Chapter 164. 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 nineteen, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 164.— 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 nineteen, and for other purposes.August 31, 1918. [[H. R. 11692](/us/bill/65/hr/11692).] [[Public, No. 208](/us/pl/65/208).] *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, m full for the following expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, namely: General expenses.GENERAL EXPENSES. Executive office. Salaries, Commissioners, etc.Executive office: Two commissioners, at $5,000 each; engineer commissioner, so much as may be necessary (to make salary $5,000); secretary, $2,700; three assistant secretaries to commissioners at $1,600 each; clerks—one $1,500, three at $1,400 each, one $1,200, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,200, one $840, two at $720 each; two messengers, at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200;
Veterinary division.Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments of the District government, $1,200; Medicines, surgical and hospital supplies, $1,000; Purchasing division.Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasing officer, $1,800; computer, $1,440; clerks—two at $1,500 each, six at $1,200 each, three at $900 each, seven at $840 each; inspector of fuel, $1,500; assistant inspector of fuel, $1,100; storekeeper, $1,200; messenger, $600; driver, $600; inspectors—one of materials $1,400, two at $900 each; two laborers, at $600 each; two property-yard keepers, at $1,000 each; temporary labor, $200;
Building inspection division.Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistant inspectors of buildings—principal $2,000, one $1,500, one $1,400, ten at $1,200 each; fire-escape inspector, $1,400; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, $1,500; civil engineers or computers—one $2,000, one $1,500; clerks—chief $1,800, one $1,050, one $1,000, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,000, one $900; messenger, $600; assistant inspector, $1,500;
To reimburse two elevator inspectors for provision and maintenance by themselves of two motorcycles for use in their official inspection of elevators, $15 per month each, $360; For transportation, means of transportation, and maintenance of means of transportation, including allowances to inspectors for automobiles at the rate of $30 per month each, $1,200; Plumbing inspection division.Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, $2,000; assistant inspectors of plumbing—principal $1,550, six at $1,200 each; clerks—two at $1,200 each, one $900; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, $3,000; draftsmen, $1,350; sewer tapper, $1,000; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each;
To reimburse three assistant inspectors of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motorcycles for use in their 919official inspections in the District of Columbia, $15 per month each, $540; In all, Executive Office, $125,200. Care of District Building: Assistant superintendent, $2,000;Care of District Building. Salaries. chief engineer, $1,600; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrician, $1,400; two dynamo tenders, at $875 each; three firemen, at $840 each; three coal passers, at $600 each; electrician’s helper, $840; eight elevator conductors, at $600 each; laborers—two at $660 each, two at $500 each; two chief cleaners (who shall also have charge of the lavatories), at $500 each; thirty-three cleaners, at $240 each; chief watchman, $1,000; assistant chief watchman, $660; eight watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube operator, $600; in all, $38,010.
For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor, notMaintenance. to exceed $3,500, and miscellaneous supplies, $23,000. Assessor’s office: Assessor, $3,500; assistant assessors—three atAssessor’s office. $3,000 each, one at $2,000 (one transferred to collector’s office); five field men at $2,000 each; record clerks—one $1,800, two at $1,500 each, one $1,200; clerks—three at $1,400 each, one $1,200 (three transferred to collector’s office), five (including one in charge of records) at $1,000 each (two transferred to collector’s office), one $900 (one transferred to collector’s office), one $720 (one transferred to collector’s office); draftsmen—one $1,600, two at $1,200 each; two stenographers and typewriters at $1,200 each; assistant or clerk, $900; messenger, $600 (one transferred to collector’s office); board of assistant assessors—clerk $1,500, vault clerk $900; messenger and driver $600; temporary clerk hire $500; in all, $53,920.
Special assessment office: Special assessment clerk, $2,000;Special assessment office. clerks—three at $1,200 each (four transferred to collector’s office), one $900 (one transferred to collector’s office), one $750; in all, $7,250. Personal tax board: Two assistant assessors of personal taxes,Personal tax board. at $3,000 each; appraiser of personal property, $1,800; clerk, $1,400; assistant clerk, $1,000; two inspectors, at $1,200 each (one transferred to collector’s office); extra clerk hire, $2,000; intangible personal property—two clerks at $1,500 each, five inspectors at $1,200 each, clerk to board of personal tax appraisers, $1,800, two clerks, at $1,200 each; in all, $27,800.
License bureau: Superintendent of licenses (who shall also be License bureau.secretary to the automobile board without additional compensation), $2,000; clerks—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; inspector of licenses, $1,200; assistant inspector of licenses, $1,000; messenger, $600; in all, $11,900. Collector’s office: Collector, $4,000; deputy collector, $2,000;Collector’s office. chief clerk, arrears division, $2,000 (formerly assistant assessor, assessor’s office); cashier, $1,800; assistant cashier, $1,500; bookkeeper, $1,600; three bailiffs, at $1,200 each (transferred from lump-sum roll); clerks—three at $1,400 each, eleven at $1,200 each (including four transferred from special assessment office, three from assessor’s office, and one formerly inspector, personal tax board), three at $1,000 each (including two transferred from assessor’s office), five at $900 each (including one transferred from assessor’s office and one from special assessment office), one $720 (transferred from assessors office); clerk and bank messenger, $1,200; two messengers, at $600 each (including one transferred from assessor’s office); in all, $44,520.
Auditor’s office; Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper,Auditor’s office. $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 920disbursing officer, $1,600; clerks—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger, $600; in all, $48,776. Corporation counsel’s office.Office of corporation counsel:
Corporation counsel, $4,500; assistants—first $2,500, second $2,500, third $2,000, fourth $1,800, fifth $1,500, sixth $1,500; clerk and stenographer, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; two stenographers, at $900 each; clerk, $720; in all, $21,420. Sinking-fund office.Sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: For additional compensation to the clerk in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, designated by the Treasurer to perform the necessary clerical service in connection with the sinking fund and payment of interest on the debt of the District of Columbia, $500.
Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistant morgue master and janitor, $600; hostler and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600. Market masters.Market masters: Two market masters, at $1,200 each; assistant market masters, who shall also perform the necessary labor in cleaning the markets, and one laborer for duty at Eastern Market, $2,760; in all, $5,160. Farmers’ Produce Market.Farmers’ Produce Market: Market master, $900; assistant market master, who shall also act as night watchman, $600; watchman, $600; laborer for sweeping sidewalks on B, Little B, and Tenth and Twelfth Streets northwest, and the center walk of the Farmers’ Produce Market Square, and raking up space used for market purposes, $480; laborer to remove market refuse from streets and from sidewalks around Farmers’ Produce Market and to assist in the care of the interior of the market, $480; hauling refuse (street sweepings), $600; in all, $3,660.
Eastern Market.Eastern Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $480. Western Market.Western Market: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where used for market purposes (farmers’ market), $480. Fish wharf and market.Fish wharf and market: Market master and wharfinger, who shall have charge of the landing of vessels, the collection of wharfage and dockage rentals, and the collection of rents for fish houses at the municipal fish wharf and market, $900; assistant market master, who shall also act as laborer, $600; watchman, $600 (transferred from lump-sum roll); laborer, $480; in all, $2,580.
Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets: Superintendent, $2,500; inspectors—chief $1,500, five at $1,200 each; clerk, $1,200; four laborers at $600 each; in all, $13,600. For purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, provisions, and so forth, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $100. Engineer Commissioner’s office. Engineers, superintendents, etc.Engineer commissioner’s office:
Engineer of highways, $3,000; engineer of bridges, $2,500; superintendents—one of streets, $2,000, one of suburban roads $2,250; sanitary engineer, $3,300; asphalts and cements—inspector $2,400, assistant inspector $1,500; trees Assistant engineers, etc.and parkings—superintendent $2,000, assistant superintendent $1,350; assistant engineers—two at $2,200 each, four at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, four at $1,500 each, two at $1,350 each, one $1,200; transitmen—three at $1,200 each, one $1,050; rodmen— eight at $900 each, four at $780 each; six chainmen, at $720 each;
Inspectors, etc.six chainmen, at $650 each; draftsmen—one $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; general inspector of sewers, $1,300; inspector of sewers, $1,200; bridge inspector, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,500 each, five (including two of streets) at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; foremen—twelve at $1,200 each, one $1,050, ten at $900 each; foreman, Rock Creek Park, $1,200; three subforemen, at $1,050 921each; bridge keepers—one $650, three at $600 each; chief clerk,Clerks, etc. $2,250; permit clerk, $1,500; assistant permit clerk, $1,000; clerks— one $1,800, three at $1,500 each, one $1,400, two at $1,350 each, seven at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, three at $840 each, one $720, one $600; seven messengers, at $600 each; skilled laborers— one $625, two at $600 each; janitor, $720; steam engineers—principal $1,800, three at $1,200 each, three assistants, at $1,050 each; six oilers, at $600 each; six firemen, at $875 each; inspector, $1,400; storekeeper, $900; superintendent of stables, $1,500; blacksmith, $975; two watchmen, at $630 each; two drivers, at $630 each; in all, $180,720.
Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect, $3,600;Municipal architect’s office. 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, $1,350; boss carpenter, boss tinner, boss painter, boss plumber, boss steam fitter, boss grader, six in all, at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,050, one (office of superintendent of repairs) $1,000, one $720; copyist, $840; driver, $600; in all, $31,460.
Public Utilities Commission: For salaries (including inspectorPublic Utilities Commission. of gas and meters, $2,000; assistant inspectors of gas and meters— one $1,200, two at $900 each; messenger, $600); in all, $33,000: *Provided*,*Proviso* Pay limit. That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum; For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorizedExpert services, etc. by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, $25,000;
In all, Public Utilities Commission, $58,000. Street-cleaning division: Superintendent, $3,000; assistantStreet-cleaning division. superintendent and clerk, $1800; chief clerk, $1,400; stenographer and clerk, $1,000; clerks—two at $1,200 each, one $1,100, one $1,000, two at $720 each; chief inspector, $1,300; inspectors—four at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each; foreman of repairs, $1,200; foremen—one $1,300, four at $1,200 each, eight at $1,100 each, one $1,000, one $900; assistant foremen—three at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger and driver, $600; in all, $44,180.
Board of examiners, steam engineers: Three members, at $300Examiners, steam engineers. each, $900. Department of insurance: Superintendent of insurance, $3,500;Insurance department. deputy and examiner, $2,000; statistician, $1,700; clerks—one $1,200, two at $900 each; stenographer, $840; temporary clerk hire, $300; in all, $11,340. Surveyor’s office: Surveyor, $3,000; assistant surveyor, $2,000;Surveyor’s office. 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 rodman, at $825 each; chainmen—three at $700 each, two at $650 each; computer and transitman, $1,200; in all, $26,000.
For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additionalTemporary services. 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. Employment of females: To carry out the Act to regulate theFemale employment inspection. Vol. 38, p. 201. 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. 922 District Council of Defense. Vol. 39, p. 650.District Council of Defense: To carry on the work of the District Council of Defense, including the employment of personal services, rent, stationery, supplies, postage, and general contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $25,000, to be expended under the direction and control of the commissioners. Free Public Library and Takoma Park branch.
Salaries.Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch: Librarian, $4,000; assistant librarian, $1,800; chief circulating department, $1,500; director of children’s work, $1,500; children’s librarian, $1,000; supervisor of school work, $1,200; librarian’s secretary, $1,000: Takoma Park branch librarian, $1,000; chiefs of divisions—order and accessions $1,200, industrial $1,200; reference librarian, $1,200; assistants—one $1,000, one in charge of periodicals $1,000, one $900, seven at $840 each, seven (including one for the Takoma Park branch) at $720 each, three at $600 each, three (including one for Takoma Park branch) at $600 each; copyist, $600; chief, catalogue department, $1,200; classifier, $900; cataloguers—one $840, one $720, two at $600 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $900, one $720; attendants—one $720, six at $600 each, five at $540 each; collator, $600; three messengers, at $600 each; ten pages, at $420 each; three janitors, at $600 each, one of whom shall act as night watchman; janitor of Takoma Park branch, $480; engineer, $1,200; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $62,400.
Substitutes.For substitutes and other special and temporary service, including the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the discretion of the librarian, $2,500. Sunday, etc., opening.For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $2,500. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park branch: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $12,500;
For binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, $5,000; For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunchroom equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles; and other contingent expenses, $11,000; In all, $28,500. Contingent expenses.CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Central garage.Central Garage: Superintendent, $1,500; two mechanics and drivers, at $1,000 each; in all, $3,500. Miscellaneous items.For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800 ; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, Board of Charities, including an allowance to the purchasing officer and to the secretary of the Board of Charities of not exceeding $360 each per annum for maintenance of vehicles for use in the discharge of their official duties, 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, $45,000. 923 For printing all annual and special reports of the government ofPrinting reports, fiscal year 1918. the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, for submission to Congress, $10,000.
For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motorcycles,Motor vehicles. Maintenance, etc. and motor trucks owned by the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise herein provided for, including such personal services in connection therewith not otherwise herein authorized, as the commissioners shall in writing specially order, $18,500; For the purchase of five new automobiles for use of the various Purchases.departments of the government of the District of Columbia, and for the exchange of such automobiles now owned by the District of Columbia as, in the judgment of the commissioners of said District, have or shall become unserviceable; and for the purchase of one new truck for the inspector of plumbing, two new trucks for the municipal architect, one new truck for the municipal architect in lieu of one truck to be exchanged, and for the purchase of two new motorcycles for street-cleaning department in lieu of one motorcycle to be exchanged, and three new motorcycles for the electrical engineer in lieu of three to be exchanged, $11,250;
In all, for motor vehicles, $29,750. All of said motor vehiclesUse by officials restricted. and all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District: *Provided*, That no automobile shall be acquired hereunder, by purchase*Proviso*.
Limit of cost. *Ante*, p. 822. or exchange, at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $900 for one seating four or more persons, $700 for one seating less than four persons, or $2,000 for a motor truck. Appropriations in this Act shall not be expended for the purchase orRestriction on use of horses, etc. 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.
Appropriations in this Act, except appropriations for the militia,Limit on expenses for horses, etc. 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.
Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment ofFire insurance prohibited. premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendentSpecified residence telephones allowed. of the water department, superintendent of sewers, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, secretary of the Board of Charities, health officer, assistant 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 may connect any or all of these telephonesConnections authorized. to either the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Colombia, as in their judgment may be most economical to the District. For postage for strictly official mail matter, $18,000.Postage. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish Car tickets for official use.necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of car tickets from appro924*Proviso*.
Limit.priations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the expenditures herein authorized shall he so apportioned as not to exceed a total of Firemen and police not included.$5,000: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supremo Court of said District, $5,000.
Coroner’s expenses.For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witnesses, 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, $5,000. Advertising. General.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $6,000.
Taxes in arrears. Vol. 26, p. 24.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $3,500, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. Game and fish laws.For enforcement of game and fish laws, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, $100. Removing dangerous buildings. Vol. 30, p. 923.For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” to 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 Reappropriation.
Vol. 39, p. 1011.unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, is reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Copies of wills, etc., to assessor.For furnishing to the office of the assessor copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, $900. Recorder of deeds. Office rent.For rent of offices for the recorder of deeds, $5,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds.
Pay for copying deeds, etc.The recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed to pay for copying instruments filed for record in his office forty per centum of the fees collected by him for filing, indexing, and recording said instruments, and the same rate of compensation for making copies of the records of his office, and employees of the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia when employed therein by the day shall receive compensation at the rate of $2.50 for each day so employed, payable out of the fees and emoluments of said office.
Vehicle tags.For purchase of enamel metal or other metal identification number tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $10,000. Repairing fire injuries. Reappropriation. Vol. 39, p. 1012. *Post*, p. 1021.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 nineteen.
Markets, etc.For maintenance and repairs to markets, $3,500. Maintenance and repairs.For maintenance, repair, and lighting of fish wharf and market, $1,800. 925 For repairs to pavement in court yard and terrace walk, Western Market, $600. For maintenance, operation, and repairs to refrigerating plant, including salary of engineer at not exceeding $1,000 per annum, $2,400. Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets office:Superintendent of weights, etc. For one motor vehicle with a special body, to be used on the lighterMotor vehicles for office. work of the inspectors of weights and measures, $750, to be available immediately.
For maintenance and repair of three motor vehicles, at $360 each, $1,080. 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 $30 per month, $360. For completion of remodeling of repair shop and new storage sheds Store yard.in store yard, $2,250. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work,Assessment and permit work. including maintenance of motor vehicles, $220,000.
Work on streets and avenues: For work on streets and avenuesWork on streets and avenues. named in Appendix K, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $80,900, 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: Northwest section schedule: $12,300: *Provided*, That theSchedules. *Proviso*. Nineteenth Street NW. width of the roadway of Nineteenth Street northwest, between E Street and New York Avenue, shall be thirty-five feet instead of thirty-two feet as specified in the schedule.
Southwest section schedule: $3,500. Southeast section schedule: $21,500. Northeast section schedule: $43,600. *Provided*, That streets and avenues named in said schedules shallOrder of contracts. be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the commisioners, instead of being graded and regulated. For the necessary and adequate means of approach and access to Approaches to Government buildings.existing buildings, or to temporary buildings which may hereafter be erected in the District of Columbia for the use of the United States, including the grading, paving, improvement, and repair of such streets, avenues, and roads, as in the judgment of the commissioners shall be necessary, including all necessary incidental work, $85,000, and for the extension of existing water mains, the laying of new mains,Extending water mains, etc. and for other work in connection therewith, $30,000; in all, $115,000,*Proviso*.
Construction work. to be available immediately: *Provided*, That the foregoing work shall be done under the direction of the commissioners, by contract, day labor, or in such other manner as in their judgment may be most advantageous to the Government. For repaving with asphalt the roadway of F Street, northwestRepaving F Street NW. (north side), from Seventh Street to Ninth Street, present width ten feet, $1,200. For repaving with asphalt the roadway of Twelfth Street, northwest,Repaving Twelfth Street NW. from B Street to C Street, forty feet wide, $7,000.
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, $30,000. 926 Condemnation.Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. Suburban roads and Streets. Construction of designated streets, etc.Construction of suburban roads: For construction of suburban roads and suburban streets, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Construction of suburban roads and suburban streets,” and for that purpose it shall constitute one fund, as follows:
Northwest. Otis Place, Georgia Avenue to Sixth Street, pave, $5,000; Northwest. Thirty-fifth Street, Woodley Road to Newark Street, pave, $9,700; Northwest. Crittenden Street, Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street, pave, $4,600; Rhode Island Avenue NE.Northeast. Rhode Island Avenue, Fourth Street to Twelfth Street, and Fourth Street from end of existing asphalt pavement to Rhode Island Avenue, pave, $37,000; Canal Road NW.Northwest. Canal Road, south side, retaining wall, reconstruct, $25,000;
Northwest. Iowa Avenue, Allison Street to Buchanan Street, pave, $8,400; Northwest. Webster Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, pave, $4,600; Northeast. Tenth Street, South Avenue to Evarts Street, pave, $9,100; Northeast. Evarts Street, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, pave, $5,600; Northeast. Hamlin Street, Mills Avenue to Twenty-sixth Street, grade and improve, $3,900; Northeast. Montana Avenue, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, pave, $6,300; Northeast. Twelfth Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Montana Avenue, pave, $5,800;
Northeast. W Street, Fourth Street to Fifth Street, and Fifth Street one hundred feet south of W Street pave, $4,400; Northeast. Fifth Street, W Street to Rhode Island Avenue, pave, $3,800; Northwest. Adams Mill Road, Clydesdale Place to Harvard Street, grade and improve, $10,600; Northwest. Allison Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, pave, $5,500; Northwest. Fifteenth Street, Crittenden Street to Decatur Street, pave, $3,700; Northwest. Eighth Street, Allison Street to Buchanan Street, pave, $4,100;
Northwest. Fifth Street, Shepherd Street to Upshur Street, pave, $7,100: Northwest. Iowa Avenue, Georgia Avenue to Webster Street, pave, $6,100; Northwest. Thirteenth Street, Gallatin Street to Hamilton Street, grade and improve, $4,000; Northwest. Quincy Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, pave, $6,000; Northeast. Monroe Street, Twenty-eighth Street to Hoover Road, grade and improve, $6,300; Northeast. Twenty-sixth Street, Franklin Street to South Dakota Avenue, grade and improve, $8,200;
Northwest. Phelps Place, Florida Avenue to S Street, pave, $2,400; Northwest. Thornton Place, Wyoming Avenue to Kalorama Road, pave, $3,100; Northwest. Gresham Place, Georgia Avenue to Fifth Street, pave, $7,100.927 Northeast. Douglas Street and Polk Street, Olive Street to Forty-fourth Street, grade and improve, $10,000; Northwest. New Hampshire Avenue, Georgia Avenue to ParkNew Hampshire Avenue NW. Road, pave, $20,000; Northwest. Whittier Street, Georgia Avenue to Piney Branch Road, grade and improve, $6,300;
Northwest. Kalorama Road, from Champlain Street to SixteenthKalorama Road NW. Street and from Seventeenth Street to Sixteenth Street, grade and pave, $32,100; In all, $275,800. For compensation for damages to frame house located on lot eightDamages to house in square 2690. hundred and twelve, square twenty-six hundred and ninety, by reason of the filling to grade of Spring Place abutting said premises, provided the owner of said property waives all claim for any additional compensation by reason of said change in grade, $300.
To carry out the provisions contained in the District of ColumbiaPermanent system of highways. Extending streets, etc., to conform with. Vol. 37, p. 950. appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, which authorizes the commissioners to open, extend, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway to conform with the plan of the permanent system of highways in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, there is appropriated, payable entirely from the revenues of the District of Columbia, such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Piney Branch Road, abandonment of certain part of as a public Piney Branch Road NW. Portion abandoned, etc.highway: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed, upon the opening of Buchanan Street for traffic between Piney Branch Road and Sixteenth Street northwest, in the District of Columbia, to abandon as a public highway that part of Piney Branch Road lying between the north line of Allison Street and the south line of Buchanan Street, and the title to the land contained in said abandoned part of road shall revert to the owners of the land abutting thereon.
Repairs—Streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work ofRepairs of streets, etc. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and including the purchase of two motor trucks at not toMotor vehicles. exceed $2,000 each, and one motor vehicle for special repair work at not to exceed $2,500 and maintenance of motor vehicles, and including an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month for an automobile for use for official purposes, $375,000.
This appropriation shall beStreet railway pavements. available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companiesVol. 20, p. 105. as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.
The authority given the commissioners in the District of ColumbiaChanging curb lines, etc. Vol. 34, p. 1130. appropriation Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, to make such changes in the lines of the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved under appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That no such change*Proviso*.
Condition. shall be made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement. For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around publicSidewalks, etc. 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 one 928motor truck at not exceeding $2,000, and including maintenance of motor vehicles, $200,000.
Emergency repairs and improvements. Personal services.Emergency repairs and improvements on account of the existing war: For temporary personal services not otherwise specifically provided for in this Act, when such services are required for the timely and effective prosecution of any work of improvement, maintenance, or repair, or for the operation of any service or plant, such work, service, or plant being otherwise authorized in this Act or by existing *Provisos*. Employment.law, $25,000: *Provided*, That the employment of such services shall be authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia Conditions authorizing.upon the recommendation of the engineer commissioner: *And provided further*, That such employment shall be made only when, in the judgment of said commissioners, it shall be necessary for the public health, safety, comfort, or welfare, to correct or improve adverse conditions which may arise in the District of Columbia due to the existing war, to prevent the occurrence of such conditions, or to create conditions favorable to the efficient conduct of business pertaining to the existing war;
Urgent work on public improvements.To effect any work or works of permanent or temporary public improvement in the District of Columbia which may be urgently required in connection with the conduct of business pertaining to the existing war, and which is not otherwise authorized in this Act or by existing law, $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the *Proviso*. Authorization required.District of Columbia: *Provided*, That expenditures from this appropriation shall be recommended by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and authorized by the President of the United States.
Bridges. Construction and repairs. Street bridges over railroads.Bridges: For construction and repairs, $25,000. 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 Vol. 20, p. 105.such railway company in the manner provided in section five of an Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia, approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts.
Highway Bridge across Potomac River: Draw operatorsHighway Bridge.—two at $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. Extra lights, watchmen, etc.For forty-eight additional electric arc lights, at $67 per light per annum, $3,216. For second sergeant of park watchmen, $900; eighteen park watchmen, at $840 each; in all, $16,020.
For revolvers and ammunition for one sergeant and eighteen park watchmen, $316. For uniforming one sergeant and eighteen park watchmen, at $50 per annum each, $950. Anacostia Bridge.Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $5,000. Sewers.SEWERS. Cleaning, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, $71,000. 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, $58,000. 929 For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $107,000.Main and pipe.
For suburban sewers, $200,000.Suburban. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $125,000.Assessment and permit work. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,Rights of way. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Upper Potomac Interceptor: For continuing the constructionUpper Potomac interceptor. of the upper Potomac interceptor between Twenty-seventh and K Streets and the Chain Bridge, $40,000. The commissioners are authorized to expend from appropriations Acquiring site for new pumping station.heretofore made for the upper Potomac interceptor sewer not to exceed $7,000 for the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of such land in the square west of square numbered four as may be necessary for a site for and the construction of a sewage pumping station at the northwest corner of Twenty-seventh and K Streets northwest, within the limiting lines of Rock Creek Parkway.
Sewage treatment works: For the purchase or condemnationSewage treatment work. Purchase of land for. of the necessary land, easements, rights of way, and riparian rights, for the purpose of acquiring sufficient area to provide for the necessary treatment of the raw sewage of the District of Columbia now being discharged untreated into the Potomac River near Magazine Point, above Alexandria, Virginia, $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. STREETS.Streets. Dust prevention,Cleaning, etc. 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 $25 per month for a horse-drawn vehicle, $30 per month for an automobile, and $15 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, $340,000.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $5,000Stables. Reappropriation. Vol. 39, p. 1019. “for paving yard and other necessary work at the street-cleaning stables,” contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Disposal of city refuse: To enable the commissioners to carryDisposal of city refuse. *Ante*, p. 539. out the provisions of existing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia, including inspection and allowance to inspectors for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed $25 per month for each inspector for horse-drawn vehicles, $30 per month for automobiles, and $15 per month for motorcycles; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps; and incidental expenses, $608,997, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the disposal*Provisos*.
Deposit of proceeds. of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts. That every person, corporation, association, or in930Transporting table refuse.stitution in the District of Columbia shall be permitted to transport in closed metal containers from the place of origin to places outside of the District of Columbia any table refuse, including meat, bread, and vegetables, not in a decayed or decomposed condition, to be fed to poultry, pigs, or other live stock at any place where such feeding Use restricted.is not prohibited by law: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels, places of business, large apartment or boarding houses.
Parking commission.Parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, maintenance of two motor trucks, and miscellaneous items, $60,000. Bathing beach.Bathing beach: Superintendent, $720; two watchmen, at $500 each; temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $4,000; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,400, to be available immediately; in all, $7,120.
Playgrounds. Maintenance.Playgrounds: For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, construction of toilet facilities, wading pools, installation of telephones and telephone service, installation of electric lights and electric service, 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, $25,000;
Salaries.For salaries: Supervisor, $2,500; inspector of playgrounds, $1,200; clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $1,200; to be employed not exceeding ten months—twenty directors of playgrounds or recreation centers at $75 per month each, assistant director at $60 per month, general utility man at $60 per month; to be employed not exceeding seven months—two assistant directors at $60 per month each, three assistant directors at $50 per month each; to be employed not exceeding three months—three assistant directors at $60 per month each, twenty assistants at $50 per month each; to be employed twelve months—twenty watchmen at $50 per month each, clerk (who shall be a bookkeeper) at $75 per month; for services of extra directors at not exceeding 35 cents per hour, $800; for services of extra watchmen at not exceeding 25 cents per hour, $600; in all, $40,830;
Swimming pools.For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses of operating five swimming pools, $3,000; For five guards or swimming teachers for four months at $60 per month each, $1,200; In all, for playgrounds, $70,030, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. New pools, etc. Reappropriation. Vol. 39. p. 691. *Ante*, p. 350.The appropriations made for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen for the construction of two swimming pools, shower baths, appurtenances, and equipment are made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
New site. Reservation 126.Playground site: The plot of land known as reservation one hundred and twenty-six, in the District of Columbia is hereby transferred to the commissioners of said District for playground purposes. Public convenience stations.Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $14,700. Condemning insanitary buildings. Vol. 34, p. 157.Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings: For all expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal services, when authorized by the commissioners, $2,500. 931 ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department.
Electrical engineer, $2,750; assistant electrical engineer, $2,000;Salaries. inspectors—one $1,000, four at $900 each; electrician, $1,200; two draftsmen, at $1,000 each; four telegraph operators, at $1,000 each; repairmen—expert $1,200, three at $900 each, one $840; telephone operators—four at $840 each, one $720, ten at $600 each, one $540; electrical inspectors—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,350, four at $1,200 each; assistant electrician, $1,200; clerks—-one $1,400, one $1,200, two at $1,125 each, one $1,050, one $750; assistant repairman, $620; laborers—one $630, two at $600 each, two at $540 each; storekeeper, $875; in all, $54,115.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies,Supplies, contingent expenses, etc. telephone rental and purchase, wire and cable 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, purchase and repair of bicycles, allowance for the maintenance of two automobiles at not to exceed $30 per month each, washing, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, $15,000.
For placing wires of fire alarm, telegraph, police patrol, and telephonePlacing wires underground. 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, $5,000. For extension and relocation of police-patrol system, includingPolice-patrol system. 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.
For installing police-patrol telephone system in the new number Twelfth precinct. Telephone installation, etc.twelve police precinct, including the purchase, installation, and relocation of the necessary boxes, instruments, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, $3,000. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of publicLighting. 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, livery and extra labor, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections seven and eight of the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal yearVol. 36, p. 1008. nineteen hundred and twelve and with the provisions of the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundredVol. 37, p. 181. and thirteen, and other laws applicable thereto, $415,000.
For purchase and installation of twenty-five fire-alarm boxes,Fire-alarm boxes. relocation of fire-alarm boxes, and purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $5,000. For enlarging the fire-alarm headquarters apparatus, $6,000.Enlarging apparatus. For purchase of one motor truck in lieu of a motor truck to be Motor truck.exchanged, $2,000. ROCK CREEK PARK.Rock Creek Park.
For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park and the PineyCare, etc. *Ante*, p. 650. 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. 932 Public schools.PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Salaries. Officers, etc.Officers: Superintendent, $6,000; assistant superintendents— one $3,500, one $3,000; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, and director of primary instruction, sixteen in all, at a minimum salary of $2,200 each; secretary, $2,000; clerks—one $1,600, one $1,400, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each, one (to carry out the provisions of the child-labor law) $900; two stenographers, at $1,000 each; messenger, $720; in all, $60,520.
Attendance officers.Attendance officers: Attendance officers—one $900, two at $800 each, four at $600 each; in all, $4,900. Teachers.Teachers: For two thousand and thirty-four teachers at minimum salaries as follows: Principals.Principal of the Central High School, $3,000; Assistant, Central High. *Proviso*. Salary.Assistant principal of the Central High School, $1,800: *Provided*, That said assistant principal shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years.
Principals of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, eight, at $2,500 each; Dean of girls, Central High. *Proviso*. Salary.Assistant principal, who shall be dean of girls of the Central High School, $1,800: *Proviso*. Penmanship.*Provided*, That said assistant principal shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Directors.Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $1,500 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;
Assistant of primary instruction.Assistant director of primary instruction, $1,400: *Provided*, That the assistant director of primary instruction now in the service of the *Proviso*. Salary.public schools, or hereafter to be appointed, shall be placed at the basic salary of $1,400 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years; Other assistants.Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven at *Proviso*.
Penmanship.$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; Manual training.Assistant supervisor of manual training, $1,300; 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, twenty-one at $1,900 each; Group A of class six, including seven principals of grade manual-training schools, three hundred and thirty-four at $1,000 each; Class five, one hundred and thirty-six at $950 each, including vocational and trade instructors; Class four, five hundred and seven at $800 each; Class three, five hundred and forty-three at $750 each; Class two, three hundred and sixty-four at $750 each; *Proviso*.
Full increased pay allowed.Class one, ninety at $750 each: *Provided*, That all teachers and librarians and clerks herein provided for shall be entitled to the full amount of any increased compensation granted for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen regardless of the increase herein made; Special beginning teacher in the normal school, $800; 933 In all for teachers, $1,728,950: *Provided*, That no part of saidGerman language barred. appropriation, or any appropriation herein, shall be used for the payment of any teacher to give instruction in the German language, or for the purchase of any books for use in such instruction.
The salaries appropriated herein for teachers in classes one, two,Salaries in lieu of present basic rates. *Post*, p. 1021. and three, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall be in lieu of the present basic or initial salaries for such classes and the present rates of longevity increases of pay for the said classes shall apply to the basic or initial salaries appropriated herein: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Additional for fiscal year 1919. That for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, each of the teachers in said classes shall receive placing in the class to which assigned, so that each teacher shall receive in addition to the basic salary herein provided a longevity increase which shall be equal to the longevity increase which is next above that received June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.
The first year of service for all teachers hereafter appointed in theProbationary service. graded schools shall he probationary. Vacation schools and playgrounds: For the proper care,Vacation schools and playgrounds. 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, $12,000. Librarians and clerks at minimum salaries as follows:
Ten librarians in high and normal schools in class five, at $840 each;Librarians and clerks. twenty-eight clerks in class four, at $720 each; in all, $28,560. Longevity pay: For longevity pay for director of intermediateLongevity pay. instruction, supervising principals, supervisor and assistant supervisor of manual training, principals of normal high and manual training high schools, the assistant principal (who shall be dean of girls) of the Central High School, principals of grade manual training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians to 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, as amended by the Acts approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen Vol. 35, p. 289;
Vol. 36, p. 393; Vol. 37, p. 156.hundred and eight, May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $400,000. Allowance to principals: For allowance to principals of gradePrincipals. school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to theirAdditional pay for graded schools. 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, $36,000.
Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools, includingNight schools. teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $40,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including Equipment, etc.equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $3,000. Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, $5,000.Kindergartens.
Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: Superintendent ofJanitors and care of buildings. janitors, $1,500; Central High School (New): Engineer, $1,500; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; electrician, $1,200; three firemen, at $720 each; coal passer $540; janitor, $1,100; two assistant janitors, at 934$900 each; gardener, $840; night watchman, $720; two charwomen, at $480 each; fourteen laborers, at $500 each; in all, $19,620; Dunbar High School: Engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $720 each; coal passer, $540; janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; nine laborers, at $500 each; two charwomen, at $480 each; night watchman, $720; in all $12,260;
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(old)and annex: Janitor, $1,000; laborers— four at $500 each; in all, $3,000; Business High School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—four at $500 each; in all, $3,000; J. Ormond Wilson Normal School and Ross School: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $800; night watchman, $720; laborers—four at $500 each; in all $4,520; Jefferson School: Janitor, $1,000; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $2,000; Western High School: Janitor, $1,100; laborers—four at $500 each; in all, $3,100; Franklin School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—three at $500 each; in all, $2,500; Myrtilla Minor Normal School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—three at $500 each; charwoman, $480; in all, $2,980; Eastern High School: Janitor, $1,000; laborers—two at $500 each; in all, $2,000; Stevens School: Janitor, $1,000; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $2,000; McKinley Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,500; assistant engineer, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; night watchman, $720; firemen—two at $720 each; laborers—three at $500 each; in all, $7,880; Armstrong Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,200; assistant engineer, $720; night watchman, $720; fireman, $720; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $6,080; M Street High School
(Old)and Douglass and Simmons Schools: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $900; laborers—four, at $500 each; in all, $3,900; Birney and annex, Elizabeth V. Brown, Emery, New Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Gage, Park View, Petworth, Powell, Van Buren, and Wallach Schools: Eleven janitors, at $1,000 each; eleven laborers, at $500 each; in all, $16,500; Brookland, Bryan, Congress Heights, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Grover Cleveland, Henry, Langdon, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Randall, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, and Strong John Thomson Schools: Twenty-two janitors, at $840 each; twenty-two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $29,480; Abbot, Benning, Berret, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, Dent, Syphax, and Tenley Schools: Ten janitors, at $840 each; in all, $8,400; Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Burrville, Bruce, Buchanan, Carbery, Cardozo, Cardozo Manual Training, Corcoran, Eaton, Edmonds, Eckington, Fillmore, French, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Isaac Fairbrother, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Logan, Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, O Street Manual Training, Patterson, Payne, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Randle Highlands, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatly, Wilson, Woodburn, Wormley, and West Schools: Seventy-three janitors, at $720 each; in all, $52,560; 935 Brightwood Park, Crummell, Kenilworth, and Wisconsin Avenue Manual Training Schools: Four janitors, at $600 each; in all, $2,400; Bunker Hill, Deanwood, Hamilton, Orr, Reno, Reservior, Smothers, Stanton, Threlkeld, and Military Road Schools: Ten janitors, at $600 each; in all, $6,000. Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, and Fort Slocum Schools: Three janitors, at $250 each; in all, $750. For matrons in the normal and high schools, including the following:Matrons in designated schools. Wilson Normal, Miner Normal, New Central High, Dunbar High, Business High, Western High, Eastern High, McKinley Manual Training, and Armstrong Manual Training, nine in all, at $500 each, $4,500; In all, $196,930. For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking Smaller buildings and ranted rooms.and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $72 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes for which service an amount not to exceed $108 per annum may be allowed, $13,500. Medical inspectors: Chief medical and sanitary inspector, who shall,Medical inspectors. 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; sixteen medicalDivision. inspectors of public schools, one of whom shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, at $500 each; in all, $10,500. For ten graduate nurses, three of whom shall be colored, who shallGraduate nurses. act as public-school nurses, at $1,000 each, $10,000. For the establishment of free dental clinics in the public schools:Dental operators, etc. Eight dental operators at $700 each; four dental prophylactic operators at $900 each; equipment and supplies, $8,000; in all, $17,200. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and grounds, repairMiscellaneous. Rent, etc. shop, storage and stock rooms, $16,500, to be available immediately. For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the secondEquipping temporary classrooms. 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 construction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, $5,000. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and Repairs and improvements.for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $175,000. For removal and reerection of portable schools, $3,000.Portable schools. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, Manual-training tools, etc.and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $40,000. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $165,000.Fuel, light, and power. For furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades for Furniture.additions to buildings; equipment for kindergartens; and tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: Three kindergartens, $2,400; two sewing schools, $520; one housekeeping and cooking school, $800; one cooking school, $580; two manual training shops, $1,480; portable schools, $30,000; in all, $35,780, to be available immediately. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Contingent expenses. stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for highschool cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of not exceeding $300 per annum for livery 936of horse or not exceeding $360 per annum for garage for each the superintendent of schools, the superintendent of janitors, the two assistant superintendents, the director of primary instruction, the school cabinetmaker, the general secretary of community centers, the supervising principal in charge of the white special schools, and the supervising principal of the colored special schools, and including not exceeding $3,000 for books, books of reference, and periodicals, $75,000. Paper towels.For the purchase of sanitary paper towels and for fixtures for dispensing the same to the pupils, $3,000. Pianos.For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,500. Supplies to pupils.For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education, and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, necessary labor not to exceed $600, including one bookkeeper and custodian of textbooks and supplies at $1,200, and one *Proviso*. Exchanges.assistant at $800, $80,000: *Provided*, That the board of education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. Typewriters for Business High School.For the purchase of typewriters and typewriter tables for the Business High School, $16,000. Flags.For purchase of United States flags, $1,350. Playgrounds.For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds, $1,200. For maintenance and repairing seventy-two playgrounds now established, $3,000. School gardens.For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $4,000. Physics department supplies.For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending the equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, and Dunbar High Schools, $3,000. Chemistry and biology laboratories.For purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials and technical books, for laboratories of the departments of chemistry and biology in the Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and Dunbar High Schools, J. Ormond Wilson Normal School, and Myrtilla Miner Normal School, and installation of same, $2,500. Cabinetmaker.For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture, $1,200. Cadet instruction camp.For an instruction camp for the high-school cadets, including food and labor, and expenses involved in preparation of the same, and all incidental expenses, the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is reappropriated and made available during *Proviso*. Use of Government reservation, etc.the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen: *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. Telephone to Wood-burn School addition.For extending the telephone system to the addition to the Woodburn School, 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, $100. Community forums, etc., in school buildings.For payment of necessary expenses connected with the organization and conducting of community forums and civic centers in school buildings, including equipment, fixtures, and supplies for lighting and equipping the buildings, payment of janitor service, secretaries, teachers, organizers, and clerks, and employees of the day schools may also be employees of the community forums and civic centers, $15,000. 937 For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular children,Schools for tubercular children. *Proviso*. Car tickets. $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That expenditures for car tickets from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of car tickets covered by this Act. The children of officers and men of the United States Army and Army and Navy children admitted.Navy stationed outside of the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. Buildings and grounds: For the construction and erection ofBuildings and grounds. Portable schools, etc. portable schools, including necessary grading, improvements, and toilet facilities, $231,000, to be available immediately. For additional for the erection of a foundry at the McKinley ManualManual Training foundry. Training School, $4,000. For additional for the construction of a building to furnish toiletBenning School. facilities for the Benning School, $3,150. The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildingsCosts limited to authorizations. herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be made previously 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 for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the board ofExceptions. education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of 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 outward, 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. [R. S., sec. 4864, p. 952](/us/rs/s4864/p952). 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 asVol. 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, $16,000, 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, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, inBlind children. Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. Major and superintendent, $4,000; assistant superintendent, with Salaries.rank of inspector, $2,500; three inspectors, at $2,000 each; eleven captains, at $2,000 each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, 938$2,000; clerk (who shall be a stenographer), $1,800; clerk and stenographer, $1,500; clerks—one (who shall be assistant property clerk) $1,200, three at $1,000 each, one $700; four surgeons of the police Detective service.and fire departments, at $840 each; additional compensation for thirty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, $14,400, or so much thereof as may be necessary; additional compensation for fourteen privates detailed for special service in the various precincts for the prevention and detection of crime, at the rate of $120 per annum, $1,680, or so much thereof as may be necessary; additional compensation for one inspector or captain detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, $400; eighteen lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at $1,600 each; fifty-four sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,400 each; four hundred and ninety-two privates of class three, at $1,320 each; seventy-eight privates of class two, at $1,200 each; one hundred and ninety-six privates of class one, at $1,080 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 nineteen, $1,778.66; six telephone operators, at $900 each; sixteen janitors, at $600 each; laborer, $720; messenger, $600; inspector, mounted on horse or motor vehicle, $360; fifty-eight captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on horses or for motor vehicle allowances, at $360 each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $60 each; thirty drivers, at $900 each; five police matrons, at $720 each, to possess police powers of arrest; four policewomen, at $900 each; in all, $1,201,038.66. Probationary period for privates.Preliminary to permanent appointment as private, there shall be a period of probation for such time as may be fixed by the commissioners, and no person shall receive a permanent appointment who has not served the required probationary period, but the service during probation shall be deemed to be service in the uniformed force if succeeded by a permanent appointment, and as such shall be included and counted in determining eligibility for advancement, promotion, retirement, and pension in accordance with existing law. To terminate if unsatisfactory.If the conduct or capacity of the probationer be unsatisfactory to the commissioners, the probationer shall be notified in writing that at the end of such probationary period he shall for that reason not be Retention a permanent appointment.retained in the service. The retention of the probationer in the service otherwise shall be equivalent to a permanent appointment therein. 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, $6,000; Repairs.For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds, $8,000; Miscellaneous.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, bicycles, motorcycles, police equipments and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted Detection of crime.equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, $40,000; of which amount a sum 939not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided*, That the War Department may, in its discretion,*Proviso*. Mounted equipment. furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may he required; For flags and halyards, $200;Flags. For maintenance of motor vehicles, $12,000, or so much thereof asMotor vehicles. may be necessary; For additional motor vehicles, $3,000; For reconstruction of cell corridors and the making, erecting, andNinth product station. placing therein modern locking devices in the ninth precinct station house, $5,000; In all, $74,200. 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; two drivers, at $780 each; six guards, at $600 each; janitor, $600; three matrons, at $720 each, to possess police powers of arrest; motor station wagon, $1,000; miscellaneous expenses, including rent, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, meals, maintenance of motor station vehicle and other necessary expenses, $6,000; in all, $16,920, 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, $3,500; In all, $8,500. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND.Policemen’s, etc., relief fund. To pay the relief and other allowances authorized by law, a sum notRelief and allowances from. Vol. 39, p. 718. to exceed $212,978.68 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. Chief engineer, $3,500; two deputy chief engineers, at $2,500 each;Salaries. eight battalion 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 $1,500 each; forty lieutenants, at $1,320 each; forty-one sergeants, at $1,200 each: superintendent of machinery, $2,000; assistant superintendent of machinery, $1,200; twenty-seven engineers, at $1,200 each; twenty-seven assistant engineers, at $1,140 each; two pilots, at $1,150 each; two marine engineers, at $1,200 each; two assistant marine engineers, at $1,140 each; two marine firemen, at $840 each; three hundred and forty-two privates of class two, at $1,140 each; one hundred and three privates of class one, at $960 each; hostler, $600; laborer, $600; in all, $757,460. Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houseRepairs to buildings. and grounds, $15,000; For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-drivenRepairs to apparatus, 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 sup940*Proviso*. Construction at repair shop.plies, materials, equipment, and tools: *Provided*, That the commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire-department repair shop, $17,500; Supplies.For hose, $12,000; For fuel, $22,000; For purchase of horses, $5,000; For forage, $19,500; For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $500; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $25,000; In all, $116,500. New apparatus, etc.Permanent improvements: For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $12,500; For two tractors, motor driven, at $4,500 each; For three fire engines, motor driven, at $8,500 each; For four combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, at $5,800 each; For installing steam heat in engine and truck houses, $6,000; In all, $76,200. Health department.HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Salaries.Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerk and deputy health officer, $2,500; chief, bureau of vital statistics, $1,800; clerks—one $1,600, five at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $720; sanitary inspector—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, nine at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; food inspectors—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, two at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; chemist, $2,000; assistant chemist, $1,500; chief of bureau of preventable diseases and director of bacteriological laboratory, $2,750; serologist, $2,500; two assistant bacteriologists, at $1,200 each; laboratory assistant, $840; skilled laborers—one $720, one $600; two messengers at $600 each; two chauffeurs, at $720 each; pound-master, $1,400; watchman, $600; laborers, at not exceeding $50 per month each, $2,400; in all, $86,470. Preventing spread of diseases. Vol. 29, p. 635. Vol. 34, p. 889.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred Tuberculosis registration, etc. Vol. 35, p. 126.and seven, and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the Infantile paralysis, etc.prevention of infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services, not exceeding $20,000, when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, Quarantine station, etc. *Proviso*. Bacteriologists for dairy examinations, etc.purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, $40,000: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist employed under this appropriation shall not be paid more than $7 per day and may be assigned by the health officer 941to 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. For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensationDisinfecting service. 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. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for theDrainage of lots. Vol. 29, p. 125. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners,Abating nuisances. Vol. 34, p. 114. 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, $1,500. Apparatus, equipment, cost of installation, supplies, and other expenses incidental to the biological and serological diagnosis of disease, $650. Chemical laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order,Chemical laboratory. and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000. For contingent expenses incident to the 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 DistrictFood, 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, $900. For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, includingInspecting dairy farms, etc. amounts that may be allowed the health officer, assistant health officer, chief medical inspector in charge of contagious-disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for maintenance by each of a horse and vehicle at not to exceed $25 per month, or motor vehicle at not to exceed $30 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 $15 per month for maintenance of a motorcycle each, or of not exceeding $25 per annum for the maintenance of a bicycle each, for use in the discharge of their official duties, and other necessary traveling expenses, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minor Isolating wards in hospitals.contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $10,000 and $6,500, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $16,500. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public Crematory.crematory, $2,000. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the poundPound. service, $360. 942 For paving the inclosure occupied by the pound and stable, $600. Washington Diet Kitchen. Caro, etc., of children by.For clinical examination, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six years of age, under a contract to be made with the Washington Diet Kitchen by the health officer of the District of Columbia, $15,000. Courts.COURTS. Court of Appeals reports. Vol. 32, p. 609.For eleven copies of volumes fifty and fifty-one of the reports of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, authorized to be furnished under section two hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, at $5 each, $110. Probation system, Supreme Court.Probation system, Supreme Court: Probation officer $2,000: assistant probation officer, $1,200; stenographer and typewriter and assistant, $900; contingent expenses, $325; maintenance of motor vehicle used in performance of official duties, at not to exceed $30 per month, $360, to be available immediately; in all, $4,785. 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, $1,480; financial clerk, who is authorized to act as deputy clerk, $1,200; stenographer and typewriter, who is authorized to act as a deputy clerk, $1,080; stenographer and typewriter for judge’s work, and to aid in keeping records in clerk’s office, $1,080; probation officers— chief $1,800, assistant chief (who shall also be investigating officer for children’s cases) $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one for adult cases $1,200, four at $1,000 each; investigating officer for adult cases, $1,200; clerk for probation office, $900; two bailiffs, at $900 each; telephone operator, $600; messenger, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $27,280. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900; For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained at court awaiting trial, $50; For rent, $2,000; For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, $500; For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,500; In all, $5,950. Police court. Salaries.Police court: Two judges, at $3,600 each; clerk $2,200; deputy clerks—one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, two at $1,200 each; deputy financial clerk, $1,500; probation officer, $1,500; assistant probation officer, $1,200; 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 cleaners, at $360 each; telephone operator, $480; in all, $33,480. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painters’ and plumbers’ supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $2,825; For hardwood benches, $700; Witness fees, etc.For witness fees, $2,500; For furniture and repairing and replacing same, $200; 943 For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $50; For compensation of jurors, $7,000;Jurors. For repairs to buildings, $1,200; In all, $14,475. Municipal court: Five judges, at $3,000 each; clerk, $1,500;Municipal court. four assistant clerks, at $1,000 each; messenger, $600; elevator operator, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $22,540; For rent of building, $3,600; For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books ofRent, etc. reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $1,000; In all, municipal court, $27,140. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writsLunacy writs. Vol. 33, p. 740. de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including the employment of an alienist at not exceeding $1,500 per annum, and a clerk at $900 who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $5,500. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.Interest and sinking fund. 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,Expenditure restricted. 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*Proviso*. Purchases. Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. COURTS AND PRISONS.Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia: expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $55,000. Courthouse, District of Columbia: For care and protection,Courthouse, care, etc. under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, $1,200; three watchmen, at $720 each; three firemen, at $720 each; five laborers, at $600 each; six messengers, at $720 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; clerk to jury commissioner, $720; telephone operator, $720; attendant m ladies’ waiting room, $300; in all, $16,020, to be expended under the directions of the Attorney General. Court of Appeals Building, District of Columbia: Two watchmen,Court of Appeals Building, care, etc. at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; three laborers, at $480 each; mechanician (under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds), $1,200: *Provided*, That the clerk of*Proviso*. Custodian. 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; 944 For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800. Supreme court. Witness fees. [R. S., 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).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. Jurors’ fees.Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors, $60,000. Bailiffs, etc.Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expense of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, $27,200. 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. Additional, in temporary quarters.For such additional miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the supreme court and its officers, made necessary by the occupancy of temporary quarters pending the reconstruction of the courthouse, District of Columbia, including an electrician at the rate of $900 per annum and a laborer at the rate of $600 per annum, $3,750. Charities and corrections.CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Board of Charities. Salaries, etc.Board of Charities: Secretary, $3,500; assistant secretary and stenographer, $1,600; clerk, $1,400; messenger, $600; inspectors— two at $1,200 each, 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, $19,980. For the maintenance of one motor ambulance, $600. 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, $900; engineer, $900; three assistant engineers, at $600 each; night watchman, $480; blacksmith and woodworker, $500; driver for dead wagon, $365; hostler and driver, for supply and laundry wagon, at $240 each; hospital cook, $650; 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 $400 each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed $200 per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed $225 per annum during second year of service), $4,450; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, $720: gardener, $540; seamstress, $300; housekeeper, $420; laundryman, $720; assistant laundryman, $450; 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, $32,375; Hospital expenses.Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repair to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs 945and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including an allowance to the superintendent of not exceeding $360 per annum for maintenance of vehicle for use in discharge of his official duties, $70,000; For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware,Repairs to buildings, etc. cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, $2,750; Payments to destitute women and children: For payment to Payment to abandoned families. Vol. 34, p. 87.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, $6,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia, on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District; Support of prisoners: For maintenance of jail prisoners of theSupport of jail prisoners, etc. District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, and for the support of prisoners, $65,000; 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, $178,625. 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 $360 each; assistant cooks—one $360, one $180; foreman of construction and repair, $840; blacksmith and woodworker, $540 ; farmer, $720; four farm hands, dairyman, and tailor, at $360 each; seamstress, $240; laundress, hostler and driver, at $240 each; three servants, at $144 each; night watchman, $240; temporary labor, $1,000; in all, $17,492. 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, $40,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $3,000;Repairs, etc. For purchase of material for permanent roads, $300; For renewal of roofs, $1,000; For renewal of floors, $1,500; In all, Home for Aged and Infirm, $63,292. The Commissioners are authorized, under such regulations as they Sale of surplus products.may prescribe, to sell the surplus products of the Home for the Aged and Infirm, and all moneys derived from such sales shall be paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia. National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenanceNational Training School for Boys. Care of boys. 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 946each; engineer, $720; assistant engineer, $600; night watchman, $480; two laborers, at $300 each; in all, $12,480. Contingent expenses.>For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding $500 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, $22,500; In all, National Training School for Girls, $34,980. Medical charities.medical charities. Freedmen’s Hospital.For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with Freedmen’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, $40,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Columbia Hospital for Women.For 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 $25,000. 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 $17,000. 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 $10,000. 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, $26,000. 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 and Casualty Hospital by the Board of Charities, $25,000. Payment for rebuilding, etc.Toward the payment on obligations heretofore incurred in the rebuilding, remodeling, and refitting the buildings of the Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $10,000. Home for Incurables.For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with Washington Home for Incurables by the Board of Charities, $5,000. Georgetown University Hospital.For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $6,000. 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, $6,000. Tuberculosis Hospital. Salaries.Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician, $600; assistant resident physician, $300; roentgenologist, $600; pharmacist and clerk, $780; 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, $600; elevator conductor, $300; three laundresses, at $240 each; farmer, laborer, night watchman, four orderlies, and assistant laundryman, at $360 each; three ward maids, at $240 each; four servants, at $240 each; in all, $20,640; 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 period947icals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $45,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, includingRepairs, etc. roads and sidewalks, $2,000; In all, Tuberculosis Hospital, $67,640. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For continuing the constructionGallinger Hospital. Continuing construction. Vol. 39, p. 1036. of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital in accordance with the provision for that purpose in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $353,590. child-caring institutions.Care of children. Board of Children’s Guardians: For administrative expenses,Board of Children’s Guardians. 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: Agent, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, one $900; stenographer,Salaries. $900; placing and investigating officers—two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, nine at $900 each; record clerk, $900; messenger, $500; laborer, $500; in all, $18,200. For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), Feeble-minded children.$30,000; For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship Board, etc., of children.of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $120,000; In all, Board of Children’s Guardians, $171,700. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to Advances to agent.advance to the agent of the Board of Children’s Guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $200 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, 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 for Colored Children. Salaries. $1,200; supervisor of boys, $780; matron of school, $480; three caretakers, two assistant caretakers, nurse, and sewing teacher, at $360 each; three teachers, at $480 each; manual-training teacher, $600; farmer, and blacksmith and wheelwright, at $480 each; farm laborer, $360; stableman and watchman, at $300 each; cook, $240; laundress, $240; temporary labor not to exceed $500; in all, $9,920. For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons,Expenses. and harness, $18,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,500; For manual training equipment, $1,800; For materials for construction of roads and sidewalks, $500; For materials for permanent fence, $500; In all, Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $32,220: *Provided*, That all moneys received at said school, as income from*Proviso*. Use of receipts from sales, etc. sale of products and from payment of board, of instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to the commissioners to be expended by them in the support of the school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisorIndustrial Home School. Salaries. of boys, $780; matron, $480; three matrons, at $360 each; housekeeper and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two assistant matrons, at 948$300 each; nurse, $360; manual-training teacher, $660; florist, $840; engineer, $720; farmer, $540; cook and laundress, at $300 each; two housemaids, at $180 each; clerk, $900; temporary labor, not to exceed $400; in all, $10,540; Expenses.For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, $24,000; For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $2,000; In all, Industrial Home School, $36,540. Home for Destitute Colored Children.For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Children’s Guardians, not to exceed $9,900. Foundlings’ Home.For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with Washington Home for Foundlings by the Board of Children’s Guardians, $6,000. Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum.For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Children’s Guardians, $6,000. Temporary homes.temporary homes. Municipal lodging house.Municipal lodging house and wood yard; Superintendent, $1,200; foreman, $480; cook, $360; night watchman for six months, at $25 per month, $150; maintenance, $2,000; in all, $4,190. Grand Army Soldiers ’ Home.Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic: Superintendent, $1,200; janitor, $360; cook, $360; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $5,920, to be expended under the Admissions.direction of the commissioners; and ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Spanish War, Philippine Insurrection, or China Relief Expedition, who served at any time between April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, shall be admitted to the home. Hope and Help Mission.For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, $4,000. Library for the Blind.National Library for the Blind: For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at seventeen hundred and twenty-nine H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. Columbia Polytechnic Institute tor the Blind.Columbia Polytechnic Institute: To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at eighteen hundred and eight H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $1,500. 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. 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, $450,000. Deporting nonresident insane. Vol. 30, p. 811.For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, $3,000. Advances to Board of Charities for deporting.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. 949 Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay ofRelief of the poor. physicians to the poor at not exceeding $1 per day each, who shall be appointed by the commissioners on the recommendation of the health officer, $12,000. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers,Transporting paupers. $2,000. Workhouse and Reformatory: Superintendent, $3,000; physician,Workhouse, etc. Salaries. $1,680; chief engineer, $1,200; electrician, $1,200; superintendent of commissary $1,080; in all, $8,160. Workhouse (administration): Assistant superintendent, $1,680;Administration. chief clerk, $1,200; head matron, $900; stenographer, $720; stenographer and officer,$600; Operation: Foremen—construction $900, stone-crushing plantOperation. $900, sawmill $900; superintendent brickkiln, $1,500; clay worker, $480; superintendent tailor shop, $480; Maintenance: Superintendent of clothing and laundry, $840; Maintenance.storekeeper, $720; steward, $900; stewardess, $600; veterinary and officer, $880; captain of guards, $1,200; captain of night watch, $900; two receiving and discharging officers, at $1,000 each; superintendent of laundry, $720; day guards—two at $900 each, twenty-two at $840 each; twelve night guards, at $720 each; day officer, $600; three night officers, at $600 each; hospital nurse, $600; captain of steamboat, $1,100; engineer of steamboat, $1,000; in all, $53,040; For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, Expenses of maintenance.guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation, and means of transportation; supplies and labor, and all other necessary items, $95,000; 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 material. In all, $197,040, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Reformatory:Assistant superintendent, $1,800; chief clerk,Reformatory. Salaries. $1,200; assistant clerk and stenographer, $1,000; steward, $1,500; captain of day officers, $1,200; five instructors, at $1,200 each; ten day officers, at $900 each; captain of night force, $1,080; four night officers, at $720 each; in all, $25,660; For continuing construction of permanent buildings, includingConstruction. sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, $35,000; For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing,Expenses of maintenance. guarding, care and support of inmates; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment; transportation and means of transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation; supplies and labor, and all other necessary items, $50,000; For fuel for maintenance, $7,000;Fuel. In all, $117,660, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. The commissioners are authorized, under such regulations as theySale of surplus products. may prescribe, to sell the surplus products of the said workhouse and the said reformatory, and all moneys derived from such sales 950shall be paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia. Militia.MILITIA. Expenses authorized.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, ote. *Post*, p. 1019.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, 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 services, $7,500. Rent.For rent of armories, offices, storehouses, and stables, $6,000. For printing, stationery, and postage, $500. Expenses.For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $500. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, $1,000. For clerk, office of the adjutant general, $1,000. For expenses of target practice and matches, $1,000. Pay of troops.For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $5,000. Refund of erroneous collections.REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS. Payments.To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Vol. 33, p. 967.appropriation Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and *Proviso*. *Prior years.*eleven, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. Anacostia Park.ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS. Continuing reclamation of river and flats above Anacostia Bridge.For continuing the reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Flats from the mouth of the river to the District line, to be expended, so far as concerns the section from the Anacostia Bridge to the District line, for the purposes and under the conditions Vol. 38, p. 549.specified in the item for this improvement contained in the “District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and Vol. 39, p. 1040.fifteen” as amended by the District of Columbia appropriation Act Up to Anacostia Bridge.for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $75,000, and so far as concerns the section from the mouth of the river to the Anacostia Bridge, in accordance with the approved project printed in House Document Numbered Eighty-seven, Fifty-fifth Congress, third Use of prior appropriations.session, there is hereby appropriated any available funds from appropriations heretofore made for said reclamation and development from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, which 951said funds are also hereby made available for the said reclamation work from the mouth of the river to the Anacostia Bridge: *And provided further*,*Provisos*. Area designated Anacostia Park. That the entire area reclaimed and to be reclaimed from the mouth of the river to the District line be, and the same is hereby, made and declared a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and designated Anacostia Park: *And provided further*, ThatAssessment of benefits extended to lower river. Vol. 38, p. 549. the assessment for special benefits provided for in said District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Flats from the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, shall be extended to include the special benefits arising from the reclamation and development of said river and flats from the mouth of the river to the District line. WATER SERVICE.Water service. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues ofAmounts wholly from water revenues. 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, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase of one new motor vehicle, $6,000 for the purchase and installation of two mechanical stokers, and $4,000 for the purchase and installation of one engine and generator, $141,000. 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, $5,000; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. For completing the purchase, installation, and maintenance ofWater meters in Federal buildings, etc. water meters, to be placed on the water services to the United States buildings, reservations, or grounds in the District of Columbia and for each and every purpose connected therewith, said meters to be purchased, installed, and maintained by, and remain under the observation of the officer in charge of the Washington Aqueduct, $32,000. For continuation of parking grounds around McMillan Park Reservoir,McMillan Park grounds. $3,000. The Chief of Engineers is hereby authorized to transfer for playgroundChamplain Avenue pumping station. Land transferred to District purposes the possession, use and control of all that portion of the land of the Washington Aqueduct adjacent to the Champlain Avenue pumping station and lying outside of the existing fence around said pumping station to the control and jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For the payment of approximately eighty-four civilian guards Payment of civilian guards.during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, the employment of whom was made necessary by the removal of the military guards stationed on the Washington Aqueduct and its accessory structures, and for the purchase of necessary equipment, $64,000. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendenceControl of War Department not altered. 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. 952 Water department.water department. Revenue and inspection branch.For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; eight meter computers, at $1,000 each; meter clerk, $1,200; tap clerk, $1,000; inspectors—chief $1,000, nineteen at $900 each; messenger, $600; Distribution branch.For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400; assistant engineers—one $1,800, one $1,700; master mechanic, $2,000; foreman, $1,800; assistant foremen—one $1,275, one $1,200, one $1,125, one $900; steam engineers—chief $1,750, two at $1,200 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, two at $1,000 each, timekeeper, $900; two rodmen at $900 each; two chainmen at $675 each; four oilers at $720 each; three firemen at $900 each; janitor, $900; watchmen—one $875, one $700, one $610; drivers—one $700, one $630; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $94,945. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $5,000. Operation 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, ana 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, $15 per month each, $42,000. Service expenses, water meters, etc.For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences and to such 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 ana maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, not to exceed $420,685 of the amount available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized. Sec. 2. Construction work under the 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 $90,000 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. 953 The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily Temporary laborers, etc.such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary forHorses, vehicles, etc. Special authority from Commissioners for using. 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 and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in the annual estimates shall reportReport, etc. 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, home-drawn*Proviso*. Temporary work on excavations. vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers,Water department. Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed. rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and the commissioners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Limit. That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $13,200 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. 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 all per diem employees and day laborers of the DistrictLegal holidays. Per diem employees and day laborers allowed pay for. of Columbia who have been regularly employed for fifteen working days next preceding such days as are legal holidays in the District of Columbia, and whose employment continues through and beyond 954said legal holidays, shall be granted such leave of absence with pay as is granted the regular annual employees of the District of Columbia for said legal holidays. Sec. 6. Miscellaneous trust funds. Expenses payable from. Vol. 33, p. 368. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Sec. 7. Transfers from District revenues. Construction, etc., of jail. That the sum of $125,000 shall be transferred to the credit of the United States from the amount in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia to pay the indebtedness of the District of Columbia to the United States on account of the construction and equipment of the District jail, as provided in [R. S. D. C., sec. 1097, p. 126](/us/rs/s1097/p126).section one thousand and ninety seven of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia. Sec. 8. Advances to pay School teachers in 1874. That the sum of $97,740.50 shall be transferred to the credit of the United States from the amount in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia to pay the indebtedness of the District of Columbia to the United States on account of advances to pay teachers in the District public schools, as provided by Vol. 18, p. 32.the Act entitled “An Act making appropriation for the payment of teachers in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and providing for the levy of a tax to reimburse the same,” approved April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Approved, August 31, 1918.