Chapter 234. Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 234.— An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes. June 5, 1920. [[H. R. 13266](/us/bill/66/hr/13266).] [[Public, No. 245](/us/pl/66/245).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That 40 per centum of theDistrict of Columbia appropriations. following sums, respectively, is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and 60 per centum out ofSixty per cent from District revenues. the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the following expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921 only, namely:
Appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, heretoforeSame proportion for other District appropriations of fiscal year 1921. or hereafter made in other Acts and chargeable in any proportion against the revenues of the District of Columbia, shall be paid in the proportions of 40 per centum from the Treasury of the United States and 60 per centum from the revenues of the District of Columbia. 838 Taxation increases authorized if revenues insufficient.If the estimated net revenues of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, are not sufficient to meet the proportion of the appropriations for that fiscal year charged against such revenues by this and all other Acts, or which may be estimated to be charged against such revenues by Acts that may be approved during such fiscal year, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall increase the rates of taxation on real estate and tangible personal *Proviso*.Limitation.property sufficiently to make up the difference: *Provided, however*, That such rates of taxation shall in no event be less than 1½ per centum nor more than 2 per centum.
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, $1,400; Purchasing division.Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasing officer, $1,800; computer, $1,440; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,600, three at $1,500 each, twelve at $1,200 each (five of whom shall be stenographers and typewriters), one $1,100, three at $1,000 each; storekeeper, $1,200; messenger, $600; driver, $600; inspectors—one of materials $1,400, two at $900 each; two property-yard keepers, at $1,000 each; temporary labor, $250;
Building inspection division.Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistant inspectors of buildings—principal $2,000, one $1,500, one $1,400, nine at $1,360 each; fire escape inspector, $1,400; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, $1,000; civil engineers or computers—one $2,000, one $1,800, 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;
Plumbing inspection division.Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, $2,000; assistant inspectors of plumbing—principal $1,550, six at $1,360 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; In all, executive office, $128,670. Care of District Building.Salaries.Care of District Building:
Assistant superintendent, $2,000; chief engineer, $1,600; four assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; electrician, $1,400; dynamo tender, $880; four firemen, at $840 each; three coal passers, at $600 each; electrician’s helper, $880; 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; services of cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 30 cents per hour, $9,000; matron, $600; storekeeper, $900; chief watchman, $1,000; assistant chief watchman, $660; eight watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube operator, $600; in all, $42,400.
Assessor’s office.Assessor’s office: Assessor, $3,500; assistant assessors—three at $3,000 each, one at $2,000; five field men at $2,000 each; record clerks—one $1,800, two at $1,500 each, two (who shall also be typists) at $1,400 each, one $1,200; clerks—three at $1,400 each, two at839$1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, one $900, one $720; draftsmen—one $1,600, two at $1,200 each; two stenographers and typewriters at $1,200 each; assistant or clerk, $900; messenger, $600; board of assistant assessors—clerk $1,500, vault clerk, $900; messenger and driver, $600; temporary clerk hire, $500; in all, $56,920.
Special assessment office: Special assessment clerk, $2,000;Special assessment office. clerks—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, one $900, one $750; in all, $8,650. Personal tax board: Three assistant assessors of personal taxes,Personal tax board. at $3,000 each; chief inspector of personal property, $1,800; appraiser of personal property, $1,800; clerk, $1,400; assistant clerk, $1,000; two inspectors, at $1,200 each; 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 assessors, $1,800, two clerks at $1,200 each; in all, $32,600.
License bureau: Superintendent of licenses (who shall also beLicense 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, $1,200; inspector of licenses, $1,200; assistant inspector of licenses, $1,000; messenger, $600; in all, $13,100. Collector’s office: Collector, $4,000; deputy collector, $2,000;Collector’s office chief clerk, arrears division, $2,000; cashier, $1,800; two assistant cashiers, at $1,500 each; bookkeeper, $1,600; three bailiffs, at $1,200 each; clerks—five at $1,400 each, thirteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, one $720; clerk and bank messenger, $1,200; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $52,220.
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, four 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; stenographer and typist, $1,400; messenger, $600; property survey officer, $1,800; teachers’ retirement section: Clerks—one $1,800, one $1,500; disbursing officer, $3,000; deputy disbursing officer, $1,600; clerks—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger, $600; in all, $54,876.
Office of corporation counsel: Corporation counsel, $4,500;Corporation Counsel’s office. assistants—first $3,000, second $2,500, third $2,000, fourth $1,800, fifth $1,500, sixth $1,500, seventh $1,500; clerk, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; two stenographers, at $900 each; clerk, $720; in all, $23,420. Sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of theSinking fund office. 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, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistantCoroner’s office. morgue master and janitor, $600; hostler and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600. Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets:Superintendent o f weights, measures, and markets.Salaries. Superintendent, $2,500; inspectors—chief, $1,500, five at $1,200 each; clerk, $1,200; market masters—two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; assistant market masters—two at $780 each, two at $600 each, one $300; watchman, $600; laborers—five at $600 each, five at $480 each; in all, $24,460.
Engineer commissioner’s office: Engineer of highways, $3,000;Engineer Commissioner’s office.Engineers, superintendents, etc. engineer of bridges, $2,500; superintendents—one of streets $2,000, one of suburban roads $2,250; sanitary engineer, $3,300; asphalts and cements—inspector $2,400, assistant inspector $1,500; trees and parkings—superintendent $2,000, assistant superintendent $1,350;Assistant engineers, etc. assistant engineers—two at $2,200 each, four at $1,800 each, two at840$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; chainmen—six at $720 each, six at $650 each; draftsmen—one $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; general Inspectors, etc.inspector of sewers, $1,300; inspector of sewers, $1,200; bridge inspector, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,500 each, one $1,400, five (including two of streets) at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; foremen—thirteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,050 each, eight at $900 each; 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 laborer, $625; laboratory assistant, $1,200; janitor, $720; steam engineers—principal, $2,090, one $1,800, two at $1,760 each, three assistants at $1,460 each; six oilers, at $960 each; six firemen, at $1,160 each; storekeeper, $900; superintendent of stables, $1,500; blacksmith, $975; two watchmen, at $630 each; two drivers, at $630 each; in all, $186,030.
Central Garage.Central Garage: Superintendent, $1,500; two mechanics, and drivers, at $1,000 each; in all, $3,500. Municipal Architect’s office.Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect, $3,600; engineering assistant, $2,400; superintendent of construction, $2,000; chief draftsman, $1,800; draftsman—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 $1,000, one $720; copyist, $840; driver, $600; in all, $31,460.
Public Utilities Commission.Public Utilities Commission: Executive secretary, $4,000; accountant, $3,000; traffic engineer, $3,000; assistant accountant, $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; inspectors—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400; inspector of gas and meters, $2,000; inspector of electric meters, $1,800; assistant inspectors—one $1,200, two at $900 each; clerks—two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; two messengers, at $720 each; in all, $30,840; Expert services.For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, $10,000;
In all, Public Utilities Commission, $40,840. Street cleaning division.Street cleaning division: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent, $1,800; 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.
Examiners, steam engineers.Board of examiners, steam engineers: Three members, at $300 each, $900. Insurance department.Department of insurance: Superintendent of insurance, $3,500; deputy and examiner, $2,000; statistician, $1,700; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographer, $1,000; temporary clerk hire, $600; in all, $12,000. Surveyor’s office.Surveyor’s office: Surveyor, $3,000; assistant surveyor, $2,000; clerks—one $1,225, one $975, one $675; three assistant engineers, at $1,500 each; computer, $1,200; record clerk, $1,050; inspector, $1,275; draftsmen—one $1,225, one $900; assistant computer, $900; three rodmen, at $825 each; chainmen—three at $700 each, two at $650 each; computer and transitman, $1,200; in all, $26,000; 841 For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additionalTemporary services. field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $8,000, all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the commissioners;
In all, $34,000. Minimum Wage Board: Secretary, $2,500; clerical, contingent,Minimum Wage Board.From District revenues. and miscellaneous expenses, $2,500; in all, $5,000, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. District of Columbia Employees’ Compensation Fund: For carryingEmployees’ Compensation Fund.Payment for injuries.*Ante*, p. 104. out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act approved September 7, 1916, entitled “An Act toVol. 39, p. 742. provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties and for other purposes,” $5,000.
Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch:Free Public Library and Takoma Park branch.Salaries. Librarian, $4,000; assistant librarian, $2,000; chief circulating department, $1,760; director of children’s work, $1,600; director of reference work, $1,500; children’s librarian, $1,200; supervisor of school work, $1,260; librarian’s secretary, $1,200; branch librarian, $1,200; chiefs of divisions—order and accessions, $1,200; industrial, $1,200; reference librarian, $1,200; chief, catalogue department, $1,400; assistants—one $1,200; one in charge of periodicals, $1,200; eight at $1,000 each, seven (including one for the Takoma Park branch) at $900 each, six (including one for Takoma Park branch) at $780 each; copyist, $780; classifier, $1,000; shelf lister, $1,120; cataloguers—one $960, one $900, two at $780 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,100, one $1,000; attendants—one $900, eleven at $780 each; collator, $780; four messengers, at $720 each; ten pages, at $420 each; four janitors, at $720 each, one of whom shall act as night watchman; janitor of Takoma Park branch, $660; engineer, $1,300; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $76,900.
For substitutes and other special and temporary service, includingSubstitutes. the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the discretion of the librarian, $3,500. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays,Sunday, etc., opening. $3,000. Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park branch: For books,Miscellaneous. periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $12,500;
For binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, $7,000; For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $11,000; For extraordinary repairs and improvements to the buildings ofExtraordinary repairs, etc. the free public libraries, $3,000; In all, $33,500. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.Contingent expenses.
For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals,Items specified. 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,842purchase, 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.
Printing reports, fiscal year 1920.For printing all annual and special reports of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, for submission to Congress, $10,000. Motor vehicles.Maintenance.For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motor cycles, 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, $28,000;
Purchases, etc.For the purchase of six new automobiles (to replace horse-drawn vehicles) for use of the various 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, $8,400; Use by officials restricted.In all, for motor vehicles, $36,400. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use *Proviso*.Limit of cost.of any of the same by officials and employees of the District: *Provided*, That no automobile shall be acquired hereunder, by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $1,500 for one seating four or more persons and $1,200 for one seating less than four persons.
Use of horses, etc., restricted.Appropriations in this Act shall not be expended for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for the use of the commissioners, or for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for inspection or other purposes for those officials or employees provided with motor vehicles. Expenses for horses, etc., limited.Appropriations in this Act, except appropriations for the militia, shall not be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
Fire insurance prohibited.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones allowed at residences.Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the street-cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, secretary of the Board of Charities, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm843system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, under appropriations contained in this Act.
The commissioners may connectConnections. any or all of these telephones to either the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia, as in their judgment may be most economical to the District. For postage for strictly official mail matter, $15,000.Postage. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnishCar fares. necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of car fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the expenditures*Provisos*.Limit.*Post*, p. 1156.Firemen and police not included. herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $6,000: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments.
For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title,Judicial expenses. the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $5,000. For purchase and maintenance, hire of livery, or means of transportationCoroner’s expenses, for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness tees, 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, $7,000.
For additional amount for a cold-storage plant at the morgue for preservation of bodies, $2,000. For purchase of an autotruck for removing bodies to the morgue, $1,000. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forAdvertising.General. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $6,000. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1920, as requiredTaxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24. to be given by Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $4,500.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toRemoving dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923. authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1899, to pay members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, the unexpended balance of theReappropriation.*Ante*, p. 74. appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year 1913 is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1921.
For furnishing to the office of the assessor copies of wills, petitions,Copies of wills, etc., to assessor. and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, $1,000. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, including services ofRecorder of deeds.Office rent. cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 30 cents per hour, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $6,000. The recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia is authorized andPay for copying deeds, etc. directed to pay for copying instruments filed for record in his office 40 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. 844 Vehicle tags.For purchase of metal identification number tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $15,000.
Repairing fire injuries.For repair of buildings o Tied and used by the District of Columbia, when injured by fire, $10, 00. Veterinary supplies.For medicines, surgical and hospital supplies for office of veterinary surgeon, $200. Motor vehicles.Elevators’ inspection.Building inspection division: To reimburse three elevator inspectors for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official inspection of elevators, $15 per month each, $540. Automobiles inspection.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.Plumbing inspection division: To reimburse three assistant inspectors of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia, $15 per month each, $540. District Building.Maintenance.District Building: For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor not to exceed $5,000, and miscellaneous supplies, $35,000. Superintendent of Weights, etc.Inspection expenses.Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets:
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, $500. Markets.For maintenance and repairs to markets, $3,750. Fish wharf and market.For maintenance, repair, and lighting of fish wharf and market, $1,500. Refrigerating plant.For maintenance, operation, and repairs to refrigerating plant, including salary of engineer at not exceeding $1,200 per annum, $3,000.
Motor vehicles.For one motor vehicle to be used on the lighter work of inspectors of weights and measures, $800. For maintenance and repair of four motor vehicles at $360 each, $1,440. 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. Surveys of highways.Surveyor’s office: For making surveys to mark permanently on the ground the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, $2,000.
Improvements and repairs.IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Assessment and permit work.Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, including maintenance of motor vehicles, $285,000. Street improvements.Street improvements: For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, suburban roads, and suburban streets, respectively, including the purchase of two motor trucks at not to exceed $800 each, and including the maintenance of motor vehicles, as follows:
Grading Connecticut Avenue NW.Northwest: For grading Connecticut Avenue, Pierce Mill Road to Chapel Road, sixty feet wide, $39,000; Reconstructing canal wall NW.Northwest: For reconstructing canal wall, $45,000; Repaving Fourteenth Street SW.Southwest: For repaving the granite block roadway of the east side of Fourteenth Street, D Street to Water Street, fifty feet wide, $3,500; Paving Nichols Avenue SE.Southeast: For paving Nichols Avenue, Sheridan Road to entrance to Saint Elizabeths Hospital, forty-five and fifty feet wide, $43,000; 845 Northwest:
For paving Jefferson Street, M Street to K Street,Paving Jefferson Street NW. thirty and thirty-two feet wide, $15,000; Southeast: For paving Massachusetts Avenue, Fourteenth StreetPaving Massachusetts Avenue SE. to Fifteenth Street, forty feet wide, $6,800; Northwest: For paving Girard Street, east of Fifteenth Street,Paving Girard Street NW. thirty feet wide, $3,400; Northwest: For paving New Hampshire Avenue, I Street toPaving New Hampshire Avenue NW. Twenty-seventh Street, two twenty-foot roadways and a ten-foot center parking, $40,000;
Northwest: For paving McKinley Street, Thirty-ninth Street toPaving McKinley Street NW. Belt Road, thirty feet wide, $8,500; Southeast: For paving Potomac Avenue, Eleventh Street to ThirteenthPaving Potomac Avenue SE. Street, forty feet wide, $20,000; Northwest: For paving Morrison Street, Thirty-ninth Street toPaving Morrison Street NW. Belt Road, thirty feet wide, $11,500; Northeast: For paving Fourteenth Street, E Street to G Street,Paving Fourteenth Street NE. thirty feet wide, $15,000;
Northwest: For paving Nineteenth Street, E Street to New YorkPaving Nineteenth Street NW. Avenue, forty feet wide, $4,500; Northwest: For repaving the roadway of Twenty-fourth Street,Repaving Twenty-fourth Street NW. K Street to Virginia Avenue, thirty-two feet wide, $21,000; Northeast: For paving Ames Place, Fourteenth Street to FifteenthPaving Ames Place NE. Street, twenty-three feet wide, $4,600; Northeast: For paving Linden Street, Twelfth Street to ThirteenthPaving Linden Street NE.
Street, thirty feet wide, $7,000; Northeast: For paving Callan Street, Sixth Street to SeventhPaving Callan Street NE. Street, twenty-four feet wide, $6,000; Northeast: For paving Thirteenth Street, C Street to D Street,Paving Thirteenth Street NE. thirty-five feet wide, $4,500; Northwest: For paving Buchanan Street, Georgia Avenue to IowaPaving Buchanan Street NW. Avenue, thirty feet wide, $11,300; Southeast: For grading Fifth Street, Savannah Street to propertyGrading Fifth Street SE. line, $3,200;
Northeast: For grading and improving Minnesota Avenue, QuarlesGrading, etc., Minnesota Avenue NE. Street to Eastern Avenue, thirty feet wide, $6,700; Northwest: For paving Princeton Place, Warder Street to ParkPaving Princeton Place NW. Place, thirty feet wide, $7,400; Northwest: For paving Sixth Street, Newton Street to Otis Street,Paving Sixth Street NW. twenty-four feet wide, $3,800; Northwest: For paving California Street, Phelps Place to Twenty-thirdPaving California Street NW.
Street, thirty feet wide, $12,000; Southeast: For paving Fifteenth Street, E Street to G Street,Paving Fifteenth Street SE thirty-two feet wide, $9,500; Northwest: For repaving the roadway of Louisiana Avenue, PennsylvaniaRepaving Louisiana Avenue NW. Avenue to Tenth Street, in accordance with plan approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $60,000; Southeast: For paving G Street, Fifteenth Street to SixteenthPaving G Street SE. Street, thirty-five feet wide, $7,000;
Southeast: For paving Potomac Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue toPaving Potomac Avenue SE. to Sixteenth Street, forty feet wide, $19,000; Northwest: For paving E Street, Virginia Avenue to Twenty-thirdPaving E Street NW. Street, thirty-two feet wide, $9,000; Northwest: For paving C Street, Twelfth Street to Ohio Avenue,Paving C Street NW. forty feet wide, $12,000; Northwest: For paving Meridian Place, Sixteenth Street to BrownPaving Meridian Place NW. Street, twenty-four feet wide, $3,000;
Northwest: For paving east side of Connecticut Avenue, ChapelPaving Connecticut Avenue NW., east side. Road to Chevy Chase Circle, with a street width of sixty feet, $68,000; 846 Repaving G Street SE.Southeast: For repaving the granite block roadway of G Street, Eighth Street to Ninth Street, thirty-five feet wide, $3,000; Paving Bladensburg Road NE.Northeast: For paving with bituminous macadam Bladensburg Road, Fifteenth and H Streets to the District Line, two roadways each fifteen feet wide, $51,000;
Paving Alabama Avenue, and Bowen Road SE.Southeast: For paving with bituminous macadam Alabama Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue to Ridge Road, and Bowen Road, Ridge Road to the District Line, eighteen feet wide, $21,000; Surfacing Thirty-eighth Street SE.Southeast: For placing a temporary gravel surface on Thirty-eighth Street, Bowen Road to Suitland Road, twenty feet wide $9,000. Accounting, etc.In all, $614,200, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Street Improvements” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
Spring Place NW.Damages to house.For compensation for damages to frame house located on lot 807, square 2690, by reason of the filling to grade of Spring Place abutting *Proviso*.Condition.said premises, $600: *Provided*, That the owner of said property waives all claim for any additional compensation by reason of said change in grade. McPherson Place NW.Designated Fifteenth Street.McPherson Place Northwest, between I and K Streets, on the west side of McPherson Square, is hereby designated Fifteenth Street, and the surveyor of the District of Columbia is hereby directed to enter such change on the records of his office.
Grading.Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or hire of same, and horses; and labor of the inmates of the Washington Asylum and Jail may be used in connection with this work, $30,000. Condemnation.Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. Thomas W. and Alice N. Keller.Payment to.Damages and payment for ground on account of condemnation proceedings: To pay Thomas W. and Alice N.
Keller for ground taken and damages on account of condemnation proceedings in square numbered twenty-eight hundred and thirty-eight, in the city of Washington, $3,820. Permanent highway system.Extending streets, etc., to conform with.Vol. 37, p. 950.To carry out the provisions contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1914 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 From District revenues.of Washington and Georgetown, $50,000, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Repairs of streets, etc.Repairs—Streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, Motor vehicles.and including the maintenance of motor vehicles, and including an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month for an automobile for use for Street railways pavements.official purposes, $575,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies Vol. 20, p. 105.as provided by section 5 of 1 ‘An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.
Changing curb lines.Vol. 34, p. 1130.The authority given the commissioners in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1907, 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 this847Act: *Provided*, That no such change shall be made unless there shall*Proviso*.Restriction. 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, $20,000. Repairs to suburban roads: For current work of repairs toSuburban roads.Repairs, etc. suburban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles and the purchase or exchange of three light motor vehicles with truck bodies, in lieu of three motor vehicles owned by the District of Columbia, at a total cost not to exceed $1,800, $250,000.
Bridges: For construction and repairs, including the allowanceBridges.Construction, repairs, etc. to the overseer of bridges for the maintenance of an automobile for use in performance of his official duties of not to exceed $30 per month, $27,500. This appropriation shall be available for repairingStreet bridges over railroad rights of way, etc. when necessary any bridge carrying a public street over the right of way or property of any railway company, or for constructing, reconstructing, or repairing in such manner as shall in the judgment of the commissioners be necessary reasonably to accommodate public traffic, any bridge required to carry or carrying such traffic in a public streetOver canals. over the right of way or property of any canal company operating as such in the District of Columbia, on the neglect or refusal of such railway or canal company to do such work when notified and required by the commissioners, and the amounts thus expended shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the property of such railway company or of such canal company and shall be collected from such railway company or from such canal company in the manner provided in section 5 of an Act providing a permanent form of government forVol. 20, p. 105. the District of Columbia, approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the strict of Columbia in equal parts.
Highway Bridge across Potomac River: Draw operators—two atHighway Bridge. $1,020 each, two at $720 each; four watchmen, at $720 each; labor, $2,000; fighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind, necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $10,500; painting the floor, beams, stringers, and plates under the roadway of the bridge, $10,000; in all, $28,860. Anaeostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, andAnaeostia Bridge. expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $5,000.
SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, purchase of two motorCleaning, etc. trucks at not to exceed $3,000 each, and maintenance of motor vehicles, $90,000. For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service,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, $90,000. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $100,000.Main and pipe.
For suburban sewers, including the exchange or replacement ofSuburban. two motor field wagons at not to exceed $800 each, and the maintenance of motor vehicles, $200,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $100,000.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 construction ofUpper Potomac interceptor. the Upper Potomac interceptor between Twenty-seventh and K Streets and the Chain Bridge, $30,000. 848 Streets.STREETS.
Cleaning, etc.Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, 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, $375,000.
Disposal of city refuse.Vol. 40, p. 539.*Ante*, p. 38.Disposal of city refuse: To enable the commissioners to carry 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 *Provisos*.Deposit of proceeds.as public dumps; and incidental expenses, $750,000: *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the disposal 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 Transporting out of District repealed.Vol. 40, p. 541, repealed.Use restricted.parts: *Provided further*, That section 9 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse for the District of Columbia,” approved May 6, 1918, is repealed: *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, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, 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, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $8,000.
Playgrounds.Salaries.Playgrounds: For salaries—Supervisor, $2,500; inspector of playgrounds, $1,200; clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $1,200; to be employed not exceeding ten months—twenty-two 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—three assistant directors at $60 per month each, four assistant directors at $50 per month each; to be employed not exceeding four months—six guards or swimming teachers at $60 per month each; to be employed not exceeding three months—four assistant directors at $60 per month each, twenty-two assistants at $50 per month each; to be employed twelve months—twenty-two 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 services849of extra watchmen at not exceeding 25 cents per hour, $600; in all, $46,220;
For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, construction ofMaintenance. 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, $35,000; For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, andSwimming pools. necessary expenses of operating five swimming pools, $3,000;
In all, for playgrounds, $84,220, to be paid wholly out of the revenuesFrom District revenues. of the District of Columbia. Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenienceConvenience stations. stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $20,000. Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings: For allCondemning insanitary buildings.Vol. 34, p. 157. expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May 1, 1906, including personal services when authorized by the commissioners, $2,500.
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—chief $900, 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 $1,360 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—two at $600 each, two at $540 each; messenger, $630; storekeeper, $875; in all, $55,655.
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 not more than three automobiles at not to exceed $30 per month each, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, $25,000.
For placing wires of fire alarm, telegraph, police patrol, and telephonePlacing wires underground. service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminals boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, $4,000. 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, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $2,000.
Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of publicLighting streets, etc. 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 7 and 8 of theVol. 36, p. 1008. District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation ActVol. 37, p. 181. for the fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, $415,000. 850 Fire alarm boxes.For extension and relocation of fire-alarm system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable-conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $5,000.
Public schools.PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Salaries.Officers.Officers: Superintendent, $6,000; assistant superintendents—one $3,750, one $3,750; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, and director of primary instruction, sixteen in all, at a minimum salary of $2,400 each; secretary, $2,000; financial clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, 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, $72,120.
Attendance officers.Attendance officers: Attendance officers—one $1,080, one $960, seven at $900 each; in all, $8,340. Teachers.Teachers: For two thousand two hundred and eight teachers at minimum salaries as follows: Principal, Central High.*Proviso*.Basic salary.Principal of the Central High School, $3,500: *Provided*, That the principal of the Central High School shall be placed at a basic salary of $3,500 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Assistants, Central and McKinley High.Two assistant principals, one for the Central High School and one for the McKinley Manual Training High School, at $2,400 each: *Proviso*.Basic salary.*Provided*, That said assistant principals shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Other principals.*Proviso*.Basic salaries.Principals of normal, high, manual-training high, and junior high schools, ten, at $2,700 each: *Provided*, That the principals of the normal, high, manual-training high, and junior high schools, other than the Central High School, now in the service of the public schools or hereafter to be appointed shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,700 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Deans of girls, Central and Dunbar High.Two assistant principals, one of whom shall be dean of girls of the Central High School and one of whom shall be dean of girls of the *Proviso*.Basic salaries.Dunbar High School, at $2,400 each: *Provided*, That said assistant principals shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 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 $2,000 each: *Proviso*.Penmanship.*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 $2,000 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Assistant, primary instruction.*Proviso*.Basic salary.Assistant director of primary instruction, $1,800: *Provided*, That the assistant director of primary instruction now in the service of the public schools or hereafter to be appointed, shall be placed at the basic salary of $1,800 per annum, and snail be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years; Other assistant directors.Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens and penmanship, seven, at $1,800 *Proviso*.Penmanship.each: *Provided*, That the assistant director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor in the normal school and an assistant director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years;
Manual training.Assistant supervisor of manual training, $1,800; Other teachers.Heads of departments in high and manual-training high schools in group B, of class six, fourteen, at $2,200 each; 851 Normal, high, and manual-training high schools, promoted for superior work, group B of class six, thirty-five, at $2,200 each; Group A of class six, including seven principals of grade manual-training schools, three hundred and eighty-four, at $1,440 each; Class five, one hundred and eighty-nine, at $1,200 each, including vocational and trade instructors;
Class four, five hundred and eighteen at $1,200 each; Class three, five hundred and sixty-three at $1,200 each; Class two, three hundred and seventy-four at $1,200 each; Class one, one hundred at $1,200 each: *Provided*, That all teachers*Provisos*.Full increased pay allowed. and librarians and clerks herein provided for shall be entitled to the full amount of any increased compensation granted for the fiscal year 1921 regardless of the increase herein made: *Provided further*, That ifLimitation. the full amount of such increased compensation should make the total compensation of any teacher in excess of $2,740 per annum, then only such portion of the increased compensation as will make the total compensation of such teacher equal $2,740 per annum, shall be allowed;
In all, for teachers, $2,823,860. The salaries appropriated herein for teachers, clerks, and librarians,Salaries in lieu of present basic rates. in all classes during the fiscal year 1921, 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*, That for the year*Proviso*.Additional for fiscal year 1921. ending June 30, 1921, each of the teachers, clerks, and librarians 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 30, 1920.
Librarians and clerks at minimum salaries as follows:Librarians and clerks. Ten librarians in high and normal schools in class five, at $1,200 each; thirty-five clerks in class four, at $960 each; in all, $45,600. No teacher, clerk, or librarian in classes one to five, inclusive, heretoforeMinimum, longevity allowance. promoted from one class to another shall receive for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, a less amount of longevity allowance than that which such employee was receiving at the time of his most recent promotion.
Vacation schools: For the proper care, instruction, and supervisionVacation schools and playgrounds. of children in the vacation schools and playgrounds, and supervisors, teachers, and janitors of vacation schools and playgrounds, may also be supervisors, teachers, and janitors of day schools, $20,000. Longevity pay: For longevity pay for director of intermediateLongevity pay. instruction, supervising principals, supervisor and assistant supervisor of manual training, principals of normal, high, manual training high, and junior high schools, the assistant principals of the Central and McKinley Manual Training High Schools, the assistant principal (who shall be dean of girls) of the Central High School, the assistant principal (who shall be dean of girls) of the Dunbar 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, principal and teachers in Americanization work, 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, schoolVol. 34, p. 320.Vol. 35, p. 289;
Vol. 36, p. 393; Vol. 37, p. 156. officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, as amended by the Acts approved May 26, 1908, May 18, 1910, and June 26, 1912, $520,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be paid to any person who, in*Proviso*.Restriction.852the opinion of the board of education and the superintendent of schools, has an unsatisfactory efficiency rating. Principals.Additional pay for graded schools.Vol. 34, p. 320.Allowance to principals:
For allowance to principals of grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, $36,000. Night schools.Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $60,000.
Equipment, etc.For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $5,000. Teachers’ retirement fund.*Proviso*.Duties transferred to District Commissioners.*Ante*, p. 387.Teachers’ retirement fund: For payment of annuities, $50,000: Provided, That all the authority, duties, and discretion now vested in the Secretary of the Treasury under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved January 15, 1920, entitled “An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia” shall on and after July 1, 1920, vest in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, except that the fund created by said Act shall be paid to the Treasurer of the United States by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and said funds shall be held and invested by him;
Records, etc.and all records and other data in the custody of the Secretary of the Treasury relating to the retirement of teachers under said Act shall, on or before July 1, 1920, be transferred to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Americanization work.Instructing foreigners of all ages.Americanization work: For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages in both day and night classes, including a principal, who, for ten months, shall give his full time to this work, at $1,800 per annum, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day schools, $12,000.
Expenses.For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $2,500. Kindergartens.Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, $6,000. Janitors and care of buildings, etc.Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: Superintendent of janitors, $1,500; Specified buildings.Central High School (new): Engineer, $1,500; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; two electricians, at $1,200 each; four firemen, at $720 each- two coal passers, at $600 each; janitor, $1,100; three assistant janitors, at $900 each; gardener, $840; night watchman, $720; two charwomen, at $480 each; fifteen laborers, at $600 each; in all, $25,300;
Dunbar High School: Engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $720 each; two coal passers, at $600 each; janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; nine laborers, at $600 each; two charwomen, at $480 each; night watchman, $720; in all, $13,820; Central High School
(old)and annex: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,120; Business High School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; skilled laborer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,020; J. Ormond Wilson Normal School and Ross School: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $800; skilled laborer, $720; night watchman, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,640; Jefferson School: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $2,920; Western High School: Janitor, $1,100; skilled laborer, $720; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,620; Franklin School: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $2,920; 853 Myrtilla Miner Normal School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; charwoman, $480; in all, $4,300; Eastern High School: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; laborer, $600; in all, $2,320; Stevens School: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; laborer, $600; in all, $2,320; 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; two firemen, at $720 each; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,780; Armstrong Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,200; assistant engineer, $900; night watchman, $720; fireman, $720; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $7,060; M Street High School
(Qld)and Douglass and Simmons Schools: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $900; skilled laborer, $720; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,420; 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 $600 each; in all, $17,600; 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 $600 each; in all, $31,680; 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, Carberry, Cardoza, Cardoza 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, Wheatley, Wilson, Woodburn, Wormley, and West Schools: Seventy-three janitors, at $720 each; in all, $52,560; 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, Reservoir, 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 High, Armstrong Manual Training High, Junior High (white), and Junior High (colored), eleven in all, at $600 each, $6,600; In all, $220,050. For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cookingSmaller buildings and rented rooms. and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $96 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 $120 per annum may be allowed, $15,000. 854 Medical inspectors.Medical inspectors: Chief medical and sanitary inspector, who shall, under the direction of the health officer of the District of Columbia, give his whole time to, and exercise the direction and control of, the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of the Division.public schools of the District of Columbia, $2,500; sixteen medical 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. Graduate nurses.For ten graduate nurses, three of whom shall be colored, who shall act as public-school nurses, at $1,200 each, $12,000. Dental operators.For the maintenance of free dental clinics in the public schools: Eight dental operators, at $700 each; four dental prophylactic operators, at $900 each; equipment and supplies, $2,000; in all, $11,200. Rent, etc.Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and grounds, repair shop, storage and stock rooms, $16,500. Equipment of temporary classrooms.For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by operation of the compulsory education law, and for purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, $6,000. Repairs and improvements.For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $200,000. Hamilton Building.For remodeling the Hamilton School Building, $7,600. Furniture, tools, etc. for manual training.For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $45,000. Fuel, light, and power.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $165,000. Furniture, for additions, etc.For furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades for additions to buildings; equipment for kindergartens; and tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: Three kindergartens, $2,400; two sewing schools, $800; one housekeeping and cooking school, $1,000; one cooking school, $700; two manual-training shops, $1,640; in all, $6,540. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, 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 of 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 supervising principal in charge of the white special schools, the chief medical and sanitary inspector of schools, and the supervising principal of the colored special schools, and including not exceeding $3,000 for 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 $1,000, including one855bookkeeper and custodian of textbooks and supplies at $1,200, and one assistant at $800, $85,000: *Provided*, That the board of*Proviso*.Exchanges. education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. For purchase of United States flags, $900.Flags. For maintenance and repair of seventy-two playgrounds now established,Playgrounds. $3,000. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenanceSchool gardens. of school gardens, $3,000. For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending thePhysics departments, supplies. equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, Junior, and Dunbar High Schools, $3,000. For purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials andChemistry and biology laboratories. technical books, for laboratories of the departments of chemistry and biology in the Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and Dunbar High Schools, and J. Ormond Wilson and Myrtilla Miner Normal Schools, and Junior High Schools, and installation of same, $3,000. For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture, $1,200.Cabinetmaker. Hereafter the board of education is authorized to use all necessaryFranklin Building.Office space uses. floor and room space in the Franklin School Building for office purposes, with the exception of rooms now occupied by grades one, two, three, and four. For payment of necessary expenses connected with the organizationCommunity forums, etc. 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, including maintenance of automobile, $35,000: *Provided*, That not*Proviso*.Pay restriction. more than 60 per centum of this sum shall be expended for payment of secretaries, teachers, organizers, and clerks. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercularSchools for tubercular pupils.*Proviso*.Car fare. children, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That expenditures for car fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of car fares covered by this Act. Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial AppropriationDouble pay prohibition not applicable to vacation employment of teachers.Vol. 39, p. 120. Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 to September 15, 1920, to teachers of the public schools of the District of Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or independent establishments of the United States Government. The children of officers and men of the United States Army andArmy and Navy.Children of, admitted to schools. Navy and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside of the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. Buildings and grounds: For additional amount required for theBuildings and grounds.Eastern High.Contracts. new Eastern High School Building, $60,000. And the commissioners are hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for said building at a cost not to exceed $1,500,000, including its complete equipment. For additional amount required for an eight-room addition to thePetworth.Addition. Petworth School, $50,000; and the commissioners are hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction ofContracts. said building at a total cost not exceeding $218,000. For additional amount required for an eight-room addition to theDeanwood.Addition. Deanwood School, $40,000. And the commissioners are hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for said building at aContracts. cost not to exceed $190,000. 856 Burrville.Addition.For additional amount required for an eight-room addition to the Burrville School, $40,000; and the commissioners are hereby authorized Contracts.to enter into a contract or contracts for said building at a cost not to exceed $190,000. Fifth division, northeast.New building.For additional amount required for the erection of an eight-room building between Eighteenth and Twentieth Streets and Monroe and Newton Streets northeast, $20,000; and the commissioners are hereby Contracts.authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for said building at a cost not exceeding $218,000. Phelps.Remodeling.For the necessary remodeling of the Phelps School for use as a grade manual-training center, $20,000. J. R. West School.Addition.For the erection of an eight-room addition to the J. R. West School, $110,000; and the commissioners are authorized to enter into Contracts.a contract or contracts for said building at a cost not to exceed $218,000. Takoma.Addition.For additional amount required for an eight-room addition to Takoma School, $15,000. And the Commissioners of the District of Contracts.Columbia are hereby authorized to enter into contract or contracts for said building at a cost not to exceed $218,000. Immediately available.The appropriations herein made for the construction of school buildings shall be available immediately. Old Central High.For repair and remodeling of the Old Central High School, $20,000. M Street High.For repair and remodeling of the M Street High School, $20,000. Cost limited to authorizations.The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be made previously and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. Soliciting subscriptions, etc., forbidden.Appropriations in this Act shall not be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from pupils enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or Exceptions.for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the board of education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. Preparation of plans.The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the board of education, and shall be approved by the commissioners, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. Doors to open outwardThe school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having 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. Deaf and dumb pupils.[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 952](/us/rs/s4684/p952).Vol. 31, p. 844.Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $20,250, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Colored deaf mutes.For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, *Proviso*.$3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That all857expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under theSupervision. supervision of the Board of Education. 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, $8,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall*Proviso*.Supervision. be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. Major and superintendent, $4,500; two assistant superintendents,Salaries.*Ante*, p. 363. at $3,000 each; three inspectors, at $2,400 each; twelve captains, at $2,400 each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, $2,400; clerk (who shall be a stenographer), $1,800; two clerks (who shall be stenographers), at $1,500 each; clerks—one (who shall be assistant property clerk) $1,200, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each, one $700; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at $1,600 each; additional compensation for thirty-five privates detailed for specialDetective service, etc. service in the detection and prevention of crime, $16,800, 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 and one lieutenant detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, at $400 each; twenty-one lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at $2,000 each; fifty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,800 each; privates—four hundred and eighty-five of class three at $1,660 each, one hundred and seventy-seven of class two at $1,560 each, one hundred and forty-two of class one at $1,460 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 1921, $11,810.52; nine telephone clerks, at $900 each;, eighteen janitors, at $600 each; laborer, $720; messenger, $600; inspector, mounted on horse, $540; thirty-eight captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on horses, at $540 each; motor vehicle allowance to twenty sergeants and privates, at $480 each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $70 each; driver-privates—twenty of class two at $1,560 each, including one driver heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Transportation of prisoners,” sixteen of class one at $1,460 each; amount required to pay salaries of driver-privates who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year 1921, $663.35; six police matrons, at $720 each; in all, $1,643,533.87. To aid in support of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification,Criminal Identification Bureau. to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, provided the several departments of the General Government may be entitled to like information from time to time as is accorded police departments of various municipalities privileged to membership therein, $1,000. Miscellaneous: For fuel, $7,000;Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds,Repairs, etc. $8,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including purchase ofMiscellaneous. 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, not to exceed $200 for car tickets, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing,858insignia of office, purchase of horses, bicycles, motorcycles, police equipments and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, $50,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have *Proviso*.Transfer of Army mounted equipment.been expended: *Provided*, That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required; Flags.For flags and halyards, $200; Motor vehicles.For maintenance of motor vehicles, $18,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; For additional motor vehicles, $4,500; Reconstructing cell corridors, etc.For the reconstruction of cell corridors and in making, erecting, and placing therein modern locking devices in precinct station houses, $7,500; In all, $95,200. House of Detention.House of Detention: To enable the commissioners to provide transportation, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age, and, in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including two clerks, at $1,000 each; two drivers at $780 each; attendants—one $1,200, four at $1,080 each; cook, $500; laundress, $500; janitor, $600; miscellaneous expenses, including clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of building, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies, and equipment, electricity, maintenance of motor station vehicle, and other necessary expenses, $34,940; in all, $45,620, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Harbor patrol.Harbor patrol: Two engineers, at $1,000 each; two firemen, one watchman, and two deck hands, at $660 each; in all, $5,300; For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $3,500; In all, $8,800. Policemen, etc., relief fund.POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND. Relief, etc., from.Vol. 39, p. 718.To pay the relief and other allowances authorized by law, a sum not to exceed $224,846.28 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. Fire department.FIRE DEPARTMENT. Salaries.*Ante*, p. 397.Chief engineer, $4,000; two deputy chief engineers, at $3,000 each; eight battalion chief engineers, at $2,400 each; fire marshal, $2,400; deputy fire marshal, $2,000; four inspectors, at $1,660 each; chief clerk, $2,400; clerk, $1,400; clerk (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter), $1,660; thirty-eight captains, at $1,900 each; forty lieutenants, at $1,760 each; forty-one sergeants, at $1,700 each; superintendent of machinery, $2,500; assistant superintendent of machinery, $2,000; two pilots, at $1,700 each; two marine engineers, at $1,700 each; two assistant marine engineers, at $1,660 each; two marine firemen, at $1,460 each; privates—two hundred and fifty-eight of class three at $1,660 each, two hundred and eight of class two at $1,560 each, thirty-three of class one at $1,460 each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class859three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year 1921, $2,600; hostler, $1,080; laborer, $1,000; in all, $1,081,160. Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine housesRepairs to buildings. and grounds, $16,000; 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 supplies, materials, equipment, and tools: *Provided*, That the commissioners are authorized,*Proviso*.Construction at repair shop. in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire-department repair shop, $20,000; For hose, $12,000;Supplies. For fuel, $35,000; For purchase of horses, $4,000; For forage, $22,000; For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $1,000;Fireboat. For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil,Contingent expenses. medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, cost of installation and maintenance of telephones in the residences of the superintendent of machinery and the fire marshal, $25,000; In all, $135,000. Permanent improvements: For three fire engines, motor driven, atNew apparatus, etc. $10,500 each; For three combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, at $5,800 each; For installing steam heat in engine and truck houses, $6,000; In all, $54,900. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health department. Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerkSalaries. 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, twelve at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; food inspectors—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, six 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 $65 per month each, $3,120: in all, $96,390. To carry out the Act to regulate the hours of employment and safeguardFemale employment.Vol. 38, p. 291. the health of females employed in the District of Columbia, approved February 24, 1914, namely: For three inspectors (two of whom shall be women) at $1,200 each; stenographer and clerk, $900; in all, $4,500. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spreadPreventing spread of diseases, etc.Vol. 29, p. 635; Vol. 34, p. 889. of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, 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 9, 1907, and an Act to provide for registration of all casesTuberculosis registration.Vol. 35, p. 126. 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 of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908, under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of860Infantile paralysis, etc.serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services, not exceeding $25,000, 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, purchase Smallpox hospital, etc.*Proviso*.Bacteriologists for dairy, etc., examinations.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 to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary work as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases. Disinfecting service.For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $7,000. Drainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896, and an Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $1,000. Food, etc., adulterations.For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $100. Bacteriological laboratory, etc.Bacteriological laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000. Apparatus, equipment, cost of installation, supplies, and other expenses incidental to the biological and serological diagnosis of disease, $750. Chemical laboratory.Chemical laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000. Enforcing milk regulations.Vol. 28, p. 709.Food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1895; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District Pure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768.of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, $1,000. Inspecting dairy farms, etc.For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including amounts that may be allowed the health officer, assistant health officer, 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 motor cycle each, or of not exceeding $25 per annum for the maintenance of a bicycle each, for use in the discharge of their official duties, and other necessary traveling expenses, $7,500. 861 Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating ward for minorIsolating wards at 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. $2,500. For constructing cement concrete roadway at the public crematory, $2,000. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the poundVehicles. service, $600. For equipping, maintaining, and operating the motor ambulance, and keeping it in good order, $600. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatmentDispensaries for tuberculosis and venereal diseases. of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, and supplies, $12,500: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept*Provisos*.Volunteer services. such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorizePay prohibition. the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. For clinical examination, advice, care, and maintenance of childrenChild Welfare Society.Care, etc., of children under six. under six years of age, under a contract to be made with the Child Welfare Society by the health officer of the District of Columbia, $15,000. COURTS.Courts. For eleven copies of volumes fifty-four and fifty-five of the reportsCourt of Appeals Reports.Vol. 32, p. 609. of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, authorized to be furnished under section 229 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia as amended July 1, 1902, at $5 each, $110. Probation system, Supreme Court: Probation officer, $2,200;Probation system., Supreme Court. assistant probation officer, $1,400; 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; in all, $5,185. Juvenile court: Judge, $3,600; clerk, $2,000; deputy clerk, whoJuvenile Court.Salaries. 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, $2,000; 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; record and information clerk for probation office, $1,200; clerk for probation office, $900; two bailiffs, at $900 each; telephone operator, $600; messenger, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $28,680. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900;Miscellaneous. For transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, $250; The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances for returning, etc., absconding probationers. advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court, upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers,862and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia; For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained at court awaiting trial, $100; Rent, etc.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, $3,000; In all, $6,750. Police court.Salaries.Police court: Two judges, at $3,600 each; clerk $2,200; deputy clerks—one $1,600, three at $1,500 each, two at $1,200 each; deputy financial clerk, $1,500; deputy assistant financial clerk, $1,500; probation officer, $1,500; three assistant probation officers, at $1,200 each; stenographer, $1,200; seven bailiffs, at $900 each; deputy marshal, $1,000; janitor, $600; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman, $600; assistant janitor, $300; matron, $600; four cleaners, at $360 each; telephone operator, $480; in all, $40,140. 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, $4,500; Witness fees, etc.For witness fees, $3,000; For furniture and repairing and replacing same, $500; For lodging, meals, and accommodation of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $200; Jurors.For compensation of jurors, $10,000; For repairs to buildings, $5,000; In all, $23,200. Municipal court.Salaries.Municipal court: Five judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $1,500; four assistant clerks, at $1,200 each; clerk and messenger, $840; elevator operator, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $26,580; Rent, etc.For rent of building, $3,600; For fixtures, and repairs to furniture and building, $500; For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $2,000; In all, municipal court, $32,680. Lunacy writs.Vol. 33, p. 740.Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to 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, $5,000. Interest and sinking fund.INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. Amount.For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, payable one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $975,408. 863 EMERGENCY FUND.Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence,Expenditures 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*,*Proviso*.Purchases. That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. COURTS AND PRISONS.Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport, etc., of convicts out of the District. 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, $100,000. 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; electrician, $900; four watchmen, at $720 each; five laborers, at $600 each; six messengers, at $720 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; clerk to jury commissioner, $720; telephone operator, $720; attendant in ladies’ waiting room, $300; six charwomen at $240 each; in all, $16,920, to be expended under the direction 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. For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800. Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses andSupreme Court.Witness fees, etc. payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $15,000.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors, $60,000.Jurors’ fees. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, ofBailiffs, etc. office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, $27,200. Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses asMiscellaneous expenses. may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $15,000. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections. Board of Charities: Secretary, $3,500; assistant secretary andBoard of Charities.Salaries, etc. stenographer, $1,600; clerk, $1,400; clerk and stenographer, $1,400;864messenger, $600; inspectors—two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $840; 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, $20,540. For purchase and equipment of two motor ambulances, $2,400. For the maintenance of three motor ambulances, $1,800. Reformatories, etc.reformatories and correctional institutions. Washington Asylum and Jail.Salaries.Washington Asylum and Jail: Superintendent of hospital, $1,800; visiting physician, $1,200; two resident physicians, at $480 each; 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; assistant for laboratory, $600; anaesthetist, $300; dentist, $300; in all, $33,755; Hospital expenses.Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repair to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and 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 vehicles for use in discharge of his official duties, $75,000; Repairs to buildings, etc.For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, $5,000; Furniture, etc., nurses’ home.For purchase of furniture and furnishings for nurses’ home, $1,500; X-ray machine.For repair of X-ray machine and purchase of appliances for same, $1,200; Payment to abandoned families, etc.Vol. 34, p. 87.For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 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 23, 1906, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia, on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District. Support of jail prisoners.Support of prisoners: For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, maintenance of automobile, and for the support of prisoners, $90,000; Automobile.For purchase of automobile, $700; 865 Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to WashingtonTransporting prisoners to jail. Asylum and Jail, and purchase of a motor van not to exceed $3,600, and maintenance of same not to exceed $600, $4,200; In all, Washington Asylum and Jail, $213,355. 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; mechanic, $1,000; 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; truck gardener, $600; 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, $2,000; in all, $20,092; 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 trucks, $50,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000;Repairs, etc. For purchase of material for permanent roads, $300; For furniture and furnishings for new ward, $2,500; For purchase of a motor truck, $1,800; In all, Home for Aged and Infirm, $78,692. Hereafter the commissioners are authorized, under such regulationsSale of surplus products. as they may prescribe, to sell the surplus products of the Home for the Aged and Infirm. All moneys derived from such sales shall be paidDeposit of receipts. into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and to the credit of the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations for such institution are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia. National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenanceNational Training School for Boys.Care, etc., 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, $67,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. National Training School for Girls: Superintendent, $1,200;National Training School for Girls.Salaries. matron, and four teachers, at $600 each; overseer, $720; two parole officers, at $600 each; seven teachers of industries, at $480 each; engineer, $720; assistant engineer, $600; night watchman, $480; two laborers, at $300 each; in all, $11,880; For groceries, provisions, fight, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles,Contingent expenses. clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attandance, 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, $25,000; To complete building for white girls, including furnishing the same,Building for white girls. $20,000; In all, National Training Schools for Girls, $56,880. On and after July 1, 1920, appropriations made for the NationalDisbursements by District disbursing officer hereafter. Training School for Girls shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer866of the District of Columbia in the manner now provided by law for expenditure from appropriations for general expenses of the government of said District. Medical charities.medical charities. Care of indigent patients in designated hospitals.For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Board of Charities with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Freedmen’s Hospital, $45,000; Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $20,000; Children’s Hospital, $15,000; Providence Hospital, $15,000; Garfield Memorial Hospital, $15,000; Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $22,000; Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $15,000; Washington Home for Incurables, $5,000; Georgetown University Hospital, $5,000; George Washington University Hospital, $5,000. 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, dietitian, 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 periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $52,000; Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $2,500; In all, Tuberculosis Hospital, $75,140. Gallinger Hospital.Contracts at increased cost authorized.Vol. 39, p. 1036.: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital and accessory buildings in accordance with approved plans at a limit of cost not to exceed $1,500,000. Care of children.child-caring institutions. Board of Children’s Guardians.Expenses.Board of Children’s Guardians: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $25, and all office and sundry expenses, $4,000; Salaries.Salaries: Agent, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, one $900; stenographer, $900; placing and investigating officers—three at $1,200 each, one $1,000, nine at $900 each; record clerk, $900; messenger, $500; laborer, $500; in all, $19,400; Feeble-minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $35,000; Board, etc., of children.For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 to institutions867adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $160,000; In all, Board of Children’s Guardians, $218,400. In all, Board of Children’s Guardians, $218,400. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances to agent. advance to the agent of the Board of Children’s Guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the Auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. Industrial Home School for Colored Children: Superintendent,Industrial Home School for Colored Children.Salaries. $1,200; clerk, $900; 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; two cooks, at $240 each; two laundresses, at $240 each; temporary labor, not to exceed $500; in all, $11,300; For maintenance, including care of horses, wagons, and harness,Expenses. and maintenance of automobile, $20,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,000; For manual training equipment and materials. $1,000; For purchase of automobile, $700; In all, Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $35,000. All moneys received at said school, as income from sale of productsDeposits of receipts from sale of products. and from payment of board or of instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and to the credit of the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations for such institutions are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia. Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisor ofIndustrial Home School.Salaries. boys, $780; matron, $480; three matrons, at $360 each; housekeeper and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two assistant matrons, at $300 each; nurse, $360; manual-training teacher, $660; florist, $840; engineer, $720; farmer, $540; cook and laundress, at $300 each; two housemaids, at $180’each; clerk, $900; temporary labor, not to exceed $400; in ail, $10,540; For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care ofMaintenance, etc. wagon and harness, $25,000; For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $3,000; In all, Industrial Home School, $38,540. For care and maintenance of children under contracts to be madeCare of children in designated institutions. by the Board of Children’s Guardians with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, $5,000; Washington Home for Foundlings, $5,000; Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, $5,000. temporary homes.Temporary homes. Municipal lodging house and wood yard: Superintendent, $1,200;Municipal lodging house. foreman, $480; cook, $360; night watchman for six months, at $25 per month, $150; maintenance, $2,000; in all, $4,190. Temporary home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand ArmyGrand Army Soldiers’ Home. of the Republic: Superintendent, $1,200; janitor, $360; cook, $360; maintenance, $4,000; in ail, $5,920, to be expended under the direc-868tion 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 21, 1898, and July 4, 1902, shall be admitted to the home. Hope and Help Mission.For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, $3,000. Southern Relief Society, for Confederate veterans, etc.Southern Relief Society: For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows and dependents, resident in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Charities, $10,000. Library for the Blind.National Library for the Blind: For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at seventeen hundred and twenty-nine H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind.Columbia Polytechnic Institute: To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at eighteen hundred and eight H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $1,500. Support of indigent insane.Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $750,000. . 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 31, 1899, $3,500. Advances to Board of Charities.In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. Relief of the poor.Relief of the poor: For relief of the poor, including pay of physicians to the poor at not exceeding $1 per day each, who shall be appointed by the commissioners on the recommendation of the health officer, $12,000. Transporting paupers.Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers, $2,000. Workhouse, etc.Salaries.Workhouse and Reformatory: Superintendent, $4,000; physician, $1,680; chief engineer, $1,200; electrician, $1,200; superintendent of commissary, $1,080; in all, $9,160. Administration.Workhouse (administration): Assistant superintendent, $1,680; chief clerk, $1,200; head matron, $900; stenographer, $720; stenographer and officer, $600; Operation.Operation: Foremen—construction, $900; stone-crushing plant, $900; sawmill, $900; superintendent brickkiln, $1,500; clay worker, $480; superintendent tailor shop, $480; Maintenance.Maintenance: Superintendent of clothing and laundry, $840; 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; superintendents—farm $1,200, dairy $1,000, poultry department $1,000; nurseryman, $1,000; in all, $57,240; Expenses of maintenance, etc.For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; pro-869visions, 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, $110,000; For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, $42,500;Fuel. For construction, dynamite, oils, repairs to plant, and material forConstruction, repairs, etc. repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $37,500; In all, $247,240, 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; six instructors, at $1,200 each; ten day officers, at $900 each; captain of night force, $1,080; six night officers, at $720 each; parole officer, $1,200; overseer, $1,200; in all, $30,700; For continuing construction of permanent buildings, includingConstruction. sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, $50,000; For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing,Expenses of maintenance, etc. 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, $55,000; For fuel for maintenance, $8,000;Fuel. In all, $143,700, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Hereafter the commissioners are authorized, under such regulationsSale of surplus products, etc. as they may prescribe, to sell the surplus products of the workhouse and the reformatory. All moneys derived from such sales shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and to the credit of the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations for such institutions are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia. MILITIA.Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and directionExpenses authorized. of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers requiredCamps, drills, etc. to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments, damages to private property incident to encampments, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills and parades, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses, practice ships, boats, machinery and dock, dredging alongside of dock, telephone service, horses and mules for mounted organizations, street-carfares (not to exceed $200) necessarily used in the transaction of official business, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $24,000. For rent of armories, offices, storehouses, and stables, $8,000.Rent, etc. For printing, stationery, and postage, $1,200 870 Expenses.For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $1,000. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, $1,000. For clerk office of the adjutant general, $1,000. For expenses of target practice and matches, $2,500. Pay of troops.For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $10,000. 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 Vol. 36, p. 967.of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911, $1,500, or so much *Proviso*.Prior years.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 development, etc.For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, to be expended in accordance with the plans specified in the Vol. 40, p. 950.item for the reclamation of the Anacostia River and Flats, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $100,000. Small parks.PARKS. Condemnation expenses.For the condemnation of small park areas at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the commissioners of said District in their discretion from the Reappropriation.Vol. 39, p. 1042.list of such parks named in Appendix K, Book of Estimates, 1918, the appropriation of $25,000 for this purpose for the fiscal year 1918 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1921. Water service.WATER SERVICE. Water rates increased.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are directed to increase the scale of water rates in effect in the District of Columbia by not less than 25 per centum per annum for the fiscal year ending *Proviso*.Continuance.June 30, 1921: *Provided*, That such increase shall remain in effect until otherwise provided by law. Amounts wholly from water revenues.The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of the water department, namely: Washington Aqueduct.washington aqueduct. Maintenance of, reservoir, tunnel, nitration plant, etc.For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $140,000. Additional pumps.For additional pumping facilities to supply water to the filters, $90,000. 871 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 repairs 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. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendenceControl of Secretary of War not affected. and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. water department.Water department. For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall alsoRevenue and inspection branch. perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; eight meter computers, at $1,000 each; meter clerk, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,000 each, nineteen at $900 each; messenger, $600; For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400;Distribution branch. assistant engineers—one $1,800, one $1,700; master mechanic, $2,500; foreman, $1,800; assistant foremen—one $1,275, one $1,200, one $1,125, one $900; steam engineers—chief $1,800, two at $1,760 each, three assistants at $1,460 each; chief inspector of valves, $1,600; leveler, $1,200; inspector, $1,200; draftsman, $1,050; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,500, three at $1,200 each; stores clerk—one $1,500, two at $1,000 each; timekeeper, $900; two rodmen at $900 each; two chainmen at $675 each; four oilers at $960 each; three firemen at $1,160 each; janitor, $900; drivers—one $700, one $630; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $96,350. For maintenance of the water department distribution system,Operation expenses. including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, water meters, and all buildings and accessories, and the purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work, and including a sum not to exceed $100 for the purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the Water Department, and to reimburse three employees for the provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official work in the District of Columbia, $15 per month each; and 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; in all for maintenance, $370,000. For twenty-inch water main in Illinois Avenue and Grant Circle toNew mains. Georgia Avenue and Military Road Northwest, $70,000. For twelve-inch water main in F Street between Sixth and Fourteenth Streets Northwest, $20,000. For extension of the water department distribution system, layingDistribution extensions. of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $80,000. The rates of assessment for laying or constructing water mains andAssessment for laying mains, etc., increased.Vol. 33, p. 244. service sewers in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the laying of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of assessments therefor, and for other purposes,” approved April 22, 1904, are hereby increased from $1.25 to $2 and $1 to $1.50, respectively, per linear front foot for any water mains and service sewers constructed or laid during the fiscal year 1921. 872 Water meters in residences, etc.For installing water meters on services to private residences and 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, $20,000. Hydrants, etc.For installing fire and public hydrants, machinery, and appurtenances required for necessary extensions, $40,000. 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 $100,000 during the fiscal year 1921. Temporary laborers, etc.The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. Horses, vehicles, etc.Special authority from Commissioners for using. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained 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 Report, etc.work; and the commissioners in the annual estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or *Proviso*.Temporary work on excavations.operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. Water department.Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by873appropriations 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*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $15,000*Proviso*.Limit. during the fiscal year 1921. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarilyTemporary laborers, etc. such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 5. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in theMiscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from. execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fundVol. 33, p. 368. 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, bookkeeper in the auditor’s office, clerk in the office of the collector of taxes, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire therefor motor trucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the commissioners, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, and including the purchase of an automobile for inspection purposes at a cost of not to exceed $600 and including the maintenance of motor vehicles, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Sec. 6. That the commissioners and other responsible officials, inMaterial, supplies, etc.Purchases directed from available stock of various Government services no longer required by them. expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, from the various services of the Government of the United States possessing material, supplies, and equipment no longer required because of the cessation of war activities. It shall be the duty of the commissioners and otherDuty before purchasing elsewhere. officials, before purchasing any of the articles described herein, to ascertain from the Government of the United States whether it has articles of the character described that are serviceable. And articlesPrice stipulation. purchased from the Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government of the UnitedSales, etc., authorized. States are authorized to sell such articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Transfers under Executive order not affected. That this section shall not be construed to amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities. Sec. 7. That hereafter all per diem employees and day laborers ofLegal holidays.Per diem employees and day laborers allowed pay. the District of Columbia who nave 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 and874beyond said 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. 8. Increased pay for fiscal year 1921, to police, firemen, and park police.*Ante*, p. 689. Officers and members of the Metropolitan police and the fire department of the District of Columbia and the United States Park Police shall be allowed increased compensation for the fiscal year 1921 in accordance with the provisions of section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal Rate allowed.year 1921 at one-half the rate allowed to other employees of the District of Columbia in said section. Approved, June 5, 1920.