Chapter 433. 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
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CHAP. 433.— 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. September 1, 1916[[H. R. 15774](/us/bill/64/hr/15774)][[Public, No. 250](/us/pl/64/250)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* District of Columbia appropriations.Half from District revenues.
That one half of the following 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 seventeen, namely: 677 GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. Executive office: Two commissioners, at $5,000 each; EngineerExecutive office.Salaries, commissioners, etc. commissioner, so much as may be necessary (to make salary $5,000) ; secretary, $2,400; assistant secretaries to commissioners—three at $1,600 each; clerks—one $1,500, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,200, one $840, two at $720 each; messengers—two at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $840;
Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in theVeterinary division. departments of the District government, $1,200; Medicines, surgical and hospital supplies, $1,000; Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasingPurchasing division. 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: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistantBuilding inspection division. inspectors of buildings—principal $1,800, one $1,500, one $1,400, ten at $1,200 each; fire-escape inspector, $1,400; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, $1,500; civil engineers or computers—one $1,800, one $1,500; clerks—chief $1,500, one $1,050, one $1,000, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,000, one $900; messenger, $600; assistant inspector, $1,500;
To reimburse two elevator inspectors for provision and maintenanceMotorcycles for elevator inspectors. by themselves of two motor cycles for use in their official inspection of elevators, $12 per month each, $288; For transportation, means of transportation, and maintenance ofTransportation. 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:
Inspector of plumbing, $2,000;Plumbing inspection division. assistant inspectors of plumbing—principal $1,550, six at $1,200 each; clerks—one $1,200, one $900; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, $2,400; draftsman, $1,350; sewer tapper, $1,000; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each; Motorcycles.To reimburse three assistant inspectors of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia, $12 per month each, $432.
In all, Executive Office, $119,450. Care of District Building: Clerk and stenographer, $2,000; chiefCare of District Building. engineer, $1,400; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrician, $1,200; two dynamo tenders, at $875 each; three firemen, at $720 each; three coal passers, at $600 each; electrician’s helper, $840; eight elevator conductors, at $600 each; laborers—two at $660 each, two at $500 each; two chief cleaners (who shall also have charge of the lavatories), at $500 each; thirty cleaners, at $240 each; chief watchman, $1,000; assistant chief watchman, $660; eight watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube operator, $600; in all, $36,530.
For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics and labor, notMaintenance. to exceed $3,500, and miscellaneous supplies, $17,000. Assessor’s office: Assessor, $3,500; assistant assessors—three atAssessor’s office. $3,000 each, two at $2,000 each; record clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200; clerks—four (including one in arrears division) at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, eight (including one in charge of records) at $1,000 each, two at $900 each two at $720 each; draftsmen—one 678$1,200; assistant or clerk, $900; license clerk, $1,200; inspector of licenses, $1,200; assistant inspector of licenses, $1,000; messengers—two at $600 each; board of assistant assessors—clerk $1,500, messenger and driver $600; temporary clerk hire $500; in all, $50,140.
Assessments biennially hereafter.Hereafter assessments of real estate in the District of Columbia for purposes of taxation shall be made biennially in the same manner as is now required by law for triennial assessments of real estate in said Completion, appeals, etc.District; and the time for the completion of each biennial assessment, and the time in which appeals from such assessments may be taken to the board of equalization and review shall be the same as is now provided for the assessment of real property which has become subject to taxation and which has not been taxed, and for the assessment, Vol. 28, p. 284.of new structures, as set forth in section eleven of the Act approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to provide an immediate revision and equalization of real estate values in the District of Columbia; and also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, *Proviso*.Additional employees.and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes”: *Provided*, That in order to enable the assessor of the District of Columbia to make the biennial assessments of real property as herein provided, there are hereby appropriated the following sums for the employment of personal services, namely, record clerk $1,800, record clerk $1,500, draftsman $1,600, two stenographers and typewriters, at $1,200 each, five field men, at $2,000 each; in all, $17,300.
Personal tax board.Personal tax board: Two assistant assessors of personal taxes, at $3,000 each; appraiser of personal property, $1,800; clerk, $1,400; assistant clerk, $1,000; three inspectors, at $1,200 each; extra clerk hire, $2,000; in all, $15,800. Excise board.Excise board: Three members, at $2,400 each; clerk, $1,500; inspector, $1,500; messenger, $600; hire of means of transportation, *Proviso*.No pay to rejected nominee.$800; in all, $11,600: *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. Tax sale certificates.For extra labor in preparation of tax-sale certificates, and data which the law requires this office to furnish the recorder of deeds and the assessor, with authority to employ typewriters and clerks, $800.
Auditor’s office.Auditor’s office: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper, $1,800; accountant, $1,500; clerks—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, one $1,350, four at $1,200 each, 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 $2,000, third $1,800, fourth $1,500, fifth $1,500; stenographers—one $1,200, one $840, one $720; clerk, $720; *Proviso*.Retention of fees forbidden.in all, $17,280: *Provided*, That hereafter no attorney for the District of Columbia shall retain any attorney fees taxed as costs in any litigation to which the District of Columbia is a party. 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. 679 Coroner’s office: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistantCoroner’s office. morgue master and janitor, $600; hostler and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600. Market masters: Two market masters, at $1,200 each; assistantMarket masters. market masters, who shall also perfrom 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 marketProduce market. master, who shall also act as night watchman, $600; watchman, $600; laborer for sweeping sidewalks on B, Little B, and Tenth and Twelfth Streets Northwest, and the center walk of the Farmers’ Produce Market Square, and raking up space used for market purposes, $480; laborer to remove market refuse from streets and from sidewalks around Farmers’ Produce Market and to assist in the care of the interior of the market, $480; hauling refuse (street sweepings), $600; in all, $3,660.
Eastern Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street whereEastern market. used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $300. Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $300. Fish wharf and market: Market master and wharfinger, whoWestern market.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, to be employed not exceeding six months, during the busy seasons, at $40 per month, $240; in all, $1,740.
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; laborer, $600; in all, $9,900. For purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, provisions,Purchases for investigations. and so forth, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $100. Engineer Commissioner’s office:
Engineer of highways, $3,000;Engineer Commissioner’s office.Engineers, superintendents, etc.*Proviso*.Asphalt inspector, restriction. engineer of bridges, $2,250; superintendents—one of streets $2,000, -one of suburban roads $2,000, one of sewers $3,300; asphalts and cements—inspector $2,400: *Provided*, That hereafter the inspector of asphalts and cements shall not receive or accept compensation of any kind from or perform any work or render any services of a character required of him officially by the District of Columbia to any person, firm, corporation, or municipality other than the District of Columbia, assistant inspector $1,500; trees and parkings—superintendent $2,000, assistant superintendent $1,350; assistant engineers—twoAssistant engineers etc. 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—two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; rodmen—four at $900 each, eight at $780 each; twelve chainmen, at $650 each; draftsmen—one $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; general inspector of sewers, $1,300; inspectorInspectors, etc. of sewers, $1,200; bridge inspector, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,500 each, five (including two of streets) at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; transitman, $1,200; foremen—twelve at $1,200 each, one $1,050, ten at $900 each; foreman, Rock Creek Park, $1,200; three subforemen, at $1,050 each; bridgekeepers—one $650, three at $600 each; chief clerk, $2,250; permit clerk, $1,500; assistant permitClerks, etc. clerk, $1,000; index clerk and typewriter, $900; clerks—one at $1,800, three at $1,500 each, one $1,400, one $1,350 (now paid from lump-sum appropriations), seven at $1,200 each (including two now paid from lump-sum appropriations), two at $1,000 each, one $900, one $840, two at $750 each, one $720, one $600; messengers—seven at $600 each; skilled laborers—one $625, two at $600 each; janitor, $720; steam engineers—principal $1,800, three at $1,200 each, three 680assistants 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, $178,690.
Municipal architect’s office.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, $1,800; assistant superintendent of repairs, $1,200; boss carpenter, boss tinner, boss painter, boss plumber, boss steam fitter, five in all, at $1,200 each; boss grader, $1,000; machinist, $1,200; clerks—one $1,200 (including one now paid from lump sum appropriations), one $1,050, one (office of superintendent of repairs) $1,000 (now paid from lump sum appropriations), one $720; copyist, $840; driver, $600; in all, $31,110.
Public Utilities Commission.Public Utilities Commission: For salaries (including inspector of gas and meters, $2,000; assistant inspectors of gas and meters—one $1,000, two at $900 each; messenger, $600, transferred from engineer commissioner’s office); in all, $34,000; For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, $10,000; In all, Public Utilities Commission, $44,000. Special assessment office.Special assessment office:
Special assessment clerk, $2,000; clerks—seven at $1,200 each, two at $900 each, one $750; in all, $12,950. Street cleaning division.Street-cleaning division: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent and clerk, $1,800; chief clerk, $1,400; stenographer and clerk, $1,000; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,100, one $1,000, two at $720 each; chief inspector, $1,300; inspectors—four at $1,200 each, 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, $42,980.
Examiners, steam engineers.Board of examiners, steam engineers: Three members, at $300 each, $900. Automobile board.Automobile board: Secretary or acting secretary, $300. Insurance department.Department of insurance: Superintendent of insurance, $3,500; deputy and examiner, $2,000; statistician, $1,700; clerk, $1,200; two clerks, 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.Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch: Librarian, $3,500; assistant librarian, $1,500; chief circulating department, $1,200; director of children’s work, $1,500; children’s librarian, 681$1,000; assistant in charge of school work, $1,000; librarian’s secretary, $1,000; Takoma Park branch librarian, $1,000; reference librarian $1,000; assistants—one $1,000, one in charge of periodicals $1,000, one $900, six at $840 each, six (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; stenographer and typewriter, $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, $360; engineer, $1,200; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $54,060.
For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at theSubstitutes. discretion of the librarian, $1,000. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday halfSunday, etc., opening. holidays, $2,000. Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park branch: For books,Miscellaneous. periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $8,500; For binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, $4,500;
For maintenance, repairs, fuel, fighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles; and other contingent expenses, $9,000; In all, $22,000. 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, $36,900; and the commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motor cycles,Motor vehicles.Maintenance, etc. and motor trucks, acquired for the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise herein provided for, including such personal services in connection therewith not otherwise herein authorized, as the commissoners shall in writing specially order; and for the purchase of three new and exchange of seven motor vehicles herein specified, namely: Automobiles for the offices of the civilian commissioners, includingAutomobiles. the assessor’s office and office of Board of Children’s Guardians, 682and 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, eighteen in all, including three, to be purchased new and four to be purchased in lieu of old ones to be exchanged hereunder, as follows:
For the assessor’s office, one automobile to be purchased new; for the Board of Children’s Guardians, one automobile to be purchased new; for the surface division, one automobile to be purchased in lieu of one automobile to be exchanged; for the street-cleaning division, two automobiles to be purchased in lieu of two automobiles to be exchanged; and for the surveyor’s office, two automobiles in lieu of one to be exchanged; Motorcycles.Motor cycles: One for the plumbing-inspection division, five for the street-cleaning division, including two to be purchased in lieu of two motor cycles to be exchanged, and three for the electrical department, nine in all;
Motor-trucks.Motor trucks: One for the municipal architect’s office, two for the electrical department, one for the street-cleaning division to be purchased in lieu of one automobile to be exchanged, and one for the parking commission, five in all; Use of vehicles restricted.In all, for motor vehicles, $20,000. 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 *Provisos*.Limits of cost.of any of 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 except the automobile herein provided for the assessor’s office for which a limitation of $1,200 is hereby authorized; $500 for one seating not more than two persons, or $2,000 for a motor truck: *Provided further*, Distinctive color and marking required.That 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 horse-drawn vehicles for inspection or other purposes for those officials or employees provided with motor vehicles. Central garage.For the purchase or condemnation of a site to contain not less than five thousand four hundred square feet (at a cost not exceeding $20,000), and for the erection of a central garage thereon, $35,000.
Limit on expenses for horses.Appropriations in this Act, except appropriations for the militia, shall not be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
Fire insurance prohibited.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. 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 683Charities, health officer, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men under appropriations contained in this Act.
The Commissioners of theConnections with Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, etc. District of Columbia may connect 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, $11,500.Postage. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnishOfficial use of street car tickets. 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.Fire and police not included. herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $5,000:
Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. Hereafter the several street railway companies in the District ofFree street car rides for police and firemen. Columbia are authorized and required to transport free of charge all members of the Metropolitan police, crossing police, park police, and fire department of the District of Columbia when in uniform and in the performance of their duties.
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 Supreme Court of said District, $5,000. For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportationCoroner’s expenses. for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,400.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forAdvertising,General. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $5,000. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteenTaxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24. hundred and sixteen, 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 theGame and fish laws. direction of the commissioners, $200.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first,Removing dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” to pay members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purposeReappropriation.Vol. 38, p. 901. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen is reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in theHistorical tablets.Reappropriation.Vol. 38, p. 901. District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library not exceeding the sum of $500 of the unexpended balances of the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and subsequent District of Columbia appropriation Acts, is continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. 684 Copies of wills to assessor.Office of register of wills:
For furnishing to the office of the assessor copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, $900. 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, $1,350. Repairing fire injuries.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 seventeen.
Markets, repairs.For maintenance and repairs to markets, $3,400. Fish market, etc.For maintenance and repair of fish wharf and market, $500. New buildings, etc., on fish wharf.For completing the construction of market buildings on the site of the present municipal fish wharf and market, including refrigerating and cold-storage plant, which shall be equipped for the accommodation of such retail business as may obtain at that point and shall serve as the wholesale receiving and distributing point for marine and other products to be retailed elsewhere in the District, within the authorized limit of cost, $60,000.
Produce market.For the erection of a third steel shelter at the Farmers’ Produce Market, $15,000. Autotruck, etc.For auto truck for office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets, with nonremovable body equipped with test weights, balances, measures, and so forth, for testing work up to five hundred pounds to be used on the lighter work of the inspectors of weights and measures, $600. For maintenance and repairs to auto truck, $250. Motor vehicle allowance.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.
Repair shop.Improvements, etc.For alterations and improvements at the repair shop, sixteen hundred and seventeen U Street Northwest: For changes to provide for more orderly and systematic arrangement and distribution of materials and labor at the repair shop, $4,800; For construction of shed in yard in rear of repair shop for protection of perishable and bulky material, $1,600; For machines for repair work in machine shop—one twenty-four inch lathe, one milling machine, and one drill press, $3,500; in all, $9,900.
Improvements and repairs.IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Assessment and permit work.Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, including purchase and maintenance of one motor truck, $240,000. Work on streets and avenues.Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix L, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $196,600, to be expended in the discretion of the commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Schedules.Northwest section schedule: $34,300. Southwest section schedule: $34,000. Southeast section schedule: $57,300. Northeast section schedule: $71,000. *Proviso*.Streets paved with Belgian block, etc.*Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in 685such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall beLimit for asphalt pavements. made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than $1.80 per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia during the years nineteen hundred and fourteen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, or nineteen hundred and sixteen, and with same depth of base, nor more than $1.80 per square yard for laying standard asphalt-block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia during the years nineteen hundred and fourteen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, or nineteen hundred and sixteen: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Increase allowed.
That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to $2 per square yard. Repave with asphalt the roadway of Twelfth Street northwest, fromRepaving Twelfth Street NW. E to F Streets, forty-five feet wide, and this width of roadway or less is authorized for use hereafter on other portions of this street in connection with their resurfacing, $6,600.
Repave with asphalt the roadway of Third Street northwest, fromRepaving Third Street, NW. Pennsylvania Avenue to B Street south, $13,800. Repave with asphalt the granite block roadway of Seventh StreetRepaving Seventh Street NW. northwest, from R Street to Florida Avenue, $15,000. For repaving the roadway of B Street northwest, from Ninth StreetRepaving B Street NW. to Twelfth Street, on plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $28,000. Repave with asphalt the roadway of Fourteenth Street northwest,Repaving Fourteenth Street NW. from Pennsylvania Avenue to F Street, seventy feet wide, $7,500.
Repave with asphalt the roadway of First Street southwest, fromRepaving First Street SW. Maryland Avenue to Canal Street, $6,700. For repaving the roadway of B Street northwest, from SeventhRepaving B Street NW. Street to Ninth Street, on plans to be approved by the commissioners: *Provided*, That the one-half cost of paving said roadway between the*Proviso*.Assessment against Washington Market Company. north side thereof and a line twenty feet therefrom and parallel thereto between the west building line of Seventh Street and the east building line of Ninth Street shall be assessed against the Washington Market Company and collected as provided herein for assessments for paving roadways on streets herein authorized to be paved or repaved, $22,000.
Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase andGrading. 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 of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase orCondemnation. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. Construction of suburban roads: For construction of suburbanSuburban roads and streets. roads and suburban streets, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Construction of surburban roads and suburban streets,” and for that purpose it shall constitute one fund, as follows:
Northeast. Rhode Island Avenue, South Dakota Avenue to District line, grade and improve, $17,000; Southeast. Nichols Avenue, Fourth Street to Upsal Street, gradeNichols Avenue SE. and improve, $11,800; The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to transferTransfer from Government reservation for opening. to the commissioners for use as a public highway so much of the United States reservation on Nichols Avenue, and designated as parcel two hundred and forty-three, one as may be necessary to open Nichols Avenue with a width of one hundred and ten feet from its westerly line as now established; 686 Northwest.
Connecticut Avenue, Cathedral Avenue to Klingle Road, pave, $8,300; Northeast. Todd Place, Lincoln Road to Second Street, grade, $2,500; Northeast. First Street, U Street to Todd Place, pave, $2,000; Northwest. Colorado Avenue, Montague Street to Georgia Avenue, grade and improve, $7,000; Northwest. Clifton Street, Eleventh Street to Thirteenth Street, pave, $5,500; Northwest. Eleventh Street, Florida Avenue to Clifton Street, pave, $4,400; Northwest. Thirteenth Street, Florida Avenue to Clifton Street, pave, $6,700;
Northwest. Champlain Street, Florida Avenue to Kalorama Road, pave, $10,500; Northwest. Twelfth Street, Clifton Street to Euclid Street, pave, $2,200; Northwest. Hobart Street, west of Mount Pleasant Street, pave, $3,600; Northwest. Twenty-seventh Street, Woodley Road to Cathedral Avenue, pave, $4,000; Northwest. Perry Place, Holmead Place to Spring Place, pave, $6,900; Northwest. Hall Place, north of W Place, pave, $2,800; Northwest. W Place, Wisconsin Avenue to Hall Place, pave, $1,700;
Northeast. Quarles Street, Kenilworth Avenue to Minnesota Avenue, grade and improve, $3,400; Northeast. Olive Street, Polk Street to Eastern Avenue, grade and improve, $3,600; Northeast. Ord Street, Kenilworth Road to Forty-fourth Street, grade and improve, $2,900; Southeast. Portland Street, Nichols Avenue to Fourth Street, grade, $10,500; Northwest. Illinois Avenue, Ingraham Street to Hamilton Street, grade and improve, $1,700; Northwest. Ellicott Street, Belt Road to Wisconsin Avenue, grade and improve, $4,400;
Northwest. Sixth Street, Aspen Street to Butternut Street, grade and improve, $2,400; Northwest. Kennedy Street, Eighth Street to Ninth Street, grade and improve, $3,600; Northwest. W Street, Fourth Street to Fifth Street, pave, $2,100; Northwest. Parkwood Place, Holmead Place to Fourteenth Street, pave, $3,600; Canal Road NW.Northwest. Canal Road, south side retaining wall, reconstruct, $25,000; Southeast. U Street, Nichols Avenue to Shannon Place, pave, $1,300; Southeast. Shannon Place, U Street to W Street, pave, $3,300;
Northwest. Forty-first Street, Davenport Street to Ellicott Street, grade and improve, $2,300; Northwest. Princeton Place, Georgia Avenue to Rock Creek Church Road, pave, $4,100; Seventeenth Street NW.Northwest. Seventeenth Street, Irving Street to Kenyon Street, grade, $500; Condemning lands for extending.Vol. 34, p. 151.Under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within six months after the passage of this Act, the commissioners are authorized and directed to institute in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that 687may be necessary for the extension of Seventeenth Street northwest, from Kenyon Street to Irving Street, with a width of ninety feet, said extension to be in direct line with Seventeenth Street as it now exists north of Kenyon Street: *Provided, however*, That the entireProviso.Damages assessed as benefits. amount found to be due and awarded by a jury in said proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension, plus the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits;
There is appropriated out of the revenues of the District of ColumbiaAppropriation for expenses. an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceeding taken pursuant hereto and for thePayment of awards. payment of the amounts awarded as damages, to be repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia; Northwest. Twentieth Street, Kalorama Road to Belmont Street, pave, $3,750;
Northeast. Lawrence Street, Seventeenth Street to Twenty-Second Street, grade and improve, $7,000; Northwest. Dahlia Street, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, grade and improve, $5,000; Northwest. Vamum Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, pave, $2,800; Northwest. Seventh Street, Vamum Street to Upshur Street, pave, $2,200; Northwest. Fifth Street, Aspen Street to Butternut Street, grade and improve, $2,500; Northeast. Sixteenth Street, Brentwood Road to Irving Street, grade and improve, $4,600;
Northwest. Holmead Place, Otis Street to Spring Road, grade and improve, $5,000; Northeast. Sixteenth Place, Rhode Island Avenue to Franklin Street, grade and improve, $1,100; Northeast. Franklin Street, Sixteenth Place to Seventeenth Street, and Seventeenth Street, Franklin Street to Douglas Street, grade, $3,200; Northeast. South Dakota Avenue, Carlton Avenue to Vista Street, grade and improve, $2,200; Southeast. Naylor Road, east of Good Hope Road, to DistrictNaylor Road SE.Appropriation continued.Vol. 38, p. 902. line, grade and improve, $5,500; and the appropriation of $8,000 contained in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen is hereby continued available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for that purpose is hereby reappropriated;
Northwest. Madison Street, from Fourteenth Street to Colorado Avenue, grade and macadam, $1,000; Northwest. Park Road, New Hampshire Avenue to Fourteenth Street, pave, $17,500; Northwest. Warder Street, Kenyon Street to Columbia Road, pave, $4,500; Northeast. Benning Road, end of macadam to Central Avenue, grade and improve, $4,500; Northwest. Keokuk Street, Connecticut Avenue to Thirty-seventh Street, grade and improve, $3,800; Northeast. Queens Chapel Road, Bunker Hill Road to District line, grade and improve, $5,200;
Northwest. Lamont Street, Sixth Street to Park Place, pave, $5,300; Northwest. Sixteenth Street, from Montague Street to AlaskaSixteenth Street NW. Avenue, grade and improve, including viaduct across Military Road, $90,000; 688 Massachusetts Avenue NW.Northwest. Massachusetts Avenue, from the intersection of Nebraska Avenue to the District line, grade and macadamize, $40,000; Portland Street SE.Southeast. Portland Street, from the intersection of Nichols Avenue southeast to Fourth Street southwest, grade and macadamize, $30,000;
Northwest. Fifteenth Street, from Sixteenth Street to Lamont Street, macadamize, $760; Northwest. New Hampshire Avenue Northwest, from Grant Circle to Oregon Avenue, grade and improve, $16,000; Kenyon Street NW.Condemning land for extending.Vol. 34, p. 151.Northwest. Kenyon Street, from Seventeenth Street to Mount Pleasant Street, grade, $500. Under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within six months after the passage of this Act the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to institute in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the extension of Kenyon Street northwest, from Seventeenth Street to Mount Pleasant Street, with *Proviso*.Damages assessed as benefits.a width of eighty feet: *Provided, however*, That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by a jury in said proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension, plus the costs and expenses of the proceedings hereunder, shall Appropriation for expenses.be assessed by the jury as benefits.
There is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of the District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings Payment of awards.taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of the amounts awarded as damages, to be repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia; Northwest. Thirty-sixth Street, from Macomb Street to Woodley Road, grade and improve, $4,000;
Northeast. Woodridge Street, Twenty-fourth Street to Thayer Street, grade and improve, $650; In all, $440,160. Permanent system of highways.Extending streets to conform with.Vol. 37, p. 950.To carry out the provisions contained in the District of Columbia 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 Solely from District revenues.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 seventeen.
Repairs of streets, etc.Repairs—Streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior Street railway pavements.material, $315,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided Vol. 20. p. 105.by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.
Contracts for work, etc.Hereafter, where formal written contracts with bonds are required to be made by the District of Columbia for work, material, or supplies, Bond from surety company, etc., required.good and sufficient bonds to the District of Columbia shall be required from the contractors in a penal sum not less than twenty-five per centum of the amount of the contract, with sureties or a surety company Term of guarantee.to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia guaranteeing that the terms of the contract shall be strictly and 689faithfully performed to the satisfaction of said commissioners; that the contractors shall promptly make payments to all persons supplying them labor and materials in the prosecution of the work provided for in such contracts as now provided by law; and that such work shall be kept in repair as now provided by law for a period of one year from the date of completion of said work; but no cash retent to guaranteeRepeal of cash, retent. such repair shall be held or required on such contracts; and all laws and parts of laws contrary to the provisions hereof are hereby repealed: *Provided further*, That this provision shall also apply to*Proviso*.Existing contracts included. contracts heretofore executed, either completed or in process of execution.
The authority given the commissioners in the District of ColumbiaChanging 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 shall be*Proviso*.Condition. made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized inFourteenth Street SW.Width increased. connection with the resurfacing of the roadway of Fourteenth Street southwest, from B Street to Water Street, to increase the width of said roadway to not exceeding fifty-five feet. For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around publicSidewalks and curbs. reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $25,000. Repairs to suburban roads: For current work of repairs toSuburban roads, repairs. suburban roads and suburban streets, including the purchase of four motor cycles, and one truck at a price not exceeding $2,000, in lieu of four motor cycles and one truck to be exchanged, and including maintenance of motor vehicles, $150,000.
Bridges: For construction and repairs, including not exceedingBridges.Construction and repairs.M Street Bridge.Street bridges over railroads. $23,000 for replacement of two trusses and floor of the in Street Bridge across Rock Creek, $45,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing when necessary any bridge carrying a public street over the right of way or property of any railway company, and the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railway company in the manner provided in section five of an Act providing a permanent formVol. 20, p. 105. 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 atHighway Bridge. $1,020 each, two at $720 each; four watchmen, at $720 each; labor, $1,500; lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $8,620; in all, $16,480. For painting the ironwork and repairing the fenders of the bridge, $10,000. Operation of Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneousAnacostia Bridge. supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $4,500.
Calvert Street Bridge: For preparation of plans for construction ofCalvert Street Bridge.Plans for new. a bridge to take the place of the existing Calvert Street Bridge crossing Rock Creek, $6,000. Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission: The parcel ofRock Creek and Parkway Commission.Addition to connecting parkway. ground west of Ashmead Place and between it and Rock Creek and the parcel of ground west of Twentieth Street northwest, and between it and Rock Creek, and the parcel of ground northwest of Belmont Road and northeast of Massachusetts Avenue and adjoining Rock Creek Parkway on the southeast, being a portion of block numbered twenty-690five hundred and one, which parcels of ground were included in the first official map and excluded by the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission from the area and parcel described and delineated in the map numbered two, contained in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fourteen of the present session, be, and are hereby, reincluded as a part of the connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park.
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, $100,000. Suburban.For suburban sewers, $200,000.
Assessment and permit.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. Anacostia interceptor.Anacostia main interceptor: For completing construction of the Anacostia main interceptor along the Anacostia River between the outfall sewer, sewage-disposal system, at Poplar Point, and Benning, District of Columbia, $39,500.
Rock Creek interceptor.Rock Creek main interceptor: For completing construction of the Rock Creek main interceptor from P Street to Military Road, $50,000. Upper Potomac interceptor.Upper Potomac interceptor: For beginning the construction of the upper Potomac interceptor between Twenty-seventh and K Streets and the Chain Bridge, $30,000. Streets.STREETS. Cleaning, etc.Removing ice and snow.Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; allowance to inspectors and foremen for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed for each inspector or foreman $20 per month for a horse-drawn vehicle, $25 per month for an automobile, and $12 per month for a motor cycle; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $310,000, and the commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Stable improvements.For paving yard, the construction of sheds for equipment and additional storerooms, and other necessary work at the street-cleaning stables, $5,000. Disposal of city refuse.Disposal of city refuse: For collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; collection and disposal of night soil in the District of 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 691inspector for horse-drawn vehicles, $25 per month for automobiles, and $12 per month for motor cycles; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps, and incidental expenses, $191,620.
Parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers,Parking commission. trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, and teamsters, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, and miscellaneous items, $55,000. Bathing beach: Superintendent, $600; one watchman at $480;Bathing beach. temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $2,250; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,400; in all, $4,730.
Playgrounds: For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, constructionPlaygrounds.Maintenance. of toilet facilities, wading pools, installation of telephones and telephone service, fencing, grading, and repairs, including labor and materials, and transportation of materials, maintenance and repair of storehouse, and necessary incidental and contingent expenses for all playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $18,000; For salaries: Clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $900; supervisor,Salaries. $2,500; to be employed not exceeding ten months—thirteen directors of playgrounds or recreation centers at $65 per month each, assistant director at $60 per month; to be employed not exceeding seven months—two assistant 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, thirteen assistants at $45 per month each; watchmen to be employed twelve months—fifteen at $50 per month each; general utility man at $60 per month for seven months; in all, $24,995;
For supplies, repairs, and necessary expenses of operating threeSwimming pools. swimming pools already provided and for two additional swimming pools, and purchase of bathing suits, $1,500; Five guards or swimming teachers for four months at $60 perGuards. month each, $1,200; For construction of two swimming pools, shower baths, appurtenances,New swimming pools. and equipment on sites to be selected by the commissioners, $10,000; In all, for playgrounds, $55,695. Public convenience stations:
For maintenance of public conveniencePublic convenience stations. stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $13,000. Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings: For allCondemning insanitary buildings.Vol. 34, p. 157. 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. Electrical engineer, $2,500; assistant electrical engineer, $2,000;Salaries. 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; cable splicer, $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, $49,015. 692 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.
Ninth precinct telephone system.For replacing police-patrol signaling system with telephone system in the ninth precinct, including the purchase and installation of the necessary boxes, instruments, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other items, $6,324. Lighting.Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, this sum to be expended in accordance with Vol. 36, p. 1008.Vol. 37, p. 181.the provisions of sections seven and eight of the District 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, Every and extra labor, $405,000.
Shorter periods for lighting authorized.Hereafter the commissioners are authorized in their discretion to maintain part of the lamps on any street, avenue, alley, road, or public space, or portion thereof, for a shorter period each night after the hour of one o’clock antemeridian than that required by the provisions of the above-mentioned. Acts, at such reduced rates for said lamps as may be agreed upon by and between said commissioners and the lighting companies maintaining them.
Fire-alarm boxes.For purchase and installation of ten fire-alarm boxes, and purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $2,000. Motor truck.For the purchase of one motor truck, $2,000. Square 857.Sale of lands in old Baltimore and Ohio right of way.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to sell and convey the land contained in the old right of way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company within the limits of square eight hundred and fifty-seven in the city of Washington, bounded by Sixth and Seventh, I and K Streets northeast, for cash, at a price to be fixed by said commissioners based upon the true value of said land as determined by the board of assistant assessors of the District of Columbia, to a person or persons designated by the owners of the majority of the property in said square, and the money derived from the sale herein authorized shall be deposited in the Treasury, one half to the credit of the United States and the other *Provisos*.Opening alleys.half to the credit of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That before the sale herein authorized is made there shall be set aside so much of said land as said commissioners may deem necessary to complete the system of public alleys in said square, and the land thus reserved shall not be included in the sale herein authorized: *And provided further*, Limit of time.That such sale shall be consummated within a period of two years from and after the date of the approval of this Act. 693 WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.Washington Aqueduct.
The Chief of Engineers of the War Department is authorized andTraffic regulations for protection of roads, etc. empowered to enforce the following regulations of traffic for the protection of the Washington Aqueduct and Filtration Plant and their accessories, including Conduit Road: No vehicle shall, on the Conduit Road, exceed a speed of twenty miles per hour within the District of Columbia, and in the State of Maryland the speed laws of that State. No reckless or careless driving shall be permitted, and drivers of all vehicles shall conform to the generally accepted rules for the use of public roads as to passing to the right, signaling desire to pass, and so forth, and all vehicles using this road shall carry and display the lights specified by municipal regulations for vehicles within the District of Columbia, and all such lights shall he so dimmed or masked as to obviate any blinding effect upon travelers on the road, and any violation of the above regulations shall constitute anFine for violating. offense upon conviction for which the party or parties offending shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1 or more than $40: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Jurisdiction of courts.
That for violation of said regulations committed within the District of Columbia prosecutions shall be maintainable in the United States branch of the police court of the District of Columbia and for such violations committed in the State of Maryland prosecutions shall be maintainable before the nearest United States commissioner for the District of Maryland; and said police court and said commissioner are severally vested with jurisdiction for this purpose. The United States District Court for the District of Maryland isAdditional commissioners, Maryland district court, authorized. directed to appoint such additional United States commissioner or commissioners, for service at convenient points adjacent to the Conduit Road, as may be requisite to carry out the above provisions of this Act; schedule of fees for such services to be fixed by said court.Fees.
Officers authorized to make arrests under the provisions of thisParoles, etc. Act are also authorized, in the exercise of a sound discretion, to parole the person or persons so arrested for attendance at trial. ROCK CREEK PARK.Rock Creek Park. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park and the PineyCare, etc. Branch Parkway, exclusive of building for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park in the manner now provided by law for other expenditures of the District of Columbia, $22,000.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. Officers: Superintendent, $6,000; two assistant superintendents,Salaries.Officers. one at $3,500, one at $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, three at $1,000 each, one to carry out the provisions of the child-labor law, $900; two stenographers, at $840 each; messenger, $720; in all, $59,000.
Attendance officers: Attendance officers—one $900, two atAttendance officers. $600 each; in all, $2,100. Teachers: For one thousand eight hundred and forty-six teachersTeachers. at minimum salaries as follows: Principal of the Central High School, $3,000: *Provided*, That theCentral High.*Proviso*.Salary of principal. salary of the principal of the Central High School now in the service of the public schools or hereafter to be appointed shall be at the rate of $3,000 per annum; 694 Other principals.*Proviso*.Salaries.Principals of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, eight at $2,500 each: *Provided*, That the salaries of the principals of the normal, high, and manual-training high schools, other than the Central High School, now in the service of the public schools or hereafter to be appointed, shall be at the rate of $2,500 per annum;
Assistant principal.*Proviso*.Salary.Assistant principal, who shall be dean of girls of the Central High School, $1,800: *Provided*, That said assistant principal, hereafter to be appointed, 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.Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $1,500 *Proviso*.Penmanship.each: *Provided*, That the director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor 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;
Primary instruction assistant.*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; Assistants.Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven at *Proviso*.Penmanship, assistant director.$1,300 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;
Assistant supervisor, manual training.*Proviso*.Salary.Assistant supervisor of manual training, $1,300: *Provided*, That hereafter the assistant supervisor of manual training shall receive a salary of $1,300 per annum, with an increase of $50 per annum for five years; Other teachers.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 three principals of grade manual-training schools, three hundred and four at $1,000 each; Class five, one hundred and twenty-four, including vocational and trade instructors, at $950 each; Class four, four hundred and forty-one at $800 each; Class three, four hundred and ninety-eight at $650 each; Class two, three hundred and forty-six at $600 each; Class one, eighty at $500 each; Special beginning teacher in the normal school, $800; In all for teachers, $1,443,200.
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, 695physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks and librarians to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries or teachers,Vol. 34, p. 320. school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by the Acts approved May twenty-sixth,Vol. 35, p. 289.Vol. 36, p. 393.Vol. 37, p. 156. nineteen hundred and eight, May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve. $475,000.
Allowance to principals: For allowance to principals of gradePrincipals.Additional pay, grade schools. 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,Vol. 34, p. 320. school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, $35,000.
Hereafter in assigning salaries to teachers of public schools in theNo sex discrimination. District of Columbia no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade and performing a like class of duties; nor shall it be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of such teachers any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades; and no such teacher shall be employed as, or required to dischargeRestriction, clerks, etc. the duties of, a clerk or librarian.
Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools, includingNight schools.Salaries. teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $27,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipmentEquipment. and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $3,000. Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, $3,000.Kindergarten supplies.
Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: SuperintendentJanitors and care of buildings. of janitors, $1,500; Central High School (New): Engineer, $1,500; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; electrician, $1,000; three firemen, at $600 each; one 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; M Street High School (New): 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;
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(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, $1,000; laborers—one $420, two at $360 each; in all, $2,140; Myrtilla Miner Normal School: Janitor, $900; laborers—one $480, two at $360 each; in all, $2,100; Eastern High School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—one $420, one $360; in all, $1,780; 696 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; fireman, $600; laborers—two at $360 each; in all, $6,140; Armstrong Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,200; assistant engineer, $720; two laborers, at $360 each; in all, $4,360; 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, Emery, New Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Gage, Powell, van Buren, and Wallach Schools, and sixteen-room building on the site purchased west of Soldiers’ Home Grounds, south of Rock Creek Church Road: Nine janitors, at $1,000 each; nine laborers, at $480 each; in all, $13,320; 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, Cranch, 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, Elizabeth V. Brown, Bruce, Buchanan, Carbery, Cardozo, Cardozo Manual Training, Corcoran, 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, Petworth, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Randle Highlands, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatly, Wilson, Woodburn, Wormley, and West Schools: Seventy-three janitors, at $720 each; in all, $52,560; Brightwood Park, Crummell School, Kenilworth, Wisconsin Avenue Manual Training School: Four janitors, at $600 each; in all, $2,400; Bunker Hill, Deanwood, Hamilton, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Smothers, Stanton, Threlkeld, Military Road, and Burrville Schools: Twelve janitors, at $480 each; in all, $5,760; Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, and Fort Slocum Schools: Three janitors, at $150 each; in all, $450; Night watchmen.For night watchmen in the McKinley Manual Training School and the Armstrong Manual Training School, two, at $600 each; in all $1,200; In all, $174,470. Smaller buildings 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, $10,000. Medical inspectors.Chief, authorized, etc.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 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 five graduate nurses, one of whom shall be colored, who shall act as public-school nurses, at $900 each, $4,500. 697 Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, repair shop, storageMiscellaneous.Rent. and stock rooms, $16,500. For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the secondEquipping temporary rooms, etc. grade, now on half time, and to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by operation of the compulsory education law, and for purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, $5,000. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds andRepairs, etc. for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $150,000. For removal and reerection of portable’ schools, $3,000.Portable schools. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material,Manual training expenses. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $30,000. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $85,000.Fuel, lights, etc.Furniture. For furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades forSpecified buildings. additions to buildings and also equipment for kindergartens; and also tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: Eight rooms and assembly hall addition to theContingent expenses. Powell School, $3,500; three kindergartens, $1,020; one sewing school, $150; two cooking schools, $600; two manual-training shops, $600; in all, $5,870. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Pianos. stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for highschool cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided tor, 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 purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergartenSupplies to pupils. schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,500. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first*Proviso*. 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, $66,000: *Provided*, That the board ofExchanges. education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. For purchase of United States flags, $800.Flags. For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds,Playgrounds. $900. For maintenance and repairing sixty playgrounds now established, $3,000. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenanceSchool gardens. of school gardens, $2,000. For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending thePhysics departments supplies. equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, and in Street High Schools, $3,000. For purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials andChemistry and biology laboratories. technical books, for laboratories of the departments of chemistry and biology in the Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and in Street High Schools, J. Ormond Wilson Normal School, and Myrtilla Miner Normal School, and installation of same, $2,500. 698 Cabinetmaker.For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture, $1,000. Instruction camp for cadets.For an instruction camp for the high-school cadets, including food and labor, and expenses involved in preparation of the same, and all *Proviso*.Use of Government reservation, etc.incidental expenses, $3,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary 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. Extending telephones.For extending the telephone system to the new Central High School, Thirteenth and Clifton Streets northwest, the new Colored High School, First and O Streets northwest, and the new Park View School, Warder and Newton Streets northwest, 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, $1,000. Buildings and grounds.Elizabeth V. Brown School.Buildings and grounds: For an eight-room addition, including an assembly hall, to the Elizabeth V. Brown School (Chevy Chase), $80,000. Petworth School.For an eight-room addition, including an assembly hall, to the Petworth School, $72,000. Eastern High School.Use of unexpended site balance for construction.The unexpended balance, not exceeding $40,000, of the sum appropriated for the purchase of a site for a new Eastern High School is made available toward the construction of the building on the site acquired therefor; said building shall be constructed to accommodate not less than one thousand five hundred pupils and at Cost; contract.a total cost, not exceeding $700,000, including its complete equipment, under a contract or contracts hereby authorized therefor, and Closing streets and alleys within site.the commissioners are authorized to close all public streets and alleys included within the site acquired for said Eastern High School, bounded by East Capitol Street, B Street north, and Seventeenth and Nineteenth Streets east, when the title to all of the land included within said site has been acquired for said purpose. Burrville School.For a four-room addition to the Burrville School and grading of the site, $40,000. McKinley Manual Training School.For construction and equipment of a foundry at the McKinley Manual Training School, $5,000. Benning School.For the construction of a building to furnish toilet facilities for the Benning School, including the cost of plumbing and toilet fixtures and all necessary connections with sewer system, $6,000. New building, fifth division.For the erection of an eight-room building on the site purchased for the purpose in the fifth division, between Eighteenth and Twentieth Streets and Monroe and Newton Streets northeast, said building to be so constructed as to make it easily possible to extend the same to a sixteen-room building at a later date, $90,000. Additional ground for designated schools.For the purchase of additional ground immediately in the rear of Armstrong Manual Training School, and fronting on O Street northwest, $21,509. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Blake School, $2,500. For the erection of a greenhouse at the J. Ormond Wilson Normal School, $2,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Bradley School on the south, $3,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Lovejoy School, $1,200. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Langdon School, $3,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Addison School, $6,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Eckington School, $4,500. 699 For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Brent School on the east, $5,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Garrison School, $7,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Syphax School, $4,500. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Weightman School, $1,250. For grading, resurfacing, and fencing ground recently purchased for the John F. Cooke School, $3,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Tyler School, $6,000. For the purchase of additional ground adjoining the Madison School, $4,200. Hereafter so much of any balance remaining after the purchase ofUse of site balances for cleaning, etc., grounds. sites for buildings authorized by this Act as is necessary to clean up, grade, drain, fence in, and place the sites in safe and suitable condition for the purposes intended may be used for such purpose. The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildingsLimit of cost for sites and buildings. herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. Appropriations in this Act shall not be paid to any person employedSoliciting subscriptions, etc., forbidden. under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from pupils enrolled in such public schools tor presentation of testimonials or for any purposes otherExceptions. than for the promotion of school athletics, including school playgrounds, vocation schools, school gardens, school publications, and commencement exercises of high schools. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in thisPreparation of plans. Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect and shall be approved by the commissioners, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shallDoors to open out wards, etc. be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having an excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attendingDeaf and dumb pupils. the 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[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 844. provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $13,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachableColored 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, $2,400, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For instruction of indigent blind children of the District of Columbia,Blind children. in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $7,350, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 700 Police.METROPOLITAN POLICE. Salaries.Major and superintendent, $4,000; assistant superintendent, with 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; clerks and stenographers, one $1,500; clerk, who shall be assistant property clerk, $1,200; three clerks, at $1,000 each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at $720 each; additional compensation for twenty-four privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, $11,520, or so much thereof as may be necessary; thirteen lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at $1,600 each; forty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,400 each; five hundred and eight privates of class three, at $1,200 each; ninety-one privates of class two, at $1,080 each; forty-one privates of class one, at $900 each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,731.34; six telephone operators, at $720 each; fourteen janitors, at $600 each; clerk, $700; messengers—one $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 $840 each; five police matrons, at $600 each, to possess police power of arrest; two policewomen, at $900 each; in all, $944,931.34. Criminal Identification Bureau.To aid in support of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, provided the several departments of the General Government may be entitled to like information from time to time as is accorded police departments of various municipalities privileged to membership therein, $500. Fuel.Miscellaneous: For fuel, $4,000; Repairs.For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds, $6,500; 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, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase of horses, horse and vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary Detection of crime.expenses, $32,500; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient *Proviso*.Mounted equipment.voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided*, That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required; Flags.For flags and halyards, $100; Motor vehiclesFor maintenance of motor vehicles, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary; For motor vehicle for the use of the major and superintendent, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Site for suburban station house.For purchase of a site for the erection of a station house in the suburban section of the District between the ninth and tenth precincts, $2,500; 701 For reconstruction of cell corridors and the making, erecting, andSecond precinct station. placing therein modern locking devices in the second precinct station house, $4,500; In all, $58,800. House of detention: To enable the commissioners to provideHouse of detention. 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: Two engineers, at $1,000 each; two firemen, oneHarbor patrol. 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. FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. Chief engineer, $3,500; deputy chief engineer, $2,500; four battalionSalaries. chief engineers, at $2,000 each; fire marshal, $2,000; deputy fire marshal, $1,400; two inspectors, at $1,080 each; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk, $1,400; thirty-eight captains, at $1,400 each; forty lieutenants, at $1,200 each; superintendent of machinery, $2,000; assistant superintendent of machinery, $1,200; twenty-seven engineers, at $1,200 each; twenty-seven assistant engineers, at $1,100 each; two pilots, at $1,150 each; two marine engineers, at $1,200 each; two assistant marine engineers, at $1,100 each; two marine firemen, at $720 each; forty drivers, at $1,150 each; forty assistant drivers, at $1,100 each; two hundred and twenty-three privates of class two, at $1,080 each; forty-four privates of class one, at $960 each; hostler, $600; laborer, $600; in all, $572,080. Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine housesMiscellaneous. and grounds, $13,500; For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-drivenRepairs, 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 of apparatus in 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, $15,000; For hose, $12,000;Supplies, etc. For fuel, $15,000; For purchase of horses, $8,000; For forage, $25,000; For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $1,000; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil,Contingent expenses. medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric fighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $25,000. In all, $114,500. Permanent improvements: For one fire engine, motor driven,New apparatus. $8,500; For four combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, at $5,500 each, $22,000; 702 For three tractors, motor driven, $13,500; For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $12,500; For installing steam heat in engine and truck houses, $3,000; In all, $59,500. Health department.HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Salaries.Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerk and deputy health officer, $2,500; clerks—one $1,600, five at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, one $900, one $720; sanitary inspectors—chief $1,800; assistant chief, $1,400, seven at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two 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; skilled laborers—one $720, one $600, messenger and janitor, $600; driver, $600; poundmaster, $1,400; laborers, at not exceeding $50 per month each, $2,400; in all, $68,040. Milk and dairy inspection.Not less than twelve of the sanitary and food inspectors above provided for shall be employed in enforcement of milk and pure-food laws and regulations relating thereto and in the inspection of dairies and dairy farms. Preventing spread of diseases.Vol. 29, p. 635.Vol. 34, p. 889.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, nineteen Tuberculosis registration, etc.Vol. 35, p. 126.hundred 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 of other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services, not exceeding $12,000, when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of Horses, wagons, etc.such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine *Proviso*.Bacteriological examination of milk, etc.station and smallpox hospital, $30,000: *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. Repairs to buildingsFor repairs to buildings occupied by health department on reservation numbered thirteen, $2,500. Smallpox hospital.For refuse incinerator for the smallpox hospital and the quarantine station, $500. Disinfecting service.For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $6,000. Drainage of lots, etc.Vol. 29, p. 125.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the com-703missioners, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, $1,000. For special services in connection with the detection of the adulterationFood, etc., adulterations. of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $100; Bacteriological laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in goodBacteriological laboratory. order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $500; Chemical laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order,Chemical laboratory. and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $500. For contingent expenses incident to enforcement of an Act toEnforcing milk regulations.Vol. 28, p. 709. regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the DistrictAdulterations of food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398. of Columbia, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportationPure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768. of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, $1,000. For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, includingInspecting dairy farms, etc. amounts that may be allowed the health officer, assistant health officer, medical inspector in charge of contagious-disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for maintenance by each of a horse and vehicle 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 motor cycle each, or of not exceeding $25 per annum for the maintenance of a bicycle each, for use in the discharge of their official duties, and other necessary traveling expenses, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minorIsolating wards at hospitals. contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $7,000 and $5,000, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $12,000. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory,Crematory. $2,000. For the purchase of one motor wagon for use in the pound service,Motor vehicles. at a cost of not exceeding $1,500, and for maintaining and operating the same and keeping it in good order, $300; in all, $1,800. For maintenance of one motor vehicle for the sanitary and food inspection service, $300. For alterations at the pound and stable to provide accommodationsAlterations, pound and stable. for motor vehicles, including heating apparatus and other necessary equipment, $1,500, and for paving the inclosure occupied by the pound and stable, $500; in all, $2,000; and the appropriation ofReappropriation.Vol. 38, p. 540. $1,000 for a metal folding shutter for the wagon shed at the pound, provided by the District of Columbia appropriation Act approved July twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is reappropriated and also made available for said alterations and paving. COURTS.Courts. For eleven copies of volumes forty-six and forty-seven of the reportsCourt of appeals reports.Vol. 32, p. 609. 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. 704 Probation system.Probation system: Probation officer, Supreme Court, $2,000; assistant probation officer, $1,200; stenographer and typewriter and assistant, $800; police court—probation officer $1,500, assistant probation officer $1,200; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $7,200. Juvenile court.Salaries.Juvenile court: Judge, $3,600; clerk, $2,000; deputy clerk, who 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, four at $1,000 each; clerk for probation office, $900; two bailiffs, at $900 each; telephone operator, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in, all, $23,790. Jurors.Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900; Rent.For rent, $2,000; Furniture.For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, $500; Miscellaneous.For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,000; In all, $5,400. 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 fights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painters’ and plumbers’ supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $2,250. For witness fees, $3,000; For furniture and repairing and replacing same, $200; For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $50; Jurors, etc.For compensation of jurors, $6,000; For repairs to buildings, $1,000; In all, $12,500. Municipal court.Salaries.Municipial 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.For rent of building, $3,600; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $750; In all, municipal court, $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 Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing 705law, including the employment of an alienist at not exceeding $1,500 per annum, and a clerk who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $900, $4,900. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.Interest and sinking fund. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, payable one-halfAmount. 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. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence,Expenditures. public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, $8,000: Provided, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act*Proviso*.Purchases. 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 transportationSupport of convicts.*Post*, p. 712. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; for expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and for expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and for rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $125,000. 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; three messengers, at $720 each; for the following now paid from general appropriations, three 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: TwoCourt of Appeals Building, care, etc. watchmen, at $720 each; elevator operator, $720; three laborers, at $480 each; mechanician (under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds), $1,200: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Custodian. clerk of the Court of Appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court; in all, $4,800; For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal, of refuse,Expenses. electric current, 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 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.Supreme Court.Witness fees.[R. S., 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors, $65,000.Jurors’ fees. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, ofPay 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, $27,000. 706 Miscellaneous expenses.Miscellaneous expenses: For such, miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is 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. Charities and corrections.CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Board of Charities.Salaries, etc.Board of Charities: Secretary, $3,500; stenographer, $1,400; clerk, $1,400; messenger, $600; inspectors—one $1,200, three at $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, $18,580. Reformatories, etc.reformatories and correctional institutions. 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; assistant engineers—three at $600 each; night watchman, $480; blacksmith and woodworker, $500; driver for dead wagon, $365; hostler and driver, 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, $45,000, of which sum $1,000 shall be available for the purchase of screens for the hospital, $200 for new surgical instruments, and $600 for the upkeep of the X-ray laboratory. For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, $2,500; For refrigerator and ice box for hospital kitchen, $500; Payments to abandoned families, etc.Vol. 34, p. 87.Payments to destitute women and children: For payment to beneficiaries named in section three of “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March twenty third, nineteen hundred and six, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia, on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District; Support of jail prisoners.Support of prisoners: For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay 707of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, $50,000; Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to WashingtonTransporting prisoners to jail. Asylum and Jail, including salary of driver, not to exceed $840, and purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $2,000; In all, Washington Asylum and Jail, $135,610. Home for Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk, $900;Home for Aged and Infirm.Salaries. matron, $600; chief cook, $720; baker, and laundryman, at $540 each; chief engineer, $1,000; assistant engineer, $720; physician and pharmacist, $480; second assistant engineer, $480; two male attendants, and two nurses, at $360 each; two female attendants, at $300 each; three firemen, at $300 each; assistant cooks—one $300, one $180; blacksmith and woodworker, $540; farmer, $540; four farm hands, dairyman, and tailor, at $360 each; seamstress, $240; laundress, hostler and driver, at $240 each; three servants, at $144 each; temporary labor, $1,000; in all $15,992; For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs toContingent 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, $27,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $3,000;Repairs, etc. For purchase of material for permanent roads, $300; For purchase of material and erection of permanent fence, $500; For purchase of motor truck, $600; For extension of colored women’s ward, $26,000;Colored women's ward. In all, Home for Aged and Infirm, $73,392. National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenanceNational 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,Contingent expenses. clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding $350 for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates and for rewards for their capture, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, not exceeding $150, $13,500; For purchase or condemnation of additional land, $5,000;Additional land. For an additional building for white girls, including furnishing ofBuilding for white girls. same, $15,000; In all, National Training School for Girls, $45,980. medical charities.Medical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to beFreedmen’s Hospital. 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 theColumbia Hospital for Women. care 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 $20,000. 708 Children’s Hospital.For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $16,000. Homeopathic Hospital.For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $8,500. Emergency Hospital.For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, $19,000. 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, $12,500. 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, three orderlies, and assistant laundryman, at $360 each; two ward maids, at $240 each; four servants, at $240 each; in all, $19,860; 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, $35,000; Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $2,000; For erection of buildings to afford additional accommodations for incipient cases, $2,000; For purchase of X-ray machine and accessories, $2,360; In all, Tuberculosis Hospital, $61,220 Care of children.child-caring institutions. 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; clerk, $1,200; placing and investigating officers—one $1,200, one $1,000, seven at $900 each; record clerk, $900; clerk, $720; messenger, $360; in all, $13,480; Feeble-minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $25,000; 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 Amount to sectarian institutions.to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $70,000; In all, Board of Children’s Guardians, $111,980. 709 The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances to agent. advance to the agent of the Board of Children’s Guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $200 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. Industrial Home School for Colored Children: 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; stableman, and watchman, at $300 each; cook, $240; laundress, $240; temporary labor not to exceed $300; in all, $8,580; For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons,Expenses. and harness, $10,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,500; For manual training equipment, $300; For materials for construction of roads and sidewalks, $500; In all, Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $20,880: *Provided*, That all moneys received at said school, as income from sale*Proviso*.Use of proceeds from sales. 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 seventeen. Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisorIndustrial Home School.Salaries. of 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; temporary labor, not to exceed $400; in all, $9,580; For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon,Expenses. and harness, $17,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,700; For resurfacing roads and relaying gutters, $550; In all, Industrial Home School, $28,830. For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be madeHome for destitute colored children. with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $9,900. For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be madeFoundlings’ Home. with Washington Home for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, $6,000. For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be madeSaint Ann’s Asylum. with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Charities, $6,000. temporary homes.Temporary homes. Municipal lodging house and wood yard: Superintendent, $1,200;Municipal lodging house. foreman, $480; cook, $360; night watchman for six months, at $25 per month, $150; maintenance, $2,000; in all, $4,190. For a new municipal lodging house, of which amount not moreNew building. than $10,000 shall be used for purchase of land, $40,000. Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand ArmyGrand Army Soldiers’ Home. of the Republic: Superintendent, $1,200; janitor, $360; cook, $360; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $5,920, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners; and ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of theAdmissions. Spanish War, Philippine Insurrection, or China Relief Expedition, 710who 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. Aid to the blind.aid to the blind. National Library.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.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, $390,000. Deporting nonresident insane.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 commissioners 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 of 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; receiving and discharging officers—two at $1,000 each; 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; Expenses of operation, etc.For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; 711provisions, 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 andFuel, 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;Repair materials. For laundry machinery, including mangle, extractor and washers,Laundry machinery. $4,000. In all, $180,110, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Reformatory: For construction of temporary quarters, includingReformatory.Temporary quarters. necessary furniture and equipment for the care of two hundred inmates, $5,000; For beginning construction of permanent buildings, includingConstruction. 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, five stock, tools, equipment; transportation and means of transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation; supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, $50,000: *Provided*, That whenever any person has been convicted of crime in*Provisos*.Sentences of convicts to imprisonment in jail or reformatory. any court in the District of Columbia and sentenced to imprisonment for more than one year by the court, the imprisonment during the term for which he may have been sentenced or during the residue of said term may be in some suitable jail or penitentiary or in the reformatory of the District of Columbia, above referred to; and it shall be sufficient for the court to sentence the defendant to imprisonment in the penitentiary without specifying the particular prison or the reformatory of the District of Columbia and the imprisonment shall be in such penitentiary, jail, or the reformatory of the District of Columbia as the Attorney General shall from time to time designate: *Provided further*, That the commissioners are vested with jurisdictionJurisdiction of Commissioners over prisoners in reformatory. over such male and female prisoners as may be designated by the Attorney General for confinement in the reformatory of the District of Columbia from the time they are delivered into their custody or into the custody of their authorized superintendent, deputy, or deputies, and until such prisoners are released or discharged under due process of law: *And provided further*, That the residue of the term of imprisonmentReturn of convicts serving elsewhere to complete term in jail or reformatory. of any person who has heretofore been convicted of crime in any court in the District of Columbia and sentenced to imprisonment for more than one year by the court may be in the reformatory of the District of Columbia instead of the penitentiary where such persons may be confined when this Act takes effect, and the Attorney General, when so requested by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, is authorized to, and he shall, deliver into the custody of the superintendent of said reformatory or his deputy or deputies any such person confined in any penitentiary in pursuance of any judgment of conviction in and sentence by any court in the District of Columbia, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are vested withJurisdiction of Commissioners. jurisdiction over such prisoners from the time they are delivered into the custody of said superintendent or his duly authorized deputy or deputies, including the time when they are in transit between such 712penitentiary and the reformatory of the District of Columbia, and during the period they are in such reformatory or until they are Payment of maintenance.*Ante*, p. 705.released or discharged under due process of law. The Attorney General shall pay the cost of the maintenance of said prisoners so transferred, said payment to be from appropriations for support of convicts, District of Columbia, in like manner as payments are now made for the support of District convicts in Federal penitentiaries. Training schools not affected.Nothing herein contained shall be construed as applying to the National Training School for Boys or the National Training School for Girls. The provisions of this paragraph shall take effect on and after July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen; Fuel.For fuel for maintenance, $5,000; Enlarging power plant.For enlargement of the central power plant to furnish light, power, and water to the reformatory and workhouse, $20,000; Refrigerating plant.For refrigerating and ice plant for the combined use of the reformatory and workhouse, $4,000; In all, $129,000, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Militia.MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Expenses.For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Camps, drills, etc.For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, 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, for 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. Rent.For rent of armories, offices, storehouses, stables, and quarters for noncommissioned officers of the Army detailed for duty with the militia, $16,900. Miscellaneous 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.For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $24,000. Refund of erroneous collections.REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS. Payment.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, Vol. 36, p. 967.to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia appropriation Act approved March second, nine-713teen hundred and eleven, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for*Proviso*.Prior years. such refunds of payments made within the past three years. ANACOSTIA RIVER FLATS.Anacostia River Flats. For continuing the reclamation and development of the AnacostiaContinuing reclamation. River and Flats from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, to be expended for the purposes and under the conditions specified in the item for this improvement contained in the “District ofVol. 38, p. 549. Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen,” $200,000, including the amount authorized to be contracted for in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. PARKS.Small parks. For the condemnation of small park areas to be acquired in accordanceCondemnation expenses.Vol. 38, p. 625. with the provisions relating to small parks in the District of Columbia contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $25,000. WATER SERVICE.Water service. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenuesPayable from water 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. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,Maintenance of reservoir, tunnel, filtration plant, etc. and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, Mc-Millan 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, including not exceeding $700 for the purchase of one new motor vehicle, $123,000. For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenanceConduit Road. of Conduit Road, $5,000. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious breakEmergency fund. requiring immediate repair in one of the more important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress, $5,000. For continuation of parking grounds around McMillan Park Reservoir,McMillan Park grounds. $3,000. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendenceSuperintendence 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 alsoRevenue and inspection branch. perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; four meter computers, at $1,000 each; chief inspector, $1,000; meter clerk, $1,200; tap clerk, $1,000; inspectors—eight at $900 each, eleven at $800 each; messenger, $600; For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400;Distribution branch. assistant engineers—one $1,800, one $1,700; master mechanic, $2,000; 714foreman, $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, $88,030. Contingent expensesFor contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $4,800. Operating expenses.For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, 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 their official work in the District of Columbia, $12 per month each, $37,000. Service expenses.For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining Water meters, etc.water meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the commissioners, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is appropriated. Detailed estimates be submitted.For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and annually thereafter estimates in detail shall be submitted for the appropriations required for continuing the extension and maintenance of the high service system of water distribution. Sec. 2. Construction work under Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street cleaning or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums *Proviso*.Limit.paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $74,000 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. Temporary laborers, etc.The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or 715special 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 necessaryHorses, 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 and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissionersReport, etc. in the annual estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts*Proviso*.Temporary work on excavations, etc. as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers,Water department.Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed. rodmen, chainmen, 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 seventeen. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarilyTemporary laborers, etc. such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 5. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the executionMiscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368. 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 716master, assistant market master, watchman, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Sec. 6. Price of gas for public buildings limited to 70 cents. That hereafter no part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for the payment to the Washington Gas Light Company or the Georgetown Gas Light Company for any gas furnished by said companies for use in any of the public buildings of the United States or the District of Columbia at a rate in excess of 70 cents per one thousand cubic feet. Gas to consumers from Washington Gas Light Company to be 75 cents.On and after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the Washington Gas Light Company shall not charge or collect for gas furnished a private consumer in any part of the District of Columbia a rate in excess of 75 cents per one thousand cubic feet of gas so furnished: *Provisos*.Additional if not paid in ten days.*Provided*, That if a consumer of gas other than the Government or the District of Columbia shall not pay monthly any gas bill within ten days after the same shall have been presented, said gas company may charge and collect from any such consumer so failing to pay said gas bill as aforesaid 10 cents additional for each one thousand Powers of Public Utilities Commission not affected.cubic feet of gas represented by said bill: *And provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as limiting or taking away any of the powers now vested by law in the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia. From Georgetown Gas Light Company, 85 cents.That from and after October first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the Georgetown Gas Light Company shall not be permitted to charge or collect more than 85 cents per one thousand cubic feet for gas for cooking, illuminating, or other purposes. Sec. 7. Rent assessed from users of space under sidewalks, etc. That hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to assess and collect rent from all users of space occupied under the sidewalks and streets in the District of Columbia, which said space is occupied or used in connection with the business of said users. Sec. 8. Street paving.Half cost of, assessed on a butting street property. That hereafter the half cost of the paving or repaving of a roadway between the side thereof and the center thereof with sheet asphalt, asphalt block, granite block, vitrified block, cement concrete, bituminous concrete, macadam, or other form of pavement shall be assessed against the property abutting the side of the street so improved, such assessments to be levied and collected as now provided *Proviso*.Publication of proposed work not required.as to alleys and sidewalks: *Provided*, That the advertisement by publication of the commissioners’ intention to do such work and the formal hearing in respect thereto required by law as to alley and sidewalk improvements shall not be required as to roadway improvements. Assessable area.There shall be included in the area the cost of which is assessable hereunder only the roadway area abutting the property between lines normally projected from the building line of the street being improved at the points of intersection with the building lines of intersecting streets. Cost excluded.There shall be excluded from the cost of the roadway work to be assessed hereunder: Twenty feet beyond street line.First. The cost of all such work beyond a line twenty feet from the side thereof. Work within street railway space.Second. The cost of all such work within the space within which street railway companies are required to pave by law, and nothing herein contained shall be construed as relieving street railway companies Expense by companies.Vol. 20, p. 105.from bearing all the expense of paving and repairing streets and avenues between lines two feet exterior to the outer rails of their tracks, as required by section five of the Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia, approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. 717 Sec. 9. That for the protection of streams flowing through UnitedParks and reservations.Streams in, to be protected from sewage of Maryland towns, etc. States Government parks and reservations in the District of Columbia from pollution by sewage discharged therein from sewerage systems of Maryland towns and villages bordering said District, the commissioners are authorized to enter into an agreement with the proper authorities of the State of Maryland for the drainage of such sewerage systems into and through the sewerage system of the District of Columbia; and the said commissioners are further authorized to permitSewer connections authorized. connections of Maryland sewers with the District of Columbia sewerage system at or near the District line whenever, in their judgment, the sanitary conditions of streams flowing into and through such United States Government parks and reservations in the District of Columbia are such as to demand the elimination of such pollution: *Provided*, That all cost of construction of such sewers to and connection*Proviso*.Payment of cost. with the sewerage system of the District of Columbia shall be paid by the proper authorities of the State of Maryland, and that said State shall enter into such agreement with the commissioners and shall guarantee the protection of the District of Columbia sewerage system from unauthorized connections thereto, and shall reimburse the District of Columbia for the actual cost of pumping and handling such sewerage by annual payments for such service as determined by the commissioners in such agreement; all such sums collectedDeposit of sums collected. therefor to be paid into the Treasury of the United States through the collector of taxes to the credit of the District of Columbia. Sec. 10. That the sum of $271.76 is hereby appropriated to repayDaughters of American Revolution.Refund of real estate taxes for 1916.*Ante*, p. 515. the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution the taxes paid by said society upon lots twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven, and twenty-eight, square one hundred and seventy-three, in the District of Columbia, as follows: $143.78 as per receipt for taxes paid March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; $127.98 as per receipt for taxes paid March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen; in all, $271.76; said sum to be paid upon the presentation of said receipts by the treasurer general of said society. Sec. 11. Section six of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred andTax on personal property.Vol. 32, p. 618, amended. two, “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: " “That the moneys and credits, including moneys loaned and invested,Appraisal of intangible property.*Post*, p. 1046. 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 within said District shall be scheduled and appraised in the manner provided by paragraph one of said section six for listing and appraisal of tangibleVol. 32, p. 618.Tax imposed. personal property, and assessed at their fair cash value, and as taxes on said moneys and credits there shall be paid to the tax collector of said District four-tenths of one per centum of the value thereof: *Provided*, That savings deposits of individuals in a sum not in excess*Provisos*.Savings deposits not over $500 exempted. 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 a joint committee consistingJoint Congressional committee to recommend changes in tax laws. of the Committee on the District of Columbia of the Senate and the Committee on the District of Columbia of the House of Representatives is hereby appointed to make by subcommittee or otherwise a careful and exhaustive study of the tax laws of the District of Columbia, including license taxes, with a view of recommending such changes in the laws as the joint committee may deem fair and equitable, report to be made to the Congress during the next session. " 718 Sec. 12. Policemen and firemen’s relief fund created. That from and after the passage of this Act the funds now authorized by law and known as the “Police relief fund” and the “Firemen’s relief fund” shall be designated and known as the “Policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia.” Composition of.The said fund shall consist of all fines imposed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia upon members of the police and fire departments of said District by way of discipline; all rewards, proceeds of gifts, and emoluments that may be received by any member of said departments (for extraordinary services), except such part thereof as the said commissioners may allow to be retained by members of said departments; a deduction of one and one-half per centum of the monthly salary of each member of said departments; donations; and the net proceeds of sales of unclaimed property in the custody of ‘the property clerk of the police department; all of which shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the “Policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia,” herein provided Deficiency from District revenues.*Post*, p. 809.for; and should the said fund at any time be insufficient to defray the expenditures hereinafter provided for, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in that event, are authorized, and it shall be their duty, to direct the collector of taxes of said District, and it shall be the duty of the said collector, pursuant to such direction, to pay into the Treasury of the United States, out of the general revenue of the District of Columbia collected by him, to the credit of the said “Policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia,” such sums as Pensions, etc., payable from.may be necessary from time to time to meet deficiencies in said fund. The moneys to the credit of the said fund shall be available for appropriation by Congress annually only for expenditure on requisitions of the said commissioners for the purposes set forth in this Act, and all Accounting, etc.expenditures from said fund shall be made and accounted for in the same manner as other expenditures of the government of the District of Columbia are made and accounted for. Allowance for temporary disability.Whenever any member of the police department or the fire department of the District of Columbia shall become temporarily disabled by injury received or disease contracted in the actual discharge of his duty, to such an extent as to require medical or surgical services other than such as can be rendered by the board of police and fire surgeons of said District, or to require hospital treatment, the expenses of such medical or surgical services, or hospital treatment, shall be paid from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia, Medical certificate required.provided for in this Act; but no such expenses shall be paid except upon a certificate of the said board of police and fire surgeons, or two members thereof, setting forth the necessity for such services or treatment and the nature of the injury or disease which rendered the same Approval.necessary, and upon the approval of the said certificate by the superintendent of the Metropolitan police or the chief engineer of the fire department, as the case may be, and the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Retirement allowance for total disability.Whenever any member of the police department or the fire department of the District of Columbia shall become so permanently disabled through injury received or disease contracted in the line of duty as to incapacitate him for the performance of duty, or, having served not less than twenty-five years and having reached the age of fifty-five years shall, for any cause, become so permanently disabled as to incapacitate him for the performance of duty and shall make written application therefor and said application shall be approved by the For age.Commissioners of said District, or, having reached the age of sixty years, in the discretion of the said commissioners, he shall in either event be retired from the service thereof and be entitled to receive relief from the said policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Amount.Amount.Columbia, in an amount not to exceed fifty per centum per year of the salary received by him at the date of retirement. In case of the 719death of any member of the police department or the fire department of the District of Columbia, before or after retirement from the service thereof, leaving a widow, or a child or children under sixteen yearsPension to widow or children. of age, the widow shall be entitled to receive relief from the said policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia, in an amount not exceeding $35 per month, and each child under the age of sixteen years in an amount not exceeding $10 per month, and in no case shall the amount paid to any one family exceed the sum of $50 per month: *Provided*, That upon the remarriage of any widow granted relief under*Provisos*.To cease on remarriage. the provisions of this Act such relief shall cease, and relief granted to or for any child or children under the age of sixteen years shall cease upon their reaching that age: *Provided further*, That no widow,Marriage subsequent to retirement excluded. child, or children of any deceased member of the said police department or fire department resulting from any marriage contracted subsequent to the date of retirement of such member shall be entitled to any relief under the provisions of this Act. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized toFuneral expenses. pay from the said policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia, a sum not exceeding $75 in any one case to defray the funeral expenses of any deceased member of the police department or the fire department of said District dying while in the service thereof. There is created in and for the District of Columbia a board to beRetiring and relief board created.Composition. known as the police and firemen’s retiring and relief board, to be composed of the corporation counsel of said District and one member from each the police department and fire department, to be designated by the said commissioners, and the said commissioners are authorized to change the personnel of said board from time to time, in their discretion, and they are further authorized and empowered to make, modify, and to amend from time to time regulations and rules of procedure for the conduct of the said board. The saidDuties. board shall consider all cases for the retirement and relief of members of the police department and the fire department rendered necessary or expedient under the provisions of this Act, and all applications for the relief of widows and children under sixteen years of age. In every case of retirement of a member of either ofSurgeon’s certificate. said departments the board of police and fire surgeons shall certify, in writing, to the said retiring and relief board the physical condition of the member for whom retirement and relief is sought. The saidHearings. retiring and relief board shall give written notice to any member of said departments under consideration by it for retirement and relief to appear before the board and give such evidence under oath as he may desire, and the proceedings of the board shall be reduced to writing and shall show the date of appointment of such member, his age, his record in the service, and any other information that may be pertinent to the matter of his retirement and relief. TheAuthority to secure witnesses, etc. said board is authorized and empowered to summon any person before it to give testimony, under oath or affirmation, as to any matter affecting retirement and relief under the provisions of this Act; and any member of the board shall have power to administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing before the said board. Such summons shall be served by any member of the MetropolitanCompulsory attendance. police force, and upon the refusal or neglect of a witness to appear before the said board or to testify when required, he or she may be compelled to attend and testify as provided in the Act of FebruaryVol. 29, p. 10.Vol. 27, p. 29. twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled, ‘An Act to punish false swearing before trial boards of the Metropolitan police force and fire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,’ approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,” and any witness knowingly making a false statement to the said board on any material matter 720Action by Commissioners.shall be guilty of perjury and punishable accordingly. The said retiring and relief board shall in each case considered by it for retirement and relief submit to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia a report of its findings, and the said commissioners shall have power to approve, disapprove, or modify such findings or to remand any case for such further proceedings as they may deem necessary. Medical examinations of disabled pensioners.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in their discretion and at any time, may cause any person receiving any relief allowance under the provisions of this Act, who has served less than twenty-five years, to appear and undergo a medical examination, as the result of which the said commissioners shall determine whether the relief in such case shall be continued, increased, decreased, or discontinued. Should any person receiving relief under the provisions of this Act, after due notice, fail to appear and undergo the examination prescribed here, the said commissioners are authorized in their discretion to reduce or entirely discontinue such relief. Reduction or discontinuance.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, in their discretion, reduce or discontinue the relief granted to any person Causes for.under the provisions of this Act upon receipt of duly certified information from a court of competent jurisdiction that any person receiving such relief has been convicted in such court of any crime involving moral turpitude; and the said commissioners may also, in their discretion, reduce or discontinue the relief granted to any person under the provisions of this Act when it shall appear to their satisfaction from evidence before them that such person is a habitual drunkard or guilty of lewd or lascivious conduct. Service in emergency cases.Any retired member of the police department or fire department of the District of Columbia receiving relief under the provisions of this Act may in time of flood, riot, conflagration, during extraordinary assemblages, or unusual emergencies, be called by the commissioners of said District into the service of the department from which he was retired with relief for such duty as his disability will permit Enforcement.of him performing, without compensation therefor; and the said commissioners shall have power to enforce compliance with the Residence elsewhere.provisions hereof by withholding the payment of relief; but nothing contained in this section shall be construed to enforce residence in the District of Columbia upon any retired member of either of said departments when it shall appear to the satisfaction of said commissioners that residence elsewhere is rendered necessary by the physical condition of such member. Special street crossing policemen made members of regular force.Vol. 30, p. 489.All special policemen at street railway crossings and intersections in the District of Columbia, appointed pursuant to the provisions of an Act, approved June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act to define the rights of purchasers of the Vol. 31, p. 820.Belt Railway, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act, approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District Vol. 37, p. 63.of Columbia,” and the Act, approved February tenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, amendatory thereof, are made members of the Metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia, and, as members Rights, etc., secured.thereof, shall be entitled to all the rights, benefits, privileges, and immunities now possessed, or which may hereafter be possessed, by other members of said Metropolitan police force. Subject to police discipline, etc.Said special policemen shall likewise be subject to the same rules and regulations and to the same discipline as other members of said Metropolitan police force, it being the true intent and meaning hereof that the said special policemen and the regular members of said police force shall, according to the period of service and classification, be placed upon the same footing. 721 In determining the classes to which said special policemen shall beAssignment to class on force. assigned in the Metropolitan police force they shall be given credit for the time they have served in their present positions, in the same manner and to the same extent as is now or may hereafter be given to the regular members of said police force. The superintendent of police of the District of Columbia may, inSubstitution of regular force to special duty. his discretion, substitute other members of the Metropolitan police force for said special policemen at street railway crossings and intersections, and during such periods of substitution said special policemen shall perform whatever service may be assigned to them by said superintendent of police: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed to amend, alter, or repeal the existing law relative*Proviso*.Pay not altered. to the payment of the compensation of the said special policemen now appointed or those that may hereafter be appointed. Sec. 13. That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they areConflicting laws repealed. inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, September 1, 1916.