Chapter 148. Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 148.— An Act Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes. February 28, 1923.[[H. R. 13660](/us/bill/67/hr/13660).][[Public, No. 457](/us/pl/67/457).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in order to District of Columbia.Appropriations for expenses of, 40 per cent from the Treasury, and remainder from District revenues.defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, 40 per centum of each of the following sums, except those herein directed to be paid otherwise, is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and all the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia and such advances from the Federal Treasury as are authorized in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES. General expenses. executive office. Executive office. Salaries: Two commissioners, at $5,000 each; engineer commissioner, Salaries of Commissioners, etc.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 Veterinary division.departments of the District government, $1,400, and for medicines, surgical and hospital supplies, $350; Purchasing division salaries: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputy Purchasing division.purchasing officer, $1,800; computer, $1,440; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,600, three at $1,500 each, twelve at $1,200 each (five of whom 1328shall 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, $100;
Building inspection division. Building Inspection Division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistant inspector of buildings—one $2,000, three at $1,500 each, one $1,400, nine at $1,360 each; fire-escape inspector, $1,400; civil engineers or computers—one $2,000, three at $1,800 each, one $1,500; clerks—chief, $1,800, one $1,050, three at $1,000 each, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,000, one $900; messenger, $600; assistant inspector, $1,500; for temporary additional assistant inspectors, $15,000;
Motor vehicles for inspectors. To reimburse three inspectors of elevators for expenses incurred by them in the maintenance of their own motor cycles incident to the performance of their official duties, at the rate of $10 each per month, $360; To reimburse five inspectors for expenses incurred by them in the maintenance of their own automobiles incident to the performance of their official duties, at the rate of $20 per month each, $1,200; Plumbing inspection division. Plumbing Inspection Division:
Inspector of plumbing, $2,000; assistant inspectors of plumbing—two at $1,550 each, 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; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each; Motor cycles for inspectors. To reimburse five assistant inspectors of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of five motor cycles for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia,$10 per month each, $600;
In all, Executive Office, $154,180. District Building. care of district buildings. Operating force, etc. Salaries: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; chief engineer, $1,600; three 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; six watchmen, at $600 each; pneumatic-tube *Proviso*.Assistant engineers, etc.operator, $600; in all, $40,000: *Provided*, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Building. assessor’s office.
Assessor’s office. Salaries: Assessor, $3,500; assistant assessors—three at $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, five 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, $1,000; in all, $61,020. 1329 special assessment office.
Salaries: Special assessment clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $1,400, Special assessment office.three at $1,200 each, one $900, one $750; in all, $8,650. personal tax board. Salaries: Three assistant assessors of personal taxes, at $3,000 Personal tax boardeach; 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.
Salaries: Superintendent of licenses, $2,000; clerks — two at License bureau.$1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; inspector, $1,200; inspector of licenses, $1,200; assistant inspector of licenses, $1,000; messenger, $600; temporary clerk hire, $1,500; in all, $14,600. For purchase of metal identification tags for horse-drawn vehicles Vehicle tags.used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $17,500. collector’s office. Salaries:
Collector, $4,000; deputy collector, $2,000; chief clerk, Collector’s office.arrears division, $2,000; cashier, $1,800; two assistant cashiers, at $1,500 each; bookkeeper, $1,600; four bailiffs, at $1500 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, $54,820. auditor’s office. Salaries: 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. Salaries: Corporation counsel, $4,500; assistants—first $3,000, Corporation counsel’s office.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. coroner’s office.
Salaries: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistant morgue Coroner’s office.master and janitor, $600; laborer and janitor, $480; in all, $3,600: *Provided*, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act *Proviso*.Restriction on transportation of incumbent on January 1, 1922.shall be used either directly or indirectly for the transportation of the incumbent of the office of coroner on January 1, 1922. For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor wagon for Expenses of morgue, inquests, etc.the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the 1330morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $6,000. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.
Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets. Salaries: Superintendent, $2,500; inspectors—chief, $1,500, five at $1,200 each; clerk, $1,200; market masters—two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; assistant market masters—two at $780 each, two at $600 each; watchman $600; laborers—five at $600 each, five at $480 each; in all, $24,160. Inspection, etc. For purchase of small quantities of groceries, meats, provisions, and so forth, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $300.
Markets, etc. For maintenance and repairs to markets, including salary of engineer for refrigerating plant at not exceeding $1,200 per annum, $7,000. Motor trucks. For maintenance and repair of four motor trucks, at $360 each, $1440. Fish wharf. For replacing piling at the municipal fish wharf and market, $1,000. Engineer Commissioner’s office. engineer commissioner’s office. Engineers, superintendents, etc. Salaries: Engineer of highways, $3,000; engineer of bridges, $2,500; superintendents—one of streets, $2,000, one of suburban roads, $2,250; sanitary engineer, $3,300; inspector of asphalts and cements, $2,400; trees and parkings—superintendent $2,000, assistant Assistant engineers, etc.superintendent $1,350; assistant engineers—two at $2,200 each, four at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, four at $1,500 each, two at $1,350 each, one $1,200; transitmen—three at $1,200 each, one $1,050; rodmen—eight at $900 each, four at $780 each; chainmen—six at $720 each, six at $650 each; draftsmen—one at $1,500, two at Inspectors, etc.$1,200 each, one $1,050; general inspector of sewers, $1,300; inspector of sewers, $1,200; bridge inspector, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, one at $1,000, one $900; foremen— thirteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,050 each, eight at $900 each;
Clerks, etc.bridge keepers—one $650, three at $600 each; chief clerk, $2,250; permit clerk, $1,500; assistant permit clerk, $1,000; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,500 each, one $1,400, two at $1,350 each, seven at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, three at $840 each, one $720, one $600; seven messengers, at $600 each; skilled laborer, $625; laboratory assistant, $1,200; 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, $182,210. central garage.
Central garage. Salaries: Superintendent, $1,500; two mechanics, at $1,000 each; in all, $3,500. municipal architect’s office. Municipal architect’s office. Salaries: Municipal architect, $3,600; engineering assistant, $2,400; superintendent of construction, $2,000; chief draftsman, $1,800; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,300; heating, ventilating, and sanitary engineer, $2,000; superintendent of repairs, $1,800; assistant superintendent of repairs, $1,350; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,050, one $1,000, one $720; copyist, $840; driver, $600; in all, $23,060. 1331 For purchase of one truck of one and one-half tons capacity, and Trucks, etc.one truck of one-half ton capacity, to cost not exceeding $2,000 and $650 each, respectively, and two Ford runabouts of the “slip-on” body type without self-starter, not exceeding $550 each, in all, $3,750. public utilities commission.
Salaries: Executive secretary, $4,000; accountant, $3,000; traffic Public utilities commission.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; messenger, $720; in all, $31,520. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized Incidental expenses.Use for special counsel forbidden.by law, $5,000, and no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the employment of special legal services by the Public Utilities Commission. board of examiners, steam engineers.
Salaries: Three members, at $150 each. $450. Examiners, steam engineers. department of insurance. Salaries: Superintendent of insurance, $3,500; examiner, $3,000; Insurance department.deputy and examiner, $2,000; statistician, $1,700; clerk-stenographer, $1,500; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographer, $1,000; temporary clerk hire, $600; in all, $16,500. surveyor’s office. Salaries: Surveyor, $3,000; assistant surveyor, $2,000; clerks—Surveyor’s office.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; services of temporary draftsmen, Temporary employees, etc.computers, laborers, additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $10,000, no part of which sum shall be expended without the written authority of the commissioners; in all, $36,000.
For making surveys to mark permanently on the ground the Permanent highways system, surveys, etc.permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, $2,000. For revision of the highway plan, $1,500. minimum wage board. Salaries: Secretary, $2,500; clerical, contingent, and miscellaneous Minimum wage board.From District revenues.expenses, including the purchase of books of reference and periodicals, $2,500; in all, $5,000, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That after April 30, 1923, *Proviso*.Limitation on expenditures.until the constitutionality of the Act creating this board shall have been determined by the Supreme Court of the United States there shall not be expended from this appropriation or from the appropriation for this board for the remainder of the fiscal year 1923 a greater sum than at the rate of $1,600 per annum for personal services and $400 per annum for contingent and miscellaneous expenses. 1332 Rent commission. rent commission.
Salaries and expenses.Vol. 41, p. 298. For salaries and expenses authorized by section 103, Title II, of the “Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act, *Ante*, p. 200.approved October 22, 1919, as amended by the Act approved August *Anti*, p. 543.24, 1921, extending the Rent Commission until May 22, 1922, and the Act approved May 22, 1922, extending the said commission until May 22, 1924, $51,750, of which $23,000 shall be available exclusively for the salaries of members of the commission.
Employees’ compensation fund. district of columbia employees’ compensation fund. Payment for injuries.Vol. 41, p. 104. For carrying 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 Vol. 30, p. 742.the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $10,000.
Public library. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Salaries. Salaries: Free Public Library—Librarian, $4,000; assistant librarian, $2,000; chief, circulating department, $1,760; director of children’s work, $1.600; director of reference work, $1,500; children’s librarian, $1,200; supervisor of school work, $1,260; librarian’s secretary, $1,200; 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, six at $900 each, five 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; engineer, $1.300; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $240 each;
Takoma Park branch. Takoma Park Branch—Librarian, $1,200; assistants—one $900, one $780; janitor, 660; Southeast branch. Southeast Branch Library—Librarian, $1,400; first assistant, $1,200; assistants—one $1,000, one $880, one $780; janitor, $660; page, $420; in all, $84,140. Substitutes, etc. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, including the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the *Proviso*.Library stations limited.discretion of the librarian, $3,000: *Provided*, That no money appropriated by this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations not now in existence, but this limitation shall not apply to public-school buildings.
Sunday, etc., opening. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $2,500. Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park and Southeast branches: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscriptions books, and society publications, $17,500. Binding. For binding, including necessary personal services, $7,000. Contingent expenses. For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of 1333bicycles and motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $12,500. mount pleasant branch library.
Mount Pleasant branch. For the purchase of a site for a branch of the Free Public Library Purchase of site for.in the Mount Pleasant-Columbia Heights section of the District of Columbia, $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and authority is hereby conferred upon the Commissioners of the District Acceptance of gift for constructing building.of Columbia to accept from the Carnegie Corporation of New York not less than $100,000 for the purpose of erecting a suitable branch library building on such a site, subject to the approval of said commissioners and the board of library trustees.
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; purchase of laboratory apparatus and equipment and maintenance of laboratory 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; horse-shoeing; ice, repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800 in the aggregate; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets, department of insurance, and Board of Charities, including an allowance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, not exceeding the rate of $20 per month, for the maintenance of an automobile to be furnished by him and used in the discharge of his offical duties, $47,500.
For printing all annual and special reports of the government of Printing reports for fiscal year 1923.the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, for submission to Congress, $5,000: *Provided*, That authority is *Proviso*.Discretionary discontinuance.hereby 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 Preservation of originals.said reports is discontinued, 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, $30,000. For purchase of two new automobiles for use of the various departments Purchase of new automobiles, etc.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, $4,000.
All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided Use by officials restricted.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, except as otherwise provided in this Act: *Provided*, That no automobile shall be acquired under any provision *Proviso*.Limit of cost.of this Act, by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including the value 1334of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650, except as may be herein Transfers forbidden.specifically authorized other than motor vehicles for the police and fire departments, but no such vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia.
Use of horses restricted. Appropriations in this Act shall not be expended for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for the use of the commissioners, or for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for inspection or other purposes for those officials or employees provided with motor vehicles. Expenses of horses, etc., limited. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.
Fire Insurance prohibited. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones allowed at residences of designated officials. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the street-cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, secretary of the Board of Charities, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, Connections permitted.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 or to both of such systems. Postage. For postage for strictly official mail matter, $16,500. Car fares, etc. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street car and bus *Provisos*.Limit.fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed Firemen and police excepted.a total of $7,000: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments.
Judicial expenses. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $4,000. Advertising.General. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $8,000. Taxes in arrears.Vol. 29, p. 24. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1923, as required to be given by the Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $5,000.
Removing dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1899, to pay each member 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, $500.
Condemning Insanitary buildings.Vol. 34, p 157. For all expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of in-1335sanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May 1, 1306, including personal services when authorized by the commissioners, $2,250. For copies of such wills, petitions, and other papers wherein Copies of wills, etc., to assessor.title to real estate is involved, for the use of the assessor of the District, $500.
For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, including services of Recorder 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. Hereafter the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia is Pay for copying deeds, etc.authorized and directed to pay for copying instruments filed for record in his office 40 per centum of the fees allowed by law 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 his office when legally 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: *Provided*, That no *Proviso*.Charges limited.charge for copying, or for filing, indexing, and recording, greater than that fixed by law, shall be made.
The Architect of the Capitol, in collaboration with the Commissioners Courthouse.Plans for addition to, for office of recorder of deeds, to be prepared.of the District of Columbia, shall prepare plans for the erection of a fireproof addition to the courthouse of the District of Columbia for the use of the office of the recorder of deeds and such other activities of the government of the District of Columbia as the commissioners may designate, including fireproof vaults and heating and ventilating apparatus, and such plans, together with an estimate of the cost of construction in accordance therewith, shall be transmitted to Congress on the first day of the next regular session. district building.
District Building. For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor not Operating expenses.to exceed $5,000, and miscellaneous supplies, $35,000. Employment service. employment service. Maintenance.From District revenues. For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $7,500, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. historical places. For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the Historical tablets.District of Columbia, $500. emergency fund.
Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, Expenses under, restricted.public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, $4,000: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all *Proviso*.Purchases.articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. 1336 Refund of erroneous collections. refund of erroneous collections.
Payments authorized of. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion that the appropriations for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year involved were or are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues or the District of Columbia, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly Building permits.Vol. 36, p. 967.or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved *Proviso*.Prior years.March 2, 1911, $1,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years.
Improvements and repairs. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR. Assessment and permit work. For assessment and permit work, including maintenance of motor vehicles, $285,000. Paving roadways. For paving roadways under the permit system, $50,000. Street improvements.Having, etc., streets, avenues, and suburban roads.Street improvements.—For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, suburban roads, and suburban streets, respectively, including the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, as follows:
Paving Rhode Island Avenue NE. Northeast: For paving Rhode Island Avenue, Sixteenth Street to District Line, fifty-six feet wide, $100,000: Paving Connecticut Avenue NW. Northwest: For paving west side of Connecticut Avenue, Ingomar Street to Chevy Chase Circle, 60 feet wide, $45,000; Northwest: For paving Connecticut Avenue, Porter Street to Tilden Street, 60 feet wide, $17,000; Northwest: For paving Connecticut Avenue, Van Ness Street northward, 60 feet wide, $54,000; Paving Bladensburg Road NE.
Northeast: For paving Bladensburg Road from end of asphalt northward, 60 feet wide, $110,000; Paving Nichols Avenue SE. Southeast: For paving Nichols Avenue, south entrance of Saint Elizabeths Hospital Grounds to Portland Street, 40 feet and 56 feet wide. $54,000; Paving Good Hope Road SE. Southeast: For paving Good Hope Road, Minnesota Avenue to Alabama Avenue, 24 feet wide, $15,000; Paving Alton Place NW. Northwest: For paving Alton Place, Thirty-eighth Street to Thirty-ninth Street, $8,400;
Paving Woodley Road NW. Northwest: For paving Woodley Road, Twenty-seventh Street to Twenty-eighth Street, $4,800; Paving Perry Place and Spring Place NW. Northwest: For paving Perry Place and Spring Place, end of pavement to Sixteenth Street, $6,000; Paving Spring Road NW. Northwest: For paving Spring Road, Fourteenth to Sixteenth Streets, $10,800; Paving Thirteenth Street NW. Northwest: For paving Thirteenth Street, Spring Road to Shepherd Street, $18,200; Paving Shepherd Street NW.
Northwest: For paving Shepherd Street west of Fourteenth Street. $5,000; Paving Thirteenth Street NW. Northwest: For paving Thirteenth Street, Hamilton Street to Jefferson Street, $12,600; Paving Ingraham Street NW. Northwest: For paving Ingraham Street, Georgia Avenue to Thirteenth Street, $4,800; Paving Jefferson Street NW. Northwest: For paving Jefferson Street, Georgia Avenue to Thirteenth Street, $4,800; Paving Ingraham Street NW. Northwest: For paving Ingraham Street, Eighth Street to Ninth Street, $6,000; 1337 Paving Crittenden Street NW.
Northwest: For paving Crittenden Street, Georgia Avenue to Eighth Street, $9,600; Paving Ninth Street NW. Northwest: For paving Ninth Street, Buchanan Street to Crittenden Street, $4,800; Paving Buchanan street NW. Northwest: For paving Buchanan Street, Georgia Avenue to Eighth Street, $9,600; Paving Eighth Street NW. Northwest: For paving Eighth Street, Buchanan Street to Crittenden Street, $4,800; Paving Seventh Street NW. Northwest; For paving Seventh Street, Varnum Street to Webster Street. $4,800;
Paving Varnum Street NW.Northwest: For paving Varnum Street, Grant Circle to Fourth Street, $3,600; Paving Fourth Street NW. Northwest: For paving Fourth Street, Varnum Street to Upshur Street, $4,800; Paving Kenyon Street NW. Northwest: For paving Kenyon Street, Mount Pleasant Street to Eighteenth Street, $11,000; Paving Kansas Avenue NW. Northwest: For paving Kansas Avenue, Quincy Street to Shepherd Street, $12,600; Paving Ascot Street NE. Northeast: For paving Ascot Street, Second Street to Third Street, $3,500;
Paving Third Street NE. Northeast: For paving Third Street, Adams Street to Bryant Street, $4,800; Paving Taylor Street NE. Northeast: For paving Taylor Street, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $8,000; Paving Sigsbee Place NE. Northeast: For paving Sigsbee Place, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $8,000; Paving Shepherd Street NE. Northeast: For paving Shepherd Street, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $7,000; In all $573,300, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Street Accounted for as one fund.improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund, and shall be available immediately.
Grading, streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase and Grading.repair of carts, tools or hire of same, and horses, $35,000. Condemnation: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, Condemnation.and alleys, $1,000. For the condemnation of small park areas at the intersection of Small park areas.streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the commissioners, $5,000. To carry out the provisions contained in the District of Columbia Opening, etc., for permanent highways system.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 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 is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year 1924, to Wholly from District revenues.be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Repairs: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, Repairs.including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and including the purchase of Motor vehicles.two motor trucks at a cost not to exceed $800 each, and including the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, and including an allowance of not to exceed $20 per month for an automobile for use for official purposes, $550,000. This appropriation shall be available Street railway pavements.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 Vol. 20, p. 105.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. 1338 Changing curb lines.Vol. 34, p. 1130.
The authority given the commissioners in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1907, to make such changes in the lines of the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved under appropriations *Proviso*.Restriction.contained in this Act: *Provided*, That no such change shall be made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement.
Sidewalks, etc. For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $15,000. Suburban roads, repairs. For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, $275,000. Bridges. bridges. Construction, repair, etc. For construction and repair including the purchase of one special motor vehicle at a cost not to exceed $2,000, $30,000. This appropriation Street bridges over railroads.shall be available for repairing, when necessary, any bridge carrying a public street over the right of way or property of any railway company, or for constructing, reconstructing, or repairing in such manner as shall in the judgment of the commissioners be necessary reasonably to accommodate public traffic, any bridge required to carry or carrying such traffic in a public street over the right of way Over canals.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 Reimbursement.or of such canal company, and shall be collected from such railway company or from such canal company in the manner provided Vol. 20, p. 105.in 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 the same proportions as the appropriations for such purposes have been or may be paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Highway Bridge. Highway Bridge across Potomac River: Draw operators—two at $1,020 each, two at $720 each; four watchmen, at $720 each; labor, $2,000; power and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $7,640; in all, $16,000. Anacostia Bridge. Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $4,500.
Francis Scott Key Bridge, formerly known as Georgetown Bridge. Georgetown Bridge, which shall hereafter be known as the Francis Scott Key Bridge, across Potomac River: For miscellaneous supplies and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the *Proviso*.Under Commissioners on completion.maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $2,000: *Provided*, That upon its completion the jurisdiction and control of the said bridge and approaches shall be under the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
Trees and parking. trees and parkings. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nursery-men, 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, $55,000. 1339 public convenience stations. For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation Public convenience stations.of necessary employees, $20,000.
SEWERS. Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the purchase Cleaning, etc.of two motor field wagons at not to exceed $650 each, and the purchase of five motor field trucks at not to exceed $650 each; for Pumping service.operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, $225,000.
For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $125,000. Main and pipe. For suburban sewers, including the purchase of one motor truck Suburban.at not to exceed $5,000, and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, $300,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $150,000. Assessment and permit work. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, Rights of way.maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $2,000. For the extension of the Rock Creek main interceptor, $20,000.
Rock Creek interceptor. For continuing the construction of the upper Potomac main interceptor, Upper Potomac interceptor.$20,000. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE. City refuse. Street Cleaning Division, Salaries: Superintendent, $3,000; Street cleaning division.Salaries.assistant superintendent, $1,800; chief clerk, $1,400; stenographer and clerk, $1,000; clerks—two at $1,200 each, one $1,100, one $1,000, two at $720 each; chief inspector, $1,300; inspectors—four at $1,200 each, two at $1.100 each; foreman of repairs, $1.200; foremen—one $1,300, four at $1,200 each, eight at $1,100 each, one $1,000, one $900; assistant foremen—three at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger and driver, $600; in all, $44,180.
For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, Sweeping, cleaning, ice and snow removal, etc.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, Vehicles, etc.and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; allowance to inspectors and foremen for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed for each inspector or foreman $20 per month for a horse and vehicle, $20 per month for an automobile, and $10 per month for a motor cycle; maintenance and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $400,000.
To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing Garbage, ashes, dead animals, etc.Collection and disposal of.law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia (no contract shall be let for the collection of dead animals), including inspection and allowance to inspectors for maintenance Vehicles.of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the per-1340formance of official duties, not to exceed for each inspector $20 per month for a horse and vehicle, $20 per month for automobiles, and $10 per month for motor cycles; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps; and incidental *Provisos*.Deposit of proceeds.expenses, $860,000: *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations for such purposes are paid from the Treasury of the United Use restricted.States and the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants.
Public play grounds. PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS. Salaries. Salaries: For salaries—supervisor, $2,500; inspector of playgrounds, $1,200; clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $1,200; to be employed not exceeding ten months—twenty-five 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-five assistants at $50 per month each; to be employed twelve months—twenty-five 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 $50,720;
Maintenance, etc. For general maintenance, improvement, equipment, supplies, incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $35,312; Public school playgrounds during summer. For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open during the summer months the public-school playgrounds, under the directon and supervision of the commissioners; for special and temporary service, directors, assistants, and janitor service during the summer vacation, and, in the larger yards, daily after school hours during the school term, $15,000;
Swimming pools. For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000; New sites. For the purchase of a site now occupied by Hoover Playground, located in square 546, containing sixty-five thousand square feet, at 25 cents per square foot, $17.000; For the purchase of a site at Twenty-seventh and O Streets northwest, in square 1238 (lot 803), containing ten thousand square feet, at an estimated cost of $5,000; and for the purchase of lot 804, square 1238, containing three thousand eight hundred and forty square feet, at $3,000; in all $8,000.
Use of balance. So much of any balance remaining after the purchase of sites for playgrounds authorized by this Act as is necessary to clean up, grade, drain, fence in, and place such sites in safe and suitable condition for the purpose intended, may be used for such purposes. Bathing beach. Bathing beach: Superintendent, $720; temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $7,000. 1341 In all, for playgrounds, $136,032, of which $111,032 shall be paid Division of payments.wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and $25,000, or so much thereof as may be expended for the purchase of sites for playgrounds and for the improvement of such playgrounds, shall be paid 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States and 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Electrical department. Salaries: Electrical engineer, $2,750; assistant electrical engineer, Salaries.$2,000; inspectors—one $1,000, four at $900 each; electrician, $1,560: 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, $56,015, For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, Supplies, contingent expenses, etc.telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, 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, purchase of one one-ton Ford truck, and one Ford semitruck with “slip on” body, allowance for the maintenance of not more than three automobiles at not to exceed $20 per month each, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, $30,000.
For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone service Placing wires underground.underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholds, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, $4,800. For extension and relocation of police-patrol system, including Police patrol system.purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $2,000.
Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public Lighting 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 Rates.Vol. 36, p. 1008.in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the Vol. 37, p. 131.fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, $472,000.
For replacing gas lamps and fixtures and older and less effective Replacing old fixtures, etc.electric lamps and fixtures on streets, avenues, roads, and public spaces by improved electric installations, purchase of posts and fixtures of all kinds, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, $20,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be *Proviso*.Contract restriction.available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition.
For extension and relocation of fire-alarm system, including purchase Fire alarm boxes.of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross 1342arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $6,000. Extending cable system. For purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables to increase the capacity of the underground signal cable system, $8,000. Installing telephone system In new stations. For installing police patrol telephone system in the new No. 12 police precinct, including the purchase, installation, and relocation of the necessary boxes, instruments, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, $3,000.
Public schools. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Salaries.Officers. Salaries: Superintent, $6,000; two assistant superintendents, at $3,750 each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, and director of primary instruction, sixteen in all, at a minimum salary of $2,400 each; secretary, $2,000; financial clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, two at $1,400 each, 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, $73,620.
Attendance officers. Salaries: Attendance officers—one $1,080, one $960, nine at $900 each; in all, $10,140. Librarians and clerks. Librarians and clerks at minimum salaries, as follows: 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. teachers. Teachers. Salaries: For two thousand five hundred and ninety-two teachers at minimum salaries as follows: Principal, Central High.*Proviso*.Basic salary.
Principal of the Central High School, $3,500: *Provided*, That the principal of the Central High School shall be placed at a basic salary of $3,500 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Assistants, Central High and McKinley. Two assistant principals, one for the Central High School and one for the McKinley Manual Training High School, at $2,400 each: *Proviso*.Basic salary.*Provided*, That said assistant principals shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Other principals. Principals of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, *Proviso*.Basic salary.eight at $2,700 each: *Provided*, That the principals of the normal, high, manual-training high, 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; Principals, junior high schools.*Proviso*.Basic salary.
Principals of junior high schools, six at $2,700 each: *Provided*, That the principals of the junior high schools now in the service of the public schools or hereafter to be appointed shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,700 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Deans of girls. Central, Eastern, and Dunbar High. Three assistant principals, who shall be deans of girls of the Central High School, Eastern High School, and Dunbar High *Proviso*.Basic salary.School, at $2,400 each: *Provided*, That said assistant principals shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years;
Directors. Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $2,000 each: *Proviso*.Penmanship.*Provided*, That the director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor in the normal school and a director in the grades, shall be placed at 1343a 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*, That Primary instruction.*Proviso*.Assistant director, 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, domestic Other assistant directors.*Proviso*.Penmanship.science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $1,800 each: *Provided*, That the assistant director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor in the normal school and an assistant director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years; Assistant supervisor of manual training, $1,800;
Manual training. Heads of departments in high and manual-training high schools Other teachers.in 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, fifty-six, at $2,200 each; Group A, or class six, including seven principals of grade manual-training schools, four hundred and seventy-nine, at $1,440 each; Class five, two hundred and thirty-three, at $1,200 each, including administrative principals, vocational trade instructors and teachers of Americanization work;
Class four, five hundred and eighty-eight, at $1,200 each; Class three, six hundred and forty-one, at $1,200 each; Class two, four hundred and twenty-five, at $1,200 each; Class one, one hundred and twenty, at $1,200 each: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.Full increased pay allowed.all teachers and librarians and clerics herein provided for shall be entitled to the full amount of any increased compensation granted for the fiscal year 1924 regardless of the increase herein made: *Provided further*, That if the full amount of such increased compensation 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, $3,335,660. The salaries appropriated herein for teachers, clerks, and librarians, Salaries in lieu of present basic pay.in all classes during the fiscal year 1924 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 1924.year ending June 30, 1924, 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, 1923.
No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to Soliciting subscriptions, etc., prohibited.any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized Exception.by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools.
For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation Vacation schools, etcschools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $20,000. 1344 Longevity pay. For longevity pay for director of intermediate 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 principals (who shall be deans of girls) of the Central, Eastern, and Dunbar High Schools, 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, administrative principals of elementary schools, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians Vol. 34, p. 320.to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District Vol. 35, p. 289;
Vol. 36, p. 393; Vol. 37, p. 156.of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, as amended by the Acts approved May 26, 1908, May 18, 1910, and June 26, 1912, $620,000: *Proviso*.Efficiency requisite.*Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be paid to any person who, in the opinion of the Board of Education and the superintendent of schools, has an unsatisfactory efficiency rating. Annuities. For payment of annuities, $45,000. Additional pay for grade schools principals.Vol. 34, p. 320.
For allowance to principals of grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, $25,000. Night schools. night schools. Salaries. Salaries: For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $75,000.
Equipment, etc. Contingent expenses: For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial and trade instruction, $4,500. Deaf, dumb, and blind. the deaf, dumb, and blind. Columbia Institution for the Deaf.Instruction expenses.[R. S., sec. 4064, p. 952](/us/rs/s4064/p952).Vol. 31, p. 844. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $20,250.
Colored deaf-mutes.Tuition under contract. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, *Proviso*.Supervision.$4,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the board of education. Blind children.Instruction under contract.*Proviso*.Supervision. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $10,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. 1345 americanization work.
Americanization work. For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all Instructing foreigners of all ages.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, $6,480. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, Equipment, etc.equipment, and supplies. $2,500. community center department.
Community centers. For salaries of directors, supervisors, teachers, clerks, and other Salaries and expenses.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 automobiles (employees of the day schools may also be employees of the community center department); in all, From District revenues.$35,000, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not more than 70 per centum of this sum *Proviso*.Pay restriction.shall be expended for salaries of directors, supervisors, teachers, clerks, and janitors. care of buildings and grounds.
Care of buildings and grounds. Salaries: Superintendent of janitors, $1,500; engineers and instructors Janitors, etc.in steam engineering—one $1,500, one $1,200; engineers— two at $1,500 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; assistant engineers—six at $1,000 each, one $900; three electricians, at $1,200 each: janitors—three at $1,100 each, thirty at $1,000 each, one $900, thirty-eight at $840 each, one $800, sixty-four at $720 each, fourteen at $600 each, two at $250 each; assistant janitors—eleven at $900 each, three at $720 each; thirteen firemen, at $720 each; two gardeners, at $840 each; six coal passers, at $600 each; six night watchmen, at $720 each; one hundred and thirty-six laborers, at $720 each; fifteen Matrons.matrons, at $600 each; five charwomen, at $480 each; in all, $285,540.
For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking Smaller buildings and rented rooms.and manual training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $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. hygiene and sanitation. Hygiene and sanitation. Salaries: Chief medical and sanitary inspector, who shall, under Medical inspectors, etc.the direction of the health officer of the District of Columbia, give his whole time from nine o’clock a. m. to four o’clock p. m., to, and exercise the direction and control of the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of the public schools of the District of Columbia, $2,500; sixteen medical inspectors of public schools, one of whom Division, etc.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 Graduate nurses.be colored, who 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 for free clinics.Eight dental operators, at $700 each, four dental prophylactic operators, at $900 each; equipment and supplies, $1,000; in all, $10,200. 1346 Miscellaneous. miscellaneous. Equipping temporary rooms, etc. For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by operation of the compulsory education law, and for purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, $4,000, Tubercular pupils.
For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, $4,000. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular *Proviso*.Car fares allowed.children, $3,000: *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. Manual training expenses. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $60,000.
Fuel, light, and power. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $175,000. Furniture, etc., for designated schools. For furniture, including pianos and window shades, for additions to buildings, equipment for kindergartens, and tools and furnishings for manual training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: Eight-room school at Ingleside, $5,156; eight-room addition to the Lovejoy School, $5,156; eight-room addition to the Garrison School, $5.156; new Chain Bridge Road School (two rooms), $1,514; three kindergartens, $3,000; two sewing schools, $1,200; two housekeeping and cooking schools, $3,000; two cooking schools, $2,000; two manual-training shops, $3,000; in all, $29,182.
Contingent expenses, cabinetmaker, etc. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, pay of cabinet maker at $1,200 per annum, stationery, printing, ice, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an Motor vehicle allowances.allowance of not exceeding $240 per annum for a motor vehicle 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, $79,200.
Paper towels. For the purchase of sanitary paper towels and for fixtures for dispensing the same to the pupils, $2,000. Pianos. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,500. Supplies to pupils. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, 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 *Proviso*.Exchanges.supplies at $1.200, and one assistant at $800, $100,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in their discretion, are authorized to exchange any badly damaged book for a new one, the new one to be similar in text to the old one when it was new.
Kindergarten supplies. For kindergarten supplies, $6,000. Flags. For purchase of United States flags, $1,200. School gardens. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $3,000. Payment for instructors. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made 1347to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, Physics, etc., departments’ supplies.and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and normal schools, and for the installation of the same, $6,000.
For furniture and equipment for the Robert Gould Shaw Junior Robert Gould Shaw Junior High.High School, $6,000. For furniture and equipment for the Columbia Junior High Columbia Junior High.School, $6,000. The children of officers and men of the United States Army and Children of Army.Navy, etc., admitted free.Navy and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition.
Buildings and grounds. buildings and grounds. Continuing the construction of an addition to the Armstrong Armstrong Manual Training.Addition.Manual Training School, $200,000; For beginning the remodeling of and the construction of an addition Western High.Addition, etc.*Ante*, p. 290.to the Western High School, to provide a new assembly hall, a gymnasium for boys, a gymnasium for girls, and additional classrooms, $100,000, and the commissioners are hereby authorized to Contracts.enter into a contract or contracts as in this Act provided for said remodeling and extension at a cost not to exceed $550,000;
For the purchase of a new site on which to locate a sixteen-room Tenley School.Site near.building in the vicinity of and to relieve the Tenley School, $25,000; For the purchase of land for school purposes adjacent to the Langley Junior High.Additional land.Langley Junior High School, $215,000; For the purchase of land adjoining the Garnet-Patterson Schools Garnet-Patterson.Addition.to provide for the remodeling and the construction of an addition to the schools, $50,000; For the purchase of additional land in the vicinity of the Slater-Langston Slater-Langston.Aditional land.(Cook) Schools, $50,000;
For beginning construction of a third-story addition to the Thomson.Addition.Thomson School. $60,000. and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract for said addition at a total cost not to exceed $135,000; For the purchase of a site on which to locate a sixteen-room building Site between Georgia Avenue and 16th Street.between Georgia Avenue and Sixteenth Street northwest, north of Park Road, $60,000. For the erection of an eight-room extensible building on the site Extensible building.to be purchased between Georgia Avenue and Sixteenth Street northwest, north of Park Road, $130,000;
For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including Extensible building near Tenley School.a combination assembly hall and gymnasium, on the site to be purchased in the vicinity of and to relieve the Tenley School, $160,000; For beginning the erection of a sixteen-room building, including John F. Cook School.New building to replace.a combination assembly hall and gymnasium, to replace the old John F. Cook School, $100,000, and the commissioners are hereby authorized to enter into contract or contracts, as in this Act provided, for such building at a cost not to exceed $250,000;
For the purchase of a new site on which to locate a junior high Site for new junior high.school between Twentieth Street and Rock Creek and K and O Streets northwest, or vicinity, $50,000; For the purchase of land adjoining the Dunbar High School, Dunbar High.Adjoining land.$100,000; 1348 Disbursed and accounted for as one fund.*Provisos*.Contract restrictions. In all, $1,300,000, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and Grounds, Public Schools,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That none of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid or obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, lighting and plumbing, shall not have been awarded in one or a single contract, separate and apart from any other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest bidder complying with all the legal requirements as to a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful performance of the contract: *Provided further*, Architects’ tees.That no architect’s fee shall be paid or obligated for plans, specifications, or any professional services whatever, unless they are such as will enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or those letting a contract, to secure a legal bid within the amount authorized by Congress for the building or other project:
Right to reject bids.*Provided further*, That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the commissioners the right to reject all bids. Rent, etc. For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stock rooms, $16,500. Repairs, etc., of buildings and grounds. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in building not supplied with same, $300,000.
School playgrounds. For maintenance and repair of eighty-four school playgrounds now established, $4,000. Additional. For equipment, grading, and improving eight additional school *Proviso*.Use, etc.yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $4,000: *Provided*, That such playgrounds shall be kept open for play purposes in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the playground department. Construction, etc., appropriations immediately available.
The appropriations herein made for the construction of school buildings and for the purchase of land for school purposes shall be available immediately. Cost of sites, etc., limited to appropriations. The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, including heating, lighting, and plumbing, 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, any provision in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
Preparation of plans. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the commissioners, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. Exits required. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having an excess of eight Doors to open outward, etc.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 Unlocked doors, etc.outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. Police. METROPOLITAN POLICE. salaries. Salaries. Major and superintendent, $4,500; two assistant superintendents, at $3,000 each; three inspectors, at $2,400 each; thirteen captains, at $2,400 each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, $2,400; 1349clerk (who shall be a stenographer), $1,800; two clerks (who shall be stenographers), at $1,500 each; clerks—one (who shall be assistant property clerk), $1,200, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each, one $700; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at $1,600 each, additional compensation for thirty-five privates detailed for Detective service.special service in the detection and prevention of crime, $16,800; 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; 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 eighty-two of class three at $1,660 each, two hundred and twenty-two of class two at $1,560 each, thirty 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 1924, $7,960; nine telephone clerks, at $900 each; nineteen janitors, at $600 each; laborer, $720; messenger, $600; motor vehicle allowance for two inspectors at $480 each; twenty captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on horses, at $540 each; thirty-two lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $70 each; driver-privates— thirty-five of class two, at $1,560 each, three of class one, at $1,460 each; six police matrons, at $720’each; in all, $1,693,000. national bureau of criminal identification.
Criminal Identification Bureau. To aid in support of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, Support, etc., of.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, $8,500. Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and station Repairs.grounds, $7,000.
For the reconstruction of cell corridors and in making, erecting, Cell corridors, etc.and placing therein modern locking devices in precinct station houses, $7,500. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for Contingent expenses.fugitives, purchase of modern revolvers and other firearms, 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, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expense, $60,000; 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. 1350 Flags.
For flags and halyards, $200. Motor vehicles. For maintenance of motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $35,000. house of detention. House of detention. To enable the commissioners to provide transportation, including purchase and maintenance of necessary motor vehicles 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, for vehicles owned by the District of Columbia, 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 station motor vehicle, and other necessary expenses, $17,000; in all, $27,900. harbor patrol.
Harbor patrol. Two engineers, at $1,000 each; two firemen, at $660 each; watchman, $660; two deck hands, at $660 each; in all, $5,300. For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $3,500. Policemen, etc., relief fund. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND. Payments from.*Ante*, p. 1263. To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, a sum not to exceed $330,194.52 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. Fire department. FIRE DEPARTMENT. salaries.
Salaries. Chief engineer, $4,000; two deputy chief engineers, at $3,000 each; eight battalion chief engineers, at $2,400 each; fire marshal, $2,400; deputy fire marshal, $2,000; four inspectors, at $1,660 each; chief clerk, $2,400; clerk, $1,400; clerk (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter), $1,660; thirty-eight captains, at $1,900 each; forty-two lieutenants, at $1,760 each; forty-two 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—four hundred and forty-seven of class three, at $1,660 each, sixty-four of class two, at $1,560 each, twenty-six 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 1924, $1,503; hostler, $1,080; laborer, $1,000; in all, $1,164,163.
Miscellaneous. miscellaneous. For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, $20,000. 1351 Repairs to buildings. For repairs, improvements, and alterations to engine house Numbered Repairs, etc., No. 16 engine house.16, D Street between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets northwest, $5,000. For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven Repairs 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 descretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire department repair shop, $35,000, of which $7,300 shall be available exclusively for the purchase of gas masks and oxygen helmets.
Gas masks, etc. For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $4,000. Fire boat repairs. For hose, $20,000. Hose, fuel, and forage. For fuel, $35,000. For forage, $4,500. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, cost of installation and maintenance of telephones in the residences of the superintendent of machinery and the fire marshal, $28,000.
Permanent improvements: For one combination chemical and hose New apparatus.wagon, motor driven, $8,150. For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $15,500. For one city service truck, motor driven, $9,500. For four pumping engines, triple combination, motor driven, $12,500 each. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Health department. salaries. Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerk Salaries.and deputy health officer, $2,500; chief, bureau of vital statistics, $1,800; clerks—one $1,600, five at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $720; sanitary inspector—chief, $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, twelve at $1.2000 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.
To carry out the Act to regulate the hours of employment and Female employment.Vol. 38, p. 201.Inspectors, etc.safeguard the health of females employed in the District of Columbia, approved February 24, 1914, namely: For three inspectors (two of whom shall be women) at $1,200 each; stenographer and clerk, $900; in all, $4,500. prevention of contagious diseases. Contagious diseases prevention. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread Enforcement expenses.Vol. 29, p. 635.Vol. 34, p. 889.of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907, and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of Tuberculosis registration, etc.Vol. 35, p. 126.tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuber-1352culosis 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 Infantile paralysis.of infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services, not exceeding $25,000 when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purchase of Smallpox hospital.reference books and medical journals, and maintenance or quarantine *Proviso*.Bacteriological examinations.station and smallpox hospital, $40,000: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist employed under this appropriation shall not be paid at a rate more than $7 per day for time actually employed 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.
Isolating wards, Garfield and Providence Hospitals. For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $10,000 and $6,500, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $16,500. Tuberculosis and venereal diseases dispensary. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for *Provisos*.Volunteer services.personal service and supplies, $12,500: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries Pay prohibition.herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service.
Disinfecting service. For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $6,3000. Drainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896, Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $2,000.
Food, etc., adulterations. For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $200. Bacteriological laboratory. bacteriological laboratory. Maintenance, etc.For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $750. Apparatus, equipment, cost of installation, supplies, and other expenses incidental to the biological and serological diagnosis of disease, $750.
Chemical laboratory. chemical laboratory. Maintenance, etc. For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000. Dairy farms. dairy farm inspection. Inspection expenses. For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including amounts that may be allowed the health officer, assistant health officer, chief medical inspector in charge of contagious-disease serv-1353ice, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for maintenance by each of a horse and vehicle at not to exceed $20 per month, or motor vehicle at not to exceed $20 per month, for use in the discharge of his official duties, and other necessary traveling expenses, $6,000. miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to Enforcing milk regulations, etc.Vol. 28, p. 719.Food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1895; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; an Act for preventing Pure 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 for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, $1,000.
For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, Crematory.$2,000. For purchase of motor vehicle for use in pound service, $735. Pound. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound service, $400. For repairs and improvements in dog pens at dog pound, $250. For equipping, maintaining, and operating the motor ambulance, and keeping it in good order, $600. For establishing and maintaining a child hygiene service, including Child hygiene service.Maintenance of welfare stations, etc.the establishment and maintenance of child welfare stations for the clinical examination, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six years of age, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, periodicals, and supplies, $18,000: *Provided*, That the commissioners *Provisos*.>Volunteer services.may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed No pay for.to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service.
COURTS AND PRISONS. Courts and prisons. juvenile court. Juvenile court. Salaries: Judge, $3,600; clerk, $2,000; deputy clerk, who is authorized Salaries.to act as clerk in the absence of that officer, $1,480; financial clerk, who is authorized to act as deputy clerk, $1,200; stenographer and typewriter, who is authorized to act as a deputy clerk, $1,080; stenographer and typewriter for judge’s work, and to aid in keeping records in clerk’s office, $1,080; probation officers—chief, $2,000, Probation officers.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 to Advances authorised 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 1354and 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.
Meals to jurors, etc. For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained at court awaiting trial, $100. Rent, etc. For rent, $2,000. For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, $300. Contingent expenses. For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,500.
Police court. police court. Salaries. Salaries: Two judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $2,200; deputy clerks—one $1,600, three at $1,500 each, two at $1,200 each; deputy financial clerk, $1,500; deputy assistant, financial clerk, $1,500; probation officer, $1,500; three assistant probation officers, at $1,200 each; stenographer, $1,200; seven bailiffs, at $900 each; deputy marshal, $1,000; janitor, $600; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman, $600; assistant janitor, $300; matron, $600; four cleaners, at $360 each; telephone operator, $480; in all, $40,140.
Contingent expenses. For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, binding and rebinding preservation of records, typewriters and adding machine and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painters’ and plumbers’ supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $4,500.
Witness fees, etc. For witness fees, $2,500. For furniture, furnishings, and fixtures, and repairing and replacing same, $500. Jurors. For lodging, meals, and accommodation of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $200. For compensation of jurors, $10,000. Repairs to building. For repairs to building, $2,000. Municipal court. municipal court. Salaries. Salaries: Five judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $1,500; jury clerk, $1,600; four enrolling clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographer and typist, $1,400; five assistant clerks, at $1,200 each; clerk and messenger, $840; elevator operator, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $37,180.
Jurors, etc. For compensation of jurors, $8,500. For lodging, meals, and accommodations for jurors and deputy United States marshals, while in attendance upon them, when ordered by the court, $100. Rent, etc. For rent of building, $3,600. For fixtures, and repairs to furniture, $500. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $4,000. 1355 supreme court, district of columbia.
Supreme court. Salaries: Chief justice, $8,000; five associate justices, at $7,500 Salaries.each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,100 each; in all, $52,100. Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and payment of the Witnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $34,000. Fees of jurors: For fees of jurors, $60,000.
Jurors. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of Bailiffs.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, $29,000: *Provided*, That the compensation of *Proviso*.Jury commissioners.each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1924 shall not exceed $250. Probation system: Probation officer, $2,200; assistant probation Probation system.officer, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter and assistant, $900; contingent expenses, $325; maintenance of motor vehicle used in performance Expenses.of official duties, at not to exceed $20 per month, $240; in all, $5,065.
Courthouse: For care and protection, under the direction of the Courthouse.Care, etc., of.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.
For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including Repairs, etc.repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $2,500, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. Printing and Binding: For printing and binding, $4,275, of Printing and binding.Restriction.which $2,500 shall be available exclusively for printing and binding records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party. court of appeals.
Court of appeals. Salaries: Chief justice, $9,000; two associate justices, at $8,500 Salaries.each; clerk, $4,250, and $250 additional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building; assistant or deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500: *Provided*, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold *Proviso*.Sale of reports.for more than $5 per volume; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,200; three messengers, at $720 each; three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office. $950; in all, $42,160.
Building: Two watchmen, at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; Care, etc., of building.three laborers, at $600 each; mechanician (under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol), $1,200: *Provided*, That the clerk of *Proviso*.Custodian.the Court of Appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court; in all $5,160. For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical Contingent expenses.supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800.
For eleven copies of volumes sixty and sixty-one of the reports of Reports.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 Vol. 32, p. 609.Columbia as amended July 1, 1902, at $5 each, $110. 1356 miscellaneous. Support of convicts out of District. For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts: expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $170,000.
Lunacy writs.Expanses of executing.Vol. 33, p. 740. For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including the employment of an alienist at not exceeding $1,500 per annum, and a clerk at $900, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $6,500.
Miscellaneous court expenses. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $20,000. Charities and corrections. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS Board of charities. board of charities.
Salaries, etc. Salaries and traveling expenses: Secretary, $3,500; assistant secretary and 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, inducting attendance on conventions, $600: in all, $20,740. Ambulances. For the maintenance of four motor ambulances, $1,700.
For the purchase and equipment of one motor ambulance, $2,000. Jail. jail. Screening doors, etc. For screening doors and windows at the jail, $4,750. Support of prisoners, etc. Support of prisoners: For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at the jail, including pay or 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.
Workhouse and reformatory. workhouse and reformatory. Salaries.*Post*, p. 1533. Salaries: Superintendent, $3,500; physician, $1,680; chief engineer, $1,200; electrician, $1,200; superintendent of commissary, $1,080; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; in all, $10,660. workhouse. Administration salaries. Administration: Assistant superintendent, $1,680;. chief clerk, $1,200; head matron, $900; stenographer, $720; operation—foremen, construction, $900; stone-crushing plant, $900; sawmill, $900; superintendent brickkiln, $1,500; maintenance—superintendent of cloth-1357ing and laundry, $840; 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, $48,600;
For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support Maintenance expenses.of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine, and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation, and means of transportation; supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, $85,000;
For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, $47,500; Fuel. For construction, dynamite, oils, repairs to plant, and material for Construction, repairs, etc.repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $45,000; For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An Act making Payment to abandoned families.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, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized voucher’s duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District.
In all, $227,600, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. reformatory. Reformatory. Salaries: Assistant superintendent, $1,800; chief clerk, $1,200; assistant Salaries.clerk and stenographer, $1,000; steward, $1,500; captain of day officers, $1,200; six instructors, at $1,200 each; sixteen day officers, at $900 each; captain of night force, $1,080; nine night officers, at $720 each; parole officer, $1,200; overseer, $1,200; in all, $38,260; For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including Buildings, construction.sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, $30,000;
For maintenance, custody, clothing, care, and support of inmates; Maintenance, etc.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, $56,000, and all moneys hereafter received at the reformatory Money from sales of brooms.as income thereof from the sale of brooms to the various branches of the government of the District of Columbia shall remain available for the purchase of material for the manufacture of additional brooms to be similarly disposed of;
For fuel, $7,740; Fuel, repairs, etc. For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000; In all, $136,000, which shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. national training school for boys. National Training School for Boys, D. C. For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Care, etc., of boys.Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia 1358under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $60,000.
National Training School for Girls. national training school for girls. Salaries, etc. Salaries: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk, $1,080; matron and four teachers, at $600 each; nurse, $840; 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, $13,800. Contingent expenses. For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, magazines, and other supplies which represent greater educational advantages, 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, for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, and for maintenance of motor vehicles, $30,000.
Purchase of new site for school.Location. The president of the board of trustees of the National Training School for Girls of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and directed to purchase a tract of land of not more than one hundred and sixty acres, situated in the District of Columbia or in the State of Maryland or in the State of Virginia, as a site for the use of said school, and the said board of trustees is hereby authorized to construct on said tract buildings of sufficient capacity to accommodate not more than one hundred and fifty persons, the plans and specifications for which shall be prepared by the municipal architect Price, etc.of the District of Columbia.
The purchase price for the said tract of land, the erection of the said buildings, and all expenses incidental thereto shall not exceed the sum of $62,000, which amount Acquiring title.is hereby appropriated for that purpose. The title to the said property shall be taken directly to and in the name of the United States; and in case a satisfactory price can not be agreed upon for the purchase of said land, or in case the title can not be made satisfactory to the Attorney General of the United States, then the latter is directed to acquire said tract of land by condemnation and the expense of procuring evidence of title, or of condemnation, or both, shall be paid out of the appropriation herein made for Authority of hoard of trustees over girls committed thereto.the purchase of said tract.
The board of trustees of said school may, in their discretion, remove and transport to the aforesaid tract for such legal periods as they may see fit any of the girls who may have been committed to the National Training School for Girls in the District of Columbia, and the board of trustees of said school shall have the same power and authority over such girls during the period of their commitment to said tract, or while they are being conducted to or from said tract, as they now possess Separation of races.over such girls within the limits of the District of Columbia.
When the buildings herein authorized to be constructed shall be in readiness to receive girls committed to the National Training School for Girls, it shall not be lawful to keep white and colored girls on the same reservations under the control of the board of trustees of said school. Medical charities. medical charities. Care of indigent patients at designated hospitals, etc. For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Board of Charities with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: 1359 Freedmen’s Hospital, $42,500.
Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $17,000. Children’s Hospital, $15,000. Providence Hospital, $15,000. Garfield Memorial Hospital, $15,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $22,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $10,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $5,000. Georgetown University Hospital, $5,000. George Washington University Hospital. $5,000. columbia hospital and lying-in asylum. Columbia Hospital. For general repairs and for additional construction, including Repairs, operation etc.labor and material, and for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $15,000, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. tuberculosis hospital.
Tuberculosis Hospital. Salaries: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician, $600; assistant Salaries.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 nine graduate nurses, at $600 each; assistant cooks—one $360, two at $240 each; assistant engineer $600; elevator conductor, $300; five 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, $21,720.
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles, and repairs Contingent expenses.to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $53,000. For the erection of nurses’ home, $35,000. Nurses’ home. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including Repairs, etc.roads and sidewalks, $4,000.
Gallinger Municipal Hospital. Gallinger Hospital. Salaries: Superintendent, $2,500; and for the pay of such physicians, Salaries.nurses, orderlies, cooks, engineers, clerks, laborers, and other services necessary for the proper operation of the hospital, $72,500; in all $75,000: *Provided*, That no person employed under the *Proviso*.Pay restriction.foregoing general provision shall be paid a rate of compensation in excess of the rate usually paid for a similar class of service in other hospitals in the District of Columbia, such rate to be determined and fixed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
For maintenance, maintenance of motor vehicles, horses and horse-drawn Maintenance.vehicles, books of reference, and all other necessary expenses, $125,000. Equipment for the new psychopathic buildings: For furniture, Psychopathic equipment.furnishings, instruments and appliances, and other necessary articles, $10,000. For repairs to buildings, $5,000. Repairs. 1360 Child-caring institutions. Child-Caring Institutions. Board of Children’s Guardians. board of children’s guardians.
Administrative expenses. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $25, and all office and sundry expenses, Limit on visitation of wards.$5,000; and no part of the moneys herein appropriated 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 nave power, upon proper showing, in its discretion, to discharge from guardianship any child committed to its care.
Salaries. Salaries: Agent, $1,800; supervisor and placing officer, $1,740; investigator and placing officer, $1,500; clerks—one $1,200, one $900; stenographer, $900; placing and investigating officers—six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; record clerk, $900; messenger, $500; laborer, $500; in all, $28,140. Feeble-minded children. For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $37,500. Home for feeble-minded persons.Acquiring site and erecting building for, authorized.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to acquire a site for a home and school for feeble-minded persons, said site to be located in the District of Columbia or in the State of Maryland or in the State of Virginia, and to erect thereon suitable buildings at a total cost not exceeding $300,000, of which not more than $38,000 shall be expended for a site, and toward said Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 702.purpose there is reappropriated the sum of $100,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923 toward the erection of suitable buildings for a home and school for feeble-minded persons, to be available immediately.
If the land Condemnation if not acquired by purchase, in the District.proposed to be acquired is within the District of Columbia and the same can not be acquired by purchase at a price satisfactory to the commissioners, they are authorized to condemn the same under Vol.34, p. 151.the provisions of chapter 15 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia. If the land proposed to be acquired is without the District Proceedings if site selected in Maryland or Virginia.of Columbia and can not be purchased at a satisfactory price, the Attorney General of the United States, at the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, shall institute condemnation proceedings to acquire such land as may be selected for said site either in the State of Maryland or in the State of Virginia in accordance with the laws of said States, the title of said land to be taken directly to and in the name of the United States, but the land so acquired shall be under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as agents of the United States, and expenses of procuring evidence of title or of condemnation, or both, shall be paid out of the appropriation herein made for the purchase Admissions.of said site.
The persons to be admissible to said home and school and the proceedings with reference to securing such admission to Former authorization for a site repealed.*Ante*, p. 702.be in accordance with law. The authorization to use a site for a home and school for feeble-minded persons on lands owned by the District of Columbia, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, is hereby repealed. Board, etc., of children. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for 1361burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $120,000: *Provided*, That the board of trustees of the Industrial Home School *Provisos*.Board of trustees, Industrial Home School, abolished.of the District of Columbia is abolished on and after the date of the approval of this Act, and thereafter the powers and duties of such Powers, etc., transferred.board as specified and restricted by law shall be transferred to and vested in the Board of Children’s Guardians: *Provided further*, That on and after the date of the approval of this Act the authority Board of Children’s Guardians to be appointed hereafter by Commissioners.to appoint, and remove members of the Board of Children’s Guardians is transferred from the judges of the police court and the judge holding the criminal court of the District of Columbia to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and shall be exercised by them in accordance with section 2 of the Act of July 26, 1892, Vol. 27, p. 268.(Twenty-seventh Statutes, page 268), and the powers and duties of the Board of Children’s Guardians as prescribed by or pursuant to law shall thereafter be performed under such regulations as may be made by said board and approved by the commissioners.
The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to Advances to agent.advance to the agent of the Board of Children’s Guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $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.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children. Salaries: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk, $900; supervisor of boys, Salaries.$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 horses, wagons, harness, and maintenance Maintenance, etc.of automobile, $18,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. For manual-training equipment and materials, $1,000. For additional amount for erection of cottage for boys, $5,000. Cottage for boys. All moneys received at said school as income from sale of products Deposit of receipts from sale of products.and from payment of board or of instruction or otherwise shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and to the credit of the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations for such institutions are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia. industrial home school.
Industrial Home School. Salaries: Superintendent, $1,500; supervisor of boys, $780; Salaries.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 Maintenance.of wagon and harness, and maintenance of motor vehicle, $22,500.
For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $3,000. Repairs. 1362 Home for Aged and Infirm. home for aged and infirm. Salaries. Salaries: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk, $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, two at $180 each; 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, $21,232.
Contingent expenses. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including maintenance of motor vehicle and trucks, $50,000. Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000. For farm tractor with equipment, $1,000. For material for permanent roads, $500. Fire protection. For extension of water mains, installation of fire hydrants and necessary connections for the better protection of the buildings against fire, $11,000.
Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. Fire-alarm boxes. fire-alarm boxes. Installing, in designated institutions. For the installation of fire-alarm boxes at the following institutions: Tuberculosis Hospital, $850; Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $450; jail, $750; National Training School for Girls, $600; Industrial Home School. $700; Home for Aged and Infirm, $900; in all, $4,250. Temporary homes. municipal lodging house and wood yard. Municipal lodging house. Superintendent, $1,200; foreman, $480; cook, $360; maintenance, $3,000; in all, $5,040. temporary home for ex-union soldiers and sailors and veterans of other wars.
Grand Army Soldiers’, etc., home. 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 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. florence crittenton hope and help mission. Hope and Help Mission. For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, $4,000. southern relief society.
Southern Relief Society for Confederate Veterans. For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Charities, $7,500. 1363 national library for the blind. For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind located National Library tor the Blind.at 1800 D Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $2,500. columbia polytechnic institute.
To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located Columbia Polytechnic Institute.at 1808 H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $1,500. saint elizabeths hospital. Saint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Support of indigent insane in.Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $850,000. nonresident insane. For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811.the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899, $5,000.
In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District Advances to Board of Charities.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 of physicians to the poor at Relief of the poor.not exceeding $1 per day each, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Charities, $10,000. burial of indigent ex-service men. Ex-service men. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or Burial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc.in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines, of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired, and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $500. transportation of paupers.
Transporting paupers. For transportation of paupers, $2,000. MILITIA. Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction Expenses 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 required Camps, drills, etc.to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence 1364for 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 encampment, 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.
Rent, etc. For rent of armories, storehouses, and stables, $7,000. For printing, stationery, and postage, $1,000. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arras, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $1,000. For custodian in charge of United States property and store-rooms, $1,000. For clerk, office of the adjutant general, $1,000. Target practice. For expenses of target practice and matches, $2,500. Pay of troops. For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $10,000.
Anacostia Park. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS. Continuing development of. For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, $150,000, to be expended below Benning Bridge. Plans for modification, etc., above Benning Bridge to be submitted.Vol. 36, p. 1005. The Board of Engineers constituted by Public Act Numbered 441, approved March 2, 1911, is hereby directed to submit through the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, on the first day of the next regular session of Congress a report on the desirability or undesirability of continuing the said project above Benning Bridge and if it is to be so continued what modifications in existing project above Benning Bridge appear desirable and in the interest of economy.
Such report shall include such recommendations with a statement of the facts and shall include detailed estimates of cost under the modifications proposed compared with the estimates under present plans and the decrease in cost as a result of such modification. Public buildings and grounds. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. office of public buildings and grounds. Superintendent, assistant and chief clerk, etc. Salaries: Superintendent, $3,600; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; engineer, $2,400; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; messenger, $840; landscape architect, $2,400; junior engineer, $1,500; in all, $20,340.
Foremen, gardeners, etc. For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, $31,200. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses. For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional and scientific books and technical periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $800. Park police. park police. Salaries. Salaries: Lieutenant, $1,900; first sergeant, $1,700; five sergeants, at $1.580 each; privates—fourteen at $1.440 each; thirty-one at $1,360 each; nine at $1,280 each; in all, $85,340.
Purchases of equipment, etc. For purchase, repair, and exchange of bicycles and revolvers for park police and for purchase of ammunition. $1,100. 1365 For maintenance, repair, and operation of motor cycles for park police, $2,000. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, $5,000. Uniforms. buildings and grounds. For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, Improvement and care of grounds.as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive South of Executive Mansion.Mansion, $4,000.
For tool shed and store yard for equipment used at the Executive Mansion and in the grounds south of the Executive Mansion, $1,000. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. Greenhouses, parks, etc. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000. For improvement and ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, Monument Grounds, etc.$7,000.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences; repair of General repairs, etc.high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, Care, etc., of reservations, etc.including office rent, the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and the operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of motor cycles and bicycles for division foremen, $45,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $4,000.. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500.
For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $3,500. For broken stone road covering for parks, $10,000. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park and the Piney Rock Creek Park and Piney Branch Parkway.Branch Parkway, $30,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of West Potomac Park, Potomac Park.including grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and constructing paths and roads, $30,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $10,000.
For care and improvement of East Potomac Park, $35,000. For the maintenance of a tourists’ camp in East Potomac Park, Tourists’ camp.$5,000. For care, maintenance, and improvement of Montrose Park, $5,000. Montrose Park. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition Outdoor sports.for outdoor sports, $15,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Meridian Hill Park, Meridian Hill Park, etc.$25,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500.
For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. 1366 Union Station Plaza pumps. For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which operate the three fountains on the Union Station Plaza, $4,000. . Park maintenance. To provide for the increased cost in park maintenance, $50,000. For care of the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $2,500. Tidal Basin bathing beach. Tidal Basin bathing beach: For purification of waters of the Tidal Basin and care, maintenance, and operation of the bathhouse and beach, $12,000.
For care and maintenance of Mount Vernon Park, $1,000. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, development. For the preparation of designs and estimates for development of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, $4,000. Haines Point comfort station. For the construction of a comfort station and shelter at Haines Point, East Potomac Park, $15,000. Bathing beach for colored people.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 708.
The appropriation of $25,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923 for the construction of a bathing beach and bathhouse for the colored population of the city is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1924 for the construction and maintenance of said bathing beach and bathhouse. Anacostia Park.Recreation section of. For improvement and maintenance as a recreation park of section D, Anacostia Park, between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Anacostia Bridge, $50,000.
Lighting public grounds. Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair $37,000. Heating offices, etc. For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $6,000. Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission. ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY COMMISSION. Acquiring additional lands.Vol. 37, p. 885.
To enable the commission created by section 22 of the Public Buildings Act approved March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 885), to continue proceedings toward the acquisition of lands required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, *Provisos*.Areas and parcels excluded.the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, $75,000: *Provided*, That the following areas and parcels described and delineated on map numbered 2, contained in House Document Numbered 1114, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, as a part of total area to be acquired for said parkway shall be excluded from the total area finally to be acquired, to wit:
Three hundred and fifteen square feet of lot 801 in square 2541, three hundred and forty-nine square feet of lot 836, one thousand three hundred and three square feet of lot 74 in square 2543, five hundred and forty-nine square feet of lot 58, two thousand one hundred and six square feet of lot 800 in square 1262, three thousand six hundred square feet of lot 20 in square 23, one hundred and ninety-nine square feet of lot 80 in square 1238, and Additional lands included.fifty square feet of lot 3 in square numbered 1: *Provided further*, That the following described lots and parcels that are without the taking line shall be included in the area finally to be acquired, namely, four thousand four hundred and eighty-three square feet or lot numbered 1, two thousand nine hundred and nineteen square-feet of lot 2, three thousand two hundred and fifty-nine square feet of lot 3 in square 2510, six thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine square feet of lot 1 in square 47, and about nine hundred and two Restriction on opening streets, etc., diminishing flow of Rock Creek, etc.square feet of lot 803 in square 2543: *Provided further*, That in order to protect Rock Creek and its tributaries, none of the moneys herein or heretofore appropriated for the opening, widening, or extending of any street, avenue, or highway in the District of Columbia shall 1367be expended for the opening, widening, or extension of any street, avenue, or highway which shall or may in the judgment of the District Commissioners permanently injure or diminish the existing flow of Rock Creek or any of its tributaries, nor shall permission so to do at private expense be granted to any private person or corporation except by the joint consent and approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds.
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. National Zoological Park. For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; Expenses.grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $125,000.
WATER SERVICE. Water Service. For continuing work on the project for an increased water supply Increasing water supply.*Ante*, pp. 94, 709.for the District of Columbia, adopted by Congress in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, as modified by the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $1,500,000: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.Contracts authorized.the Secretary of War may enter into contracts for materials and work necessary to the construction of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of $6,150,000, including all appropriations and Amount limited.contract authorizations herein and heretofore made: *Provided further*, Restriction on bids and contracts.That no bid in excess of the estimated cost for that portion of the work or plant covered by the bid shall be accepted, nor shall any contract for any portion of the work, material, or equipment to constitute a part of the plant for which this appropriation is available be valid unless the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall have certified thereon that all its terms are within the requirements of the authorization and the revised estimates for the work: *Provided further*, That whenever the Secretary of War causes Condemnation proceedings. proceedings to be instituted for the acquirement by condemnation of any lands or interests therein needed for the said work, the United States, upon the filing of the petition in any such proceedings, shall Immediate possession, etc., on instituting.have the right to take immediate possession of said lands, easements, rights of way, or otherwise, to the extent of the interest to be acquired, and to proceed with the work herein authorized: *Provided further*, Provisions for payment of compensation.That certain adequate provisions shall have been made for the payment of just compensation to the party or parties entitled thereto, either by previous appropriation by the United States or by the deposit of moneys or other form of security in such amount and form as shall be approved by the court in which such proceedings shall be instituted.
The respondent or respondents may move at any time in the court to increase or change the amounts or securities and the court shall make such order as shall be just in the premises and as shall adequately protect the respondents. In every Diligent prosecution of case ordered.case the proceedings in condemnation shall be diligently prosecuted on the part of the United States in order that such compensation may be promptly ascertained and paid: *Provided further*, That the Detailed reports of work, etc., to be submitted annually.Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of the 1368next and each succeeding regular session of Congress, until the entire project shall have been completed, a report on said water system and increase of water supply showing, among other tilings, the progress of the work, construction under way and proposed within or without the District, connections with the present system of distribution, and revised estimates of cost.
Amounts wholly from, water revenues. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of the water department, namely: Washington Aqueduct. washington aqueduct. Maintenance, etc., of, reservoir, tunnel, filtration plant, etc. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, purchase, installation and maintenance of water meters on Federal services, vehicles, purchase of one passenger automobile, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $170,000.
Conduit Road. For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, $5,000. Emergency fund. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break requiring immediate repairs in one of the more important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery, $5,000; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. Control of Secretary of War not affected.
Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. Water department. water department. Revenue and inspection branch. For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; eight meter computers, at $1,000 each; meter clerk, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,000 each, nineteen at $900 each; messenger, $600;
Distribution branch. For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400; assistant engineers—one $1,800, one $1,700; master mechanic, $2,500; 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; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $95,020.
Operation expenses. For maintenance of the water department distribution system, 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 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. $10 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, $10,000; in all, for maintenance, $450,000. 1369 For extension of the water department distribution system, laying Distribution extension.of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $150,000.
The rates of assessment for laying or constructing water mains Assessment for laying mains, sewers, etc., for fiscal year, increased.and service sewers in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Act entitled: “An Act authorizing the laying of water mains Vol 33, p. 244.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 1924.
For installing water meters on services to private residences and Water meters in residences.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, $30,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, machinery, and appurtenances Hydrants, etc.required for necessary extensions, $20,000. For the purchase of a site for a reservoir near Fort Reno, $20,000.
Reservoir site, Fort Reno.New main. For laying six thousand two hundred feet of thirty-inch water main, First and Adams Streets northwest, via Rhode Island Avenue between Seventh and Ninth Streets northeast, $96,000. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, Construction 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 charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their budget 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*, *Proviso*.Limit.That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $150,000 during the fiscal year 1924.
The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily Temporary laborers, etc.such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 3. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary Horses, vehicles, etc.for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, Special authority from Commissioners for using.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 1370ordered 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 budget Report.estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided *Proviso*.Temporary work on excavations.for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.
Sec. 4. Water department.Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized 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 budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing *Proviso*.Limit.such services and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $20,000 during the fiscal year 1924.
Temporary laborers, etc. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.
Sec. 5. Miscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia appropriation Act, 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. Materials, supplies, vehicles, etc.Purchases of, directed from stock of Government activities no longer needed by them.Duty before purchasing elsewhere. That the commissioners and other responsible officials; in 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, passenger-car lying and other motor vehicles, and equipment no longer required because of the cessation of war activities.
It shall be the duty of the commissioners and other officials, before 1371purchasing 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 articles purchased Price stipulation.from the Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage.
The various services of the Government of the United States are Sales authorized, etc.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 miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Transfers under Executive order not affected.this section shall not be construed to amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities.
Approved, February 28, 1923.