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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · June 30, 1930 · Chapter 314

Chapter 314. 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, 1930, and for other purposes

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Chap. 314: 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, 1930, and for other purposes. Chapter 314 45 Stat. 1262 1929-02-25 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 314.— 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, 1930, and for other purposes.
February 25, 1929.[[H. R. 16422](/us/bill/70/hr/16422).][[Public, No. 804](/us/pl/70/804).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*, District of Columbia.Appropriations for expenses of, fiscal year 1930, from District revenue, and $9,000,000 from the Treasury.Revenues from activities from all sources to be credited to the District. That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in Advances.addition, $9,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1929, and all the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Tax rate continued.Columbia, and the tax rate in effect in the fiscal year 1929 on real estate and tangible personal property subject to taxation in the District of Columbia shall be continued for the fiscal year 1930, namely:
General expenses.GENERAL EXPENSES Executive office.executive office Office personnel.Additional for Engineer Commissioner.For personal services, $49,160, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in Grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.*Ante*, p. 776.U.
S. Code, p. 65.Commissioners: *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, as amended (U. S. C., pp. 65–71, secs. 661–673, 45 Stat., pp. 776–785), 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 If only one position in a grade.Advances in unusually meritorious case.rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade 1263advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided,* ThatRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.U.
S. Code, p. 66.Transfers to another position without reduction. this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service;
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act;
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit; or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any gradeHigher salary rates permitted. at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law. Purchasing division: For personal services, $61,660;Purchasing division. Building inspection division: For personal services, $121,600.Building inspection division. Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $35,200;Plumbing inspection division. for temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, $5,000; two members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all, $40,500. care of district buildingCare of District Building. For personal services, $56,054; services of cleaners as necessary,Operating force. not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $14,000; in all, $70,054: *Provided,* *Proviso*.Assistant engineers or watchmen.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. For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and laborOperating expenses.Elevator improvements. not to exceed $5,000 and miscellaneous supplies, including not to exceed $4,800 for furnishing and installing on the elevators and in the elevator system collapsible gates and electric contacts, top and bottom limit switches in hatchways, and emergency exits in top of cars, $37,500. assessor’s office For personal services, $204,510; temporary clerk hire, $3,000;Assessor’s office. in all, $207,510. license bureau For personal services, $18,820; temporary clerk hire. $1,000;License bureau. in all, $19,820. collector’s office For personal services, including $1,000 for temporary clerk hire,Collector’s office. $46,450. auditor’s office For personal services, $118,640, and the compensation of the Auditor’s office.Disbursing officer permitted other duties.present incumbent of the position of disbursing officer of the District of Columbia shall be exclusive of his compensation as United States property and disbursing officer for the National Guard of the District of Columbia. office of corporation counsel Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as generalCorporation counsel’s office. counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, and other personal sendees, $66,620. 1264 coroner’s office Coroner’s office.For personal services, $10,040. Expenses of morgue, inquests, etc.For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $4,000. Motor vehicle.For the purchase and exchange of a nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $775. Office of superintendent of weights, etc.office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets Personal service.For personal services, $47,080. Inspection, etc.For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $500. Markets.For maintenance and repairs to markets, $7,500. Motor vehicles.For maintenance and repair of seven nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $2,500. For the purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $550, to be immediately available. highways department Highways department.For personal services, $215,690. Use of shops.For such additional construction on parcel 108/3 immediately east of the Bryant Street pumping station and at the District automobile repair shop as may be necessary to house the shops of the highways department, including the laboratory of the inspector of asphalts and cements, and for repairing, servicing, and housing the motor vehicles of the highways department, the trees and parking department, and of such other departments as may be economically *Proviso*.Replacing equipment, etc.served at this location, $205,000: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses of moving, installing, purchasing, and replacing equipment, the extension of steam lines, personal services, and other necessary expenses. sewer department Sewer department.For personal services, $193,200. trees and parking department Trees and parking department.For personal services, $22,880. office of chief clerk, engineer department Engineer department, office of chief clerk.For personal services, $28,000. central garage Central garage.For personal services, $5,240. municipal architect’s office Municipal architect’s office.For personal services, $63,700. 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 Basis of amount increased.provided for by said appropriations, shall be based on an amount not exceeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2.000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 2¾ per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000. 1265 public utilities commissionPublic utilities commission. For two commissioners at $7,500 each;Commissioners, people’s counsel, etc. people’s counsel, $7,500; and for other personal services; in all, $76,620. For incidental and all other general necessary expensesIncidental expenses. authorized by law, $1,700. board of examiners, steam engineers Salaries: Three members, at $150 each, $450.Examiners, steam engineers. department of insurance For personal services, $19,560.Insurance department. surveyor’s office For personal services, $84,690.Surveyors’ office. For revision of the highway plan, including the surveying andRevising highways system. permanent marking on the ground of the system of highways, $3,000. district of columbia employees compensation fundEmployees’ compensation fund. For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of thePayment for injuries.Vol. 41, p. 104. District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of ColumbiaVol. 39, p. 742. the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, $31,000. Administrative Expenses, Compensation to Injured EmployeesAdministrative expenses, compensation to injured employees.*Ante*, p. 600. of the District of Columbia: For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May 17, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 600), $63,000, for transfer to and expenditure by the Employees’Transfers to Employees’ Compensation Commission. Compensation Commission under its appropriations “Salaries and expenses,” $60,000, and “Printing and binding,” $3,000. office of the director of trafficDirector of Traffic. For personal services, $32,040, and for temporaryPersonal services. clerk hire, $7,000; in all, $39,040. For purchase and installation of traffic signals and markers,Necessary expenses. painting white lines, labor, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the commissioners, $43,700, together with $10,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of fees receivedAdditions from fees. for reissuing motor-vehicle operators’ permits, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927 (44Vol. 44, p. 1300. Stat., p. 1300) and continued available until June 30, 1928, which is hereby made available for the fiscal year 1930 for the purposes of this paragraph: *Provided,* *Proviso*.Not available for street-car loading platforms, etc.That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act or that is now available shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining street-car loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. free public libraryPublic Library. For personal services, $265,640.Personal services. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at theSubstitutes, etc.*Proviso*.Library stations restrictions. discretion of the librarian, $6,000: *Provided,* That no money appropriated by this Act shall be expended in conducting library stations not now in operation, but this restriction shall not apply to the Woodridge subbranch. 1266 Sunday, etc., opening.For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $3,000. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other printed material, including payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and *Proviso*.Advances for book purchases, etc.society publications, $38,000: *Provided,* That the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the librarian of the free Public Library, upon requisition previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not exceeding $25 at the first of each month, to be expended for the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, numbers of periodicals or newspapers, or other printed material, and to be accounted for on itemized vouchers. Binding.For binding, including necessary personal services, $14,000. Contingent expenses.For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment, care of grounds, maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $23,650. Site for Northeastern branch.For the acquisition of a site to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the board of library trustees for a building for the proposed Northeastern branch library, $35,000. Rent.For rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Chevy Chase and Woodridge, $4,800. Register of Wills.register of wills Personal services.For personal services, $73,640. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, towels, towel service, window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, $11,000. Recorder of Deeds.recorder of deeds Personal services.For personal services, $104,020. Recopying old land records, etc., from unexpended balances.Not to exceed $10,000 of the unexpended balance of the fees and emoluments of the office of the recorder of deeds for the fiscal year 1927 and prior fiscal years is hereby made available for recopying old land records of the District of Columbia, including personal services, typewriting machines, and necessary supplies and equipment. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including telephone service, printing, binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; typewriters, towels, towel service, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto; books of reference, law books and periodicals, street-car tokens, postage, not exceeding $100 for rest room for sick and injured employees and the equipment of and medical supplies for said rest room, and all other necessary incidental expenses, $14,000. Rent of offices.For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $14,000. Contingent expenses.CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES Objects specified.For checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, 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, not to exceed $850; calculating machines for the assessor’s office, not to exceed $5,000; traveling expenses not to exceed $3,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by 1267the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings, including payment of a fee of $10 per diem to each member of board of survey, other than the inspector of buildings, while actually employed on surveys of dangerous or unsafe buildings; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, $36,350: *Provided,* That no part of this or any other*Proviso.*Printing, etc., list of supplies schedules, forbidden. appropriation contained in this Act or of any appropriation which may now be available shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded. printing and binding For printing and binding, $70,000.Printing and binding. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carryingAutomobiles.Maintenance, etc. automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, $77,525; for exchange of such passenger-carrying automobiles now owned by the District of Columbia as, in the judgment of the commissioners of said District, have or shall become unserviceable, $16,110; and for the purchase of passenger-carrying automobiles as follows:Purchases allowed. Highways department, one at $500 and one at $765, Public Library, one at $500, in all, $95,400. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motorAllowances for privately owned motor vehicles. vehicles in motor 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, $12,816. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles providedUse of public vehicles restricted. for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act: *Provided,* *Proviso*.Cost restriction for purchases.That with the exception of motor vehicles for the police and lire departments, no automobile shall be acquired under any provision of this Act, by purchase or exchange at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650, except as may be herein specifically authorized. Transfers forbidden.No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the purchase,Use of other appropriations for horses,etc., forbidden. livery, or maintenance ot horses, or tor the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the paymentFire insurance not permitted. of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendentTelephones allowed at residence of designated officials. or the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the streetcleaning division, inspector of plumbing. Director of Public Welfare, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, the superintendent of machinery, and the fire marshal, under 1268Connections permitted.appropriations contained in this Act. The commissioners may connect any or all of these telephones either to the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company or the telephone system maintained by the District of Columbia, or to both of such systems. Postage.For postage for strictly official mail matter, $25,000. Car fares, etc.The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the *Provisos.*Limit.purchase ot street-car and bus fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided,* That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a Firemen and police excepted.total of $8,000: *Provided further,* That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District or Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the*Proviso.*Contracts for reporting permitted. Supreme Court of said District, $3,000: *Provided,* That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when in their judgment such action be deemed in the public interest, to contract for stenographic reporting services under available appropriations contained in this Act. General advertising.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, $8,000. Taxes in arrears.Vol. 30, p. 250.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1929, as required to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $10,000:*Provisos.*Tax-sale pamphlets discontinued.*Provided,* That the printing of tax-sale pamphlets shall be discontinued and in lieu thereof the notice of sale and the Advertising delinquent taxes in newspapers.delinquent tax list shall hereafter be advertised once a week for two the regular issue of one morning and one evening newspaper published in the District of Columbia; and notice shall be given, by advertising twice a week for two successive weeks in the regular issue of two daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia, that such delinquent tax list has been published in two daily newspapers, giving the name of each and the dates and the issues containing said list, and such notice shall be published in the two weeks immediately following the week in which the delinquent tax list shall have been Competitive proposals for publishing lists.published: *Provided further,* That competitive proposals shall be invited by the commissioners from the several newspapers published in the District of Columbia for publishing the said delinquent tax list. employment service Employment service expenses.For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $9,650. historical places Historical tablets.For purchase ans erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the District of Columbia, $500. Emergency fund.emergency fund Expenses under, restricted.To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, *Proviso.*Purchases. $4,000: *Provided,* That in making purchases under this fund not more than the market price shall be paid, and all bids above the 1269market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market as may, in the judgment of the commissioners, be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. refund of erroneous collectionsRefund of erroneous collections. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments,Payments authorized. school tuition charges, payments for lost library books, rents, fees, or collections of any character have been erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the proportion required by law, to refund such erroneous payments, wholly or in part, including the refunding of fees paid for building permits authorized by the District of ColumbiaBuilding permits.Vol. 36, p. 967. Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911 (36 Stat., p. 967), $3.000: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for*Proviso.*Prior years. such refunds of payments made within the past three years. To aid in support of the National Conference of Conference on Uniform State Laws.Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, $250. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIRStreet, etc., improvement and repair. For assessment and permit work, includingAssessment and permit work. maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $300,000. For paving roadways under the permit system, $30,000.Paving roadways. gasoline tax road and street fundGasoline tax and road and street fund. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwisePaving, etc., streets and roads from. improving streets, avenues, and roads, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, and including curbing and gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, as follows, to be paid from the special fund created by section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold withinVol. 43, p. 106. the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved April 23, 1924, and accretions by repayment of assessments: For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbingImprovements designated. and gutters where necessary, the following: Northwest: S Street, Thirty-eighth Street to Thirty-ninth Street. $6,800;S Street NW. Northwest: Garfield Street, Bellevue Terrace to Thirty-ninth Street, $5,300;Garfield Street NW. Northwest: Upton Street, Thirty-eighth Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $3,900;Upton Street NW. Northwest: Veazey Street, Thirty-eighth Street to Thirty-ninth Street, $8,600;Veazey Street NW. Northwest: Windom Place, Thirty-eighth Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $11,500;Windom Place NW. Northwest : Forty-second Street, Fessenden Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $4,700;Forty-second Street NW. Northwest: Jenifer Street, Forty-second Street to Wisconsin Avenue, $11,900;Jenifer Street NW. Northwest: Forty-second Street. Jenifer Street to Military Road, $9,900;Forty-second Street NW. Northwest: Patterson Street, Chevy Chase Parkway to Nevada Avenue, $8,600;Patterson Street NW. Northwest: Nevada Avenue, Livingston Street to Rittenhouse Street, $49,200;Nevada Avenue NW. Northwest: Tilden Street from end of asphalt block pavement east of Connecticut Avenue to Rock Creek Park, $49,500;Tilden Street NW. Northwest: Belmont Road, Connecticut Avenue to Waterside Drive, $7,200;Belmont Road NW.1270 Northwest: Waterside Drive, Belmont Road to Allen Place, $7,400;Waterside NW. Northwest: Butternut Street, Fifth Street to Piney Branch Road, $8,100;Butternut NW. Northwest: Piney Branch Road, Van Buren Street to Butternut Street (east side), $16,800;Piney Branch Road NW. Northwest: Whittier Street, Seventh Street to Piney Branch Road, $7,600; Northwest: Whittier Street, Harlan Street to Second Street, $7.100;Whittier Street NW. Northwest: Third Street, Peabody Street to Sheridan Street, $13,200;Third Street NW. Northwest: Quackenbos Street, North Dakota Avenue to Fourth Street, $18,500:Quackenbos Street NW. Northwest: Roxboro Place, Fifth Street to Eighth Street, $12,500;Roxboro Place NW. Northwest: Somerset Place, Fifth Street to Eighth Street, $12,500;Somerset Place NW. Northwest: Seventh Street, Rittenhouse Street to Tuckerman Street, $10,500;Seventh Street NW. Northwest: Tuckerman Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $6,200:Tuckerman Street NW. Northwest: Thirteenth Street, Longfellow Street to Madison Street, $5,700;Thirteenth Street NW. Northwest: Montague Street, Colorado Avenue to Fourteenth Street, $9,400;Montague Street NW. Northwest: Allison Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, $10,500;Allison Street NW. Northwest: Spring Road, Rock Creek Church Road to Thirteenth Street, $14,600;Spring Road NW. Northwest: Third Street, Rock Creek Church Road to Taylor Street, $5,600;Third Street NW. Northwest: Eighteenth Street, Allison Street to Webster Street, $4.900;Eighteenth Street NW. Northwest: Hemlock Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, $12,700;Hemlock Street NW. Northwest: Tunlaw Road, Thirty-seventh Street to Beecher Street, $10,800;Tunlaw Road NW. Northwest: Benton Street, Tunlaw Road to Huidekoper Place, $7,400;Benton Street NW. Northwest: Observatory Place, Benton Street northward to concrete, $1,600;Observatory Place NW. Northwest: Eighth Street, Tuckerman Street to Underwood Street, $6,200;Eighth Street NW. Northwest: Tewkesberry Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $5,400;Tewkesberry Street NW. Northeast: Neal Street, Bladensburg Road to Holbrook Street, $6,500;Neal Street NE. Northeast: Newton Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Eastern Avenue, $14.000;Newton Street NE. Northeast: Myrtle Avenue, Central Avenue to Walnut Street, $12,800;Myrtle Avenue NE. Northeast: Evarts Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-second Street, $8,800;Evarts Street NE. Northeast: Summit Place, T Street to Todd Place, $2.900;Summit Place NE. Northeast: Channing Street, North Capitol Street eastward, $3,000;Channing Street NE. Northeast: Todd Place, Lincoln Road to Second Street, $11,700;Todd Place NE. Northeast: Second Street, Adams Street to Bryant Street, $5,000;Second Street NE. Northeast: Adams Street, Second Street to Third Street, $6,200;Adams Street NE. Northeast: Fifth Street, Franklin Street to Girard Street, $3,800;Fifth Street NE. Northeast: Ninth Street, Kearney Street to Lawrence Street, $4,700;Ninth Street NE.1271 Northeast: Kearney Street, Ninth Street to Tenth Street, $3,800;Kearney Street NE. Northeast: Lawrence Street, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $5,600;Lawrence Street NE. Northeast: Randolph Street, Twelfth Street to Thirteenth Street, $6,300;Randolph Street NE. Northeast: Shepherd Street, Twelfth Street to Michigan Avenue, $3.700;Shepherd Street NE. Northeast: Taussig Place, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $6,900;Taussig Place NE. Northeast: Upshur Street, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $9.200;Upshur Street NE. Northeast: Twelfth Place, Upshur Street to Varnum Street, $5,000;Twelfth Place NE. Northeast: Thirteenth Place, Michigan Avenue to Varnum Street, $6.500;Thirteenth Place NE. Northeast : Upshur Street, Sargent Road to Michigan Avenue, $4,000;Upshur Street NE. Northeast: Lawrence Street, Fourteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $18,500;Lawrence Street NE. Northeast: Seventeenth Street, Newton Street to Otis Street, $5,200;Seventeenth Street NE. Northeast: Otis Street, Sixteenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $12.700;Otis Street NE. Northeast: Fourteenth Street, Kearney Street to Lawrence Street, $5,200;Fourteenth Street NE. Northeast: Evarts Street, Ninth Street to Tenth Street, $5,600;Evarts Street NE. Northeast: Tenth Street, Evarts Street, to Girard Street, $10.000;Tenth Street NE. Northeast: Irving Street, Ninth Street to Tenth Street, $4,300;Irving Street NE. Northeast: Franklin Street, Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street, $8,800;Franklin Street NE. Northeast: South Dakota Avenue, Rhode Island Avenue to Twentieth Street, $34,500.South Dakota Avenue NE. Northeast: Lawrence Street, Twenty-second Street to South Dakota Avenue, $6,400;Lawrence Street NE. Northeast: Twenty-second Street, Quincy Street to Bunker Hill Road, $19,000;Twenty-second Street NE. Northeast: Otis Street, South Dakota Avenue to Twenty-fourth Street, $11,800;Otis Street NE. Northeast: Perry Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-second Street, $7,300;Perry Street NE. Northeast: Newton Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-second Street, $7,500;Newton Street NE. Northeast: Central Avenue, Brentwood Road to Myrtle Avenue, $5,500;Central Avenue NE. Northeast: Twenty-fifth Street, Girard Place to Hamlin Place, $5,300;Twenty-fifth Street NE. Northeast: Belair Place, Hamlin Place to Girard Place, $3,200;Belair Place NE. Northeast: Girard Place, Twenty-fifth Street to Mills Avenue, $4.400;Girard Place NE. Northeast: Douglass Street. Queens Chapel Road to Twenty-fourth Street, $12,300;Douglass Street NE. Northeast: Douglass Street, Bladensburg Road to South Dakota Avenue, $16,400; Northeast: Thirtieth Street, Douglass Street to Bladensburg Road, $2,700;Thirtieth Street NE. Northeast: Thirty-first Place, north of Douglass Street, $4,500;Thirty-first Place NE. Northeast: Thirtieth Street, Channing Street southward to private property line, $13.600;Thirtieth Street NE. Northeast: Levis Street, Trinidad Avenue to Orren Street, $3,200;Levis Street NE. Northeast: Orren Street, Oates Street to Levis Street, $4,500;Orren Street NE. Northeast: Oueen Street, Trinidad Avenue eastward, $8,100;Queen Street NE.1272 Northeast: Owen Place, Montello Avenue to Trinidad Avenue, $8,800;Owen Place NE. Northeast: Seventeenth Street, A Street to B Street, $5,000;Seventeenth Street NE. Southeast: Massachusetts Avenue, Eighteenth Street to Nineteenth Street, $10,200;Massachusetts Avenue SE. Southeast: Eighteenth Street, Massachusetts Avenue to D Street, $5,300;Eighteenth Street SE. Southeast: C Street, Fifteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $4,000;C Street SE. Southeast: C Street, Seventeenth Street to Massachusetts Avenue, $3,200; Southeast: D Street, Fourteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $13,000;D Street SE. Southeast: K Street, Twelfth Street to Fourteenth Street, $12,200;K Street SE. Southeast: Twenty-third Street, Minnesota Avenue to Q Street, $6,500;Twenty-third Street SE. Southeast: Twenty-fifth Street, Minnesota Avenue to Naylor Road, $21,300;Twenty-fifth Street SE. Southeast: Nicholson Street, Prout Street to Minnesota Avenue, $5,(500;Nicholson Street SE. Southeast: Fifteenth Street, Good Hope Road to U Street, $4,500;Fifteenth Street SE. Southeast: U Street, Sixteenth Street to Fendall Place, $8,800;U Street SE. Southeast: V Street, Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $11.000;V Street SE. Southeast: Fourteenth Street, V Street to W Street, $2,600:Fourteenth Street SE. Southeast: Thirteenth Street, Good Hope Road to Pleasant Street, $11,500;Thirteenth Street SE. Southeast: Chester Street, W Street southward, $4,100;Chester Street SE. Southeast: Pleasant Street, Nichols Avenue to Thirteenth Street, $5,600;Pleasant Street SE. Southeast: Valley Place, Mount View Place to High Street, $8,100;Valley Place SE. Southeast: Mount View Place, Valley Place to Maple View Place, $4,100;Mount View Place SE. Southeast: South Capitol Street. K Street to Canal Street, $30,900;South Capitol Street SE. Northwest: Wisconsin Avenue, M Street to Water Street, $24,000;Wisconsin Avenue NW. Northwest: Sixteenth Street, Kalmia Road to District of Columbia Line, $64,000;Sixteenth Street NW. Northeast: Michigan Avenue, North Capitol Street to Monroe Street, $81,000;Michigan Avenue NE. *Post*, p. 1544.Grading streets, alleys, and roads.For grading street’s, alleys, and roads, including construction of necessary culverts and retaining walls, $80,000. Surfacing block pavements, etc.For surfacing block pavements and paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $100,000; Minor changes in roadways, etc.For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, $15,000; Curbs and gutters.For construction of curbs and gutters, or concrete shoulders in connection with all forms of macadam roadways and adjustment of roadways thereto, together with resurfacing of such roadways where necessary, $345,000; Disbursement, etc.In all, $1,658,500; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road and street improvements,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and be*Provisos*.Restricted to specified improvements. 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 and accretionsPriority to through thoroughfares. by repayment of assessments: *Provided further,* That in the performance of the street-paving work specially provided for 1273in this Act priority shall be given to those streets which are more in the nature of through thoroughfares or arterial highways. street repair, grading, and extension Condemnation: For purchase or condemnation ofCondemnation.Small park areas. streets, roads, areas, and alleys, and for the condemnation of small park areas at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the commissioners, $5,000. To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize theOpening streets, etc., under permanent system of highways.Vol. 37, p. 950.Fourteenth Street excepted.Indefinite appropriation for, from District revenues. Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension beyond the southern boundary of Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia there is appropriated such sum as is necessary for said purpose during the fiscal year 1930, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Repairs: For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads,Repairs., etc. alleys, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, and the rental of necessary garage space therefor; and including the surfacing and resurfacing, or replacement, with the same or other approved materials, of such asphalt or concrete pavements as may be done within the funds available under this appropriation, $1,475,000, of which amount $200,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Replacing asphalt plant.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to replace the existing municipal asphalt plant at a cost not to exceed $20,000. This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements ofStreet railways pavements. street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5Vol. 20, p. 105. of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorizedChanging sidewalks widths, etc. and empowered, in their discretion, to fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all highways that may be improved under appropriations contained in this Act. For construction and repair of sidewalks and curbs aroundSidewalks and curbs. public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $15,000. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall beOpen competition for street improvement contracts. available for repairing, resurfacing, or newly paving any street, avenue, or roadway by private contract unless the specifications for such work shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving material as well as in price. In addition to the provision of existing law requiringRepairs for inferior work, etc., by contractors, required for additional period. contractors to keep new pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date or 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. bridgesBridges. For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges,Construction, etc.Kenilworth Avenue, over Watts Branch. including not to exceed $10,000 for reconstruction of the Kenilworth 1274Avenue Bridge over Watts Branch, personal services, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor-vehicles, $87,500. Anacostia River Bridge, flooring, etc.For reconstruction of the floor system and hand rail of the Anacostia River Bridge, including personal services and other necessary expenses, $120,000. Trees and parking.trees and parkings Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care or trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, purchase and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $112,500. Public convenience stations.public convenience stations Maintenance.For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $34,900. Sewers.SEWERS Cleaning, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the replacement of three motor trucks at not to exceed $1,350 each for operation Pumping stations.and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $250,000. Main and pipe.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $210,000. Suburban.For suburban sewers, including the replacement of four motor trucks at not to exceed $925 each, the purchase of one motor tractor at not to exceed $975, and the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $612,000. Assessment and permit work.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 658.For assessment and permit work, sewers, $340,000; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929 shall remain available until June 30, 1930. Rights of way.For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $1,000. Stickfoot Branch, stormwater.For continuing the construction of the Stickfoot Branch stormwater sewer, $25,000. Upper Potomac interceptor.For continuing the construction of the Upper Potomac main interceptor, $50,000. City refuse.COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE Personal services.For personal services, $138,900. Sweeping, cleaning, snow and ice removal., etc.For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent Vehicles, etc. of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; maintenance and repair of nonpassenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets and purchase of motor-propelled street-cleaning equipment; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $500,000. 1275 To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of Garbage, dead animals, ashes, etc.existing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia (no contract shall be let for the collection of dead animals), including inspection; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps; and incidental expenses, $975,000, including not to exceed $25,000 for repair and improvement of the garbage reduction plant: *Provided,* Garbage reduction plant.*Provisos.*Deposit of receipts.That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall e 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 appropriationUse restricted. shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDSPublic playgrounds. For personal services, $113,180: *Provided,* That employments hereunderPersonal services.*Proviso.*Employment restricted.Vol. 42, p. 1340., except directors 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. For general maintenance, improvement, equipment, supplies,Maintenance, etc. incidental and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor and maintenance of one motor truck, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $46,000. For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping openPublic school playgrounds during the 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, $29,000. For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, andSwimming pools. necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, $3,000. Bathing pools: For superintendence, $600; for temporary services,Bathing pools. supplies, and maintenance, $4,500; for repairs to buildings, pools, and upkeep of grounds, $1,780; in all, $6,880: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Double pay restriction not applicable to superintendent.Vol. 39, p. 120.That section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916 (39 Stat., p. 120, sec. 6), as amended, shall not apply to the position of superintendent of these bathing pools during the fiscal year 1930. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENTElectrical department. For personal services, $128,680.Personal services. 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 book, stationery, livery, purchase and repair of bicycles, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, $31,750. For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephonePlacing wires underground.Police-patrol and firealarm systems, etc. services underground, extension and relocation of police-patrol and firealarm systems, purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment anti expenses, including not to exceed $6,625 for replacement of obsolete fire-alarm boxes by new-type boxes, $30,000. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of publicLighting streets, etc. lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all 1276Air mail lights at Bolling Field.kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost of maintenance of lights at Bolling Field necessary for operation of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, Vol. 36, p. 1008.Vol. 37, p. 181.this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat., pp. 1008–1011, sec. 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat., pp. 181–184, sec. 7) and other laws applicable thereto, including not to exceed $23,000 for operation and maintenance of *Provisos*.Electric street lighting rates.electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $950,000: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour forAwards of contracts to lowest competitor. current consumed: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be available fbr the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. Improving system, etc., in fifteenth police precinct.Appropriation available.*Ante*, p. 660.The appropriation of $4,570 for the fiscal year 1929 for rearranging and improving police-patrol signal system in proposed number fifteen police precinct and extending telephone system to proposed number fifteen police station house, including the purchase, installation, and relocation of boxes, instruments, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, is continued available until June 30, 1930. Public schools.PUBLIC SCHOOLS Administrative and supervisory officers.Vol. 43, 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 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), $656,740. Clerks, etc.For personal services of clerks and other employees, $148,560. School attendance and work permit department.Vol. 43, pp. 367, 806.*Provisos*.Preference of appointment of normal school graduates to cease July 1, 1933.For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), and the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 806–808), $36,900: *Provided,* That effective July 1, 1933, that portion of section 3 of the Act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, approved June 23, 1873, entitled “An Act to establish a normal school for the city of Washington” (section 42, Compiled Statutes, D. C., p. 489.chapter 57, of the compiled statutes in force in the District of Columbia), which provides that the graduates of the normal schools in the District of Columbia shall have preference in all cases when appointments of teachers for the public schools are to be made, Normal schools to be expanded into Teachers’ Colleges.is hereby repealed: *Provided,* That the Board of Education is hereby authorized, under appropriations hereafter to be made, to expand the two existing normal schools into Teachers’ Colleges, and at the end of the fourth year thereof to award appropriate degrees. Teachers.teachers Salaries.Vol. 43, pp. 367–375.Salaries: For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 367–375), $5,982,600. Soliciting subscription, etc., in schools prohibited.No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription 1277or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school Exception.officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacationVacation schools. schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $33,000. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926,Annuities.Vol. 44, p. 728.Vol. 41, p. 387.*Post*, p.—. entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia,’ approved January 15, 1920, and for other purposes” (41 Stat., pp. 387–390), $400,000. 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, $95,000, Contingent, expenses: For contingent and other necessaryContingent expenses. expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,500. the deaf, dumb, and blindDeaf, dumb, and blind. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumbInstruction of deaf and dumb.R.S., sec. 4864, p. 942.Vol. 31, p. 884.U. S. Code, p. 685. persons 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 (U. S. C., p. 685, sec. 238), and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $27,500. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachableColored deaf mutes.Tuition of, under contract.*Proviso*.Supervision. age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $6,500: *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, inBlind children.Tuition of, under contract.*Proviso*.Supervision. Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $10,500: *Provided,* That all expenditures 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, $11,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books,Equipment, etc. equipment, and supplies, $1,000. community center departmentCommunity centers. For personal services of the director, general secretaries, andSalaries and expenses.Vol. 43, p. 375. community secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 369, 370); clerks and part-time employees, including janitors on account, of meetings of pa rent-teacher associations and other activities, and contingent expenses, equipment, supplies, and lighting fixtures, $42,000. 1278 Care of buildings and grounds.care of buildings and grounds Salaries.Salaries: For personal services, $762,000. Smaller buildings and rented rooms.For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms 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, $6,500. miscellaneous Schools for tubercular pupils.For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, $7,000. Transporting pupils to.*Proviso*.Car fares, etc., allowed.For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular pupils, $5,000: *Provided.* That expenditures for street-car and bus fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of street-car and bus fares covered by this Act. Transporting crippled pupils.*Proviso*.Car fares, etc., allowed.For transportation for pupils attending schools for crippled pupils, $12,000: *Provided,* That expenditures for street car and bus fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of street car and bus fares covered in this Act. Manual, etc., training expenses.For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $90,000, to be immediately available. Fuel, light, and power.For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $290,000. Furniture, etc.furniture For designated school buildings.For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings, as follows: E. A. Paul Junior High School, $48,000; twenty-four-room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, at Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road, $31,000; eight-room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, on Grant Road, $13,500; eight-room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets, $13,500; eight-room addition, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, Raymond School, $13,500; eighteen-room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, Langdon School, $19,000; eight-room addition, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, Burrville School, $10,500; eight-room building, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, to replace the old Bell and Cardozo Schools, $13,500; Francis Junior High School, Available until June 30, 1931.$20,000; health school for colored pupils, $12,000; in all, $194,500, to be immediately available and to continue available until June 30, 1931. Completing equipment, McKinley Technical High.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 662.For completing the furniture and equipment, including pianos and window shades and repair, remodeling, and refinishing of existing equipment, for the McKinley Technical High School, not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929 is continued available until June 30, 1930. Contingent expenses, flags, etc.For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, ice, United States flags, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $3,000 for books of reference and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for re-placement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, not exceeding $27,000 for office appliances for instruction purposes in Business High School and Cardozo High School, not exceeding $13,600 for additional furniture and equipment for normal *Proviso*.No bond for Army supplies to cadets. schools, and not exceeding $5,000 for labor, $187,800, to be immediately available: *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. 1279 For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the firstSupplies to pupils. eight grades and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including necessary labor not to exceed $1,000, $125,000, to be immediately available: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Changes authorized.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in their discretion, are authorized to exchange any badly damaged book for a new one, the new one to be similar in text to the old one when it was new. For maintenance of kindergartens, including not to exceedKindergartens. $3,000 for furnishing and equipping three additional kindergartens, $10,000. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment andSchool gardens. maintenance of school gardens, $3,000. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the monthsNature study, etc., teachers. in which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books,Supplies for physics, etc., departments. 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, $16,000, to be immediately available. The children of officers and men of the United States Army,Children of Army, Navy, etc., admitted free. Navy, and Marine Corps, and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. Not to exceed $100,000 of the unexpended balances ofImproving grounds of new buildings. appropriations for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts fiscal years 1926, 1927, and 1928, is hereby made available until June 30, 1930,Unexpended balances available.Vol. 43, p. 1233,1320; Vol. 44, pp. 435, 1315. for the improvement of grounds surrounding public-school buildings, constructed under appropriations for the fiscal year 1928 and prior fiscal years, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For repairs and improvements to school buildings, repairingRepairs, etc., to buildings. and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric lighting equipment, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains, and maintenance of motor trucks, including not to exceed $1,700 for purchase of two dump trucks, including the exchange of one dump truck, $450,000. For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stockRent. rooms, $8,000. For purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, forSchool yards playgrounds.*Proviso.*Use, etc. school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $10,000: *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. buildings and groundsBuildings and Grounds. Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of funds madeWheatley.Balance for, available for Morgan School.*Ante*, p. 663. available by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 for the construction of a combined gymnasium and assembly hall for the Wheatley School is hereby made available for the completion of the eight-room addition and combination gymnasium and assembly hall at the Morgan School. For the construction of a combination gymnasium andJohn Eaton.Addition. assembly hall at the John Eaton School, in accordance with the original plans for the construction of said building, $50,000. For the erection of a junior high school building on a site being Reno.Erection of junior high.purchased for that purpose in the Reno section, in accordance with 1280the plans of Macfarland Junior High School, $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 $500,000. E. A. Paul, Junior High.Completing.For the completion of the construction of the E. A. Paul Junior High School in Brightwood, $250,000. Elementary school at Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road.For the completion of the construction of an elementary-school building, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site already purchased at Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road to replace the Force, Adams, and Morgan Schools, $225,000. Kingsman School.Junior high in vicinity of.For the erection of a junior high school building on a site to be purchased for that purpose in the vicinity of the Kingsman School, in accordance with the plans of the Macfarland Junior High School, $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 $500,000. Health school for colored pupils.For the erection of a new health school and sanatorium for colored pupils, $150,000. Business High.Construction on site for adjoining Macfarland Junior High.For the construction of a new school building for the Business School on a site now owned by the District of Columbia adjoining the Macfarland Junior High School, including the necessary remodeling and enlargement of the heating plant at the Heating plant.Contracts authorized.Macfarland Junior High School to provide heat for the Business High School, $300,000, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts as in this Act provided for such building, exclusive of the treatment of grounds, at a cost not to exceed *Proviso.*Use of present building.$1,500,000: *Provided,* That upon completion of such building, the building now occupied by the Business High School shall be used as an elementary school. Park View.Additions.For the construction of an addition or additions to the Park View School, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $205,000. Buchanan.Addition, etc.For the construction of a four-room addition, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, to the Buchanan School, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $120,000. Dunbar High.Fitting up stadium adjoining.For proper grading, seeding, and sodding; for the construction of roads, walks, and steps; for seating; for running track, baseball diamond, tennis courts, and other athletic facilities; for fencing and other necessary work to fit up for athletic purposes the ground purchased as a stadium adjoining the Dunbar High School, $75,000. All to constitute fund available until expended.*Proviso.*Use only for buildings specified.In all, $1,835,000, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and grounds, public schools,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and remain available until expended: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. Awarding contracts to lowest bidder.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, plumbing, painting, and treatment of grounds, 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 *Proviso.*Rejection of bids.a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful performance of the contract: *Provided,* That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the commissioners the right to reject all bids. Purchases of sites authorized.For the purchase of school building and playground sites, as follows: 1281 For the purchase of a site on which to locate a newsidenoteConnecticut Avenue and Upton Street. sixteen-room school building in the vicinity of Connecticut Avenue and Upton Street; For the purchase of a site on which to locate a new juniorFor buildings in northeast Washington. highschool building, a new platoon school building, and a colored health school and sanatorium in northeast Washington; For the purchase of additional land at the site of the McKinleyMcKinley High and Langley Junior High.Additional lands. High School and Langley Junior High School; For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Stevens School Stevens School.for playground purposes; For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the Banneker SchoolBanneker School. for playground purposes; For the purchase of additional school-building and playgroundAdditional authorizations.Vol. 43, p. 986. sites authorized to be acquired in the five-year school-building program Act; In all, $517,000: *Provided,* That with the*Provisos.*Cost restriction. exception of $165,000, no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site the cost of which shall exceed the full value assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value: *Provided, further,* Parts of sites under 125 per cent limitation.That part or parts of a site may be purchased under the 125 per centum limitation if the total cost of the part or parts acquired does not at the time of such purchase exceed 125 per centum of the assessed value. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $703,500 forUnexpended balances continued available until June 30, 1930. the purchase of school-building and playground sites, contained in theVol. 44, p. 435. District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, is continued available until June 30, 1930, for the purchase of school-building and playground sites authorized to be acquired in the five-year school building program Act: *Provided,* *Proviso*.Cost limitation.That part or parts of a site may be purchased under the 125 per centum limitation if the total cost of the part or parts acquired does not at the time of such purchase exceed 125 per centum of the assessed value. Not to exceed $194,000 of the unexpended balances of thePart of unexpended balances available without limitation as to assessed price. appropriations for school-building and playground sites contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1927, 1928, and 1929 is made available until June 30, 1930, without limitation as to price based on assessed value, for the purchase of such sites. Not to exceed $15,500 of the appropriation ot $375,000 for anLangley Junior High.Balance for addition to, reappropriated for building on Grant Road.Vol. 44, p. 1315. addition to the Langley Junior High School, contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, is hereby reappropriated and made available as an additional sum for the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, on the site on Grant Road now owned by the District of Columbia. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in thisPreparation of plans. 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 an excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carriedDoors to open outward. in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits orUnlocking on school days. entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. 1282 Police.METROPOLITAN POLICE salaries Salaries, officers, etc.Vol. 43, p. 174.For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia,” (43 Stat., pp. 174–175) including compensation at the rate of $2,100 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police *Proviso*.Limitations, bicycles and motor vehicles.department, $2,722,110: *Provided,* That hereafter no more than $50 per annum shall be paid as extra compensation to members mounted on bicycles, and no more than $312 per annum to members who may be called upon to use motor vehicles, furnished and maintained by themselves. Personal services.For personal services, $114,850. miscellaneous Fuel.For fuel, $8,500. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to police stations and station grounds, $10,000. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for fugitives, purchase of modern revolvers and other firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, teletype system, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, not to exceed $200 for car tickets, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, and saddles, mounted equipment, flags and halyards, storage of stolen or abandoned property, and traveling and other expenses incurred in Prevention and detection of crime.prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expense, $62,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $2,000 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein *Provisos*.Army mounted equipment.Repairs to speedometers by District electrician.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: *Provided further,* That the commissioners are authorized to employ the electrician of the District Building to repair speedometers at such cost not exceeding $250 as they may approve, payment to be in addition to his regular compensation, and such services to be performed after regular working hours. Motor vehicles.For purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles and the replacement of those worn out in the service and condemned, $65,000. Uniforms.Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the Metropolitan police, $67,050. Fifteenth precinct.Additional lands.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 666.Not to exceed $2,000 of the appropriation of $52,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 (45 Stat., p. 666), for the erection of a building to be known as the fifteenth police precinct station house, shall be available for the acquisition of additional land for the site for such building. House of detention.house of detention Maintenance.For maintenance, including rent, of a suitable place for the reception and detention of girls and women over seventeen years of age, 1283 arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including transportation, the purchase and maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of building, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses, $22,000; for personal services, $10,440; in all, $32,440: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Locations barred.That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the maintenance of a House of Detention in the territory abutting or adjacent to the grounds of the Capitol Building, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Library of Congress. harbor patrol For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals. $2,000.Harbor patrol. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUNDPolicemen, etc., relief fund. To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, such sum as is necessary forPayments from. said purposes for the fiscal year 1930 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. FIRE DEPARTMENTFire department. salaries For the pay of officers and members of the fireSalaries, officers, etc.Vol. 43, p. 175. department, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia” (43 Stat., p. 175), $1,897,000. For personal services in accordance with the Classification ActPersonal services. of 1923, $9,440. miscellaneous For repairs and improvements to buildings andRepairs, etc., to buildings. grounds, including buddings not to exceed $8,000 for repairs and improvements at No. 8 engine house $33,000. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipmentUniforms. prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the fire department, $30,400. For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other Repairs to apparatus, etc.motor-driven apparatus, fire boat and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the *Proviso*.Construction at repair shop.purchase of necessary supplies, materials, equipment, and tools, $49,000: *Provided,* That the commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or construct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire department repair shop.Hose, and fuel. For hose, $1,000. For fuel, $29,000. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing,Contingent expenses. gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, $29,000. For one automobile, $2,000.Automobile. For an additional amount for a site for an engine company, toSite near Connecticut and Nebraska Avenue. be located in the vicinity of Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues northwest, $28,200. 1284 House furniture and furnishings for.For house, furniture, and furnishings for an engine company, to be located in the vicinity of Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues northwest, including the cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, $63,750. Health Department.HEALTH DEPARTMENT salaries Personal services.For personal services, $181,690. Prevention of contagious diseases.prevention of contagious diseases Enforcement expenses.Vol. 29, p. 635.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 (29 Stat., pp. 635–641), 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 (34 Stat., pp. 889–890), and an Act to provide for Tuberculosis registration.Vol. 35, p. 126.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 (35 Stat., pp. 126–127), under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in Infantile paralysis.indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile paralysis and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention of venereal diseases in the Venereal diseases.Vol. 43, p. 1001.District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 1001–1003), 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 medical Smallpox hospital.*Proviso.*Bacteriological examination of milk, etc.journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, $45,000: *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, Providence and Garfield Hospitals.For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $15,500 and $8,500, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $24,000. Tuberculosis and venereal 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, rent, supplies, *Provisos.*Volunteer services.and contingent expenses, $24,200: *Provided,* That the commissioners may accept such volunteers services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: No pay authorized therefor.*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, $3,700. 1285 For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for theDrainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 126.Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114. drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896 (29 Stat. pp. 125–126), and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $2,500. hygiene and sanitation, public schoolsHygiene, etc., public schools. Salaries: For personal services in the conduct ofPersonal services.Free dental clinics.*Proviso.*Division of inspectors and nurses. hygiene and sanitation work in the public schools, including the necessary expenses of maintaining free dental clinics, $78,600: *Provided,* That of the persons employed as medical inspectors one shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, and that of the graduate nurses employed as public-school nurses three shall be of the colored race. For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books andMaintenance of laboratories. periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $3,000. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an ActPreventing food, candy, etc., adulterations.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 395. relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat., pp. 246–248), an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898 (30 Stat., p. 398), an Act for preventingPure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768. the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., pp. 768–772), and an Act to regulate,Milk regulations.Vol. 43, p. 1004. within the District of Columbia, the sale or milk, cream, and ice cream, and for other purposes, approved February 27, 1925 (43 Stat., pp. 1004–1008), including traveling and other necessary expenses ot dairyfarm inspectors; and including not to exceed $100 for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk, $8,100: *Provided,* *Proviso*.Dairy farm inspectors.Allowance for motor vehicles.That inspectors of dairy farms may receive an allowance for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at the rate of not to exceed $480 per annum for each inspector. For maintenance, including personal services, of the publicCrematorium. crematorium, $3,900: *Provided,* *Proviso*.Containers to be furnished.That the health officer is authorized to provide and furnish proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium, which ashes remain unclaimed after twelve months from date of such cremation. The health officer of the District of Columbia is herebyMarriage records.Transfer of, to clerk of District Supreme Court. authorized and directed to transfer all the marriage records in the health department, within fifteen days after the passage of this Act, to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, who shall thereafter have the same control and custody of such records as he has now of the marriage records in the said clerk’s office. For maintenance and operation of motorMotor vehicles. ambulances and motor vehicles, including not to exceed $1,750 for the purchase of one motor ambulance, $3,500. For maintaining a child hygiene service, including theWelfare stations for child welfare service. establishment and maintenance of child-welfare stations for the clinical examinations, advice, care, and maintenance of children under six years of age, payment for personal services, rent, fuel, periodicals, and supplies, $54,000: *Provided,* *Provisos*.Volunteer services accepted.That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service herein authorized: No pay therefor.*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. 1286 Courts and prisons.COURTS AND PRISONS Juvenile Court.juvenile court Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, $59,490. Jurors.Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $2,000. Contingent expenses.For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, repairs to courthouse and grounds, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $4,250. 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. Police court.police court Personal services.*Proviso*.Time restriction for traffic violation cases.Salaries: For personal services, including $300 additional for presiding judge, $100,920: *Provided,* That no part of the appropriations made herein for the Police Court shall be expended for the holding of court on any day after six o’clock postmeridian for the trial of cases involving violations of traffic laws and regulations. Contingent expenses.For law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, 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, lodging and meals for jurors and bailiffs when ordered by the court, United States flags and halyards, and all other necessary and incidental expenses of every kind not otherwise provided for, $7,700. Witness fees.For witness fees, $1,500. Jurors.For compensation of jurors, $30,000. FRepairs to building.or repairs and alterations to building, $2,500. Municipal court.municipal court Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, including $300 additional for presiding judge, $68,470. Jurors.*Proviso.*Deposits for jury trials earned unless new date set by court.Vol. 41, p. 1312.For compensation of jurors, $6,000: *Provided,* That deposits made on demands for jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the court under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. Rent.For rent of building, $4,800. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, lodging and meals for jurors, and for deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court; fixtures, repairs to furniture, building, and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $4,000. 1287 supreme court, district of columbiaDistrict Supreme Court. Salaries: Chief justice, $10,500; six associate justices,Salaries. at $10,000 each; seven stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, $18,200; in all, $88,700. Fees of witnesses: For mileageWitnesses.R. S., sec. 850, p. 160.Vol. 44, p. 323.U. S. Code, p. 927. and per diem of witnesses and for per diem in lieu of subsistence, and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 927, sec. 604), $32,000. Fees of jurors: For mileage and per diems of jurors, $79,000.Jurors. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court,Bailiffs, etc. of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, clerk of jury commissioners, and per diems of jury commissioners, $44,620: *Provided,* *Proviso*.Jury commissioners.That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1930 shall not exceed $250. Probation system: For personalProbation system. services, $9,560; contingent expenses, $440; in all, $10,000. Courthouse: For personal services for care and protectionCourthouse.Care, etc., of. of the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $35,000, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. For repairs and improvements to the courthouseRepairs, etc., including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $5,800, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. court of appealsCourt of Appeals. Salaries: Chief justice and two associate justicesSalaries., at $12,500 each; all other officers and employees of the court, including reporting service, $27,700; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $950; in all, $66,150: *Provided,* That the reports*Proviso*.Sale of reports. of the court shall not be sold for a price exceeding that approved by the court and for not more than $6.50 per volume. Building: For personal services for care and protection of theCare, etc., of building.*Proviso*.Custodian. Court of Appeals Building, including one mechanician, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $8,340: *Provided,* That the clerk of the court of appeals shall be the custodian of said building, under the direction and supervision of the justices of said court. For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse,Incidental expenses. electrical supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $780. miscellaneous Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, andSupport of convicts out of the District. transportation of convicts transferred from 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, $110,000. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs Lunacy writs.Expenses of executing.Vol. 33, p. 740.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 1288of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, $8,720. Miscellaneous expenses authorized by Attorney General.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, $60,000. Printing and binding for the courts.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States in a party, $4,200. Public welfare.PUBLIC WELFARE Board of Public Welfare.board of public welfare Personal services.For personal services, $107,900. Living expenses of officials at institutions.The practice of allowing quarters, heat, light, household equipment, subsistence, and laundry service to officers and employees of the Government of the District of Columbia who are required to live at the several institutions of such District may be continued at the rates or values in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act pending review and determination of rates or values by the Personnel Classification Board as provided by law. Child welfare division.division of child welfare Administrative expenses.Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses, Limitation on visiting wards outside the District, etc.$4,000; and no part of the money 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. Board, etc., of children.For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $230,000. Home care of dependent children.Vol. 44, p. 758.To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provide home care for dependent children in the District of Columbia,” approved June 22, 1926 (44 Stat., pp. 758–760), including not to exceed $13,280 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $133,200. Place for detention of children under seventeen, apart from House of Detention.For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the House of Detention for the reception and detention of children under seventeen years of age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or committed to the guardianship of the board, or held as witnesses, or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, including transportation, purchase of one Maintenance expenses, etc.passenger-carrying motor vehicle at a cost not to exceed $750, operation and maintenance of motor vehicles, food, clothing, medicine and medical supplies, rental and repair and upkeep of buildings, fuel, gas, electricity, ice, supplies 1289and equipment, and other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $15,440 for personal services, $40,000. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorizedAdvances to director. to advance to the director of public welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said director by the commissioners, sums of Limit.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. Salaries: For personal services, $72,670.Personal services. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District ofMaintenance and support of prisoners. Columbia at the jail, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their recapture, repair and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle and expense of electrocutions, $68,500. For purchase and equipment of one dump truck, $875.Truck. workhouse and reformatoryWorkhouse and reformatory. Salaries: For personal services, $17,000.Personal services. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorizedAdvances authorized for returning escaped prisoners. to advance to the general superintendent of penal institutions, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require of said superintendent, sums of money not Limit.exceeding $100 at one time, to be used only for expenses in returning escaped prisoners, payable from the maintenance appropriations for the workhouse and reformatory, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. workhouseWorkhouse. For personal services, $113,560;Personal services. For maintenance, clothing, and support of prisoners; rewardsMaintenance. for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine, and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters, for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, livestock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; supplies and all other necessary items, $109,000; For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, $47,500;Fuel. For continuing construction of permanent buildings, includingConstruction of buildings, etc. sewers, water mains, and roads; for equipment for new buildings; for material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks, $85,000; In all, $355,060, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. reformatoryReformatory. Salaries: For personal services, $88,380;Personal services. For continuing construction of permanent buildings, includingConstruction of buildings, etc. sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad; for equipment for new buildings; for material for repairs 1290Reappropriation from sum for police station.*Ante*, pp. 666, 1276.to buildings, roads, and walks, there is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes of this paragraph the sum of $50,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 for the erection of a building to be known as the fifteenth police precinct station house; Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, clothing, and support of inmates; rewards for fugitives; discharge gratuities provided by law; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, livestock, tools, equipment; transportation; purchase of material for the manufacture of metal tags, signs and markers, and cast-iron products; maintenance and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; supplies and all other necessary items, $87,000; Fuel.For fuel, $18,000; In all, $193,380, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Working capital.Transfers to, from workhouse and reformatory appropriations.Working capital: To provide working capital for industrial enterprises at the workhouse and the reformatory, the commissioner shall transfer to a fund, to be known as the working-capital fund, such amounts appropriated herein for the workhouse and reformatory, not to exceed $50,000 as are available for industrial work at these institutions. Purchase of products by departments, etc.The various departments and institutions of the District of Columbia and the Federal Government may purchase, at fair market prices, as determined by the commissioners, such industrial or farm products as meet their requirements. Receipts deposited as a revolving fund.Receipts from the sale of such products shall be deposited to the credit of said working-capital fund, and the said fund, including all receipts credited thereto, may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1930. Availability of funds.This fund shall be available for the purchase and repair of machinery and equipment, for the purchase of raw materials and manufacturing supplies, for personal services and for the payment to the inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings as the commissioners may deem proper. Report to Congress.The commissioners shall include in their annual report to Congress a detailed report of the receipts and expenditures on account of said working-capital fund. National Training School for Boys.national training school for boys Care, etc., of boys committed thereto.For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $40,000. National Training School for Girls.national training school for girls Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, $38,700. 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 $1,500 for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates and for rewards for their capture, for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged girls, and for maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $37,900. Motor truck.For purchase, exchange, and equipment of one one-ton motor truck, $500. 1291 The unexpended balance of $1,730.70 of the appropriation ofUnexpended balance reappropriated for laundry for white girls, Muirkirk, Md.Vol. 43, p. 1322. $23,000 for construction of buildings, including necessary waterworks, electrical connections, and sewage disposal contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved March 4, 1925, is reappropriated and made available for construction of laundry and other necessary work in the building for white girls at Muirkirk, Maryland. medical charitiesMedical charities. For care and treatment of indigent patients underCare, etc., of indigent patients at designated hospitals. contracts to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children’s Hospital, $22,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $25,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $15,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000. columbia hospital and lying-in asylumColumbia Hospital. For general repairs and for additional construction, including labor and material, and forRepairs, etc. expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $15,000. tuberculosis hospitalTuberculosis Hospital. Salaries: For personal services, $71,500.Personal services. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs toContingent expenses. same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed $50. temporary services not to exceed $1,000, maintenance of motor truck, and other necessary items, $59,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds,Repairs, etc. including roads and sidewalks, $9,500. For the study and preparation of plans for a sanatorium for theStudy, etc., for a sanatorium for tubercular children. care, treatment, and education of tubercular children, $1,500, to be immediately available, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall submit such plans with recommendations to the first session of the Seventy-first Congress. gallinger municipal hospitalGallinger Hospital. Salaries: For personal services, $294,000.Personal services. For maintenance, maintenance of horses and horse-drawnMaintenance, etc. vehicles, books of reference and periodicals, not to exceed $50, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, $209,000. For repairs to buildings, $6,000.Repairs. Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense ofIncidental expenses. commencement exercises, entertainments, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $600. For an additional amount for completing the construction of theDomestic service, etc., buildings.Construction.Vol. 44, p. 445. domestic service and ward buildings at Gallinger Municipal Hospital, subject to the limitations prescribed in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927; for purchase and installation of new boiler and accessories; and for sewer and water connections, roads, walks, and improvement of grounds, $49,000. For construction and equipment of a nurses’ homeNurses’ home.Construction, etc. with capacity for one hundred and fifty nurses, including proper offices, recreation rooms, library, and teaching accommodations, $150,000, and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building at a total cost not to exceed $325,000. 1292 District Training School.district training school Personal services.For personal services, $74,000. Maintenance.For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons, including not to exceed $1,000 for topographical survey and landscape study, $78,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including purchase of machinery and tools for same, $10,000. Motor truck.For purchase and equipment of one two-ton motor dump truck, $1,750. Employees’ building, etc.For construction of employees’ building, including necessary heating, sewer, water, and electric-light equipment, $100,000. Silos.For erection of two silos, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise as, in the judgment of the commissioners, may be most advantageous to the District of Columbia, $1,500. Acquisition of adjoining lands.For acquisition, by purchase or condemnation, of approximately thirty-five acres, more or less, of land adjoining the site of the District Condemnation proceedings.Training School. If the land proposed to be acquired can not be purchased at a satisfactory price the Attorney General of the United States, at the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, shall institute condemnation proceedings to acquire such land, the title of said land to be taken directly to and in the name of the United States, but the land so acquired shall be held under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as agents of the United States, and the expenses of procuring evidence of title or of condemnation, or both, shall be paid out of the appropriation herein made for the purchase of said land, $2,500. Superintendent’s residence.For erection of a residence for the superintendent, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise as, in the judgment of the commissioners, may be. most advantageous to the District of Columbia, $20,000. Industrial Home School for colored children.industrial home school for colored children Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, $33,460; temporary labor, $500: in all, $33,960. Maintenance.For maintenance, including horses, wagons, and harness, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,250 for manual-training equipment and materials, $24,000. Repairs.For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. Rebuilding barn.For rebuilding of barn, such work to be done by day labor or otherwise as. in the judgment of the commissioners, may be most advantageous to the District of Columbia, $2,500. Deposit of receipts from 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 School.industrial home school Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, $25,500; temporary labor, $500; in all, $26,000. Maintenance.For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, $25,500. Repairs.For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $4,000. Home for Aged and Infirm.home for aged and infirm Personal services.Salaries: For personal services, $53,900; temporary labor, $2,000: in all, $55,900. 1293 For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs toContingent expenses. same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $57,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, suchRepairs, etc. work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the commissioners, $12,000. For extension of three ward buildings and dining room, suchExtension of buildings, etc. work to be performed by day labor or otherwise as, in the judgment of the commissioners, may be most advantageous to the District of Columbia, $47,000. municipal lodging house and wood yard For personal services, $3,660; maintenance, $3,000; in all, $6,660.Municipal lodging house. temporary home for union ex-soldiers and sailors (department of the potomac, g. a. r.) For personal services, $4,740; maintenance, $9,060; and repairs to building, $2,000; inGrand Army soldiers, etc., temporary home. all. $15,800, 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 For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with theHope and Help Mission. Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $5,000. southern relief society For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows andSouthern Relief Society for needy Confederate Veterans. dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located at 1800 D StreetNational Library for the Blind. northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. columbia polytechnic institute To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located at 1808 H StreetColumbia Polytechnic Institute. northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000. saint elizabeths hospitalSaint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint in Elizabeths Hospital,Support of District insane in. as provided by law, $1,572,000. nonresident insane For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of CongressDeporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. “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. 1294 Advances authorized to Director of Public Welfare.In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Director of Public Welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon Limit.such security as the commissioners may require of said directors, 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 Relief o. the poor.For relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and for pay of physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, $7,500. Payment to abandoned families, etc.Vol. 34, p. 87.Vol. 44, p. 758.For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An Act 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, 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, $3,500. Ex-service men.burial of ex-service men Burial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc.For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent Union ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines, of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired, and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $225. transportation of indigent persons Transporting indigent persons.For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans of the World War and their families, $3,500. Militia.MILITIA Expenses authorized under the commanding general.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: Personal services.For personal services, $18,950; temporary labor, $7,000; in all, $25,950. Expenses of camps, drills, etc.For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, 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, drills, and parades; rent of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; fuel, light, heat, care and repair of armories, offices, and storehouses, machinery and dock, dredging alongside of dock, construction of buildings for storage and other purposes at target range, telephone service, horses and mules for mounted organizations, maintenance and operation of passenger and nonpassenger motor vehicles, street car fares (not to exceed $200) necessarily used in the transaction of official business, not exceeding $400 for traveling expenses, including attendance at meetings or conventions of associations pertaining to the National Guard, and for general incidental expenses of the service, $13,500. 1295 For printing, stationery, and postage, $750.Printing, etc.Contingent expenses. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $1,200. For expenses of target practice matches, including matches heldTarget practice matches. outside of the District of Columbia and travel incident thereto, $2,500. For pay of troops other Pay of troops.than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $9,000. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, in accordance withAnacostia Park.Continuing development. the revised plan as set torth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, $180,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKSPublic Buildings and Public Parks. salaries, public parks, district of columbia For personal services, $405,000.Personal services. general expenses, public parksPublic parks. General expenses: For general expenses in connection with the maintenance, care,Maintenance, services, and general expenses. improvement, furnishing of heat, light, and power of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, including $5,000Tourists’ camp, East Potomac Park. for the maintenance of the tourists’ camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of seasonal or intermittent employees at per diem rates of pay approved by the director, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the director; the purchase and maintenance of draft, animals, harness, and wagons; contingent expenses; city directories; communication service; car fare; traveling expenses; professional, scientific, technical, and law books; periodicals and reference books; blank books and forms; photographs; dictionaries and maps; leather and rubber articles for the protection of employees and property; the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of not to exceed four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motor cycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $570,000:*Provisos.*Outdoorsports, band concerts, etc. *Provided,* That not exceeding $35,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports and for expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; not exceeding.$25,000 for the improvement and maintenance as recreation parks of Sections C and D, Anacostia Park; not exceeding $122,000 forAnacostia Park.Rock Creek and Potomac parkway. the improvement of the Rock Creek and Potomac connecting parkway and the continuation of construction of sea wall; not exceeding $100,000 for the improvement of Meridian Hill Park;Meridian Hill Park. not exceeding $14,000 for installation of lighting and sewer systems for the Sylvan Theater; not exceeding $40,000 for beginning the construction of a sidewalk and protective railing along the sea wall of East Potomac Park; East Potomac Park sea wall, etc.and not exceeding $10,000 for the erection of minor auxiliary structures: *Provided,* That not to exceed*Proviso.*Architectural services. $5,000 may be expended by contract or otherwise for architectural or other professional services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923 as amended or civil-service rules, as approved by the director. 1296 Park police.park police Pay, etc.Vol. 43, p. 175; Vol. 44, p. 834.Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $152,000. Uniforms, equipment, etc.For uniforming and equipping the United States park police force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor cycles, uniforms and ammunition and including the operation and maintenance of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $12,400. National Capital Park and Planning Commission.NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION Incidental, etc., expenses.Vol. 43, p. 463; Vol. 44, p. 374.For each and every purpose requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National *Ante*, p. 1070.Capital,” approved June 6, 1924 (43 Stat., pp. 463–464), as amended, and the Act approved December 22, 1928 (Public Numbered 646, Seventieth Congress), including not to exceed $100 for technical books and periodicals, not to exceed $50,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $3,500 for printing and binding, $1,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain *Provisos.*Purchase price for sites.available until expended: *Provided.* That not more than $300,000 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 No acquisitions outside the District.assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the acquisition of land outside of the District of Columbia. Connecting parkway.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 849.The unexpended balance of the appropriation contained in the “Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1926,” for continuing the acquisition of lands for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park shall remain available until June 30, 1930. National Zoological Park.NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK Expenses.For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; traveling and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle required for official purposes; not exceeding $2,500 for purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, keepers, and assistant keepers; not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $203,000, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. Exhibition building.For the construction of a public exhibition building for reptiles, amphibians, insects, and miscellaneous invertebrates, $220,000. Water service.WATER SERVICE 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: 1297 washington aqueductWashington Aqueduct. For operation, including salaries of all necessaryMaintenance, etc., of, and accessories. employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueducts and their accessories, including Dalecarlia, Georgetown, McMillan Park, First, Second, and Third High Service Reservoirs, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plants, the pumping plants, and the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters on Federal services, purchase, care repair, and operation of vehicles, including the purchase and exchange of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle at a cost not to exceed $1,200; purchase and repair of rubber boots and protective apparel, purchase of parcel of land containing six thousand eight hundred and thirteen and seven-tenths square feet, more or less, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $441,000. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting theControl of Secretary of War not affected. 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. For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: ForRevenue, inspection, and distribution branches. personal services, $154,800. 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 and binding not to exceed $2,000, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books, and periodicals, not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $7,500; in all for maintenance, $365,000. For extension of the water department distribution system,Distribution expenses. laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $250,000. For installing water meters on services to private residencesMeters in residences, etc. and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $30,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, $50,000.Hydrants. For replacement of old mains in various locations, on account ofReplacing old mains. inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains in advance of pavement, $50,000. For three thousand four hundred and fifty feet of thirty-six inchNew mains authorized. main in M Street northwest, from Eleventh Street to New Jersey Avenue, $105,000. For one thousand four hundred and fifty feet of twenty-inch main in East Capitol Street between Fiftieth Street and Fifty-third Place, $9,570. For two thousand four hundred feet of sixteen-inch main in North Dakota Avenue between North Capitol and Third Streets, northwest, $11,640. For two thousand one hundred feet of sixteen-inch main in Sixteenth Street from Alaska Avenue to Holly Street, northwest, $10,500. For two thousand seven hundred feet of twenty-inch main in proposed Fiftieth Street from Upton Street to proposed Loughboro Road, northwest, $17,820. 1298 Sec. 2. Construction work, etc., under Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed.That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street-cleaning, or road work, or construction and repair or buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their Budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, *Provisos.*Maximum.Employment period limited.and out of what appropriation: *Provided,* That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $30,000 during the fiscal year 1930: *Provided, further,* That, excluding five inspectors in the sewer department no person shall be employed in pursuance of the authority contained in this paragraph for a longer period than nine months in the aggregate during the fiscal year. Temporary laborers, mechanics, etc.The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, and any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 3. Horses, vehicles, etc.That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary 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 Special authority from Commissioners for using.effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in the Budget estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District *Proviso.*Temporary work for excavations.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 1299all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Sec. 5. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work, the cost of which isMiscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368. payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as the Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia, all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fittings, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, two bookkeepers in the auditor’s office, clerk in the office of the collector of taxes, horses, carts, and wagons, and to hire therefor motor trucks when specifically and in writing authorized by the commissioners, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles for inspection and transportation purposes, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Any person employed under any of the provisions of this ActLeaves of absence, if employed ten months consecutively. 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,Materials, supplies, vehicles, etc.Purchase directed from stock of Government activities no longer needed. in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, in accordance with the regulations and schedules of the General Supply Committee or from the various services of the Government of the United States possessing material, supplies, passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, and equipment no longer required because of the cessation of war activities. Surplus articles purchased from thePrice stipulation. Government, if the same have not been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price, not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage. The various services ofSales authorized. the Government of the United States are authorized to sell such surplus articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as *Proviso*.Transfers under Executive order not affected.miscellaneous receipts: *Provided,* That this section shall not be construed to amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities. Sec. 7. Of the appropriations for the fiscal years 1929 and 1930,Retirement fund.Vol. 41, p. 619; Vol. 44, p. 912.Amount from District revenues charged to. respectively, toward financing the liability of the United States created by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof, the sum of $150,000 for each of such fiscal years shall be charged to the revenues of the District of Columbia and such sums shall be transferred from the revenues of the District to the credit of the United States on account of the retirement of District of Columbia personnel under such Acts. Approved, February 25, 1929.
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