Chapter 249. 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, 1923, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 249.— 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, 1923, and for other purposes. June 29, 1922.[[H. R. 10101](/us/bill/67/hr/10101).][[Public, No. 256](/us/pl/67/256).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Proportion of expenses payable from revenues of, and by United States.
That, annually, from and after July 1, 1922, 60 per centum of such expenses of the District of Columbia as Congress may appropriate for shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia derived from taxation and privileges, and the remaining 40 per centum by the United States, excepting such items of expense as Congress may direct shall be paidTax levied on full value of real and personal property for fiscal years 1923–1927. on another basis; and that in order that the District of Columbia may be able annually to comply with the provisions hereof, and also in order that the said District may be put upon a cash basis as to payment of expenses, there hereby is levied for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, and 1927, a tax at such rate on the full value, and no less, of all real estate and tangible personal property subject to taxation in the District of Columbia as will, when added to the revenues derived from privileges and from the tax on franchises, corporations, and public utilities, as fixed by law, andIntangible personal property tax. also from the tax, which hereby is levied, on such intangible personal property as is subject to taxation in the District of Columbia, at the rate of five-tenths of 1 per centum on the full market value thereof, produce money enough to pay such annual expenses as may be imposed on the District of Columbia by Congress, and in addition toSurplus fund. such annual expenses a surplus fund sufficient to enable the District of Columbia to get upon a cash-paying basis by the end of the fiscalPayable semiannually. year 1927; and that beginning with July 1, 1922, and annually thereafter, one-half of the tax levied upon taxable real and personal property in the District of Columbia shall become due and payable on the first day of November of each year and the other half of such tax shall become due and payable on the first day of May of each year; and if either said installment of such tax shall not be paid within thirty days of the date it is due and payable, said installment shallPenalty for failure. thereupon be in arrears and delinquent; and there shall then be added, to be collected with such tax, a penalty at the rate of 1 per centum669 per month upon the amount thereof for the period of such delinquency, said delinquency to date from the date such installment was due and payable, and the whole together shall constitute the delinquent tax, to be dealt with and collected in the maimer now provided by law; andRates to be fixed by Commissioners. that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia hereby are empowered and directed to ascertain, determine and fix such rate of taxation as will, when applied to the aforesaid property in accordance with the levies and values hereinbefore mentioned, produce the said sums of money; and that until July 1, 1927, the Treasury DepartmentAdvances from Treasury allowed until July 1, 1927. may continue to make advancements toward the payment of the expenses of the District of Columbia as has been done during preceding years, but after June 30, 1927, it shall be unlawful for anyUnlawful thereafter. money to be so advanced or for any money whatever to be paid out of the Treasury for District purposes, unless the District, at the time of such payment, has to its credit in the Treasury money enough to pay the full per centum required of it; and that for the purpose ofTax 1evied after June 30, 1927, sufficient, with other revenues, to meet sums appropriated to be paid by the District. defraying such expenses of the District of Columbia as Congress may from time to time appropriate for, there hereby is levied for each and every fiscal year succeeding that ending June 30, 1927, a tax at such rate on the aforesaid property subject to taxation in the District (the rate fixed herein on intangible personal property not to be made less but which may be increased by the commissioners in their discretion to any rate not in excess of the rate imposed upon real estate) as will, when added to the other taxes and revenues of the District, produce money enough to enable the District to pay promptly and in full all sums directed by Congress to be paid by the District, and for which appropriation has been duly made; and that the CommissionersCommissioners to fix rates annually. of the District of Columbia hereby are empowered and directed to ascertain, determine and fix annually such rate of taxation as will, when applied as aforesaid, produce the money needed to defray the share of the expenses of the District during the year for which the rate is fixed; and that the Commissioners of the District shall, inDaily deposit of collections. accordance with existing law, cause all such taxes and revenues to be promptly collected and, when collected, to be daily deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the District for the purposes herein set out; and that on July 1, 1922, the Treasury Department shall open,Detailed accounts to be kept by the Treasury. and thereafter accurately keep, an account showing all receipts and disbursements relative to the revenues and expenditures of the District of Columbia, and shall also show the sources of the revenue, the purpose of expenditure, and the appropriation under which the expenditure is made; and that from and after June 30, 1922, any andRevenue from United States property. all revenue derived from property not owned wholly or in part by the District of Columbia, as between the United States and the District of Columbia, shall be the property of the United States; and that after June 30, 1922, where the United States is the owner of ground or the holder thereof in trust for the public, upon which improvements have been made at the joint expense of the United States and the District of Columbia, the revenues therefrom shall first be usedGround rent. to pay the United States 3 per centum of the full value of the ground as a ground rent, and the remainder shall be divided between themDivision of revenues from improvements on Federal land. in the same proportion that each contributed to said improvements, and for such purposes the assessor for the District of Columbia shall fix the full value of the ground after he has first made oath that he will fairly and impartially appraise the same; and that after June 30,Revenues from other sources. 1922, any revenue derived from any activity or source whatever, including motor-vehicle licenses, not otherwise herein disposed of, which activity or source of revenue is appropriated for by both the United States and the District of Columbia, shall be divided between the two in the same proportion that each has contributed thereto; and that if, for any fiscal year after June 30, 1927, the District of Columbia should raise and deposit in the Treasury to its credit, as670 herein provided, more money derived from taxation, privileges, and other sources authorized herein than may be necessary for the purposesUse of excess revenue for fiscal years after June 30, 1927. herein set out, such excess shall be available the succeeding year, in the discretion of the commissioners, either for the purpose of meeting the expense chargeable to the District of Columbia and/or for the further purpose of enabling the commissioners to fix a lower rate of taxation for the year following the one in which said excessCollection, etc., of revenues due the United States. accrued than they might otherwise be able to do; and that after June 30, 1922, the agencies through which the District of Columbia collects its revenues derived from taxation shall also collect for the United States any revenues which by this Act become the sole property of the United States, and said revenues shall be deposited in the TreasuryCenter Market excepted. of the United States as “Miscellaneous Receipts,” but the revenues from the property known as Center Market shall not be soCommissioners to submit estimates based on fixed proportions of appropriations. collected; and that hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not be restricted in submitting to the Bureau of the Budget their estimates of the needs of the District, but they shall, as near as may be, bring them within the probable aggregate of the fixed proportionate appropriations to be paid by the United States and the District of Columbia.
Fiscal relations of District and United States.Joint committee created to inquire into all matters relating to, since July 1, 1874.A joint select committee, composed of three Senator’s to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is created and is authorized and directed to inquire into all matters pertaining to the fiscal relations between the District of Columbia and the United States since July 1, 1874, with a view of ascertaining and reporting to Congress what sums have been expended by the United States and by the District of Columbia, respectively, whether for the purpose of maintaining, upbuilding, or beautifying the said District or for the purpose of conducting its government or its governmental activities and agencies, or for the furnishing of conveniences, comforts, and necessities to the people of said District.
Neither theFederal buildings not Included. cost of construction nor of maintenance of any building erected or owned by the United States for the purpose of transacting therein the business of the Government of the United States shall be consideredInterest on amounts found due from one to the other. by said committee. And in event any money may be, or at any time has been by Congress or otherwise, found due, either legally or morally, from the one to the other, on account of loans, advancements, or improvements made, upon which interest has not been paid by either to the other, then such sums as have been or may be found due from one to the other, shall be considered as bearing interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum from the time when the principal should, either legally or morally, have been paid, untilTo ascertain if surplus exists to credit of District. actually paid.
And the committee shall also ascertain and report what surplus, if any, the District of Columbia has to its credit on the books of the Treasury of the United States which has been acquiredReport of findings. by taxation or from licenses. And the said committee shall report its findings relative to all the matters hereby referred to it to the Senate and House, respectively, on or before the first Monday inPower to secure testimony, etc. February, 1923. The chairman or acting chairman of said committee hereby is empowered to administer oaths or affirmations.
The committee also is empowered to compel witnesses to attend its meetings and to testify, and also to compel the production of such books and papers as it may deem desirable. Any person who has been duly notified to appear before the committee either as witness or witness duces tecum, and fails so to do, shall be deemed guilty of contempt of Congress, and therefore may be punished to such extent as either the Senate or the House may determine; and said committee shall determine whether the proceeding for contempt shall lie with theAccountants, etc.Disqualification of District residents, etc.
House or the Senate. The committee may employ such accountants and stenographers to assist in the work as may be necessary, but the same qualifications for such accountants shall be required as was671 required of accountants by section 6 of the Act of June 20, 1874,Vol. 18, p. 119. entitled “An Act for the government of the District of Columbia and for other purposes,” and no one shall be so employed as accountant who is or has been heretofore an officer or employee of the District of Columbia or the United States.
No employee of said committeePay restriction. shall be paid more than $25 a day while actually at work. TheAssignment of attorney. Attorney General of the United States hereby is authorized and directed to assign a competent attorney from his regular force of attorneys to represent the United States before said committee; and any Member of Congress shall be permitted to examine any witnessAppropriation for expenses. and argue any question before the committee. For the payment of salaries of accountants and stenographers, for printing and binding, and other necessary expenses of the committee, there is appropriated 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States and 60 per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, the sum of $20,000, to be paid out upon vouchers approved by the chairman or acting chairman of the committee.
That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with any provision of thisConflicting laws repealed. Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict but no further. That in order to defray the expenses of the District of ColumbiaAppropriation for expenses, 40 per cent from the Treasury, and remainder from District revenues. for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, 40 per centum of each of the following sums, except those herein directed to be paid otherwise, hereby 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 the advances from the Federal Treasury herein permitted, 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 departmentsVeterinary division. of the District government, $1,400; Purchasing, division salaries: Purchasing officer, $3,000; deputyPurchasing 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 shall be stenographers and typewriters), one $1,100, three at $1,000 each; storekeeper, $1,200; messenger, $600; driver, $600; inspectors—one of materials, $1,400, two at $900 each; two property-yard keepers, at $1,000 each; temporary labor, $100;
Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, $3,000; assistantBuilding inspection division. inspectors of buildings—one $2,000, two at $1,500 each, one $1,500, one $1,400, nine at $1,360 each; fire-escape inspector, $1,400; civil engineers or computers—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,500; clerks—chief, $1,800, one $1,050, one $1,000, one (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter) $1,000, one $900; messenger, $600; assistant inspector, $1,500; Plumbing inspection division:
Inspector of plumbing, $2,000; assistantPlumbing Inspection division. 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, $2,000; draftsman, $1,350; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each; In all, Executive Office, $130,070. 672 District Building.care of district building. 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-tubeProviso.Assistant engineers and watchmen restricted. 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, three at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, one $900, one $720; draftsmen—one $1,600, two at $1,200 each; two stenographers and typewriters at $1,200 each; assistant or clerk, $900; messenger, $600; board of assistant assessors—clerk, $1,500; vault clerk, $900; messenger and driver, $600; temporary clerk hire, $500; in all, $58,120. special assessment office.
Special assessment office.Salaries: Special assessment clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, one $900, one $750; in all, $8,650. personal tax board. Personal tax board.Salaries: Three assistant assessors of personal taxes, at $3,000 each; chief inspector of personal property, $1,800; appraiser of personal property, $1,800; clerk, $1,400; assistant clerk, $1,000; two inspectors, at $1,200 each; extra clerk hire, $2,000; intangible personal property—two clerks at $1,500 each, five inspectors at $1,200 each, clerk to board of personal tax assessors, $1,800, clerk, $1,200; in all, $31,400. license bureau.
License bureau.Salaries: Superintendent of licenses, $2,000; clerks—one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; inspector, $1,200; inspector of licenses, $1,200; assistant inspector of licenses, $1,000; messenger, $600; temporary clerk hire, $1,500; in all, $13,200. collector’s office. Collector’s office.Salaries: Collector, $4,000; deputy collector, $2,000; chief clerk, arrears division, $2,000; cashier, $1,800; two assistant cashiers, at $1,500 each; bookkeeper, $1,600; two bailiffs, at $1,200 each; clerks—six at $1,400 each, thirteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, one $720; clerk and bank messenger, $1,200; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, $52,420. auditor’s office.
Auditor’s office.Salaries: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper, $1,800; accountant, $1,500; clerks—three at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each,673 one $1,350, four at $1,200 each, seven at $1,000 each, one 8936, two at S900 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.Coroner’s office. Salaries: Coroner, $1,800; morgue master, $720; assistant morgue 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. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.
Salaries: Superintendent, $2,500; inspectors—chief, $1,500, five atOffice of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets. $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. engineer commissioner’s office.Engineer Commissioner’s office. Salaries: Engineer of highways, $3,000; engineer of bridges, $2,500;Engineers, superintendents, etc. 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 superintendent $1,350; assistant engineers—two at $2,200 each, four at $1,800 each,Assistant engineers, etc. 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 $650Inspectors, etc. each; draftsmen—one $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one $1,050; general inspector of sewers, $1,300; inspector of sewers, $1,200; bridge inspector, $1,200; inspectors—two at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; foremen—thirteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,050 each, eight at $900 each; bridge keepers—one $650, three atClerks, etc. $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.
Salaries: Superintendent, $1,500; two mechanics, at $1,000 each;Central garage. in all, $3,500. 674 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. public utilities commission.
Public utilities commission.Salaries: Executive secretary, $4,000; accountant, $3,000; traffic engineer, $3,000; assistant accountant, $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; statistical clerk, $1,400; inspectors—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400; inspector of gas and meters, $2,000; inspector of electric meters, $1,800; assistant inspectors—one $1,200, two at $900 each; clerks—two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; messenger, $720; in all, $31,520. Incidental expenses.For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, $8,000. street cleaning division.
Street cleaning division.Salaries: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent, $1,800; chief clerk, $1,400; stenographer and clerk, $1,000; clerks—two at $1,200 each, one $1,100, one $1,000, two at $720 each; chief inspector, $1,300; inspectors—four at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each; foreman of repairs, $1,200; foremen—one $1,300, four at $1,200 each, eight at $1,100 each, one $1,000, one $900; assistant foremen—three at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger and driver, $600; in all, $44,180. board of examiners, steam engineers.
Examiners, steam engineers.Salaries: Three members, at $200 each, $600. department of insurance. Insurance department.Salaries: Superintendent of insurance, $3,500; deputy and examiner, $2,000; statistician, $1,700; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographer, $1,000; temporary clerk hire, $600; in all, $12,000. surveyor’s office. Surveyor’s office.Salaries: Surveyor, $3,000; assistant surveyor, $2,000; clerks— one $1,225, one $975, one $675; three assistant engineers, at $1,500 each; computer, $1,200; record clerk, $1,050; inspector, $1,275; draftsmen—one $1,225, one $900; assistant computer, $900; three rodmen, at $825 each; chainmen—three at $700 each, two at $650 each: computer and transitman, $1,200; in all, $26,000.
Temporary employees, etc.For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $7,000, all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the commissioners. minimum wage board. Minimum wage board.From District revenues.Salaries: Secretary, $2,500; clerical, contingent, and miscellaneous expenses, $2,500; in all, $5,000, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 675 district of columbia employees’ compensation fund.Employees’ compensation fund.
For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District ofPayments for injuries.Vol. 41, p. 104.Vol. 39, p. 742. Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, S7,000. free public library, including takoma park and southeast branches.Free public library and branches.
Salaries: Librarian, $4,000; assistant librarian, $2,000; chief, circulatingSalaries. 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; Tahoma Park branch librarian, SI,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 S1.200, eight at $1,000 each, seven (including one for the Takoma Park branch) at S900 each, six (including one for Takoma Park branch) at S7S0 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 S900 each, eleven at S780 each; collator, $780; four messengers, at S720 each; ten pages, at $420 each; four janitors, at $720 each, one of whom shall act as night watchman; janitor of Takoma Park branch, $660; engineer, $1,300; fireman, $720; workman, $600; library guard, $720; two cloakroom attendants, at $360 each; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $77,800.
Southeast Branch Library: For salaries in operating the SoutheastSoutheast branch. Branch Library, S3,500: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed*Proviso*.Pay restriction. hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,200 per annum. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, includingSubstitutes, etc. the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the discretion of the librarian, $3,000: *Provided*, That no money appropriated by*Proviso*.Library stations limited. this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations not now in existence, but this limitation shall not apply to public-school buildings and the Southeast Branch Library.
For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays,Sunday, etc., opening. $3,000. Miscellaneous, including Takoma Park and Southeast branches:Miscellaneous. For books, periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscriptions books, and society publications, $17,500. For binding, including necessary personal services, $7,000. Binding, etc. For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-roomContingent expenses. equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $12,500.
CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.Contingent expenses. For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals,Items specified. stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; 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 bug676 gies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800 in the aggregate; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the personal-tax board, harbor-master, health department, surveyors office, office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets, department of insurance, and Board of Charities, including an allowance to the purchasing officer of the District and to the secretary of the Board of Charities, not exceeding the rate of $26 per month for each, for the maintenance of an automobile to be furnished by them, respectively, and used in the discharge of their official duties, $45,000.
Printing reports for fiscal year 1922.For printing all annual and special reports of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, for*Proviso*.Discretionary discontinuance. submission to Congress, $5,000: *Provided*, That authority is 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 withinPreservation, etc., of originals. this appropriation.
In all cases where the printing of 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. Motor vehicles.Maintenance.For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motor cycles, and motor trucks owned by the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise herein provided for, $30,000. Purchase for Board of Children’s Guardians, etc.Exchangee.For purchase, at a cost not to exceed $726, of an automobile for such use of the Board of Children’s Guardians as may be designated by the official now known as “agent” of such board, 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, $4,726.
Use by official restricted.All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and*Proviso*.Limit of cost. employees of the District: *Provide*, That no automobile shall be acquired hereunder, by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650, except as may be herein specifically authorized.
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, Every, 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, Every, 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 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 bureau677 of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men,Connections under appropriations contained in this Act.
The commissioners may connect any or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia or to both of such systems. For postage for strictly official mail matter, $12,500. Postage. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnishCar fares, etc. necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street car and bus fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That theProvisos.Limit. expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $7,000: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shallFiremen and police not included. not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments.
For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title,Judicial expenses. the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $4,000. For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor wagon forCoroner’s expenses the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, including authority for an allowance of $26 per month to the coroner for furnishing motor vehicle in performance of official duties, $6,000.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forAdvertising.General. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $8,000. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1922, as requiredTaxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24. to be given by Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $5,000. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toRemoving dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923. authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1899, to pay 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, $1,000.
For copies of such wills, petitions, and other papers wherein titleCopies of wills, etc., to assessor. 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 ofRecorder of deeds.Office rent. cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 30 cents per hour, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $6,000. The recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia is authorized andPay for copying deeds, etc. directed to pay for copying instruments filed for record in his office 40 per centum of the fees 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 charge forProviso.Charges Limited. copying, or for filing, indexing, and recording, greater than that fixed by law, shall be made. 678 Vehicle tags.For purchase of metal identification number tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, 815,000.
Repairing lire injuries.For repair of buildings owned by the District of Columbia, when injured by fire, $5,000. Veterinary supplies.For medicines, surgical and hospital supplies for office of veterinary surgeon, 8200. Motor vehicles.building inspection division. Elevator 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 $13 each per month, $468.
Automobile inspectors.For transportation, means of transportation, and maintenance of means of transportation, including allowances to inspectors for automobiles at the rate of $26 per month each, $1,200. plumbing inspection division. Plumbing inspectors.To reimburse three assistant inspectors of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motor cycles for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia, $13 per month each, $468. District Building.district building.
Maintenance.For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor not to exceed $5,000, and miscellaneous supplies, $35,000. Superintendent of weights, etc.office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets. 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.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, $1,440. surveyor’s office. Surveys, highways system.For making surveys to mark permanently on the ground the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, $2,000. Employment service.employment service. Maintenance expenses.For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service tor the District of Columbia, $7,500. historical places.
Historical tablets.For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the District of Columbia, $500. Property yard.property yard. Alterations, etc.Proviso.Fence.For alterations and improvements to the old Mott School for use as a property yard, to be immediately available, $2,500: *Provided*, That a wire fence shall be built around the property.679 IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. assessment and permit work. For assessment and permit work, including maintenance of motorAssessment and permit work. vehicles, $250,000. paving roadways under permit system.
For paving roadways under the permit system, $50,000. Paving roadways. street improvements.Street improvements. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets,Paving, etc., streets, avenues, etc. avenues, suburban roads, and suburban streets, respectively, including the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, as follows: Northeast: For paving Fifteenth Street, East Capitol Street to B Street,Paying Fifteenth Street NE. present width, $15,000; Northwest:
For paving Ingraham Street, east of FourteenthPaving Ingraham Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $7,000; Northwest: For paving Upshur Street, New Hampshire AvenuePaving Upshur Street NW. to Fourth Street, forty-five feet wide, $8,400; Northwest: For repaving Fifteenth Street, H Street to I Street,Repaving Fifteenth Street NW.*Post*, p. 1531.Paying Varnum Street NW. seventy feet wide, $16,800; Northwest: For paving Yuma Street, Thirty-eighth Street to Thirty-ninth Street, thirty feet wide, $9,000;
Northwest: For paving Varnum Street, Second Street to RockPaying Varnum Street NW. Creek Church Road, and from Seventh Street to Grant Circle, thirty feet wide, $11,700; Northwest: For paving Third Street, Taylor Street to UpshurPaving Third Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $4,700; Northwest: For paving Nineteenth Street, C Street to E Street,Paving Nineteenth Street NAV. thirty-five feet wide, $11,200; Northwest: For paving Illinois Avenue, Webster Street to AllisonPaving Illinois Avenue NW.
Street, forty feet wide, $7,500; Southeast: For grading and improving Raleigh Street, NicholsGrading Raleigh Street SE. Avenue westward, thirty feet wide, $2,400; Northwest: For paving Crittenden Street, Fifteenth Street toPaving Crittenden Street NW. Piney Branch Road, thirty feet wide, $3,800; Northeast: For grading Thirteenth Street, Hamlin Street toGrading Thirteenth Street NE. Irving Street, $2,100; Northwest: For grading Brandywine Street, Twenty-ninth StreetGrading Brandywine and Twenty-ninth Streets, and Audubon Terrace NW. to Thirtieth Street;
Twenty-ninth Street, Brandywine Street to Audubon Terrace; and Audubon Terrace, Twenty-ninth Street to Broad Branch Road, $14.000; Northeast: For paving East Capitol Street, Fifteenth Street toPaving East Capitol Street. Eighteenth Street, fifty feet wide, $37,000; Northeast: For paving Rhode Island Avenue, Twelfth Street toPaving Rhode Island Avenue NE. Sixteenth Street, fifty feet wide, $45,000; Northeast: For paving Twelfth Street, Michigan Avenue to UpshurPaving Twelfth Street NE.
Street, forty feet wide, $17,200; Northwest: For paving Randolph Street, Thirteenth Street toPaving Randolph Street NW. Fourteenth Street, thirty feet wide, $10,700; Northwest: For paving Twenty-eighth Street from Woodley RoadPaving Twenty-eighth Street NW. to Cathedral Avenue, $10,000; In all, $233,500, to be disbursed and accounted for as “StreetAccounted for as one fund. Improvements” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. 680 Streets, alleys, and roads.streets, alleys, and roads.
Grading.Grading: For labor, purchase and repair of carts, tools, or hire of same, and horses, $35,000. Condemnation, etc.Condemnation: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. Opening, for permanent highways system.Vol. 37, p. 950.To carry out the provisions contained in the District of Columbia 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 1923, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Streets, avenues, and alleys.repairs—streets, avenues, and alleys. Current repairs.For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or otherMotor vehicles. not inferior material, and including the purchase of a motor truck at a cost not to exceed $2,000, and including the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, and including an allowance of not to exceed $26 per month for an automobile for use for official purposes,Street railway pavements.Vol. 20, p. 105. $460,000.
This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5 of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. Changing curb lines.Vol. 34, p. 1130.The authority given the commissioners in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1907, to make such changes in the lines of the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved under appropriations contained in this*Proviso*.Restriction.
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 to suburban roads. Current repairs.For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, $225,000. Bridges.bridges.
Construction, repair, etc.Construction and repair; For construction and repair, including the allowance to the overseer of bridges for the maintenance of an automobile for use in performance of his official duties of not to exceedStreet bridges over railroads. $26 per month, $27,500. This appropriation shall be available for repairing, when necessary, any bridge carrying a public street over the right of way or property of any railway company, 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 suchOver canals. traffic in a public street over the right of way or property of any canal company operating as such in the District of Columbia, on the neglect or refusal of such railway or canal company to do such work when notified and required by the commissioners, and the amounts thus681 expended shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the property of such railway company or of such canal company, and shall be collectedReimbursements. from such railway company or from such canal company in the manner provided in section 5 of an Act providing a permanentVol. 20, p. 105. 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 across Potomac River: Draw operators—two atHighway Bridge. $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, $6,340; in all, $14,700. Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies,Anacostia Bridge. and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $7,000.
SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, and the maintenanceCleaning, etc. of motor vehicles used in this work, $80,000. For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service,Pumping service. including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks used in this work, $80,000. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $125,000.
Main and pipe. For suburban sewers, including the exchange or replacement of twoSuburban. motor field wagons and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, $125,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $100,000. Assessment and permit work. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,Rights of way. maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $2,000. For continuing the construction of the Upper Potomac interceptor,Upper Potomac Interceptor. $40,000.
STREETS.Streets. dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal. For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues,Cleaning, sweeping, 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, rentVehicles, etc. of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; allowance to inspectors and foremen for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed for each inspector or foreman $20 per month for a horse and vehicle, $26 per month for an automobile, and $13 per month for a motor cycle; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $375,000. disposal of city refuse.City refuse.
To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of existingCollection and disposal of garbage, ashes, dead animals, etc.Vol. 40, p. 539. law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead ani-682 mals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia, including the purchase and maintenance of a dead animal wagon, and no contract shall be let for the collection of deadVehicles. animals, and including inspection and allowance to inspectors for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used hi the performance of official duties, not to exceed $20 per month for each inspector for horse-drawn vehicles, $26 per month for automobiles, and $13 per month for motor cycles; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps; and*Provisos*.Deposit of proceeds. incidental expenses, $750,000: *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations for such purposes are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*,Use restricted.
That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels, places of business, apartment houses, and large boarding houses. 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, $50,000.
Bathing beach.bathing beach. Maintenance, etc.Superintendent, $720; temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $7,000. Playgrounds.playgrounds. Salaries.Salaries: For salaries—Supervisor, $2,500; inspector of play-grounds, $1,200; clerk (stenographer and typewriter), $1,200; to be employed not exceeding ten months—twenty-two directors of play-grounds or recreation centers at $75 per month each, assistant director at $60 per month; general utility man at $60 per month; to be employed not exceeding seven months—three assistant directors at $60 per month each, four assistant directors at $50 per month each; to be employed not exceeding four months—six guards or swimming teachers at $60 per month each; to be employed not exceeding three months—four assistant directors at $60 per month each, twenty-two assistants at $50 per month each; to be employed twelve months— twenty-two watchmen at $50 per month each, clerk (who shall be a bookkeeper) at $75 per month; for services of extra directors at not exceeding 35 cents per hour, $800; for services of extra watchmen at not exceeding 25 cents per hour, $600; in all, $46,220;
Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, equipment, supplies, tools, construction of toilet facilities, wading pools, installation of telephones and telephone service, installation of electric lights and electric service, grading, and repairs, including labor and materials, and transportation of materials, maintenance and repair of storehouse, and necessary incidental and contigent expenses for all playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $35,000; Swimming pools.For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000;
New sites.For the purchase or condemnation of a piece of ground to take the place of Gallinger Playground, $15,000; 683 For the purchase or condemnation of a piece of ground to take the place of Columbia Heights Playground, $25,000; For the maintenance and contigent expenses of keeping openPublic school play-grounds during summer. during the summer months the public-school playgrounds, under the direction 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, $10,000;
In all, for playgrounds, $134,220, to be paid wholly out of the revenuesWholly from District revenues. of the District of Columbia. public convenience stations. For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensationPublic convenience stations. of necessary employees, $20,000. board for condemnation of insanitary buildings.Insanitary buildings. For all expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of anCondemnation expenses.Vol. 31, p. 157. Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May 1, 1906, including personal services when authorized by the commissioners, $2,250.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.Electrical department. Salaries: Electrical engineer, $2,750; assistant electrical engineer,Salaries. $2,000; inspectors—one $1,000, four at $900 each; electrician, $1,200; two draftsmen, at $1,000 each; four telegraph operators, at $1,000 each; repairmen—expert $1,200, three at $900 each, one $840; telephone operators—chief $900, four at $840 each, one $720, ten at $600 each, one $540; electrical inspectors—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,350, four at $1,360 each; assistant electrician, $1,200; clerks— one $1,400, one $1,200, two at $1,125 each, one $1,050, one $750; assistant repairman, $620; laborers—two at $600 each, two at $540 each; messenger, $630; storekeeper, $875; in all, $55,655.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies,Supplies, contingent expenses, etc. telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, Sins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, very, purchase and repair of bicycles, allowance for the maintenance of not more than three automobdes at not to exceed $26 per month each, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, $25,000.
For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone servicePlacing 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, $5,000. For extension and relocation of police-patrol system, includingPolice patrol system. purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $2,000.
Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of publicLighting streets, etc. lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental ofRates, etc. stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, this sum to be exEended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of theVoL 36, p. 1008.Vol. 37, p. 181. District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 and684 with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, $430,000, Replacing old fixtures, etc.For replacing gas lamps and fixtures and older and less effective 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*Proviso*.Contract restriction. therewith, $20,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be 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.
Fire alarm boxes, etc.For extension and relocation of fire-alarm system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $6,000. Extending cable system.For purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables to increase the capacity of the underground signal cable system, $6,000. Public schools.PUBLIC SCHOOLS. officers. Salaries.Officers.Salaries:
Superintendent, $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, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each (one of whom to carry out the provisions of the child-labor law); two stenographers, at $1,000 each; messenger, $720; in all, $72,220. attendance officers.
Attendance officers.Salaries: Attendance officers—one $1,080, one $960, seven at $900 each; in all, $8,340. teachers. Teachers.Salaries: For two thousand four hundred and sixteen 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 S100 per annum for five years;
Assistants, Central and McKinley.Two assistant principals, one for the Central High School and one for the McKinley Manual Training High School, at $2,400 each: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Basic salary. That said assistant principals shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Other principals.*Proviso*.Basic salary.Principals of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, 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.*Proviso*.Basic salary.Principals of junior high schools, four 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, Centra! and Dunbar High.Two assistant principals, one of whom shall be dean of girls of the Central High School and one of whom shall be dean of girls of the685 Dunbar High School, at $2,400 each: *Provided*, That said assistant*Provisos*.Basic salary. principals shall be placed at a basic salary of 32,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of 3100 per annum for five years;
Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science,Directors. domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at 32,000 each: *Provided*, That the director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor*Proviso*.Penmanship. in the normal school and a director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of 32,000 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of S100 per annum for five years; Assistant director of primary instruction, $1,800: *Provided*, ThatPrimary 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, domesticOther assistant directors. science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $1,800 each: *Provided*, That the assistant director of penmanship, who shall*Proviso*.Penmanship. be an instructor in the normal school and an assistant director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years; Assistant supervisor of manual training, $1,800;
Manual training, assistant supervisor.Other teachers. Hoads of departments in high and manual-training high schools 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, forty-nine, at $2,200 each; Group A, of class six, including seven principals of grade manual-training schools, four hundred and thirty-six, at $1,440 each; Class five, two hundred and three, at $1,200 each, including vocational and trade instructors;
Class four, five hundred and sixty-three, at $1,200 each; Class three, six hundred and three, at $1,200 each; Class two, four hundred and five, at $1,200 each; Class one, one hundred and ten, at $1,200 each: *Provided*, That all*Provisos*.Full increased pay allowed. teachers and librarians and clerks herein provided for shall be entitled to the full amount of any increased compensation granted for the fiscal year 1923 regardless of the increase herein made: *Provided further*,Limitation.
That if the full amount of such increased compensation should make the total compensation of any teacher in excess of $2,740 per annum, then only such portion of the increased compensation as will make the total compensation of such teacher equal $2,740 per annum shall be allowed; In all, for teachers, $3,102,940. The salaries appropriated herein for teachers, clerks, and librarians,Salaries in lieu of present basic pay. in all classes during the fiscal year 1923 shall be in lieu of the present basic or initial salaries for such classes, and the present rates of longevity increases of pay for the said classes shall apply to the basic or initial salaries appropriated herein: *Provided*, That for the year*Proviso*.Additional for fiscal year 1923. ending June 30, 1923, 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, 1922.
Librarians and clerks at minimum salaries as follows: Librarians and clerks. Ten librarians in high and normal schools in class five, at $1,200 each; thirty-five clerks in class four, at $960 each; in all, $45,600. vacation schools. For the instruction, and supervision of children in the vacationVacation schools. schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $20,000. 686 longevity pay.
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 principal (who shall be dean of girls) of the Central High School, the assistant principal (who shall be dean of girls) of the Dunbar High School, principals of grade manual-training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, principal and teachers in Americanization work, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitledVol. 34, p. 320.
“An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, andVol. 35, p. 289: Vol. 36, p. 393; Vol. 37, p. 156. other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, as amended by the Acts approved*Proviso*.Efficiency requisites. May 26, 1908, May 18, 1910, and June 26, 1912, $600,000: *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.
Principals.allowance to principals. Additional pay for graded schools.For allowance to principals of grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strictVol. 34, p, 320. 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, S40,000. 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. Retirement fund.teachers’ retirement fund.
Annuities.For payment of annuities, $36,500. Americanization work.americanization work. Instructing foreigners of all ages.For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages in both day and night classes, including a principal, who, for ten months, shall give his full time to this work, at $1,800 per annum, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day school, $12,000. Equipment, etc.For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $2,500. kindergarten supplies.
Kindergartens.For kindergarten supplies, $6,000. 687 janitors and care of buildings and grounds.Janitors, etc. Salaries: Superintendent of janitors, 31,500; engineers and instructorsSalaries. in steam engineering—one 81,500, one 81,200; engineers— one $1,500, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; assistant engineers— four at $1,000 each, one $900; two electricians at $1,200 each; janitors—two at $1,100 each, twenty-three at $1,000 each, one $900, thirty-four at $840 each, one $800, seventy-one at $720 each, thirteen at S600 each, three at $250 each; assistant janitors—seven at $900 each, two at $720 each; nine firemen at $720 each; gardener, $840; four coal passers at 3600 each; five night watchmen at $720 each; one hundred and thirteen laborers at $720 each; eleven matrons atMatrons. $600 each; five charwomen, at $480 each; in all, $242,750.
For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cookingSmaller buildings and rented rooms. and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $17,500. medical inspectors.Medical Inspectors. Salaries: Chief medical and sanitary inspector, who shall, underSalaries. the direction of the health officer of the District of Columbia, give his whole time to, and exercise the direction and control of, the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of the public schools of the District of Columbia, $2,500; sixteen medical inspectors ofDivision. public schools, one of whom shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, at $500 each; in all, $10,500.
For ten graduate nurses, three of whom shall be colored, who shallGraduate nurses. act as public school nurses, at $1,200 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. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For rent of school buildings and grounds, repair shop, storageRent, etc. and stock rooms, $16,500.
For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the secondEquipping temporary rooms, etc. grade, now on half time, and to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by operation of the compulsory education law, and for purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, $4,000. For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, $4,000. Tubercular pupils. For equipment and furnishing of schools for tubercular children, 36.000.
For extending the equipment of the Harrison School for tubercularHarrison School. children, $6,000. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and groundsRepairs, etc., 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, $250,000. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material,Manual training expenses. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $45,000.
For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $165,000. Fuel, light, and power.Furniture, etc. For furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades for additions to buildings, equipment for kindergartens, and tools and688 furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, asSpecified buildings. follows; Twelve-room addition to the Wheatley School, eight-room addition to the Mott School, eight-room addition to the Eaton School, four-room addition to the Smothers School, four-room addition to the Monroe School, eight-room addition to the Buchanan School, eight-room addition to the Bell School, for the Iowa Avenue Junior High School (twenty-four rooms), Eckington Junior High School (twenty-four rooms), school in the vicinity of Lincoln Park (eight rooms), $101,760, to be immediately available; three kindergartens, $2,400; two sewing schools, $800; two housekeeping and cooking schools, $2,000; two cooking schools, $1,400; two manual-training shops, $1,640; in all, $110,000.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, printing, ice, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of not exceeding $312 per annumMotor vehicles. 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 hooks of reference and periodicals, $75,000.
Paper towels.For the purchase of sanitary paper towels and for fixtures for dispensing the same to the pupils, $3,000. Pianos.For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,500. Supplies to pupils.For textbooks ana 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 supplies*Proviso*.Exchanges. 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.
Flags.For purchase of United States flags, $900. Playgrounds.For maintenance and repair of seventy-eight school playgrounds now established, $3,500. Additional.For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school yards*Proviso*.Use, etc. for the purposes of play of pupils, $2,400; *Provided*, That such play-grounds shall be kept open for play purposes in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the Playgrounds Department. School gardens,For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $3,000.
Nature study instruction, etc.The board of education is authorized to designate the months in which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. Physics departments supplies.For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending the equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, Junior, and Dunbar High Schools, $3,000. Chemistry and biology laboratories.For purchase of fixtures, apparatus, specimens, and materials and technical books, for laboratories of the departments of chemistry and biology in the Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and Dunbar High Schools, and J.
Ormond Wilson and Myrtilla Miner Normal Schools, and Junior High Schools, and installation of same, $3,000. Cabinetmaker,For cabinetmaker for repairing school furniture, $1,200. 689 For furniture and equipment for the Robert Gould Shaw JuniorRobert Gould Shaw Junior High School. High School, $6,000, and hereafter the M Street High School
(old)shall be known as Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School. For furniture and equipment for the Columbia Junior High School,Columbia Junior High School. $6,000, and hereafter the Central High School
(old)and annex shall be known as Columbia Junior High School. community center department.Community centers. For salaries of directors, supervisors, teachers, clerks, and otherSalaries 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, $35,000, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of ColumbiaFrom District revenues.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.: *Provided*, That not more than 60 per centum of this sum shall be expended for salaries of directors, supervisors, teachers, clerks, and janitors. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercularTransporting tubercular pupils.*Proviso*.Car fares allowed. children, $2,000: *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. The children of officers and men of the United States Army andChildren of Army, Navy, etc., admitted free. Navy and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside of the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. buildings and grounds.Buildings and grounds. For completing the construction and full equipment of the newEastern High School. Eastern High School, $900,000. For completing the construction of the twelve-room addition toWheatley School the Wheatley School, $100,000. For the erection of an eight-room addition to the Lovejoy School,Lovejoy School $125,000. For completing the construction of a junior high school north ofJunior high, north of Taylor Street. Tavlor Street and east of Fourteenth Street, $200,000. For completing the construction of a junior high school on the siteJunior high, near Gage, etc., Schools. in the vicinity of the Gage, Emery, and Eckington Schools, $200,000. For the erection of an eight-room extensible building on a site westIngleside section. of Sixteenth Street northwest, in the Ingleside section, $140,000. For the purchase of additional land adjoining the Garrison School,Garrison School.Additional land. $6,000. For the erection of an eight-room addition to the Garrison School,Erecting addition. $140,000: *Provided*, That none of the money appropriated by this*Provisos*.Construction contracts to lowest bidder furnishing bond,etc. Act shall be paid or obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which shall not have been awarded in one or a single contract 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*, That this limitation shall in no wiseNot applicable to awarded contracts, etc. apply to contracts already awarded; nor shall it be construed to impair the legal rights or status of any unsuccessful bidder on a contract already awarded: *Provided further*, That no architect’s feeRestriction on fees of architects. 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 the690Right to reject bids not impaired. building or other project: *Provided further*, That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the commissioners the right to reject all bids. Chain Bridge Road School.For the erection of a two-room building to replace the present one-room Chain Bridge Road School, $25,000. Dunbar High.Adjoining land.For the purchase of land adjoining the Dunbar High School, $50,000. Armstrong Manual Training.Adjoining land.Erecting addition.For the purchase of land adjoining the Armstrong Manual Training School, $50,000. For beginning the erection of an addition to the Armstrong Manual Training School and alterations thereto, to include an assembly hall, additional classrooms, shops, and laboratories, within a limit of costContract authorized. of $500,000, which is hereby authorized, $100,000, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into a contract for said addition at a cost not to exceed $500,000. Western High.Plans for an addition, etc.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to have plans prepared by the municipal architect for an addition to the Western High School, which plans shall include repairs and alterations to the present building, with a view to providing not less than twenty-four additional classrooms. Construction appropriations immediately available.Costs limited to authorizations.The appropriations herein made for the construction of school buildings shall be available immediately. The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be made previously and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes. Soliciting subscriptions, etc., prohibited.No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to schoolException. officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the board of education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. Preparation of plans.The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the board of education, and shall be approved by the commissioners, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. Doors to open outwards, etc.The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having an excess ofUnlocked doors. eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. Columbia Institution tor the Deaf.columbia institution for the deaf. Instruction expenses.For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 952](/us/rs/s4864/p952).Vol. 31, p. 844. 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. 691 colored deaf-mutes.Colored deaf mutes. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachableTuition under contract. age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $4,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation*Proviso*.Supervision. shall be made under the supervision of the board of education. blind children.Blind children. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, inInstruction under contract. Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $10,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under*Proviso*.Supervision. this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the board of education. METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. salaries. Major and superintendent, $4,500; two assistant superintendents,Salaries. at $3,000 each; three inspectors, at $2,400 each; twelve captains, at $2,400 each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, $2,400; clerk (who shall be a stenographer), $1,800; two clerks (who shall be stenographers), at $1,500 each; clerks—one (who shall be assistant property clerk), $1,200, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each, one $700; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at $1,600 each; additional compensation for thirty-five privates detailed for specialDetective service, etc. service in the detection and prevention of crime, $16,800; 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 fifty of class three at $1,660 each, two hundred and thirty-seven of class two at $1,560 each, forty-two of class one at $1,460 each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year 1923, $6,686.36; nine telephone clerks, at $900 each; eighteen janitors, at $600 each; laborer, $720; messenger, $600; motor vehicle allowance of $480 to one inspector; thirty-eight captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on horses, at $540 each; motor vehicle allowance to twenty sergeants, and privates, at $480 each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $70 each; driver-privates—thirty-six of class two, at $1,560 each; six police matrons, at $720 each; in all, $1,694,786.36. national bureau of criminal identification.Criminal Identification Bureau. To aid in support of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification,Support 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. 692 Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. Fuel.For fuel, $6,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to police stations and station grounds, $7,000. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for 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, $50,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have*Proviso*.Army mounted equipment. been expended: *Provided*, That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required. Flags.For flags and halyards, $200. Motor vehicles.For maintenance of motor vehicles, $18,000. For additional motor vehicles, $5,000. Cell corridors, etc.For the reconstruction of cell corridors and in making, erecting, and placing therein modern locking devices in precinct station houses, $7,500. Suburban station house, northeast.Additional amount required for the completion of a station house on the site already acquired at Seventeenth Street and Rhode Island Avenue northeast, $20,000. house of detention. House of detention.To enable the commissioners to provide transportation, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age, and, in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including two clerks, at $1,000 each; two drivers, 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, $3,000. Policemen, etc., relief fond.POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND. Payments from.Vol. 39, p. 718.To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, a sum not to exceed $250,000 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. 693 FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. salaries. Chief engineer, $4,000; two deputy chief engineers, at $3,000 each;Salaries. eight battalion chief engineers, at $2,400 each; fire marshal, $2,400; deputy fire marshal, $2,000; four inspectors, at $1,660 each; chief clerk, $2,400; clerk, $1,400; clerk (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter), $1,660; thirty-eight captains, at $1,900 each; forty-one lieutenants at $1,760 each; forty-one sergeants, at $1,700 each; superintendent of machinery, $2,500; assistant superintendent of machinery, $2,000; two pilots, at $1,700 each; two marine engineers, at $1,700 each; two assistant marine engineers, at $1,660 each; two marine firemen, at $1,460 each; privates—four hundred and twenty-eight of class three, at $1,660 each, seventy-one of class two, at $1,560 each, twelve 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 1923, $2,455.44; hostler, $1,080; laborer, $1,000; in all, $1,120,595.44. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds,Repairs to buildings. $20,000. For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-drivenRepairs to apparatus, etc. apparatus, and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools: *Provided*, That the commissioners*Proviso*.Construction at repair shop. are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire department repair shop, $22,000. For hose, $12,000 Supplies. For fuel, $35,000. For forage, $5,000. For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $2,000, to be immediatelyFire boat repairs. available. For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil,Contingent expenses. medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, cost of installation and maintenance of telephones in the residences of the superintendent of machinery and the fire marshal, $25,000. Permanent improvements: For one combination chemical andNew apparatus. hose wagon, motor driven, $8,150. For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $14,500. For one city service truck, motor driven, $9,000. For one pumping engine, triple combination, motor driven, $12,500. For installing steam heat in engine and truck houses, $10,000. Installing steam in houses.Repairs, Number 16 engine house. For repairs, improvements, and alterations to engine house Numbered 16, D Street between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets northwest, $5,000. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health department. salaries. Health officer, $4,000; assistant health officer, $2,500; chief clerkSalaries. and deputy health officer, $2,500; chief, bureau of vital statistics, $1,800; clerks—one $1,600, five at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $720; sanitary inspector—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, twelve at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, three at $900694 each; food inspectors—chief $1,800, assistant chief $1,400, six at 81,400 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 ail, $96,390. Female employment.Vol. 38, p. 291.To carry out the Act to regulate the hours of employment and safe-guard the health of females employed in the District of Columbia,Inspectors, etc. 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. Contagious diseases prevention.prevention of contagious diseases. Enforcement expenses.Vol. 29, p. 635; Vol. 34, p. 889.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in tne District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved FebruaryTuberculosis registration.Vol. 35, p. 126. 9, 1907, and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908, under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums,Infantile paralysis, etc. including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services, not exceeding $25,000 when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine stationSmallpox hospital.*Proviso*.Bacteriological, etc., examinations. 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. 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, $6 000. Drainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896,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. 695 Apparatus, equipment, cost of installation, supplies, and other expenses incidental to the biological and serological diagnosis of disease, $750. chemical laboratory.Chemical laboratory. For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchaseMaintenance, etc. of reference books and scientific periodicals, $750. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act toEnforcing milk regulations.Vol. 28, p. 709. regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1895; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved FebruaryFood, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398. 17, 1898; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; an Act for preventingPure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768. the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, $1,000. dairy farm inspection.Dairy farms. For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, includingInspection expenses. amounts that may be allowed the health officer, assistant health officer, chief medical inspector in charge of contagious-disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for maintenance by each of a horse and vehicle at not to exceed $20 per month, or motor vehicle at not to exceed $26 per month, for use in the discharge of his official duties, and other necessary traveling expenses, $6,000. garfield and providence hospitals.Garfield and Providence Hospitals. For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at GarfieldIsolating wards. Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $10,000 and $6,500, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $16,500. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory,Crematory. $2,000. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the poundVehicles. service, $600. For equipping, maintaining, and operating the motor ambulance, and keeping it in good order, $600. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatmentTuberculosis and venereal diseases dispensary. of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service and supplies, $12,500: *Provided*, That the commissioners*Provisos*.Volunteer services. may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not bePay prohibition. construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. For clinical examination, advice, care, and maintenance of childrenChild Welfare Society.Care, etc., of young children. under six years of age, under a contract to be made with the Child Welfare Society by the health officer of the District of Columbia, $18,000. COURTS.Courts. court reports. For eleven copies of volumes fifty-eight and fifty-nine of the reportsCourt of appeals reports.Vol. 32, p. 609. of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, authorized to be furnished under section 229 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia as amended July 1, 1902, at $5 each, $110.696 Probation system.probation system, supreme court. Supreme court, expenses of.Probation officer, $2,200; assistant probation officer, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter and assistant, $900; contingent expenses, $325; maintenance of motor vehicle used in performance of official duties, at not to exceed $26 per month, $312; in all, $5,137. Juvenile court.juvenile court. Salaries.Salaries: Judge, $3,600; clerk, $2,000; deputy clerk, who is authorized to act as clerk in the absence of that officer, $1,480; financial clerk, who is authorized to act as deputy clerk, $1,200; stenographer and typewriter, who is authorized to act as a deputy clerk, $1,080; stenographer and typewriter for judge’s work, and to aid in keepingProbation officers. records in clerk’s office, $1,080; probation officers—chief, $2,000, assistant chief (who shall also be investigating officer for children’s cases), $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one for adult cases $1,200, five at $1,000 each; investigating officer for juvenile work, $1,400; investigating officer for adult cases, $1,200; record and information clerk for probation office, $1,200; clerk for probation office, $900; two bailiffs, at $900 each; telephone operator, $600; messenger, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $31,080. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900. For transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, $300. Advances for returning. etc., absconding probationersThe disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court, upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. 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.Miscellaneous: 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,697 soap and disinfectants, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $4,500. For witness fees, $2,500. Witness fees, etc. For furniture, and repairing and replacing same, $500. For lodging, meals, and accommodation of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $200. For compensation of jurors, $10,000: *Provided*, That none of theJurors.Provisos.Fees taxed as costs. money appropriated in this Act shall be available for the payment of jurors’ fees unless the actual cost of the trial jury be taxed as part of the costs, and judgment rendered therefor, to be paid by the unsuccessful litigant: *Provided further*, That no person in default of paymentNo imprisonment for default. thereof shall be imprisoned on that account. For repairs to building, $2,000. Repairs. municipal court.Municipal court. Salaries: Five judges, at $3,600 each; clerk, $1,500; jury clerk,Salaries. $1,600; four enrolling clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographer and typist, $1,400; four assistant clerks, at $1,200 each; clerk and messenger, $840; elevator operator, $600; janitor, $600; charwoman, $240; in all, $35,980. Jurors, etc. For compensation of jurors, $10,000. For lodging, meals, and accommodations for jurors and deputy United States marshals, while in attendance upon them, when ordered by the court, $100. For rent of building, $3,600. Rent, etc. For fixtures, and repairs to furniture, $500. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books ofContingent expenses. reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $2,250. writs of lunacy.Lunacy writs. For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendoExpenses of executing.Vol .33, p. 740. 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. 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, $3,000: *Provided,* That in the purchase of all articles*Proviso*.Purchases. provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. COURTS AND PRISONS.Courts and prisons. court of appeals, district of columbia.Court of appeals. Salaries: Chief justice, $9,000; two associate justices, at $8,500Salaries. each; clerk $4,250, and $250 additional as custodian of the Court of698 Appeals Building; assistant or deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500:*Proviso*.Sale of reports. *Provided*, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold 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, $1,200; in all, $42,410. Care, etc., of building.Court of Appeals Building: Two watchmen, at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; three laborers, at $600 each; mechanician*Proviso*.Custodian. (under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol), $1,200: *Provided*, That the clerk of the Court of Appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction ana supervision of the justices of said court; in all, $5,160. Contingent expenses.For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800. Supreme court.supreme court, district of columbia. Salaries.Salaries: Chief justice, $8,000; five associate justices, at $7,500 each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,100 each; in all, $52,100. Witnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/fr/s850/p160).Fees of witnesses:: For fees of witnesses and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $15,000. Jurors.Fees of jurors: For fees of jurors, $60,000. Bailiffs, etc.Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals ana lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, and per diems*Proviso*.Jury commissioners. of jury commissioners, $29,000: *Provided,* That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1923 shall not exceed $250. Miscellaneous expenses.Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, $22,500. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500. Courthouse.Care, etc., of.Courthouse: For care and protection, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, $1,200; electrician, $900; four watchmen, at $720 each; five laborers, at $600 each; six messengers, at $720 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; clerk to jury commissioner, $720; telephone operator, $720; attendant in ladies’ waiting room, $300; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $16,920, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including 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. support of convicts. 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 expenses699 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, $175,000. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.Charities and corrections. board of charities.Board of Charite. Salaries and traveling expenses: Secretary, $3,500; assistantSalaries, etc. 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, including attendance on conventions, $600; in all, $20,740. For the maintenance of three motor ambulances, $1,500. Ambulances. jail.Jail. Support of prisoners: For maintenance of jail prisoners of theSupport of prisoners at. District of Columbia at the jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, maintenance of automobile, and for the support of prisoners, $85,000. workhouse and reformatory.Workhouse and reformatory. Salaries: Superintendent, $3,500; physician, $1,680; chief engineer,Salaries. $1,200; electrician, $1,200; superintendent of commissary, $1,080; in all, $8,660. workhouse.Workhouse. Administration: Assistant superintendent, $1,680; chief clerk,Administration salaries. $1,200; head matron, $900; stenographer, $720; Operation: Foremen—construction, $900; stone-crushing plant,Operation employees. $900; sawmill, $900; superintendent brickkiln, $1,500; Maintenance: Superintendent of clothing and laundry, $840;Maintenance employees. 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 ofExpenses of maintenance, etc. 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, $42,500; Fue For construction, dynamite, oils, repairs to plant, and material forConstruction, repairs, etc. repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $25,000; For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An ActPayment to abandoned families, etc.Vol. 34,p.87. making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or700 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 vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District. In all, $202,600, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Reformatory.reformatory. Salaries.Salaries: Assistant superintendent, $1,800; chief clerk, $1,200; assistant clerk and stenographer, $1,000; steward, $1,500; captain of day officers, $1,200; six instructors, at $1,200 each; twelve day officers, at $900 each; captain of night force, $1,080; six night-officers, at $720 each; parole officer, $1,200; overseer, $1,200; in all, $32,500; Construction, etc.For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, $40,000; Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support of inmates; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment; transportation and means of transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation; supplies and labor, and all other necessary items, $50,000; Fuel.For fuel for maintenance, $8,000; Repair material, etc.For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000; In all, $134,500, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. National Training School for Boys.national training school for boys. Care, etc., of boys.For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $70,000. National Training School for Girls.national training school for girls. Salaries.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, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding $500 for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates and for rewards for their capture, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, not exceeding $150, for purchase of automobile bus at a cost of not to exceed $1,000 and for maintenance of same, $26,000. 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: 701 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, $5,000. 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 laborRepairs, operation, etc. and material for each and every item connected therewith, $5,000; for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $15,000; in all, $20,000, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, and on July 1, 1922, the sum of $25,000 of the surplus revenues ofSurplus of $25,000 to be deposited to credit of District and United States. the hospital shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and to the credit of the District of Columbia in the same proportions as the appropriations for such institution are paid from the Treasury of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia. tuberculosis hospital.Tuberculosis Hospital. Salaries: Superintendent, $1,800; resident physician, $600; assistantSalaries. resident physician, $300; roentgenologist, $600; pharmacist and clerk, $780; superintendent of nurses and engineer, at $720 each; pathologist, $300; matron, dietitian, chief cook, assistant engineer, laundryman, and eight graduate nurses, at $600 each; assistant cooks—one $360, two at $240 each; assistant engineer, $600; elevator conductor, $300; three laundresses, at $240 each; farmer, laborer, night watchman, four orderlies, and assistant laundryman, at $360 each; three ward maids, at $240 each; four servants, at $240 each; in all, $20,640. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles, and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $50,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, includingRepairs, etc. roads and sidewalks, $2,500. Gallinger Municipal Hospital.Gallinger Municipal Hospital. For completing construction of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital,Construction. $246,410. Operation personnel. For necessary physicians, nurses, orderlies, cooks, engineers, clerks, laborers, and other services for the organization and operation of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $75,000: *Provided*, That during the*Provisos*.Restricted to capacity. fiscal year 1923 the number of persons whom it may be actually necessary to employ at any one time shall not exceed the proportion that the force to attend the actual number of beds available shall bear to the force required to attend the ultimate maximum capacity of 300 beds: *Provided further*, That no person employed hereunderPay restriction. shall be paid at a rate in excess of the rate specifically appropriated for a similar grade of work for the Washington Asylum Hospital for the fiscal year 1922. 702 Maintenance.For maintenance, purchase of not to exceed two motor vehicles and maintenance of motor vehicles, books of reference, and all other necessary expenses, $75,000. Psychopathic buildings equipment.Equipment for the new psychopathic buildings: For furniture, furnishings, instruments and appliances, and other necessary articles, $30,000. Kitchen equipment.Equipment for new domestic building kitchen: For range, cooking utensils, and other necessary articles, including installation, $15.000. Repairs, etc.For repairs to buildings, including the completion of alterations of the old psychopathic hospital building to provide quarters for female nurses and female employees, $10,000. Washington Asylum Hospital.Discontinuance of, etc.The institution now known as the Washington Asylum Hospital shall be discontinued as a separate institution during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and the hospital service now being rendered by the Washington Asylum Hospital, in so far as it is not provided for in the new buildings of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, may be continued in the old buildings now occupied. 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,Limitation on visitations 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 have 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.Construction, etc., of.*Post,* p. 1360.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to use a site for a home and school for feeble-minded persons, said site to be located in the District of Columbia on land owned by the District of Columbia and now allotted to the Home for the Aged and Infirm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings at a total cost not exceeding $250,000, and toward said purpose there is hereby appropriatedAdmissions. the sum of $100,000, to be immediately available. The persons to be admissible thereto and the proceedings with reference to securing such admission to be in accordance with law. Board, etc., of children.For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $150,000. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances to agent. advance to the agent of the Board of Children’s Guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time,703 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 care-takers, nurse, and sewing teacher, at $360 each; three teachers, at $480 each; manual-training teacher, $600; fanner and blacksmith and wheelwright, at $480 each; farm laborer, $360; stableman and watchman, at $300 each; two cooks, at $240 each; two laundresses, at $240 each; temporary labor not to exceed $500; in all, $11,300. For maintenance, including care of horses, wagons, and harness,Maintenance, etc. and maintenance of automobile, $18,000, For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $1,500. For manual-training equipment and materials, $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 productsDeposit of receipts from sale of products, etc. 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; matron,Salaries. $480; three matrons, at $360 each; housekeeper and sewing teacher, at $360 each; two assistant matrons, at $300 each; nurse, $360; manual-training teacher, $660; florist, $840; engineer, $720; farmer, $540; cook and laundress, at $300 each; two housemaids, at $180 each; clerk, $900; temporary labor, not to exceed $400; in all, $10,540. For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care ofMaintenance, etc. wagon and harness, and maintenance of motor vehicle, $22,500. For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $3,000. For purchase of automobile, $726. For care and maintenance of children under contracts to be madeCare of children in designated institutions. by the Board of Children’s Guardians with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, $2,500; Washington Home for Foundlings, $1,500; Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, $1,000. home for aged and infirm.Home for Aged and Infirm. Salaries: Superintendent, $1,200; clerk, $900; matron, $600; chiefSalaries. cook, $720; baker, and laundryman, at $540 each; chief engineer, $1,000; assistant engineer, $720; mechanic, $1,000; physician and pharmacist, $480; second assistant engineer, $480: nurse, $600; two male attendants and two nurses, at $360 each; two female attendants, at $300 each; orderly, $360; three firemen, at $360 each; assistant cooks—one $360, one $180; foreman of construction and repair, $840; blacksmith and woodworker, $540; farmer, $720; truck gardener, $600; four farm hands, dairyman, and tailor, at $360 each; seamstress, $240; laundress, hostler and driver, at704 $240 each; three servants, at $144 each; night watchman, $240; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $21,052. 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 and improvements.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000. For retubing, rebaffling, and resetting BabcockWilcox boiler in power house, $3,000. For building and equipment for ice making and refrigeration, $6,000. For one motor vehicle, $700. Temporary homes.Miscellaneous. 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, grand army of the republic. 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, resident in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Charities, $7,500. National Library for the Blind.National Library for the Blind: For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at seventeen hundred and twenty-nine H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $2,500. Columbia Polytechnic Institute.Columbia Polytechnic Institute: To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at eighteen hundred and eight H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $1,500. Saint Elizabeths Hospital.saint elizabeths hospital. Support of Indigent insane in.For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $850,000. nonresident insane. Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811.For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the705 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 DistrictAdvances 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 atRelief 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, orBurial 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. For transportation of paupers, $2,000. Transporting paupers. MILITIA.Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and directionExpenses authorized. of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers requiredCamps, drills, etc. to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments, damages to private property incident to encampments, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills and parades, fuel, light, heat, care and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses, practice ships, boats, machinery and dock, dredging alongside of dock, telephone service, horses and mules for mounted organizations, street car fares (not to exceed $200) necessarily used in the transaction of official business, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $24,000. For rent of armories, storehouses, and stables, $7,000. Rent, etc. For printing, stationery, and postage, $1,000. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $1,000. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, $1,000. For clerk, office of the adjutant general, $1,000. For expenses of target practice and matches, $2,500. Target practice. For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursedPay of troops. under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $8,000. 706 Refund of erroneous collections.REFUND OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS. Payments authorized from.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 of the District of Columbia, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized byBuilding permits.Vol. 36, p. 967.*Proviso*.Prior years. the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911, $1,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. Anacostia Park.ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS. Continuing development of.Vol. 40, p. 950.For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, to be expended in accordance with the plans specified in the item for the reclamation of the Anacostia River and Flats, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $150,000, to be expended below Benning Bridge. Small parts.PARKS. Condemnation expenses.For the condemnation of small park areas at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the commissioners, $15,000. 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; 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, $17,940. 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; two sergeants, at $1,580 each; fifty-five privates, at $1,360 each: in all, $81,560. Purchases, etc.For purchase, repair, and exchange of bicycles and revolvers for park police and for purchase of ammunition, $1,200. For purchase, maintenance, repair, operation, and exchange of motor cycles for park police, $1,000. Uniforms.For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police and Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial watchmen, $5,000. buildings and grounds in and around washington. Improvement and care of grounds.For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: 707 For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of ExecutiveSouth of Executive Mansion. Mansion, $4,000. 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 highGeneral repairs, etc. 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, $40,000. 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 PineyRock Creek Park and Piney Branch Parkway. Branch Parkway, including not to exceed $500 for repairs to the superintendent’s residence, $30,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of West Potomac Park,Potomac Park. including grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and constructing paths, $30,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $8,000. 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,Montrose Park. $5,000. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in conditionOutdoor sports. for outdoor sports, $15,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Meridian Hill Park,Meridian Hill Park. $25,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps whichUnion Station Plaza pumps. operate the three fountains on the Union Station Plaza, $4,000. To provide for the increased cost in park maintenance, $50,000. Park maintenance. For care of the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $2,500. Tidal Basin bathing beach: For purification of waters of theTidal Basin bathing beach. Tidal Basin and care, maintenance, and operation of the bathhouse and beach, $12,000. 708 Bathing beach for colored people.*Post*, p. 1366.For construction of bathing beach and bathhouse for the colored population of the city, $25,000. For necessary repairs to the statue of General Washington in Washington Circle, $2,000. For care and maintenance of Mount Vernon Park, $1,000. Engineer, etc.For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, $2,400. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. Lighting public grounds.Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, watchmens lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $24,000. 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*Provisos*.Area limited. required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, $100,000: *Provided*, That the total area of lands finally to be acquired for said parkway shall not exceed the area and parcels described and delineated on map numbered two, contained in House Document Numbered 1114 of the Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and the additional lands in squares twenty-five hundred and forty-three and twenty-five hundred and forty-fourVol. 41, p. 890.Conditions imposed.Vol. 39, p. 282.Restriction on opening highways, etc., affecting flow of Rock Creek. described in the Sundry Civil Act approved June 5, 1920: *Provided further*, That the expenditure of the funds appropriated herein shall be subject to all the conditions imposed by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved July 1, 1916: *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 be 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 ami approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the officer in charge of Public Buildings and Grounds. Georgetown Bridge.GEORGETOWN BRIDGE. Completing construction.Vol. 39, p. 163.For completing the construction of the bridge authorized in section 1 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the removal of what is now known as the Aqueduct Bridge, across the Potomac River, and for the building of a bridge in place thereof,” approved May 18, 1916, $250,000. National Zoological Park.NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. Expenses.For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; 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, not709 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 increasing the water supply of the District of Columbia inIncreasing water supply.Expenses of executing project for.*Ante*, p. 94. accordance with Project E, submitted in Senate Document Numbered 403, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session, the estimated cost of which has been revised and placed at $8,738,000, there is hereby authorized an appropriation, including those heretofore made, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, of not to exceed the sum of $8,738,000, which shall include the cost of allLimit of cost. land, rights of way, easements, materials, engineering, labor, equipment, service, and all things necessary to complete said project and its full and complete connection with the present water plant of said District and its distribution system, and of said sum there is hereby appropriated for said purpose the sum of $1,500,000, to be immediately available and to be expended in such a manner as will at the earliest possible date provide for the completion of said project.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 $1,450,000 in addition to the amountAcquiring land, etc. herein appropriated. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to acquire all necessary land, easements, and rights of way necessary to the construction of said project by purchase or condemnation:*Proviso*.Contract restrictions. *Provided*, 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 tne United States Army shall have certified thereon that all its terms are within the requirements of this authorization and the revised estimates: *Provided further*,Supplemental report to be submitted. That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of the next regular session a supplemental report on said water system and increase of water supply showing, among other things, new or proposed construction within said District, connections with the present system of distribution, and revised estimates of cost. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenuesAmounts wholly from water revenues. of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of the water department, namely: washington aqueduct.Washington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenanceMaintenance of reservoir, tunnel, filtration plant, etc. and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $170,000. For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenanceConduit Road. of Conduit Road, $5,000. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break requiringEmergency fund. immediate repairs in one of the more important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery, $5,000; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendenceControl of Secretary of War not affected. and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and710 over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. Water department.water department. Ravenue and inspection branch.For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerics—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, $13 per month each; and for contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books, and periodicals, not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $5,000; in all, for maintenance, $420,000. Distribution extension.For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $100,000. Assessments for laying mains, sewers, etc., for fiscal year increased.Vo. 33, p. 244.The rates of assessment for laying or constructing water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Act entitled: “An Act authorizing the laying of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of assessments therefor, and for other purposes,” approved April 22, 1904, are hereby increased from $1.25 to $2 and $1 to $1.50, respectively, per linear front foot for any water mains and service sewers constructed or laid during the fiscal year 1923. Water meters in residences, etc.For installing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $30,000. Installing hydrants, etc.For installing fire and public hydrants, machinery, and appurtenances required for necessary extensions, $20,000. Pumping unit.For the purchase and installation of one ten-million-gallon centrifugal pumping unit, $30,000. New mains.For laying fifteen thousand eight hundred feet of twenty-inch water main, Chevy Chase Circle to Georgia Avenue, via Rock Creek Park, $110,000. For laying six thousand one hundred feet of twenty-inch water main, Georgia Avenue from Military Road north, $43,000. 711 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 annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Limit.*Post*, p. 1534. expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $100,000 during the fiscal year 1923. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarilyTemporary laborers, etc. such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and 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 necessaryHorses, vehicles, etc.Special authority from Commissioners for using. for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in the annual estimates shallReport, etc. report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses,*Proviso*.Temporary work on excavations. 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. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers,Water department.Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed. rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and the commissioners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each:712*Proviso*.limit.*Post*, p. 1534Temporary laborers, etc. *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed SI5,000 during the fiscal year 1923. 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 George-town 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. Material, supplies, vehicles, etc.Purchase of, directed from stock of Government activities, no longer needed by them. 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,Duty before purchasing elsewhere. passenger-carrying 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 purchasing any of the articles described herein, to ascertain from the Government of the United States whether it has articles of the characterPrice stipulation. described that are serviceable. And articles purchased from the Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at aSales authorized, etc. reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government of the United States are authorized to sell such articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into*Proviso*.Transfers under Executive order not affected. the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That 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, June 29, 1922.