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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 44 STAT. · June 30, 1927 · Chapter 276

Chapter 276. 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, 1927, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 276.— 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, 1927, and for other purposes.May 10, 1926.[[S. 2296](/us/bill/69/s/2296).][[Public, No. 203](/us/pl/69/203).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,United States courts.Casualty, surety, insurance companies, etc., may file interpleader in, to determine beneficiaries, of different States.
That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, 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 thatDeposit in registry of court. each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $9,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the 418 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1926, and all the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District Jurisdiction.of Columbia and such advances from the Federal Treasury as are authorized in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSESIf policy not assigned. executive officeIf policy assigned. If payable to beneficiary and not assigned.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $42,840, plus so much as may be necessary to make salary If claimants residents of diff ergot districts.of engineer commissioner, $7,500: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations 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 Issue of process, etc., enjoining suit by claimant tin other courts.rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not Procedure.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 Full power of court.Former laws repealed.Vol. 39, p. 929.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 shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in Vol. 43, p. 976.accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or Prior suits, etc., not affected.a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or (4 ) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, and is specifically authorized by other law; Veterinary division.Veterinary division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $1,800; for medicines, surgical, and hospital supplies, $350; in all, $2,150; Purchasing division.Purchasing division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $50,800; Building inspection division.Building inspection division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $98,540; Plumbing inspection division.Plumbing inspection division: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $27,940; for temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, $4,000; three members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all, $32,390; In all, executive office. $220,720. case of district buildingDistrict building. Operating force, etc.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $46,660; services of cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 48 *Proviso*.Assistant engineers.cents per hour, $14,000; in all, $60,660: *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 $33,500. 419 assessor’s office For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923,Assessor’s Office $152,240; temporary clerk hire, $3,000; in all, $155,240. license bureau For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofLicense bureau. 1923, $17,520; temporary clerk hire, $1,500; in all, $19,020. For purchase of metal identification tags for horse-drawn vehiclesVehicle tags. used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $17,500. collector’s office For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActCollector’s office. of 1923, $38,140. auditor’s office For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActAuditor’s office. of 1923, $87,540. office of corporation counsel Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as generalCorporation counsel’s office. counsel of the Public Utilities Commission. $6,000, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $34,040; in all, $40,040, and no part of this appropriation shall be availablePay restriction. for the compensation of any person giving less than full time from nine o’clock antemeridian to four-thirty o’clock postmeridian to his official duties. coroner’s office For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActCoroner’s office. of 1923. $7,100. For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor wagonExpenses of morgue, inquests, etc. for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $5,600. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and marketsOffice of superintendent of weights, etc. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $36,860. For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in connectionInspection, etc. with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $300. 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, $1,700.Motor trucks. For the purchase of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $650. engineer commissioner’s office For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActEngineer Commissioner’s Office. of 1923, $407,880. central garage For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActCentral garage. of 1923, $4,700. 420 municipal architect’s office Municipal Architect’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $40,420. Heating plant.For a new heating plant to replace the present worn-out plant at the District repair shop. $1,500. Limit for services of draftsmen, etc.All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal architect in payment for the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, clerks, copyists, and inspectors, employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations, shall be based on an amount not exceeding 2½ per centum of the amount of the appropriation made for each project. public utilities commission Public Utilities Commission.*Post*, pp. 921, 1251.Attorney at law, $5,500, and for other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $40,620; in all, $46,120; and no part of this appropriation shall be available for the compensation of any person giving less than full time from nine o’clock antemeridian to four-thirty o’clock postmeridian to his official duties. Incidental expenses.For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, $4,000. board of examiners, steam engineers Examiners, steam engineers.Salaries: Three members, at $150 each, $450. department of insurance Insurance department.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $17,240. surveyor’s office Surveyor’s office.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $67,220; services of temporary draftsmen, computers, Temporary employees.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, $72,220. Permanent highways system, surveys, etc.For making surveys to mark permanently on the ground the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, $2,000. For revision of the highway plan, $1,500. district of columbia employees’ compensation fundEmployees’ Compensation Fund. Payment for injuries.Vol. 41, p. 104.For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the Vol. 39. p. 742.provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $12,000. office of the director of trafficDirector of traffic. Personal services, and all expenses under.Vol. 43, p. 1119.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923; for purchase, installation, and maintenance of traffic lights, signals, controls, and markers, painting white lines, labor, traffic surveys, city planning in relation to traffic regulation and control, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the 421 commissioners, $100,000, and in addition not exceeding $350,000 of such fees as may be received during the fiscal years 1026 and 1927 for reissuing motor-vehicle operators’ permits, which shall be applied exclusively to the purchase, installation, and maintenance of traffic lights and additional new street lamps and fixtures incidental to such work. free public libraryPublic Library. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActRegular personnel. of 1923, $182,300. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, includingSubstitutes, etc. the conducting of stations in public-school buildings, at the discretion of the librarian, $3,500: *Provided*, That no money appropriated*Proviso*.Library stations limited. by this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations not now in existence. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays,Sunday, etc., opening. $3,000. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, includingMiscellaneous. payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and society publications, $30,000. For binding, including necessary personal services, $12,500.Binding. For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings,Contingent expenses. lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor-delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $20,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and equipment and forRepairs to buildings, etc. new furniture, furnishings, and equipment, $20,000. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSESContingent expenses. For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals,Items specified. stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; purchase of laboratory apparatus and equipment and maintenance of laboratory in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; 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, 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; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets, department of insurance, and Board of Public Welfare, $50,600. For printing all annual and special reports of the government ofPrinting reports for fiscal year 1026 the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, for submission to Congress, $4,800: *Provided*, That, authority is*Proviso*.Discretionary discontinuance. hereby given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to dis-continue the printing of any annual or special reports of the government of the District of Columbia in order to keep the expenditures within this appropriation. In all cases where the printing of saidPreservation of originals. reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for public inspection. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carryingMotor vehicles.Maintenance, etc. 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 422 of said District, have or shall become unserviceable, $12,000; and Purchases allotted.for the purchase of passenger-carrying automobiles as follows: Surface division, two Ford roadsters, $000; two Ford touring cars for the electrical department, $900; one Ford sedan for the Board of Public Welfare, $700; in all, $87,180. 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, $14,976. Use by officials restricted.All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act: *Proviso*.Cost limitation.*Provided*, That with the exception of motor vehicles for the police and fire departments, no automobile shall be acquired under any pro-vision 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 prevent-able 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 hire marshal, under appropriations Connections permitted.contained in this Act. The commissioners may connect any or alt 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, $20,000. Carfares, 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 fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provisos*.Limit.*Provided*, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $8,000: *Provided further*, That the provisions Firemen and police excepted.of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the lire and police departments. 423 For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title,Judicial expenses. the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $5,000. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forAdvertising.General. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $6,000. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1926, as requiredTaxes in arrears. to be given by the Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by aVol. 26, p. 21. charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $5,500. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toRemoving dangerous buildings.Vol. 30, p. 023. authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1899, to pay each member of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed $10 for each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, $500. For copies of such wills, petitions, and other papers wherein titleCopies of wills, etc., to assessor. to real estate is involved, for the use of the assessor of the District, $500. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, including services ofRecorder of deeds.Office rent. cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 30 cents per hour, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $14,400. employment serviceEmployment service. For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expensesMaintenance. required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $9,600. 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 the purchase of all articles provided for*Provisos*.Purchases. in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. refund of erroneous 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 permits Building permits.Vol. 36, p. 967.authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911, $2,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be*Proviso*.Prior years. available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. 424 National Conference en 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., improvements and repairs. 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, $25,000. 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 nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles used in this work, as follows: Paving Thirty-fourth Street N W.Northwest: For paving Thirty-fourth Street, Porter Street to Quebec Street, $4,200; Paving Oak Street NW.Northwest: For paving Oak Street, Ogden Street to Sixteenth Street, $7,600; Paving Seventh Street NW.Northwest: For paving Seventh Street, Allison Street to Sherman Circle, $6,100; Paving Delafield Street NW.Northwest: For paving Delafield Street, Eighth Street to Ninth Street, $6,300; Paving Illinois Avenue NW.Northwest: For paving Illinois Avenue, Grant Circle to Webster Street, $2,400; Paving Jenifer Street NW.Northwest: For paving Jenifer Street, east of Connecticut Avenue, $2.400; Paving Second Street NE.Northeast : For paving Second Street, T Street to Rhode Island Avenue, $2,000; Paving Monroe Street NE.Northeast: For paving Monroe Street, Twenty-second Street to Twenty-sixth Street, $13,800; Paving W Street SE.Southeast: For paving W Street, Nichols Avenue to Fourteenth Street, $11,300; Paving Forty-fourth Street NW.Northwest: For paving Fortyfourth Street, Hawthorne Street to Klingle Street, $14,300; Paving Cathedral Avenue NW.Northwest: For paving Cathedral Avenue, Forty-fourth Street to Tunlaw Road, $6,600; Paving Seventh Street NW.Northwest: For paving Seventh Street, Decatur Street to Sherman Circle, $1,600; Paving Fourth Street NW. and New Hampshire Avenue NW.Northwest: For paving Fourth Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Buchanan Street and west side of New Hampshire Avenue, Fourth Street to Buchanan Street, $5,000; Paving Thirteenth Street N W.Northwest: For paving Thirteenth Street, Shepherd Street to Taylor Street, $5,000; Grading, etc.For grading, including necessary culverts, drains, and retaining walls, the following: Western A venue NW.Northwest: Western Avenue, Tenneyson Street to Thirty-third Street, $5,400; Forty-sixth Street NW.Northwest: Forty-sixth Street. Ellicott Street to Fessenden Street, $1,500; Forty-eighth Street NW.Northwest: Forty-eighth Street, Davenport Street to Ellicott Street, $1,700; Forty-ninth Street NW.Northwest: Forty-ninth Street, Chesapeake Street to Davenport Street, $3,200; Forty-sixth Street NW.Northwest: Forty-sixth Street, Brandywine Street to Brandywine Street NW.Massachusetts Avenue and Brandywine Street, Forty-sixth Street to Forty-seventh Street, $8,800; Sheridan Street NW.Northwest: Sheridan Street, Fourth Street to Fifth Street, $3,400; Fifth Street NW.Northwest: Fifth Street. Sheridan Street to Van Buren Street, $4,000; 425 Northeast: Division Avenue, Grant Street to Sheriff Road, $7,000;Division Avenue NE.Streets in Barry Farm SE.Twenty-eighth Street SE. Southeast: Streets in Barry Fann, $5,000; Southeast: For grading Twenty-eighth Street from R Street southward to the southerly park driveway; along said driveway to W Street; Thirtieth Street anti Thirty-first Street from AlabamaThirtieth and Thirty-first Streets SE.W Street SE. Avenue to W Street and W Street from Thirtieth Street to Thirty-first, $20,000; In all $148,600; to be disbursed and accounted for as “StreetAccounted for as one fund. improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund, and shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That no part of such *Proviso*.Restricted to specified improvements.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, etc., from. avenues, suburban roads and suburban streets, respectively, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, as follows, to be paid from the special fund created by section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicleVol. 43. p. 106. fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved April 23, 1924, and accretions by repayment of assessments: For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and guttersPaving, repaving, etc. where necessary, the following: Northwest: Wisconsin Avenue, R Street to Thirty-fifth Street,Wisconsin Avenue NW. $13,000; Northwest: Pennsylvania Avenue (south side), Washington CirclePennsylvania Avenue NW. to Twenty-fifth Street, $5,000; Northwest: Pennsylvania Avenue (north side), Washington Circle to Twenty-sixth Street, $18,000; Northwest: K Street, Twelfth Street to Connecticut Avenue,K Street NW. $74,400; Northwest: K Street, Connecticut Avenue to Eighteenth Street, $8,800; Northwest: K Street (south of street railway tracks), Seventh Street to Ninth Street, $5,300; Northwest: Woodley Road, Cathedral Avenue to WisconsinWoodley Road NW. Avenue, $52,700; Southeast: Howard Road, end of concrete to Bolling Field,Howard Road SE. $12,500; Northeast: Fourth Street, Central Avenue to Franklin Street,Fourth Street NE. $14,500; Southwest: M Street, Four-and-a-half Street to Water Street,M Street SW. $9,500; Southeast: Third Street, C Street to D Street, $3,300;Third Street SE. Southeast: Third Street, E Street to Virginia Avenue, $7,400; Southeast: Fourteenth Street, Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street,Fourteenth Street SE. $10,300; Southeast: G Street, Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street, $8,200;G Street SE. Southeast: G Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $7,800; Southeast: Sixteenth Street, A Street to Massachusetts Avenue,Sixteenth Street SE. $15,900; Southeast: Eighteenth Street, A Street to B Street, $11,500;Eighteenth Street SE.Sixteenth Street NE. Northeast: Sixteenth Street, East Capitol Street to B Street $15,000; Northeast: L Street, Second Street to Sixth Street, $25,000:L Street NE. Northeast: Orleans Place, Sixth Street to Seventh Street, $4,000;Orleans place NE. Northeast: Morton Place, Sixth Street to Seventh Street, $4,000;Morton Place NE. 426 Illinois Avenue NW.Northwest: Illinois Avenue, Emerson Street to Gallatin Street, $13,000; Webster Street NW.Northwest: Webster Street, Illinois Avenue to Second Stieet, $16,900; Fulton Street NW.Northwest: Fulton Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Thirty-ninth Street, $14,500; Thirty-fifth Street NW.Northwest: Thirty-fifth Street, Prospect Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $75,000; Twenty-fourth Street NW.Calvert Street NW.Northwest: Twentyfourth Street, M Street to N Street, $17,000; Northwest: Calvert Street, Connecticut Avenue to Twenty-ninth Street, $24,000; Varnum Street NW.Northwest: Varnum Street, Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $8,000; Eighteenth Street NW.Northwest: Eighteenth Street, Varnum Street to Webster Street, $5,300; Webster Street NW.Northwest: Webster Street, Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $8,000; Thirteenth Street, NW.Northwest: Thirteenth Street, Upshur Street to Allison Street, $21,000; Eleventh Street NW.Widening, etc.Northwest: For widening to seventy feet and repaving the road-way of Eleventh Street from New York Avenue to Massachusetts Avenue, $45,000, and 40 per centum of the entire cost of such work Assessment against abutting property.shall be assessed against and collected from the owners of abutting property in the manner provided in the Act approved July 1, 1914 Vol. 38, p. 524; Vol, 39, p. 716.(Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 524), as amended by section 8 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Modifying vault roofs, etc.Large, page 716) ; 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; Wisconsin Avenue NW.Northwest: For paving Wisconsin Avenue, Thirty-seventh Street to Massachusetts Avenue, sixty feet wide, including necessary relocation of street-car trades and water mains, refund to be obtained from the street-railway company so far as provided under existing law, $65,000; Minor changes of roadways, etc.For minor changes in roadways and sidewalks on plans to be approved by the Commissioners, District of Columbia, to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, $9,300; Curbs, gutters, etc.For construction of curbs and gutters and adjustment of road-ways thereto, $10,000; Disbursement, etc.In all, $658,100; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road and street improvements and for that purpose shall *Provisos*.Restricted to specified improvements.constitute one fund and be available immediately: *Provided*, That no part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street or section thereof not herein specified: *Provided further*, That Assessments under existing law.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 fuels. street repair, grading, and extension GradingGrading streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase and repair of carts, tools or hire of same, and horses, $50,000, Condemnation.Condemnation: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, $1,000. Small park areas.For the condemnation of small park areas at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the commissioners, $12,500. 427 To carry out the provisions contained in the District of ColumbiaOpening streets, etc., for permanent highways systems.Vol. 37, p. 050. Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1914 which authorize the commissioners to open, extend, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension beyond the southernFourteenth Street extension excepted. boundary of Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, to conform with the plan of the permanent system of highways in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and George-town there is appropriated such sum as is necessary for said purposeWholly from District revenues.*Provisos*.Authority not extended.First Street awards.*Ante*, p. 203. during the fiscal year 1927, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*. That the authority given in the Act of 1914 is not hereby in any way extended: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be available to pay the awards and expenses under the Act approved March 11, 1926, authorizing the widening of First Street between G Street and Myrtle Street northeast. Repairs: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, andRepairs. alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements with the same or other not inferior material, and including the maintenance of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles used in this work, $1,000,000, to be available immediately. This appropriation shallStreet railway pavements be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5 of “An Act providingVol. 20, p. 105. a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorizedChanging sidewalk widths, etc., authorized. and empowered, in their discretion, to fix oi* 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. For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs around publicSidewalks, etc. reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $15,000. For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburbanSuburban roads, re-pairs, etc. streets, including maintenance of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles, $295,000. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shallOpen competition required for street improving contracts. 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 com-petition in paving material as well as in price. In addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractorsRepairs by contractor for inferior work, etc., required for additional period. 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 to 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. For replacing fender and cluster piles, curbs, and strakes, includingFish wharf.Repairs, etc. necessary repairs to concrete substructure at the District fish wharf, $10,000. bridgesBridges. For construction and repair of bridges, including maintenance ofConstruction, repair, etc. nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles, $40,000. For constructing highway guards on the Calvert Street, ConnecticutHighway guards on specified bridges. Avenue over Klingle Valley, and Pennsylvania Avenue southeast bridges, to be available immediately, $25,000. 428 Highway Bridge.Highway Bridge across Potomac River: For personal services in 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, $7,760; in all, $19,400. Anacostia Bridge.Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $6,900. Francis Scott Key Bridge.Francis Scott Key Bridge: For miscellaneous supplies and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the maintenance of the bridge and approaches, including personal services, $2,000. trees and packingsTrees and parking. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nursery-men, repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, purchase and maintenance of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $78,000. public convenience stations Public convenience stations.For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $33550. SEWERSSewers. Cleaning, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the purchase of one motor truck at not to exceed $4,000, and the Pumping service.replacement of one motor truck at not to exceed $650; for operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles used in this work, $260.000. Main and pipe.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, to be available immediately, $175,000. Suburban.For suburban sewers, including the exchange or replacement of one motor truck at not to exceed $4,000, the purchase of two motor trucks at not to exceed $4.000 each, and the maintenance of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles used in this work, to be available immediately, $550,000. Assessment and permit work.For assessment and permit work, sewers, to be available immediately, $400,000. Rights of way.For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $2,000, Anacostia main interceptor.For completing construction of the Anacostia main interceptor along the Anacostia River between the outfall sewer, sewage-disposal system, at Poplar Point, and Benning. District of Columbia, $10,000. Upper Potomac interceptor.For continuing the construction of the Upper Potomac main interceptor, $50,000. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSECity refuse. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $57,560. Sweeping, cleaning, ice and snow removal, etc.For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross-walks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including 429 services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons,Vehicles, etc. harness, and other equipment; maintenance and repair of nonpassengercarrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $450,000. To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of existingGarbage, ashes, dead animals, etc.Collection and disposal of.*Post*, p. 657. 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, $935,000: *Provided*, That any proceeds received from the*Provisos*.Deposit of receipts. disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the manner provided by law: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes orUse restricted. miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDSPublic playgrounds. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofPersonal services. 1923, $94,085: *Provided*, That employments hereunder, except directors*Proviso*.Employments restricted. who shall be employed for twelve months, shall be distributed as to duration in accordance with corresponding employments provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924: *Provided further*, That in the absence in a non pay*Proviso*.Substitutes. status of any member of the playgrounds staff the salary during such absence shall be available to pay a substitute employee; For general maintenance, improvement, equipment, supplies, incidentalMaintenance, etc. and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance of motor truck, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $43,000; For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping openPublic school play-grounds during summer. during the summer months the public-school playgrounds, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners; for special and temporary services, directors, assistants, and janitor service during the summer vacation, and, in the larger yards, daily after school hours during the school term, $21,000; For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, andSwimming pools. necessary expenses of operating four swimming pools, $4,000; Bathing pools: For superintendence, $000; for temporaryBathing pools. services, supplies, and maintenance, $4,500 ; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $0,880. In all, for playgrounds, $168,965. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENTElectrical department. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $95,840. 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, 430 new boxes, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, and including the exchange or rep la cement of one motor truck for not to exceed $650, $33,800. Placing wires underground.For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, handholes, posts for fire-alarm and police Foxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, $5,200. Police patrol system.For extension and relocation of police-patrol system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $3,200. Lighting streets, etc.Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public 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 Vol. 36, p. 1008.expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 Vol. 37, p. 181.and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, *Proviso*.Electric lighting rates modified.$750,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of 87½ per centum of rates heretofore established by law, and rates established by the commissioners in accordance with law, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. Replacing old fixtures, etc.For replacing gas lamps and fixtures and older and less effective electric lamps and fixtures on streets, avenues, roads, and public spaces by improved gas or electric installations, purchase of posts and fixtures of all kinds, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, $40,000: *Provided*, That no part of this *Proviso*.Contract restrictions.appropriation shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. Fire alarm boxes.For extension and relocation of fire-alarm system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor and other necessary items, $12,000, Extending cable system.For purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables to increase the capacity of the underground signal cable system, $8,000. Police patrol system.Extending, to now precinct.For installing police patrol signal system in the proposed number thirteen police precinct and extending telephone system to proposed number thirteen police station house, including the purchase, installation, and relocation of boxes, instruments, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, $4,200, to be immediately available. PUBLIC SCHOOLSPublic schools. Administrative and supervisory officers.Vol. 46, p. 368.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 Education of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924, $630,300. Personnel.For personal services of clerks and other employees in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $109,500. 431 For personal services in the department of school attendancePersonnel school attendance and work permits department. and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924, and the Act approved February 5, 1925, $29,900. teachersTeachers. Salaries: For personal services of teachers and librarians inSalaries.Vol. 43, p. 367. accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924, $5,564,300. No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid toSoliciting subscriptions, etc., prohibited. any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorizedException. by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacationVacation schools, etc. schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $30,000. For payment of annuities, $70,000.Annuities. night schoolsNight schools. Salaries: For teachers and janitors of night schools, includingSalaries. teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $90,000. Contingent expenses: For contingent and other necessary expenses,Contingent expenses. including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and sup-plies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,500. the deaf, dumb, and blindDeaf, dumb, and blind. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb personsColumbia Institution for the Deaf.Instruction expenses.[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 844. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $25,000. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachableColored deaf-mutes. age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners,Tuition of, under contract. $4,500: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the board of education. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in*Proviso*.Supervision. Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $11,000: *Provided*, That all expendituresBlind children.Instruction under contract.*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, $2,000. 432 community center departmentCommunity centers. Salaries and expenses.Vol. 43, p. 375.For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and community secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924; part-time employees, including janitors, and contingent expenses, equipment, supplies, and lighting fixtures, $39,000. care of buildings and groundsCare of buildings and grounds. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $545,000. Smaller buildings and rented rooms.For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $8,000. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. Equipping temporary rooms, etc.For equipment of temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, anti to provide for estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by operation of the compulsory education law, and for purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, $4,500. Tubercular pupils.For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, $4,000. Transportation.For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular*Proviso*.Car fares allowed. pupils, $3,000: *Provided*, That expenditures for car fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of car fares covered by this Act. Manual training expenses.For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $70,000. Fuel, light, and power.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $250,000. furniture Furniture, etc., fur designated schools.For furniture and equipment, including pianos and window shades, 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: Francis Junior High School, $48,314; eight-room addition to Brightwood Park School, $5,806; eight-room addition and assembly hall to Bell School, $8,531; sixteen-room building and assembly hail at Brightwood, $15,061; eight-room building and assembly hall on Calvert Street, $8,531; Cardozo-Randall Junior High School, $48,314; Stuart Junior High School, $48,314; three kindergartens, $3,000; two sewing schools, $1,200; two housekeeping and cooking schools, $3,000; two cooking schools, $2,000; two manual-training shops, $3,000; in all, $195,071, to be available immediately and to continue available until June 30, 1928. Contingent expenses, cabinetmaker, etc.For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, pay of cabinetmaker, stationery, printing, ice, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $3,000 *Proviso*.No bond or Army supplies to cadets.for books of reference and periodicals, $85,000: *Provided*, That a bond shall not be required on account of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. 433 For the purchase of sanitary paper towels and for fixtures forPaper towels. dispensing the same, $5,000. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergartenPianos. schools, at an average cost not to exceed $300 each, $1,500. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the firstSupplies to pupils. eight grades, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the Board of Education, and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including necessary labor not to exceed $1,000, $200,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the*Proviso*.Exchanges. District of Columbia, in their discretion, are authorized to exchange any badly damaged book for a new one, the new one to be similar in text to the old one when it was new. For maintenance of kindergartens, $7,000.Kindergartens. For purchase of United States flags, $2,000.Flags. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenanceSchool gardens. of school gardens, $3,000. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months inNature study, etc. teachers. which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books,Physics, etc., departments’ supplies. and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and normal schools, and for the installation of the same, $13,000. The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy,Children of Army. Navy, etc., admitted free. 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. buildings and groundsBuildings and grounds. For the completion of the construction of the Francis JuniorFrancis Junior High. High School, $267,500. For preliminary studies on plans and specifications for a newBusiness High. school building for the Business High School, $5,000; In all, $272,500, to be disbursed and accounted for as “BuildingsDisbursed, etc., as one fund. and Grounds, Public Schools,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Use restricted to specified buildings. part of such fund shall be used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. For the following, to be paid from the special fund created by thePayments from special fund.Vol. 43, p. 804. Act entitled “An Act making an adjustment of certain accounts between the United States and the District of Columbia,” approved February 2, 1925: For the construction of an eight-room addition, including a combinedBurroughs School.Addition. gymnasium and assembly hall, to the Burroughs School, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $245,000; For the construction of a third-story addition of four rooms toAmidon School.Addition. the Amidon School, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $80,000; For the erection of an extensible junior high school building toGarnet-Patterson School.Junior High to replace. replace the present Garnet-Patterson School building, in accordance with the plans of the Macfarland Junior High School, modified as the limits of the site may require, and including the removal of one or both of the present buildings as may be necessary, $200,000; and 434 the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts, as in this Act provided, for such building at a cost not to exceed $475,000; Smothers School.Addition.For the construction of a four-room addition to the Smothers School, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $85,000; Junior High in Georgetown.For the erection of a junior high-school building on the site purchased for that purpose in Georgetown in accordance with the plans of the Macfarland Junior High School modified as the limits of the site may require, $200,000; and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts, as in this Act provided, for such building at a cost not to exceed $475,000; Langley Junior High.Addition.*Post*, p. 1315.For the construction of an addition to the Langley Junior High School, including an assembly hall and gymnasium, $100,000; and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or con-tracts, as in this Act provided, for said addition at a cost not to exceed $400,000; Hine Junior High.Addition.For the construction of an addition to the Hine Junior High School, $100,000; Pet worth School.Addition.For the construction of a combined gymnasium and assembly hall at the Petworth School in accordance with the original plans for the construction of said building, $75,000; Building, Carlton and Central Avenues.West School.Addition.For the construction of an eight-room extensible building on the site at Carlton and Central Avenues northeast, $160,000; For the construction of a combined gymnasium and assembly hall at the West School in accordance with the original plans for the construction of said building, $75,000; Disbursed, etc., as one fund.In all, $1,320,000 to be disbursed and accounted for as “ Building and grounds, public schools, surplus revenue fund,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund, and remain available until *Proviso*.Use restricted to specified buildings.Restriction on awarding contracts.expended: *Provided*, That no part of such fund 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 or obligated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, lighting, and plumbing, shall not have been awarded in one or a single contract, separate and apart from any other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest 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 performance of the contract: *Proviso*.Rejection of bids.*Provided further*, 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.In Brightwood or vicinity for a new junior high school building; In the vicinity of Fourteenth and Ogden Streets northwest for a new sixteen-room school building; In the vicinity of Sixteenth and Webster Streets northwest for a new sixteen-room school building; In the vicinity of the Morgan School for playground purposes; In the northeast for a new junior high school to serve the BrooklandWoodridge section; In Potomac Heights or vicinity for a new eight-room school building to replace the one-room building on Conduit Road; In the vicinity of Alaska Avenue and Holly Street northwest for a new sixteen-room school building; In the vicinity of the Wheatley School for playground purposes; In the vicinity of the Dunbar High School for drill, athletic, and playground purposes; 435 $703,500, to be available immediately and to remain availableAvailable at once, etc. until July 1, 1928, and of such sum $405,000 shall be charged to the “ Building and grounds, public schools, surplus revenue fund”: *Proviso*.Cost restrictions.*Post*, p. 1316.*Provided*, That no part of the appropriations herein made 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 centum of such assessed value: *Provided further*, That if any of the sites above enumerated can not be purchasedUse of balances if sites not obtainable under price limitation. under said limitation as to price then any of said moneys 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 or all other hind authorized to be acquired in the five-year school building program Act, approved February 26, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 986). The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $154,000Park View School.Balance reappropriated tor sites. contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925, on account of the Park View School, is hereby reappreprinted for the purchase of school building and playground sites authorized to be acquired in the five-year school building program Act, approved FebruaryVol. 43, p. 986. 26, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 986). For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stockRent. rooms, $12,000. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and groundsRepairs etc., of buildings and grounds. and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, and maintenance of motor trucks, $550,000 to be available immediately. For maintenance and repair of school playgrounds, $5,300.School playgrounds. For equipment, grading, and improving eight additional schoolAdditional, in school yards.*Proviso*.Use, etc. yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $4,000: *Provided*, That such playgrounds shall be kept open for play purposes in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the playground department. For repair, replacement, and extension of equipment, furniture,Repairs, etc., of furnishings for specified Junior nigh schools. and furnishings, including pianos, to adapt for use as junior high schools, the old Eastern High School, $8,000; the Jefferson School, $8,000; and the Powell School, $6,000; in all, $22,000. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for inPreparation of plans. 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. The school buildings authorized and appropriated for hereinExits required. shall be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having anDoors to open out* ward, etc. excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance ofUnlocking. school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. METROPOLITAN POLICEPolice. salaries For the pay and allowances of officers and members of theSalaries, officers, etc. Metropolitan police force, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of the Metropolitan police force, the UnitedVol. 43, p. 174. States park police force, and the fire department of the District of 436 Columbia,” including compensation at the rate of $1,860 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police department, $2,720,570. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $74,740. miscellaneous Fuel.For fuel, $8,500. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to police stations and station grounds, $9,000. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for fugitives, purchase of modem revolvers and other firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, not to exceed $200 for car tickets, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expense, $60,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $500 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein *Proviso*.Army mounted equipment.expressed to have been expended: *Provided*, That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required. Flags, etc.For flags and halyards, $200. Motor vehicles.For purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $50,000. Site, tie, for station at Teuleytown.For the purchase of a site and the erection of a building to be known as the fourteenth police precinct station house to replace the subpolice station at Terueytown, District of Columbia, $60,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until July 1, *Proviso*.Price restriction on site.1928: *Provided*, That the purchase price of the site shall not exceed the full value assessment last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum thereof. house of detentionHouse of detention. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detention of children under seventeen years of age and in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any 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 Personal services.expenses, $16,800; for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of '1923, $14,820: in all, $31,620. harbor patrol Harbor patrol.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $8,940. For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $3,500. 437 POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUNDPolicemen, etc., relief fund. To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, aPayments from. sum not to exceed $450,000 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. FIRE DEPARTMENTFire Department. salaries For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, inSalaries, officers, etc. accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries ofVol. 43, p. 175. officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia,” $1,825,430. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act ofPersonal services. 1923, $7,080. miscellaneousMiscellaneous. For repairs and improvements to engine houses and grounds,Repairs, etc., to buildings. $28,000. For repairs to apparatus and motor vehicles and other motor-drivenRepairs to apparatus. apparatus, and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire-department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary sup-plies, materials, equipment, and tools, $47,800: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Construction at repair shop. commissioners arc authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire-department repair shop. For repair and improvement of fire boat, $2,500.Fire boat, repairs, etc. For hose, $22,000.Hose, fuel, etc. For fuel, $35,000. For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil,Contingent expenses. medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $30,000. For installing improved toilet and bathing facilities in houses ofToilet facilities, etc. the fire department, including necessary alterations, $20,000. For traveling and other expenses of a committee to be appointedHigh-pressure installation investigation. by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to consider and report upon the installation of a high-pressure water system in the congested high-value section of the District of Columbia, $3,000. Permanent improvements:Permanent improvements.New apparatus For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $15,500. For three pumping engines, triple combination, motor driven, $11,000 each. For three combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, at $8,000 each. For one automobile for the chief engineer, $3,500. For repairs, alterations, and additions to the fire departmentRepairs, etc., repair shop. repair shop, $11,935. For house, site, furniture, and furnishings for an engine companyNew company house, etc.Location.*Post*, p. 1318. to be located in the vicinity of Sixteenth Street and Piney Branch Road Northwest, including the cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm head-quarters, $92,525, to be available immediately and to remain available until July 1, 1928: *Provided*, That the purchase price of the*Proviso*.Price restriction on site. site shall not exceed the full value assessment last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum thereof. 438 HEALTH DEPARTMENTHealth Department. salaries Salaries.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $151,100. prevention of contagious diseasesContagious diseases prevention. Enforcement expenses.Vol. 29, p. 635.Vol. 34, p. 889.For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907, and an Tuberculosis registration, etc.Vol. 35, p. 126.Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908, under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including Infantile paralysis, etc.their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the Venereal diseases.Vol. 43, p. 1001prevention of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, 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 hereinbefore provided, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, purchase of reference books and Smallpox hospital, etc.*Proviso*.Bacteriological examinations.medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and small-pox hospital, $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. Isolating wards, Gar-field and Providence Hospitals.For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield 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. Tuberculosis and venereal diseases dispensaries.For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal services, supplies, and contingent expenses, *Proviso*.Volunteer services.$15,000: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized:Pay prohibition. *Provided, further*, That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. Disinfecting service.For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and contingent expenses, $6,000. Drainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 439 1896, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in theAbatement of nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114. District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $2,000. For special services in connection with the detection of theFood, etc., adulterations. adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $200. hygiene and sanitation, public schoolsHygiene, etc., public schools. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationPersonal services.*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 o’clock post-meridian, to, and exercise the direction and control of the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of the public schools of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That of the persons employedDivision of inspectors. 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. For the maintenance of free dental clinics in the public schools,Free dental clinics. $1,000. bacteriological laboratoryBacteriological laboratory. For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchaseMaintenance, etc. of reference books and scientific periodicals, $750. Apparatus, equipment, cost of installation, supplies, and other expenses incidental to the biological and serological diagnosis of disease, $750. chemical laboratoryChemical laboratory. For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchaseMaintenance, etc. of reference books and scientific periodicals, $1,000. dairy farm inspectionDairy farms. For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, includingInspection expenses. necessary traveling expenses, $5,000. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an ActEnforcing regulations of food, candy, etc., adulterations.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398. relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportationPure food law. of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleteriousVol. 34, p. 768. foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, and anMilk, etc., regulations.Vol. 43, p. 1004. Act to regulate, within the District of Columbia, the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, and for other purposes, approved February 27, 1925, $1,000. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory,Crematory. $2,500. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the poundPound. service, $400. For equipping, maintaining, and operating the motor ambulance, and keeping it in good order, $750. For purchase, equipping, and maintaining a motor ambulance forSmallpox ambulance. use in removing persons suffering from smallpox to the smallpox hospital or quarantine station for treatment, $2,100. For maintaining a child hygiene service, including the establishmentChild hygiene service.Maintenance of welfare stations, etc. and maintenance of child-welfare stations for the clinical examinations, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six 440 years of age, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, periodicals, *Provisos*.Volunteer services.and supplies, $33,000: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service No pay authorized.herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. COURTS AND PRISONSCourts and prisons. juvenile courtJuvenile court. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $49,856. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $900. For transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, $300. Advances authorized for returning, etc., absconding probationers.The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court, upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. Meals to jurors, etc.For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained at court awaiting trial, $100. Furniture, etc.For furniture, fixtures, equipment, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, $500. Contingent expenses.For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $4,000. police courtPolice court. Salaries.Salaries; For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including $300 additional for presiding judge, $84,570. Contingent expenses.For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painter’s and plumber’s supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $8,000. Witness fees.For witness fees, $2,500. Furniture, etc.For furniture, furnishings, and fixtures and equipment, and repairing and replacing same, $1,000. Jurors, etc.For lodging, meals, and accommodations of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, $200. For compensation of jurors, $17,000. Repairs to building.For repairs and alterations to building. $2,500. municipal courtMunicipal court. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923. including $300 additional for presiding judge, $54,216. 441 For compensation of jurors, $5,500: *Provided*, That deposits madeJurors, etc.*Provisos*.Disposition of déposas on demand for jury triais.Vol. 41, p. 1312. on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. For lodging, meals, and accommodations for jurors and deputyJury expenses. United States marshals, while in attendance upon them, when ordered by the court, $125. For rent of building, $4,800.Rent, etc. For fixtures, repairs to furniture, repairs to building, and repairs to building equipment, to be expended under the direction of the presiding judge, $750. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books ofContingent expenses. reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $4,000. supreme court, district of columbiaSupreme Court. Salaries: Chief justice, $8,000; five associate justices, at $7,500Salaries. each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, $11,160; in all, $56,660. Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and payment of theWitnesses. actual expenses of witnesses in said court as provided by section 850,[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). Be vised Statutes of the United States, $33,000. Fees of jurors: For fees of jurors, $69,000.Jurors. Pay of bailiffs; For not exceeding one crier in each court, ofBailiffs, etc. office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, clerk to jury commissioners, and per diems of jury commissioners, $39,720: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Jury commisioners.Compensation. That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1927 shall not exceed $250. Probation system: For personal services $8,440; contingentProbation system. expenses, $325; in all, $8,765. Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection ofCourthouse.Care, etc., of. the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $27,386, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. For repair’s and improvements to the courthouse, including repairRepairs, etc. and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $7,500, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. court of appealsCourt of Appeals. Salaries: Chief justice, $9,000; two associate justices, at $8,500Salaries. each; all other officers and employees of the court, including reporting service, $23,250: necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $950; in all, $50,200: *Provided*, That the reports of*Proviso*.Sale of reports. 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: For personal services for care and protection of theCare, etc., of building. Court of Appeals Building, including one mechanician, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $6,700: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Custodian. 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. 442 Contingent expenses.For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $800. miscellaneous Support of convicts out of District.For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping 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, $150,000. Lunacy writs.Expenses of executing.Vol. 33, p. 740.For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, $8,000. Miscellaneous court expenses.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $44,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, $4,275. PUBLIC WELFAREPublic Welfare. board of public welfareBoard of Public Welfare.*Ante*, p. 208. Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $80,000. division of child welfareChild Welfare Division Administrative expenses.Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference Limitation on visiting wards outside the District.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 Welfare 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. Feeble minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $37,500. Board, etc., of children.For board and care of all children committed to the guardian-ship 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 $400 443 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $120,000. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized toAdvances to Director. 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 com-missioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. jailJail. Support of prisoners: For maintenance of prisoners of the DistrictSupport of prisoners, etc. of Columbia at the jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, $101,500. workhouse and reformatoryWorkhouse and Reformatory. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $14,650. workhouseWorkhouse. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act,Administration expenses. 1923, $70,240. For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and supportMaintenance, etc. of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine, and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance farm implements, livestock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles; supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, $90,000. For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, $47,500;Fuel. For construction, dynamite, oils, repairs to plant, and materialConstruction, repairs, etc. for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $60,000; In all, $267,740, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. reformatoryReformatory. Salaries For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $50,000; For continuing construction of permanent buildings, includingBuildings, construction, etc. sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad, and equipment for new buildings, $50,000. For maintenance, custody, clothing, care, and support of inmates;Maintenance, etc. rewards for fugitives; 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; maintenance and operation of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles; supplies and labor, and all other necessary items, $55,000; For fuel, $10,000;Fuel, repairs, etc. 444 For material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $4,000; In all, $169,000, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. national training school for boysNational Training School for Boys, D. C. Care, etc., of boys committed to.For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $46,000. national training school for girlsNational Training School for Girls, D. C. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $30,920. Contingent expenses.For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, magazines, and other supplies which represent greater educational advantages, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, typewriting, stenography, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding $1,000 for additional labor or services, for indentifying and pursuing escaped inmates and for rewards for their capture, for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, and for maintenance of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles, $36,000. For the purchase of one-ton motor truck, $1,500. medical charitiesMedical charities. Care of Indigent patients at designated hospitals, etc.For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made, by the Board of 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, $20,000. 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, Repairs, etc.For general repairs and for additional construction, including labor and material, and for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $25,000, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. tuberculosis hospitalTuberculosis Hospital. Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $54,400. Contingent es penses.For provisions, fuel, forage, harness ami vehicles, and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and 445 periodicals not to exceed $50, temporary services not to exceed $1,000, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $56,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, includingRepairs, etc. roads and sidewalks, $5,000. gallinger municipal hospitalGallinger Hospital. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $185,000. For maintenance, maintenance of horses and horse-drawnMaintenance. vehicles, books of reference and periodicals, not to exceed $50, maintenance of nonpassengercarrying vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, $140,000. For repairs to buildings, $5,000.Repairs. Purchase, installation, and repair 'of special apparatus and equipmentSpecial apparatus, etc. for hospital and laboratories, $7,050. Purchase of a reference library, musical instruments and music,Nurses’ training school. expense of commencement exercises, entertainments, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $500. For continuing the construction of the domestic building at GallingerDomestic building and additional ward. Municipal Hospital, and commencing the construction of an additional ward building of not less than 250 beds, including mechanical and other equipment, furniture and furnishings, $300,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are*Provisos*.Contracts authorized. authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the construction of said buildings, including all equipment, furniture, and furnishings, at a total cost not to exceed $1,000,000, which shall include anyLimit of cost. unexpended balances remaining of appropriations heretofore made for buildings at said hospital and the amount herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That of said authorized total cost not less thanLimit for equipment. $75,000 shall be available only for the furniture, furnishings, and equipment of said ward building. district training schoolDistrict Training School. For continuing construction of the home and school for feeble-mindedContinuing construction of, for feeble mind-ed persons.vol. 42, p. 1360. persons, as authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved February 28, 1923, by day labor or otherwise as the commissioners may consider to be most advantageous to the District of Columbia, $100,000; for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $25,000; for maintenance andMaintenance, etc. other necessary expenses, including the maintenance of nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles and the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, $45,000; in all, $170,000. For the purchase and installation of laundry machinery and equipment,Laundry equipment. $12,000. For the purchase of dairy herd, horses, mules, and farm machineryFarm equipment, etc. and equipment, $6,000. For repairs and improvements to dwelling house, barn, and otherRepairs, etc. outbuildings, and fencing of farm. $4,500. For furniture, furnishings, kitchen equipment, and other necessaryEquipping new buildings. items for furnishing and equipping the new buildings, $25,000. industrial home school for colored childrenIndustrial Home for Colored Children. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the ClassificationSalaries. Act of 1923, $27,040; temporary labor, $500; in all, $27,540. For maintenance, including horses, wagons, and harness, $21,450.Maintenance, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500.Repairs, etc.Manual training equipment. For manual-training equipment and materials, $1,250. 446 Deposit of receipts iron, 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 paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. industrial home schoolIndustrial Home School Salaries.Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $20,380; temporary labor, $400; in all, $20,780. Maintenance.For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, $24,600. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $3,000. home for aged and infirmHome for Aged and Infirm. SalariesSalaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $42,640; temporary labor. $2,000 ; in all, $44,640. 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 nonpassengercarrying motor vehicles, $50,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,000. Potters field, for fencing and marking, $1,000. Extension of cow barn, $3,000. For kitchen range, dining-room tables, and other necessary equipment for kitchen and dining room, to be available immediately, $2,000. Power plant.For repairs and improvement to power plant, to be available immediately, $14,000. Electric fixtures.For the rewiring of buildings, and the installation of new lighting fixtures and feeders, to be available immediately, $5,000. municipal lodging house and wood yard 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., home.For personal service in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $3,120; maintenance, $7,000; in all, $10,120, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners; and Union ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Civil War, ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Spanish War, Philippine insurrection, or China relief expedition, and soldiers, sailors, or marines of the World War or who served prior to July 2, 1921, shall be admitted to the home, all under the supervision of a board of management. florence crittenton home Hope and Help Mission.For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $4,000. southern relief society Southern Relief Society, for Confederate veterans.For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. 447 national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind,National Library for the Blind. located at eighteen hundred D Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. colombia polytechnic institute To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, locatedColumbia Polytechnic Institute. at eighteen hundred and eight H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $1,500. saint elizabeths hospitalSaint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia inSupport of District indigent insane in. Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $1,000,000. 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 the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899, $5,000. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the DistrictAdvances to Director of Public Welfare. 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 relief of the poor, including pay of physicians to the poor,Relief of the poor. to be expended under the direction or the Board of Public Welfare, $8,000. For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An ActPayment to abandoned families.Vol. 34, p. 87.*Post*, 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; $1,500, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District. burial of ex-service menEx-service men. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, orBurial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc. in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent Union ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines, of the United States Service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired, and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Sectary of War at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $600. transportation of indigent persons For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veteransTransporting paupers of the Word War and their families, $3,000. 448 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 and drill halls; fuel, light, heat, care and repair of armories and drill halls, offices, and storehouses, practice ships, boats, machinery and dock, dredging alongside of dock, telephone service, horses and mules for mounted organizations, street car fares (not to exceed $200) necessarily used in the transaction of official business, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $36,400. For printing, stationery, and postage, $750. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $1,200. Target practice.For expenses of target practice matches, $2,500. Pay of troops.For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $9,000. anacostia river and flats Anacostia Park.Continuing development, etc.For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, in accordance with the revised plan as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, $170,000, of which amount $145,000 shall be available for expenditure below Benning Bridge and not more than $25,000 shall be available immediately and remain available until July 1, 1928, for the purchase of *Proviso*.Price restriction on sites.necessary land above Benning 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, improvement and care of parks, district of columbia Personal services.For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $342,130. general expenses, improvements and care of parksImprovement and care of parks. Services and expenses.General expenses: For general expenses in connection with the 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, Tourists’ Camp, Potomac Park.including $5,000 for the maintenance of the tourists’ camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of temporary per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Director, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; contingent expenses; city 449 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, $334,660: *Provided*, That not exceeding $160,000 of*Proviso*.Outdoor sports. the amount herein appropriated may be expended for placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports: the operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps whichUnion Station pumps.Band concerts. operate the fountains in Union Station Plaza; expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; the improvement andRecreation, Anacostia Park, maintenance as recreation parks of Sections C and 1), Anacostia Park between Pennsylvania Avenue and Anacostia Bridge; theRock Creek and Potomac parkway. improvement, of the Hock Creek and Potomac connecting parkway and the erection of minor auxiliary structures the aggregate cost of which shall not exceed $15,000: *Provided further*, That not toMeridian Hill Park.Architectural, etc., services. 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, in the development of Meridian Hill Park. park policePark police. Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park policeSalaries.Vol. 43, p. 175. force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, $127,446. For uniforming and equipping the United States park policePurchase of equipment, etc. force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles and mctor cycles, and the purchase and issue of uniforms and ammunition, $11,450. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK COMMISSIONNational Capital Park Commission. For each and every purpose requisite for and incident to theIncidental, etc., expenses of.Vol. 43, p. 463.*Ante*, p. 396. work of the National Capital Park 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, including personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, and personal services of temporary per diem employees at rates to be fixed by the commission not in excess of current rates for similar employment in the vicinity, not to exceed $33,000, and for printing and binding not to exceed $200, $600,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That not more*Proviso*.Purchase of sites. 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. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARKNational Zoological Park, For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage;Expenses. grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; incidental 450 expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to cost not exceeding $750 required for official purposes, not exceeding $1,000 for purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $173,199. Bird exhibition building.*Proviso*.Contracts.For the construction of public exhibition building for birds, $49,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the completion of said building in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the regents of the Smithsonian Institution, at a Cost limit.cost not to exceed $102,000. WATER SERVICEWater service. Increasing water supply.Vol. 42, pp. 94,709.For continuing work on the project for an increased water supply for the District of Columbia, adopted by Congress in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, as modified by the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1923 and 1924, and as further modified by the report submitted to Congress by the Secretary of War December 4, 1923, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be available immediately and to *Proviso*.Restriction on bids and contracts.remain available until expended, $1,500,000: *Provided*, That no bid in excess of the estimated cost for that portion of the work or plant covered by the bid shall be accepted, nor shall any contract for any portion of the work, material, or equipment to constitute a part of the plant for which this appropriation is available be valid unless the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall have certified thereon that all its terms are within the requirements of the authorization and the revised estimates for the work. Following sums wholly from water revenues.The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department for expenses of the 'Washington Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of water department, namely: washington aqueductWashington Aqueduct. Maintenance, etc., of, reservoir, tunnel, filtration plant, etc.For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, purchase, installation and maintenance of water meters on Federal services, vehicles, rubber boots and protective apparel, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $192,210. Conduit Road.For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, $5,000. Emergency fund.For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break requiring immediate repairs in one of the more important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery, $5,000; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. Control of Secretary of War not affected.Nothing heroin shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. Revenue and inspection anti distribution branches.For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $163,460. 451 For maintenance of the water department distribution system,Operation expenses. including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, water meters, and all buildings and accessories, and the purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and for contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books, and periodicals, not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $10,000; in all, for maintenance, $450,000. For extension of the water department distribution system, layingDistribution expenses. of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $250,000. The rates of assessment for laying or constructing water mainsAssessments for laying mains and sewers, for fiscal year.Vol. 33, p. 244. and service sewers in the District of Columbia under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the laying of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of assessments therefor, and for other purposes,” approved April 22, 1904, are hereby increased from $1.25 to $2 and $1 to $3, respectively,Increase in rates. per linear front foot for any water mains and service sewers constructed or laid during the fiscal year 1927. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are directed toWater rents.Scale increased of. increase the scale of water rents in effect in the District of Columbia by 12½ per centum per annum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927: *Provided*, That such increase shall remain in effect until*Proviso*.Continuance. otherwise provided by law. For installing water meters on services to private residences andWater meters in private residences, etc. business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $30,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, machinery, and appurtenancesHydrants. required for necessary extensions, $25,000. For five thousand seven hundred feet of sixteen-inch main inNew mains. Sixteenth Street northwest, from Meridian to Fuller Streets north-west, west in Fuller Street and Columbia Road to Eighteenth Street northwest, $54,150. For one thousand nine hundred feet of sixteen-inch main in H Street northwest, from Eighth to Thirteenth Streets, $19,371. For replacement of old mains in various locations, on account of inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains in advance of pavement, $50,000. The appropriations contained in this Act for laying and relaying water mains shall be available immediately. For purchase or condemnation of site for new third high service reservoir, $50,000, and the commissioners are hereby authorized to close, where necessary, all highways that may interfere with the development of the proposed project. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,Construction work under Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed. transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street-cleaning or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their budget estimates shall report the number of 452 such employees performing such services, and their work, and tire *Proviso*.Limit.sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $20,000 during the fiscal Employment period limited.year 1927: *Provided further*, That 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.Special authority from Commissioners for using.That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums Report.appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in the budget estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses *Proviso*.Temporary work for excavations.owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: *Provided*, That such horses, horse-drawn vehicles, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section 2 of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics. Sec. 4. Temporary laborers, etc., water department.The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 5. Miscellaneous trust funds.Espouses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368.That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector 453 of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, two bookkeepers in the auditor’s office, clerk in the office of the collector of taxes, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire therefor motor trucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the commissioners, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to currying 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 thisLeave of absence if employee employed ten 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, from the various services of the Government of the United States possessing material, supplies, passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, and equipment no longer required because of the cessation of war activities. It shallDuty before purchasing elsewhere. be the duty of the commissioners and other officials, before purchasing any of the articles described herein, to ascertain from the Government of the United States whether it has articles of the character described that are serviceable. And articles purchasedPrice stipulation. from the Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price bused upon length of usage. The various services of the Government of the United States are Sales authorized.authorized to sell such articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That 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. Sec. 7. Hereafter in the payment of compensation of per diemAcceptance of mark as signature of per diem employee. employees of the government of the District of Columbia a signature by mark duly witnessed by an employee of such District designated for that purpose by the commissioners, shall be deemed a full legal acquittance as to such signature. Approved, May 10, 1926.
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