Chapter 271. Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such
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CHAP. 271.— 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, 1928, and for other purposes.March 2, 1927. [[H. R. 16800](/us/bill/69/hr/16800).] [[Public, No. 688](/us/pl/69/688).] *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.
That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, 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 eachRevenues from activities from all sources to be credited to the District. contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $9,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1927, and all the remainder out of the combined revenues of tire District of Columbia and such advances from the Federal Treasury as areAdvances.Vol. 42, p. 668. 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, $43,240, plus so much as may be necessary to make salary of engineer commissioner $7,500: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.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 which onlyIf only one position in grade.Advances for unusually meritorious cases. one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shallRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services. not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanicalNo reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490. service;
(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)to require the reduction in salaryTransfers to another position without reduction. 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 ofPayment under higher rates permitted. a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923 and is specifically authorized by other law; 1298 Purchasing division.Purchasing division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $50,000; Building inspection division.Building inspection division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $105,520; Plumbing inspection division.Plumbing inspection division : For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $28,500; for temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, $4,000; two members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all, $32,800; In all, executive office, $231,560. care of district buildingDistrict Building. Operating force, etc.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $47,260; services of cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 48 *Proviso*.Assistant engineers.cents per hour, $14,000; in all, $61,260: *Provided*, That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Building. Operating expenses.For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor not to exceed $5,000, and miscellaneous supplies, including not to exceed $2,000 for new air compressor for pneumatic tube system, $35,000. assessor’s office Assessor’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $171,120; temporary clerk hire, $3,000; in all, $174,120. license bureau License bureau.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $17,640; temporary clerk hire, $1,500; in all, $19,140. collector’s office Collector’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $38,600. auditor’s officeAuditor’s office. Other position permitted dispursing officer.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $88,640, and the compensation of the present incumbent of the position of disbursing officer of the District of Columbia shall be exclusive of his compensation as United States property and disbursing officer for the National Guard of the District of Columbia. office of corporation counsel Corporation counsel’s office.*Ante*, p. 920.Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, $7,500, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $38,460; in all, $45,960. coroner’s office Coroner’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $8,960. 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, $3,000. 1299 office of superintendent of weights, measures, and marketsOffice of superintendent of weights, etc. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofPersonal services. 1923, $39,980. For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in connectionInspections, etc. with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $500. For maintenance and repairs to markets, including salary ofMarkets, etc. engineer for refrigerating plant at not exceeding $1,200 per annum, $9,000. For maintenance and repair of five motor trucks, $1,600.Motor vehicles. For the exchange of two non passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $1,200, to be available immediately. highways department For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofHighways department. 1923, $192,220. sewer department For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofSewer department. 1923, $173,720. trees and parking department For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofTrees and parking department. 1923, $18,820. office of chief clerk, engineer department For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofEngineer department, office of chief clerk. 1923, $24,000. central garage For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofCentral garage. 1923, $4,800. municipal architect’s office For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofMunicipal architect’s office. 1923, $42,020. For the purchase of two one-ton dump trucks, $1,300. 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 2½ per centum of the amount of the appropriation made for each project. public utilities commissionPublic Utilities Commission. For two commissioners at $7,500 each; people’s counsel, $7,500;Commissioners, people’s counsel, and personnel. and for other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923; in all, $69,540; and no part of this appropriation shall*Ante*, p. 920. be available for the compensation of any person giving less than full time from nine o’clockTime requirement. antemeridian to four thirty o’clock postmeridian to his official duties. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorizedIncidental expenses. by law, $4,000. board of examiners, steam engineers Salaries: Three members, at $150 each, $450.Examiners, steam engineers. 1300 department of insurance Insurance department.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $17,600. surveyor’s office Surveyor’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act Temporary employees.of 1923, $67,860; services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, $5,000, no part of which shall be expended without the written authority of the commissioners; in all, $72,860. Revision of highway plans.For revision of the highway plan, including the surveying and permanent marking on the ground of the system of highways, $3,000. district of columbia employees’ compensation fundEmployees Compensation Fund. Payment for injuries,For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to Vol. 41, p. 104.the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the Vol. 39, p. 742.provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $15,000. office of the director of trafficDirector of traffic. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $25,300. Necessary expensesFor purchase, installation, and maintenance of traffic lights, signals, controls, and markers, painting white lines, labor, city planning in relation to traffic regulation and control, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the commissioners, $70,000 Former appropriation available.and the appropriation of fees received for reissuing motor-vehicle *Ante*, p. 420.operators’ permits, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, is continued available until *Proviso*.Not available for street car loading platforms, etc.December 31, 1927: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act or that is now available shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining street-car loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. free public libraryPublic Library. Regular personnel.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $211,520. Substitutes, etc.For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at the discretion of the librarian, $6,000: *Provided*, That no money *Proviso*.Library stations, restriction.appropriated by this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations not now in operation, but this restriction shall not apply to the Eastern High School subbranch. Sunday, etc., opening.For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $3,000. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $35,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Advances for book purchases.That the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the librarian of the free Public Library, upon requisition previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not exceeding $25 at the first of each month, to be expended for the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, numbers of periodicals or newspapers, and to be accounted for on itemized vouchers. 1301 For binding, including necessary personal services, $13,500.Binding. For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting upContingent expenses. buildings, lunch-room equipment; care of grounds; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $2$),000. For rent of suitable quarters for branch library in Chevy Chase,Chevy Chase branch.Rent. $2,400. register of willsRegister of Wills. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1023, $65,720. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing,Contingent expenses, etc.*Ante*, p. 322. typewriters, towels, towel service, window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, and including $4,000 to be available immediately for the purchase and installation of a photostat machine and accessory equipment, $10,000. recorder of deedsRecorder of Deeds. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $96,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including telephoneContingent expenses, etc.*Ante*, p. 322. service, printing, binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records, typewriters, towels; towel service, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto; books of reference, law books and periodicals, street-car tokens, postage, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $15,000. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $14,000.Rent of offices. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSESContingent expenses. For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals,Objects specified. stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; purchase of laboratory apparatus and equipment and maintenance of laboratory in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice, repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800 in the aggregate; traveling expenses not to exceed $3,000, including not exceeding $1,000 for payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe buddings; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, $50,000: *Provided*, That no part of this or any*Proviso*.Printing list of supplies schedules forbidden. other appropriation contained in this Act or of any appropriation which may now be available shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded. For printing all annual and special reports of the government ofPrinting reports for fiscal year 1927. the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for submission to Congress, $4,800: *Provided*, That authority is*Proviso*.Discretionary discontinuance. hereby given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to discontinue the printing of any annual or special reports of the government of the District of Columbia in order to keep the expenditures within this appropriation. In all cases where the printing ofPreservation of originals. said reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for public inspection. 1302 Motor vehicles.Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, $72,680; for exchange of such passenger-carrying automobiles now owned by the District of Columbia as, in the judgment of the commissioners of said District, Purchases allowed.have or shall become unserviceable, $10,000; and for the purchase of passenger-carrying automobiles as follows; Surface division, two, $900; sewer division, one, $450; electrical department, one, $450; office of director of traffic, one, $1,500; assessor’s office, one, $450; assessor’s office, one, $1,800; executive office, one, $2,500; in all, $90,730. 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, $13,000. 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 restriction.*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 from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Expenses of horses, etc., limited.Appropriations in this Act shall not be expended for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for the use of the commissioners, or for the purchase or maintenance of horses or horse-drawn vehicles for inspection or other purposes for those officials or employees provided with motor vehicles. Using other appropriations for horses, forbidden.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized. Fire insurance prohibited.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones allowed at residences of designated officials.Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the street-cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, Director of Public Welfare, 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, the superintendent of machinery and the fire marshal, under appropriations contained Connections permitted.in this Act. The commissioners may connect any or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia or to both of such systems. Postage.For postage for strictly official mail matter, $21,000. Car fares, etc.The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street-car and bus 1303fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Limit. expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $8,000: *Provided further*, That the provisions ofFiremen and police excepted. this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, theJudicial expenses. printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $5,000. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forGeneral advertising. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $6,500. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1927, as requiredTaxes in arrears.Vol. 30, p. 250. to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $6,000: *Provided*, That the printing of tax-sale pamphlets *Provisos*.Tax sale pamphlet discontinued.shall be discontinued and in lieu thereof the notice of sale and the delinquent tax list shall hereafter be advertised once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one morning and one evening newspaper published in the District of Columbia; and notice shall be given, byAdvertising delinquent tax in newspapers. advertising twice a week for two successive weeks in the regular issue of two daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia, that such delinquent tax list has been published in two daily news-papers, giving the name of each and the dates and the issues containing said list, and such notice shall be published in the two weeks immediately following the week in which the delinquent tax list shall have been published: *Provided further*, That competitive proposalsCompetitive proposals for publishing list. shall be invited by the commissioners from the several newspapers published in the District of Columbia for publishing the said delinquent tax list. employment service For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expensesEmployment service expenses. required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $9,880. historical places For erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in theHistorical tablets. District of Columbia, $500. emergency fundEmergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence,Expenses under, restricted. public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, $4,000: *Provided*, That in making purchases under this fund not*Proviso*.Purchases. more than the market price shall be paid, and all bids above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market as may, in the judgment of the commissioners, be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. refund of erroneous collectionsRefund of erroneous collections. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments,Payments authorized from. school tuition charges, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion required by law, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permitsBuilding permits.Vol. 36, p. 967. authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved 1304*Proviso*.Prior years.March 2, 1911, $3,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. Conference on Uniform State Laws.To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, $250. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIRStreets, etc., improvement and repair. Assessment and permit work.For assessment and permit work, including maintenance of non passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $300,000. Paving roadways.For paving roadways under the permit system, $50,000. 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 nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, as follows: Seventh Street NW.Northwest: For paving Seventh Street, Decatur Street to Hamilton Street, $19,800; Hamilton Street NW.Northwest: For paving Hamilton Street, Seventh Street to Illinois Avenue, $9,900; Eighth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Eighth Street, Emerson Street to Hamilton Street, $11,000; Gallatin Street NW.Northwest: For paving Gallatin Street, Fifth Street to Illinois Avenue, $15,400; Illinois Avenue NW.Northwest: For paving Illinois Avenue, Gallatin Street to Hamilton Street, $5,600; Emerson Street NW.Northwest: For paving Emerson Street, Kansas Avenue to Illinois Avenue, $9,900; Fourth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Fourth Street, Buchanan Street to Decatur Street, $10,200; Hawthorne Street NW.Northwest: For paving Hawthorne Street, Forty-fourth Street to Forty-fourth Place, $6,000; Forty-fourth Place NW.Northwest: For paving Forty-fourth Place, Hawthorne Street to Cathedral Avenue, $4,900; Decatur Street NW.Northwest: For paving Decatur Street, Fourth Street to Fifth Street, $6,600; Taylor Street NE.Northeast: For paving Taylor Street, Twelfth Street to Michigan Avenue, $10,500; Thirteenth Street NE.Northeast: For paving Thirteenth Street, Michigan Avenue to Upshur Street, $6,100; Twelfth Place NE.Northeast: For paving Twelfth Place, Taylor Street to Upshur Street, $4,500; Twenty-second Street NE.Northeast: For paving Twenty-second Street, Monroe Street to Otis Street, $10,000; Thirteenth Street SE.Southeast: For paving Thirteenth Street, S Street to Good Hope Road, $6,300; West Virginia Avenue NE.Northeast: For paving West Virginia Avenue, Penn Street to Holbrook Terrace, $7,400; Grading, etc.For grading, including necessary culverts, drains, and retaining walls, the following: Tennyson Street NW.Northwest: Tennyson Street, Thirty-third Street to lot 28, square 2006, $3,200; Jay Street NE.Northeast: Jay Street, Forty-fourth Street to Forty-sixth Street, $3,000; Evarts Street NE.Northeast: Evarts Street, Third Street to Fourth Street, $4,200; Forty-fourth Street NW.Yuma Street NW.Northwest: Forty-fourth Street, Windom Place to Yuma Street and Yuma Street, Forty-fourth Street to Forty-fifth Street, $4,100; 1305 North Dakota Avenue NW.Northwest: North Dakota Avenue, North Capitol Street to Third Street, $4,800; Spring Road NW.Northwest: Spring Road, Tenth Street to Thirteenth Street, $2,000; Fifty-seventh Street NE.Northeast: Fifty-seventh Street, Blaine Avenue to Dix Street, $5,000; Fifty-fifth Street NE.Northeast: Fifty-fifth Street, Foote Street to Saint Catherine Street, $800; Grant Street NE.Northeast: Grant Street, Fiftieth Street to Rustic Place, $900; Sixteenth Street NW.Northwest: Sixteenth Street, between Kalmia Road and District line, grading, $22,000; In all, $194,100; to be disbursed and accounted for as “StreetAccounted for as one, fund.*Proviso*.Restricted to specified improvements. improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That no part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street or section thereof not herein specified. gasoline tax road and street fundGasoline tax road and street fund. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets,Paving, etc., streets, avenues, suburban roads, etc., from.Vol. 43, p. 106. avenues, suburban roads and suburban streets, respectively, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, as follows, to be paid from the special fund created by section 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: For repaving and resurfacing sheet asphalt and asphalt-blockRepaving and resurfacing old asphalt pavements. pavements over thirty years old, $450,009; For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and guttersPaving, repaving, etc. where necessary, the following: Northwest: Alaska Avenue, Sixteenth Street to Georgia Avenue,Alaska Avenue NW. $68,000; Northeast: Twelfth Street, Rhode Island Avenue to MonroeTwelfth Street NE. Street, $62,000; Southeast: Nichols Avenue, Fourth Street to Upsal Street, $16,000;Nichols Avenue NE. Southeast: Thirty-eighth Street, Alabama Avenue to SuitlandThirty-eighth Street SE.Suitland Road SE. Road, and Suitland Road, Thirty-eighth Street to the District line, $13,200; Southeast: Minnesota Avenue, Good Hope Road to EighteenthMinnesota Avenue SE. Street, $28,000; Northwest: D Street, Twenty-first Street to Twenty-third Street,D Street NW. $13,000; Southwest: Twelfth Street, E Street to Water Street, $3,600;Twelfth Street SW. Northeast: B Street. Fifteenth Street to Sixteenth Street. $5,500;B Street NE. Northeast: E Street, Thirteenth Street to Fifteenth Street, $16,000;E Street NE. Southeast: Massachusetts Avenue, Sixteenth Street to EighteenthMassachusetts Avenue SE. Street, $18,000; Northeast: West Virginia Avenue, Eighth Street to FloridaWest Virginia Avenue NE. Avenue, $13,000; Northeast: Fourteenth Place, North Carolina Avenue to D Street,Fourteenth Place NE. $9,000; Southeast: A Street, Eighteenth Street to Nineteenth Street,A Street SE. $7,000; Southeast: Admiral Barney Circle, Kentucky Avenue to SeventeenthAdmiral Barney Circle SE. Street, $3,100; Southeast: D Street, Twelfth Street to Fourteenth Street, $16,200;D Street SE. Southeast: H Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street,H Street SE. $6,000; Southeast: Ives Place, Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street,Ives Place SE. $5,000; 1306 Sixteenth Street SE.Southeast: Sixteenth Street, Massachusetts Avenue to E Street, $18,200; Seventeenth Street SE.Southeast: Seventeenth Street, A Street to E Street, $30,800; S Street SE.Southeast: S Street, Nichols Avenue to Sixteenth Street, $15,200; Farragut Street NW.Northwest: Farragut Street, Fifth Street to Illinois Avenue, $12,900; H Street NW.Widening, etc.Assessment against abutting property.Northwest: For the widening to fifty feet and repaving the road-way of H Street from Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $10,000. In the widening and repaving of the roadway of II Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets, the entire cost thereof shall be assessed against and collected from the owners of abutting Vol. 38, p. 524; Vol. 39. p. 716.Modifying vault roofs.property in the manner provided in the Act approved July 1, 1914, as amended by section 8 of the Act approved September 1, 1916, and the owners of abutting property also shall be required to modify, at their own expense, the roofs of any vaults that may be under the sidewalk or parking on said street if it be found necessary to change such vaults to permit of the roadway being widened. Piney Branch Road NW.Northwest: West side of Piney Branch Road, Van Buren Street to Butternut Street, $15,000; Van Buren Street NW.Northwest: Van Buren Street, Georgia Avenue to Piney Branch Road, $6,000; Laurel Street NW.Northwest: Laurel Street, Eastern Avenue to Second Street, $5,000; Second Street NW.Northwest: Second Street, Laurel Street to Van Buren Street, $13,000; Van Buren Street NW.R Street NW.Northwest: Van Buren Street, First Street to Subway, $13,000; Northwest: R Street, Thirty-fifth Street to Thirty-seventh Street, $15,000; Thirty-sixth Street NW.Northwest: Thirty-sixth Street, Reservoir Road to T Street, $13,000; Argonne Place NW.Northwest: Argonne Place, Harvard Street to Lanier Place, $7,000; Decatur Street N W.Northwest: Decatur Street, Sixteenth Street to Blagden Avenue, $10,000; Upshur Street NW.Northwest: Upshur Street, Sixteenth Street to Arkansas Avenue, $8,500; Fifth Street NW.Northwest: Fifth Street, Decatur Street to Emerson Street, $8,000; First Street NW.Northwest: First Street, Whittier Street to Van Buren Street, $6,000; Crittenden Street NW.Northwest: Crittenden Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $8,000; Klingle Street NW.Northwest: Klingle Street, Forty-fifth Street to Forty-sixth Street, $8,300; Lowell Street NW.Northwest: Lowell Street, Forty-fifth Street to Forty-sixth Street, $8,300; Forty-fifth Street NW.Northwest: Forty-fifth Street, Lowell Street to Cathedral Avenue, $9,600; Gallatin Street NW.Northwest: Gallatin Street, Piney Branch Road to Sixteenth Street, $7,600; Fourth Street NW.Northwest: Fourth Street, Butternut Street to Cedar Street, $7,600; Newton Street NE.Northeast: Newton Street, Eighteenth Street to Twentieth Street, $18,600: Cleveland Avenue NW.Northwest: Cleveland Avenue, Twenty-ninth Street to Thirty-third Place, $50,000; Forty-second Street NW.Northwest: Forty-second Street, Garrison Street to Jenifer Street, $17,200; Eighteenth Street NE.Northeast: Eighteenth Street, Lawrence Street to Otis Street, $15,000; 1307 Twenty-second Street NE.Northeast: Twenty-second Street, Otis Street to Quincy Street, $11,500; Otis Street NE.Northeast: Otis Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Thirtieth Place, $9,200; Sheridan Street NW.Northwest: Sheridan Street, Blair Road to Third Street, Sheridan Street, Fourth Street to Fifth Street, and Fourth Street, Rittenhouse Street to Sheridan Street, $28,000; Highway Bridge.Granite block road-way.For resurfacing the granite block roadway on the south approach of the Highway Bridge within’ the limits of the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $15,000; Grading, etc.For grading, including necessary culverts, drains, and retaining walls, the following: Audubon Terrace NW.*Proviso*.Dedication of land.Northwest: Audubon Terrace, Linnean Avenue to Broad Branch Road, $15,000: *Provided*, That the necessary land be dedicated to make this street one hundred and sixty feet in width; Connecticut Avenue NW.Widening, Dupont Circle to Florida Avenue.Northwest: For widening to eighty feet and repaving the roadway of Connecticut Avenue, from Dupont Circle to Florida Avenue, including the replacement of defective sewer and such alteration as may be necessary to the public park at the intersection of Connecticut and Florida Avenues and S Street, $90,000; Twelfth Street NW.Widening.Northwest: For widening to forty-eight feet and repaving the roadway of Twelfth Street from E Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, $10,000; Thirteenth Street NW.Widening.Northwest: For widening to seventy feet and repaving the roadway of Thirteenth Street, I Street to Massachusetts Avenue, $70,000; Fifteenth Street NW.Widening.Northwest: For widening to sixty feet and repaving the roadway of Fifteenth Street, west of McPherson Square, from I Street to K Street; and for widening to seventy feet and repaving the roadway of this street from K Street to Massachusetts Avenue, $95,000; In the widening and repaving of roadways hereinbefore providedAssessment of 40 per cent of cost of widening, etc., against abutting property.Vol. 38, p. 524; Vol. 30, p. 716. for, 40 per centum of the entire cost thereof in each case shall be assessed against and collected from the owners of abutting property in the manner provided in the Act approved July 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 524), as amended by section 8 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 716). TheVault roofs to be modified. 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 minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to beCurbs and gutters. approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, $10,000; For construction of curbs and gutters and adjustment of road-waysMinor changes in roadways, etc. thereto, $23,400; The appropriation for paving Thirty-fourth Street, MassachusettsThirty-fourth Street NW.Former paving appropriation available. Avenue to Cleveland Avenue, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, is hereby made availableVol. 43, p. 1226. for the purpose of paving forty feet wide that portion of the roadway of Thirty-fourth Street between Massachusetts Avenue and Garfield Street; In all, $1,486,500: to be disbursed and accounted for as “GasolineDisbursements, etc. tax, road and street improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and be available immediately: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Restricted to specified improvements.Assessments under existing law. part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street 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 1308Priority to through thoroughfares.fuels and accretions by repayment of assessments: *Provided further*, That in the performance of the street-paving work specially provided for in this Act priority shall be given to those streets which are more in the nature of through thoroughfares or arterial highways. 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. $50,000. Condemnation.Condemnation: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and for the condemnation of small park areas at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to Small parks. *Ante*, p. 426.be selected by the commissioners, $5,000. The appropriation “Small parks, District of Columbia, 1927,” is continued available until June 30, 1928. Opening streets, etc. for permanent highways system.Vol. 37, p. 950.Exception.Wholly from District revenues.To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension beyond the southern boundary of Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia there is appropriated such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year 1928. to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District *Proviso*.Harvard Street.Awards for widening, payable from.*Ante*, p. 697.of Columbia: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available to pay the awards and expenses under (he Act approved June 7, 1926, entitled “An Act to authorize the widening of Harvard Street in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.” Repairs.Repairs: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and including the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, Street railways pavements.$900,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by Vol. 20, p. 165.section 5 of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. Changing sidewalk widths, etc.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all highways that 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, $12,000. Suburban roads, repairs, etc.For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $310,000, of which sum $100,000 shall be available immediately. Open competition required for street improvement contracts.No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for repairing, resurfacing, or newly paving any street, avenue, or roadway by private contract unless the specifications for such work shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving material as well as in price. Repairs for inferior work, etc., by contractors, required for additional period.In addition to the provision or existing law requiring contractors to keep new pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date of the completion of the work, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall further require that where repairs are necessary during the four years following the said one-year period, due 1309to inferior work or defective materials, such repairs shall be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense. bridgesBridges. For construction and repair of bridges, including maintenanceConstruction, repair, etc. of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $50,000. Highway Fridge across Potomac Fiver: For personal services inHighway Bridge. accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,720; labor, $1,920; power, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $7,860; in all, $19,500. Anacostia Fiver Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies,Anacostia Bridge. and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $6,200. 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. Reconstruction of bridge over Rock Creek at Military RoadRock Creek at Military Road. (bridge numbered 13), $20,000. For construction of a bridge to replace the M Street Bridge overM Street, over Rock Creek.Replacing.*Ante*, p. 837. Rock Creek, including necessary changes in sewer and water mains and including also such sum or sums as may be necessary for personal services, engineering, and incidental expenses, $250.000. trees and parkingsTrees and parkings. 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, purchase and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $90,000. public convenience stations For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensationPublic convenience stations. of necessary employees, $28,000. SEWERSSewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the purchaseCleaning, etc. of three motor trucks at not to exceed $650 each; for operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairsPumping service. 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, $260,000. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $180,000.Main and pipe. For suburban sewers, including the exchange or replacement ofSuburban. one motor truck at not to exceed $4,000, the purchase of one motor tractor at not to exceed $650, and the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $648,890. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $500,000.Assessment and permit work.Rights of way. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $1,500. For continuing the construction of the upper Potomac mainUpper Potomac interceptor. interceptor, $50,000. For beginning construction of the upper Anacostia main interceptorUpper Anacostia interceptor. along the Anacostia River between Benning Road and the District line, $60,000. 1310 collection and disposal of refuseCity refuse. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $124,860. Sweeping, cleaning, snow and ice 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 or motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $475,000. Garbage, ashes, dead 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 expenses, *Proviso*.Deposit of receipts.$900,000: *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia Use restricted.in the manner provided by law: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. Garbage reduction plant.Purchase of land for.*Ante*, p. 657.For the acquisition of property in Prince William County, Virginia, to be used by the District of Columbia for the reduction of garbage, four hundred and fifty-five acres, more or less, $25,000. PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDSPublic playgrounds. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of *Proviso*.Employments restricted.1923, $94,085: *Provided*, That employments hereunder, except directors who shall be employed for twelve months, shall be distributed as to duration in accordance with corresponding employments Vol. 42, p. 1340.provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924. Maintenance, etc.For general maintenance, improvement, equipment, supplies, incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance of motor truck, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $45,000. Public-school grounds during summer.For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open during the summer months the public-school playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners; for special and temporary services, directors, assistants, and janitor service during the summer vacation, and, in the larger yards, daily after school hours during the school term, $23,000. Swimming pools.For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, and necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000. Bathing pools.Bathing pools: For superintendence, $600; for temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, *Proviso*.Double pay restriction not applicable to superintendent.Vol. 39, p. 120.pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $6,880: *Provided*, That section 6 of the legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply to the position of superintendent of these bathing pools during the fiscal year 1928. 1311 ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENTElectrical department. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $104,280. 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, and including the exchange or replacement of one motor truck for not to exceed $2,750, $33,800. For placing wires of fire-alarms, police-patrol, and telephonePlacing wires underground, police patrol, fire alarm systems, etc. services underground, extension and relocation of police-patrol and fire-alarm systems, purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment and expenses, including not to exceed $7,500 for replacingReplacing obsolete types. obsolete type of police-patrol signal system in ninth and tenth precincts, $35,900. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of publicLighting streets, etc. lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 ofVol. 36, p. 1008. the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 and with the provisions of the District of Columbia AppropriationVol. 31, p. 181. Act for the fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, $750,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be*Proviso*.Electric lighting rates. available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. For replacing gas lamps and fixtures and older and less effectiveReplacing old fixtures, etc. 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 therewith, $40,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Proviso*.Contract restrictions. 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 responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. For rearranging and improving police-patrol signal system inImproving system, etc., in fourteenth precinct. number fourteen police precinct and extending telephone system to number fourteen police station house, including the purchase, installation, and relocation of boxes, instruments, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, $4,200. For alterations to police-patrol signal system to provide meansAlterations in police-patrol system. of call signaling in precincts numbered one and six, including labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment and expenses, $1,300. For the erection and equipment of an addition to storehouse, onAddition to electrical storehouse. land belonging to the District of Columbia, in square 298, to be used for the examination, repair, and storage of material and sup-plies of the electrical department, including the inclosing, grading, and improving of the ground, to be immediately available, $9,000. 1312 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 of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Vol. 43, p. 368.Education of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924, $620,000. Clerical, etc., personnel.For personal services of clerks and other employees in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $113,240. School attendance and work permits department.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, $31,500. teachersTeachers. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services of teachers and librarians in Vol. 43, p. 367.accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924, $5,662,640. 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 Exception.to 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.To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, *Ante*, p. 728.entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia,’ approved January 15, 1920, and for other purposes,” $359,000. night schoolsNight schools. Salaries.Salaries: For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $90,000. Contingent.Contingent expenses: For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,500. the deaf, dumb, and blindDeaf, dumb, and blind. Instruction expenses.[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as Vol. 31, p. 884.provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $27,000. Maintenance.For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable Tuition of colored, 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, *Proviso*.Supervision.$5,000: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the board of education. Blind children.Instruction of, under contract.For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into 1313by the commissioners, $10,500: *Provided*, That all expenditures*Proviso*.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 schools, $10,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books,Equipment, etc. equipment, and supplies, $1,000. community center departmentCommunity centers. For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and communitySalaries and expenses.Vol. 43, p. 375. secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924; part-time employees, including janitors on account of meetings of parent-teacher associations and other activities, and contingent expenses, equipment, supplies, and lighting fixtures, $41,000. care of buildings and groundsCare of buildings and grounds. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $575,000. 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, $7,000. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. For the maintenance of atypical, open air, and ungraded classes,A typical, etc., classes. $4,000. For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, $4,500.Tubercular pupils. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercularTransportation. pupils, $3,780: *Provided*, That expenditures for can fares from this*Proviso*.Car fares allowed. fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of car fares covered by this Act. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material,Manual training expenses. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $75,000. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $250,000.Fuel, light, and power. furnitureFurniture, etc. For furniture and equipment, including pianos and window shades,For designated schools. for buildings and additions to buildings and furniture and equipment for additional kindergartens, manual-training shops, cooking, housekeeping and cooking, and sewing schools, wherever located, as follows: Eight-room addition to the Bruce School, $5,806; eight-room addition to the Burroughs School, $5,806; four-room addition to the Amidon School, $2,903; Garnet Junior High School, $48,314; four-room addition to the Smothers School, $2,903; Gordon Junior High School, $48,314; addition to the Langley Junior High School, $11,314; addition to the Hine Junior High School, $5,200; eight-room building at Carlton and Central Avenues northeast, $5,806; four-room building at Potomac Heights, $3,153; eight-room addition and assembly hall to Barnard School, $8,531; six-room addition to the Bryan School, $4,355; eight-room addition to the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School, $15,000; three kindergartens, $3,000; two sewing schools, $1,200; two housekeeping and cooking 1314schools, $3,000; two cooking schools, $3,000; two manual-training Available until June 30, 1929.shops, $3,000; in all, $180,605, to continue available until June 30, 1929. McKinley Technical High.Furniture, refinishing equipment, etc.For furniture and equipment, including pianos and window shades and repair, remodeling, and refinishing of existing equipment, for the McKinley Technical High School, $100,000, and the Contracts authorized.commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the furniture and equipment for this building at a cost not to exceed $450,000. Contingent expenses, cabinetmaker, bags, etc.For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, pay of cabinetmaker, stationery, printing, ice, United States flags, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $3,000 for books of reference and periodicals, $100,000; *Proviso*.No bond for Army supplies to cadets.*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, $10,000. Piano.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 and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including necessary *Proviso*.Exchanges.labor not to exceed $1,000, $175,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in their discretion, are authorized to exchange any badly damaged book for a new one, the new one to be similar in text to the old one when it was new. Kindergartens.For maintenance of kindergartens, $7,000. School gardens.For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $3,000. Nature study, etc., teachers.The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. Supplies for physics, etc., departments.For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, 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, $14,000. Children of Army, Navy, etc., admitted free.The children of officers and men of the United States Army. Navy, and Marine Corps, 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. Repairs, etc., to buildings and grounds.For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric lighting equipment, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, and maintenance of motor trucks, $550,000. Rent.For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stock rooms, $11,000. Fireproof curtains, Central and Dunbar High.For purchase and installation of fireproof curtains for auditoriums at Central and Dunbar High Schools, including necessary structural alterations in buildings, $100,000. Playgrounds.For maintenance and repair of school playgrounds, $5,500. Additional, for school yards.*Proviso*.Use, etc.For equipment, grading, and improving 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. 1315 For repair, replacement, and extension of equipment, furniture,Repairs, etc., furnishings of specified as junior high schools. and furnishings, including pianos, to adapt for use as junior high schools, the old Eastern High School, $5,500; the Jefferson School, $6,000; and the Powell School, $6,000; in all, $17,500. buildings and groundsBuildings and grounds. For the completion of the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School,Garnet-Patterson Junior High. $275,000; For the completion of the construction of the Gordon Junior HighGordon Junior High. School in Georgetown, $275,000; For completion of the construction of the addition to the LangleyLangley Junior High.Addition. Junior High School, $375,000; and the authority to enter into contract or contracts for this addition contained in the DistrictIncrease of cost.*Ante*, p. 434. of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927 is hereby increased by $75,000; For the erection of a four-room extensible building in PotomacPotomac Heights. Heights, $85,000; For the construction of an eight-room addition, including aBarnard.Addition. combination gymnasium and assembly hall, to the Barnard School, located at Fifth and Decatur Streets northwest, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $175,000; For the preparation of plans and specifications for the erectionBrightwood Junior High.Plans, etc. of an extensible junior high-school building in Brightwood, in accordance with the plans of the Macfarland Junior High School, modified as the limits of the site may require, $5,000; For the preparation of plans and specifications for the erectionNineteenth Street and Columbia Road.Plans, etc., for building. of a twenty-four-room building, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site already purchased at Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road, $12,500; For the erection of a sixteen-room building, including a combinationLangdon.Plans, etc., to replace. gymnasium and assembly, hall, to replace the present Langdon School building, $275,000; For the preparation of plans and specifications for a combinationWheatley.Gymnasium, etc., plans. gymnasium and assembly hall for the Wheatley School, $1,500; For the construction of a six-room addition to the, Bryan School,Bryan.Addition. including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $125,000; For the preparation of plans and specifications for the constructionMorgan.Addition, etc. of an eight-room addition to the Morgan School, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $3,000; For the construction of an eight-room addition to the MargaretMargaret Murray Washington Vocational. Murray Washington Vocational School, located on O Street, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $150,000;Addition. For continuing the construction of the McKinley Technical High School,McKinley Technical High. $1,000,000; In all, $2,757,000, of which $50,000 shall be immediately, availableDisbursed as one fund, etc. for the preparation of plans, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Building and grounds, public schools, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund, and remain available until expended and of such sum $300,000 shall be charged to the special fund createdAmount charged to special fund. by the Act entitled “An Act making an adjustment of certainVol. 43, p. 804. accounts between the United States and the District of Columbia,” approved February 2, 1925: *Provided*, That no part of this*Proviso*.Restricted to specified buildings. appropriation shall be used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid orAwarding contracts, restricted. obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, lighting, plumbing, painting, and treatment of grounds, shall not have been 1316awarded in one or a single contract, separate and apart from any other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest responsible bidder complying with all the legal requirements as to a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful *Proviso*.Rejection of bids.performance of the contract; *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the commissioners the right to reject all bids. Purchase of building and playground sites.For the purchase of school building and playground sites, as follows: Locations specified.For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Langdon School, to provide for the erection of a new sixteen-room school building to replace the present Langdon School: For the purchase of land adjoining or in the vicinity of the site on Grant Road now owned by the District of Columbia; For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Peabody School for playground purposes; For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Wormley School for playground purposes; Available until June 30, 1929.*Provisos*.Cost restriction.In all, $37,250, to remain available until June 30, 1929: *Provided, *That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site the cost of which shall exceed the full value assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per Use of balance, if sites not obtainable under price limitation.centum of such assessed value: *Provided further*, That if any of the sites above enumerated can not be purchased under said limitation as to price then any portion of this appropriation remaining unexpended or unobligated by reason of such price limitation may be expended, subject to said limitation as to price, in the purchase of any other land authorized to be acquired in the five-year school Vol. 43, p. 986.building program Act, approved February 26, 1925 (Forty-third Part of 1927 appropriation without price limitation.Statutes, page 986): *Provided further*, That $154,000 of the appropriation contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act *Ante*, p. 435.for the fiscal year 1927 for the purchase of school building and playground sites shall be available until December 31, 1927, without limitation as to price based on assessed value. Western High.Amount for athletic field available without price restriction.Vol. 43, p. 558.The sum of $125,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925 for an athletic field for the Western High School shall remain available until June 30, 1928, without limitation as to price based on assessed value. 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 Doors to open outwards, etc.entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having an excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits Unlocking outside doors.or entrances 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.Vol. 43, p. 174.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 1317United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia,” including compensation at the rate of $1,860 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police department, $2,742,520. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $74,000. miscellaneous For fuel, $8,500.Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and stationRepairs, etc. grounds, $9,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewardsContingent expenses. for fugitives, purchase of modern revolvers and other firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, not to exceed $200 for car tickets, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, and saddles, mounted equipment, flags and halyards, storage of stolen or abandoned property, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expense, $60,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $2,000 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*Proviso*.Army mounted equipment. may, in its discretion, furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required. For purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles and the replacementMotor vehicles. of those worn out in the service and condemned, $55,000. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipmentUniforms.*Ante*, p. 635. prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members or the Metropolitan police, $75,000. For additional cells in the seventh police precinct station house,Cells, seventh precinct. $5,000. For one police patrol speed boat, $6,000, and one heavy-dutyPolice boats. Diesel-engine police boat, $20,000; in all, $26,000. house of detentionHouse of detention. For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detentionMaintenance. 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 transportation, the purchase and maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of building, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies, and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $16,800; for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $14,940; in all, $31,740. harbor patrol For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals,Harbor patrol. $2,000. 1318 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 $590,000 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. FIRE DEPARTMENTFire Department. salaries Salaries, officers, etc.Vol. 43, 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, $1,825,000. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $7,080. miscellaneous Repairs, etc., to buildings.For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds, $25,000. Uniforms.*Ante*, p. 635.Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the fire department, $30,125. Repairs to apparatus, etc.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 *Proviso*.Construction at repair shop.supplies, materials, equipment, and tools, $50,000: *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. Fire boat.For repair and improvement of fire boat, $1,000. Hose and fuel.For hose, $21,000. For fuel, $30,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $30,000. Permanent improvements.New apparatus.Permanent improvements: For two aerial hook and ladder trucks, motor driven, at $15,500 each. For three pumping engines, triple combination, motor driven, $11,000 each. For two combination hose wagons, motor driven, at $8,000 each. For two automobiles at $2,000 each. New company house.For an additional amount for house, site, and so forth, for an Location.engine company to be located in the vicinity of Sixteenth Street and *Ante*, p. 437.Piney Branch Road northwest, $15,657, to be expended under the same limitation as the appropriation of $92,525 for such purposes in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927. Drill tower.For one drill tower and equipment to be located on land owned by the District of Columbia adjacent to number 8 engine house, $20,000. HEALTH DEPARTMENTHealth Department. salaries Salaries.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $156,740. 1319 prevention of contagious diseasesContagious diseases, prevention. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisionsEnforcement expanses.Vol. 29, p. 635. of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, and an Act forVol. 34, p. 889. the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907, and an ActTuberculosis registration, etc.Vol. 35, p. 126. to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908, under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention of Infantile paralysis, etc.Venereal diseases.venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,Vol. 43, p. 1001. approved February 26, 1925, 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 herein-before provided, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital,Smallpox hospital, etc.*Proviso*.Bacteriological examinations. $40,000: *Provided*, That any 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 construction of brick garage for the smallpox hospital ambulance,Garage; smallpox imbalance. $900. For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at GarfieldIsolating wards, Garfield and Providence Hospitals. Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $15,000 and $8,000, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $23,000. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatmentTuberculosis and venereal dispensaries. of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal services, supplies, and contingent expenses, $20,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Volunteer services. That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*, That thisNo pay authorized therefor. shall not 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 orDisinfecting service. compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and contingent expenses, and including not to exceed $350 to provide sewer connections for the disinfecting station, $6,000. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for theDrainage of lots. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19,Vol. 29, p. 125. 1896, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in theAbating nuisances. District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes,Vol. 34, p. 114. approved April 14, 1906, $2,000. For special services in connection with the detection of the adulterationFood, etc., adulterations. of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $100. 1320 hygiene and sanitation, public schoolsHygiene, etc., public schools. Personal services.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification*Provisos*.Day duty, etc., of chief inspector. Act of 1923, $65,800: *Provided*, That the person employed in the capacity of chief medical and sanitary inspector shall, under the direction of the health officer of the District of Columbia, give his whole time from nine o’clock antemeridian to four thirty o’clock postmeridian, to, and exercise the direction and control of the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of the public schools of Division of inspectors and nurses.the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That of the persons employed as medical inspectors one shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, and that of the graduate nurses employed as public-school nurses three shall be of the colored race. Free dental clinics.For the maintenance of free dental clinics in the public schools, $1,000. laboratoriesLaboratories. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books and periodicals, apparatus, equipment/ and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, and including not to exceed $500 for ice machine, $3,000. dairy farm inspectionDairy farms. Inspection expenses.For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including necessary traveling expenses, $5,000. Preventing food, candy, etc., adulterations.For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.Columbia, approved February 17, 1898; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; Pure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768.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 Milk regulations.other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, and an Act to regulate, Vol. 43, p. 1004.within the District of Columbia, the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, and for other purposes, approved February 27, 1925, $1,000. Crematory.For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory, $2,500. Pound vehicles.For maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motor vehicle used in the pound service, $1,750. For exchange of motor vehicle for use in the pound service, $800. Child Hygiene services.Welfare stations maintenance, 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, *Proviso*.Volunteer services.and supplies, $45,000: *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 No payment therefor.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, $50,500. Jurors.Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $2,500. Contingent expenses.For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, binding and 1321rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, repairs to courthouse and grounds, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $4,700. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances authorized for returning, etc., absconding probationers. advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. police courtPolice court. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, including $300 additional for presiding judge, $86,820. For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals,Contingent expenses. stationery, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, type-writers 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, lodging and meals for jurors and bailiffs when ordered by the court, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $9,500. For witness fees, $2,000.Witnesses. For compensation of jurors, $27,000.Jurors. For repairs and alterations to building, $2,500.Building repairs, etc. municipal courtMunicipal court. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, including $300 additional for presiding judge, $55,436. For compensation of jurors, $6,500: *Provided*, That deposits madeJurors.*Proviso*. on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by theDisposition of deposits, on demand for jury trials. court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1312), shall be earned unless,Vol. 41, p. 1312. 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 rent of building, $4,800.Rent. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books ofContingent expenses. reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, lodging and meals for jurors, and for deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court, fixtures, repairs to furniture, building, and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $4,750. supreme court, district of columbiaDistrict Supreme Court. Salaries: Chief justice, $10,500; five associate justices, at $10,000Salaries. each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, $11,160; in all, $71,660. Fees of witnesses: For mileage and per diem of witnesses and forWitnesses.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).*Ante*, p. 323. per diems in lieu of subsistence, and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $33,000. 1322 Jurors.Fees of jurors: For mileage and per diems of jurors, $85,000. Baliffs, etc.Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiff’s 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, $40,580: *Proviso*.Jury commissioners.*Provided*, That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1928 shall not exceed $250. Probation system.Probation system: For personal services, $8,600; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $9,100. 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, $28,296, 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 appealsDistrict Court of Appeals. Salaries, etc.Salaries: Chief justice and two associate justices, at $12,500 each; all other officers and employees of the court, including reporting service, $23,610; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s *Proviso*.Sale of reports.office, $950; in all, $62,060: *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. Building, care, etc.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, $7,020: *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, $780. miscellaneous Support of convicts out of the District.For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; and discharge gratuities provided by law; to be expended under the direction of the /Attorney General, $120,000. 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, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, $8,500. Miscellaneous expenses authorized by Attorney General.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, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, $4,500. 1323 PUBLIC WELFAREPublic welfare. board of public welfareBoard of Public Welfare. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofPersonal services. 1923, $90,460. division of child welfareChild welfare division. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placingAdministrative expenses. and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses. $5,000; and no part of the moneys herein appropriated shall be used for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of Public WelfareLimitation on visiting wards outside the District. 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. For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored),Feeble-minded children. $15,000. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianshipBoard, etc., of children. of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $140,000. To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provideHome care of dependent children. home care for dependent children in the District of Columbia.” approved June 22, 1926, including not to exceed $10,500 for personalExpenses of. services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $85,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended*Proviso*.Balance available. balance of the appropriation of $75,000, fiscal year 1927, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, for this purpose,*Ante*, p. 758. is continued and made available until June 30, 1928. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorizedAdvances to director. to advance to the Director of Public Welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said director by the commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, toLimit 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. jailJail. For maintenance of prisoners of the District of Columbia at theSupport of prisoners, etc. 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, $108,000. workhouse and reformatoryWorkhouse and reformatory. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $15,000. workhouseWorkhouse. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act,Personal services. 1923, $72,540; 1324 Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine, and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, livestock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, $110,000; Fuel.For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, $47,500; Construction, repairs, etc.For construction, dynamite, oils, repairs to plant, and material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $60,000; In all, $290,040, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. reformatoryReformatory. Personal services.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $57,800; Buildings, construction, etc.For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad; for equipment for new buildings; and for material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $73,000; Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, custody, clothing, care, and support of inmates; rewards for fugitives; discharge gratuities provided by law; 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; purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of machinery and other equipment necessary for the manufacture of metal tags, signs and markers, and cast-iron products; purchase of materials and supplies; maintenance and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; supplies and labor, and all other necessary items, $106,000, of which sum $32,000 shall be available immediately; Capitol Grounds.For capture of person committing criminal assault in.For capture of person or persons who committed a horrible crime, to wit: Criminal assault at the Capitol Grounds the night of February 18, 1927, $1,000, to be available immediately; Fuel.For fuel, $10,000; In all, $247,800, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. national training school for boysNational Training School for Boys. Care, etc., of boys Committed thereto.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 Public Welfare with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $42,000. national training school for girlsNational Training School for Girls, Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $31,500. Contingent expenses, etc.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 1325girls, and for maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $35,000. medical charitiesMedical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts toCare, etc., of indigent patients at designated hospitals. be made by the Board of Public Welfare 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, $22,000. Providence Hospital, $17,000. Garfield Memorial Hospital, $17,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $23,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $10,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000. Georgetown University Hospital, $8,000. George Washington University Hospital, $8,000. columbia hospital and lying-in asylumColumbia Hospital. For general repairs and for additional construction, includingRepairs, etc. labor and material, and for expenses of heat, light, and powerBalance reappropriatod for.Vol. 43, p. 566. required in and about the operation of the hospital there is hereby reappropriated the sum of $15,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation “ Support of Convicts, District of Columbia, 1925,” to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. tuberculosis hospitalTuberculosis Hospital. Salaries; For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $55,300. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles, and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $57,500. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, includingRepairs, etc. roads and sidewalks, and not exceeding $10,000 for inclosing porches, $16,000. Gallinger Gallinger Hospital.Municipal Hospital Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $185,000. For maintenance, maintenance of horses and horse-drawn vehicles,Maintenance. books of reference and periodicals not to exceed $50, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, $140,000. For repairs to buildings, $5,000.Repairs. Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expenseIncidental expenses. of commencement exercises, entertainments, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $500. For the purchase of radium, $10,000.Radium purchase. district training schoolDistrict Training School. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $35,000. For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including theMaintenance. maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, and not to exceed $2,700 for the purchase and equipment of one two-ton motor truck, $56,700. 1326 New buildings.For the erection of cow barn and hayloft, including equipment, $9,000. For the erection of two additional dormitories, $150,000. For the construction of implement and tool house, $5,000. industrial home school for colored childrenIndustrial Home for Colored Children. Salaries, etc.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $28,500; temporary labor, $500; in all, $29,000. Maintenance.For maintenance, including horses, wagons, and harness, and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, $21,500. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. Manual training.For manual-training equipment and materials, $1,250. Deposit of receipts from sale of products.All moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board or of instruction or otherwise shall be Ëaid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. industrial home schoolIndustrial Home School. Salaries, etc.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $21,000; temporary labor, $400; in all, $21,400. Maintenance.For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, $24,600. Repairs, etc.*Proviso*.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p, 169.For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $3,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,500 contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926, for “Industrial Home School, repairs and improvements to heating plant,” is reappropriated for immediate use for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, Industrial Home School. home for aged and infirmHome for Aged and Infirm. Salaries, etc.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $43,000; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $45,000. 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, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $50,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000. Laundry equipment.For new laundry equipment, $15,000. municipal lodging house Municipal Lodging House.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $3,300: maintenance, $3,000; in all, $6,300. temporary home for union ex-soldiers and sailors (department of the potomac, g. a. r.) Grand Army soldiers, etc., temporary home.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $3,120; maintenance and repairs to building, $7,500; in all, $10,620, 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. 1327 florence crittenton home For care and maintenance of women and children under a contractHope and Help Mission. to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $4,000. southern relief society For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans,Southern Relief Society for needy Confederate veterans. their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, locatedNational Library for the Blind. at 1800 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 1808 H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000. 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, $1,200,000. nonresident insane For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance withDeporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to tire 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 Director of Public Welfare. District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Director of Public Welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require of said director, 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 medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and for pay ofRelief of the poor. physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the card of Public Welfare, $8,000. For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An ActPayment to abandoned families.Vol. 34, p. 87.*Ante*, p. 758. making 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, $1,000, 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 1328Regular 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, $225. transportation of indigent persons Transporting paupers.For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $3,000. militiaMilitia. Expenses authorized.For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction 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; rent of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; 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, not exceeding $400 for traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings or conventions of associations pertaining to the National Guard, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $35,550. Printing, etc.For printing, stationery, and postage, $750. Contingent expenses, etc.For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $1,200. Target practice matches.For expenses of target practice matches, $2,500. For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be Pay of troops.disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $9,000. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS Anacostia Park.Continuing development.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, $217,500, of which amount $125,000 shall be available for expenditure Purchase of land above Benning Bridge.below Benning Bridge, and not more than $92,500 shall be available immediately for the purchase of necessary land above Benning *Proviso*.Purchase price restriction.Bridge: *Provided*, That the purchase price of any site or sites acquired hereunder shall not exceed the full value assessment last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKSPublic Buildings and Parks. salaries, public parks, district of columbia Salaries.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $347,000. 1329 general expenses, public parksPublic parks. General expenses: For general expenses in connection with theMaintenance, services, anti general expenses. maintenance, care, improvement, furnishing of heat, light, and power of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagating gardens, and greenhouses under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, including $5,000 for the maintenance of the tourists’ camp on itsTourists’ camp, East Potomac Park. present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of seasonal or intermittent employees at per diem rates of pay approved by the director, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the director; contingent expenses; city directories; communication service; car fare; traveling expenses; professional, scientific, technical, and law books; periodicals and reference books; blank books and forms; photographs; dictionaries and maps; leather and rubber articles for the protection of employees and property; the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of not to exceed four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motor cycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $358,000, together with the sum of $77,000 of the unobligatedAdditional from street improvements, 1925, reappropriated.Vol. 43, p. 1224.*Provisos*.Outdoor sports. balance of the appropriation “Street Improvements, District of Columbia, 1925,” which is hereby reappropriated: *Provided*, That not exceeding $30,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports; the operation, care, repair, andUnion Station pumps. maintenance of the pumps which operate the fountains in Union Station Plaza; expenses incident to the conducting of band concertsBand concerts.Recreation, Anacostia Park. in the parks; not exceeding $35,000 for the improvement and maintenance as recreation parks of Sections C and D, Anacostia Park between Pennsylvania Avenue and Anacostia Bridge; not exceedingRock Creek and Potomac parkway. $50,000 for the improvement of the Rock Creek and Potomac connecting parkway; not exceeding $95,000 for the improvement ofMeridian Hill Park, etc. Meridian Hill Park, including continuation of construction of the wall and main entrance on Sixteenth Street, the wall on Fifteenth Street, and commencement of construction of the wall on W Street, from Fifteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, together with entrances to the park, and grading, all in accordance with plans to be approved by the Fine Arts Commission; and not exceeding $12,500 for the erection of minor auxiliary structures: *Provided further*, That notArchitectural, etc., services. to exceed $5,000 may be expended by contract or otherwise for architectural or other professional services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923 or civil-service rules, as approved by the director. For the construction of two bathing pools in pursuance of theBathing pools.Construction, immediately available.*Ante*, p. 394. Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of artificial bathing pools or beaches in the District of Columbia,” approved May 4, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 394), to be available immediately, $150,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,500 may be expended by*Proviso*.Consulting engineering, etc., services. contract or otherwise for consulting engineering and other professional services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923 or civil-service rules, at rates approved by the director. For repairing and continuing the construction of a sea wall in thePotomac Park.Sea wall. Potomac River between the north boundary line of Potomac Park and the north building line of G Street, $25,000. 1330 park policePark Police. Salaries.Vol. 43, p. 175.*Ante*, p. 834.Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $140,406. Uniforms, etc.For uniforming and equipping the United States park police Purchase of equipments, etc.force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor cycles, and the purchase and issue of uniforms and ammunition, $13,000. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSIONNational Capital Park and Planning Commission. Incidental, etc., expenses of.Vol. 43, p. 463.*Ante*, p. 374.For each and every purpose requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital,” approved June 6, 1924, as amended, including not to exceed $33,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, and the Act approved April 30, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 374), and not to exceed $200 for printing and binding, $600,000, to remain *Proviso*.Limitation on purchases of sites.available until expended: *Provided*, That not more than $150,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the purchase of sites without limitation as to price based on assessed value and that the purchase price to be paid for any site out of the remainder of the appropriation shall not exceed the full value assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value. Additional from balances of designated appropriations for 1925.In addition to the foregoing appropriation for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission there is reappropriated, subject to the limitation as to price carried in such appropriation which may be paid for property acquired for park and playground Vol. 43, pp. 560, 561.purposes, the sum of $180,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation “Metropolitan Police, District of Columbia, 1925,” and the sum of $120,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation “Fire Department, District of Columbia, 1925,” and the Immediately available.total sum made available by this Act for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission shall be available immediately. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARKNational Zoological Park. Expenses.For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; traveling and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; not exceeding $2,500 for purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, keepers, and assistant keepers; not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $175,000, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. Bird building.For completing the construction of public exhibition building for birds, $53,000. Exhibition cages.For the construction and equipment of exhibition cages within and around the exterior of public exhibition building for birds, $25,000. 1331 WATER SERVICEWater service. Except as hereinafter specified, the following sums are appropriatedFrom water revenues, etc. 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. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees,Maintenance, etc., of reservoir, tunnel, filtration plant, etc. 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, rubber boots and protective apparel, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $192,210. For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenanceConduit Road. of Conduit Road, $5,000. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious breakEmergency fund. requiring immediate repairs in one of the more important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery, $5,000; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendenceControl of Secretary of War not affected. and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personalRevenue, inspection, and distribution branches.Operation expenses. services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $164,000. For maintenance of the water department distribution system, including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, water meters, and all buildings and accessories, and the purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and 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, $7,500; in all for maintenance, $446,500. For extension of the water department distribution system, layingDistribution extension, of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $250,000, to be available immediately. For installing water meters on services to private residences andMeters in residences, etc. business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $30,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, $25,000.Hydrants. For replacement of old mains in various locations, on account ofReplacing old mains. inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and. laying mains in advance of pavement, $50,000. For nine thousand feet of twelve-inch main in Alabama AvenueNew Mains. Southeast, from Branch Avenue to the District line, there is herebyUnobligated balance reappropriated.Vol, 43. p. 553. reappropriated the sum of $42,800 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation “Public schools, District of Columbia, 1925.” For the laying of approximately twenty-one thousand feet of forty-eight-inchAmount immediately available. water main from the intersection of Nebraska and Wisconsin Avenues to Georgia Avenue and Military Road, and for an addition to Reno Reservoir, $700,000, to be available immediately, 1332Part from District revenues.of which amount $363,500 shall be paid from the revenues of the water department and $336,500 from the revenues of the District of Columbia, this work to be done under contract entered into by the United States Engineer office. Water tower, Reno Reservoir.For construction of additional water tower of one hundred and sixty thousand gallons capacity at Reno Reservoir, $60,000. Sec. 2. Construction work, etc., under Commissioners.That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed.inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street-cleaning, or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their Budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, *Provisos*.Limit.and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $20,000 during the Employment period limited.fiscal year 1928: *Provided further*, That, excluding five inspectors in the sewer department employed during the fiscal years 1927 and 1928, no person shall be employed in pursuance of the authority contained in this paragraph for a longer period than nine months in the aggregate during the fiscal year. 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.That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary Special authority from Commissioners for using.for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said Report.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 stables owned *Proviso*.Temporary work for excavations.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 1333conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. The commissioners are further authorized to employTemporary laborers, etc., water department. temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 5. 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 Georgtown 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, including the purchase of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle at a cost not to exceed $650, and including maintenance of motor vehicles for inspection and transportation purposes, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. That any person employed under any of the provisions of thisLeaves of absence for employees employed 10 months consecutively. Act who has been employed for ten consecutive months or more shall not be denied the leave of absence with pay for which the law provides. Sec. 6. That the commissioners and other responsible officials, inMaterials, supplies, vehicles, etc.Purchases of, directed from stock of Government activities no longer needed by them. expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, in accordance with the regulations and schedules of the General Supply Committee or 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. Surplus articles purchased from the Government,Price stipulation. 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 variousSales authorized. services of the Government of the United States are authorized to sell such surplus articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That this*Proviso*.Transfers under Executive order not affected. 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 2, 1927.