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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 43 STAT. · June 30, 1926 · Chapter 477

Chapter 477. 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, 1926, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 477.— 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, 1926, and for other purposes. March 3, 1925.[[H. R. 12033](/us/bill/68/hr/12033).][[Public, No. 595](/us/pl/68/595).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.Appropriations for expenses of, from District revenues and $9,000,000 from the Treasury.Revenue from activities from all sources to be credited to the District.
That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, 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 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 1217contributed 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 EXPENSESGeneral expenses. executive officeExecutive office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofOffice personnel. 1923, $43,000, plus so much as may be necessary to make salary of engineer commissioner, $7,500: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations*Proviso.*Restriction on exceeding average salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1488. 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 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, and in grades in whichIf only one position in a grade. only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade: *Provided*,Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction of a fixed salary.Vol. 42, p. 1490.
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 was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)Transfers to another position without reduction.to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a Payment of higher rates allowed.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: For personal services in accordance withVeterinary division. the Classification Act of 1923, $1,740; for medicines, surgical, and hospital supplies, $350; in all, $2,090; Purchasing division: For personal services in accordance withPurchasing divisions. the Classification Act of 1923, $50,800; Building Inspection Division: For personal services in accordanceBuilding inspection division. with the Classification Act of 1923, $78,000; Plumbing Inspection Division: For personal services in accordancePlumbing inspection with the Classification Act of 1923, $22,420; 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, $26,870; In all, Executive Office, $200,760. care of district buildingDistrict Building. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofOperating force, etc. 1923, $45,000; services of cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $14,000; in all, $59,000: *Provided*, That no other appropriation*Proviso.*Assistant engineers, etc. made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Building. For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor notOperating expenses. to exceed $5,000, and miscellaneous supplies, $33,500. 1218 assessor’s office Assessor’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $118,000; temporary clerk hire, $3,000; in all, $121,000. 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 identification tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $17,500. collector’s office Collector’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $71,320. auditor’s office Auditor’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $80,460. office of corporation counsel Corporation Counsel’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $33,240. coroner’s office Coroner’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $5,920. Expenses of morgue, inquests, etc.For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying 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, $5,600. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and marketsOffice of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $34,000. Inspection, etc.For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $300. Markets, etc.For maintenance and repairs to markets, including salary of engineer for refrigerating plant at not exceeding $1,200 per annum, $9,000. Motor trucks.For maintenance and repair of four motor trucks, $1,360. engineer commissioner’s office Engineer Commissioner’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $264,500. central garage Central garage.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $4,560. municipal architect’s office Municipal Architect’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $32,340. For the purchase of one one-half-ton truck, $480. 1219 For the replacement of one one-and-one-half-ton truck, $2,400. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipalLimit for services of draftsmen, etc. 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 2 1/2 per centum of the amount of the appropriation made for each project. public utilities commission For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPublic utilities commission. of 1923, $37,240. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorizedIncidental expenses. by law, $5,000. board of examiners, steam engineers Salaries: Three members, at $150 each, $450.Examiners, steam engineers. department of insurance For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActInsurance department. of 1923. $17,040. surveyor’s office For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofSurveyor’s office. 1923, $46,640; services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers,Temporary employees. additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $19,000, no part of which sum shall be expended with-out the written authority of the commissioners; in all, $65,640. For making surveys to mark permanently on the ground thePermanent highways system, surveys, etc. permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, $2,000. For revision of the highway plan, $1,500. district of columbia employees’ compensation fundEmployees’ Compensation Fund. For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District ofPayment for injuries. Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extendingVol. 41, p. 104. to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia theVol. 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. free public libraryPublic Library. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActRegular personnel. of 1923, $162,300. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, includingSubstitutes, etc. the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the discretion of the librarian, $3,500: *Provided*, that no money appropriated*Proviso.*Library stations limited. by this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations not now in existence. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays,Sunday, etc., opening. $2,500. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, includingMiscellaneous. payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $42,000. For binding, including necessary personal services, $10,000.Binding. 1220 Contingent expenses.For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $15,000. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSESContingent 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 laboratory in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; 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, $47,000. Printing reports for fiscal year 1925.For printing all annual and special reports of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, *Proviso.*Discretionary discontinuance.for submission to Congress, $4,800: *Provided*, that authority is hereby given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to discontinue the printing of any annual or special reports of the government of the District of Columbia in order to keep the expendituresPreservation of originals. within this appropriation. In all cases where the printing of said reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for public inspection. Motor vehicles.Maintenance.For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, $69,800; for exchange of such passenger-carrying automobiles now owned by the District of Columbia as, in the judgment of the commissioners of said District, have or shall become unserviceable, $7,250; and for the purchase Purchases allotted.of passenger-carrying automobiles as follows: Assessor’s office, one $1,500; District Training School (home and school for feeble-minded), one $1,000; one Ford runabout, with slip-on body for the municipal architect’s office, $420; three Ford field wagons for the sewer division, $1,950; one Ford touring car for the jail, $500; one autobus for the National Training School for Girls, $1,000; one autobus for Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $1,250; in all, $84,670. Allowances for privately owned motor vehicles.For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at the rate of not to exceed $312 per year for each automobile and $156 per year for each motor cycle, $13,104. Use by officials restricted.All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and 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 Transfers forbidden.herein specifically authorized. No motor vehicles shall be transferred 1221from 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 purchaseExpenses of horses, etc., limited. 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. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the purchase,Using other appropriations for horses forbidden. livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment ofFire insurance prohibited. premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendentTelephones allowed at residences of designated officials. of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the street cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, secretary of the Board of Charities, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, under appropriations contained in this Act. The commissioners Connections permitted.may connect any or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia or to both of such systems. For postage for strictly official mail matter, $19,000.Postage. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnishCar fares, etc. necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street-car and bus fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*,*Provisos. *Limit.Firemen and police excepted. That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $8,000: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title,Judicial expenses. the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $4,000. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, andAdvertising.General. for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $6,000. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1925, as requiredTaxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24. 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. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toRemoving dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 923, authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1899, to pay each member of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, $500. For copies of such wills, petitions, and other papers wherein titleCopies of wills, etc., to assessor. to real estate is involved, for the use of the assessor of the District, $500. 1222 Recorder of deeds.Office rent.For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, including services of 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 serviceEmployment Service. Maintenance.For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $9,400. historial places Historical tablets.For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the District of Columbia, $500. emergency fundEmergency fund. Expenses under, restricted.To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the Commissioners, $4,000: *Proviso.*Purchases.*Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. refund of erroneous collectionsRefund of erronous collections. Payment authorized of.To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, school tuition charges, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion required by law, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or Building permits.Vol. 36, p. 967.in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act *Proviso.*Prior years.approved March 2, 1911, $2,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. National Conference on Uniform State Laws.To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, $250. Painting traffic lines, etc.For furnishing material and equipment, and for the employment of the necessary labor to continue the painting of traffic lines in the congested section of the city, and for marking the centers of the roadways at curves and on the crests of hills, $5,000. Charge for tax certificates.Hereafter the charge for each certificate of taxes issued by the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia shall be $1. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIRStreets, etc., improvement and repairs. Assessment and permit work.For assessment and permit work, including maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $298,000. Paving roadways.For paving roadways under the permit system, $45,000. street improvementsStreet 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 non passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, as follows: 1223 Northwest: For paving Klingle Street, Tunlaw Road to Forty-fifthPaving Klingle Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide. $13,420; Northwest: For paving Forty-fourth Street, Klingle Street toPaving Forty-fourth Street NW. Lowell Street, thirty feet wide, $5,600 : Northwest: For paving Lowell Street, Forty-fourth Street toPaving Lowell Street NW. Forty-fifth Street, thirty feet wide, $8,800; Northwest: For paving Ordway Street, Thirty-fourth Street toPaving Ordway Street NW. Wisconsin Avenue, thirty feet wide, $21,920; Northwest: For paving Eighth Street, Florida Avenue to BarryPaving Eighth Street NW. Place, thirty feet wide, $21,750; Northwest: For paving Forty-second Street, Fessenden Street toPaving Forty-Second Street NW. Garrison Street, thirty feet wide, $6,610; Northwest: For paving Rodman Street, Reno Road to Thirty-fifth Street,Paving Rodman Street NW. thirty feet wide, $6,600; Northwest: For paving Thirty-fifth Street, Quebec Street to RodmanPaving Thirty-fifth Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $4,500; Northwest: For paving Macomb Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Idaho Avenue,Paving Macomb Street NW. fifty feet wide, $12,000: Northwest: For paving Ninth Street, Decatur Street to Emerson Street,Paving Ninth Street NW. thirty feet wide, $8,000; Northwest: For paving Delafield Street, Georgia Avenue to NinthPaving Delafield Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $5,300; Northwest: For paving Emerson Street, Ninth Street to Illinois Avenue,Paving Emerson Street NW. thirty feet wide. $6,600; Southeast: For paving Shannon Place, U to W: and U Street,Paving Shannon Place and U Street SE. Nichols Avenue to Shannon Place, thirty feet wide, $5,200; Northeast: For paving Kearney Street, Twenty-second Street toPaving Kearney Street NE. Rhode Island Avenue, thirty feet wide, $6,700; Northeast: For paving Trinidad Avenue. Florida Avenue to NealPaving Trinidad Avenue NE. Street, thirty feet wide, $13,200; Northeast: For paving Monroe Street, Twentieth Street toPaving Monroe Street NE. Twenty-second Street, thirty feet wide, $7,150; Northeast: For paving Channing Street, Lincoln Road toPaving Channing Street NE. Fourth Street, thirty feet wide, $11,000; Northeast: For paving Third Street, Bryant Street to DouglasPaving Third Street NE. Street, thirty feet wide, $9,900; Southeast: For paving Esther Place, Nichols Avenue to RaleighPaving Esther Place SE. Street, twenty-four feet wide, $4,000; Northwest: For paving Decatur Street, Georgia Avenue to KansasPaving Decatur Street NW. Avenue, thirty feet wide, $18,700; Northwest: For paving Buchanan Street, Eighth Street to KansasPaving Buchanan Street NW. Avenue, thirty feet wide, $2,200; Northwest: For paving east side Sherman Circle, Crittenden StreetPaving Sherman Circle NW. to Illinois Avenue, forty feet wide, $7,000; Northwest: For paving Illinois Avenue, Allison Street toPaving Illinois Avenue NW. Buchanan Street, forty feet wide, $8,250; Northwest: For paving Crittenden Street, Sherman Circle to FifthPaving Crittenden Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $4,500; Northwest: For paving Eighth Street, Hamilton Street to IngrahamPaving Eighth Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $8,500; Northwest: For paving Seventh Street, Hamilton Street toPaving Seventh Street NW. Jefferson Street, thirty feet wide, $9,900; Northwest: For paving Kansas Avenue, Buchanan Street toPaving Kansas Avenue N W., etc. Sherman Circle, fifty feet wide with ten-foot center parking; west side Sherman Circle, Kansas Avenue to Illinois Avenue, forty feet wide; and Illinois Avenue, Sherman Circle to Emerson Street, forty feet wide, $24,500; Northwest: For paving R Street. Thirty-seventh Street to Thirty-eightPaving R Street NW. Street, thirty feet wide, $5,200; 1224 Paving S Street NW.Northwest: For paving S Street, Thirty-seventh Street to Thirty-eighth Street, thirty feet wide, $5,200: Paving T Street NW,Northwest: For paving T Street, Thirty-seventh Street to Thirty-eighth Street, thirty feet wide, $5,200: Paving Woodley Road and Twenty-ninth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Woodley Road, Twenty-eighth Street to Twenty-ninth Street, and Twenty-ninth Street, Woodley Road to Cathedral Avenue, thirty feet wide, $13,200; Paving Thirty-third Place NW.Northwest: For paving Thirty-third Place, Macomb Street to Woodley Road, thirty feet wide, $9,450; Paving Cathedral Avenue NW.Northwest: For paving Cathedral Avenue, Cleveland Avenue to Thirty-fourth Street, thirty feet wide, $4,400; Paving Crittenden Street NW.Northwest: For paving Crittenden Street, Eighth Street to Sherman Circle, thirty feet wide, $2,200; Paving Twentieth Street NE.Northeast: For paving Twentieth Street, Lawrence Street to Monroe Street, thirty feet wide, $5,200; Paving Second Street NE.Northeast: For paving Second Street, Channing Street to Cromwell Terrace, thirty feet wide, $3,000; Paving V Street SE.Southeast: For paving V Street, Nichols Avenue to Fourteenth Street, thirty feet wide, $10,000; Grading Evarts Street NE.Northeast: For grading Evarts Street, Fourth Street to Central Avenue, $4,400; Grading, etc.For grading, including necessary culverts, drains, and retaining walls, the following: Sixteenth Street NW.Northwest: Sixteenth Street, Alaska Avenue to Kalmia Street, $40,500; Western Avenue NW.Northwest: Western Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue to Forty-first Street, $30,000. Thirteenth Street NW.Widening lessened.Public Laws, 1st seas., p. 546.The appropriation contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925 for increasing the roadway width of Thirteenth Street from F to I Streets northwest shall not be available for widening such section of such street to more than seventy feet; Accounted for as one fund.In all, $399,750; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Street improvements, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund, and *Proviso.*Restricted to specified improvements.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. gasoline tax road and street improvementsGasoline tax road and street fund. Paving, etc., streets, etc., from.For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, 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 *Ante*, p. 106.section 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, and accretions by repayment of assessments: Widening and repaving M Street NW.Northwest: For widening to sixty feet and repaving the roadway of M Street from Twenty-ninth Street to Thirty-fifth Street, $97,400; Widening, etc., Ninth Street NW.Northwest: For widening by twelve feet on the west side and repaving the roadway of Ninth Street from New York Avenue to Massachusetts Avenue, $3,000; Widening, etc., E Street NW.Northwest: For widening to fifty-five feet and repaving the road-way of E Street, from Fifth Street to Thirteenth Street, $95,000; Widening, etc., Bladensburg Road NE,Northeast: For widening to sixty feet and repaving the roadway of Bladensburg Road from H Street to the end of the present asphalt roadway, $30,000; Assessment of cost abutting property.In the widening and repaving of roadways hereinbefore provided for, 40 per centum of the entire cost thereof in each case shall be 1225assessed against and collected from the owners of abutting property in the manner provided in the Act approved July 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighthVol. 38, p. 524; Vol. 39, p. 716. Statutes, page 524), as amended by section 8 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 716). TheModification of vaults under sidewalks, etc. 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 or parking on said street if it be found necessary to change such vaults to permit of the roadway being widened; For covering with asphalt the roadways of the following, includingAsphalt roadways. curbing and gutters where necessary: Northwest: Thirtieth Street, Q Street to R Street, $5,000;Thirtieth Street NW. Northwest: Cathedral Avenue, Connecticut Avenue to Twenty-ninthCathedral Avenue NW. Street, $8,000; Southwest: Seventh Street, from G Street to Water Street,Seventh Street SW. $11,000; Northwest: Nineteenth Street, from Pennsylvania Avenue to KNineteenth Street NW. Street, $6,000; Northwest: Twenty-first Street, Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street,Twenty-first Street NW. $4,000; Northeast: Rhode Island Avenue, Lincoln Road to Fourth Street,Rhode Island Avenue NE. $22,000; Northwest: Fifteenth Street, Euclid Street to Irving Street,Fifteenth Street NW. $10,500; Northwest: Ontario Road, Columbia Road to end of pavementOntario Road NW. south of Euclid Street, $3,800; Northwest: Seventeenth Street, Columbia Road to Euclid Street,Seventeenth Street NW. $3,700; Northeast: V Street, Lincoln Road to Rhode Island Avenue,V Street NE. $2,600; Northwest: Buchanan Street, Fourteenth Street to SixteenthBuchanan Street NW. Street, $5,800; Northwest: Allison Street, Seventh Street to Georgia Avenue,Allison Street NW. $7,700; Northwest: Shepherd Street, Fourteenth Street to Georgia Avenue,Shepherd Street NW. $12,600; For paving and repaving roadways as follows:Paving and repaving roadways. Northwest: Eleventh Street, E Street to G Street, fifty-fiveEleventh Street NW. feet wide, $22,000; Northwest: For widening to sixty feet and repaving the roadwayThirteenth Street NW. of Thirteenth Street, from E Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, $5,000; Northwest and Northeast: North Capitol Street, V Street to MichiganNorth Capitol Street. Avenue, fifty feet wide, $53,000; Northwest: Ninth Street, Florida Avenue to Barry Place, thirtyNinth Street NW. feet wide, $10,000; Northeast: A Street, Fifteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, thirtyA Street NE. feet wide, $17,000; Northeast: North Carolina Avenue, Fifteenth Street to B Street,North Carolina Avenue NE. forty feet wide, $6,500; Southeast: Potomac Avenue, Sixteenth Street to E Street, fortyPotomac Avenue SE. feet wide, $28,000. Southeast: A Street, Fifteenth Street to Eighteenth Street, thirtyA Street SE. feet wide, $26,000; Southeast: E Street, Eighteenth Street to Nineteenth Street,E Street SE. thirty-five feet wide, $14,000: Southeast: You Street, Nichols Avenue to Fourteenth Street, thirty feet wide, $10,000; Northeast: Seventeenth Street, East Capitol Street to A Street,U Street SE. thirty feet wide, $9,000; Southeast: Seventeenth Street, East Capitol Street to A Street,Seventeenth Street NE. thirty feet wide, $9,000; 1226 Thirty-fourth Street NW.Northwest: Thirty-fourth Street, Massachusetts Avenue to Cleveland Avenue, thirty and forty feet wide, $20,000; Buchanan Street NW.Northwest: Buchanan Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, thirty feet wide, $9,900; Fourth Street NE.Northeast: Fourth Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Central Avenue, fifty feet wide, $13,900; Woodley Place NW.Northwest: Woodley Place, from pavement south of Woodley Road to Cathedral Avenue, twenty-four feet wide, $12,000: Woodley Road NW.Northwest: Woodley Road, Woodley Place to end of pavement east of Connecticut Avenue, thirty feet wide, $1,500; Maple Street NW.Northwest: Maple Street, Vine Street to Carroll Street, twenty-four feet wide. $4,600; Webster Street NW.Northwest: Webster Street, Second Street to Rock Creek Church Road, thirty feet wide, $10,000; Thirteenth Street NW.Northwest: Thirteenth Street, Jefferson Street to Kennedy Street, forty feet wide, $6,000; Twenty-second Street NW.Northwest: Twenty-second Street, B Street to C Street, thirty-two feet wide, $10,000; C Street NW.Northwest: C Street, Twenty-first Street to Twenty-second Street, thirty-two feet wide, $7,000; Q Street NW.Northwest: Q Street, Thirtieth Street to Wisconsin Avenue, present width, $25,000; R Street NW.Northwest: R Street, Thirtieth Street to Wisconsin Avenue, present width, $32,000; D Street NW.Northwest: D Street, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, present width, $18,000; Eighth Street NW.Northwest: Eighth Street, Market Space to E Street, present width, $18,000; Georgia Avenue N W.Northwest: Georgia Avenue, Florida Avenue to Barry Place, present width, $25,000; Grading Franklin Street NE.Northeast: For grading Franklin Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Twentieth Street, $17,500; Curbs, gutters, etc.For construction of curbs and gutters and adjustment of road-ways thereto, $50,000; Disbursement, etc.In all, $812,000; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road and street improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute*Provisos.*Restricted to specified improvements. one fund and be available immediately: *Provided*, That no part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street Assessments under existing law.or section thereof not herein 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 collection of the tax on motor-vehicle Continuing of uncompleted projectsfuels: *Provided further*, That any projects or portions of projects chargeable to the fund during the fiscal year 1925 and subsequent fiscal years and uncompleted at the close of those years shall be a continuing charge upon the fund until completed and shall, except in so far as conditions beyond the control of the commissioners prevent, be given priority over projects subsequently made a charge upon such fund. street repair, grading, and extension Grading.Grading, streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase and repair of carts, tools or hire of same, and horses, $52,700. 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. 1227 To carry out the provisions contained in the District of ColumbiaOpening streets, etc., for permanent highways system.Vol. 37, p. 950.Exceptions. Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1914 which authorize the commissioners to open, extend, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension and Piney Branch Road extension, to conform with the plan of the permanent system of highways in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown there is appropriated such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year 1926,Wholly from District revenues. to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia:Proviso.Authority not extended. *Provided*, That the authority given in the Act of 1914 is not hereby in any way extended. Repairs: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, andRepairs. alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and including the maintenanceMotor vehicles. of non passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $800,000, to be immediately available. This appropriation shall beStreet railway pavements.Vol. 20, p. 105. available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5 of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. The authority given the commissioners in the District of ColumbiaChanging curb lines.Vol. 34, p. 1130. Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1907, to make such changes in the lines of the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved under appropriations contained in this Act.Sidewalks, etc. For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings. $15,000. For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburbanSuburban roads, repairs, etc. streets, including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $297,500. bridgesBridges. For construction and repair of bridges, including maintenanceConstruction, repair, etc. of non passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $28,688. Highway Bridge across Potomac River: For personal services inHighway Bridge, accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,360; 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, $18,600. Anacostia River Bridge. For employees, miscellaneous supplies, Anacostia Bridge.and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $4,500. Francis Scott Key Bridge: For miscellaneous supplies andFrancis Scott Key Bridge. expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the maintenance of the bridge and approaches, including personal services, $2,000. trees and parkingsTrees and parking. For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen,Contingent expenses. repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $78,000. 1228 public convenience stations Public convenience stations.For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $28,000. New station, Ninth and F Streets.For a new public convenience station, numbered 5, to be located at the northeast corner of Ninth and F Streets NW., $15,000, plus the unexpended balance of the appropriation now available for a public convenience station in Eighth Street NW., south of F Street NW. SEWERSSewers. Cleaning, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the purchase of three motor trucks at not to exceed $650 each, the purchase of three motor trucks at not to exceed $4,000 each, the replacement of one motor truck at not to exceed $650, and the replacement of two Pumping service.motor trucks at not to exceed $4,000 each; for operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $258,950. Main and pipe.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $150,000. Suburban.For suburban sewers, including the exchange or replacement of one motor truck at not to exceed $4,000, the purchase of one motor tractor at not to exceed $650, and the maintenance of non passenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $385,800. Assessment and permit work.For assessment and permit work, sewers, $275,000. Rights of way.For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $2,000. Rock Creek interceptor.For the extension of the Rock Creek main interceptor, $67.500. Upper Potomac interceptor.For continuing the construction of the Upper Potomac main interceptor, $50,000. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSECity refuse. Salaries.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $57,000. Sweeping, cleaning, ice and snow removal, etc.For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of Vehicles, etc.storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment: maintenance and repair of nonpassenger-carrying 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, $430,000. Garbage, ashes, animals, etc.Collection and disposal of.To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia (no contract shall be let for the collection of dead animals), including inspection; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps; and incidental *Provisos.*Deposit of receipts.expenses, $909,140 : *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District Use restricted.of Columbia in the manner provided by law: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or mis1229cellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. For the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of square 739,Purchase of transfer station. on which the present garbage transfer station is located, $35,000: *Provided*, That the purchase price shall not exceed the latest full*Proviso.*Price restricted. value assessment of such property. PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDSPublic playgrounds. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $76,000: *Provided*, That employments hereunder shall be distributed*Proviso.*Employments restricted. as to duration in accordance with corresponding employments provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924; For general maintenance, improvement, equipment, supplies, incidentalMaintenance, etc. and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance of motor truck, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $40,000; For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open duringPublic school playgrounds during summer. the summer months the public-school playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners; for special and temporary services, directors, assistants, and janitor service during the summer vacation, and, in the larger yards, daily after school hours during the school term, $21,000; For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance,Swimming pools. and necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000; Bathing beach: For superintendence, $600; for temporary services,Bathing beach. supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $6,880, In all, for playgrounds, $146,880. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENTElectrical department. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $84,200. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies,Supplies, contingent expenses, etc. telephone rental and purchase, telephone service charges, wire and cable for extension of telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, purchase and repair of bicycles, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, $31,128. For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone service Placing wires underground.underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholds, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, $4,800. For extension and relocation of police-patrol system, includingPolice patrol system. purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $2,500. Lightning: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of publicLighting streets, etc. lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, this sum to be Rates.expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8Vol. 36, p. 1008.Vol. 37, p. 181. of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 1230and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, $590,000. Replacing old fixtures, etc.For replacing gas lamps and fixtures and older and less effective electric lamps and fixtures on streets, avenues, roads, and public spaces by improved gas or electric installations, purchase of posts and fixtures of all kinds, and for all necessary expenses in connection*Proviso.*Contract restrictions. therewith, $35,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. Fire alarm boxes.For extension and relocation of fire-alarm system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor and other necessary items, $10,000. Extending cable system.For purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables to increase the capacity of the underground signal cable system, $8,000. PUBLIC SCHOOLSPublic schools. Administrative and supervisory officers.Salaries: For personal services of administrative and supervisory officers in accordance with the Act fixing and regulating the salaries *Ante*, p. 368.of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924, *Proviso.*Teaching partisan politics, disrespect of Bible, and form of Government, forbidden.$611,750: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be 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. Personnel, office of superintendent.For personal services of clerks and other employees, office of superintendent of schools, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $97,900. Personnel, school attendance and work permits department.Ante, p. 369.For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924, and the Act approved February 5, 1925, $28,100. teachersTeachers. Salaries.*Ante*, p. 367.*Proviso.*Restriction.Salaries: For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924, $5,168,000: *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. Soliciting subscriptions, etc., prohibited.No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to Exception.school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. Vacation schools, etc.For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $30,000. Annuities.For payment of annuities, $61,000. 1231 night schoolsNight schools. Salaries: For teachers and janitors of night schools, includingSalaries. teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors 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 blindDeaf, dumb, and blind. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb personsColumbia Institution for the Deaf.Instruction expenses.[R.S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 844. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $25,000. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachableColored deaf mutes.Tuition of under contract. age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $4,500: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this*Proviso.*Supervision. appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the board of education. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, inBlind children.Instruction under contract. Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $9,500: *Provided*, That all expendituresProviso.Supervision. under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the board of education. americanization workAmericanization work. For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of allInstructing foreigners of all ages. ages in both day and night classes, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day school, $10,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books,Equipment, etc. equipment, and supplies, $2,000. community center departmentCommunity centers. For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and Salaries and expenses.Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 375.community secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924; part-time employees, including janitors, and contingent expenses, equipment, supplies, and lighting fixtures, $38,000. care of buildings and groundsCare of buildings and grounds. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $478,400. For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cookingSmaller buildings and rented rooms. and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $8,000. hygiene and sanitationHygiene and sanitation. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationPersonal services.*Provisos.*Day duty, etc., of chief inspector. Act of 1923, $63,000: *Provided*, That the person employed in the capacity of chief medical and sanitary inspector shall, under 1232the direction of the health officer of the District of Columbia, give his whole time from nine o’clock a. m. to four o’clock p. m., to, and exercise the direction and control of the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of the public schools of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*,Division of inspectors. 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. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. Equipping temporary rooms, etc.For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by operation of the compulsory education law, and for purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, $4,500. Tubercular pupils.For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, $4,000. Transportation.For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular *Proviso.*Car fares allowed.pupils, $3,000: *Provided*, That expenditures for car fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of car fares covered by this Act. Manual training expenses.For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith $65,000. Fuel, light, and power.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $250,000. furniture 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, $25,000; sixteen-room building and assembly hall to replace John F. Cook School, $14,061; addition to Macfarland Junior High School, $5,114; eight-room building at Fifth and Sheridan Streets, $5,306; eight-room building at Fifth and Buchanan Streets, $5,306; equipment and furnishing of Health School for tubercular. pupils, $6,000; 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, $72,987. Contingent expenses, cabinetmaker, etc.For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, pay of cabinetmaker, stationery, printing, ice, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $3,000 *Proviso.*No bond for Army supplies to cadets.for books of reference and periodicals, $80,000: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be required on account 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. Paper towels.For the purchase of sanitary paper towels and for fixtures for dispensing the same to the pupils, $2,500. Pianos.For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,500. Supplies to pupils.For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the Board of Education, and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including necessary labor not 1233to exceed $1,000, $175,000: *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, $7,000.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 monthsNature 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. $12,000. The children of officers and men of the United States Army andChildren of Army, Navy, etc., admitted free. Navy and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. buildings and groundsBuildings and grounds. For enlarging heating plant and completion of the addition to theArmstrong Technical. Armstrong Technical School, $50,000; For the purchase of additional land adjoining the site providedJohn R. Francis.Site. for the John R. Francis Junior High School, $50,000; For beginning the construction of the John R. Francis JuniorConstruction. High School, on a site already provided for at Twenty-fourth and N Streets northwest, $175,000, and the commissioners are hereby authorized to enter into contract or contracts, as in this Act provided, for such building at a cost not to exceed $475,000; For the construction of a wing to the MacFarland Junior HighMacFarland. School, $125,000; For the purchase of land adjacent to the Bruce School to provideBruce.Adjacent land. for the construction of an addition to that school, $25,000; For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Bruce Construction.School, $120,000; For the construction of the Stuart Junior High SchoolStuart. with a combined assembly hall and gymnasium on the site provided for said building at Fourth and E Streets northeast, $475,000; For the construction of an eight-room extensible building on theNew buildings northwest. site at Fifth and Sheridan Streets northwest, $140,000; For the construction of an eight-room building on the site near Fifth and Buchanan Streets northwest, $140,000; For the purchase of a site for a new school in the vicinity ofSite, northeast. Rhode Island Avenue and South Dakota Avenue northeast, $25,000; For the purchase of land adjoining the Brightwood Park SchoolBrightwood Park. to provide for an addition to that school, $20,000;Adjoining land. For the construction of an eight-room addition to the BrightwoodConstructing addition. Park School, $140,000; For the purchase of a site for a new school in the vicinity of ThirteenthSite, northwest. and Montague Streets northwest, $60,000; In all, $1,545,000, to be disbursed and accounted for as “BuildingsDisbursed, etc., as one fund. and Grounds, Public Schools,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund mid shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That no part*Proviso.*Use restricted to specified objects. of such fund shall be used for or on account of any school building or site not herein specified. 1234 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.*Rejection of 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. Rent, etc.For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stock rooms, $20,000. Repairs, Etc., of buildings and grounds.For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same and maintenance of motor trucks, $450,000, to be available immediately. School playgrounds.For maintenance and repair of one hundred school playgrounds now established, $4,500. Additional, in school yards.*Proviso.*Use, etc.For equipment, grading, and improving eight additional school 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. Repairs, etc., of furnishings for specified junior high schools.For repair, replacement, and extension of equipment, furniture, and furnishings, including pianos, to adapt for use as junior high schools, the old Eastern High School, $6,000; the Jefferson School, $4,000; the Randall School. $5,000; and the Powell School, $6,000; in all, $21,000. Cost of sites, etc., limited to appropriationsThe total cost of the sites and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, including heating, lighting, and plumbing, when completed upon plans and specifications to be made previously and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes, any provision in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. Preparation of plans.The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act under appropriations administered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect, and those for school buildings after consultation with the Board of Education, and shall be approved by the commissioners and shall be constructed in conformity thereto. Exits required.The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances Doors to open outward, etc.opening outward, and each of said buildings having an excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances Unlocked doors, etc.shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. METROPOLITAN POLICEPolice. salaries Salaries, officers, etc.*Ante*, pp.174, 1125.For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia,” including the present chief clerk of the police department, who 1235shall be appointed an assistant superintendent on the Metropolitan police force, $2,646,900. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $69,600. miscellaneous For fuel, $8,000.Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and stationRepairs, etc. grounds, $7,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards forContingent expenses. fugitives, purchase of modern revolvers and other firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding. gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, not to exceed $200 for car tickets, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expense, $60,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided*, That the War Department may, in its discretion,*Proviso.*Army mounted equipment. furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required. For flags and halyards, $200.Flags, etc. For purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles and the replacementMotor vehicles. of those worn out in the service and condemned, $50,000. For garage for No. 12 precinct station house, $8,000.Garage, 12th precinct. For the purchase of approximately 12,000 square feet of land inSite for new station. the vicinity of Georgia Avenue and Shepherd Road, or the Military Road and Colorado Avenue NW., as a site for a new police station house, $7,500. For the erection of a two-story building, to be known as theConstruction, 13th precinct station. thirteenth police precinct station house, $64,000. house of detentionHouse of Detention. For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detentionMaintenance, etc. 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 laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including trasportation, 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 necessaryPersonal services. expenses, $16,800 ; for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $14.400; in all, $31.200. harbor patrol For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActHarbor patrol. of 1923, $8,280. For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $3,500. 1236 POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUNDPolicemen, etc., relief fund. Payments from.To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, a sum not to exceed $450,000 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. FIRE DEPARTMENTFire department. salaries Salaries, officers, etc.*Ante*, p. 175.For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia, $1,770,000. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,360. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. Repairs, etc., to buildings.For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, $25,000. Repairs to apparatus.For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-driven apparatus, and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary supplies, *Proviso.*Construction at repair shop.materials, equipment, and tools: *Provided*, That the commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire department repair shop, $47,000. Fire boat, repairs, c.For repair and improvement of fire boat, $5,000. Hose, fuel, and forage.For hose, $22,000. For fuel, $35,000. For forage, $2,300. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, cost of installation and maintenance of telephones in the residences of the superintendent of machinery and the fire marshal, $28,000. New apparatus.Permanent improvements: For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $15,500. For four pumping engines, triple combination, motor driven, $11,000 each. For two combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, at $8,000 each. Automobiles.For two automobiles, at $2,000 each. HEALTH DEPARTMENTHealth Department salaries Salaries.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $135,000. prevention of contagious diseasesContagious diseases prevention. Enforcement expenses.Vol, 29, p. 635.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, Vol. 34, p. 889.measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, ap1237proved February 9, 1907, and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for freeTuberculosis registration, etc.Vo. 35, p. 126. 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 forInfantile paralysis, etc. the prevention 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, purchaseSmallpox hospital, etc. of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, $39,260: *Provided*, That anyProviso.Bacteriological examinations. bacteriologist employed under this appropriation may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary work as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases. For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at GarfieldIsolating wards, Garfield and Providence Hospitals. Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $12,000 and $8,000, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary: in all, $20,000. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatmentTuberculosis and venereal diseases dispensaries. of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service and supplies, $14,500: *Provided*, That the commissioners*Provisos.*Volunteer services. may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall notPay prohibition. be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensationDisinfecting service. for personal services when ordered in writing by the com-missioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $5,880. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for theDrainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125,Abatement of nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $2,000. For special services in connection with the detection of theFood, etc., adulterations. adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $200. bacteriological, laboratoryBacteriological laboratory. For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchaseMaintenance, 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 laboratoryChemical laboratory. For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchaseMaintenance, etc. of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000. 1238 dairy farm inspectionDairy farms. Inspection expenses.For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including necessary traveling expenses, $3,150. *Ante*, p. 1004.Enforcing milk regulation. etc.Vol. 28, p. 719.For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other Food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.purposes, approved March 2, 1895; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the Pure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768.District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898: an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, $1,000. Crematory.For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, $3,440. Pound.For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound service, $400. For equipping, maintaining, and operating the motor ambulance, and keeping it in good order, $600. Child hygiene service.Maintenance of welfare stations, etc.For maintaining a child hygiene service, including the establishment and maintenance of child welfare stations for the clinical examinations, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six years of age, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, periodicals, Provisos.Volunteer services.and supplies, $25,000; *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service herein authorized:No pay 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. COURTS AND PRISONSCourts and prisons. juvenile courtJuvenile court. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $45,000. 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.For rent, $2,000. Furniture, etc.For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, $500. 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. 1239 police courtPolice Court. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $90,774, including compensation in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923 for two additional judges Two additional judges.*Ante*, p. 1119.and such other court employees, within the limit of available funds, as the court may determine to be necessary, and of said sum $6,530 shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That in addition to the sums hereinafter*Proviso.*Additional expenses. appropriated for the expenses of said court and for any of said purposes there is further appropriated the sum of $22,800, of which $12,600 shall be available immediately. For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals,Contingent expenses. stationery, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish. mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, 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, $6,000. For witness fees, $2,500.Witness fees, etc. For furniture, furnishings, and fixtures, and repairing andFurniture, etc. replacing same, $500. For lodging, meals, and accommodations of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $200. For compensation of jurors, $12,000.Jurors, etc. For repairs and alterations to building, $4,000.Repairs to building. municipal courtMunicipal court. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923. including $300 additional for presiding judge, $54,000. For compensation of jurors, $5,750: *Provided*, That depositsJurors, etc.*Proviso.*Disposition of deposits on demand for jury trials.Vol. 41, p. 1312. 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. For lodging, meals, and accommodations for jurors and deputyJury expenses. United States marshals, while in attendance upon them, when ordered by the court, $100. For rent of building, $3,600.Rent, etc. For fixtures, repairs to furniture, repairs to building, and repairs to building equipment, to be expended under the direction of the presiding judge, $1,500. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books ofContingent expenses. reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $4,000. supreme court, district of columbiaSupreme Court. Salaries: Chief justice, $8,000; five associate justices, at $7,500Salaries. each: six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, $11,160; in all, $56,660. Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and payment of theWitnesses.[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. 1240 Bailiffs.Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, clerk to jury commissioners, and per diems of jury commissioners, $37,520: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Jury commissioner.Compensation. That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1926 shall not exceed $250. Probation system.Probation system: For personal services, $8,120; contingent expenses, $325; in all, $8,445. Courthouse.Care, etc., of.Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection of the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $25,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $2,500, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. court of appealsCourt of Appeals. Salaries.Salaries: Chief justice, $9,000; two associate justices, at $8,500 each; all other officers and employees of the court, including reporting service, $21,050; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the *Proviso.*Sale of reports.clerk’s office, $950; in all, $48,000: *Provided*, That the reports of the court shall not be sold for a price exceeding that approved by the court and for not more than $6.50 per volume. Care, etc., of building.Building: For personal services for care and protection of the Court of Appeals building, including one mechanician, under the *Proviso.*Custodian.direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $6,700: *Provided*, That the clerk of the Court of Appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court. Contingent expenses.For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800. miscellaneous Support of convicts out of District.For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remain 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, $150,000. 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, $7,800. Miscellaneous court expenses. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $35,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, $4,275. 1241 CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONSCharities and corrections. board of charitiesBoard of Charities. Salaries and traveling expenses: For personal services in accordanceSalaries, etc. with the Classification Act of 1923, $30,000; traveling expenses, including attendance on conventions, $600; in all, $30,600. jailJail. Support of prisoners: For maintenance of prisoners of the DistrictSupport of prisoners, etc. of Columbia at the jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, $95,480. workhouse and reformatoryWorkhouse and Reformatory. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $14,060. workhouseWorkhouse. For personal Services in accordance with the Classification ActAdministration expenses. of 1923, $68,840. For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and supportMaintenance, etc. of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine, and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, livestock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; Supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, $85,000;Fuel. For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, $47,500; For construction, dynamite, oils, repairs to plant, and materialConstruction, repairs, etc. for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $45,000; In all, $246,340, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. reformatoryReformatory. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $50,000; For continuing construction of permanent buildings, includingBuildings, construction, etc. sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, and equipment for new buildings, $50,000; 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; maintenance and operation of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles; supplies and labor, and all other necessary items, $55,000; For fuel, $10,000; For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000;Fuel, repairs, etc, In all, $169,000, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. 1242 national training school for boysNational Training School for Boys, D. C. Care, etc., of boys committed to.For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $55,000. national training school for girlsNational Training School for Girls. D. C. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $29,580. Contingent expenses.For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, magazines, and other supplies which represent greater educational advantages, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding $1,000 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, $38,000. Electrical rewiring, etc.For electrical rewiring and new fixtures for two of the old buildings on the Conduit Road site, $3,000. medical charitiesMedical charities. Care of indigent patients at designated hospitals, etc.For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Board of Charities with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Freedmen’s Hospital, $42,500. Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $17,000. Children’s Hospital, $20,000. Providence Hospital, $17,000. Garfield Memorial Hospital, $15,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $23,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casually Hospital, $10,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $5,000. Georgetown University Hospital, $5,000. George Washington University Hospital, $5,000. columbia hospital and lying-in asylumColumbia Hospital 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, $14,500, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. tuberculosis hospitalTuberculosis Hospital. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $50,580. 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, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $55,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $8,000. 1243 Gallinger Municipal HospitalGallinger Hospital, Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $170,000. For maintenance, maintenance of horses and horse-drawn vehicles,Maintenance. books of reference and periodicals, not to exceed $50, and all other necessary expenses, $134,400. For repairs to buildings, $5,000.Repairs. Child-Caring InstitutionsChild-caring institutions. board of children’s guardiansBoard of Children’s Guardians. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placingAdministration 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 shallLimit on visitation of wards. 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 ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $51,300. For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored),Feeble-minded children. $37,500. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianshipBoard, etc., of children. of said board by the courts of the district, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 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 authorizedAdvances 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. district training schoolDistrict Training School. For continuing construction of the home and school for feeble-mindedContinuing construction of, for feeble-minded persons.Vol. 42, p. 1360. persons, as authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved February 28, 1923, by day labor or otherwise as the commissioners may consider to be most advantageous to the District of Columbia, $170,000; for maintenance, salaries, and otherMaintenance, etc.*Ante*, p. 1135. necessary expenses, including the maintenance of a nonpassengercarrying motor vehicle, and the purchase of a one-ton motor truck at not to exceed $1,500, and the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, $18,300; in all, $188,300. 1244 industrial home school for colored children Industrial Home for Colored Children.Salaries.Maintenance, etc.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $24,000; temporary labor, $500; in all, $24,500. For maintenance, including horses, wagons, and harness, $21,450. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. Manual-training equipment.Deposit of receipt from sale of products.For manual-training equipment and materials, $1,250. All moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board or of instruction or otherwise shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and to the credit of the District of Columbia in the manner provided by law. industrial home schoolIndustrial Home School. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $19,300; temporary labor, $400; in all, $19,700. Maintenance.For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, $24,600, Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $5,500. home for aged and infirmHome for Aged and Infirm. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $40,680; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $42,680. 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, $50,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000. MiscellaneousMiscellaneous. municipal lodging house and wood yard Municipal lodging house.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $3,060; maintenance, $2,880; in all, $5,940. temporary home for union ex-soldiers and sailors (department of the potomac, g. a. r.) Grand Anny soldier, etc., home.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $3,060; maintenance, $6,000; in all, $9,060, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners; and Union ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Civil War, ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Spanish War, Philippine Insurrection, or China Relief Expedition. and soldiers, sailors, or marines of the World War or who served prior to July 2, 1921, shall be admitted to the home, all under the supervision of a Board of Management. 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 1245Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Charities, $10,000. national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind,National Library for the Blind. located at eighteen hundred D Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. columbia polytechnic institute To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, locatedColumbia Polytechnic Institute. at eighteen hundred and eight H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $1,500. saint elizabeths hospitalSaint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia inSupport of District indigent insane in. Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $900,000. nonresident insane For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordanceDeporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811 with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899, $5,000. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of theAdvances to Board of Charities. District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding $300 at one time, to be used only for deportation of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. relief of the poor For relief of the poor, including pay of physicians to the poorRelief of the poor. at not exceeding $1 per day each, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Charities, $8,000. For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An Act makingPayment 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 menEx-service men. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, orBurial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc. in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent Union ex-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, $600. 1246 transportation of indigent persons Transporting paupers.For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $2,000. MILITIAMilitia. Expenses authorized.For the following, to be expended under the authority and directions of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Camps, drills, etc.For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments, damages to private property incident to 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, $24,000. Rent, etc.For rent of armories and drill halls, $10,000. For printing, stationery, and postage, $750. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $1,200. 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 RIVER AND FLATS Anacostia Park.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, $170,000, Division of expenditures.of which amount $145,000 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 GROUNDSPublic buildings and grounds. office of public buildings and grounds Personal services.*Ante*, p.983.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $61,540. contingent expenses Contingent expenses.For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional and scientific books and technical periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $800. park policePark police. Salaries.Salaries: For the pay and allowances of the United States park Ante, p. 175.police force, including motor-vehicle allowance for the superintendent of said force, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to 1247fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the lire department of the District of Columbia,” approved May 27, 1924, $127,446. For purchase, repair, and exchange of bicycles and revolvers forPurchase of equipment. etc. park police and for purchase of ammunition, $800. For purchase, maintenance, repair, operation, and exchange of motor cycles for park police, $4,850. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, $5,800.Uniforms. improvement and care of public grounds For improvement and care of public grounds in the DistrictImprovement and care of grounds.Services and expenses. of Columbia, including foremen, gardeners, mechanics, skilled and unskilled laborers, maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of not to exceed four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, the purchase of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to cost not exceeding $700, and the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor cycles and bicycles for division foremen, $431,100. For continuing construction of tourists’ camp on its present siteTourists camp, Potomac Park. in East Potomac Park, $50,000; for maintenance of such camp, $5,000; in all, $55,000. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in conditionOutdoor sports. for outdoor sports, $19,460. For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps whichUnion Station pumps. operate the three fountains on the Union Station Plaza, $4,350. The unexpended balance of the sum of $50,000 and the appropriationBalances for bathing beach, Potomac Park, covered into the Treasury.*Ante*, p. 698. of $25,000 provided in the second deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, for the construction and maintenance of the bathing beach and bathhouse on the west shore of the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park are hereby directed to be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia. For expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in theBand concerts. public parks, $3,000. For improvement and maintenance as a recreation park of sectionRecreation section, Anacostia Park. D, Anacostia Park, between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Anacostia Bridge, $63,060. For the construction of shelter and comfort station in Rock CreekRock Creek Park.Shelter, etc., station. Park, $10,000. For widening the Inlet Bridge, West Potomac Park, $20,000.Potomac Park.Widening Inlet bridge.Lighting public grounds. Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, watchmen’s lodges, offices, garages, shops, storehouses, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $37,480. For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at theHeating offices, etc. propagating gardens, $6,000. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK COMMISSIONNational Capital Park Commission. For each and every purpose requisite for and incident to the workIncidental, etc., expenses of. of the National Capital Park Commission as authorized by section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development*Ante*, p.463. of the park and playground system of the National Capital,” approved June 6, 1924, including not to exceed $9,120 for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $600,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARKNational Zoological Park. For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage;Expenses. grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting 1248 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 Uniforms for park police.exceeding $1,000 for purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $157.000. WATER SERVICEWater 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 appropriation 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 available immediately and to *Provisos.*Contracts authorized.remain available until expended, $2,500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into contracts for materials and work necessary to the construction of said project, to be paid for as appropriationsCost limited. may from time to time be made, not to exceed in the *Ante*, p. 575.aggregate the sum of $9,169,000, including all appropriations and contract authorizations herein and heretofore made: *Provided further*,Restriction on bids and contracts. That no bid in excess of the estimated cost for that portion of the work or plant covered by the bid shall be accepted, nor shall any contract for any portion of the work, material, or equipment to constitute a part of the plant for which this appropriation is available be valid unless the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall have certified thereon that all its terms are within the requirements of the authorization and the revised estimates for the work. Following su wholly from water venues.The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department for expenses of the Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of water department, namely: washington aqueductWashington Aqueduct. Maintenance, etc., of, reservoir, tunnel, filtration plant, etc.For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, purchase, installation and maintenance of water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $192,210. Lieutenant John R. Hardin.Credit allowed in accounts of.The General Accounting Office is authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of Lieutenant John R. Hardin. Engineer Corps, United States Army, for the month of August, 1923, covering payment for a motor vehicle purchased under the appropriation, “Washington Aqueduct, D. C., 1924.” Conduit Road.For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, $5,000. Emergency fund.For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break requiring immediate repairs in one of the more important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery, $5,000; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. Control of Secreta of War not affected.Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations anil expenditures therefor as now provided by law. 1249 water departmentWater department. For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personalPersonal services. services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $129,710. For maintenance of the water department distribution system,Operation expenses. including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, water meters, and all buildings and accessories, and the purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and 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, $447,000. For extension of the water department distribution system, layingDistribution expenses. of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $175,000. The rates of assessment for laying or constructing water mainsAssessments for laying mains and sewers, for fiscal year.Vol. 33, p. 244. 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 1926. For installing water meters on services to private residences andWater meters in private residences, etc. business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $30,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, machinery, and appurtenancesHydrants. required for necessary extensions, $23,000. For six thousand one hundred feet of sixteen-inch main inNew mains. Nebraska Avenue from Wisconsin Avenue to Forty-fifth Street, and south in Forty-fifth Street to a point between Klingle and Lowell Streets northwest, $50,000. For three thousand five hundred and fifty-six feet of thirty-inch main in Rhode Island Avenue northeast, between Sixteenth Street and Queens Chapel Road northeast, $70,000. For five thousand eight hundred feet of sixteen-inch main in Allison Street, from Illinois Avenue to New Hampshire Avenue and northeast in New Hampshire Avenue to North Capitol Street, $48,000. For laying six thousand five hundred feet of sixteen-inch main in Grant Street from Forty-eighth to Fiftieth Streets; Fifty-third Street from Grant to Foote Streets; Foote Street from Fifty-third to Fifty-sixth Streets; Fifty-sixth Street from Foote to Dix, and east in Dix Street to Eastern Avenue, $42,000. For laying one thousand two hundred feet of sixteen-inch main in I Street from Sixth to Eighth Streets, and south in Eighth Street to H Street northwest, $13,000. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,Construction work under Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed. transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street-cleaning or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary 1250expenditures 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 $165,000 during the fiscal year 1926. Temporary laborers, mechanics, 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, and any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. Horses, vehicles, etc.Special authority from Commissioners for using. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall Report.be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in the budget estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in *Proviso.*Temporary work for excavations.stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. Water department.Engineers, draftsmen, etc., temporarily employed. That the services of assistant engineers, draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and the commissioners in their budget estimates shall report the number of such *Proviso.*Limit.employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $25,000 during the fiscal year 1926. Temporary laborers, etc.The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required 1251in 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. That any person employed under any of the provisions of thisPersons employed ten months allowed leave with pay. Act and of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925, who has been employed for ten consecutive months or more, shall not be denied the leave of absence with pay for which*Proviso.*Positions filled twelve months consecutively considered regular employments. the law provides: *Provided*, That estimates of appropriations for the District of Columbia shall include provision for those positions which have been filled continuously for twelve consecutive months or more as regular and not temporary employments, if, in the judgment of the commissioners, such employments will be filled through-out the fiscal year for which the estimates are submitted. Sec. 5. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in theMiscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368. execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, two bookkeepers in the auditor’s office, clerk in the office of the collector of taxes, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire therefor motor trucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the commissioners, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, and including maintenance of motor vehicles, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Sec. 6. That the commissioners and other responsible officials,Materials, supplies, vehicles, etc.Purchases of directed from stock of Government activities no longer needed by them. 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 longer required because of the cessation of war activities. It shallDuty before purchasing elsewhere. 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 described that are serviceable. And articles purchased from thePrice stipulation. Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various Sales authorized.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, March 3, 1925.
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