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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · June 30, 1922 · Chapter 70

Chapter 70. Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 70.— An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes. February 22, 1921. [[H. R. 15130](/us/bill/66/hr/15130).] [[Public, No. 326](/us/pl/66/326).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia appropriations. That 40 per centum of the following sums, respectively, is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and 60 per centum out of theSixty per cent from District revenues. 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, 1922, only, namely:
Appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, heretoforeSame proportion for other District appropriations for fiscal year 1922. or hereafter made in other Acts and chargeable in any proportion against the revenues of the District of Columbia, shall be paid in the proportions of 40 per centum from the Treasury of the United States and 60 per centum from the revenues of the District of Columbia. If the estimated net revenues of the District of Columbia for theTaxation increases authorized if revenues insufficient. fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, are not sufficient to meet the proportion of the appropriations for that fiscal year charged against such revenues by this and all other Acts, or which may be estimated to be charged against such revenues by Acts that may be approved during such fiscal year, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall increase the rates of taxation on real estate and tangible personal property sufficiently to make up the difference: *Provided, however,**Proviso.*Limitation.
That such rates of taxation shall in no event be less than 1½ per centum nor more than 2 per centum. GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. Executive office: Two commissioners, at $5,000 each; engineerExecutive office.Salaries, Commissioners, etc. commissioner, so much as may be necessary (to make salary $5,000); secretary, $2,700; three assistant secretaries to commissioners, at $1,600 each; clerks—one $1,500, three at $1,400 each, one $1,200, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,200, one $840, two at $720 each; two messengers, at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200;
Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departmentsVeterinary division. of the District government, $1,400; Purchasing division: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy purchasingPurchasing division. officer, $1,800; computer, $1,440; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,600, three at $1,500 each, twelve at $1,200 each (five of whom shall be stenographers and typewriters), one $1,100, three at $1,000 each; storekeeper, $1,200; messenger, $600; driver, $600; inspectors—one of materials, $1,400, two at $900 each; two property-yard keepers, at $1,000 each; temporary labor, $250;
Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistantBuilding inspection division. inspectors of buildings—principal $2,000, one $1,500, one $1,400, nine at $1,360 each; fire-escape inspector, $1,400; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, $1,000; civil engineers or computers—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,500; clerks—chief $1,800, one $1,050, one $1,000, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,000, one $900; messenger, $600; assistant inspector, $1,500;
Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, $2,000;Plumbing inspection division. assistant inspectors of plumbing—principal, $1,550, six at $1,360 each; clerks—two at $1,200 each, one $900; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, $3,000; draftsman, $1,350; sewer tapper, $1,000; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each; In all, executive office, $128,670. 1110 Care of District Building:
Assistant superintendent, $2,000;Care of District Building. Salaries. chief engineer, $1,600; two assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; electrician, $1,400; dynamo tender, $880; four firemen, at $840 each; three coal passers, at $600 each; electrician’s helper, $880; eight elevator conductors, at $600 each; laborers—two at $660 each, two at $500 each; two chief cleaners (who shall also have charge of the lavatories), at $500 each; services of cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 30 cents per hour, $9,000; matron, $600; storekeeper, $900; chief watchman, $1,000; assistant chief watchman, $660; eight watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube operator, $600; in all $40,000.
Assessor’s office: Assessor, $3,500; assistant assessors—three atAssessor’s office. $3,000 each, one $2,000; five field men at $2,000 each; record clerks— one $1,800, two at $1,500 each, two (who shall also be typists) at $1,400 each, one $1,200; clerks—three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, one $900, one $720; draftsmen—one $1,600, two at $1,200 each; two stenographers and typewriters at $1,200 each; assistant or clerk, $900; messenger, $600; board of assistant assessors—clerk, $1,500; vault clerk, $900; messenger and driver, $600; temporary clerk hire, $500; in all, $56,920.
Special assessment office: Special assessment clerk, $2,000;Special assessment office. clerks—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, one $900, one $750; in all, $8,650. Personal tax board: Three assistant assessors of personal taxes,Personal tax board. at $3,000 each; chief inspector of personal property, $1,800; appraiser of personal property, $1,800; clerk, $1,400; assistant clerk, $1,000; two inspectors, at $1,200 each; extra clerk hire, $2,000; intangible personal property—two clerks at $1,500 each, five inspectors at $1,200 each, clerk to board of personal tax assessors, $1,800, clerk, $1,200; in all, $31,400.
License bureau: Superintendent of licenses (who shall also beLicense bureau. secretary to the automobile board without additional compensation), $2,000; clerks—one at $1,400, 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; temporary clerk hire, $1,500; in all, $13,200. Collector’s office: Collector, $4,000; deputy collector, $2,000;Collector’s office. chief clerk, arrears division, $2,000; cashier, $1,800; two assistant cashiers, at $1,500 each; bookkeeper, $1,600; three bailiffs, at $1,200 each; clerks—six at $1,400 each; thirteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, one $720; clerk and bank messenger, $1,200; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $53,620.
Auditor’s office: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper,Auditor’s office. $1,800; accountant, $1,500; clerks—three at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, one $1,350, four at $1,200 each, seven at $1,000 each, one $936, two at $900 each, two at $720 each; stenographer and typist, $1,400; messenger, $600; property survey officer, $1,800; teachers’ retirement section: Clerks—one $1,800, one $1,500; disbursing officer, $3,000; deputy disbursing officer, $1,600; clerks— two at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger, $600; in all, $56,276.
Office of corporation counsel: Corporation counsel, $4,500;Corporation counsel’s office. assistants—first $3,000, second $2,500, third $2,000, fourth $1,800, fifth $1,500, sixth $1,500, seventh $1,500; clerk, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; two stenographers, at $900 each; clerk, $720; in all, $23,420. Sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of theSinking fund office. United States: For additional compensation to the clerk in the office of the Treasurer of the United States designated by the Treasurer to perform the necessary clerical service in connection with the1111 sinking fund and payment of interest on the debt of the District of Columbia, $500.
Coroner’s office: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistantCoroner’s office. morgue master and janitor, $600; hostler and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600. Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets:Superintendent of weights, measures, and markets. Salaries. *Post*, p. 1217. Superintendent, $2,500; inspectors—chief, $1,500, five at $1,200 each; clerk, $1,200; market masters—two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; assistant market masters—two at $780 each, two at $600 each, one $300; watchman, $600; laborers—five at $600 each, five at $480 each; in all, $24,460.
Engineer commissioner ’s office: Engineer of highways, $3,000;Engineer Commissioner’s office.Engineers, superintendents, etc. engineer of bridges, $2,500; superintendents—one of streets $2,000, one of suburban roads $2,250; sanitary engineer, $3,300; asphalts and cements—inspector $2,400; trees and parkings—superintendent $2,000, assistant superintendent $1,350; assistant engineers—two atAssistant engineers, etc. $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; draftsmen—one $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; general inspector of sewers, $1,300;Inspectors, etc. inspectors of sewers, $1,200; bridge inspector, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,500 each, one $1,400, five (including two of streets) at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; foremen—thirteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,050 each, eight at $900 each; bridge keepers—one $650, three at $600 each; chief clerk, $2,250; permit clerk, $1,500; assistantClerks, et. permit clerk, $1,000; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,500 each, one $1,400, two at $1,350 each, seven at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, three at $840 each, one $720, one $600; seven messengers, at $600 each; skilled laborer, $625; laboratory assistant, $1,200; janitor, $720; steam engineers—principal, $2,090, one $1,800, two at $1,760 each, three assistants at $1,460 each; six oilers, at $960 each; six firemen, at $1,160 each; storekeeper, $900; superintendent of stables, $1,500; blacksmith, $975; two watchmen, at $630 each; two drivers, at $630 each; in all $184,530.
Central Garage: Superintendent, $1,500; two mechanics andCentral garage. drivers, at $1,000 each; in all, $3,500. Municipal architect’s office: Municipal architect, $3,600;Municipal architect’s office. engineering assistant, $2,400; superintendent of construction, $2,000; chief draftsman, $1,800; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,300; heating, ventilating, and sanitary engineer, $2,000; superintendent of repairs, $1,800; assistant superintendent of repairs, $1,350; boss carpenter, boss tinner, boss painter, boss plumber, boss steam fitter, boss grader, six in all, at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,050, one$l,000, one $720; copyist, $840; driver, $600; in all,$31,460.
Public Utilities Commission: Executive secretary, $4,000;Public Utilities Commission. accountant, $3,000; traffic engineer, $3,000; assistant accountant, $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; statistical clerk, $1,400; inspectors—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400; inspector of gas and meters, $2,000; inspector of electric meters, $1,800; assistant inspectors—one $1,200, two at $900 each; clerks—two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; two messengers, at $720 each; in all, $32,240; For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorizedExpert services, etc. by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, $7,500;
In all, Public Utilities Commission, $39,740. Street cleaning division: Superintendent, $3,000; assistantStreet cleaning division. superintendent, $1,800; chief clerk, $1,400; stenographer and clerk, $1,000; clerks—two at $1,200 each; one $1,100, one $1,000, two at $720 each; chief inspector, $1,300; inspectors—four at $1,200 each,1112 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, atExaminers, steam engineers. $300 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 $1,000 each; stenographer, $1,000; temporary clerk hire $600; in all, $12,000. 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, additionalTemporary services. field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $4,000, all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the commissioners; In all, $30,000. Minimum Wage Board: Secretary, $2,500; clerical, contingent,Minimum Wage Board.From District revenues. and miscellaneous expenses, $2,500; in all, $5,000, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
District of Columbia Employees’ Compensation Fund: For carryingEmployees’ Compensation Fund.Payment for injuries.*Ante*, p. 104. out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employeesVol. 39, p. 742. of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $5,000.
Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch: Librarian,Free Public Library and Takoma Park Branch.Salaries. $4,000; assistant librarian, $2,000; chief, circulating department, $1,760; director of children’s work, $1,600; director of reference work, $1,500; children’s librarian, $1,200; supervisor of school work, $1,260; librarian’s secretary, $1,200; Takoma Park branch librarian, $1,200; chiefs of divisions—order and accessions $1,200, industrial $1,200; reference librarian, $1,200; chief, catalogue department, $1,400; assistants—one $1,200, one in charge of periodicals $1,200, eight at $1,000 each, seven (including one for the Takoma Park branch) at $900 each, six (including one for Takoma Park branch) at $780 each; copyist, $780; classifier, $1,000; shelf lister, $1,120; cataloguers—one $960, one $900, two at $780 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,100, one $1,000; attendants—two at $900 each, eleven at $780 each; collator, $780; four messengers, at $720 each; ten pages, at $420 each; four janitors, at $720 each, one of whom shall act as night watchman; janitor of Takoma Park branch, $660; engineer, $1,300; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $77,800.
For substitutes and other special and temporary service, includingSubstitutes. the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the discretion of the librarian, $3,500. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays,Sunday, etc., opening. $3,000. Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park branch: For books,Miscellaneous. periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscriptions books, and society publications, $12,500;
For binding, by contract or otherwise, including necessary personal services, $7,000; 1113 For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunchroom equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $11,000; For extraordinary repairs and improvements to the buildings of theExtraordinary repairs. free public libraries, $3,000; In all, $33,500. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.Contingent expenses.
For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals,Items specified. stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, Board of Charities, including an allowance to the purchasing officer and to the secretary of the Board of Charities of not exceeding $360 each per annum for maintenance of vehicles for use in the discharge of their official duties, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, superintendent of weights, measures, and markets office, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, $45,000.
For printing all annual and special reports of the government ofPrinting reports for fiscal year 1921. the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, for submission to Congress, $5,000: *Provided, *That authority is hereby*Proviso.* Discretionary discontinuance. given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to discontinue the printing of any annual or special reports of the government of the District of Columbia in order to keep the expenditures within this appropriation.
In all cases where the printing of said reports is discontinued,Preservation, etc., of originals. the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for public inspection. 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, $30,000;
For the purchase of six new automobiles (to replace horse-drawnPurchases. vehicles) for use of the various departments of the government of the District of Columbia, and for the exchange of such automobiles now owned by the District of Columbia as, in the judgment of the commissioners of said District, have or shall become unserviceable, $5,000: In all, for motor vehicles, $35,000. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District: *Provided,**Proviso.* Limit of cost.
That no automobile shall be acquired hereunder, by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650. Appropriations in this Act shall not be expended for the purchaseUse of horses, etc., restricted. or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for the use of the 1114 commissioners, or for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for inspection or other purposes for those officials or employees provided with motor vehicles.
Appropriations in this Act, except appropriations for the militia,Expenses of 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 ofFire insurance prohibited. premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendentTelephones 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,Connections. under appropriations contained in this Act.
The commissioners may connect any or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia, as in their judgment may be most economical to the District. For postage for strictly official mail matter, $12,500.Postage. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnishCar fares. necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of car fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided, *That the expenditures*Provisos.*Limit. herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $8,000: *Provided further, *That the provisions of this paragraph shallFiremen and police not included. not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments.
For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title,Judicial expenses. the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $5,000. For purchase and maintenance, hire of livery, or means of transportationCoroner’s expenses. for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness 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, $7,000.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forAdvertising. General. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $6,000. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1921, as requiredTaxes in arrears. Vol. 26, p. 24. to be given by Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $5,000. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toRemoving dangerous buildings.
Vol. 30, p. 923. authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1899, to pay members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, the unexpended balance of the appropriationReappropriation.*Ante*, p. 843. made for this purpose for the fiscal year 1913 is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1922. 1115 For furnishing to the office of the assessor copies of wills, petitions,Copies of wills, etc., to assessor. and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, $1,000.
For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, including services ofRecorder of deeds. Office rent. cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 30 cents per hour, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $6,000. The recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia is authorized andPay for copying deeds, etc. directed to pay for copying instruments filed for record in his office 40 per centum of the fees collected by him for filing, indexing, and recording said instruments, and the same rate of compensation for making copies of the records of his office, and employees of the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia when employed therein by the day shall receive compensation at the rate of $2.50 for each day so employed, payable out of the fees and emoluments of said office.
For purchase of metal identification number tags for horse-drawnVehicle tags. vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $17,500. For repair of buildings owned and used by the District of Columbia,Repairing fire injuries.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 844. when injured by fire, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000 for such purpose for the fiscal year 1921 is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1922. For medicines, surgical and hospital supplies for office of veterinaryVeterinary supplies. surgeon, $500.
Building inspection division: To reimburse three elevator inspectorsMotor vehicles.Elevators inspection. for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official inspection of elevators, $15 per month each, $540. For transportation, means of transportation, and maintenance ofAutomobiles 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 inspectorsPlumbing inspection. of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia, $15 per month each, $540. District Building: For fuel, light, power, repairs (including $8,000District Building. Maintenance. for special repairs to the roof), laundry, mechanics, and labor not to exceed $5,000, and miscellaneous supplies, $42,500. Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets:
ForSuperintendent of W eights, 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, including salary ofMarkets. engineer for refrigerating plant at not exceeding $1,200 per annum, $8,000. For maintenance and repair of four motor vehicles at $360 each,Motor vehicles. $1,440.
For allowance to the superintendent of weights, measures, and markets for maintenance of motor vehicle used in the performance of official duties, at not to exceed $30 per month, $360. For completion of south shelter at Farmers’ Produce Market,Farmers’ Produce Market. $4,200. Surveyor’s office: For making surveys to mark permanently onSurveys, highways system. the ground the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, $2,000. Employment Service: For personal services and miscellaneous andEmployment service.
Maintenance expenses. contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $7,500. 1116 IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. Assessment and permit work: For assessment and permit work,Assessment and permit work. including maintenance of motor vehicles, $285,000. Street improvements: For paving, repaving, grading, andStreet improvements. otherwise improving streets, avenues, suburban roads, and suburban streets, respectively, including the maintenance of motor vehicles, as follows:
Northeast: For paving Eleventh Street, D Street to MarylandPaving Eleventh Street NE. Avenue, thirty-two feet wide, $10,260; Southeast: For paving Sixteenth Street, G Street to KentuckyPaving Sixteenth Street SE. Avenue, thirty feet wide, $9,405; Southeast: For paving Kentucky Avenue, Fifteenth Street toPaving Kentucky Avenue SE. Sixteenth Street, forty feet wide, $13,680; Northwest: For grading Thirteenth Street, Buchanan Street toGrading Thirteenth Street NW. Shepherd Street, $14,155;
Northwest: For paving Webster Street, Sixteenth Street to SeventeenthPaving Webster Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $10,260; Northwest: For paving Upshur Street, Rock Creek Church RoadPaving Upshur Street NW. to Second Street, forty-five feet wide, $3,420; Northwest: For paving Allison Street, Fifteenth Street to SixteenthPaving Allison Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $7,125; Northwest: For paving Seventh Street, Webster Street to AllisonPaving Seventh Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $6,460;
Northwest: For paving Taylor Street, east of Fourteenth Street,Paving Taylor Street NW. thirty feet wide, $7,885; Northeast: For paving Bryant Street, east of North Capitol Street, thirty feet wide, $5,985;Paving Bryant Street NE. Northeast: For paving Evarts Street, east of North Capitol Street,Paving Evarts Street NE. thirty feet wide, $4,750; Northwest: For repaving the cobble roadway of C Street, Thirteen-and-a-half Repaving C Street NW. Street to Fourteenth Street, forty feet wide, $4,750;
Northwest: For paving the roadway of New Hampshire AvenuePaving New Hampshire Avenue and Grant Circle NW. between Upshur Street and Grant Circle, fifty feet wide with ten-foot center parking, and the roadway around Grant Circle, forty feet wide, with standard asphalt pavement, including resetting existing curb where required, $35,910; Northwest: For grading Second Street, Laurel Street to WhittierGrading Second Street, Eastern Avenue, Whittier Street, First Street, and Van Buren Street NW.
Street; Eastern Avenue, Laurel Street to Whittier Street; Whittier Street, First Street to Second Street; First street, Whittier Street to Van Buren Street; and Van Buren Street, First Street to Second Street, $10,795; In all, $144,840, to be disbursed and accounted for as “StreetAccounting. Improvements” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Rock Creek Ford Road: The Commissioners of the District ofRock Creek Ford Road.Closing of designated portion of, authorized. Columbia are hereby authorized to close that portion of Rock Creek Ford Road lying between Broad Branch Road and Rittenhouse Street upon the application in writing of the owner or owners of all of the property abutting on said road between the limits named, and upon the closing of said road the land embraced therein shall revert to the owners of the abutting property.
Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase andGrading. Repair of cars, carts, tools, or hire of same, and horses; and labor of the inmates of the Washington Asylum and Jail may be used in connection with this work, $35,000. Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase orCondemnation. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. To carry out the provisions contained in the District of ColumbiaPermanent highways system.Extending streets, etc., to conform with.
Vol. 37, p. 950. Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1914 which authorize the commissioners to open, extend, or widen any street, avenue, road, or 1117 highway to conform with the plan of the permanent system of highways in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, there is appropriated such sum as isFrom District revenues. necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year 1922, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Repairs—Streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work ofRepairs of streets, etc. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and including the maintenance of motor vehicles, and includingMotor vehicles. an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month for an automobile for use for official purposes, $575,000. This appropriation shallStreet railways pavements.Vol. 20, p. 105. be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies 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 ColumbiaChanging 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 be made unless there shall*Proviso.*Restriction. result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement.
For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around publicSidewalks, etc. reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $20,000. Repairs to suburban roads: For current work of repairs toSuburban roads. Repairs, etc. suburban roads and suburban streets, including the purchase of three light motor vehicles with truck bodies in exchange for one motor cycle, and including maintenance of motor vehicles, $250,000. Bridges: For construction and repair, including the allowanceBridges.Construction, repairs, etc. to the overseer of bridges for the maintenance of an automobile for use in performance of his official duties of not to exceed $30 per month, $27,500.
This appropriation shall be available for repairing, when necessary, any bridge carrying a public street over the right of wayStreet bridges over railroad rights of way. or property of any railway company, or for constructing, reconstructing, or repairing in such manner as shall in the judgment of the commissioners be necessary reasonably to accommodate public traffic, any bridge required to carry or carrying such traffic in a public streetOver canals. over the right of way or property of any canal company operating as such in the District of Columbia, on the neglect or refusal of such railway or canal company to do such work when notified and required by the commissioners, and the amounts thus expended shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the property of such railway company or of such canal company, and shall be collected from such railway company or from such canal company in the manner provided inVol. 20, p. 105. section 5 of 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.
For reconstruction of trestle and bins in N Street northeast, betweenTrestle, etc., N Street NE. First and Second Streets, $30,000. Highway Bridge across Potomac River: Draw operators—two atHighway Bridge. $1,020 each, two at $720 each; four watchmen, at $720 each; labor, $2,000; lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind, necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $9,640; in all, $18,000. Hereafter the jurisdiction and control of the Highway Bridge acrossTransferred to control of Commissioners. the Potomac River, including appropriations and employees, shall be under the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 1118 Anacostia River Bridge:
For employees, miscellaneous supplies,Anacostia Bridge. and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $4,000. SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins and the maintenanceCleaning, etc. of motor vehicles, $80,000. For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service,Pumping service. including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks, $80,000.
For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $120,000.Main and pipe. For suburban sewers, including the maintenance of motor vehicles,Suburban. $225,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $125,000.Assessment and permit work. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,Rights of way. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $7,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. STREETS.Streets. 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,Vehicles, etc. and other equipment; allowance to inspectors and foremen for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed for each inspector or foreman $25 per month for a horse-drawn vehicle, $30 per month for an automobile, and $15 per month for a motor cycle; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $375,000.
Disposal of city refuse: To enable the commissioners to carryDisposal of city refuse.Vol. 40, p. 539.*Ante*, p. 38. 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 motor cycles; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps; and incidental expenses, $800,000: *Provided, *That any*Provisos.*Deposit of proceeds. proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations for such purposes are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided further, *That this appropriation shall not be available for collectingUse restricted. ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels, places of business, large apartment or boarding houses.
Section 12 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminatingHighway Bridge.Vol. 31, p.773, amended. certain grade crossings in the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said, company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to 1119 enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February 12, 1901, is amended by adding thereto the following: " “And such tax shall be a lien, until paid, upon all the propertyPassenger tax on street railways using.Enforcement. of such street railway company and may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by a bill in equity brought by the Commissioners of said District in the Supreme Court of said District against such street railway company; and in addition thereto the District of Columbia shall have all common-law remedies for the collection of such tax and shall be entitled to those provided in paragraph 12,Vol. 32, p. 621. section 6, of the Act entitled ‘An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for other purposes,’ approved July 1, 1902.
” " Parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers,Parking commission. trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, maintenance of two motor trucks, and miscellaneous items, $50,000. Bathing beach: Superintendent, $720; two watchmen, at $500Bathing beach. each; temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $8,000.
Playgrounds: For salaries—Supervisor, $2,500; inspector ofPlaygrounds. Salaries. playgrounds, $1,200; clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $1,200; to be employed not exceeding ten months—twenty-two directors of playgrounds or recreation centers at $75 per month each, assistant director at $60 per month; general utility man at $60 per month; to be employed not exceeding seven months—three assistant directors at $60 per month each, four assistant directors at $50 per month each; to be employed not exceeding four months—six guards or swimming teachers at $60 per month each; to be employed not exceeding three months—four assistant directors at $60 per month each, twenty-two assistants at $50 per month each; to be employed twelve months—twenty-two watchmen at $50 per month each, clerk (who shall be a bookkeeper) at $75 per month; for services of extra directors at not exceeding 35 cents per hour, $800; for services of extra watchmen at not exceeding 25 cents per hour, $600; in all, $46,220;
For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, construction ofMaintenance, etc. toilet facilities, wading pools, installation of telephones and telephone service, installation of electric lights and electric service, grading, and repairs, including labor and materials, and transportation of materials, maintenance and repair of storehouse, and necessary incidental and contingent expenses for all playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $35,000; For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, andSwimming pools. necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000;
For the purchase or condemnation of a piece of ground to take theNew sites for playgrounds.Park View. place of the present site of Park View Playground, $32,000; For the purchase or condemnation of a piece of ground to take theLogan. place of Logan Playground, $17,000; In all, for playgrounds, $133,220, to be paid wholly out of theFrom District revenues. revenues of the District of Columbia. Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenienceConvenience stations. stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $20,000. 1120 Board for condemnation of insanitary buildings:
For allCondemning insanitary buildings. expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildingsVol. 34, p. 157. in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May 1, 1906, including personal services when authorized by the commissioners, $2,500. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department. Electrical engineer, $2,750; assistant electrical engineer, $2,000;Salaries. inspectors—one $1,000, four at $900 each; electrician, $1,200; two draftsmen, at $1,000 each; four telegraph operators, at $1,000 each; repairmen—expert $1,200, three at $900 each, one $840; telephone operators—chief $900, four at $840 each, one $720, ten at $600 each, one $540; electrical inspectors—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,350, four at $1,360 each; assistant electrician, $1,200; clerks—one $1,400, one $1,200, two at $1,125 each, one $1,050, one $750; assistant repairman, $620; laborers—two at $600 each, two at $540 each; messenger, $630; storekeeper, $875; in all, $55,655.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies,Supplies, contingent expenses, etc. telephone rental and purchase, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, purchase and repair of bicycles, allowance for the maintenance of not more than three automobiles at not to exceed $30 per month each, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, $25,000.
For placing wires of fire alarm, telegraph, police patrol, and telephonePlacing wires underground. service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, $5,000. For extension and relocation of police-patrol system, including purchasePolice patrol system. of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $2,000.
Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of publicLighting streets, etc. lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of theVol. 36, p. 1008. District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation ActVol. 37, p. 181. for the fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, $430,000.
For extension and relocation of fire-alarm system, including purchaseFire alarm boxes etc. 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, $6,000. For enlarging the fire-alarm headquarters apparatus, $3,000.Headquarters apparatus. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. Officers: Superintendent, $6,000; two assistant superintendents,Salaries. at $3,750 each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervisingOfficers. principals, supervisor of manual training, and director of primary instruction, sixteen in all, at a minimum salary of $2,400 each; secretary, $2,000; financial clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each (one of whom to carry out the provisions of the child-labor law); two stenographers, at $1,000 each; messenger, $720; in all, $72,220. 1121 Attendance officers:
Attendance officers—one $1,080, oneAttendance officers. $960, seven at $900 each; in all, $8,340. Teachers: For two thousand three hundred and six teachers atTeachers. minimum salaries as follows: Principal of the Central High School, $3,500: *Provided, *That thePrincipal, Central High. *Proviso.* Basic salary. principal of the Central High School shall be placed at a basic salary of $3,500 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Two assistant principals, one for the Central High School and oneAssistants, Central and McKinley High. for the McKinley Manual Training High School, at $2,400 each: *Provided, *That said assistant principals shall be placed at a basic*Proviso.* Basic salary. salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Principals of normal, high, manual-training high, and junior highOther principals. schools, ten, at $2,700 each: *Provided, *That the principals of the*Proviso.* Basic salary. normal, high, manual-training high, and junior high schools, other than the Central High School, now in the service of the public schools or hereafter to be appointed shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,700 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Two assistant principals, one of whom shall be dean of girls of theDeans of girls, Central and Dunbar High.
Central High School and one of whom shall be dean of girls of the Dunbar High School, at $2,400 each: *Provided, *That said assistant*Proviso.* Basic salary. principals shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science,Directors. domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $2,000 each: *Provided, *That the director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor*Proviso.* Penmanship. in the normal school and a director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,000 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Assistant director of primary instruction, $1,800: *Provided, *ThatAssistant director, 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 $1,800 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years; Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domesticOther assistant directors. science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $1,800 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 $1,800 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years;
Assistant supervisor of manual training, $1,800;Manual training, assistant supervisor. Heads of departments in high and manual-training high schools inOther teachers. group B, of class six, fourteen, at $2,200 each; Normal, high, and manual-training high schools, promoted for superior work, group B of class six, forty-two, at $2,200 each; Group A of class six, including seven principals of grade manual-training schools, four hundred and fourteen, at $1,440 each; Class five, one hundred and eighty-nine, at $1,200 each, including vocational and trade instructors;
Class four, five hundred and thirty-eight, at $1,200 each; Class three, five hundred and eighty-three, at $1,200 each; Class two, three hundred and ninety, at $1,200 each; Class one, one hundred and five, at $1,200 each: *Provided, *That*Provisos.*Full increased pay allowed. all teachers and librarians and clerks herein provided for shall be entitled to the full amount of any increased compensation granted for the fiscal year 1922 regardless of the increase herein made: *Provided further, *That if the full amount of such increased compensa-1122tion Limitation. should make the total compensation of any teacher in excess of $2,740 per annum, then only such portion of the increased compensation as will make the total compensation of such teacher equal $2,740 per annum shall be allowed;
In all, for teachers, $2,955,660. The salaries appropriated herein for teachers, clerks, and librarians,Salaries in lieu of present basic rates. in all classes during the fiscal year 1922 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*Proviso.*Additional for fiscal year 1922. year ending June 30, 1922, 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, 1921.
Librarians and clerks at minimum salaries as follows:Librarians and clerks. Ten librarians in high and normal schools in class five, at $1,200 each; thirty-five clerks in class four, at $960 each; in all, $45,600. Vacation schools: For the proper care, instruction, and supervisionVacation schools. of children in the vacation schools and playgrounds, and supervisors, teachers, and janitors of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors, teachers, and janitors of day schools, $20,000.
Longevity pay: For longevity pay for director of intermediateLongevity pay. instruction, supervising principals, supervisor and assistant supervisor of manual training, principals of normal, high, manual training high, and junior high schools, the assistant principals of the Central and McKinley Manual Training High Schools, the assistant principal (who shall be dean of girls) of the Central High School, the assistant principal (who shall be dean of girls) of the Dunbar High School, principals of grade manual training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, principal and teachers in Americanization work, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians to be paid in strict conformity with the provisionsVol. 34, p. 320. of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of educationVol. 35, p. 289;
Vol. 36, p. 393; Vol. 37, p. 156 of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, as amended by the Acts approved May 26, 1908, May 18, 1910, and June 26, 1912, $575,000: *Provided, *That no part of this sum shall be paid to any*Proviso.* Efficiency requisite. person who, in the opinion of the board of education and the superintendent of schools, has an unsatisfactory efficiency rating. Allowance to principals: For allowance to principals of gradePrincipals.Additional pay for graded schools. school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act, entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers,Vol. 34, p. 320. school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, $40,000.
Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools, includingNight schools. teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $75,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipmentEquipment, etc. and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $5,000. Teachers’ retirement fund: For payment of annuities, the unexpendedTeachers’ retirement fund.Reappropriation.*Ante*, pp. 389, 852. balances of the appropriations for such purpose for the fiscal years 1920 and 1921 are reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1922. 1123 Americanization workAmericanization work.Instructing foreigners of all ages.:
For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages in both day and night classes, including a principal, who, for ten months, shall give his full time to this work, at $1,800 per annum, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day school, $12,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books,Expenses. equipment, and supplies, $2,500. Kindergarten supplies: For kindergarten supplies, $6,000.Kindergartens.
Janitors and care of buildings and grounds: SuperintendentJanitors and care of specified buildings. of janitors, $1,500; Central High School (new): Engineer, $1,500; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; two electricians, at $1,200 each; four firemen, at $720 each; two coal passers, at $600 each; janitor, $1,100; three assistant janitors, at $900 each; gardener, $840; night watchman, $720; two charwomen, at $480 each; fifteen laborers, at $720 each; in all, $27,100; Dunbar High School:
Engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $720 each; two coal passers, at $600 each; janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; nine laborers, at $720 each; two charwomen, at $480 each; night watchman, $720; in all, $14,900; Central High School
(old)and annex: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; four laborers, at $720 each; in all, $4,600; Business High School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; skilled laborer, $720; four laborers, at $720 each; in all, $5,500; J. Ormond Wilson Normal School and Ross School: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $800; skilled laborer, $720; night watchman, $720; four laborers, at $720 each; in all, $6,120; Jefferson School: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $3,160; Western High School: Janitor, $1,100; skilled laborer, $720; three laborers, at $720 each; in all, $3,980; Franklin School: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $3,160; Myrtilla Miner Normal School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $900; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $720 each: charwoman, $480; in all, $4,540; Eastern High School: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; laborer, $720; in all, $2,440; Stevens School: Janitor, $1,000; skilled laborer, $720; laborer, $720; in all, $2,440; 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 $720 each; in all, $9,260; Armstrong Manual Training School: Janitor, $1,000; assistant janitor, $720; engineer and instructor in steam engineering, $1,200; assistant engineer, $900; night watchman, $720; fireman, $720; three laborers, at $720 each; in all, $7,420; M Street High School
(Old)and Douglass and Simmons Schools: Engineer, $1,000; janitor, $900; skilled laborer, $720; three laborers, at $720 each; in all, $4,780; Birney and annex, Elizabeth V. Brown, Emery, New Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Gage, Park View, Petworth, Powell, Takoma, Van Buren, Wallach, and West Schools: Thirteen janitors, at $1,000 each; thirteen laborers, at $720 each; in all, $22,360; Brookland, Bryan, Burrville, Congress Heights, Curtis, Deanwood, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Grover Cleveland, Henry, Langdon, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Randall, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, and Strong John Thomson Schools: Twenty-four janitors, at $840 each; twenty-four laborers, at $720 each; in all, $37,440; 1124 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, 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, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatley, Wilson, Woodburn, and Wormley Schools, and building between Eighteenth and Twentieth Streets and Monroe and Newton Streets northeast: Seventy-one janitors, at $720 each; in all, $51,120; Brightwood Park, Crummell, Kenilworth, and Wisconsin Avenue Manual Training Schools: Four janitors, at $600 each; in all, $2,400; Bunker Hill, Hamilton, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Smothers, Stanton, Threlkeld, and Military Road Schools: Nine janitors, at $600 each; in all, $5,400; Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, and Fort Slocum Schools: Three janitors, at $250 each; in all, $750; For matrons in the normal and high schools, including the following:Matrons in designated schools. Wilson Normal, Miner Normal, New Central High, Dunbar High, Business High, Western High, Eastern High, McKinley Manual Training High, Armstrong Manual Training High, Junior High (white), and Junior High (colored), eleven in all, at $600 each, $6,600; In all, $235,370. For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cookingSmaller buildings and rented rooms. Care, etc. and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $17,500. Medical inspectors: Chief medical and sanitary inspector, whoMedical 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 public schoolsDivision. 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. For ten graduate nurses, three of whom shall be colored, whoGraduate nurses. shall act as public school nurses, at $1,200 each, $12,000. For the maintenance of free dental clinics in the public schools:Dental operators. Eight dental operators, at $700 each; four dental prophylactic operators, at $900 each; equipment and supplies, $2,000; in all, $11,200. Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and grounds, repairRent, etc. shop, storage and stock rooms, $16,500. For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the secondEquipment of temporary rooms, etc. grade, now on half time, and to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by operation of the compulsory education law, and for purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, $6,000. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and groundsRepairs and improvements. and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $225,000. For wiring and improving the Johnson School building, $2,500.Johnson Building. 1125 For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material,Manual training expenses. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $45,000. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $165,000.Fuel, light, and power. For furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades forFurniture, for additions. additions to buildings, equipment for kindergartens, and tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: Eight-room addition to the Petworth School, eight-roomSpecified buildings. addition to the Deanwood School, eight-room addition to the Burrville School, eight-room addition at Eighteenth and Monroe Streets, Northwest, eight-room addition to the West School, eight-room addition to the Takoma School, and equipment of the Phelps School, $38,460, to be immediately available; three kindergartens, $2,400; two sewing schools, $800; one housekeeping and cooking school, $1,000; one cooking school, $700; two manual-training shops, $1,640; in all, $45,000. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,Contingent expenses. stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for high-school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of not exceeding $300 per annum for livery of horse or not exceeding $360 per annum for garage for each the superintendent of schools, the superintendent of janitors, the two assistant superintendents, the director of primary instruction, the school cabinetmaker, the supervising principal in charge of the white special schools, the chief medical and sanitary inspector of schools, and the supervising principal of the colored special schools, and including not exceeding $3,000 for books of reference and periodicals, $75,000. For the purchase of sanitary paper towels and for fixtures for dispensingPaper towels. the same to the pupils, $3,000. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools,Pianos. at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,500. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the firstSupplies to pupils. eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education, and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including necessary labor not to exceed $1,000, one bookkeeper and custodian of textbooks and supplies at $1,200 and one assistant at $800, $100,000: *Provided, *That the board of education,*Proviso.*Exchanges. in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. For purchase of United States flags, $900.Flags. For maintenance and repair of seventy-two playgrounds nowPlaygrounds. established, $3,000. For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school yardsSchool yards. for the purposes of play of pupils, $2,400. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenanceSchool gardens. of school gardens, $3,000. The board of education is authorized to designate the months inPay for nature study, etc., instruction. which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending thePhysics department supplies. equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, Junior, and Dunbar High Schools, $3,000. 1126 For purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials andChemistry and biology laboratories. technical books, for laboratories of the departments of chemistry and biology in the Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and Dunbar High Schools, and J. Ormond Wilson and Myrtilla Miner Normal Schools, and Junior High Schools, and installation of same, $3,000. For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture, $1,200.Cabinetmaker. For furniture and equipment for the junior high school for coloredFurniture, etc., junior high schools. pupils, $7,500. For furniture and equipment for the junior high school for white pupils, $7,500. Community Center Department: For salaries of directors, supervisors,Community center department.Salaries and expenses. teachers, clerks, and other employees for civic, educational, recreational, and social activities under the direction of the Board of Education; for payment of janitor service; for equipment and supplies; for lighting fixtures; for maintenance of automobile. Employees of the day schools may also be employees of the Community Center Department; in all, $35,000, to be paid wholly out of theFrom District revenues.*Proviso.*Pay restriction. revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided, *That not more than 60 per centum of this sum shall be expended for salaries of directors, supervisors, teachers, and clerks. The unexpended balance for the complete equipment and forDunbar High. Equipment. furniture and furnishings for the Dunbar High School contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved July 8, 1918, is reappropriatedReappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 822. and made available for the same purpose and shall be immediately available. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercularSchools for tubercular pupils.*Proviso.*Car fare. children, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* That expenditures for car fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of car fares covered by this Act. Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial AppropriationDouble pay restriction not applicable to vacation employment of teachers.Vol. 39, p. 120. Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 to September 15, 1921, to teachers of the public schools of the District of Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or independent establishments of the United States Government. The children of officers and men of the United States Army andArmy, Navy, etc.Children of admitted to schools. Navy and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside of the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. Buildings and grounds: Toward the construction of the newBuildings and grounds. Eastern High. Eastern High School, $240,000. For completing the construction of an eight-room addition to thePetworth. Addition. Petworth School, $61,000. For the completion of an eight-room addition to the DeanwoodDeanwood. Addition. School, including the purchase of additional land, $100,000. For additional amount required for an eight-room addition to theBurrville.Addition. Burrville School, $120,000; and the limit of cost is authorized to be extended to $210,000. For the completion of the erection of an eight-room buildingFifth division, northeast.New building. between Eighteenth and Twentieth Streets and Monroe and Newton Streets Northeast, $80,000. For the completion of an eight-room addition to the J. R. WestJ. R. West. Addition. School, $90,000. For the completion of an eight-room addition to Takoma School,Takoma.Addition. $80,000. For additional amount required for a twelve-room addition to theWheatley. Addition. Wheatley School, $54,000; and the commissioners are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for said building at a cost not toContract. exceed $250,000. For the erection of a four-room addition to the Henry D. CookeHenry D. Cooke.Addition. School, $90,000. 1127 For the purchase of land adjoining the Dunbar High School,Dunbar High.Adjoining land. $35,000. For the purchase of a site for an eight-room extensible building inMott.Site near. the immediate vicinity of the Mott School, $30,000. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized andSquare 3064.Auction sale of lots in. empowered to sell to the highest bidder at public auction the following-named property belonging to the said District of Columbia, in the District of Columbia: Lots 821 and 822 in square 3064, together with all improvements thereon: *Provided, *That if, in the*Proviso.*Rejection of bids, etc. opinion of the said commissioners, the highest bid made at said sale for any or all of said lots and improvements thereon is not a full and fair price for the same, the said commissioners shall have the right to reject such bid or bids and shall have the right to sell said property, after due advertisement, to the highest bidder under competitive proposals for the purchase of said property; and that the proceedsProceeds. of the sale of said lots and improvements thereon shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts. The appropriations herein made for the construction of schoolConstruction appropriations available at once. buildings shall be available immediately. The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildingsCost limited to authorizations. herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be made previously and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. Appropriations in this Act shall not be paid to any person employedSoliciting subscriptions, etc., prohibited. 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 donanation of money or other thing of value from pupils enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the board ofExceptions. education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in thisPreparation of plans. Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the board of education, and shall be approved by the commissioners, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shallDoors to open outward. 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 fromUnlocking, etc. one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attending theDeaf and dumb pupils. 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[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 952](/us/rs/s4864/p952).Vol. 31, p. 844. March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $20,250, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable ageColored deaf mutes. belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $4,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided, *That all*Proviso.* Supervision. expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. 1128 For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, inBlind children. Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided, *That all expenditures under this appropriation shall*Proviso.*Supervision. be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. Major and superintendent, $4,500; two assistant superintendents;Salaries. at $3,000 each; three inspectors, at $2,400 each; twelve captains, at $2,400 each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, $2,400; clerk (who shall be a stengorapher), $1,800; two clerks (who shall be stenographers), at $1,500 each; clerks—one (who shall be assistant property clerk) $1,200, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each, one $700; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at $1,600 each; additional compensation for thirty-five privates detailed for special serviceDetective service, etc. in the detection and prevention of crime, $16,800, or so much thereof as may be necessary; additional compensation for fourteen privates detailed for special service in the various precincts for the prevention and detection of crime, at the rate of $120 per annum, $1,680, or so much thereof as may be necessary; additional compensation for one inspector or captain and one lieutenant detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, at $400 each; twenty-one lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at $2,000 each; fifty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,800 each; privates—five hundred and one of class three at $1,660 each, two hundred and fourteen of class two at $1,560 each, eighty-nine of class one at $1,460 each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year 1922, $16,031.99; nine telephone clerks, at $900 each; eighteen janitors, at $600 each; laborer, $720; messenger, $600; inspector, mounted on horse, $540; thirty-eight captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on horses, at $540 each; motor vehicle allowance for twenty sergeants and privates, at $480 each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $70 each; driver-privates—thirty-one of class two at $1,560 each, five of class one at $1,460 each; amount required to pay salaries of driver-privates who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year 1922, $1,200; six police matrons, at $720 each; in all, $1,656,291.99. 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 stationRepairs, etc. grounds, $8,000; For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including purchase ofMiscellaneous. new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, not to exceed $200 for car tickets, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, 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 1129 other necessary expense, $50,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided, *That the War Department may, in its*Proviso.* Army mounted equipment. 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, $20,000, or so much thereofMotor vehicles. as may be necessary; For additional motor vehicles, $5,000; For the reconstruction of cell corridors and in making, erecting,Reconstructing cell corridors, etc. and placing therein modern locking devices in precinct station houses, $7,500; In all, $97,700. House of Detention: To enable the commissioners to provideHouse of Detention. transportation, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age, and, in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including two clerks, at $1,000 each; two drivers, at $780 each; attendants—one $1,200, four at $1,080 each; cook, $600; laundress, $500; janitor, $720; miscellaneous expenses, including clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of building, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies, and equipment, electricity, maintenance of motor station vehicle, and other necessary expenses, $20,320; in all, $31,220, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Harbor patrol: Two engineers, at $1,000 each; two firemen, atHarbor patrol. $660 each; watchman, $660; 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. To pay the relief and other allowances authorized by law, a sumPayments from.Vol. 39, p. 718. not to exceed $258,000 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN.Policemen and firemen. Officers and members of the fire and police departments of theWar service credited for pay, etc. District of Columbia who were granted leave of absence to serve in the military and naval forces of the United States during the World War and who were honorably discharged and returned to their employment in said departments shall be entitled to credit for classification and pay purposes as though such services had been rendered in said departments. FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. Chief engineer, $4,000; two deputy chief engineers, at $3,000 each;Salaries. eight battalion chief engineers, at $2,400 each; fire marshal, $2,400; deputy fire marshal, $2,000; four inspectors, at $1,660 each; chief clerk, $2,400; clerk, $1,400; clerk (who shall be a stenographer and 1130 typewriter), $1,660; thirty-eight captains, at $1,900 each; forty lieutenants, at $1,760 each; forty-one sergeants, at $1,700 each; superintendent of machinery, $2,500; assistant superintendent of machinery, $2,000; two pilots, at $1,700 each; two marine engineers, at $1,700 each; two assistant marine engineers, at $1,660 each; two marine firemen, at $1,460 each; privates—two hundred and eighty-two of class three at $1,660 each, two hundred and thirteen of class two at $1,560 each, four of class one at $1,460 each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year 1922, $9,000; hostler, $1,080; laborer, $1,000; in all, $1,092,860. Miscellaneous: For repairs and improvements to engine housesRepairs to buildings. and grounds, $20,000; For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motordrivenRepairs to apparatus, etc. apparatus, and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools: *Provided, *That the commissioners*Proviso.* Construction at repair shop. are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire department repair shop, $22,000; For hose, $16,000;Supplies. For fuel, $35,000; For purchase of horses, $2,000; For forage, $15,000; For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $2,500; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil,Contingent expenses. medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, cost of installation and maintenance of telephones in the residences of the superintendent of machinery and the fire marshal, $25,000; In all, $137,500. Permanent improvements: For three fire engines, motor driven,New apparatus, etc. at $13,000 each; For three combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, at $6,800 each; For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $14,500; For one city-service truck, $9,000; For one water tower, motor driven, $15,500; For installing steam heat in engine and truck houses, $5,000;Installing steam in houses. In all, $103,400. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health department. Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerkSalaries. and deputy health officer, $2,500; chief, bureau of vital statistics, $1,800; clerks—one $1,600, five at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $720; sanitary inspector—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, twelve at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; food inspectors—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, six at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; chemist, $2,000; assistant chemist, $1,500; chief of bureau of preventable diseases and director of bacteriological laboratory, $2,750; serologist, $2,500; two assistant bacteriologists, at $1,200 each; laboratory assistant, $840; skilled laborers—one $720, one $600; two messengers, at $600 each; two chauffeurs, at $720 each; poundmaster, $1,400; watchman, $600; laborers, at not exceeding $65 per month each, $3,120; in all, $96,390. 1131 To carry out the Act to regulate the hours of employment and safeguardFemale employment. the health of females employed in the District of Columbia, approved February 24, 1914, namely: For three inspectors (two ofInspectors, etc. Vol. 38, p. 291. whom shall be women) at $1,200 each; stenographer and clerk, $900; in all, $4,500. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spreadPreventing spread of diseases, etc. Vol. 29, p. 635; Vol. 34, p. 889. of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved FebruaryTuberculosis registration.Vol. 35, p. 126. 9, 1907, and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District 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 infantileInfantile 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 referenceSmallpox hospital. books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, $40,000: *Provided, *That any bacteriologist*Proviso.* Bacteriologist, etc., examinations. 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 orDisinfecting service. compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $7,000. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for theDrainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the DistrictAbating nuisances. Vol. 34, p. 114. of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $1,000. For special services in connection with the detection of the adulterationFood, etc., adulterations. of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $200. Bacteriological laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in goodBacteriological laboratory. order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000. Apparatus, equipment, cost of installation, supplies, and other expenses incidental to the biological and serological diagnosis of disease, $750. Chemical laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order,Chemical laboratory. and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act toEnforcing milk regulations. Vol. 28, p. 709. regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1895; an Act relating to the adulterationFood, candy, etc. Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398. of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; an Act for preventingPure food law. Vol. 34, p. 768. the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and 1132 for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, $1,000. For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, includingInspecting dairyfarms, etc. amounts that may be allowed the health officer, assistant health officer, chief medical inspector in charge of contagious-disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for maintenance by each of a horse and vehicle at not to exceed $25 per month, or motor vehicle at not to exceed $30 per month, for use in the discharge of his official duties, and allowances for such other inspectors in the service of the health department as the commissioners may determine, of not to exceed $15 per month for maintenance of a motor cycle each, or of not exceeding $25 per annum for the maintenance of a bicycle each, for use in the discharge of their official duties, and other necessary traveling expenses, $7,500. Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minorIsolating wards at hospitals. contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $10,000 and $6,500, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $16,500. For necessary repairs to the annex (contagious disease ward) ofRepairs.Garfield Hospital. the Garfield Memorial Hospital, $3,000. For necessary repairs to the annex (contagious disease ward),Providence Hospital. Providence Hospital, $2,000. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory,Crematory. $2,500. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the poundVehicles. service, $600. For equipping, maintaining, and operating the motor-ambulance, and keeping it in good order, $600. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatmentTuberculosis and venereal diseases dispensaries. of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, and supplies, $12,500: *Provided, *That the commissioners may accept*Provisos.*Volunteer services. such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further, *That this shall not be construed to authorizePay prohibition. the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. For clinical examination, advice, care, and maintenance of childrenChild Welfare Society.Care of children undersix. under six years of age, under a contract to be made with the Child Welfare Society by the health officer of the District of Columbia, $18,000. To aid persons of moderate means who are suffering from tuberculosisTuberculosis sufferers.Aid to. to obtain adequate sanitarium and hospital care, $3,000. COURTS.Courts. For eleven copies of volumes fifty-six and fifty-seven of the reportsCourt of Appeals, reports.Vol. 32, p. 609. of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, authorized to be furnished under section 229 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia as amended July 1, 1902, at $5 each, $110. Probation system, Supreme Court: Probation officer, $2,200;Probation system, supreme court. assistant probation officer, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter and assistant, $900; contingent expenses, $325; maintenance of motor vehicle used in performance of official duties, at not to exceed $30 per month, $360; in all, $5,185. Juvenile court: Judge, $3,600; clerk, $2,000; deputy clerk, who isJuvenile court.Salaries. 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 1133 records in clerk’s office, $1,080; probation officers—chief, $2,000; assistant chief (who shall also be investigating officer for children’s cases) $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one for adult cases $1,200, five at $1,000 each; investigating officer for juvenile work, $1,400; 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, $31,080. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900;Miscellaneous. For transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, $300; The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances for returning, etc., absconding probationers. advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court, upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50. at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia; For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained at court awaiting trial, $100; For rent, $2,000;Rent, etc. For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, $500; For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $3,000; In all, $6,800. Police court: Two judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $2,200; deputyPolice court.Salaries. clerks—one $1,600, three at $1,500 each, two at $1,200 each; deputy financial clerk, $1,500; deputy assistant financial clerk, $1,500; probation officer, $1,500; three assistant probation officers, at $1,200 each; stenographer, $1,200; seven bailiffs, at $900 each; deputy marshal, $1,000; janitor, $600; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman, $600; assistant janitor, $300; matron, $600; four cleaners, at $360 each; telephone operator, $480; in all, $40,140. Miscellaneous: 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, $4,500; For witness fees, $3,000;Witness fees, etc. For furniture and repairing and replacing same, $500; For lodging, meals, and accommodation of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, and for meals for prisoners, $300; For compensation of jurors, $10,000;Jurors. For repairs to building, $3,000; In all, $21,300. Municipal court: Five judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $1,500;Municipal court.Salaries. four assistant clerks, at $1,200 each; clerk and messenger, $840; elevator operator, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $26,580; For rent of building, $3,600;Rent, etc. For fixtures, and repairs to furniture and building, $500; 1134 For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $2,000; In all, municipal court, $32,680. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution ofLunacy writs.Vol. 33, p. 740. 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 pqr annum and a clerk at $900 who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $5,500. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.Interest and sinking fund. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, payable one-halfAmount. out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $975,408. EMERGENCY FUND.Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence,Expenses restricted. public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, $8,000: *Provided, *That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this*Proviso.* Purchases. Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. COURTS AND PRISONS.Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts out of the District. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts;. expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $125,000. Courthouse, District of Columbia: For care and protection,Courthouse, D. C. Care, etc. under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, $1,200; electrician, $900; four watchmen, at $720 each; five laborers, at $600 each; six messengers, at $720 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; clerk to jury commissioner, $720; telephone operator, $720; attendant in ladies’ waiting room, $300; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $16,920, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Court of Appeals Building, District of Columbia: Two watchmen,Court of Appeals Building. Care, etc. at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; three laborers, at $600 each; mechanician (under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds), $1,200: *Provided, *That the clerk*Proviso.*Custodian. of the court of appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court; in all, $5,160. For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electricalExpenses. supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800. Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses andSupreme court. Witness fees, etc. payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $15,000. 1135 Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors, $60,000.Jurors. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, ofBailiffs, etc. office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, and per diems of jury commissioners, $28,000: *Provided, *That the compensation*Proviso.*Jury commissioners. of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $250. Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses asMiscellaneous expenses. may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, $15,000. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections. Board of Charities: Secretary, $3,500; assistant secretary andBoard of Charities. Salaries, etc. stenographer, $1,600; clerk, $1,400; clerk and stenographer, $1,400; messenger, $600; inspectors—two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $840; drivers—one (who shall also act as foreman of stables) $900, three at $720 each; hostler, $540; traveling expenses, including attendance on conventions, $600; in all, $20,740. For the maintenance of three motor ambulances, $1,800. reformatories and correctional institutions.Reformatories, etc. Washington Asylum and Jail: Superintendent of hospital,Washington Asylum and Jail.Salaries. $1,800; visiting physician, $1,200, two resident physicians, at $480 each; two assistant resident physicians, at $120 each; clerk, who shall be a stenographer, $1,000; engineer, $900; three assistant engineers, at $600 each; night watchman, $480; blacksmith and woodworker, $500; driver for dead wagon, $365; hostler and driver for supply and laundry wagon, at $240 each; hospital cook, $650; assistant cooks—two at $300 each, one $180; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, $1,200; two graduate nurses, at $480 each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, $480; two nurses for annex wards, at $540 each; nurse for operating room, $540; eight orderlies and two orderlies for annex wards, at $400 each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty-one in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed $200 per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed $225 per annum during second year of service), $4,450; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, $720; gardener, $540; seamstress, $300; housekeeper, $420; laundryman, $720; assistant laundryman, $450; three laundresses, at $360 each; two chambermaids, three waiters, and seven ward maids, at $180 each; temporary labor, not to exceed $1,200; operator of X-ray machine, $600; pathologist, $600; assistant for laboratory, $600; anaesthetist, $300; dentist, $300; in all, $33,855; Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles andHospital expenses. repair to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including an allowance to the superintendent of not exceeding $360 per annum for maintenance of vehicles for use in discharge of his official duties, $75,000; For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware,Repairs to buildings, etc. cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, $3,000; 1136 For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An Act makingPayment to abandoned families, etc.Vol. 34, p. 87. 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, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia, on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District. Support of prisoners: For maintenance of jail prisoners of the DistrictSupport of jail prisoners. of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, maintenance of automobile, and for the support of prisoners, $85,000; In all, Washington Asylum and Jail, $198,355. Home for Aged and Infirm: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk,Home for Aged and Infirm.Salaries. $900; matron, $600; chief cook, $720; baker and laundryman, at $540 each; chief engineer, $1,000; assistant engineer, $720; mechanic, $1,000; physician and pharmacist, $480; second assistant engineer, $480; nurse, $600; two male attendants and two nurses, at $360 each; two female attendants, at $300 each; orderly, $360; three firemen, at $360 each; assistant cooks—one $360, one $180; foreman of construction and repair, $840; blacksmith and woodworker, $540; farmer, $720; truck gardener, $600; four farm hands, dairyman, and tailor, at $360 each; seamstress, $240; laundress, hostler and driver, at $240 each; three servants, at $144 each; night watchman, $240; temporary labor, $2,000; in all $21,052; For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including maintenance of motor trucks, $45,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000; For renewal of floors, $2,000; For renewal of plumbing, $5,000; For renewal and repairs to boiler feed pumps and pipe-line valves and wall around boilers, $2,500. In all, Home for Aged and Infirm, $79,552. National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenanceNational Training School for Boys.Care, etc., of boys. of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $67,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. National Training School for Girls: Superintendent, $1,200;National Training School for Girls.Salaries. matron, and four teachers, at $600 each; overseer, $720; two parole officers, at $600 each; seven teachers of industries, at $480 each; engineer, $720; assistant engineer, $600; night watchman, $480; two laborers, at $300 each; in all, $11,880; For groceries, provisions, 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, $22,500; In all, National Training School for Girls, $34,380. 1137 medical charities.Medical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to beCare of indigent patients in designated hospitals, etc. made by the Board of Charities with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Freedmen’s Hospital, $40,000. Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $17,000. Children’s Hospital, $13,000. Providence Hospital, $13,000. Garfield Memorial Hospital, $13,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $20,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $5,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $5,000. Georgetown University Hospital, $5,000. George Washington University Hospital, $6,000. Tuberculosis Hospital: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician,Tuberculosis Hospital. $600; assistant resident physician, $300; roentgenologist, $600; pharmacist and clerk $780; superintendent of nurses and engineer, at $720 each; pathologist, $300; matron, dietitian, chief cook, assistant engineer, laundryman, and eight graduate nurses, at $600 each; assistant cooks—one $360, two at $240 each; assistant engineer, $600; elevator conductor, $300; three laundresses, at $240 each; farmer, laborer, night watchman, four orderlies, and assistant laundryman, at $360 each; three ward maids, at $240 each; four servants, at $240 each; in all, $20,640; For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. 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; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, includingRepairs, etc. roads and sidewalks, $2,500; In all, Tuberculosis Hospital, $73,140. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For continuing constructionGallinger Hospital. of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $500,000. child-caring institutions.Care of children. Board of Children ’s Guardians: For administrative expenses,Board of Children’s Guardians. Expenses. including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $25, and all office and sundry expenses, $4,000; and no part of the moneys herein appropriatedLimitation, etc. shall be used for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of Children’s Guardians placed outside the District of Columbia and the States of Virginia and Maryland, and a ward placed outside said District and the States of Virginia and Maryland shall be visited not less than once a year by a voluntary agent or correspondent of said board and that said board shall have power upon proper showing, in its discretion, to discharge from guardianship any child committed to its care. Salaries: Agent, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, one $900; stenographer,Salaries. $900; placing and investigating officers—five at $1,200 each, one $1,000, nine at $900 each; record clerk, $900; messenger, $500; laborer, $500; in all, $21,800; For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored),Feeble-minded children. $35,000; For board and care of all children committed to the guardianshipBoard, etc., of children. of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 to institutions 1138 adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $160,000; In all, Board of Children’s Guardians, $220,800. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances to agent. advance to the agent of the Board of Children’s Guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. Industrial Home School for Colored Children: Superintendent,Industrial Home School for Colored Children. Salaries. $1,200; clerk, $900; supervisor of boys, $780; matron of school, $480; three caretakers, two assistant caretakers, nurse, and sewing teacher, at $360 each; three teachers, at $480 each; manual-training teacher, $600; farmer and blacksmith and wheelwright, at $480 each; farm laborer, $360; stableman and watchman, at $300 each; two cooks, at $240 each; two laundresses, at $240 each; temporary labor not to exceed $500; in all, $11,300; For maintenance, including care of horses, wagons, and harness,Maintenance, etc. and maintenance of automobile, $18,000; For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,500; For manual training equipment and materials, $600; In all, Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $31,400. AllDeposits of receipts from sale of products, etc. moneys received at said school, as income from sale of products and from payment of board or of instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and to the credit of the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations for such institutions are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia. Industrial Home School: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisorIndustrial Home School. Salaries. of boys, $780; matron, $480; three matrons, at $360 each; housekeeper and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two assistant matrons, at $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 ofMaintenance, etc. wagon and harness, $25,000; For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $3,000; In all, Industrial Home School, $38,540. For care and maintenance of children under contracts to be madeCare of children in designated institutions. by the Board of Children’s Guardians with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, $2,500; Washington Home for Foundlings, $1,500; Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, $1,000. temporary homes.Temporary homes. Municipal lodging house and wood yard: Superintendent, $1,200;Municipal lodging house. foreman, $480; cook, $360; maintenance, $2,000; in all, $4,040. Temporary home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand ArmyGrand Army Soldiers’ etc., home. of the Republic: Superintendent, $1,200; janitor, $360; cook, $360; maintenance, $5,000; in all, $6,920, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners: and ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the 1139 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 contractHope and Help Mission. to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, $3,000. Southern Relief Society: For care and maintenance of needySouthern 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. National Library for the Blind: For aid and support of the NationalLibrary for the Blind. 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 PolytechnicColumbia 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. Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of theSupport of indigent insane. District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $800,000. For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance withDeporting 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, $5,000. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of theAdvances of Board of Charities. 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: For relief of the poor, including pay ofRelief of the poor. physicians to the poor at not exceeding $1 per day each, who shall be appointed by the commissioners on the recommendation of the health officer, $12,000. Transportation of paupers: For transportation of paupers,Transporting paupers. $2,000. Workhouse and Reformatory: Superintendent, $4,000; physician,Workhouse and Reformatory.Salaries. $1,680; chief engineer, $1,200; electrician, $1,200; superintendent of commissary, $1,080; in all, $9,160. Workhouse (administration): Assistant superintendent, $1,680;Administration. chief clerk, $1,200; head matron, $900; stenographer, $720; Operation: Foremen—construction $900, stone-crushing plant $900,Operation. sawmill $900; superintendent brickkiln, $1,500; clay worker, $480; Maintenance: Superintendent of clothing and laundry, $840;Maintenance. 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, eighteen 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; superintendent of farm, nursery, dairy, and poultry department, $1,200; in all, $49,080; For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and supportExpenses of maintenance, etc. 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, 1140 equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation, and means of transportation; supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, $85,000; For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, $42,500;Fuel. For construction, dynamite, oils, repairs to plant, and material forConstruction, repairs etc. repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $30,000; In all, $206,580, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Reformatory: Assistant superintendent, $1,800; chief clerk,Reformatory.Salaries. $1,200; assistant clerk and stenographer, $1,000; steward, $1,500; captain of day officers, $1,200; six instructors, at $1,200 each; ten day officers, at $900 each; captain of night force, $1,080; six night officers, at $720 each; parole officer, $1,200; overseer, $1,200; in all, $30,700; For continuing construction of permanent buildings, includingConstruction. sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, $50,000; For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and supportExpenses of maintenance, etc. of inmates; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment; transportation and means of transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation; supplies and labor, and all other necessary items, $50,000. For fuel for maintenance, $8,000;Fuel. For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $3,000;Repairs, etc. In all, $141,700, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. MILITIA.Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and directionExpenses authorized. of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers requiredCamps, drills, etc. to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments, damages to private property incident to encampments, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills and parades, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses, practice ships, boats, machinery and dock, dredging alongside of dock, telephone service, horses and mules for mounted organizations, street 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, $7,000.Rent, etc. For printing, stationery, and postage, $1,000. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, andExpenses. contingent expenses, $1,000. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, $1,000. For clerk, office of the adjutant general, $1,000. For expenses of target practice and matches, $2,500. For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursedPay of troops. under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $10,000. 1141 REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS.Refund of erroneous collections. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments,Payments authorized. 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 AnacostiaContinuing development of, etc.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 in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $175,000, to be expended below Benning Bridge. PARKS.Small parks. For the condemnation of small park areas at the intersection ofCondemnation expenses. streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the commissioners, $25,000. WATER SERVICE.Water service. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenuesAmounts wholly from water revenues. of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of the water department, namely: washington aqueduct.Washington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenanceMaintenance of, reservoir, tunnel, filtration plant, etc. and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $170,000. For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenanceConduit Road. of Conduit Road, $5,000. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious breakEmergency fund. requiring immediate 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, the unexpended balanceReappropriation. *Ante*, p. 871. of the appropriation for such purposes for the fiscal year 1921 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1922; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. The appropriation of $90,000 for additional pumping facilities toAdditional pumps. supply water to the filters, made in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, is reappropriated and madeReappropriation for.*Ante*, p. 870. available for the fiscal year 1922. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendenceControl of Secretary of War not affected. and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. 1142 water department.Water department. For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall alsoRevenue and inspection branch. perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; eight meter computers, at $1,000 each; meter clerk, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,000 each, nineteen at $900 each; messenger, $600; For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400;Distribution branch. assistant engineers—one $1,800, one $1,700; master mechanic, $2,500; foreman, $1,800; assistant foremen—one $1,275, one $1,200, one $1,125, one $900; steam engineers—chief $1,800, two at $1,760 each, three assistants at $1,460 each; chief inspector of valves, $1,600; leveler, $1,200; inspector, $1,200; draftsman, $1,050; clerks— one $1,800, one $1,500, three at $1,200 each; stores clerk—one $1,500, two at $1,000 each; timekeeper, $900; two rodmen at $900 each; two chainmen at $675 each; four oilers at $960 each; three firemen at $1,160 each; janitor, $900; drivers—one $700, one $630; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $96,350. For maintenance of the water department distribution system,Operation expenses. including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, water meters, and all buildings and accessories, and the purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work, and including a sum not to exceed $100 for the purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the water department, and to reimburse three employees for the provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official work in the District of Columbia, $15 per month each; and for contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books, and periodicals, not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $5,000; in all for maintenance, $420,000. For twelve-inch water main on east side of Sixteenth Street betweenNew main. I and U Streets northwest, $35,000. For extension of the water department distribution system,Distribution extension. laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $100,000. The rates of assessment for laying or constructing water mains andAssessments for laying mains, etc., increased. Vol. 33, p. 244. service sewers in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the laying of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of assessments therefor, and for other purposes,” approved April 22, 1904, are hereby increased from $1.25 to $2 and $1 to $1.50, respectively, per linear front foot for any water mains and service sewers constructed or laid during the fiscal year 1922. For installing water meters on services to private residences andWater meters in residences, etc. business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $20,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, machinery, and appurtenancesInstalling hydrants, etc. required for necessary extensions, $20,000. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,Construction work work under Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed. transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street cleaning or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably 1143 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 expenditures*Proviso.*Limit. hereunder shall not exceed $100,000 during the fiscal year 1922. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarilyTemporary laborers, etc. such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and roadwork, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessaryHorses, vehicles, etc.Special authority from Commissioners for using. for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in the annual estimates shall report theReport, etc. number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided, *That such horses, horse-drawn*Proviso.*Temporary work on excavations. vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen,Water department. Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed. 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 paid to each: *Provided, *That the expenditures hereunder shall*Proviso.*Limit. not exceed $15,000 during the fiscal year 1922. The commissions are further authorized to employ temporarilyTemporary laborers, etc. such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and 1144 expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 5. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in theMiscellaneous trust funds. Expenses payable from. Vol. 33, p. 368. execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-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, bookkeeper in the auditor’s office, clerk in the office of the collector of taxes, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire therefor motor trucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the commissioners, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, and including the maintenance of motor vehicles, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Sec. 6. That the commissioners and other responsible officials, inMaterial, supplies, etc.Purchases directed from stock of Government activities no longer needed by them. expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible, shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, from the various services of the Government of the United States possessing material, supplies, and equipment no longer required because of the cessation of war activities. It shall be the duty of the commissioners and otherDuty before purchasing elsewhere. officials, before purchasing any of the articles described herein, to ascertain from the Government of the United States whether it has articles of the character described that are serviceable. And articlesPrice stipulation. purchased from the Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government of theSales, etc., authorized. United 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, *That this section shall not be construed to amend, alter,*Proviso.*Transfers under Executive order not affected. or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities. Sec. 7. That on and after July 1, 1921, all fees, fines, and otherReceipts from fees, etc.To be deposited to credit of United States and District in proportion to fiscal year appropriations. miscellaneous items of revenue theretofore required by law to be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts shall be paid for each fiscal year into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the same proportions as appropriations for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for such fiscal year are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia; and all collections on account of special assessments forSimilar division of special assessment collections. public improvements for which assessments are levied according to the law shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations used in paying for such assessment work are charged, respectively, against the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States. Sec. 8. That the Commissioners are authorized in their discretion,Leaves of absence.Per diem employees allowed fifteen days. and under such regulations as they may prescribe, to grant not exceeding fifteen days leave of absence with pay each year to per diem employees of the District of Columbia who have been employed for ten consecutive months or more. Approved, February 22, 1921.
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