Chapter 7. Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 7.— An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes. July 11, 1919. [[H. R. 4226](/us/bill/66/hr/4226).] [[Public, No. 6](/us/pl/66/6).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That one half of the following District of Columbia appropriations. Half from District revenues.*Post,* p. 272.sums, respectively, is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the following expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES. General expenses.Executive office.Salaries, Commissioners, etc. Executive office: Two commissioners, at $5,000 each; engineer commissioner, so much as may be necessary (to make salary $5,000); secretary, $2,700; three assistant secretaries to commissioners at $1,600 each; clerks—one $1,500, three at $1,400 each, one $1,200, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,200, one $840, two at $720 each; two messengers, at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; 69 Veterinary division:
Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments Veterinary division.of the District government, $1,400; Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasing Purchasing division.officer, $1,800; computer, $1,440; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,500 each, six at $1,200 each, one $1,100, three at $900 each, seven at $840 each; storekeeper, $1,200; messenger, $600; driver, $600; inspectors—one of materials $1,400, two at $900 each; two laborers, at $720 each; two property-yard keepers, at $1,000 each; temporary labor, $250;
Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistant Building inspection division.inspectors of buildings—principal $2,000, one $1,500, one $1,400, ten at $1,200 each; fire-escape inspector, $1,400; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, $1,600; civil engineers or computers—one $2,000, one $1,500; clerks—chief $1,800, one $1,050, one $1,000, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,000, one $900; messenger, $600; assistant inspector, $1,500;
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and Inspection fees.Schedule of, to be prescribed for services.directed, from time to time, to prescribe a schedule of fees to be paid for inspecting passenger elevators and for inspecting hotels, public halls, moving-picture shows, theaters, and other places of amusement which are required to have annual licenses, and for inspecting buildings which are required by law to have fire escapes; and they are further authorized and directed to impose fees for all inspections or service to be performed by any public officer or employee of the District of Columbia under any law or regulation now in force or hereafter enacted; said fees to cover the cost and expense of such Display of schedule.inspections or service; and a schedule of such fees shall be printed and conspicuously displayed in the office of the said commissioners, and Deposit of fees.said fees shall be paid to the collector of taxes, District of Columbia, and deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of revenues of the District of Columbia and the United States in equal parts.
Plumbing inspection divison: Inspector of plumbing $2,000; Plumbing inspection division.assistant inspectors of plumbing—principal $1,550, six at $1,200 each; clerks—two at $1,200 each, one $900; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, $3,000; draftsman, $1,350; sewer tapper, $1,000; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each; In all, Executive Office, $124,490. Care of District Building:
Assistant superintendent, $2,000; Care of District Building.Salaries.chief engineer, $1,600; three assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; electrician, $1,400; two dynamo tenders, at $880 each; 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; thirty-three cleaners, at $240 each; matron, $600; storekeeper, $900; chief watchman, $1,000; assistant chief watchman, $660; eight watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube operator, $600; in all, $41,000.
Assessor’s office: Assessor, $3,500; assistant assessors—three at Assessor’s office.$3,000 each, one at $2,000; five field men at $2,000 each; record clerks—one $1,800, two at $1,500 each, one $1,200; clerks—three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each (including one transferred from water department), four at $1,000 each (one transferred to collector’s office), 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, $54,120. 70 Special assessment office.
Special assessment office: Special assessment clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, one $900, one $750; in all, $8,650. Personal tax board. Personal tax board: Three assistant assessors of personal taxes, at $3,000 each; 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, $30,800.
License Bureau. License Bureau: Superintendent of licenses (who shall also be 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’s office: Collector, $4,000; deputy collector, $2,000; 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—four at $1,400 each: thirteen at $1,200 each; four at $1,000 each (including one transferred from assessor’s office), five at $900 each, one $720; clerk and bank messenger, $1,200; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $50,820.
Auditor’s office. Auditor’s office: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper, $1,800; accountant, $1,500; clerks—three at $1,600 each, 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; messenger, $600; property survey officer, $1,800; disbursing officer, $3,000; deputy disbursing officer, $1,600; clerks—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger, $600; in all, $50,176. Corporation counsel’s office.
Office of corporation counsel: Corporation counsel, $4,500; assistants—first $3,000, second $2,500, third $2,000, fourth $1,800, fifth $1,500, sixth $1,500, seventh, $1,500; clerk and stenographer, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; two stenograpners, at $900 each; clerk, $720; in all, $23,420. Sinking-fund office. Sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: For additional compensation to the clerk in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, designated by the Treasurer to perform the necessary clerical service in connection with the sinking fund and payment of interest on the debt of the District of Columbia, $500.
Coroner’s office. Coroner’s office: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistant morgue master and janitor, $600; hostler and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600. Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.Salaries. Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets: 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; *Proviso.*Report of assignments. in all, $24,460: *Provided,* That the commissioners each year in the annual estimates shall report to Congress the assignment of the foregoing market masters, assistant market masters, watchman, and laborers to the various markets and offices.
Engineer commissioner’s office.Engineers, superintendents, etc. Engineer commissioner’s office: Engineer of highways, $3,000; engineer of bridges, $2,500; superintendents—one of streets $2,000, one of suburban roads $2,250; sanitary engineer, $3,300; asphalts and cements—inspector $2,400, assistant inspector $1,500; trees and parkings—superintendent Assistant engineers, etc.$2,000, assistant superintendent $1,350; assistant engineers—two at $2,200 each, four at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, four at $1,500 each, two at $1,350 each, one $1,200; transitmen—three at $1,200 each, one $1,050; rodmen—eight at $900 each, four at $780 each; chainmen—six at $720 each, six at $650 each; 71draftsmen—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—twelve at $1,200 each, four at $1,050 each, ten at $900 each; bridge keepers—one $650, three at $600 each; chief clerk, $2,250;
Clerks, etc.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 labor, $625; laboratory assistant, $1,200; janitor, $720; steam engineers—principal $1,800, three at $1,200 each, three assistants at $1,050 each; six oilers, at $600 each; six firemen, at $875 each; storekeeper, $900; superintendent of stables, $1,500; blacksmith, $975; two watchmen, at $630 each; two drivers, at $630 each; in all, $179,520.
Central Garage: Superintendent, $1,500; two mechanics and drivers, Central Garage.at $1,000 each; in all, $3,500. Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect, $3,600; engineering Municipal architect’s office.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 (office of superintendent of repairs) $1,000, one $720; copyist, $840; driver, $600; in all, $31,460.
Public Utilities Commission: Executive Secretary, $4,000; accountant, Public Utilities Commission.$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, two at $100 per month each for seven months; two messengers, at $720 each; in all, $31,040; For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized Expert services.by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, $10,000;
In all, Public Utilities Commission, $41,040. Street-cleaning division: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent Street-cleaning division.and clerk, $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.
Board of examiners, steam engineers: Three members, at $300 Examiners, steam engineers.each, $900. Department of insurance: Superintendent of insurance, $3,500; Insurance department.deputy and examiner, $2,000; statistician, $1,700; clerks, one, $1,200, two at $900 each; stenographer, $840; temporary clerk hire, $600; in all, $11,640. Surveyor’s office: Surveyor, $3,000; assistant surveyor, $2,000; Surveyor’s office.clerks—one $1,225, one $975, one $675; three assistant engineers, at $1,500 each; computer, $1,200; record clerk, $1,050; inspector, $1,275; draftsmen—one $1,225, one $900; assistant computer, $900; three rodmen, at $825 each; chainmen—three, at $700 each, two at $650 each; computer and transitman, $1,200; in all, $26,000.
For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional Temporary services.field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of 72teams, $8,000, all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the commissioners; In all, $34,000. Minimum Wage Board.From District revenues.Free Public Library and Takoma Park branch.Salaries. Minimum Wage Board: Secretary, $2,500; contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $2,500; in all, $5,000, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch: Librarian, $4,000; assistant librarian, $1,800; chief circulating department, $1,500; director of children’s work, $1,500; director of reference work, $1,500; children’s librarian, $1,000; supervisor of school work, $1,200; librarian’s secretary, $1,000; Takoma Park branch librarian, $1,000; chiefs of divisions—order and accessions $1,200, industrial $1,200; reference librarian, $1,200; chief, catalogue department, $1,200; assistants—one $1,000, one in charge of periodicals $1,000, eight at $900 each, seven (including one for the Takoma Park branch) at $780 each, six (including one for Takoma Park branch) at $660 each; copyist, $660; classifier, $900; shelf lister, $1,020; cataloguers—one $840, one $780, two at $660 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,000, one $840; attendants—one $780, six at $660 each, five at $600 each; collator, $660; four messengers, at $600 each; ten pages, at $420 each; four janitors, at $600 each, one of whom shall act as night watchman; janitor of Takoma Park branch, $480; engineer, $1,200; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $68,560.
Substitutes. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, including the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the discretion of the librarian, $2,500. Sunday, etc., opening. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $2,500. Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park Branch: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $12,500;
For binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, $6,000; 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; Extraordinary repairs, etc. For extraordinary repairs and improvements to the buildings of the free public libraries, $3,000; In all, $32,500. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Contingent expenses.Items specified.
For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, Board of Charities, including an allowance to the purchasing officer and to the secretary of the Board of Charities of not exceeding $360 each per annum for maintenance of vehicles for use in the discharge of their official 73duties, 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.
For printing all annual and special reports of the government of Printing reports, fiscal year 1919.the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, for submission to Congress, $10,000. For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motor cycles, Motor vehicles.Maintenance.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, $25,000;
For the purchase of one new automobile for use of the various Purchases, etc.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, $5,700; In all, for motor vehicles, $30,700. All of said motor vehicles and Use by officials restricted.all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District: *Provided,* That no *Proviso.*Limit of cost.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.
Appropriations in this Act shall not be expended for the purchase Use of horses, etc., restricted.or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for the use of the commissioners, or for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horsedrawn vehicles for inspection or other purposes for those officials or employees provided with motor vehicles. Appropriations in this Act, except appropriations for the militia, Expenses for horses, etc., limited.shall not be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of Fire insurance prohibited.premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent Telephones allowed at residences.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-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, under appropriations contained in this Act.
The commissioners may connect Connections.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 furnish Car fares.transportation in connection with strictly official business 74of the District of Columbia by the purchase of car fares from appropriations *Provisos.*Limit.contained in this Act: *Provided,* That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of Firemen and police not included.$5,000: *Provided further,* That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments.
Judicial expenses. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $5,000. Coroner’s expenses. For purchase and maintenance, hire of livery, of means of transportation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $6,000.
Advertising.General. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $6,000. Taxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1919, as required 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, $3,500. Game and fish laws. For enforcement of game and fish laws, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, $100.
Removing dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1899, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” to pay members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 924.of the owners so to do, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year 1913 is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1920.
Copies of wills, etc., to assessor. For furnishing to the office of the assessor copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, $1,000. Recorder of deeds.Office rent. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $6,000. Pay for copying deeds, etc. The recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed to pay for copying instruments filed for record in his office 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.
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 owned and used by the District of Columbia, when injured by fire, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000 made for the fiscal year 1910 is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year 1920. Veterinary supplies. For medicines, surgical and hospital supplies for office of veterinary surgeon, $1,000.
Motor vehicles.Elevators inspection. Building Inspection Division: To reimbuise three elevator inspectors for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motorcycles for use in their official inspection of elevators, $15 per month each, $540. 75 For transportation, means of transportation, and maintenance of Automobiles inspection.means of transportation, including allowances to inspectors for automobiles at the rate of $30 per month each, $1,200. Plumbing Inspection Division:
To reimburse three assistant Plumbing inspection.inspectors of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motorcycles, for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia, $15 per month each, $540. District Building: For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, District Building.Maintenance.and labor not to exceed $4,000, and miscellaneous supplies, $35,000. Office of Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets: For Superintendent of Weights, etc.Inspection expenses.purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, provisions, and so forth, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $100.
For maintenance and repairs to markets, $3,500. Markets. For maintenance, repair, and lighting of fish wharf and market, Fish wharf and market.$1,500. For maintenance, operation, and repairs to refrigerating plant, including Refrigerating plant.salary of engineer at not exceeding $1,200 per annum, $2,600. For maintenance and repair of three motor vehicles, at $360 each, Motor vehicles.$1,080. For allowance to the superintendent of weights, measures, and markets for maintenance of motor vehicle used in the performance of official duties, at not to exceed $30 per month, $360.
IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Improvements and repairs. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work, Assessment and permit work.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 925.including maintenance of motor vehicles, $200,000; and any unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 for assessment and permit work, streets, is reappropriated and made available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1920. Street improvements:
For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise Street improvements.improving streets, avenues, suburban roads, and suburban streets, respectively, as follows: Southwest: For repaving with asphalt the granite block roadway Repaving B Street SW.of B Street from Delaware Avenue to First Street, thirty-five feet wide, $4,500; Southwest: For repaving with asphalt the granite block roadway Repaving Water Street SW.of Water Street from Eleventh Street to Fourteenth Street, fifty-five feet wide, $49,000;
Southwest: For paving with asphalt First Street, O Street to R Paving First Street SW.Street, thirty-two feet wide, $22,000; Southeast: For paving with asphalt Thirteenth Street, Potomac Paving Thirteenth Street SE.Avenue to L Street, thirty-two feet wide, $10,000; Southeast: For paving with asphalt Twelfth Street, I Street to Potomac Paving Twelfth Street SE.Avenue, thirty-two feet wide, $6,000; Southeast: For paving with asphalt Fifteenth Street, Pennsylvania Paving Fifteenth Street SE.Avenue to G Street, thirty-two feet wide, $10,000;
Southeast: For paving with asphalt Fifteenth Street, East Capitol Street to B Street, thirty-two feet wide, $14,500; Northeast: For paving with concrete Elliott Street, F Street to Paving Elliott Street NE.Maryland Avenue, twenty-five feet wide, $5,000; Northeast: For paving with concrete Warren Street, B Street to C Paving Warren Street NE.Street, twenty-four feet wide, $6,000; Northeast: For grading and improving Hamlin Street, Twenty-sixth Grading, etc., Hamlin Street NE.Street to South Dakota Avenue, thirty feet wide, $13,800;
Northeast: For paving with concrete Twelfth Street, Monroe Paving Twelfth Street NE.Street to Otis Street, forty feet wide, $9,000; 76 Repaving Ohio Avenue NW. Northwest: For repaving with asphalt Ohio Avenue, Twelfth to Fifteenth Streets, with two roadways twenty-two and one-half feet wide and center parking fifteen feet wide, $32,500; Grading, etc., Park Place NW. Northwest: For grading and improving Park Place, Hobart Place to Lamont Street, twenty-four feet wide, $9,100; Paving Shepherd Street NW.
Northwest: For paving with concrete Shepherd Street, Rock Creek Church Road to Fourth Street, thirty feet wide, $6,200; Paving Taylor Street NW. Northwest: For paving with concrete Taylor Street, Rock Creek Church Road to New Hampshire Avenue, thirty feet wide, $19,000; Paving Fifteenth Street NW. Northwest: For paving with concrete Fifteenth Street, Buchanan Street to Crittenden Street, thirty feet wide, $4,500; Paving Spring Road NW. Northwest: For paving Spring Road, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Streets, thirty feet wide, $10,200;
Repaving K Street NW. Northwest: For repaving with small granite block the roadway of K Street, from Rock Creek to Thirty-second Street, fifty-six feet wide, $30,000; and the use of not to exceed this width of roadway is Roadway on Water Street.hereby authorized on the balance of this street west of Rock Creek and on Water Street in connection with their improvement; Paving H Street NW. Northwest: For paving with asphalt H Street, Twenty-third Street to Virginia Avenue, thirty-two feet wide, $17,500;
Paving Eighteenth Street NW. Northwest: For paving with asphalt Eighteenth Street, C Street to D Street, thirty-five feet wide, $3,500; Paving Euclid Street NW. Northwest: For paving Euclid Street, University Place to Columbia Road, 30 feet wide, $33,000; Paving Georgia Avenue NW. Northwest: For paving Georgia Avenue, Buchanan Street to Military Road, 60 feet wide, $122,000; Paving Eleventh Street NE. Northeast: For paving Eleventh Street, H Street to Maryland Avenue, 32 feet wide, $17,000;
Accounting, etc. In all, $454,300, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Street Improvements” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Work on streets and avenues.Balances reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 925. Work on streets and avenues: Any unexpended balances of the appropriation contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 for “Work on streets and avenues” are reappropriated and made available for the same purposes and under the same conditions, respectively, during the fiscal year 1920.
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. Suburban roads.Balances for construction, reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 926. Construction of suburban roads: Any unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 for “Construction of suburban roads” is reappropriated and made available for the same purposes and under the same conditions, respectively, during the fiscal year 1920.
Permanent highways 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 From District revenues.in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, $40,000, 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 Motor vehicles.material, and including the purchase of one motor truck at not to exceed $2,000, and maintenance of motor vehicles, and including an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month for an automobile for use Street railways pavements.for official purposes, $500,000.
This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the 77amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies Vol. 20, p. 105.as provided by section 5 of “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. The authority given the commissioners in the District of Columbia Changing curb lines.VoL 34, p. 1130.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 this Act: *Provided,* That no such change shall *Proviso.*Restriction.be made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement.
For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public Sidewalks, etc.reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $20,000. The assessment of costs against abutting property on account of Howard Road SE.Assessments of costs for improving, postponed.the construction in November, 1918, of a concrete roadway on Howard Road for a distance of sixteen hundred feet west from Nichols Avenue may be postponed, in the discretion of the Commissioners, for not to exceed one year from the date of the approval of this Act.
Repairs to suburban roads: For current work of repairs to Suburban roads, repairs.suburban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles, $200,000. Bridges: For construction and repairs, including the allowance to Bridges.Construction, repairs, etc.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, $25,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing when Street bridges over railroad rights of way, etc.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 street over the right of way or property of any Over canals.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 Vol. 20, p. 105.an Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia, approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts.
Highway Bridge across Potomac River: Draw operators—two at Highway Bridge.$1,020 each, two at $720 each; four watchmen, at $720 each; labor, $2,000; lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $10,500; in all, $18,860. For completing replacement of the fenders of the bridge, $25,000. Replacing fenders. Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, Anacostia Bridge.and 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 a motor Cleaning, etc.truck at not to exceed $2,000, and maintenance of motor vehicles, $80,000. For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, Pumping stations.including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of 78coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks, $75,000. Main and pipe.
For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $107,000. Suburban. For suburban sewers, including the purchase of one motor field wagon at not to exceed $2,000, and the maintenance of motor vehicles, $110,000. Reappropriation.Vol. 39, p. 1018. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for suburban sewers, 1917, is reappropriated and continued available for the fiscal year 1920. Assessment and permit work.Rights of way. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $50,000. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Upper Potomac interceptor. Upper Potomac interceptor: For continuing the construction of the Upper Potomac interceptor between Twenty-seventh and K Streets and the Chain Bridge, $40,000. STREETS. Streets.Cleaning, etc. Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, 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 motorcycle; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $400,000.
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 *Provisos.*Deposit of proceeds.and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps; and incidental expenses, $656,000: *Provided,* That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United Use restricted.States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts: *Provided further,* That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels, places of business, large apartment or boarding houses.
Parking commission. Parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, maintenance of two motor trucks, and miscellaneous items, $60,000. Bathing beach. Bathing beach: Superintendent, $720; two watchmen, at $500 each; temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $8,000. 79 Playgrounds:
For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, construction Playgrounds.Maintenance.of toilet facilities, wading pools, installation of telephones and telephone service, installation of electric lights and electric service; grading, and repairs, including labor and materials, and transportation of materials, maintenance and repair of storehouse, and necessary incidental and contingent expenses for all playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $35,000;
For salaries: Supervisor, $2,500; inspector of playgrounds, $1,200; Salaries.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—five 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 services of extra watchmen at not exceeding 25 cents per hour, $600; in all, $45,980;
For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, and Swimming pools.necessary expenses of operating five swimming pools, $3,000; In all, for playgrounds, $83,980, to be paid wholly out of the revenues From District revenues.of the District of Columbia. Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience Convenience stations.stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $17,500. Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings: For all expenses Condemning insanitary buildings.Vol. 34, p. 157.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 $1,200 each; assistant electrician, $1,200; clerks—one $1,400, one $1,200, two at $1,125 each, one $1,050, one $750; assistant repairman $620; laborers—two at $600 each, two at $540 each; messenger, $630; storekeeper, $875; in all, $55,015.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, Supplies, contingent expenses, etc.telephone rental and purchase, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, purchase and repair of bicycles, allowance for the maintenance of two automobiles at not to exceed $30 per month each, washing, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, $20,000.
For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, and telephone Placing wires underground.service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, $4,000. 80 Police-patrol system. For extension and relocation of police-patrol system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $1,000.
Twelfth police precinct.Telephone connection.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 931. The appropriation for the fiscal year 1919 for “installing police-patrol telephone system in the new number twelve police precinct, including the purchase, installation, and relocation of the necessary boxes, instruments, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items,” is made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1920. Lighting streets, etc. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, this sum to be expended Vol. 36, p. 1008.in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 and Vol. 37, p. 181.with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, $415,000.
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. Headquarters apparatus.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 931. The appropriation for the fiscal year 1919 “for enlarging the fire-alarm headquarters apparatus,” is made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1920.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Public schools.Salaries.Officers. Officers: Superintendent, $6,000; assistant superintendents—one $3,500, one $3,000; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, and director of primary instruction, sixteen in all, at a minimum salary of $2,200 each; secretary, $2,000; financial clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $1,600, one $1,400, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each, one (to carry out the provisions of the child-labor law) $900; two stenographers, at $1,000 each; messenger, $720; in all, $62,520.
Attendance officers. Attendance officers: Attendance officers—one $900, four at $800 each, four at $600 each; in all, $6,500. Teachers. Teachers: For two thousand and thirty-five teachers at minimum salaries as follows: Principal, Central High.*Proviso.*Basic salary. Principal of the Central High School, $3,000: *Provided,* That the present principal of the Central High School shall be placed at a basic salary of $3,000 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Assistant principal.*Provisos.*Basic salary. Assistant principal of the Central High School, $1,800: *Provided,* That said assistant principal shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per Transferred employee.annum for five years: *Provided,* That an employee heretofore transferred from another position in the service of the Board of Education to the position of assistant principal of the Central High School shall not suffer a decrease of salary by such transfer;
Other principals. Principals of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, eight, at $2,500 each; Dean of girls, Central High.*Proviso.*Basic salary. Assistant principal, who shall be dean of girls of the Central High School, $1,800: *Provided,* That said assistant principal shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Directors. Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $1,500 each: 81*Provided,* That the director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor *Proviso.*Penmanship.in the normal school and a director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,500 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Assistant director of primary instruction, $1,400: *Provided,* That Assistant, primary instruction.*Proviso.*Basic salary.the assistant director of primary instruction now in the service of the public schools, or hereafter to be appointed, shall be placed at the basic salary of $1,400 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years; Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic Other assistant directors.science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $1,300 each: *Provided,* That the assistant director of penmanship, *Proviso.*Penmanship.who shall be an instructor in the normal school and an assistant director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,300 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years;
Assistant supervisor of manual training, $1,300; Manual training. Heads of departments in high and manual-training high schools in Other teachers.group B of class six, fourteen, at $1,900 each; Normal, high, and manual-training high schools, promoted for superior work, group B of class six, twenty-eight at $1,900 each; Group A of class six, including seven principals of grade manual-training schools, three hundred and thirty-four at $1,060 each; Class five, one hundred and thirty-six at $1,000 each, including vocational and trade instructors;
Class four, four hundred and ninety-eight at $900 each; Class three, five hundred and forty-three at $860 each; Class two, three hundred and sixty-four at $860 each; Class one, ninety at $860 each: *Provided,* That all teachers and librarian and *Proviso.*Full increased pay allowed.clerks herein provided for shall be entitled to the full amount of any increased compensation granted for the fiscal year 1920 regardless of the increase herein made: Special beginning teacher in the normal school, $900;
Total. In all for teachers, $1,925,260: *Provided,* That no part of said *Proviso.*Teaching German barred.appropriation, or any appropriation herein, shall be used for the payment of any teacher to give instruction in the German language, or for the purchase of any books for use in such instruction. The salaries appropriated herein for teachers in classes one, two, Salaries in lieu of present basic rates.three, four, five, and Group A of class six, clerks, and librarians in all classes during the fiscal year 1920, 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 ending June *Proviso.*Additional for fiscal year 1920.30, 1920, 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, 1919.
Librarians and clerks at minimum salaries as follows: Librarians and clerks Ten librarians in high and normal schools in class five, at $900 each; thirty clerks in class four, at $720 each; in all, $30,600. Vacation schools: For the proper care, instruction, and supervision Vacation 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, $14,000.
Longevity pay: For longevity pay for director of intermediate Longevity pay.instruction, supervising principals, supervisor and assistant supervisor of manual training, principals of normal high and manual training high schools, the assistant principal of the Central High 82School, the assistant principal (who shall be dean of girls) of the Central High School, principals of grade manual training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians Vol. 34, p. 320.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 Vol. 35, p. 289;
Vol. 36, p. 393; Vol. 37, p. 156.Principals.Additional pay for graded schools.Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, as amended by the Acts approved May 26, 1908, May 18, 1910, and June 26, 1912, $450,000. 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 Vol. 34, p. 320.the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 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, $50,000. 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, $4,000. 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 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, $10,000. 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, $1,600; Specified buildings. Central High School (new): Engineer, $1,500; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; electrician, $1,200; four firemen, at $720 each; two coal passers, at $540 each; janitor, $1,100; three assistant janitors, at $900 each; gardener, $840; night watchman, $720; two charwomen, at $480 each; fifteen laborers, at $500 each; in all, $22,280; Dunbar High School:
Engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $720 each; coal passer, $540; janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; nine laborers, at $500 each; two charwomen, at $480 each; night watchman, $720; in all, $12,260; Central High School
(old)and annex: Janitor, $1,000; four laborers, at $500 each; in all, $3,000; Business High School: janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; four laborers, at $500 each; in all, $3,900; J. Ormond Wilson Normal School and Ross School: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $800; night watchman, $720; four laborers, at $500 each; in all, $4,520; Jefferson School: Janitor, $1,000; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $2,000; Western High School: Janitor, $1,100; four laborers, at $500 each; in all, $3,100; Franklin School: Janitor, $1,000; three laborers, at $500 each; in all, $2,500; Myrtilla Miner Normal School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; three laborers, at $500 each; charwoman, $480; in all, $3,880; Eastern High School: Janitor, $1,000; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $2,000; 83 Stevens School: Janitor, $1,000; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $2 000; McKinley Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,500; assistant engineer, $1,000; assistant Janitor, $720; night watchman, $720; two firemen, at $720 each; four laborers, at $500 each; in all, $8,380; Armstrong Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,200; assistant engineer, $720; night watchman, $720; fireman, $720; three laborers, at $500 each; in all, $6,580; M Street High School
(old)and Douglass and Simmons Schools: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $900; four laborers, at $500 each; in all, $3,900; Birney and annex, Elizabeth V. Brown, Emery, New Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Gage, Park View, Petworth, Powell, Van Buren, and Wallach Schools: Eleven janitors, at $1,000 each; eleven laborers, at $500 each; in all, $16,500; Brookland, Bryan, Congress Heights, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garfield, Garnett, Grant, Grover Cleveland, Henry, Langdon, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Randall, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, and Strong John Thomson Schools: Twenty-two janitors, at $840 each; twenty-two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $29,480; Abbot, Benning, Berret, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, Dent, Syphax, and Tenley Schools: Ten janitors, at $840 each; in all, $8,400; Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Burrville, Bruce, Buchanan, 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, Wheatly, Wilson, Woodburn, Wormley, and West Schools: Seventy-three janitors, at $720 each; in all, $52,560; Brightwod 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, and Armstrong Manual Training High, nine in all, at $500 each, $4,500; In all, $202,390. For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking Smaller buildings and rented rooms.and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $72 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes for which service an amount not to exceed $108 per annum may be allowed, $13,500. Medical inspectors: Chief medical and sanitary inspector, who Medical inspectors.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 84 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, etc. 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. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and grounds, repair shop, storage and stock rooms, $16,500. Equipping 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, $5,000. Repairs and improvements. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $200,000. Furniture, tools, machinery for manual training, etc. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $45,000. Fuel, light, and power.Furniture, for additions, etc. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $165,000. 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, $520; one housekeeping and cooking school, $800; one cooking school, $580; two manual training shops, $1,480; portable schools, $12,500; in all, $18,280. 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 general secretary of community centers, 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 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 one bookkeeper and custodian of textbooks and supplies at $1,200, *Proviso.*Exchanges.and one assistant at $800, $80,000: *Provided,* That the board of education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. 85 For purchase of United States flags, $1,000. Flags. For maintenance and repair of seventy-two playgrounds now established, $3,000. Playgrounds. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $4,000. School gardens. For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending the Physics departments, supplies.equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, and Dunbar High Schools, $3,000. For purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials and Chemistry 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 installation of same, $2,500. For equipment of the machine shops of the New Central High Machine shops, Central High.School, $25,000. For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture, $1,200. Cabinetmaker. For extending the telephone system to portable schools, to be Telephones to portable schools.expended under the electrical department, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For payment of necessary expenses connected with the organization Community 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, $25,000; *Provided,* That not more than 20 per centum of this sum *Proviso.*Pay restriction.*Post,* p.328.shall be expended for payment of secretaries, teachers, organizers, and clerks. For additional equipment of the Armstrong Manual Training School, $20,000. Armstrong Manual Training. For the repair and extension of the equipment of the McKinley Manual Training School, $10,000. McKinley Manual Training. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular Schools 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. The children of officers and men of the United States Army and Army and Navy.Children of, admitted.Navy stationed outside of the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. Buildings and grounds: For the construction and erection of Buildings and grounds.Portable schools.portable schools, including necessary grading, improvements, and toilet facilities, $25,000. For additional amount required for an eight-room addition, including Petworth.Addition.an assembly hall, to the Petworth School, $20,000; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the construction of said building Contracts.at a total cost not exceeding $130,500. For additional amount required for four-room addition to the Burrville.Addition.Burrville School, $10,000; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to enter into contract or contracts Contracts.for said building at a cost not to exceed $60,000. For additional amount required for the erection of an eight-room Fifth division, northeast.New building.building in the fifth division between Eighteenth and Twentieth Streets and Monroe and Newton Streets northeast, $20,000; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to enter into contract or contracts for said building at a cost not Contracts.exceeding $135,000. For additional amount required for the erection of an addition to Phelps.Additionthe Phelps School, including assembly hall and gymnasium, $10,000; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby author-86 Contracts.ized to enter into contract or contracts for said building at a cost not to exceed $75,000. 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 Exceptions.schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or 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 shall be approved by the commissioners, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. Doors to open outward, etc. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having 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/s4864/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, $18,000, 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.*Supervision.$2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. Blind children. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Proviso.*Supervision.*Provided,* That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. METROPOLITAN POLICE. Police.Salaries. Major and superintendent, $4,000; two assistant superintendents at $2,500 each; three inspectors, at $2,000 each; twelve captains, at $2,000 each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, $2,000; clerk (who shall be a stenographer), $1,800; clerk and stenographer, $1,500; clerks—one (who shall be assistant property clerk) $1,200, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each, one $700; four surgeons of the police Detective service, etc.and fire departments, at $840 each; additional compensation for thirty-five privates detailed for special 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 87crime, 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 $1,600 each; fifty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,400 each; four hundred and ninety-three privates of class three, at $1,320 each; eighty-six privates of class two, at $1,200 each; two hundred and twenty-five privates of class one, at $1,080 each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year 1920, $2,000; nine telephone clerks, at $900 each; eighteen janitors, at $600 each; laborer, $720; messenger, $600; inspector, mounted on horse, $480; thirty-eight captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on horses, at $480 each; motor vehicle allowance to twenty sergeants and privates at $360 each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $60 each; thirty-five drivers, at $900 each; five police matrons, at $720 each, to possess police powers of arrest; four policewomen, at $900 each; in all, $1,272,680. To aid in support of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, Criminal Identification Bureau.to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, provided the several departments of the General Government may be entitled to like information from time to time as is accorded police departments of various municipalities privileged to membership therein, $500. Miscellaneous: For fuel, $7,000; Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and grounds, $8,000; Repairs, etc. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including purchase of Miscellaneous.new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase of horses, bicycles, motorcycles, police equipments and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, motor patrol, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expenses, $45,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided,* That the War Department *Proviso.*Transfer of Army mounted equipment.may, in its discretion, furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required; For flags and halyards, $200; Flags. For maintenance of motor vehicles, $18,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Motor vehicles. For additional motor vehicles, $4,500; In all, $82,700. House of Detention: To enable the commissioners to provide House of Detention.transportation, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age, and, in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or 88otherwise, including two clerks, at $1,000 each; two drivers, at $780 each; six guards, at $660 each; janitor, $660; three matrons, at $720 each, to possess police powers of arrest; miscellaneous expenses, including rent, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, meals, maintenance of motor station vehicle and other necessary expenses, $7,000; in all, $17,340, 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 AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND. Policemen, etc., relief fund.Relief and allowances from.Vol. 39, p. 718. To pay the relief and other allowances authorized by law, a sum not to exceed $218,724.36 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Fire department.Salaries. Chief engineer, $3,500; two deputy chief engineers, at $2,500 each; eight battalion chief engineers, at $2,000 each; fire marshal, $2,000; deputy fire marshal, $1,400; four inspectors, at $1,080 each; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk, $1,400; clerk (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter), $1,400; thirty-eight captains, at $1,500 each; forty lieutenants, at $1,320 each; forty-one sergeants, at $1,200 each; superintendent of machinery, $2,000; assistant superintendent of machinery, $1,200; twenty-seven engineers, at $1,200 each; twenty-seven assistant engineers, at $1,140 each; two pilots, at $1,150 each; two marine engineers, at $1,200 each; two assistant marine engineers, at $1,140 each; two marine firemen, at $840 each; three hundred and forty-two privates of class two, at $1,140 each; one hundred and three privates of class one, at $960 each; hostler, $600; laborer, $600; in all, $761,020. Repairs to buildings. Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, $16,000; Repairs to apparatus, etc. For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven 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 *Proviso.*Construction at repair shop.commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire-department repair shop, $20,000; Supplies. For hose, $12,000; For fuel, $35,000; For purchase of horses, $5,000; For forage, $20,000; For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $2,500; Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, cost of installation and maintenance of telephones in the residences of the superintendent of machinery and the fire marshal, $25,000; In all, $135,500. New apparatus, etc. Permanent improvements: For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $13,500; For three fire engines, motor driven, at $10,500 each; For three combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, at $5,800 each; 89 For three fuel wagons, motor driven, at $1,250 each; For installing steam heat in engine and truck houses, $6,000; In all, $72,150. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Health department. Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerk Salaries.and deputy health officer, $2,500; chief, bureau of vital statistics, $1,800; clerks—one $1,600, five at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $720; sanitary inspector—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, ten at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; food inspectors—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, three 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; poundmaster, $1,400; watchman, $600; laborers, at not exceeding $60 per month each, $3,120; in all, $89,790. To carry out the Act to regulate the hours of employment and Female employment.Vol. 38, p. 291.safeguard 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 spread Preventing 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 cases Tuberculosis 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 of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile Infantile paralysis, etc.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 of Smallpox hospital, etc.*Proviso.*Bacteriologists for dairy examinations.reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, $45,000: *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. For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation Disinfecting service.for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $7,000. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the Drainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125.Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896, and an 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. 90 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, $1,500. Apparatus, equipment, cost of installation, supplies, and other expenses incidental to the biological and serological diagnosis of disease, $900. 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 motorcycle each, or of not exceeding $25 per annum for the maintenance of a bicycle each, for use in the discharge of their official duties, and other necessary traveling expenses, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Isolating wards at hospitals. Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minor 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. Crematory. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, $2,300. Pound, vehicle. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound service, $600. Motor ambulance. For one motor ambulance at a cost not exceeding $2,000, and for equipping, maintaining, and operating the same and keeping it in good order, $600; in all, $2,600. Found, etc., repairs. For alterations and repairs at the pound and stable, including new awnings, new wire screens, and other minor repairs, $1,200. Dispensaries for tuberculosis and venereal diseases. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, *Provisos.*Volunteer services.and supplies, $12,500: *Provided,* That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: Pay prohibition.*Provided further,* That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. Washington Diet Kitchen.Care of children under six. For clinical examination, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six years of age, under a contract to be made with the Washington Diet Kitchen by the health officer of the District of Columbia, $15,000. 91 COURTS. Courts. For eleven copies of volumes fifty-two and fifty-three of the reports Court 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, $2,000; Probation system, Supreme Court.assistant probation officer, $1,200; stenographer and typewriter and assistant, $900; contingent expenses, $325; maintenance of motor vehicle used in performance of official duties, at not to exceed $30 per month, $360; in all, $4,785. Juvenile court: Judge, $3,600; clerk, $2,000; deputy clerk, who Juvenile court.Salaries.is authorized to act as clerk in the absence of that officer, $1,480; financial clerk, who is authorized to act as deputy clerk, $1,200; stenographer and typewriter, who is authorized to act as a deputy clerk, $1,080; stenographer and typewriter for judge’s work, and to aid in keeping records in clerk’s office, $1,080; probation officers—chief, $1,800; assistant chief (who shall also be investigating officer for children’s cases), $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one for adult cases $1,200, four at $1,000 each; investigating officer for adult cases, $1,200; 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, $28,480. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900. Miscellaneous. For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained at court awaiting trial, $50; For rent, $2,000; For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, $500; For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,500; In all, $5,950. Police court: Two judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $2,200; deputy Police court.Salaries.clerks—one $1,600, two $1,500, two at $1,200 each; deputy financial clerk, $1,500; deputy assistant financial clerk, $1,500; probation officer, $1,500; two assistant probation officers, at $1,200 each; seven bailiffs, at $900 each; deputy marshal, $1,000; janitor, $600; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; firemen, $600; assistant janitor, $300; matron, $600; four cleaners, at $360 each; telephone operator, $480; in all, $36,240. Miscellaneous: For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, Miscellaneous.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, $4,000; For witness fees, $3,000; Witness fees, etc. For furniture and repairing and replacing same, $500; For meals and accommodations of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $200; For compensation of jurors, $10,000; Jurors. For repairs to buildings, $1,500; In all, $19,200. 92 Municipal court.Salaries. Municipal court: Five judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $1,500; four assistant clerks, at $1,000 each; messenger, $600; elevator operator, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $25,540; Rent, etc. For rent of building, $3,600; For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to furniture and building, and for such other expenses as may be authorized by the judges of the court and approved by the commissioners, $1,200; For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $1,200; In all, municipal court, $31,540. 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, $5,500. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. Interest and sinking fund.Amount. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, payable one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $975,408. EMERGENCY FUND. Emergency fund.Expenditures restricted. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, $8,000: *Proviso.*Purchases.*Provided,* That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. COURTS AND PRISONS. Courts and prisons.Support of convicts, etc., out of the District. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation 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, care, etc. Courthouse, District of Columbia: For care and protection, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, $1,200; electrician, $900; three watchmen, at $720 each; three firemen, at $720 each; five laborers, at $600 each; six messengers, at $720 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; clerk to jury commissioner, $720; telephone operator, $720; attendant in ladies’ waiting room, $300; in all, $16,920, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Court of Appeals Building, care, etc. Court of Appeals Building, District of Columbia: Two watchmen, at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; three laborers, at $480 each; mechanician (under the direction of the Superintendent of the *Proviso.*Custodian.Capitol Building and Grounds), $1,200; *Provided,* That the clerk of the court of appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court; in all $4,800. 93 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 and Supreme court.Witness fees, etc.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $15,000. Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors, $60,000. Jurors’ fees.Bailiffs, etc. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, $28,400. Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as Miscellaneous expenses.may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, $15,000. For such additional miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized Additional for temporary quarters.by the Attorney General for the supreme court and its officers, made necessary by the occupancy of temporary quarters pending the reconstruction of the courthouse, District of Columbia, including an electrician at the rate of $900 per annum and a laborer at the rate of $600 per annum, $3,750. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Charities and corrections. Board of Charities: Secretary, $3,500; assistant secretary and Board of Charities.Salaries, etc.stenographer, $1,600; clerk, $1,400; messenger, $600; inspectors—two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, two at $840 each; drivers—one (who shall also act as foreman of stables) $900, three at $720 each; hostler, $540; traveling expenses, including attendance on conventions, $400; in all, $19,980. For the maintenance of one motor ambulance, $600. reformatories and correctional institutions. Reformatories, etc. Washington Asylum and Jail: Superintendent of hospital, Washington Asylum and Jail.Salaries.$1,800; visiting physician, $1,200; resident physician, $480; two assistant resident physicians, at $120 each; clerk, $900; engineer, $900; three assistant engineers, at $600 each; night watchman, $480; blacksmith and woodworker, $500; driver for dead wagon, $365; hostler, and driver for supply and laundry wagon, at $240 each; hospital cook, $650; assistant cooks—two at $300 each, one $180; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, $1,200; two graduate nurses at $480 each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, $480; two nurses for annex wards, at $540 each; nurse for operating room, $540; eight orderlies, and two orderlies for annex wards, at $400 each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed $200 per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed $225 per annum during second year of service), $4,450; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, $720; gardener, $540; seamstress, $300; housekeeper, $420; laundryman, $720; assistant laundryman, $450; three laundresses, at $360 each; two chambermaids, three waiters, and seven ward maids, at $180 each; temporary labor, not to exceed $1,200; operator of X-ray machine, $600; pathologist, $600; assistant for laboratory, $600; anæsthetist, $300; in all, $32,975. Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and Hospital expenses.repair to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and 94other necessary items, including an allowance to the superintendent of not exceeding $360 per annum for maintenance of vehicle for use in discharge of his official duties, $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, $3,000; Apparatus. For purchase of apparatus for operating room, including Lumbard’s airway, gas oxygen apparatus, and electric ether suction apparatus, $350; 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, $6,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia, on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District; Support of jail prisoners, etc. 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, and for the support of prisoners, $75,000; Transporting prisoners to jail. Transportation of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to Washington Asylum and Jail, including salary of driver, not to exceed $840, and purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $2,500; Home for Aged and Infirm.Salaries. In all, Washington Asylum and Jail, $195,325. Home for Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk, $900; matron, $600; chief cook, $720; baker and laundryman, at $540 each; chief engineer, $1,000; assistant engineer, $720; physician and pharmacist, $480; second assistant engineer, $480; two male attendants and two nurses, at $360 each; two female attendants, at $300 each; three firemen, at $360 each; assistant cooks—one $360, one $180; foreman of construction and repair, $840; blacksmith and woodworker, $540; farmer, $720; truck gardner, $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, $19,092; Contingent expenses. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including maintenance of motor truck, $50,000; Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000; Colored women’s ward. For purchase of material for permanent roads, $300; For an additional amount for extension of colored women’s ward, $13,000; In all, Home for Aged and Infirm, $86,392. Sale of surplus products. The commissioners are authorized, under such regulations as they may prescribe, to sell the surplus products of the Home for the Aged and Infirm, and all moneys derived from such sales shall be paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia. National Training School for Boys.Care, etc., of boys. National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $70,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 95 National Training School for Girls: Superintendent, $1,200; National Training School for Girls.Salaries.treasurer, matron, and four teachers, at $600 each; overseer, $720; two parole officers, at $600 each; seven teachers of industries, at $480 each; engineer, $720; assistant engineer, $600; night watchman, $480; two laborers, at $300 each; in all, $12,480; For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, Contingent expenses.clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding $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; In all, National Training School for Girls, $37,480. medical charities. Medical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Freedmen’s Hospital.be made with Freedmen’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, $40,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Columbia Hospital for Women.be made with Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $25,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Children’s Hospital.be made with Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $17,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Homeopathic Hospital.be made with National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed $10,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Providence Hospital.be made with Providence Hospital by the Board of Charities, $19,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to Garfield Hospital.be made with Garfield Memorial Hospital by the Board of Charities, $19,000. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service Emergency Hospital.to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charties, $26,000. For repairing the elevators in the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $1,500. Elevators. For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service Casualty Hospital.to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital by the Board of Charities, $25,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to Home for Incurables.be made with Washington Home for Incurables by the Board of Charities, $5,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be Georgetown University Hospital.made with Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $6,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients under a contract to be made with George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, $6,000. Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician, Tuberculosis Hospital.Salaries.$600; assistant resident physician, $300; roentgenologist, $600; pharmacist and clerk, $780; superintendent of nurses, and engineer, at $720 each; pathologist, $300; matron, dietician, chief cook, assistant engineer, laundryman, and eight graduate nurses, at $600 each; assistant cooks—one $360, two at $240 each; assistant engineer, 96$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, $50,000; Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $2,500; In all, Tuberculosis Hospital, $73,140. Gallinger Hospital.Continuing construction.Vol. 39, p. 1036.Cost increased. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For continuing the construction of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital in accordance with the provision for that purpose in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $100,000; and the limit of cost of said hospital and accessory buildings is increased from $500,000 to $603,590. child-caring institutions. Care of children.Board of Children’s Guardians.Expenses. Board of Children’s Guardians: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $25, and all office and sundry expenses, $4,000; Salaries. Salaries: Agent, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, one $900; stenographer, $900; placing and investigating officers—two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, nine at $900 each; record clerk, $900; messenger, $500; laborer, $500; in all, $18,200. 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 institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $150,000; In all, Board of Children’s Guardians, $207,200. Advances to agent. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the agent of the Board of Children’s Guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $300 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 for Colored Children.Salaries. Industrial Home School for Colored Children: Superintendent, $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; cook, $240; laundress, $240; temporary labor not to exceed $500; in all, $10,820; Expenses. For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $20,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,000; For manual-training equipment, $1,000; For materials for construction of roads and sidewalks, $500; 97 In all, Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $34,320: *Provided,* That all moneys received at said school, as income from *Proviso.*Use of receipts from sales, etc.sale of products and from payment of board of instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to the commissioners to be expended by them in the support of the school during the fiscal year 1920. Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisor of Industrial 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 all, $10,540; For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of Maintenance, etc.wagon and harness, $25,000; For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $3,000; For new steam boiler and appliances, $3,000; In all, Industrial Home School, $41,540. For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made Home for Destitute Colored Children.with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Children’s Guardians, not to exceed $9,900. For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made Foundlings’ Home.with Washington Home for Foundlings by the Board of Children’s Guardians, $6,000. For care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum.with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Children’s Guardians, $6,000. temporary homes. Temporary homes. Municipal lodging house and wood yard: Superintendent, $1,200; Municipal lodging house.foreman, $480; cook, $360; night watchman for six months, at $25 per month, $150; maintenance, $2,000; in all, $4,190. Temporary home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of Grand Army Soldiers’Home.the Republic: Superintendent, $1,200; janitor, $360; cook, $360; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $5,920, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners; and ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Admissions.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. For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract Hope and Help Mission.to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, $4,000. National Library for the Blind: For aid and support of the Library for the Blind.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: To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind.Institute for the Blind, located at eighteen hundred and eight H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $1,500. Southern Relief Society: For care and maintenance of needy Southern Relief Society for Confederate veterans, etc.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. Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the Support of indigent insane.District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $500,000. For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811.the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899, $4,000. 98 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, $3,600; physician, $1,680; chief engineer, $1,200; electrician, $1,200; superintendent of commissary, $1,080; in all, $8,760. 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; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation, and means of transportation; supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, $120,000; Fuel, etc. For fuel for maintenance, $30,000; fuel for manufacturing and construction, dynamite, oils, and repairs to plant, $50,000; in all, $80,000; Repair material. For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $5,000; Dairy building. For additional for a dairy and forage building, $15,000; In all, $277,240, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Reformatory.Salaries. Reformatory: Assistant superintendent, $1,800; chief clerk, $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; Construction. For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, $60,000; Expenses of maintenance, etc. For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, care and support of inmates; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, 99and 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, $60,000; For fuel for maintenance, $12,000; Fuel. In all, $162,700, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. The commissioners are authorized, under such regulations as they Sale of surplus products.may prescribe, to sell the surplus products of the said workhouse and the said reformatory, and all moneys derived from such sales shall be paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia. MILITIA. Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required Camps, drills, etc.to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments, damages to private property incident to encampments, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills and parades, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses, practice ships, boats, machinery and dock, dredging alongside of dock, telephone service, horses and mules for mounted organizations, street car fares (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, $10,000. Rent, etc. For printing, stationery, and postage, $1,200. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and Expenses.contingent expenses, $1,500. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, $1,000. For clerk, office of the adjutant general, $1,000. For expenses of target practice and matches, $2,500. For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursed Pay of troops.under the authority and direction of the commanding general,$10,000. REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS. Refund of erroneous collections. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, Payments.school tuition charges, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911, $1,500, Vol. 36, p. 967.*Proviso.*Prior years.or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS. Anacostia Park. For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Continuing reclamation of River and Flats.Vol. 40, p. 950.Park, to be expended in accordance with the plans specified in the item for the reclamation of the Anacostia River and Flats, contained 100in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year *Provisos.*Immediate possession on condemnation of lands, etc.1919, $100,000: *Provided,* That whenever the Secretary of War, in pursuance of authority conferred on him by law, causes proceedings to be instituted for the acquirement by condemnation of any lands, easements, or rights of way needed for the said work, the United States, upon the filing of the petition in any such proceedings, shall have the right to take immediate possession of said lands, easements, or rights of way to the extent of the interest to be acquired and to proceed with such public works thereon as have been authorized by Compensation to be made.Congress: *Provided, further,* That certain adequate provisions shall have been made for the payment of just compensation to the party or parties entitled thereto, either by previous appropriation by the United States or by the deposit of moneys or other form of security in such amount and form as shall be approved by the court in which Judicial proceedings.such proceedings shall be instituted. The respondent or respondents may move at any time in the court to increase or change the amounts or securities, and the court shall make such order as shall be just in Diligent prosecution required.the premises and as shall adequately protect the respondents. In every case the proceedings in condemnation shall be diligently prosecuted on the part of the United States in order that such compensation may be promptly ascertained and paid. WATER SERVICE. Water service.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, filtration plant, etc. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $140,000. Conduit Road. For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, $5,000. Emergency fund. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break 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. Control of War Department not altered. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence 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.Revenue and inspection branch. For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; eight meter computers, at $1,000 each; meter clerk, $1,200; tap clerk, $1,000; inspectors—chief $1,000, nineteen at $900 each; messenger, $600; Distribution branch. For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400; assistant engineers—one $1,800, one $1,700; master mechanic, $2,000; foreman, $1,800; assistant foremen—one $1,275, one $1,200, one $1,125, one $900; steam engineers—chief $1,800, two at $1,200 each, three assistants at $1,000 each; chief inspector of valves, $1,600; 101leveler, $1,200; inspector, $1,200; draftsman, $1,050; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,500, three at $1,200 each (one transferred to assessor’s office); stores clerk $1,500, two at $1,000 each; timekeeper, $900; two rodmen at $900 each; two chainmen at $675 each; four oilers at $720 each; three firemen at $900 each; janitor, $900; drivers—one $700, one $630; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $91,610. For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, Contingent expenses.printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed $75 and other necessary items, $5,000. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe Operation expenses.distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, and including a sum not exceeding $800 for purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the water department, and to reimburse three employees for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motorcycles for use in their official work in the District of Columbia, $15 per month each, $45,000. For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service Service expenses, water meters, etc.system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the commissioners, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia; to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, not to exceed $450,000 of the amount available in the water fund during the fiscal year 1920 after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized. For completing the purchase, installation, and maintenance of Meters to be placed in Government buildings, etc, in the District.water meters, to be placed on the water services to the United States buildings, reservations, or grounds in the District of Columbia, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, said meters to be purchased, installed and maintained by and remain under the observation of the officer in charge of the Washington Aqueduct, to be available until expended, $9,600. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,Construction work under the Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed. transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, cleaning or road work or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided,* That the *Proviso.*Limit.*Post,* p. 1020.expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $100,000 during the fiscal year 1920. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily Temporary laborers, etc.such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all 102necessary 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. Horses, vehicles, etc.Special authority from Commissioners for using. Sec. 3. 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 Report, etc.be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said 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 *Proviso.*Temporary work on excavations.owned or 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. Water department.Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed. Sec. 4. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and the commissioners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums *Proviso.*Limit.paid to each: *Provided,* That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $15,000 during the fiscal year 1920. Temporary laborers, etc. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily 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. Legal holidays.Per diem employees and day laborers allowed pay for. Sec. 5. That all per diem employees and day laborers of the District of Columbia who have been regularly employed for fifteen working days next preceding such days as are legal holidays in the District of Columbia, and whose employment continues through and beyond 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. Miscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from. Sec. 6. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropri-103ation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, Vol. 33, p. 368.approved April 27, 1904, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Sec. 7. That the commissioners and other responsible officials, in Material, supplies, etc.Purchases to be made 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 other officials, before purchasing any of the articles described herein, to Duty before purchasing elsewhere.ascertain from the Government of the United States whether it has articles of the character described that are serviceable. And articles Price 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 United Sales authorized, etc.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. In every case where any material, supplies, including food supplies, Purchases from other sources to be explained.and equipment coming under the provisions of this section shall have been purchased from any other source than the various services of the Government, it shall be affirmatively shown that the provisions of this section have as far as possible been complied with. Sec. 8. That the sum of $75,000 shall be transferred to the credit Transfers from District credits in the Treasury.Repayment of advances, 1878.of the United States from the amount in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia to pay the indebtedness of the District of Columbia to the United States on account of the unpaid balance of the advances to defray District of Columbia expenses of the fiscal year of 1878, as provided by section 17 of the Vol. 19, p. 402.Act providing for the support of the District of Columbia for said fiscal year, approved March 3, 1877; and said sum shall be transferred to the credit of the United States from the amount in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia immediately upon the approval of this Act. Sec. 9. That the sum of $75,000 shall be transferred to the credit Advances for public schools, 1877.of the United States from the amount in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia to pay the indebtedness of the District of Columbia to the United States on account of advances for the support of public schools of the District of Columbia, Vol. 19, p. 347.as provided by a clause of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved March 3, 1877; and said sum shall be transferred to the credit of the United States from the amount in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia immediately upon the approval of this Act. Sec. 10. That the sum of $50,865 shall be transferred to the credit Advances for Georgetown school building, 1875.of the United States from the amount in the Treasury of the United 104States to the credit of the District of Columbia to pay the indebtedness of the District of Columbia to the United States on account of advances to defray the expenses of constructing and equipping a school building in Georgetown, District of Columbia, as provided Vol. 18, p. 404.in the Act approved March 3, 1875; and said sum shall be transferred to the credit of the United States from the amount in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia immediately upon the approval of this Act. Injuries to Government employees.Compensation for, extended to District employees.Vol. 39, p. 742. Sec. 11. That all of the provisions of the Act of Congress approved September 7, 1916, entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” are hereby extended to employees of the government of the District of Columbia Police and firemen excepted.so far as they may be applicable, except to those members of the police and fire departments of the District of Columbia who are Vol. 39, p. 718.pensioned or pensionable under the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved September 1, 1916. Such Mode of payment.compensation as the commission provided for in said Act may award to employees of the government of the District of Columbia shall be paid in the manner provided by law for the payment of the general expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia. For Appropriation, etc.carrying out the provisions of this section, there is appropriated $5,000; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall submit annually to Congress, through the Secretary of the Treasury, estimates of appropriations necessary for the foregoing purpose. Public cabs, etc.Loitering in front of hotels, theaters, etc., forbidden. Sec. 12. That the loitering of public cabs and hacks or vehicles of all descriptions around or in front of the hotels, theaters, or public buildings in the District of Columbia, either by stopping, except to take on or discharge a passenger, or unnecessarily slow driving, is Penalty for willful violations.hereby prohibited, and any driver of any such cab or hack who willfully causes the same to loiter either by stopping or slow driving as aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished in the police court of the District of Columbia by a fine of not less Regulations, etc., to be made.than $10 nor more than $40 for such offense. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered to make any regulations that may be necessary in furtherance of the purpose of this section, and are hereby given authority to revoke the license of the driver of any public hack or cab who is convicted of a violation of this section. Rent profiteering.Provisions to prevent, extended.Vol. 40, p. 593.*Post,* p. 304. Sec. 13. That the provisions of the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to prevent rent profiteering in the District of Columbia,” approved May 31, 1918, are extended and continued in full force and effect for a period of ninety days following the definite conclusion of a treaty of peace between the United States and the Imperial German Government. Approved, July 11, 1919.