Chapter 302. 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, 1925, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 302.— 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, 1925, and for other purposes. June 7, 1924.[[H. R. 8839](/us/bill/68/hr/8839).][[Public, No. 224](/us/pl/68/224).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That in order to District of Columbia.Appropriations for expenses of, from District revenues and $9,000,000 from the Treasury.defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925. any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and Revenues from activities from all sources to be credited to the District.prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and in addition, $9,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and all the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia and such advances Advances.Vol 42, p. 668.from the Federal Treasury as are authorized in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. executive office.Executive office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act Office personnel.Vol. 42, p. 1488.of 1923, $40,500, plus so much as may be necessary to make salary of engineer commissioner $7,500: *Provided*, That in expending ap-*Provisos*.540Restriction on exceeding average salaries.propriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade or class thereof in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act:
Not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.No reduction required.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Higher salary rates allowed.*Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation is fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or
(3)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923 and is specifically authorized by other law. Veterinary division.Veterinary division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $1,680; for medicines, surgical, and hospital supplies, $350; in all, $2,030; Purchasing division.Purchasing division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $49,880; temporary labor. $200; in all, $50,080; Building inspection division.Building inspection division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $57,080; for temporary additional assistant inspectors, $17,000; in all, $74,080; Motor vehicles for inspectors.To reimburse eight inspectors for expenses incurred by them in the maintenance of their own motorcycles or automobiles incident to the performance of their official duties, at the rate of $13 and $26 each per month, respectively, $2,028. Plumbing inspection division.Plumbing inspection division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $21,420; for temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, $4,000; three members of plumbing board, at $150 each; in all, $25,870. Motor cycles for inspectors.To reimburse live assistant inspectors of plumbing for provision and maintenance by themselves of five motorcycles for use in their official inspections in the District of Columbia, $13 per month each, $780. In all, Executive Office, $195,368. District Building.care of district building. Operating force, etc.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of *Proviso*.Assistant engineers, etc.1923, $44,000; services of cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $14,400; in all, $58,400: *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. Operating expenses.For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor not to exceed $5,000, and miscellaneous supplies, $35,000. assessor’s office. Assessor’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $115,740; temporary clerk hire, $3,000; in all, $118,740. license bureau. License bureau.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $17,820; temporary clerk hire, $1,500; in all, $19,320. Vehicle tags.For purchase of metal indentification tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $17,500. 541 Collector’s office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $68,360.Collector’s office. Auditor’s office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $74,800.Auditor’s office. office of corporation counsel. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $30,740.Corporation Counsel’s office. coroner’s office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Coroner’s office.1923, $5,160. For installation of refrigerating plant at the morgue, $5,000.Refrigerating plant, morgue.Expenses of morgue, inquests, etc. For the maintenance of a nonpassengercarrying motor wagon for 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, $6,000, and including an allowance at the rate of Automobile.$26 per month to the coroner for furnishing an automobile in the performance of official duties. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets.Inspection, etc.1923, $33,160. For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $300. For maintenance and repairs to markets, including salary of engineer Markets, etc.for refrigerating plant at not exceeding $1,200 per annum, $7,000. For maintenance and repair of four motor trucks, at $340 each, Motor trucks.$1,360. engineer commissioner’s office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Engineer Commissioner’s office.1923, $244,760. central garage. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Central garage.1923, $4,260. Municipal architect’s office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Municipal Architect’s office.1923, $30,100. All apportionments of appropriations made for the use of the Limit for services of draftsmen, etc.municipal architect in payment for the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, clerks, copyists, and inspectors, employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations, shall be based on an amount not exceeding 2½ per centum of the amount of the appropriation made for each project. public utilities commission. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act Public utilities commission.of 1923, $36,120. 542 Incidental expenses.For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, $5,000. board of examiners, steam engineers. Examiners, steam engineers.Salaries: Three members, at $150 each, $450. department of insurance. Insurance department.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $17,860. Surveyor’s office.surveyor’s office. Temporary employees, etc.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $-12,320; services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $10,000, no part of which sum shall be expended without the written authority of the commissioners; in all, $52,320. Permanent highways system, surveys, etc.For making surveys to mark permanently on the ground the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, $2,000. For revision of the highway plan, $1,500. Employees’ compensation fund.district of columbia employees’ compensation fund. Payment for injuries.Vol. 41, p. 104.For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the Vol. 39, p. 742.provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $10,000. Public Library.FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Regular personnel.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including the Takoma Park and Southeast Branch Libraries, $126,558. Substitutes, etc.For substitutes and other special and temporary service, including the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the *Proviso*.Library stations limited.discretion of the librarian, $3,000: *Provided*, That no money appropriated by this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations not now in existence. Sunday, etc., opening.For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $2,500. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $17,500. Binding.For binding, including necessary personal services, $8,500. Contingent expenses.For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunchroom equipment: purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $12,500. Contingent expenses.CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Items specified.For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery: surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records: purchase of laboratory apparatus and equipment and maintenance of 543laboratory in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800 in the aggregate; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets, department of insurance, and Board of Charities, including an allowance to the purchasing officer and to the secretary of the Board of Charities, not exceeding the rate of $26 per month each, for the maintenance of an automobile to be furnished by him and used in the discharge of his official duties, $47,900. For printing all annual and special reports of the government of Printing reports for fiscal year 1924.the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, for submission to Congress, $5,000: *Provided*, That authority is hereby Proviso.Discretionary discontinuance.given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to discontinue the printing of any annual or special reports of the government of the District of Columbia in order to keep the expenditures within this appropriation. In all cases where the printing of said reports Preservation of originals.is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for public inspection. For maintenance, care, and repair of automobiles, motor cycles, Motor vehicles.Maintenance.and motor trucks owned by the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise herein provided for, $28,000. For the exchange of such automobiles now owned by the District Exchange when unsuitable.of Columbia as, in the judgment of the commissioners of said District, have or shall become unserviceable, $3,000; for the purchase of two automobiles at not to exceed $450 each for the use of the Assessor’s Office, $900; in all, $3,900. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided Use by officials restricted.for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act: *Proviso*.Cost limitation.*Provided*, That, with the exception of motor vehicles for the police and fire departments, no automobile shall be acquired under any provision of this Act, by purchase or exchange, at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650, except as may be herein specifically authorized. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from Transfers forbidden.the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Appropriations in this Act shall not be expended for the purchase Use of horses restricted.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. All estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1926 on account Estimates for vehicles to be separately submitted hereafter.of the purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, and for allowances to employees for supplying their own vehicles, shall be submitted in three paragraphs under the head of “Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses.” One paragraph shall apply to motor-propelled vehicles, one to horse-drawn vehicles, and one to privately owned vehicles, and each shall be accompanied by detailed information showing numbers and distribution by types, and comparative actual and 544estimated cost figures for the fiscal years 1924, 1925, and 1926. Activities excepted.This requirement shall not apply to the police and fire departments, or to the activities provided for herein which are not administered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Expenses of horses, etc., limited.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized. Fire insurance prohibited.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones allowed at residences of designated officials.Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the street cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, secretary of the Board of Charities, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair Connections permitted.men, under appropriations contained in this Act. The commissioners may connect any or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia or to both of such systems. Postage.For postage for strictly official mail matter, $17,000. Car fares, etc.The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street car and bus *Provisos*.Limit.fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not Firemen and police excepted.to exceed a total of $7,500: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police department. Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $4,000. Advertising.General.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $7,000. Taxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1924, as required to be given by the Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $5,500. Removing dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1899, to pay each member of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, $500. Condemning insanitary buildings.Vol. 34, p. 157.For all expenses necessary and incident to the enforcement of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May 1, 1906, including personal services when authorized by the commissioners, $2,452, including an allowance at the 545rate of $26 per month for furnishing an automobile for the performance of official duties. For copies of such wills, petitions, and other papers wherein title Copies 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 of Recorder of deeds.Office rent.cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 30 cents per hour, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $14,400. employment service.Employment Service. For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses Maintenance.required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $9,220, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of From District revenues.the District of Columbia. historical places. For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the Historical tablets.District of Columbia, $500. emergency fund.Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, Expenses under, restricted.public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, $4,000: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles provided for Proviso.Purchases.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. refund of erroneous collections.Refund of erroneous collections. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, Payments authorized of.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 required by law, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized Building permits.Vol. 36, p. 967.by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911, $1,500: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall he available *Proviso*.Prior years.for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt of the District Interest and sinking fund.of Columbia, $300,000. For the purchase of special typewriting or other equipment, typewriters, Special equipment, offices of assessor and collector of taxes.cards, and file cases, for the use of the offices or the assessor and collector of taxes, to be immediately available, $10,000. To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on National Conference on Uniform State Laws.Uniform State Laws, $250. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR.Street, etc., improvement and repairs. For assessment and permit work, including maintenance of motor Assessment and permit work.vehicles, $300,000. For paving roadways under the permit system, $45,000.Paving roadways. 546 Street improvements.street improvements. Paving, etc., streets, avenues, suburban roads, etc.For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, suburban roads, and suburban streets, respectively, including the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, as follows: Paving Varnum Street NW.Northwest: For paving Varnum Street, Second Street to Fourth Street, thirty feet wide, $11,600; Paving Third Street NW.Northwest: For paving Third Street, Varnum Street to Webster Street, thirty feet wide, $5,800; Paving Second Street NW.Northwest: For paving Second Street, Upshur Street to Webster Street, thirty feet wide, $9,200; Paving Eighth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Eighth Street, Crittenden Street to Decatur Street, thirty feet wide, $5,200; Paving Emerson Street NW.Northwest: For paving Emerson Street, Georgia Avenue to Ninth Street, thirty feet wide, $6,350; Paving Farragut Street NW.Northwest: For paving Farragut Street, Georgia Avenue to Eighth Street, thirty feet wide, $12,700; Paving Hamilton Street NW.Northwest: For paving Hamilton Street, Georgia Avenue to Illinois Avenue, thirty feet wide, $7,500; Paving Webster Street NW.Northwest: For paving Webster Street, Seventh Street to Illinois Avenue, thirty feet wide, $6,000; Paving Massachusetts Avenue SE.Southeast: For paving Massachusetts Avenue, Fifteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, forty feet wide, $14,000; Paving Monroe Street NE.Northeast: For paving Monroe Street, Eighteenth Street to Twentieth Street, thirty feet wide, $11,500: Paving Varnum Street NW.Northwest: For paving Varnum Street, Fifteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, thirty feet wide, $6,000; Paving Ninth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Ninth Street, Emerson Street to Farragut Street, thirty feet wide, $5,200; Paying Upshur Street NW.Northwest: For paving Upshur Street, Second Street to Fourth Street, forty-five feet wide. $9,500; Paving Fourth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Fourth Street, Varnum Street to Webster Street, thirty feet wide, $4,700; Paving Quincy Street NW.Northwest: For paving Quincy Street, Tenth Street to Kansas Avenue, thirty feet wide, $6,400; Paving Taylor Street NW.Northwest: For paving Taylor Street, west of Fourteenth Street (approximately four hundred feet), thirty feet wide. $4,700; Paving Second Street NE.Northeast: For paving Second Street, Bryant Street to Channing Street, thirty feet wide, $5,200; Paving Bryant Street NE.Northeast: For paving Bryant Street, Lincoln Road to Fourth Street, thirty feet wide, $14,800; Paving T Street NW.Northwest: For paving T Street, Thirty-fifth Street to Thirty-seventh Street, thirty feet wide, $12,000: Paying S Street NW.Northwest: For paving S Street, Thirty-sixth Street to Thirty-seventh Street, thirty feet wide, $5,800; Paving Thirty-eighth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Thirty-eighth Street, Windon Street to Albemarle Street, thirty feet wide, $11,000; Widening roadway Thirteenth Street NW, from F to I Streets.*Post*, p. 1224.Assessing cost.Northwest: For increasing to eighty feet the roadway width of Thirteenth Street from F to Eye Streets, $80,000, 40 per centum of the entire cost thereof to be assessed against and collected from the owners of abutting property in the manner provided in the Act approved July 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 524), as Vol. 39, p. 716.amended by section 8 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 Change of vaults.(Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 716). The owners of abutting property also shall be required to modify, at their own expense, the roofs of any vaults that may be under the sidewalk on said street between the limits named if it be found necessary to change such vaults to permit of the roadway being widened; Paving Princeton Place NW.Northwest: For paving Princeton Place, Warder Place to Georgia Avenue, thirty feet wide, $10,000; 547 Northeast: For paving Kearney Street, Eighteenth Street to Paving Kearney Street NE.Twentieth Street, thirty feet wide, $11,500; Northwest: For paving Ninth Street, Butternut Street to Cedar Paving Ninth Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide, $5,200; Northwest: For paving Eighth Street, Butternut Street to Cedar Paving Eighth Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide, $3,700; Northwest: For paving Chesapeake Street, River Road to Forty-fourth Paving Chesapeake Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide, $9,300; Northwest: For paving Otis Street, Sixth Street to Park Place, Paving Otis Street NW.thirty feet wide, $9,900; Northwest: For paving Farragut Street, Georgia Avenue to Paving Farragut Street NW.Thirteenth Street, thirty feet wide, $8,100; Northwest: For paving Kennedy Street, Fifth Street to Eighth Paving Kennedy Street NW.Street, forty feet wide, $15,000; Southeast: For grading Savannah Street, Wheeler Road to Grading Savannah Street SE., etc.Eleventh Street; Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Places, Savannah Street to Alabama Avenue, $7,600; Northwest: For paving Thirty-fourth Street, Newark Street to Paving Thirty-fourth Street NW.Ordway Street, thirty feet wide, $6,900; Northwest: For paving Thirty-fourth Street, Lowell Street to Klingle Road, thirty feet wide $9,800; Northwest: For paving Klingle Road, Thirty-second Street to Paving Klingle Road NW.Thirty-fourth Street, thirty feet wide, $12,000; Northwest: For paving Seventeenth Street, Webster Street to Paving Seventeenth Street NW.Allison Street, thirty feet wide, $4,800. Northwest: For paving Ninth Street, Crittenden Street to Decatur Paving Ninth Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide, $5,000; Northwest: For paving Fourth Street, Taylor Street to Upshur Paving Fourth Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide, $4,000; Northwest: For paving Thirteenth Street, Allison Street to Iowa Paving Thirteenth Street NW.Avenue, forty feet wide, $8,000; Northwest: For paving Jefferson Street, Thirteenth Street to Paving Jefferson Street NW.Fourteenth Street, thirty feet wide, $11,500; Northwest: For paving Allison Street. Seventh Street to Illinois Paving Allison Street NW.Avenue, thirty feet wide, $4,000; Northwest: For paving Varnum Street, Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Paving Varnum Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide, $6,100; Northwest: For paving Garrison Street, Belt Road to Wisconsin Paving Garrison Street NW.Avenue, thirty feet wide, $11,700; Northwest: For paving Thirty-fifth Place, T Street to U Street, Paving Thirty-fifth Place NW.twenty-four feet wide, $3,500; Northwest: For paving Seventh Street, Jefferson Street to Kennedy Paving Seventh Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide, $4,700; Northwest: For paving Seventh Street, Kennedy Street to Longfellow Street, thirty feet wide, $4,700; Northwest: For paving Eighth Street, Ingraham Street to Jefferson Paving Eighth Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide, $4,700; Northwest: For paving Ninth Street, Hamilton Street to Ingraham Paving Ninth Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide, $5,200; Northwest: For paving Kansas Avenue, Allison Street to Paving Kansas Avenue NW.Buchanan Street, fifty feet wide, with ten-foot center parking, $7,500; Northwest: For paving New Hampshire Avenue, Grant Circle Paving New Hampshire Avenue NW.to Allison Street, fifty feet wide, with ten-foot center parking. $10,900; Northwest: For paving Fifteenth Street, Varnum Street to Webster Paving Fifteenth Street NW.Street, thirty feet wide. $4,700; Northwest: For grading Potomac Avenue, Macomb Street to Norton Grading Potomac Avenue NW.Place and constructing a culvert in connection therewith, $12,500; 548 Grading Forty-fourth Street NE.Northeast: For grading Forty-fourth Street, Dix Street to Grant Street, $5,500; Grading Otis Street NE., etc.Northeast: For grading Otis Street and Perry Street from Eastern Avenue westward to a point about 155 feet west of Thirtieth Street; Thirtieth Street, Otis Street to Perry Street; Eastern Avenue, south line of Monroe Street to a point about eight hundred feet northwest of the northerly line of Bunker Hill Road, $7,000; Paving Sixteenth Street SE.Southeast: For paving Sixteenth Street, East Capitol Street to A Street, thirty feet wide, $4,600; Paving Kansas Avenue NW.Northwest: For paving Kansas Avenue, Thirteenth Street to Quincy Street, forty feet wide, $6,200; Grading Fern Street NW.Northwest: For grading Fern Street, Blair Road to Eighth Street, $2,400; Paving Quebec Place NW.Northwest: For paving Quebec Place, Tenth Street to Thirteenth Street, twenty-four feet wide, $7,000; Paving Twenty-seventh Street NW.Northwest: For paving Twenty-seventh Street, K Street to L Street, thirty-two feet wide, $14,000; Paving Vine Street NW.Northwest: For paving Vine Street, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Maple Street, twenty feet wide, $2,800; Paving Arkansas Avenue NW.Northwest: For paving Arkansas Avenue, Georgia Avenue to Emerson Street, forty feet wide, $13,000; Paving Twelfth Street NE.Northeast: For paving Twelfth Street, C Street to D Street, thirty-two feet wide, $8,000; Paving Seventeenth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Seventeenth Street, Irving Street to Kilbourne Street, thirty feet wide, $7,300; Paving Thirty-ninth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Thirty-ninth Street, Van Ness Street to Yuma Street, thirty feet wide, $13,900; Paving Twelfth Street NE.Northeast: For paving Twelfth Street, Otis Street to Michigan Avenue, forty and fifty feet wide, $19,000; Paving Fifth Street NE.Northeast: For paving Fifth Street, T Street to W Street, thirty feet wide, $13,800; Paving V Street NE.Northeast: For paving V Street, Fourth Street to Fifth Street, thirty feet wide, $3,500; Accounted for as one fund.In all $605,650; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Street improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund, and *Proviso*.Restriction on use.shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That no part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street or section thereof not herein specified. Grading.Grading, streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase and repair of carts, tools or hire of same, and horses, $50,000. Condemnation.Condemnation: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. Small park areas.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, $5,000. Opening streets, etc., 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 except the Fourteenth Street extension and Piney Branch Road extension to conform with the plan of the permanent system of Exception.highways in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities Wholly from District revenues.of Washington and Georgetown there is appropriated such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year 1925, to be paid *Proviso*.Authority not extended.wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the authority given in the Act of 1914 is not hereby in any way extended. Repairs.Repairs: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and including the purchase of three motor trucks at a cost not to exceed $800 each, and including 549the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, and including Motor vehicles.an allowance of not to exceed $26 per month for an automobile for use for official purposes, $600,000. This appropriation shall be available Street railway pavements.for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5 of “An Act providing a permanent Vol. 20, p. 105.form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. The authority given the commissioners in the District of Columbia Changing curb lines.Vol. 34, p. 1130.Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1907, to make such changes in the lines of the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved under appropriations contained in this *Proviso*.Restriction.Act: *Provided*, That no such change shall be made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement. For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public Sidewalks, etc.reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $15,000. For current work of repairs to suburban Suburban roads, repairs.roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, $275,000. For completion of trestle and bins in N Street Northeast, between N Street NE.Completing trestle, etc.First Street and Second Street, $20,000. gasoline tax road and street fund.Gasoline Tax Road and Street Fund. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, Paving, etc., streets, etc., from.avenues, suburban roads and suburban streets, respectively, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, as follows, to be paid from the special fund created by section *Ante*, p. 106.1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved April 23, 1924: Northwest and Southwest: For paving Fourteenth Street, B Street Paving Fourteenth Street NW. and SW.south to C Street north, fifty and seventy feet wide, $30,000; Southeast: For paving Eleventh Street, Pennsylvania Avenue to Paving Eleventh Street SE.the Anacostia Bridge, present width, $75,000; Northwest: For paving Twentieth Street, E Street to Virginia Paving Twentieth Street NW.Avenue, thirty-two feet wide, $10,000; Northeast: For paving Central Avenue, Benning Road to District Paving Central Avenue NE.line, $78,000; Northeast: For paving Fifteenth Street. B Street to E Street, Paving Fifteenth Street NE.thirty-two feet wide, $38,000; Southeast: For paving Fifteenth Street. B Street to E Street, Paving Fifteenth Street SE.thirty-two feet wide, $38,000; Northwest: For paving Butternut Street, Fifth Street to Blair Paving Butternut Street NW.Road, forty-five feet wide, $10,000; Northwest: For paving Forty-first Street, Davenport Street to Paving Forty-first Street NW.Livingston Street, thirty feet wide, $49,000; Northwest: For paving Georgia Avenue, Military Road to Fern Paving Georgia Avenue NW.Street, sixty feet wide, $112,000; Southeast: For paving Nichols Avenue, Portland Street to Fourth Paving Nichols Avenue SE.Street, fifty-six feet wide, $25,000; Northeast: For paving Bladensburg Road, end of concrete to District Paving Bladensburg Road NE.line, forty-five and sixty feet wide, $55,000; Northwest: For paving Wisconsin Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue Paving Wisconsin Avenue NW.to River Road, sixty feet wide, including necessary relocation of street car tracks and water mains, sixty feet wide, refund to be ob-550tained from the street railway company so far as provided under existing law, $350,000; Repairing Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge SE.Repairing Seventh Street NW. and SW.Southeast: For repairing and reflooring the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, $20,000; Northwest and Southwest: For blanketing with asphalt Seventh Street, Pennsylvania Avenue to G Street Southwest, present width, $35,000; ‘ Disbursement, etc.In all, $925,000; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline *Provisos*.Restricted to specified improvement.tax road and street improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That no part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street or section thereof not herein Assessments under existing law.specified: *Provided further*, That assessments in accordance with existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways where such roadways are paved or repaved with funds derived from the Moneys to be credited to fund.collection of the tax on motor-vehicle fuels; and hereafter all moneys derived from assessments for paving and repaving roadways under provisions of existing law arising from the expenditure of the fund created by the tax on motor-vehicle fuels, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States and be credited to and constitute a part of said fund and shall thereafter be available for appropriation in the same manner as the proceeds of the tax on motor-vehicle fuels. Bridges.bridges. Construction, repair, etc.For construction and repair of bridges, including an allowance at the rate of $26 per month to the overseer of bridges for the maintenance of an automobile for use in performance of his official duties, and including maintenance of motor vehicles, $30,000. Available for street, over railroads.Appropriations hereafter made for the construction and repair of bridges 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 Over canals.required to carry or carrying such 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 thus expended shall be a valid and Reimbursement.subsisting lien against the property of such railway company or of such canal company, and shall be collected from such railway company or from such canal company in the manner provided in section Vol. 20, p. 105.5 of an Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia, approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the manner provided by law. Highway Bridge.Highway Bridge across Potomac River: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $8,880: labor, $1,600; power, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind, necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $7,640; in all, $18,120. Anacostia Bridge.Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $4,500. Francis Scott Key Bridge.Francis Scott Key Bridge: For miscellaneous supplies and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the maintenance of the bridge and approaches, including personal services. $2,000. Trees and parking.trees and parkings. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, 551tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, maintenance of motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $75,000. public convenience stations. For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation Public convenience stations.of necessary employees, $23,000. SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the purchase Cleaning, etc.of three motor held wagons at not to exceed $650 each, the purchase of three motor trucks at not to exceed $650 each, the purchase of two motor trucks at not to exceed $4,000 each, and the purchase of one motor tractor at not to exceed $650; for operation Pumping service.and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work. $265,000. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $125,000.Main and pipe.Suburban. For suburban sewers, including the exchange or replacement of two motor field wagons at not to exceed $650 each, the purchase of one motor field wagon at not to exceed $650, the purchase of four motor trucks at not to exceed $650 each, and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, $350,000. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $250,000.Assessment and permit work.Rights of way. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $2,000. For the extension of the Rock Creek main interceptor, $60,000.Rock Creek interceptor.Upper Potomac interceptor. For continuing the construction of the Upper Potomac, main interceptor, $20,000. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE.City refuse. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act Salaries.of 1923, $55,200 For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, Sweeping, cleaning, ice and snow removal, etc.and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross-walks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance Vehicles, etc.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; maintenance and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $410,000. To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing Garbage, ashes, dead animals, etc.Collection and disposal of.law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes m the District of Columbia (no contract shall be let for the collection of dead animals), including inspection and allowance to inspectors for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the per-552formance of official duties, not to exceed for each inspector $20 per month for a horse and vehicle, $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 receipts.incidental expenses, $900,000: *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 Use restricted.District of Columbia in the manner provided by law: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. Public playgrounds.PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $71,270; for services of extra directors at not exceeding 35 cents per hour, $800; for services of extra watchmen at not *Proviso*.Employments restricted.exceeding 25 cents per hour, $600; in all $72,670: *Provided*, That employments hereunder other than of persons paid by the hour shall be distributed as to duration in accordance with the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924; Maintenance, etc.For general maintenance, improvement, equipment, supplies, incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $40,000; Public school playgrounds during summer.For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open 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, $21,000; Swimming pools.For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000; New sites.For the purchase of a site on Thirty-third Street, between P and Q Streets northwest, in square 1273 (lot 818), containing two thousand six hundred and fifty square feet, $7,000; For the purchase of three playground sites, $14,300; Bathing beach.Bathing beach: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $1,320; for temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $7,600; In all, for playgrounds, $165,570. Electrical department.ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $79,940. Supplies, contingent expenses, etc.For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, purchase and repair of bicycles, allowance for the maintenance of not more than three automobiles at not to exceed $26 per month each, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, $30,000. Placing wires underground.For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholds, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, $4,800. 553 For extension and relocation of police-patrol system, including Police patrol system.purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $2,000. For alterations in police-patrol signal system in the second, Altering police stations in specified precincts.eighth, and tenth police precincts, rearrangement of circuits and reconnection of certain boxes because of changes in boundaries of those precincts incident to establishment of the new twelfth police precinct, including the purchase and installation of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, instruments, extra labor, and other necessary items, to be immediately available, $3,120. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public Lighting streets, etc.lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, lively and extra labor, this sum to be expended Rates.Vol. 36, p. 1008.in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Vol. 37, p. 181.Act for the fiscal year 1912 and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, $525,000. For replacing gas lamps and fixtures and older and less effective Replacing old fixtures, etc.electric lamps and fixtures on streets, avenues, roads, and public spaces by improved electric installations, purchase of posts and fixtures of all kinds, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith $35,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall *Proviso*.Contract restrictions.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. For extension and relocation of fire-alarm system, including purchase Fire alarm boxes.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, $9,000. For purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables to increase Extending cable system.the capacity of the underground signal cable system, $8,000. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; two assistant superintendents, Superintendent, business manager, etc.at $3,750 each; business manager, to be in charge of the business *Ante*, p. 367.*Post*, p. 675.administration of the public school system, and to be appointed by and responsible to the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, $3,750; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, supervisor of manual training and director of primary instruction, sixteen in all, at a minimum salary of $2,400 each; in all, $55,650: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be *Provisos*.Teaching partisan politics, disrespect of Bible and form of government forbidden.available for the payment of the salary of any superintendent, assistant superintendent, director of intermediate instruction, or supervising principal who permits the teaching of partisan politics, disrespect of the Holy Bible, or that ours is an inferior form of government. Office of the superintendent of schools: For personal services in Office personnel.Superintendent.accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $53,580. Office of the secretary: For personal services in accordance with Secretary.the Classification Act of 1923, $13,020. Office of finance and accounting: For personal services in accordance Finance and accounting.with the Classification Act of 1923, $18,360. 554 Salaries.Attendance officers.Salaries: Attendance officers—one $1,080, one $960, nine at $900 each; in all, $10,140. Librarians.Salaries: Librarians in high and normal schools—ten in class 5, at a minimum salary of $1,200 each, $12,000. Teachers.teachers. Salaries.*Ante*, p. 367.Principal, Central High.*Proviso*.Basic salary.Salaries: For two thousand six hundred and seventy-six teachers at minimum salaries as follows: Principal of the Central High School, $3,500: *Provided*, That the principal of the Central High School shall be placed at a basic salary of $3,500 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Assistants, Central High and McKinley.Two assistant principals, one for the Central High School and one for the McKinley Manual Training High School, at $2,400 *Proviso*.Basic salary.each: *Provided*, That said assistant principals shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Other principals.Principals of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, eight at $2,700 each; Deans of girls at designated schools.Principals of junior high schools, eight at $2,700 each; Seven assistant principals, who shall be deans of girls of the Central High School, Eastern High School. Dunbar High School, Business High School, Western High School, McKinley Manual Training High School, and Armstrong Manual Training High *Proviso*.Basic salary.School, at $2,400 each: *Provided*, That said assistant principals shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,400 per annum and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Directors.Directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $2,000 each: *Proviso*.Penmanship.*Provided*, That the director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor in the normal school and a director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,000 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for five years; Assistant director.Primary instruction.Other ssistant directors.*Proviso*.Penmanship.Assistant director of primary instruction, $1,800; Assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, and penmanship, seven, at $1,800 each: *Provided*, That the assistant director of penmanship, who shall be an instructor in the normal school and an assistant director in the grades, shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,800 per annum, and shall be entitled to an increase of $50 per annum for five years; Manual training.Assistant supervisor of manual training, $1,800; Other teachers.Heads of departments in high and manual-training high schools in group B, of class 6, sixteen, at $2,200 each; Normal, high, and manual-training high schools, promoted for superior work, group B, of class 6, sixty-three, at $2,200 each; Group A, of class 6, including seven principals of grade manual-training schools, five hundred and six, at $1,440 each; Class 5, two hundred and forty-five, at $1,200 each, including administrative principals, vocational trade instructors and teachers of Americanization work: Class 4, five hundred and ninety-five, at $1,200 each; Class 3, six hundred and fifty-one, at $1,200 each; Class 2, four hundred and thirty-two, at $1,200 each; Class 1, one hundred and twenty-six, at $1,200 each; *Proviso*,Teaching politics, etc., forbidden.In all, for teachers, $3,459,740: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be available for the payment of the salary of any teacher who teaches partisan politics, disrespect of the Holy Bible, or that ours is an inferior form of government. 555 The salaries appropriated herein for teachers and librarians in all Salaries in lieu of present basic pay.*Ante*, p. 367.classes during the fiscal year 1925 shall be in lieu of the present basic or initial salaries for such classes, and the present rates of longevity increases of pay for the said classes shall apply to the basic or initial salaries appropriated herein: *Provided*, That for the year ending *Proviso*.Additional for fiscal year 1924.June 30, 1925, each of the teachers and librarians in said classes shall receive placing in the class to which assigned so that each teacher or librarian 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, 1924. No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any Soliciting subscriptions, etc., prohibited.person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized Exception.by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation Vacation schools, etc.schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $30,000. For longevity pay, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions Longevity pay.of existing law, $660,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum *Proviso*.Efficiency requisite.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. For payment of annuities, $60,000.Annuities. For allowance to principals of grade school buildings for services Additional pay for grade schools principals.Vol. 34, p. 320.rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, $44,000. night schools.Night schools. Salaries: For teachers of night schools, including teachers of industrial, Salaries.commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers of night schools may also be teachers of day schools, $90,000. Contingent expenses: For contingent and other necessary expenses, Contingent expenses.including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,500. the deaf, dumb, and blind.Deaf, dumb, and blind. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons Columbia Institution for the Deaf.Instruction expenses.[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a Vol. 31, p. 844.contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $20,250. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable Colored deaf mutes.Tuition 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, $5,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation *Proviso*.Supervision.Blind children.Instruction under contract.shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into 556*Proviso*.Supervision.by the commissioners, $10,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. 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 of Americanization schools may also be teachers of the day school, $10,830. Equipment, etc.For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $2,500. Community centers.community center department. Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 675.For salaries of directors, supervisors, teachers, clerks, and other employees for civic, educational, recreational, and social activities under the direction of the Board of Education; for equipment and supplies; for lighting fixtures; for maintenance of automobiles (employees of the day schools may also be employees of the community From District revenues.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.center department); in all, $30,000, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not more than 70 per centum of this sum shall be expended for salaries of directors, supervisors, teachers, and clerks. Care of buildings and grounds.care of buildings and grounds. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $443,076. Smaller buildings and rented rooms.For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking 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, $8,000. Hygiene and sanitation.hygiene and sanitation. Personal services.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the *Provisos*.Classification Act of 1923, $60,120: *Provided*, That the person employed Day duty of chief inspector.in the capacity of chief medical and sanitary inspector shall, under the direction of the health officer of the District of Columbia, give his whole time from nine o’clock a. m. to four o’clock p. m., to, and exercise the direction and control of the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of the public schools of the District of Division of inspectors.Columbia: *Provided further*, That of the persons employed as medical inspectors one shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, and that of the graduate nurses employed as public-school nurses three shall be of the colored race. Free dental clinics.For the maintenance of free dental clinics in the public schools, $1,000. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. Equipping temporary rooms, etc.For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by operation of the compulsory education law, and for purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes. $5,000. Tubercular pupils.For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, $4,000. 557 For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular Transportation.children, $3,000: *Provided*, That expenditures for car fares from this *Proviso*.Car fares allowed.fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of car fares covered by this Act. 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. $60,000. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $235,000.Fuel, light, and power.Furniture, etc., for designated schools. For furniture, including pianos and window shades, for buildings and additions to buildings, equipment for kindergartens, and tools and furnishings for manual training, cooking and sewing schools, as follows: Armstrong Manual Training School and addition thereto, $100,000; Western High School and addition thereto, $82,763; eight-room school building on Spring Road site, $4,588; eight-room addition to the Tenley School, $7,388; three kindergartens, $3,000; two sewing schools, $1,200; two housekeeping and cooking schools, $3,000; two cooking schools, $2,000; two manual-training shops, $3,000; in all, $206,939. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, Contingent expenses, cabinetmaker, etc.pay of cabinetmaker, stationery, printing, ice, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of not Motor vehicle allowance.exceeding $312 per annum for a motor vehicle for each of the superintendent of schools, the superintendent of janitors, the two assistant superintendents, the director of primary instruction, the school cabinetmaker, the supervising principal in charge of the white special schools, the chief medical and sanitary inspector of schools, and the supervising principal of the colored special schools, and including not exceeding $3,000 for books of reference and periodicals, $76,040: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be required on account *Proviso*.No bond for Army supplies to cadets.of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. For the purchase of sanitary paper towels and for fixtures for Paper towels.dispensing the same to the pupils, $2,000. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten Pianos.schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,500. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first Supplies to pupils.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, $125,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of *Proviso*.Exchanges.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. For kindergarten supplies, $6,300.Kindergarten supplies.Flags.School gardens. For purchase of United States flags, $1,200. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $3,000. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months Nature study, etc., teachers.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. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, Physics, etc., departments’ supplies.and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and normal schools, and for the installation of the same, $10,000. 558 Robert Gould Shaw Junior High.For furniture and equipment for the Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School, $6,000. Columbia Junior High.For furniture and equipment for the Columbia Junior High School, $6,000. Children of Army, Navy, etc., admitted free.The children of officers and men of the United States Army and Navy and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. Buildings and grounds.buildings and grounds. Armstrong Manual Training.Addition.Western High.Addition.Completing the construction of an addition to the Armstrong Manual Training School, $200,000; Completing the construction of an addition to the Western High School, $450,000; Thomson.AdditionFor completing the construction of a third-story addition to the Thomson School, $75,000; John F. Cook.For completing the construction of a building to replace the present John F. Cook School, $150,000; Calvert Street site.For grading and making the water and sewer connections in the school site on Calvert Street near Connecticut Avenue, $5,000; McKinley Manual Training.For the preparation of plans and specifications for a new school building for the McKinley Manual Training School, $5,000; Sites.In the northeast.For the purchase of a site in the northeast somewhere within a distance of approximately a half mile of the Taylor School (located in square 891), $150,000; Third and Rittenhouse Streets NW.For the purchase of a site for a new school in the vicinity of Third Burrville.and Rittenhouse Streets northwest, $20,000; Purchase of site, Burrville, $7,500; Near Fifth and Buchanan Streets NW.Purchase of site in the vicinity of Fifth and Buchanan Streets northwest, $50,000; Western High athletic field.Junior High, plans, etc.For athletic field for the Western High School, $125,000; For the preparation of plans and specifications and investigation of subsurface conditions of site for Junior High School near Twenty-fourth and N Streets northwest, $5,000; Tubercular children.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby Building for, on site of Tuberculosis Hospital.authorized and directed to erect the school building for the care of tubercular children on such part of the site now occupied by the Tuberculosis Hospital as in their judgment may be best suited for such purpose, the said site being described on the tax records of the District of Columbia as parcels 84–134, 84–146, and 84–147, and the said Vol. 42, p. 60.building having been appropriated for in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriation to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes,” approved June 16, 1921; Disbursed and accounted for as one fund.In all, $1,242,500, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and Grounds, Public Schools,” and for that purpose shall constitute *Provisos*,Use restricted to specified objects.one fund, and shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That no part of such fund shall be used for or on account of any school building or site not herein specified. Contract restrictions.None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid or obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, lighting, and plumbing, shall not have been awarded in one or a single contract, separate and apart from any other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest bidder complying with all the legal requirements as to a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or *Proviso*.Right to reject bids.both, for the faithful performance of the contract: *Provided further*, That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the commissioners the right to reject all bids. 559 For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stock rooms, Rent, etc.$16,500. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds Repairs, etc., of buildings and grounds.and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $300,000. For maintenance and repair of ninety-two school playgrounds now School playgrounds.established, $4,500. For equipment, grading, and improving eight additional school Additional, in school yards.*Proviso*.Use, etc.yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $4,000: *Provided*, That such playgrounds shall be kept open for play purposes in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the playground department. For repair, replacement, and extension of equipment, furniture, Repairs, etc., of furnishings for specified junior high schools.and furnishings, including pianos, to adapt for use as junior high schools, the old Eastern High School, $4,000; the Jefferson School, $5,000; and the Randall School, $4,000; in all, $13,000. The total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings Cost of sites, etc., limited to appropriations.herein provided for, including heating, lighting, and plumbing, when completed upon plans and specifications to be made previously and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes, any provision in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Preparation of plans.Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the commissioners, and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall Exits required.be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having an excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried Doors to open outward, etc.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 Unlocked doors, etc.hour before until one-half hour after school hours. METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. salaries. Major and superintendent, $4,500; two assistant superintendents, Salaries.*Ante*, p. 174.*Post*, p. 676.at $3,000 each; four inspectors, at $2,400 each; twelve captains, at $2,400 each; additional compensation for thirty-five privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, $16,800; additional compensation for fourteen privates detailed for special service in the various precincts for the prevention and detection of crime, at the rate of $120 per annum, $1,680; additional compensation for one inspector or captain and one lieutenant detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, at $400 each; twenty-one lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at $2,000 each; fifty-six sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at $1,800 each; privates—six hundred and thirty-three of class 3 at $1,660 each, one hundred and seventy of class 2 at $1,560 each, fifty-one of class 1 at $1,460 each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class 2 who will be promoted to class 3 and privates of class 1 who will be promoted to class 2 during the fiscal year 1925, $2,600; motor vehicle allowance for two inspectors at $480 each; twenty-five captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted on horses, at $540 each; thirty-two lieutenants, ser-560geants, and privates, mounted on bicycles, at $70 each; driver-privates—thirty-five of class 2, at $1,560 each; three of class 1, at $1,460 Personal services.each; personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $66,000; in all, $1,745,700. miscellaneous. Fuel.For fuel, $8,500. Repairs.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. $60,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have *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, etc.For flags and halyards, $200. Motor vehicles.For maintenance of motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $35,000. Additional cells.For construction of additional cells in police stations numbered 7 and 9, $6,707. House of detention.house of detention. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception 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 transportation, the purchase and maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of building, fuel, gas. ice, laundry, supplies, and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $17,000: for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $13,380; in all. $30,380. Harbor patrol.harbor patrol. Policemen, etc., relief fund.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $7,860. For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $3,500. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND. Payments from.*Proviso*.Deduction from salaries increased.To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, $400,000: *Provided*, That on and after July 1, 1924, the rate of deduction from the monthly salary of each member of the police and fire departments of the District of Columbia shall be 2½ per centum. 561 Fire department.FIRE DEPARTMENT. salaries. Chief engineer. $4,000; two deputy chief engineers, at $3,000 each; Salaries.*Ante*, p. 175.*Post*, p. 676.eight battalion chief engineers, at $2,400 each; fire marshal, $2,400; deputy fire marshal, $2,000; four inspectors, at $1,660 each; thirty-eight captains, at $1,900 each; forty-two lieutenants, at $1,760 each; forty-six 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 fifty-six of class 3, at $1,660 each, eighty-one of class 2, at $1,560 each; amount required to pay salaries of privates of class 2 who will be promoted to class 3 and privates of class 1 who will be promoted to class 2 during the fiscal year 1925, $670; personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $8,820; in all, $1,174,910. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, Repairs to buildings.$25,000. For repairs, improvements, and alterations to engine house Numbered Repairs, etc., No. 16 engine house.16, D Street between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets northwest, $15,000: *Provided*, That the appropriations made for this purpose *Proviso*.Reappropriation.Vol. 42, pp. 693, 1351.in the District of Columbia appropriation acts for the fiscal years ended June 30, 1923, and June 30, 1924, are reappropriated and continued available in addition to the appropriation herein authorized. For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven Repairs to apparatus.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, $45,000. For repair and improvement of fire boat, $3,000.Fire boat repairs. For hose, $30,000.Hose, fuel, and forage. For fuel, $35,000. For forage, $2,300. For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, Contingent expensesmedical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, cost of installation and maintenance of telephones in the residences of the superintendent of machinery and the fire marshal, $28,000. Permanent improvements: For one aerial nook and ladder truck, motor driven, $15,500.New apparatus. For three pumping engines, triple combination, motor driven, $10,000 each. For one gasoline tank and oil wagon, motor driven, $1,500. For one automobile, $2,000.Automobile. For house, site, furniture, and furnishings for a truck company House, etc., for truck company, in northeast.to be located in the northeast section of the city in the vicinity of Twelfth and H Streets northeast, including the cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, $62,000. For house, site, furniture, and furnishings for an engine company House, etc., for engine company on Conduit Road.to be located in the vicinity of the intersection of Conduit Road and Reservoir Street northwest, including the cost of necessary instru-562ments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire alarm headquarters, $56,000. Health Department.HEALTH DEPARTMENT. salaries. Salaries.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $130,640. 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 the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved Tuberculosis registration. etc.Vol. 35, p. 126.February 9, 1907, and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908, under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention Infantile paralysis, etc.of infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, including salaries or compensation for personal services, 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 Smallpox hospital.and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and *Proviso*.Bacteriological examinations.smallpox hospital, $40,000: *Provided*, That any bacteriologist employed under this appropriation shall not be paid at a rate more than $7 per day for time actually employed and may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary work as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases. Isolating wards, Garfield and Providence Hospitals.For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $10,000 and $6,500, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $16,500. Tuberculosis and venereal diseases dispensaries.For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for *Provisos*.Volunteer services.personal service and supplies, $14,500: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries Pay prohibition.herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. Disinfecting service.For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $6,000. 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, A bating 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. 563 For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration Food, etc., adulterations.of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $200. bacteriological laboratory.Bacteriological laboratory. For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase Maintenance, etc.of reference books and scientific periodicals, $750. Apparatus, equipment, cost of installation, supplies, and other expenses incidental to the biological and serological diagnosis of disease, $750. Chemical laboratory.Chemical laboratory. For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase Maintenance, etc.of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000. dairy farm inspection.Dairy farms. For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including Inspection 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. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to Enforcing milk regulations, etc.Vol. 28, p. 719.regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1895; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the Food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded Pure-food law. Vol. 34, p. 768.or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, $1,000. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public Crematory.crematory, $2,000. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound Pound.service, $400. For equipping, maintaining, and operating the motor ambulance, and keeping it in good order, $600. For maintaining a child hygiene service, including the establishment Child hygiene service.Maintenance of welfare stations, etc.and maintenance of child welfare stations for the clinical examination, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six years of age, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, periodicals, and supplies, $18,000: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept such *Provisos*.Volunteer services.volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorize the No pay authorized.expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. COURTS AND PRISONS.Courts and prisons. juvenile court.Juvenile Court. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Salaries.Act of 1923. $41,516. 564 Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900. For transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, $300. Advances authorized for returning, etc., absconding probationers.The 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: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $52,704. Contingent expenses.For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, typewriters and adding machine and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painter’s and plumber’s supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $5,000. Witness fees, etc.For witness fees. $2,500. For furniture, furnishings, and fixtures, and repairing and replacing same, $500. Jurors, etc.For lodging, meals, and accommodation of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $200. For compensation of jurors, $10,000. Repairs to building.For repairs to building, $2,000. Municipal courtmunicipal court. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including $300 additional for presiding judge, $51,816. Jurors, etc.*Proviso*.Disposition of deposits on demand for jury trials.Vol. 41, p. 1312.For compensation of jurors. $6,500: *Provided*, That deposits made on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. Jury expenses.For lodging, meals, and accommodations for jurors and deputy United States marshals, while in attendance upon them, when ordered by the court, $100. Rent, etc.For rent of building, $3,600. For fixtures and repairs to furniture, $500. 565 For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of Contingent expenses.reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $4,000. supreme court, district of columbia.Supreme Court. Salaries: Chief justice, $8,000; five associate justices, at $7,500 Salaries.each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,100 each; in all, $52,100. Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and payment of the Witnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $25,000. Fees of jurors: For fees of jurors, $55,000.Jurors. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of Bailiffs.office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, and per diems of jury commissioners, $29,000: *Provided*, That the compensation of *Proviso*.Jury commissioners.each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $250. Probation system: Probation officer, $2,200; two assistant probation officers, Probation system.Expenses.at $1,400 each; 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, $6,537. Courthouse: For care and protection of the courthouse, under the Courthouse.Care, etc., of.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 commission, $720; telephone operator, $720; attendant in ladies’ waiting room, $300; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $16,920, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. For repairs and improvements to the. courthouse, including repair Repairs, etc.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. court of appeals.Court of Appeals. Salaries: Chief justice, $9,000; two associate justices, at $8,500 Salaries.each; clerk, $4,250, and $250 additional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building: assistant or deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500: *Provided*, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold *Proviso*.Sale of reports.for more than $5 per volume; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,200; three messengers, at $720 each; three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $950; in all. $42,160. Building: Two watchmen, at $720 each; elevator conductor, $720; Care, etc., of building.three laborers, at $600 each; mechanician (under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol), $1,200: *Provided*, That the clerk of the *Proviso*.Custodian.Court of Appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court; in all, $5,160. For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical Contingent expenses.supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800. 566 miscellaneous. Support of convicts out of District.For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $170,000. Lunacy writs.Expenses of executing.Vol. 33, p. 740.For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including personal services, $7,760. Miscellaneous court expenses.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may lie authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $20,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, $4,275. Charities and corrections.CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Board of Charities.board of charities. Salaries, etc.Salaries and traveling expenses: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $26,840; traveling expenses, including attendance on conventions, $600; in all, $27,440. Ambulances.For the maintenance of four motor ambulances, $1,700. Jail.jail. Support of prisoners, etc.Support of prisoners: For maintenance of prisoners of the District of Columbia at the jail, including personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, support of such prisoners, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, and maintenance of automobile, $95,000. Sewer construction.For construction of sewer to the combined system of sewer on B Street southeast, $1,800. Workhouse and reformatory.workhouse and reformatory. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $13,600. Workhouse.workhouse. Administration salaries.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act, 1923, $66,460; Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine, and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, livestock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and567operation of means of transportation, and means of transportation; supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, $85,000; For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, $47,500;Fuel. For construction, dynamite, oils, repairs to plant, and material Construction, repairs, etc.for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $45,000; For brick-making plant, including structure, machinery, and installation, Brick-making plant.$15,150; In all, $259,110, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. reformatory.Reformatory. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Salaries.Act of 1923, $49,300; For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including Buildings, construction, etc.sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, $30,000; For maintenance, custody, clothing, care, and support of inmates; Maintenance, etc.rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, livestock, tools, equipment; transportation and means of transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation; supplies and labor, and all other necessary items, $56,000; For fuel, $8,000;Fuel, repairs, etc. For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000; In all, $147,300, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. national training school for boys.National Training School for Boys, D. C. For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Care, etc., of boys committed to.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, $60,000. national training school for girls.National Training School for Girls, D. C. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Salaries.Act of 1923, $28,500. For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, Contingent expenses.clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, magazines, and other supplies which represent greater educational advantages, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding $500 for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates and for rewards for their capture, for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, for purchase of automobile, not to exceed $900, and for maintenance of motor vehicles, $40,000. medical charities.Medical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be Care of indigent patients at designated hospitals, etc.made by the Board of Charities with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Freedmen’s Hospital, $42,500. Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $17,000. 568 Children’s Hospital, $15,000. Providence Hospital, $15,000. Garfield Memorial Hospital, $15,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $22,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $10,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $5,000. Georgetown University Hospital. $5,000. George Washington University Hospital, $5,000. Columbia Hospital.columbia hospital and lying-in asylum. Repairs, etc.For general repairs and for additional construction, including labor and material, and for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $15,000, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. Tuberculosis Hospital.tuberculosis hospital. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $47,400. Contingent expenses.For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles? and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, and other necessary items, $53,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $4,000. For automobile truck, $725. For repairs to X-ray machine and new equipment, $1,000. For additional room for laundry, $7,500. For laundry equipment, $4,375. For furniture for nurses’ home, $3,500. Admission of pay patients.Hereafter pay patients may be admitted to the Tuberculosis Hospital for care and treatment at such rates and under such regulations as may be established by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in so far as such admissions will not interfere with admission of indigent patients. Gallinger Hospital.Gallinger Municipal Hospital. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $162,360. Maintenance.For maintenance, maintenance of motor vehicles, horses and horse-drawn vehicles, books of reference and periodicals, not to exceed $50, and all other necessary expenses, $130,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs to buildings, $5,000. For the purchase of a microscope and chemical outfit for the pathological laboratory, $760. Kitchen.For the purchase of a range, steel kettles, coffee urns, and other necessary cooking utensils, $3,500. Furniture, etc.For furniture, furnishings, instruments, and appliances, and other necessary articles, $5,000. For the purchase of special equipment for X-ray laboratory, $1,200. Admission of pay patients.Hereafter pay patients may be admitted to the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital for care and treatment at such rates and under such regulations as may be established by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in so far as such admissions will not interfere with admission of indigent patients. 569 Child-Caring Institutions.Child-caring institutions. board of children’s guardians.Board of Children’s Guardians. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing Administration expenses.and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $25, and all office and sundry expenses, $5,000; and no part of the moneys herein appropriated Limit on visitation of wards.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: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Salaries.Act of 1923, $41,100. For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), Feeble minded children.$37,500. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship Board, etc., of children.of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board. $120,000. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized Advances to agent.to advance to the agent of the Board of Children’s Guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. home and school for feeble-minded.Home, etc., for feeble minded. For continuing construction, $30,000; for maintenance, salaries, Construction, and maintenance, etc.*Proviso*.Construction contracts.Vol. 42. p. 1360.*Post*, p. 1323.and other necessary expenses, $20,000; in all, $50,000: *Provided*, That the commissioners are authorized to proceed with such construction by day labor or otherwise as in their judgment may be most advantageous to the District of Columbia and to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations on account of such construction not to exceed $232,000. industrial home school for colored children.Industrial Home for Colored Children. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Salaries.Act of 1923, $21,900; temporary labor, $500; in all, $22,400. For maintenance, including horses, wagons, harness, and maintenance Maintenance, etc.of automobiles, $19,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500.Repairs, etc. For manual-training equipment and materials, $1,000. For furniture and furnishings for new cottage, $2,000. All moneys received at said school as income from sale of products Deposit of receipts from sale of products.and from payment of board or of instruction or otherwise shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the 570United States and to the credit of the District of Columbia in the manner provided by law. Industrial Home School.industrial home school. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $18,540; temporary labor, $400; in all, $18,940. Maintenance.For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, and maintenance of motor vehicle, $22,500. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $3,000. Home for Aged and Infirm.home for aged and infirm. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $39,480; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $41,480. 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, $50,500. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000. For material for permanent roads, $500. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. municipal lodging house and wood yard. Municipal lodging house.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $2,940; maintenance, $3,000; in all, $5,940. temporary home for former soldiers and sailors. Grand Army Soldiers’, etc., home.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $2,760; maintenance, $5,000; in all, $7,760, 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, and soldiers and sailors of the World War or who served prior to February 9, 1922, shall be admitted to the home. florence crittenton home. Hope and Help Mission.For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Charities, maintenance, $4,000. southern relief society. Southern Relief Society for Confederate Veterans.For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Charities, $10,000. national library for the blind. National Library for the blind.For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at 1800 D Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. columbia polytechnic institute. Columbia Polytechnic InstituteTo aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at 1808 H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $1,500. 571 saint elizabeths hospital.Saint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Support of indigent insane, in.Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $850,000. nonresident insane. For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811.the Act of Congress to change the proceedings for admission to Saint Elizabeths Hospital in certain cases, and for other purposes, approved January 31, 1899, $5,000. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District Advances to Board of Charities.of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. relief of the poor. For relief of the poor, including pay of physicians to the poor Relief of the poor.at not exceeding $1 per day each, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Charities, $10,000. For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An Act making Payment to abandoned families.Vol. 34, p. 87.it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March 23, 1906, $1,500, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District. burial of ex-service men.Ex-service men. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or Burial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc.in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, or in near-by Maryland or Virginia cemeteries within five miles of the District of Columbia line, 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 indigent persons. For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans Transporting paupers.of the World War and their families, $2,000. MILITIA.Militia. For the following, to be expended under the authority and directions Expenses authorized.of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required Camps, drills, etc.to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding 572and immediately following the annual encampments, damages to private property incident to encampment, instruction, purchase and maintenance of athletic, gymnastic and recreational equipment at armory or field encampments, not to exceed $500; 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, $23,000. Rent, etc.For rent of armory and drill hall, $7,000. For printing, stationery, and postage, $500. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses. $900. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $2,640. Target practice.For expenses of target practice matches, $2,500. Pay of troops.For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $9,000. Anacostia Park.ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS. Continuing development of.For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, in accordance with the revised plan as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, Division of expenditures.$150,000, of which amount $125,000 shall be available for expenditure below Benning Bridge and not more than $25,000 may be expended above Benning Bridge in the acquirement of necessary land. Public buildings and grounds.PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. office of public buildings and grounds. Superintendent, assistant and chief clerk, etc.Salaries: Superintendent, $3,600; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; engineer, $2,400; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; messenger, $840; landscape architect, $2,400; junior engineer, $1,500; in all, $20,340. Foremen, gardeners, etc.For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, $31,200. contingent expenses. Contingent expensesFor 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.*Ante*, p. 175.*Post*, p. 678.Salaries: Lieutenant, $1,900; first sergeant, $1,700; five sergeants, at $1,580 each; privates—fourteen at $1,440 each; thirty-one at $1,360 each; nine at $1,280 each; in all, $85,340. Purchase of equipment, etc.For purchase, repair, and exchange of bicycles and revolvers for park police and for purchase of ammunition, $800. For purchase, maintenance, repair, operation, and exchange of motor cycles for park police, $4,250. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, $5,500. improvement and care of public grounds. Improvement and care of grounds.For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: 573 For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive South of Executive Mansion.Mansion, $4,000. For care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000.Greenhouses, parks, etc. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000. For care of Lafayette Park, $2,000. For improvement and care of Franklin Park, $1,500. For improvement and care of Lincoln Park, $2,000. For improvement and care of Monument Grounds and annex, Monument Grounds etc.$7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences; repair of General repairs, etc.high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts; 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.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, $60,000. 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 improvement and care of Rock Creek Park, $30,000.Rock Creek Park. For improvement, care, and maintenance of West Potomac Park, Potomac Park.including grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and constructing paths and roads, $30,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $10,000. For improvement and care of East Tourists’ camp.Potomac Park, $35,000. For the maintenance of a tourists’ camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, $5,000.Montrose Park. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Montrose Park, $5,000. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition Outdoor sports.for outdoor sports, $15,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Meridian Hill Park, Meridian Hill Park, etc.$25,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which Union Station pumps.operate the three fountains on the Union Station Plaza, $4,000. To provide for the increased cost in park maintenance, $40,000.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 the Tidal Basin bathing beach.Tidal Basin and care, maintenance, and operation of the bathhouse and beach, $10,000. For care and maintenance of Mount Vernon Park, $1,000. 574 For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. Anacostia Park.Recreation section.For improvement and maintenance as a recreation park of section D, Anacostia Park, between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Anacostia Bridge, $50,000. Lighting public grounds.Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $37,000. Heating offices, etc.For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $6,000. Boundary line between District and Virginia.For survey to establish boundary line between the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia between Chain Bridge and Jones Point, and incidental expenses, including locating monuments, $5,000. 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 the acquisition of lands for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek *Provisos*.Park, $75,000: *Provided*, That the total area finally to be acquired Areas authorized.shall not exceed the areas heretofore authorized as shown within the taking lines indicated on the map in four
(4)sheets marked “R. C. & P. P.–1; R. C. & P. P.–2; R. C. & P. P.–3; R. C. & P. P.–4 ” on file in the office of the executive and disbursing officer of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission and known as “The Map of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway ” dated May 1, 1923: Restriction on opening streets, etc., diminishing flow of Rock Creek and tributaries.*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 and approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, dated May 1, 1923. 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, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $148,237. New water main, etc.For laying in the National Zoological Park approximately one thousand five hundred and fifty feet of six-inch water main and installing two fire hydrants, $3,250. Water service.WATER SERVICE. Increasing water supply.Vol. 42, pp. 94, 709.For continuing work on the project for an increased water supply for the District of Columbia, adopted by Congress in the Army ap-575propriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, as modified by the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1923 and 1924. and as further modified by the report submitted to Congress by the Secretary of War December 4, 1923, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $1,500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary *Provisos*.Contracts authorized.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 Cost limited.*Post*, p. 1246.sum of $8,900,000, including all appropriations and contract authorizations herein and heretofore made: *Provided further*, That no Restriction on bids and contracts.bid in excess of the estimated cost for that portion of the work or plant covered by the bid shall be accepted, nor shall any contract for any portion of the work, material, or equipment to constitute a part of the plant for which this appropriation is available be valid unless the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall have certified thereon and that all its terms are within the requirements of the authorization and the revised estimates for the work. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues Following sums 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, maintenance Maintenance, etc., 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, purchase, installation and maintenance of water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $170,000. For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance Conduit Road.of Conduit Road, $5,000. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break Emergency fund.requiring immediate repairs in one of the more important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery, $5,000; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence Control of Secretary of War not affected.and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. water department.Water department. For revenue and inspection branch: For personal services in accordance Revenue and inspection branch.with the Classification Act of 1923, $48,480. For distribution branch: For personal services in accordance with Distribution branch.the Classification Act of 1923, $70,080. For maintenance of the water department distribution system, including Operation expenses.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, $10,000; in all, for maintenance, $450,000. 576 Distribution extension.For extension of the water department distribution system, laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $150,000. Assessments for laying mains and sewers, for fiscal year.Vol. 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 1925. Water meters in private 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. Hydrants.For installing fire and public hydrants, machinery, and appurtenances required for necessary extensions, $20,000. New mains.For laying seven thousand eight hundred feet of sixteen-inch water main from Eighteenth Street and Minnesota Avenue southeast through Minnesota Avenue to Good Hope Road, to Railroad Avenue, and south in Railroad Avenue to Stevens Road southeast, $66,300. For laying four thousand five hundred feet of thirty-inch water main in Rhode Island Avenue northeast from a point between Seventh and Ninth Streets to Sixteenth Street, $90,000. For laying five thousand one hundred feet of sixteen-inch main in Fourth Street northeast from the proposed thirty-inch main in Rhode Island Avenue to S Street, west in S Street to Second Street, south in Second Street to R Street, west in R Street to Eckington Place, and south in Eckington Place to connect with the twelve-inch main in Florida Avenue, $44,000. For laying five thousand six hundred and fifty feet of sixteen-inch water main, beginning at Wisconsin Avenue and Jewett Street, there to connect with twelve-inch fourth high-service main, west in Jewett Street to Forty-fifth Street, and north in Forty-fifth Street to a point midway between Lowell and Macomb Streets northwest, $48,000. Sec. 2. Construction work under Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street-cleaning or road work, or construction and repair of bridges and repair of buildings, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their *Proviso*.Limit.work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $125,000 during the fiscal year 1925. Temporary laborers, etc.The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the 577proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary Horses, vehicles, etc.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 budget estimates Report.shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, *Proviso*.Temporary work for 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 budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Limit.That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $25,000 during the fiscal year 1925. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily Temporary laborers, etc.such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 5. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the Miscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368.execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, two bookkeepers in the auditor’s office, clerk in the office of the collector of taxes, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire 578therefor 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 purchase of two automobiles for inspection purposes at a cost of not to exceed $650 each, and including the maintenance of motor vehicles, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Sec. 6. Materials, supplies, vehicles, etc.Purchases of, directed from stock of Government activities no longer needed by them. That the commissioners and other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, from the various services of the Government of the United States possessing material, supplies, passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, and equipment no Duty before purchasing elsewhere.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 character Price stipulation.described that are serviceable. And articles purchased from the Government, if the same have not been Sales authorized.used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government of the United States are authorized to sell such articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the *Proviso*.Transfers under Executive order not affected.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 7, 1924.