve, $2,300; Northeast. Thirteenth Street, Franklin Street to Girard Street, grade, $1,600;, Southeast. Mount View Place, Morris Road to Talbert Street, grade, $2,100; Canal Road.
Northwest. Canal Road, retaining wall, reconstruct, $25,000; Southeast. Livingston Road, Giesboro Road to District of Columbia line, grade and improve, $ 10,000 ; Northwest. Van Ness Street, Connecticut Avenue to Idaho Avenue, and Idaho Avenue, Van Ness Street to Pierce Mill Road, grade and improve, $4,900; Construction of designated streets, etc. 1016 Northwest. Fifteenth Street, Webster Street to Buchanan Street, pave, $7,900; Northwest. Ninth Street, Allison Street to Buchanan Street, pave, $3,500;
Northeast. Evarts Street, west of Twelfth Street, grade and improve, $800; Southeast. Railroad Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue to Twenty-second Street, pave, $3,600; Northeast. Otis Street, Tenth to Twelfth Streets, grade and improve, $1,700; Northwest. Channing Street, First to North Capitol Streets, pave, $6,500; Northwest. Hobart Street, Sherman Avenue to Georgia Avenue, pave, $5,300; Northwest. McKinley Street, Connecticut Avenue to Thirty-ninth Street, pave, $3,400; Northwest.
Kanawha Street east of Connecticut Avenue, pave, $5,300; Northwest. Woodley Road, Connecticut Avenue to Twenty-seventh Street, pave, $7,600; Northwest. Ashmead Place, Connecticut Avenue to Belmont Road, pave, $9,000; Northwest. Belmont Road, Nineteenth Street to Twentieth Street, pave, $4,800; Northwest. Champlain Avenue, Kalorama Road to Columbia Road, pave, $11,800; Northwest. Twentieth Street, Biltmore Street to Kalorama Road, pave, $11,700; Northwest. Lowell Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Thirty-fourth Street, pave, $12,000;
New York Avenue to Bladensburg Road. Northeast. New York Avenue and U Street, Florida Avenue to Bladensburg Road, grade, $20,000; Northwest. Ninth Street, Georgia Avenue to Kansas Avenue, pave, $7,000; Northwest. Seventh Street, Rock Creek Church Road to Taylor Street, pave, $8,800; Northeast. Irving Street, Fourteenth to Seventeenth Streets, grade and improve, $5,200; Northwest and northeast. Longfellow Street from Fifth Street to Concord Avenue (formerly Oregon Avenue), Concord Avenue from Longfellow Street to Kennedy Street, and Kennedy Street from Concord Avenue to First Street northeast, grade and improve, $25,800;
Northwest and northeast. Concord Avenue from First Place northwest to Blair Road northeast, open, grade, and improve, $2,900; Northeast. South Dakota Avenue, Bladensburg Road to Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, grade and improve, $4,000; Northeast. Vista Street, South Dakota Avenue to Franklin Street, grade and improve, $5,100; Northwest. Albemarle Street from Connecticut Avenue to Thirty-eighth Street, grade and improve, $8,000; Northwest. Wyoming Avenue between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Streets, grade and improve, $3,600;
Northwest. Thirty-third Street, Rittenhouse Street to Pinehurst Circle, grade and improve, $12,600; Northeast. Sixty-first Street, East Capitol Street to Eastern Avenue, grade and improve, $20,000; Northwest. Belmont Street, Sixteenth Street to Crescent Place, pave, $7,500; Northwest. Crescent Place, east of Belmont Street to end of pavement, pave, $2,400; In all, $415,400. 1017 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 of Columbia, such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided,* That the Commissioners *Proviso.* Suspension of widening Woodley Road.of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, directed to suspend all proceedings looking to the condemnation of land for the widening of Woodley Road as outlined on the map of the permanent system of highways in the District of Columbia until further action by Congress.
Repairs—Streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of Repairs, 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 railway pavements. Vol. 20, p. 105.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 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. Vol. 34, p. 1130.appropriation Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, to make such changes in the lines of the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved under appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided,* That no such change *Proviso.* Condition.shall be made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement.
For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public Sidewalks and curbs.reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $25,000. Hereafter in all proceedings for the opening, extension, widening, Opening, etc., alleys, minor streets, etc.or straightening of alleys and minor streets and for the establishment of building lines in the District of Columbia the jury of condemnation Assessments on all property benefited thereby.shall not be restricted as to the assessment area, but shall assess the entire amount awarded as damages plus the costs and expenses of the proceedings as benefits upon any and all lots, parts of lots, pieces or parcels of land which they may find will be benefited by the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of the alley or minor street, or by the establishment of the building line as they may find said lots, parts of lots, pieces or parcels of land will be benefited.
Repairs to suburban roads: For current work of repairs to Suburban roads, repairs.suburban roads and suburban streets, including the purchase of one motor truck at not exceeding $2,000, and including maintenance of motor vehicles, $150,000. Bridges: For construction and repairs, $25,000. 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 maimer provided in section five of an Vol. 20, p. 105.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 at Highway Bridge.$1,020 each, two at $720 each; four watchmen, at $720 each; labor, $1,500; fighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of 1018every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $8,620; in all, $16,480. South Dakota Avenue NE. Bridge across Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks. South Dakota Avenue Bridge: For constructing a bridge to carry vehicular and pedestrian traffic, in the line of South Dakota Avenue, over the tracks of the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Construction contract.Railroad, all in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $65,000.
And the said commissioners arc authorized to enter into a contract with the, said railroad company, or other parties, for the construction of such bridge and *Provisos.* Share of railroad in cost.Vol. 32, p. 918.approaches: *Provided,* That such portion of this cost shall be borne by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company as is provided in section ten of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, and said sum shall be paid by said company to the Treasurer of the United States, one half to the credit of the District of Columbia and the other half Lien for payment.to the credit of the United States, and the same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and property of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and shall be a legal indebtedness of said company in favor of the District of Columbia, jointly for its Enforcement.use and the use of the United States as aforesaid, and the said lien may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by bill in equity brought by the commissioners of the said District in the Supreme Court of said District or by any other lawful proceeding against the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company: *Provided further,* Payment for use by street railway.That no street railway company shall use the bridge herein authorized for its tracks until such company shall have paid to the Treasurer of the United States a sum equal to one-sixth of the total cost of said bridge, one half thereof to be credited to the United States and the other half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
Anacostia Bridge. Operation of Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $4,500. 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, $107,000. Suburban. For suburban sewers, $200,000, and the commissioners are authorized to purchase and maintain from the appropriation for suburban sewers two motor trucks for service in handling sewer construction and emergency repairs. Assessment and permit work. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $125,000. Rights of way. 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.
Upper Potomac interceptor. Upper Potomac interceptor: For continuing the construction of the upper Potomac interceptor between Twenty-seventh and K Streets and the Chain Bridge, $85,000. STREETS. Streets. Cleaning, etc. Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross-1019walks, 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 for each inspector or foreman $20 per month for a horse-drawn vehicle, $25 per month for an automobile, and SI2 per month for a motorcycle; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $320,000, and the commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
For paving yard and other necessary work at the street-cleaning Stables.stables, $5,000, Disposal of city refuse: For collection and disposal of garbage Disposal of city refuse.and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs ; collection and disposal of night soil in the District of Columbia; payment of necessary inspection, allowance to inspectors for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed $20 per month for each inspector for horse-drawn vehicles, $25 per month for automobiles, and $12 per month for motorcycles; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps, and incidental expenses, $186,640, Parking commission:
For contingent expenses, including Parking commission.laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, purchase and maintenance of a motor truck, and miscellaneous items, $60,000. Bathing beach: Superintendent, $600; two watchmen, at $480 Bathing beach.each; temporary services, supplies, and maintenances, $2,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,400, to be immediately available; in all, $5,460.
Playgrounds: For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, Playgrounds. Maintenance.construction of toilet facilities, wading pools, installation of telephones and telephone service, grading, and repairs, including labor and materials, and transportation of materials, maintenance and repair of storehouse, and necessary incidental and contingent expenses or all playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $18,500; For salaries: Supervisor, $2,500; inspector of playgrounds, $1,200 Salaries.transferred from per diem roll); clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $900; to be employed not exceeding ten months—seventeen directors of playgrounds or recreation centers at $65 per month each, assistant director at $60 per month, general utility man at $60 per month; to be employed not exceeding seven months—two assistant directors at $60 per month each, assistant director at $50 per month; to be employed not exceeding three months — assistant director at $60 per month, seventeen assistants at $45 per month each; watchmen to be employed twelve months—seventeen at $50 per month each; in all, $30,715;
For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses of Swimming pools.operating five swimming pools, and purchase of bathing suits, $2,000 ; For five guards or swimming teachers for four months at $60 per month each, $1,200; Hereafter the supervisor of playgrounds of the District of Columbia Volunteer service allowed.may, in his discretion and with the consent and approval of the commissioners, accept the services of such persons as may volunteer to 1020aid in the conduct, management, and upkeep of the said playgrounds: *Proviso.* No pay.*Provided,* That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service.
New site. For the purchase of lot sixty-one in square live hundred and fifty-five for a playground site, $30,000. In all, for playgrounds, $82,415. Public convenience stations. Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $13,000. New station, Eighth Street NW. For a new public convenience station, numbered five, to be located under roadway or partly under roadway and partly under sidewalks, in Eighth Street northwest, south of F Street, $20,000.
Condemning insanitary buildings. Vol. 34, p. 157. Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings: For all expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal services, when authorized by the commissioners, $2,500. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Electrical department. Salaries. Electrical engineer, $2,750; assistant electrical engineer, $2,000; inspectors—one $1,000, four at $900 each; electrician, $1,200; two draftsmen, at $1,000 each; three telegraph operators, at $1,000 each; repairmen—expert $1,200, three 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, four at $1,200 each; assistant electrician, $1,200; clerks—one $1,400, one $1,200, two at $1,125 each, one $1,050, one $750; assistant repairmen—two at $620 each, two at $540 each; laborers—one $630, three at $600 each, two at $540 each; storekeeper, $875; in all, $49,265.
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 and relocation 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, $2,500. Third precinct telephone system. For replacing police-patrol signaling system with telephone system in the third precinct, including the purchase and installation of the necessary boxes, instruments, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other items, $3,700.
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 Vol. 36, p. 1008.and storerooms, livery and extra labor, this stun to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections seven and eight of the District Vol. 37, p. 181.of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve and with the provisions of the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and other laws applicable thereto, $415,000. 1021 For purchase and installation of twenty fire-alarm boxes, relocation Fire-alarm boxes, etc.of 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, $4,700.
For the purchase and installing of additional lead-covered cables Additional cables.to increase the capacity of the underground cable system, 85,200. For the erection of a brick or concrete storehouse on land belonging Storehouse for electrical supplies, etc.to the District of Columbia, to be used for the storage of material and supplies of the electrical department, including the inclosing, grading, and improving of the ground, 89,000. The Potomac Electric Power Company is directed and required to Removal of overhead wires, etc., from Water Street SW.remove all of the poles and overhead wires owned and used by it on Water Street, between Sixth and Fourteenth Streets southwest and on all reservations and public spaces adjacent thereto, and to install suitable and sufficient underground conduits, conductors, and appliances in lieu thereof.
The removal of said poles and wires and the Approval of plans.replacement thereof by underground construction shall be upon plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and shall be completed within one year after the date of approval of this Act: *Provided,* That if said company shall fail or neglect to *Proviso.* Penalty for failure.remove such poles and wires, or shall fail or neglect to complete such underground construction within one year after the approval of this Act, said company shall forfeit and pay to the District of Columbia the sum of $100 for each day of such failure or neglect.
KOCK CKEEK PARK. Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park and the Piney Care, etc.Branch Parkway, exclusive of building for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park in the manner now provided by law for other expenditures of the District of Columbia, $22,000. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Public schools. Officers: Superintendent, $6,000; assistant superintendents—one Salaries. Officers, etc.$3,500, one $3,000; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, and director of primary instruction, sixteen in all, at a minimum, salary of $2,200 each: secretary, $2,000; clerks—one $1,600, one $1,400, four 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, $60,000.
Attendance officers: Attendance officers—One $900, two at Attendance officers.$800 each, two at $600 each; in all, $3,700. Teachers: For one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight Teachers. teachers at minimum salaries as follows: Principal of the Central High School, $3,000; Principals of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, eight at $2,500 each; Principals. Assistant principal, who shall be dean of girls of the Central High Assistant, Central High.*Proviso.* Salary.School, $1,800: *Provided,* That said assistant principal shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, Directors.domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $1,500 each: *Provided,* That the director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor *Proviso.* Penmanship.in the normal school and a director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,500 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; 1022 Assistant of primary instruction.*Proviso.* Salary. Assistant director of primary instruction, $1,400: *Provided, * That the assistant director of primary instruction now in the service of the public schools, or hereafter to be appointed, shall be placed at the basic salary of $1,400 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years;
Other assistants. Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven at $1,300 *Proviso.* Penmanship.each: *Provided,* That the assistant director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor in the normal school and an assistant director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,300 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years; Manual training. Other teachers.
Assistant supervisor of manual training, $1,300; Heads of departments in high and manual-training high schools in 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 six, fourteen at $1,900 each; Group A of class six, including five principals of grade manual-training schools, three hundred and fourteen at $1,000; Class five, one hundred and twenty-four, including vocational and trade instructors, at $950 each;
Class four, four hundred and sixty-one at $800 each; Class three, four hundred and ninety-eight at $650 each; Class two, three hundred and fifty-two at $600 each; Class one, eighty-six at $500 each; Special beginning teacher in the normal school, $900. In all for teachers, $1,475,900. Vacation schools and playgrounds. Vacation schools and playgrounds: For the proper care, instruction, and supervision of children in the vacation schools and playgrounds, and directors, supervisors, teachers, and janitors of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be directors, supervisors, teachers, and janitors of day schools, $7,000.
Librarians and clerks. Librarians and clerks at minimum salaries as follows: Librarian in class four—one $800; librarians and clerks—thirteen in class three at $650 each six in class two at $600 each, nine in class one at $500 each; in all, $17,350. Longevity pay. Longevity pay: For longevity pay for director of intermediate instruction, supervising principals, supervisor and assistant supervisor of manual training, principals of normal high and manual training high schools, the assistant principal who shall be dean of girls of the Central High School, 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, kindergartens, and penmanship, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians to Vol. 34, p. 320.be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” Vol. 35, p. 289;
Vol. 36, p. 393; Vol. 37, p. 156.approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, 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, $500,000. Principals. Additional pay for grade schools. Vol. 34, p. 320. Allowance to principals: For 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 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, $36,000.
Night schools. 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, $30,000. 1023 For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment Equipment, etc.and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $3,000. Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, $3,500.
Kindergarten supplies. Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: Superintendent of janitors, $1,500; Janitors and care of buildings. Central High School (New): Engineer, $1,500; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; electrician, $1,000; three firemen, at $600 each; coal passer, $540; janitor, $1,100; two assistant janitors, at $900 each; gardener, $840; night watchman, $720; two charwomen, at $480 each; fourteen laborers, at $360 each; in all, $17,100; Dunbar High School: Engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; coal passer, $540; janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; nine laborers, at $360 each; two charwomen, at $480 each; night watchman, $720; in all, $10,760;
Central High School
(Old)and annex: Janitor, $ 1,000; laborers—two at $480 each, two at $360 each; in all, $2,680; Business High School: Janitor, $ 1,000; laborers—two at $480 each, two at $360 each; in all, $2,680; J. Ormond Wilson Normal School and Ross School: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $800; laborers—two at $420 each, two at $360 each; in all, $3,360; Jefferson School; Janitor, $1,000; two laborers, at $420 each; in all, $1,840; ' Western High School: Janitor, $1,100; laborers—two at $480 each; two at $360 each; in all, $2,780; Franklin School: Janitor, 81,000; laborers—one $420, two at $360 each; in all, $2,140; Myrtilla Miner Normal School: Janitor, $ 1,000; laborers—one $480, two at $360 each; charwoman, $480; in all, $2,680; Eastern High School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—one $420, one $360; in all, $1,780; Stevens School: Janitor, $1,000; two laborers, at $420 each; in all, $1,840: McKinley Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,500; assistant engineer, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; night watchman, $600; firemen—one $600, one $480; laborers—one at $480, two at $360 each; in all, $7,100; Armstrong Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,200; assistant engineer, $720; night watchman, $600; fireman, $480; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $5,440; M Street High School
(Old)and Douglass and Simmons Schools: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $900; laborers—one $420, three, at $360 each; in all, $3,400; Birney and annex, Elizabeth V. Brown, Emery, New Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Gage, Petworth, Powell, Van Buren, Wallach, and Park View Schools: Eleven janitors, at $1,000 each; eleven laborers, at $480 each; in all, $16,280; Brookland, Bryan, Congress Heights, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Grover Cleveland, Henry, Johnson and annex, Langdon, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, and Strong John Thomson Schools: Twenty-two janitors, at $840 each; twenty-two laborers, at $300 each; in all, $25,080; Abbot, Benning, Berret, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Craneh, Dent, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley Schools: Eleven janitors, at $840 each; in all, $9,240; Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Barrville, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Cardozo, Cardozo Manual Training, 1024Corcoran, Eaton, Edmonds, Eckington, Fillmore, French, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Isaac Fairbrother, Jackson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, O Street Manual Training, Patterson, Payne, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Randle Highlands, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatly, Wilson, Woodbum, Wormley, and West Schools: Seventy-two janitors, at $720 each; in all, $51,840; Brightwood Park, Crummell, Kenilworth, and Wisconsin Avenue Manual Training Schools: Four janitors, at $600 each; in all, $2,400; Bunker Hill, Deanwood, Hamilton, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Smothers, Stanton, Threlkeld, and Military Road Schools: Eleven janitors, at $480 each; in all, $5,280; Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, and Fort Slocum Schools: Three janitors, at $150 each; in all, $450; In all, $177,650. Matrons in designated schools. For matrons in the normal and high schools, including the following: Wilson Normal, Miner Normal, New Central High, Dunbar High, Business High, Western High, Eastern High, McKinley Manual Training, and Armstrong Manual Training, nine in all, at $500 each, $4,500. Smaller building and rented rooms. For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $72 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes for which service an amount not to exceed $108 per annum may be allowed, $10,000. Medical inspectors. Medical inspectors: Chief medical and sanitary inspector, who shall, under the direction of the health officer of the District of Columbia, give his whole time to, and exercise the direction and control of, the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of the public Division.schools of the District of Columbia, $2,500; thirteen medical inspectors of public 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, $9,000. Graduate nurses. For seven graduate nurses, two of whom shall be colored, who shall act as public-school nurses, at $1,000 each, $7,000. Miscellaneous. Rent, etc. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, repair shop, storage and stock rooms, $16,500. Equipping temporary rooms. For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may he 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. Repairs and improvements. 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, $150,000. Portable schools. For removal and reerection of portable schools, $3,000. Manual training apparatus, etc. 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, $32,500, Fuel and lights. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $90,000. Furniture. For furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades for additions to buildings; equipment for kindergartens; and tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: Eight rooms and assembly hall E. V. Brown School, $4,700; eight rooms and assembly hall Petworth School, $4,700; eight-room building between Eighteenth and Twentieth, Monroe and Newton Streets northeast, $4,700; four-room addition to the Burr villa School, 1025$1,275; three kindergartens, $1,200; two sewing schools, $300; two cooking schools, $750; two manual-training shops, $800; in all, $18,425. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, Contingent expenses.stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for highschool cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of not exceeding $240 per annum for livery of horse or not exceeding $300 per annum for garage for each the superintendent of schools and the superintendent of janitors and the two assistant superintendents, and including not exceeding $2,000 for books, books of reference, and periodicals, $50,000. For the purchase of sanitary paper towels and for fixtures for dispensing Paper towels, etc.the same to the pupils, $2,500. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten Pianos.schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,500. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first Supplies to pupils.eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education, and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, necessary labor not to exceed $600, including one bookkeeper and custodian of textbooks and supplies at $1,200, and one assistant at $800, $70,000: *Provided,* That the board of education, *Proviso.* Exchanges.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. For purchase of United States flags, $900. Flags. For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds, $900. Playgrounds. For maintenance and repairing sixty-six playgrounds now established, $3,300. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance School gardens.of school gardens, $2,000. For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending Physics departments supplies.the equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, and M Street High Schools, $3,000. For purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials Chemistry and biology laboratories.and technical books, 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 My r till a Miner Normal School, and installation of same, $2,500. For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture. $1,000. Cabinetmaker. For an instruction camp for the high-school cadets, including food Instruction camp for cadets.and labor, and expenses involved in preparation of the same, and all incidental expenses, the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen *Ante,* p. 698.hundred and seventeen is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided,* That the Secretary *Proviso.* Use of Government reservation, etc.of War is authorized to permit the conducting of said camp on a Government reservation in the vicinity of the city of Washington; to loan all tents and other equipment necessary, and to furnish competent supervision and instruction. For extending the telephone system to the additions to the Powell, Telephones to new schools.Elizabeth V. Brown, Petworth and Burrville schools, and to the new school building between Eighteenth and Twentieth, Monroe and Newton Streets northeast, including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, poles, cross-arms, braces, conduits, extra labor, and other necessary items, to be expended under the electrical department, $1,400. For payment of necessary expenses connected with the organization Community forums, etc., in school buildings.and conducting of community forums and civic centers in school buildings, including fixtures and supplies for lighting and equipping 1026the buildings, payment of janitor service, secretaries, teachers, and organizers, and employees of the day schools may also be employees of the community forums and civic centers, $5,000. Schools for tubercular children. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular children, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Army and Navy children admitted. The children of officers and men of the United States Anny and Navy stationed outside of the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. Buildings and grounds. Eastern High. Buildings and grounds: For continuing the construction of the new Eastern High School on the site purchased for that purpose, $300,000. Central High. Completing equipment. For the completion of the equipment and for furniture and furnishings for the new Central High School Building and stadium, and for necessary modifications and repairs to building in accordance with the plans and specifications on file in the office of the engineer commissioner, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, $55,000. Additions, etc. For the erection of a four-room addition to the Deanwood School, including assembly hall, and for plumbing and toilet facilities for the existing building, $50,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Gage School and for the erection of a four-room addition with assembly hall, $67,000. For the erection of an addition to the Phelps School, to include an assembly hall and gymnasium, and for necessary remodeling for use as a grade manual training center, $50,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the H. D. Cooke School, $25,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Wheatley School and tor the erection of an eight-room addition, with assembly hall, $96,000. For the erection of an eight-room addition, with assembly hall, to the Takuma School, $90,000. For the construction of toilet rooms on the site of the Woodbum School Building in order to provide modern toilet facilities, including the cost of the necessary sewerage connections, $5,500. Costs limited to authorizations. The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. Franklin Building, office room. Hereafter the board of education is authorized to use the space on the top floor of the Franklin School Building for office purposes. Soliciting subscriptions, etc., forbidden. Appropriations in this Act shall not be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from pupils enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any Exceptions.purpose except such as may be authorized by the board of education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. Preparation of plans. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect and shall be approved by the commissioners, and snail be constructed in conformity thereto. Doors to open outward, etc. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having in excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any 1027building 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-hall hour after school hours. Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attending the Deaf and dumb pupils. R.S., sec. 4864, p. 942. 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, $15,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable Colored deaf-mutes.age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Blind children.Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. METROPOLITAN POLICE. Police. Major and superintendent, $4,000; assistant superintendent, with Salaries.rank of inspector, $2,500: three inspectors, at $2,000 each; eleven captains, at $2,000 each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, $2,000; clerk and stenographer, $1,500; clerks—one (who shall be assistant property clerk) $1,200, three at $1,000 each, one $700; 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, $11,520, or so much thereof as may be necessary; fifteen lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at $1,600 each; fifty sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,400 each; five hundred and fourteen privates of class three, at $1,200 each; eighty-five privates of class two, at $1,080 each; fifty-one privates of class one, at $000 each; ninety additional privates of class one, at $900 Additional privates.each, to be employed on or after March first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $108,000, $27,000 of which sum to be immediately available, Restriction on appointments repealed. Vol. 37, p. 162.and the provision in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen which provides “after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, there shall be no appointments, except by promotion, to fill vacancies occurring in classes one, two, and three of privates in the Metropolitan police until the whole number of privates in all of said classes shall have been reduced to six hundred and forty,” is hereby repealed; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class throe and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,778.66; six telephone operators, at $900 each; fourteen janitors, at $600 each; messenger, $600; inspector, mounted on horse or motor vehicle, $240; fifty-five captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on horses or for motor vehicle allowances, at $240 each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $50 each; twenty-four drivers, at $900 each; five police matrons, at $720 each, to possess police powers of arrest; two policewomen, at $900 each; in all, $1,073,618.66. To aid in support of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, Criminal Identification Bureau.to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, provided the several departments of the General Government may be entitled to like information from time to time as is accorded police departments of various municipalities privileged to membership therein, $500. 1028 Fuel. Miscellaneous: For fuel, $4,000; Repairs. For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds, $7,000; Miscellaneous expenses. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including purchase of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, bods and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase of horses, bicycles, motorcycles, police equipments and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection Detection of crime.of crime, and other necessary expenses, $35,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Proviso.* Mounted equipment.*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, $8,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary; For additional motor vehicles $2,000; Site for suburban station. For the erection of a station house on the site to be purchased in the suburban section of the District between the ninth and tenth precincts, $40,000; Seventh precinct station. For reconstruction of cell corridors and the making, erecting, and placing therein modern locking devices in the seventh precinct station house, $5,000; In all, $101,600. House of Detention. House of Detention: To enable the commissioners to provide transportation, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age, and, in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including two clerks, at $1,000 each; four drivers, at $600 each; hostler, $600; six guards, at $600 each; three matrons, at $600 each, to possess police powers of arrest; miscellaneous expenses, including rent, forage, fuel, gas, horseshoeing, ice, laundry, meals, horses, wagons and harness and repairs to same, and other necessary expenses, $3,930; in all, $14,330, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Harbor patrol. Harbor patrol: Two engineers, at $1,000 each; two firemen, one watchman, and two deck hands, at $600 each; in all, $5,000; For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $2,000; In all, $7,000. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND. Policemen’s, etc., fund. Relief and allowances from. To pay the relief and other allowances authorized by law, a sum not to exceed $211,233 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Fire department. Salaries. Chief engineer, $3,500; deputy chief engineer, $2,500; four battalion chief engineers, at $2,000 each; fire marshal, $2,000; deputy fire mar-1029shal, $1,400; two inspectors, at $1,080 each; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk, $1,400; thirty-eight captains, at $1,500 each; forty lieutenants, at $1,320 each; forty sergeants, at $1,200 each; superintendent of machinery, $2,000; assistant superintendent of machinery, $1,200; twenty-seven engineers, at $1,200 each; twenty-seven assistant engineers, at $1,140 each; two pilots, at $1,150 each; two marine engineers, at $1,200 each; two assistant marine engineers, at $1,140 each; two marine firemen, at $720 each; forty drivers, at $1,150 each; forty-assistant drivers, at $1,140 each; one hundred and eighty-three privates of class two, at $1,140 each; forty-four privates of class one, at $960 each; hostler, $600; laborer, $600; in all, $599,220. Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houses Miscellaneous.and grounds, $14,000; For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven Repairs, etc.apparatus, and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire-department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools: *Provided,* That the commissioners *Proviso.* Construction at repair shop.are authorized, in their, discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire-department repair shop, $16,000; For hose, $12,000; Supplies, etc. For fuel, $16,000; For purchase of horses, $6,000; For forage, $20,100; For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $1,000; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical Contingent expenses.and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $25,000; In all, $110,100.' Permanent improvements: For one aerial hook-and-ladder truck, New apparatus, etc.motor driven, $12,500; For one fire engine, motor driven, $8,500; For one combination chemical and hose wagon, motor driven, $5,500; For if our tractors, motor driven, at $4,500 each; For three combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, at $5,500 each; For installing steam heat in engine and truck houses, $6,000; In all, $67,000. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Health department. Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerk Salaries.and deputy health officer, $2,500; chief, bureau of vital statistics, $1,800; clerks—one $1,600, five at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $720; sanitary inspectors—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, eight at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; food inspectors—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; chemist, $2,000; assistant chemist, $1,200; assistant bacteriologist, $1,200; serologist, $2,500; skilled laborers—one $720, one $600, two messengers at $600 each; driver $600; poundmaster, $1,400;watchman, $600; laborers, at not exceeding $50 per month each, $2,400; in all, $76,540. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread Preventing spread of diseases. Vol. 29, p. 635. Vol. 34, p. 889.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 1030 Tuberculosis 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, manufacture of serums including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention Infantile paralysis, etc.of infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services, not exceeding $17,000, 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 Horses, wagons, etc.and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine *Proviso.* Bacteriologists for dairy examinations, etc.station and smallpox hospital, $40,000: *Provided,* That any bacteriologist employed under this appropriation shall not be paid more than $7 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 the extension of water mains to provide fire protection for the smallpox hospital, $2,000. Disinfecting service. For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $6,000. Drainage of lots, etc. Vol. 29, p. 125. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, end an Act to provide for Abating nuisances. Vol. 34, p. 114.the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, $1,000. Food, etc., adulterations. For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $100; Bacteriological laboratory. Bacteriological laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000; For new refrigerating machine, $500. Apparatus, equipment, cost of installation, supplies, and other expenses incidental to the biological and serological diagnosis of disease, $1,200. Chemical laboratory. Chemical laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $750. For stone table tops and water troughs, $250. Enforcing milk regulations. Vol. 28, p. 709. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; an Act relating to the adulteration or foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and Adulterations of food, candy, etc. Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398. Pure food enforcement. Vol. 34, p. 768.ninety-eight; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, $900. Inspecting dairy farms, etc. For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including am omits that may be allowed the health officer, assistant health officer, chief medical inspector in charge of contagious-disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for mainte-1031nance by each of a horse and vehicle at not to exceed $20 per month, or motor vehicle at not to exceed $25 per month, for use in the discharge of his official duties, and allowances for such other inspectors in the service of the health department as the commissioners may determine, of not to exceed $12 per month for maintenance of a motorcycle 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, $7,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minor Isolating wards in hospitals.contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $10,000 and $6,500, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $16,500. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, $2,000. Crematory. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound Motor vehicle.service, $300. For the establishment and maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries Dispensary for tuberculosis and venereal patients.for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, and supplies: *Provided,* That the commissioners *Provisos.* Acceptance of volunteer service.may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further,* That this shall not be No pay authorized.construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service, $ 12,500. For repairs and alterations to the building located on lot ten, Fitting up old Emergency Hospital as laboratory, etc.square two hundred and twenty-eight, formerly occupied as an emergency hospital, and now the property of the United States, in order to make it available for use as a laboratory for the Health Department of the District of Columbia, and for other uses of said District of Columbia: *Provided,* That authority to occupy said building is *Proviso.* Occupation authorized.granted to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia by the Secretary of the Treasury; to be immediately available, $4,000. COURTS. Courts. For eleven copies of volumes forty-eight and forty-nine 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.assistant probation officer, $1,200; stenographer and typewriter and assistant, $800; police court—probation officer $1,500, assistant probation officer $1,200; contingent expenses, $650; in all, $7,350. 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; financial clerk, who is authorized to act as a deputy clerk, $1,200; stenographer and typewriter, who is authorized to act as a deputy clerk, $900; stenographer and typewriter for judge’s work, and to aid in keeping records in clerk’s office, $900; probation officers—chief $1,800, assistant chief, who shall also be investigating officer for children’s cases $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one for adult cases $1,200, four at $1,000 each ; investigating officer for adult cases, $1,200; clerk for probation office, $900; two bailiffs, at $900 each; telephone operator, $600; messenger, $600: janitor; $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $26,790. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900; Miscellaneous. 1032 For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained at court awaiting trial, $50; For rent, $2,000; For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, $500; 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, $5,450. 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 assistant 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 hardwood benches, $650; For witness fees, $3,000; For furniture and repairing and replacing same, $200; Jurors, etc. For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $59; For compensation of jurors, $7,000; For repairs to buildings, $1,500; In all, $14,650. Municipal court. Salaries. Municipal court: Five judges, at $3,000 each; clerk, $1,500; three assistant clerks, at $1,000 each; messenger, $600; janitor, $600; in all, $20,700; Rent, etc. For rent of building, $3,600; 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, $25,050. 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 Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital 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 $1,500 per annum, and a clerk at $900 who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $5,500. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. Interest and sinking fund. Amount. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, payable one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $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 1033provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, $8,000: *Provided,* That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. COURTS AND PRISONS. Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation Support of convicts.of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment, of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts: expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $110,000. Courthouse, District of Columbia: For care and protection, Courthouse, care, etc.under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, $1,200; three watchmen, at $720 each; three firemen, at $720 each; five laborers, at $600 each; six messengers, at $720 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; clerk to jury commissioner, $720; telephone operator, $720; attendant in ladies’ waiting room, $300; in all, $16,020, to be expended under the directions 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 clerk *Proviso.* Custodian.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, Expenses.electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800. Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses and Supreme court. Witness fees. R. S., sec. 850, p. 160.payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty. Revised Statutes of the United States, $15,000. Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors, $65,000. Jurors’ fees. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of Pay of bailiffs, etc.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, $27,200. Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as Miscellaneous expenses.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 other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, $15,000. For such additional miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized Additional expenses for temporary quarters.*Ante,* p. 817.by the Attorney General for the supreme court and its officers, made necessary by the occupancy of temporary quarters pending the reconstruction of the courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia, including an electrician at the rate of $900 per annum and a laborer at the rate of $600 per annum, $3,750. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Charities and corrections. Board of Charities: Secretary, $3,500; stenographer, $1,400; Board of Charities. Salaries, etc.clerk, $1,400; messenger, $600; inspectors—two at $1,200 each, three 1034at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, two at $840 each; drivers—one (who shall also act as foreman of stables) $900, three at $720 each; hostler, $540; traveling expenses, including attendance on conventions, $400; in all, $19,780. Motor ambulance. For purchase and equipment of one motor ambulance, $1,550, and for the maintenance thereof, $600; in all, $2,150. reformatories and correctional institutions. Reformatories, etc. Washington Asylum and Jail. Salaries. Washington Asylum and Jail: Superintendent, $1,800; visiting physician, $1,200; resident physician, $480; two assistant resident physicians, at $120 each; clerk, $840; engineer, $900; three assistant engineers at $600 each: night watchman, $480: blacksmith and woodworker, $500; driver for dead wagon, $365; hostler and driver, for supply and laundry wagon, at $240 each; hospital cook, $600; assistant cooks—two at $300 each, one $180; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, $1,200; two graduate nurses at $480 each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, $480; two nurses for annex wards at $540 each; nurse for operating room, $540; eight orderlies, and two orderlies for annex wards, at $300 each: pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed $120 per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed $150 per annum during second year of service), $3,000: registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, $720; gardener. $540; seamstress, $300; housekeeper, $420; laundryman, $600: assistant laundryman, $365; three laundresses, at $360 each; two chambermaids, 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, $29,610. 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, $47,500; For repaird to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, $2,750; Kitchen building. For building for hospital kitchen, $7,500; For kitchen equipment, $1,500; Payment to abandoned families. 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 in her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, $6,500, 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, $50,000; Transporting prisoners to jail. Transportation of prisoners: For convey mg prisoners to Washington Asylum and Jail, including salary of driver, not to exceed $840, and purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $2,000; Home for Aged and Infirm. Salaries. In all, Washington Asylum and Jail, $147,360. Home for Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk, $900: matron, $600; chief cook, $720; baker and laundryman, at $540 each; chief engineer, $1,000; assistant engineer, $720; physician and pharmacist, $480; second assistant engineer, $480; two male attend-1035ants and two nurses, at $360 each; two female attendants, at $300 each; three firemen, at $300 each; assistant cooks—one $300, one $180; foreman of construction and repair, $720; blacksmith and woodworker, $540; farmer, $540; four farm hands, dairyman, and tailor, at $360 each; seamstress, $240; laundress, hostler and driver, at $240 each; three servants, at $144 each; night watchman, $240; temporary labor, $1,000; in all, $16,952; For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to Contingent expenses.same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including maintenance of motor truck, $28,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $3,000; Repairs, etc. For purchase of material for permanent roads, $300; For extension of fire protection to group of farm buildings, $850; For renewal of heating system, $2,500; For renewal of roofs, $1,000; For purchase and installation of two electric generators, $5,000; In all, Home for Aged and Infirm, $57,602. National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenance National Training School for Boys. Care of boys committed to.of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $65,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. National Training School for Girls: Superintendent, $1,200; National Training School for Girls. Salaries.treasurer, matron, and four teachers, at $600 each; overseer, $720; two parole officers, at $600 each; seven teachers of industries, at $480 each; engineer, $720; assistant engineer, $600; night watchman, $480; two laborers, at $300 each; in all, $12,480; For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, Contingent expenses.shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, 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 $150,515,000; In all, National Training School for Girls, $27,480. 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. Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum: For care Columbia Hospital for Women.and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $25,000. 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 $17,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be Homeopathic Hospital.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 Emergency Hospital.service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, $26,000. 1036 Casualty Hospital. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, $13,000. Home for Incurables. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with Washington Home for Incurables by the Board of Charities, $5,000. Georgetown University Hospital. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $5,000. George Washington University Hospital. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $5,000. Tuberculosis Hospital. Salaries. Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician, $600; assistant resident physician, $300; roentgenologist, $600; pharmacist and clerk, superintendent of nurses, and engineer, at $720 each; pathologist, $300; matron, dietician, chief cook, assistant engineer, laundryman, and eight graduate nurses, at $600 each; assistant cooks—one $360, two at $240 each; assistant engineer, $480; elevator conductor, $300; three laundresses, at $240 each; farmer, laborer, night watchman, four orderlies, and assistant laundryman, at $360 each; three ward maids, at $240 each; four servants, at $240 each; in all, $20,460; 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, $37,000; Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $2,000; In all, Tuberculosis Hospital, $59,460. Gallinger Municipal Hospital. Construction on Reservation No. 13. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: Toward the construction of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, including grading of the site, to be located on Reservation Numbered Thirteen in the District of Columbia, in accordance with plans and specifications prepared under the Vol. 38, p. 545. Limit of cost.authority contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $150,000, and the limit of cost of the construction of said hospital and accessory buildings is hereby fixed at $500,000, Said hospital shall be constructed with a view to making such future additions as the exigencies may require, and the work herein authorized shall be so executed as not to interfere in any way with the future extension of Massachusetts Avenue: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Former location repealed.That the provision contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen requiring that said hospital be located and erected at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets is hereby repealed. child-caring institutions. Care of children. Board of Children’s Guardians. Expenses. Board of Children’s Guardians: For administrative expenses, including 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; clerks—one $1,200, one $900, one $720; placing and investigating officers — two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, eight at $900 each; record clerk, $900; messenger, $360; in all, $16,480; Feeble-minded children. For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $27,000; 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 1037to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $80,000; In all, Board of Children’s Guardians, $126,980. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to Advances to agent.advance to the agent of the Board of Children’s Guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the commissioners, 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, alt such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved.. Industrial Home School for Colored Children: Superintendent, Industrial Home School for Colored Children. Salaries.$1,200; matron of school, $480; three caretakers, two assistant caretakers, nurse, and sewing teacher, at $360 each; three teachers, at $480 each; manual training teacher, $600; farmer and blacksmith and wheelwright, at $480 each; farm laborer, $360; stableman and watchman, at $300 each; cook, $240; laundress, $240; temporary labor not to exceed $300; in all, $8,940; For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, Expenses.and harness, $11,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,500; For manual training equipment, $300; For materials for construction of roads and sidewalks, $500; For fire protection, including purchase of fire extinguishers, $200; For the erection of a barn, $1,500; For the erection of one cottage to accommodate twenty-five or more boys, $15,000; New cottage. In all, Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $38,940: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Use of proceeds from sales.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 eighteen. Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisor of Industrial Home School. Salaries.boys, $720; matron, $480; three matrons, at $360 each; housekeeper and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two assistant matrons, at $300 each; nurse, $360; manual-training teacher, $660; florist, $840; engineer, $720; farmer, $540; cook and laundress, at $300 each; two housemaids, at $180 each; clerk, $900; temporary labor, not to exceed $400; in all, $10,480; For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, Expenses.and harness, $18,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,000; For replacing fire plug, $375; In all, Industrial Homo School, $30,855. 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 Children’s Guardians, 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 Children’s Guardians, $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 Children’s Guardians, $6,000. 1038 temporary homes. Temporary homes. Municipal lodging house. Municipal lodging house and wood yard; Superintendent, $1,200; foreman, $480; cook, $.360; night watchman for six months, at $25 per month, $150; maintenance; $2,000; in all, $4,190. Grand Army Soldiers’ Home. Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic: Superintendent, $1,200; janitor, $360; cook, $360; maintenance, $4,000; in all $5,920, to be expended under the direction Admissions.of the commissioners; and ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Spanish War, Philippine Insurrection, or China Relief Expedition, who served at any time between April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, shall be admitted to the home. Hope and Help Mission. For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, $3,000. Southern Relief Society, for Confederate veterans, etc. Southern Relief Society: For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows and dependents, resident in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Charities, $10,000. Library for the Blind. National Library for the Blind: For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at Seventeen hundred and twenty-nine H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind. Columbia Polytechnic Institute: To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at Eighteen hundred and eight H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $1,500. Support of indigent insane. Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, as provided by law, $400,000. Deporting nonresident insane. Vol. 30, p. 811. For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, $3,000. Advances to Board of Charities. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commission ere may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. Relief of the poor. Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay of 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. Transporting paupers. Transportation of paupers: For transportation pf paupers, $2,500. Workhouse. Administration salaries. Workhouse.—Administration: Superintendent, $2,500; chief clerk, $1,200; assistant superintendent, $900; stenographer, $720; stenographer and officer, $600; Operation salaries. Operation: Foremen—construction $900, stone-crushing plant $900, sawmill $900; chief engineer and electrician, $1,100; superintendent brickkiln, $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; two receiving and discharging officers, at $1,000 1039each; superintendent of laundry, $600 ; 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, $57,110; For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, Expenses of operation.guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation and means of transportation; supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, $70,000; For fuel for maintenance, $15,000; fuel for manufacturing and Fuel, etc.construction, dynamite, oils, and repairs to plant, $30,000; in all, $45,000; For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000; Materials for repairs, etc. For dairy and forage building, $4,000; In ail, $180,110, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Reformatory: For beginning construction of permanent building, Reformatory. Construction.including sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, $45,000; For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, Maintenance.guarding, care and support of inmates; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment; transportation and means of transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation; supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, $55,000; For fuel for maintenance, $5,000; Fuel. For completing work on the central power plant to furnish light, Completing power plant, etc.power, and water to the reformatory and workhouse; for completing the refrigerating plant; and for necessary alteration to existing plants so as to provide for connecting them with the central power plant, $43,900; In all, $148,900, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. MILITIA. Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction Expenses authorized.of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required Camps, drills, etc.to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments, damages to private property incident to encampments, 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, horses and mules for mounted organizations, street car tickets, not to exceed $200, necessarily used in the transaction of official business, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $30,000. For rent of armories, offices, storehouses, and stables, and quarters Rent.for noncommissioned officers of the Army detailed for duty with the 1040 *Provisos.* Five year lease authorized for armory etc.militia, $21,200: *Provided,* That the commanding general of the Militia of the District of Columbia is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the lease of an armory, stable, drill shed, and warehouse for Cavalry, Field Artillery, Signal Corps, and Hospital Corps troops in one building, or separately, for a period not to exceed five years, renewable at the option of the said commanding general for an additional period of not exceeding five years, at an annual Renewal of present tease for another year.rental not to exceed $10,000: *Provided further,* That the said commanding general may renew for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, or any portion thereof, the building known as two hundred and thirty First Street northwest, now occupied as an armory for mounted and other troops, at an annual rental of $3,900, and the buildings known as nineteen hundred and twelve E Street northwest, used as stables and warehouses, at an annual rental of $1,800, paying therefor a rental not in excess of the current rentals. Expenses. For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, $600. For printing, stationery, and postage, $1,800. 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. Pay of troops, etc. For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $24,000. REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS. Refund of erroneous collections. Payments. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, rents, fees, or collections 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 Vol. 33, p. 967.District of Columbia appropriation Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, $1,500, or so much thereof as may *Proviso.* Prior years.be necessary: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS. Anacostia River Flats. Continuing reclamation. For continuing the reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Fiats from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, to be expended for the purposes and under the conditions Vol. 38, p. 549.specified in the item for this improvement contained in the “District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen,” $300,000. Purchase of lands authorized in connection with. In connection with the said reclamation and development of the river and flats, the Secretary of War is authorized to acquire, for and on behalf of the United States, by purchase or by condemnation, for highway and park purposes, the fee simple and absolute title to all lands required for said objects and not now owned by the United Territory included.States, in and along the Anacostia River from the Anacostia Bridge to the center line of East Capitol Street, embraced within the area lying between the lines, one on each side of the river, following approximately the contour of ton feet elevation above the plane of mean low water at the United States navy yard; and the Secretary of War is further authorized to acquire for the United States, by purchase or by condemnation, for highway and park purposes, in con-1041nection with the said reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Flats, the fee simple and absolute title to all lands required for said objects and not now owned by the United States, in and along the Anacostia River in the section thereof running from the center line of East Capitol Street to the northeast boundary line of the District of Columbia, embraced within the limits designated “taking line,” one on each bank of the river in said section, as indicated on the map entitled “Reclamation Anacostia River Flats, District of Columbia, land map,” approved by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and the Secretary of War, as attested and authenticated by their respective signatures and the seal of the War Department, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of May, nineteen hundred and sixteen, recorded and filed in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, United States Anny, under Engineer Department file numbered 12968-525; and the appropriation herein made for the Use of appropriations for condemnation damages, etc.reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Flats from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, and all appropriations heretofore made for said purpose are hereby made available for the purchase or condemnation of all of the said lands hereinbefore authorized to be acquired and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages for said lands and the costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings in the event that it is necessary to institute such condemnation proceedings: *Provided,* That if said lands or any part *Proviso.* Condemnation proceedings.thereof can not be acquired by purchase from the owners thereof at a price satisfactory to the Secretary of War, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon request of the Secretary of War, shall institute condemnation proceedings to acquire such lands under the revisions of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Vol. 34, p. 151.Columbia. The Secretary of War is authorized to effect an adjustment of Adjustment of lands, etc., with Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad.boundaries and an exchange of lands in the District of Columbia with the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, in accordance with the plat or drawing on file in the office of the Chief of Engineers and designated E. D. 12968-531, whereby on the left bank of the Anacostia River said railroad company shall release, quitclaim, and Release by railroad.convey to the United States the certain lands along the Anacostia River riverward of the line shown on said plat and needed for the reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Flats, and the United States shall release and quitclaim to said railroad company By United States.any right, title, interest, or claim in or to certain lands shoreward of said line, as shown on said plat, and will permit the extension of said company’s right of way to include the triangle of land two hundred and sixty-two and ten one-hundredths feet on the hypothenuse lying at the junction of the railroad bridge and the original shore line of said river, as shown on said plat, and whereby, on the Consolidation of rights of way.right bank of the Anacostia River, the United States shall permit the rights of way of the said railroad company for its entrance into the city of Washington to be consolidated, between the bulkhead of the railroad bridge at the Anacostia River and the south line of L Street south, into one right of way of equal top width, according to the fines of said plat, and the United States and the said railroad company shall reciprocally release, quitclaim, and convey to each other the Other conveyances.portions of square south of ten hundred and eighty, so called, and the accretions to the same lying respectively northward and southward of the division line shown on said plat, and the said railroad company shall release, quitclaim, and confirm to the United States the title to all land along and adjacent to the Anacostia River from the bulkhead of the present railroad bridge to Fifteenth Street east, exterior to the portion of square south of ten hundred and eighty to be released to said railroad company as shown on said plat, together 1042with all appurtenances and riparian rights, privileges, and advantages and subject only to the consolidated right of way as hereinbefore stated and delineated on said plat. Transfers of title. And the Secretary of War is further authorized and directed on behalf of the United States to make, execute, and deliver and to accept from said railroad company such deeds of conveyance or quitclaim or other assurances of title, as in the opinion of the Attorney General may be necessary or appropriate to effect such adjustment of *Provisos.* Expenses by railroad company.boundaries and exchange of lands: *Provided,* That all expenses of recording such deeds and other expenses incidental to the execution of such exchanges shall be borne by the said railroad company: Closing of portion of L Street.*Provided further,* That upon the effectuation of the adjustment of boundaries and exchange of lands herein provided for, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to close that portion of L Street south lying between Water Street and the Commodore Barney Circle, and to permit the use and occupation of the same by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company in connection with the consolidated right of way authorized by this Act. PARKS. Small parks. Condemnation expenses. Vol. 38, p. 625. For the condemnation of small park areas to be acquired in accordance 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 SERVICE. Water service. Trunk mains to Conduit Road. For laying sixteen-inch trunk mains in Reservoir Street and New Cut Road to Conduit Road northwest, $26,600. Payments wholly from water revenues. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of the water department, namely: washington aqueduct. Washington Aqueduct. Maintenance of reservoir, tunnel, filtration plant, etc. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, 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, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $130, 000. Conduit Road. For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, $5,000. Lining tunnels. For continuing the lining of such portions of unlined sections of the tunnels of the Washington Aqueduct as may be necessary to prevent disintegration and fall of rock, $10,000. Emergency fund. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break requiring immediate repair in one of the more important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, Reappropriation.*Ante,* p. 713.building, or important piece of machinery, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is reap preprinted and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. Water meters in Treasury, and State, War, and Navy Buildings. For completing purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters, to be placed on the water services of the Treasury Building and the State, War, and Navy Department Building, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, said meters to be purchased, installed, and maintained by and remain under the observation of the officer in charge of the Washington Aqueduct, $3,600. 1043 For continuation of parking grounds around McMillan Park Reservoir, $3,000. McMillan Park grounds. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence Control of War Department continued.and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. water department. Water department. 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, three at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; six meter computers, at $1,000 each; meter clerk, $1,200; tap clerk, $1,000; inspectors—chief $1,000, 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 $1,700; 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 $1,000 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, $91,030. 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, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, and including a sum not exceeding $800 for purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the water department, and to reimburse three employees for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motorcycles for use in then’ official work in the District of Columbia, $12 per month each, $37,000. For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service Service expenses.system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water Water meters, etc.meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the commissioners, said meters at al! 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, not to exceed $340,000 of the amount available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized. For the protection, of the health of the residents of the District of Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Delivery of water to, for distribution in Maryland.Columbia and the employees of the United States Government residing in Maryland near the District of Columbia boundary the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon the request of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, a body corporate, established by chapter three hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixteen of the State of Maryland, or upon the request of 1044its legally appointed successor, are hereby authorized to deliver waterfrom the water-supply system of the District of Columbia to said Washington Suburban Sanitary Connections designated.Commission or its successor for distribution to territory in Maryland within the Washington suburban sanitary district as designated in the aforesaid act, and to connect District of Columbia water mains with water mains in the State of Maryland at the following points, namely, in the vicinity of Chevy Chase Circle, in the vicinity of the intersection of Georgia and Eastern Avenues, in the vicinity of the intersection of Rhode Island and Eastern Avenues, and in the vicinity of the intersection of the Anacostia Road and Eastern Avenue, under the conditions herein-after named, namely: Legislative authority for agreement required. That before such connections shall be made the said Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission or its legally appointed successor shall secure authority from the Legislature of the State of Maryland to enter into an agreement with the said Commissioners of the District of Columbia outlining the conditions under which the service is to be rendered. Conditions of agreement. The agreement between the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the said Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission or its legally appointed successor shall provide, among other things: Location of meters. First. That the meters on each of said connections shall be located within the District of Columbia and shall remain under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Water rates. Second. The rates at which water will be furnished, said rates to be based on the actual cost to the United States and the District of Columbia of delivering water to the points designated above, including an interest charge at four per centum per annum and a suitable allowance for depreciation. Payments through collector of taxes. Third. That payments for water so furnished shall be made through the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia at such times as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may direct, said payments to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as other water rents now collected in the District of Columbia are deposited. Amount of water limited. Fourth. That at no time shall the amount of water furnished the said Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission or its successors exceed the amount that can be spared without jeopardizing the interests of the United States or of the District of Columbia, and in no event shall it Maximum.exceed in amount three million gallons per day, measurement thereof to be made under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Right to investigate distribution, etc. Fifth, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have at all times the right to investigate the distribution system in Maryland, and if, in their opinion, there is a wastage of water they shall have the right to curtail the supply to said sanitary district to the amount of such wastage. Construction work under Commissioners. Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed. Sec. 2. 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 paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Proviso.* Limit.*Provided,* That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $80,000 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. 1045 All per diem employees and day laborers of the District of Columbia Legal holidays allowed to per diem employees, etc.who have been regularly employed for fifteen working days next preceding such days as arc legal holidays in the District of Columbia, and whose employment continues through and beyond said legal holidays, shall be granted leave of absence with pay for said legal holidays. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily Temporary laborers, etc.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. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary Horses, vehicles, etc. Special authority from Commissioners for using.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 anti repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged 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,* *Proviso.* Temporary work on excavations.That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers, Water department. Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed.rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and the commissioners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Limit.That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $13,200 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. 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 1046expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Miscellaneous trust funds. Expenses payable from. Vol. 33, p. 368. Sec. 5. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District 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 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. All estimates to be furnished Commissioners by October 1st of each year. Sec. 6. That hereafter copies of all estimates of appropriations in any way affecting the revenues of the District of Columbia shall be furnished to the commissioners of said District on or before October first of each year. Women’s Titanic Memorial Association. Permitted to erect memorial on public grounds. Sec. 7. That the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant permission to the Women’s Titanic Memorial Association for the erection on public grounds of the United States in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, other than those of the Capitol, the Library of Congress, Potomac Park, and the White House, of a memorial appropriate as a lasting tribute to the heroes who sacrificed their lives, that women and children might be saved, in the tragic catastrophe of the sinking of *Proviso.* Approval of site and design.the steamship Titanic: *Provided,* That the site chosen and the design of the memorial shall be approved by the Joint Library Committee of Congress and the Commission of Fine Arts, and that the United States shall be put to no expense in or by the erection of said memorial. Stolen piping, etc. Licenses of dealers revoked for purchasing, etc. Sec. 8. Hereafter when any piping or other household fixtures or second-hand goods of any description whatever have been stolen and sold to a dealer in junk, or second-hand dealer, in the District of Columbia, under such circumstances that the commissioners, after hearing granted, are satisfied that said dealer should have had reasonable ground to believe, or could have ascertained by reasonable inquiry or investigation, that the goods were stolen, and that the dealer did not make reasonable inquiry or investigation as to the title of the seller before making- the purchase, the commissioners are authorized and directed to revoke the license of said dealer; and this action shall not be a bar to criminal prosecution for receiving stolen goods. Intangible property tax.*Ante,* p. 717, amended. Sec. 9. That section eleven of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved September first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be amended so that the same shall read as follows: Tax on personal property. Vol. 32, p. 618, amended. "“Sec. 11. Section six of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled ‘An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes,’ is hereby amended by adding, after paragraph two of said section: Appraisal of intangible property. "“‘That the moneys and credits, including moneys loaned and invested, bonds and shares of stock (except the stock of banks and other corporations within the District of Columbia the taxation of which banks and corporations is herein provided for) of any person, firm, association, or corporation resident or engaged in business 1047within said District shall be scheduled and appraised in the manner provided by paragraph one of said section six for listing and appraisal Vol. 32, p. 618.of tangible personal property and assessed at their fair cash value, and as taxes on said moneys and credits there shall be paid Tax diminished.to the tax collector of said District three-tenths of one per centum of the value thereof: *Provided,* That savings deposits of individuals in a *Provisos.* Savings deposits up to $500, exempt.sum not in excess of $500 deposited in banks, trust companies, or building associations, subject to notice of withdrawal and not subject to check, shall be exempt from this tax: *Provided, further,* That such Further exemptions. Bank notes, discounts, etc., of banks.tax on moneys and credits shall not apply to bank notes or notes discounted or negotiated by any bank or banking institution, savings institution, or trust company, nor to savings institutions having Savings and relief associations.no capital stock, building associations, firemen’s relief associations, secret and beneficial societies, labor unions, and labor-union relief associations, nor to beneficial organizations paying sick or death benefits, or either or both, from funds received from voluntary contributions or assessments upon members of such associations, societies, or unions; nor shall the provisions of this Act apply to life or fire Mutual insurance companies, etc.insurance companies having no capital stock, nor to the shares of stock of business companies which by reason of or in addition to incorporation receive no special franchise or privilege, but all such corporations shall be rated, assessed, and taxed as individuals conducting business in similar lines are rated, assessed, and taxed: *And provided further,* That corporations, limited partnerships, and If taxed on stock or earnings no further tax required.joint-stock associations within Payment if held as trustees.said District liable to tax under the laws of said District on earnings or capital stock shall not be required to make any report or pay any further tax under this section on the mortgages, Bonds, and other securities owned by them in their own right, but such corporations, partnerships, and associations holding such securities as trustees, executors, administrators, guardians, or in any other manner shall return and pay the tax imposed by this section upon all securities so hold by them as in the case of individuals."" Sec. 10. That to provide, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred Appropriation for increased pay to employees receiving less than $1,800 a year.and eighteen, for increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate per annum less than’$1,200, and for increased compensation at the rate of five per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate not more than $1,800 per annum and not less than $1,200 per annum, so much as may be necessary is hereby appropriated : *Provided,* *Proviso.* Only applicable under this Act.That this section shall only apply to the employees who are appropriated for in this Act specifically and under lump sums or whose employment is authorized herein, and that the increased compensation of teachers of the public, schools be computed on their basic salaries, and on the salaries of the employees of the police department below the grade of sergeants: *Provided further,* That detailed reports shall be Detailed report to be submitted.submitted to Congress on the first day of the next session showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation provided for herein. Approved, March 3, 1917.
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