Chapter 659. 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, 1929, and for other purposes

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Chap. 659: 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, 1929, and for other purposes. Chapter 659 45 Stat. 645 1928-05-21 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 1 public 645 Chapter 659.— 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, 1929, and for other purposes.

May 21, 1928.[[H. R. 11133](/us/bill/70/hr/11133).][[Public, No. 457](/us/pl/70/457).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in order to District of Columbia.Appropriations for expenses of, from District revenues, and $9,000,000 from the Treasury.defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, 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 Revenues from activities from all sources to be credited to the District.of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $9,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1928, Advances.Vol. 42, p.668.and all the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia and such advances from the Federal Treasury as are authorized in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, namely:

GENERAL EXPENSES General expenses. executive office Executive office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Office personnel.1923, $43,890, plus so much as may be necessary to make salary of *Provisos.*Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.engineer commissioner $7,500: *Provided,* That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation If only one position in a grade.rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed Advances in unusually meritorious cases.the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year, and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided,* That this restriction Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction.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 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 Payments under higher rates permitted.a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, and is specifically authorized by other law; Purchasing division: For personal services in accordance with Purchasing division.the Classification Act of 1923, $54,080. Building inspection division: For personal services in accordance Building inspection division.with the Classification Act of 1923, $113,160. Plumbing inspection division: For personal services in accordance Plumbing inspection division.with the Classification Act of 1923, $30,950; 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, $36,250. 646 care of district building District Building.Operating force. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $49,070; services of cleaners as necessary, not to exceed 48 cents *Proviso.*Assistant engineers or watchmen.per hour, $14,000, in all, $63,070: *Provided,* That no other appropriation made in this Act shall be available for the employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen for the care of the District Building. Operating expenses. For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor not to exceed $5,000, and miscellaneous supplies, including not to exceed $1,800 for purchase and installation of elevator hatchway door interlocks, $34,500. assessor’s office Assessor’s office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $186,770; temporary clerk hire, $3,000; in all, $189,770. license bureau License bureau.*Proviso.*Phrenology license required.Vol. 32, p. 826. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $17,820; temporary clerk hire, $1,500; in all, $19,320: *Provided,* That hereafter no person shall practice phrenology in the District of Columbia without paying the license tax named in paragraph 32, section 7, of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 1, 1902, subject to the proviso contained in said paragraph. collector’s office Collector’s office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including $1,000 for temporary clerk hire, $43,550. auditor’s office Auditor’s office.Other duties permitted disbursing officers. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $104,210, and the compensation of the present incumbent of the position of disbursing officer of the District of Columbia shall be exclusive of his compensation as United States property and disbursing officer for the National Guard of the District of Columbia. office of corporation counsel Corporation counsel’s office. Corporation counsel, including extra compensation as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission, $7,500, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $50,840; in all, $58,340. coroner’s office Coroner’s office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,190. 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, Reconstructing wharf.telephone service, and other necessary supplies, repairs to the morgue, including not to exceed $6,000 for reconstructing the morgue wharf, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $10,000. office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets Office of superintendent of weights, etc.Personal services. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $42,545. 647 For purchase of commodities, including personal services, in Inspection, etc.connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, $500. For maintenance and repairs to markets, $7,500. Markets, etc. For repairs, alterations, additions, and purchase and installment Western market.of equipment, Western Market, $35,000. For maintenance and repair of seven nonpassenger-carrying motor Motor vehicles.vehicles, $2,500. For the purchase of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $475. highways department For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Highways department.1923, $197,850. sewer department For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Sewer department.1923, $178,360. trees and parking department For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Trees and parking department.1923, $19,720. office of chief clerk, engineer department For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Engineering department, office of chief clerk.1923, $26,040. central garage For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Central garage.1923, $4,890. municipal architect’s office For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Municipal architect’s office.1923, $53,740. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal Limit for services of draftsmen, etc.architect in payment for the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, clerks, copyists, and inspectors, employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations, shall be based on an amount not Amount increased.exceeding 3 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 2½ per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000. public utilities commission Public Utilities Commission. For two commissioners at $7,500 each; people’s counsel, $7,500; Commissioners, people’s counsel, and personnel.Time requirements.and for other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923; in all, $72,230; and no part of this appropriation shall be available for the compensation of any person giving less than full time from nine o’clock antemeridian to four thirty o’clock postmeridian to his official duties. For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized Incidental expenses.by law, $4,200. board of examiners, steam engineers Salaries: Three members, at $150 each, $450. Examiners, steam engineers. department of insurance For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Insurance department.1923, $18,090. 648 surveyor’s office Surveyor’s office. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $79,050. Revision of highway plans. For revision of the highway plan, including the surveying and permanent marking on the ground of the system of highways, $3,000. district of columbia employees’ compensation fund Employees’ compensation fund.Payment for injuries.Vol. 41, p. 104. For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia Vol. 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, $28,000. office of the director of traffic Director of Traffic.Personal services. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $29,600. Necessary expenses. For purchase of traffic signals and markers, painting white lines, labor, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment *Proviso.*Not available for street car loading platforms, etc.of the commissioners, $45,000: *Provided,* That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act or that is now available shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining street-car loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same. free public library Public Library.Personal services. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $240,035. Substitutes, etc. For substitutes and other special and temporary service, at the *Proviso.*Library stations restriction.discretion of the librarian, $6,000: *Provided,* That no money appropriated by this Act shall be expended in conducting library Conduit Road School subbranch excepted.stations not now in operation, but this restriction shall not apply to the Conduit Road School subbranch. Sunday, etc., openings. For extra services on Sundays, holidays, and Saturday half holidays, $3,000. Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, and newspapers, including *Proviso.*Advances for book purchases, etc.payment in advance for subscriptions to periodicals, newspapers, subscription books, and 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, 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, purchase, exchange, and maintenance of motor delivery vehicles, and other contingent expenses, $29,500. Chevy Chase branch, rent. For rent of suitable quarters for branch library in Chevy Chase, $2,400. register of wills Register of Wills.Personal services. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $67,560. Contingent expenses. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, towels, towel service, 649window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, and including $1,500 for the purchase of a cash register, in all, $10,000. recorder of deeds Recorder of Deeds. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act Personal services.of 1923, $96,000. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including telephone Contingent expenses.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, $14,500. For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $14,000. Rent of offices. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES Contingent expenses. For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, Objects specified.stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; purchase of laboratory apparatus and equipment and maintenance of laboratory in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies and bicycles not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice; repairs to pound and vehicles; use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed $800 in the aggregate; traveling expenses not to exceed $3,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses authorized by law in connection with the removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings; and other general necessary expenses of District offices, *Proviso.*Printing list of supplies schedules forbidden.$50,000: *Provided,* That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act or of any appropriation which may now be available shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded. For printing all annual and special reports of the government of Printing reports for fiscal year 1928.the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, for submission to Congress, $4,800: *Provided,* That authority is hereby *Proviso.*Discretionary discontinuance.given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to discontinue the printing of any annual or special reports of the government of the District of Columbia in order to keep the expenditures within this appropriation. In all cases where the printing of said reports Preservation of originals.is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the Commissioners or the District of Columbia for public inspection. For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying Automobiles.Maintenance, etc.automobiles owned by the District of Columbia, $76,670; 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, $15,530; and for the purchase Purchases allowed.of passenger-carrying automobiles as follows: Executive office, one, $1,800; District Training School, one autobus, $1,500; Public Utilities Commission, one, $1,500; in all, $97,000. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in Allowances for privately owned motor vehicles.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, $15,000. 650 Use by officials restricted. All of said motor vehicles and all other motor vehicles provided for in this Act and all horse-drawn carriages and buggies owned by the District of Columbia shall be used only for purposes directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and *Proviso.*Cost restriction.employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act: *Provided,* That with the exception of motor vehicles for the police and fire departments, no automobile shall be acquired under any provision of this Act, by purchase or exchange at a cost, including the value of a vehicle exchanged, exceeding $650, except as may be Transfers forbidden.herein specifically authorized. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Use of other appropriations for horses, etc., forbidden. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance, and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized. Fire insurance prohibited. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance. Telephones allowed at residences of designated officials. Telephones may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent of the water department, sanitary engineer, chief inspector of the street-cleaning division, assistant superintendent of the street-cleaning division, inspector of plumbing, Director of Public Welfare, health officer, assistant health officer, chief of the bureau of preventable diseases, chief engineer of the fire department, superintendent of police, electrical inspector in charge of the fire-alarm system, one fire-alarm operator, and two fire-alarm repair men, the superintendent of machinery, and the fire marshal, under appropriations Connections permitted.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, $21,000. Car fares, etc. The commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of street-car and bus *Provisos.*Limit.fares from appropriations contained in this Act: *Provided,* That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to Firemen and police excepted.exceed a total of $8,000: *Provided further,* That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. Judicial expenses. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, $4,500. 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, 1928, as required to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be *Provisos.*Tax sale pamphlet discontinued.reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, $6,000: *Provided,* That the printing of tax-sale pamphlets shall be discontinued and in lieu thereof the notice of sale and Advertising delinquent tax in newspapers.the delinquent tax list shall hereafter be advertised once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one morning and one evening news-651paper 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 published: *Provided further,* That competitive Competitive proposals for publishing list.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 For personal services and miscellaneous and contingent expenses Employment services expenses.required for maintaining a public employment service for the District of Columbia, $9,650. historical places For purchase and erection of suitable tablets to mark historical Historical tablets.places in the District of Columbia, $500. emergency fund Emergency fund. To be expended only m case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, Expenses under, restricted.public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire or storm, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, in the discretion of the commissioners, $4,000: *Provided,* That in making purchases under this fund not *Proviso.*Purchases.more than the market price shall be paid, and all bids above the market price shall be rejected and new bids received or purchases made in open market, as may, in the judgment of the commissioners, be most economical and advantageous to the District of Columbia. refund of erroneous collections Refund of erroneous collections. To enable the commissioners, in any case where special assessments, Payments authorized from.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 Building permits.Vol. 36, p. 967.*Proviso.*Prior years.paid for building permits authorized by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1911, $3,000: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for such refunds of payments made within the past three years. To aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners Conference on Uniform State Laws.on Uniform State Laws, $250. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR Street, etc., improvement and repairs. For assessment and permit work, including maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying Assessment and permit work.motor vehicles, $300,000. For paving roadways under the permit system, $40,000. Paving roadways. gasoline tax road and street fund Gasoline tax road and street fund. For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, Paving, etc., streets, and roads from.avenues, and roads, including personal services and the maintenance of motor vehicles used in this work, and including curbing and 652gutters and replacement of curb-line trees where necessary, as follows, Vol. 43, p. 106.to be paid from the special fund created by section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved April 23, 1924, and accretions by repayment, of assessments: Wisconsin Avenue NW. Northwest: Forty-first Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Davenport Street, $9,400; Quincy Street NW. Northwest: Quincy Street, Tenth Street to Georgia Avenue, $9,300; Kansas Avenue NW. Northwest: Kansas Avenue, Shepherd Street to Georgia Avenue, $17,400; Thirteenth Street NW. Northwest: Thirteenth Street, Kennedy Street to Longfellow Street, $6,600; Sixteenth Street NW. Northwest: Sixteenth Street, Alaska Avenue to Kalmia Road, $80,000; Fern Street NW. Northwest: Fern Street, Georgia Avenue to Blair Road, $15,700; Sheridan Street NW. Northwest: Sheridan Street, Third Street to Fourth Street, $6,300; Fourth Street NW. Northwest: Fourth Street, pavement south of Quackenbos Street to Rittenhouse Street, $8,000; Fifth Street NW. Northwest: Fifth Street, Grant Circle to Decatur Street, $22,000; Georgia Avenue NW. Northwest: Georgia Avenue, Fern Street to District line, $86,200; Cathedral Avenue NW. Northwest: Cathedral Avenue, Conduit Road to Potomac Avenue, $12,300; Garfield Street NW. Northwest: Garfield Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Bellevue Terrace, $9,500; Bellevue Terrace NW. Northwest: Bellevue Terrace, Fulton Street to Cathedral Avenue, $13,100; Reno Road NW. Northwest: Reno Road, Quebec Street to Rodman Street, $4,800; Forty-third Street NW. Northwest: Forty-third Street, Chesapeake Street to Brandywine Street, $6,000; Brandywine Street NW. Northwest: Brandywine Street, Forty-third Street to Forty-third Place, $4,600; Forty-third Place NW. Northwest: Forty-third Place, Chesapeake Street to Murdock Mill Road, $12,400; Tennyson Street NW. Northwest: Tennyson Street west of Thirty-third Street, $6,700; Randolph Street NW. Northwest: Randolph Street, Thirteenth Street to Kansas Avenue, $4,000; Ninth Street NW. Northwest: Ninth Street, Longfellow Street to Madison Street, $4,600; Eighth Street NW. Northwest: Eighth Street, Longfellow Street to Marietta Place, $8,400; Madison Street NW. Northwest: Madison Street, Seventh Street to Ninth Street, $12,500; Ninth Street NW. Northwest: Ninth Street, Quackenbos Street to Rittenhouse Street, $5,400; Eighth Street NW. Northwest: Eighth Street, Rittenhouse Street to Sheridan Street, $6,300; Sheridan Street NW. Northwest: Sheridan Street, Fifth Street to Ninth Street, $21,400; Fifth Street NW. Northwest: Fifth Street, Rittenhouse Street to Sheridan Street, $5,800; Ninth Street NW. Northwest: Ninth Street, Sheridan Street to Tuckerman Street, $8,000; Aspen Street NW. Northwest: Aspen Street, Georgia Avenue to Piney Branch Road, $11,600; Northwest: Aspen Street, Piney Branch Road to Blair Road, $27,000; Whittier Street NW. Northwest: Whittier Street, Fourth Street to Seventh Street, $15,700; Sixth Street NW. Northwest: Sixth Street, Whittier Street to Aspen Street, $5,200; Fifth Street NW. Northwest: Fifth Street, Van Buren Street to Aspen Street, $11,300; 653 Northwest: Fourth Street, Whittier Street to Aspen Street, $5,200; Fourth Street NW. Northwest: Second Street, Blair Road to Rittenhouse Street, Second Street NW.$11,700; Northwest: Allison Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Illinois Allison Street NW.Avenue, $7,500; Northwest: N Street, Twenty-fourth Street to Twenty-fifth Street, N Street NW.$6,300; Northwest: Warren Street, Thirty-eighth Street to Wisconsin Warren Street NW.Avenue, $6,300; Northwest: Hertford Place, Oak Street to Ogden Street, $5,600; Hertford Place NW. Northwest: Ingraham Street, Thirteenth Street west to end of Ingraham Street NW.pavement, $5,900; Northwest: Jefferson Street, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, Jefferson Street NW.$9,100; Northwest: Fifth Street, Jefferson Street to Longfellow Street, Fifth Street NW.$9,400; Northwest: Ninth Street, Gallatin Street to Hamilton Street, Ninth Street NW.$4,400; Northwest: Seventh Place, Farragut Street to Gallatin Street, Seventh Place NW.$3,800; Northwest: Fifth Street, Emerson Street to Kansas Avenue, and Fifth Street NW.Kansas Avenue NW.east side of Kansas A venue, Emerson Street to Fifth Street, $2,500; Northwest: Delafield Place, Fourth Street to Fifth Street, $7,400; Delafield Place NW. Northwest: Delafield Place, Kansas Avenue to Seventh Street, $4,400; Northwest: Crittenden Street, Fourth Street to Fifth Street, Crittenden Street NW.$7,400; Northwest: Twenty-third Street, M Street to N Street, $12,000; Twenty-third Street NW. Northwest: H Street, First Street to Massachusetts Avenue, $7,200; H Street NW. Northwest: First Street, G Street to H Street, $3,000; First Street NW. Northwest: Ninth Street, Rock Creek Church Road to Quincy Ninth Street NW.Street, $6,400; Northwest: Marietta Place, Eighth Street to Ninth Street, $5,600; Marietta Place NW. Northwest: Seventeenth Street, Varnum Street to Webster Street, Seventeenth Street NW.$4,500; Northwest: For paving Wisconsin Avenue, River Road to District Wisconsin Avenue NW.Relocating street-car tracks, sewers, etc.Refund from street railway.line, sixty feet wide, including necessary relocation of street-car tracks, sewers and water mains, refund to be obtained from street railway company so far as provided under existing law, $149,300; Northeast: Franklin Street, Sixth Street to Seventh Street, $7,700; Franklin Street NE. Northeast: Thirteenth Street, Quincy Street to Michigan Avenue, Thirteenth Street NE.$14,300; Northeast: Upshur Street, Twelfth Street to Sargent Road, $9,200; Upshur Street NE. Northeast: Thirteenth Street, Upshur Street to Varnum Street, Thirteenth Street NE.$4,600; Northeast: Lawrence Street, Twelfth Street to Fourteenth Street, Lawrence Street NE.$16,000; Northeast: Twentieth Street, Monroe Street to Otis Street, $8,900; Twentieth Street NE. Northeast: Newton Street, Twenty-second Street to Twenty-sixth Newton Street NE.Street, $15,000; Northeast: Twenty-fourth Street, Rhode Island A venue to Otis Twenty-fourth Street NE.Street, $20,300; Northeast: Carlton Avenue, South Dakota Avenue to Central Avenue, Carlton Avenue NE.$10,700; Northeast: Monroe Street, Rhode Island Avenue to Clinton Avenue, Monroe Street NE.$15,000; Northeast: Channing Street, Bladensburg Road to South Dakota Channing Street NEAvenue, $26,000; 654 Cromwell Terrace NE. Northeast: Cromwell Terrace, Second Street to Third Street, $4,000; V Street NE. Northeast: V Street, Second Street to Fourth Street, $10,000; Third Street NE. Northeast: Third Street, U Street to Adams Street, $15,000; W Street NE. Northeast: W Street, Fourth Street to Rhode Island Avenue. $5,000; Adams Street NE. Northeast: Adams Street, Third Street to Fourth Street, $5,200; Sixth Street NE. Northeast: Sixth Street, Franklin Street to property line north of Girard Street, $6,400; Girard Street NE. Northeast: Girard Street, Sixth Street to Seventh Street, $7,900; Tenth Street NE. Northeast: Tenth Street, Girard Street to Jackson Street, $14,500; Hamlin Street NE. Northeast: Hamlin Street, Ninth Street to Twelfth Street, $11,700; Girard Street NE. Northeast: Girard Street, Tenth Street to Twelfth Street, $6,300; Thirty-fifth Street NE. Northeast. Thirty-fifth Street, Bladensburg Road to Reform School, $4,500; Trinidad Avenue NE. Northeast: Trinidad Avenue, Queen Street to Childress Street, $4,700; Queen Street NE. Northeast: Queen Street, Trinidad Avenue to alley west of Holbrook Terrace, $7,Q00; Holbrook Street NE. Northeast: Holbrook Street, Florida Avenue to Morse Street, $4,700; Corbin Place NE. Northeast: Corbin Place, Tennessee Avenue to Thirteenth Street, $4 500; D Street NE. Northeast: D Street, Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street, $6,500; Pierce Street NE. Northeast: Pierce Street, North Capitol Street to First Street, $11,500; Yost Place NE. Northeast: Yost Place west of Bladensburg Road, $7,500; Holbrook Terrace NE. Northeast: Holbrook Terrace west of Queen Street, $4,200; Penn Street NE. Northeast: Penn Street west to Queen Street, $5,000; Duncan Street NE. Northeast: Duncan Street, Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street, $4,500; B Street SE. Southeast: B Street, Fifteenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $16,300; Eighteenth Street SE. Southeast: Eighteenth Street, D Street to E Street, $6,400; D Street SE. Southeast: D Street, Seventeenth Street to Nineteenth Street, $13,300; Potomac Avenue SE. Southeast: Potomac Avenue, E Street to Nineteenth Street, $10,000; Seventeenth Street SE. Southeast: Seventeenth Street, Admiral Barney Circle to E Street, $13,800; L Street SE. Southeast: L Street, South Capitol Street to Cushing Place, $10,100; Half Street SE. Southeast: Half Street, L Street to M Street, $4,800; Sixteenth Street SE. Southeast: Sixteenth Street, E Street to G Street, $5,000; Minnesota Avenue SE. Southeast: Minnesota Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue to Eighteenth Street, $49,500; U Street SE. Southeast: U Street, Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $11,000; Fourteenth Street SE. Southeast: Fourteenth Street, Good Hope Road to S Street, $7,200; Ridge Place SE. Southeast: Ridge Place, Thirteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $17,700; Thirteenth Street SE. Southeast: Thirteenth Street, S Street to Ridge Place, $3,400; T Street SE. Southeast: T Street, Thirteenth Street to Minnesota Avenue, $15,500; Sixteenth Street SE. Southeast: Sixteenth Street, U Street to Good Hope Road, $3,800; Southeast: Sixteenth Street, Good Hope Road to Ridge Place, $12,900; Twelfth Street SW. Southwest: Twelfth Street, Virginia Avenue to D Street, $7,800; 655 For grading, including necessary culverts, drains, and retaining Grading, etc.walls, the following: Northwest: Thirteenth Street, Longfellow Street to Madison Thirteenth Street NW.Street, $3,900; Northwest: Hurst Terrace, Fulton Street northward, $8,400; Hurst Terrace NW.Northeast: Ames Street, Fiftieth Street to Division Avenue; Ames Street NE.; Blaine Street; Division Avenue; Fiftieth Street.Blaine Street, Forty-ninth Street to Division Avenue; Division Avenue, Ames Street to Blaine Street; and Fiftieth Street, Ames Street to Blaine Street, $6,000; Northeast: Grant Street, Minnesota Avenue to Forty-sixth Street, Grant Street NE.$2,400; Southeast: First Street, Atlantic Street to Halley Place; Halley First Street SE.; Halley Place; Halley Terrace; Mississippi Avenue.Place, First Street to Halley Terrace; Halley Terrace north of Mississippi Avenue and Mississippi Avenue, First Street to Halley Terrace, $4,000; Southeast: Fields Place, Nichols A venue to Sheridan Road, $4,000; Fields Place SE. Southeast: Thirty-second Street, Alabama Avenue to V Place; Thirty-second Street SE.; V Place; Thirty-first Street.V Place, Thirty-first Street to Thirty-second Street and Thirty-first Street, V Place to U Place, $10,000; Northwest: For widening and repaving the roadway of Connecticut Widening and repaving.Connecticut Avenue NW., from M Street to Dupont Circle.Avenue by seven feet on the west side from M Street to Eighteenth Street, adjacent to United States reservation numbered 150; Dupont circle, by fifteen feet on the east side from Eighteenth Street to N Street, adjacent to United States reservation numbered 150A; including the necessary adjustment in line and grade of the statue occupying this reservation; by fifteen feet on the west side from Eighteenth Street to N Street; and by fifteen feet on each side from N Street to Dupont Circle, $65,000; Northwest: For widening and repaving the roadway of Seventeenth Seventeenth Street NW., from H to K Streets.Street by ten feet on the west side from H Street to K Street; by ten feet on the east side from H Street to I Street and by seven feet on the east side from I Street to K Street, including replacement of defective sewer and such alterations as may be necessary to Farragut Square, $46,000; Northwest: For widening to eighty feet and repaving the roadway Connecticut Avenue NW., from Florida Avenue to Columbia Road.of Connecticut Avenue from Florida Avenue to Columbia Road, $46,000; Northwest: For widening to fifty-six feet and repaving the roadway Water Street NW., from Wisconsin Avenue to Thirty-fifth Street.of Water Street from Wisconsin Avenue to Thirty-fifth Street, including replacement of defective sewer, $45,000; Northwest: For widening by twelve feet on the east side and Seventh Street NW., from Massachusetts Avenue to New York Avenue.repaving the roadway of Seventh Street, from Massachusetts Avenue to New York Avenue, $4,000; Northwest: For widening and repaving the west roadway of Fourteenth Street NW., from Park Road to Monroe Street.Fourteenth Street from Park Road to Monroe Street on plans to be to approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $6,000; Northwest: For widening to forty-five feet and repaving the roadway Tenth Street NW., from F Street to New York Avenue.of Tenth Street from F Street to New York Avenue, $43,000; Northwest: For widening to fifty feet and repaving the roadway H Street NW., from Seventeenth Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.Former authorization, etc., repealed.Vol. 44, p. 1306, repealed.of H Street from Seventeenth Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, $30,000, and those portions of Public Act Numbered 688, Sixty-ninth Congress making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1928, approved March 2, 1927, which appropriated $10,000 for widening and repaving this street from Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street, together with the provisions therein in respect to the assessments of the cost of said work are hereby repealed; In the widening and repaving of roadways hereinbefore provided Assessment of 40 per cent of cost of widening, etc., against abutting property.for, 40 per centum of the entire cost thereof in each case shall be assessed against and collected from the owners of abutting property 656 Vol. 38, p. 524; Vol. 39, p. 716.in the manner provided in the Act approved July 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 524), as amended by section 8 of the Act Vault roofs to be modified.approved September 1, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 716). The owners of abutting property also shall be required to modify, at their own expense, the roofs of any vaults that may be under the sidewalk or parking on said street if it be found necessary to change such vaults to permit of the roadway being widened; 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, $10,000; 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, $250,000; Disbursements, etc. In all, $1,802,900; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Gasoline tax, road and street improvements,” and for that purpose shall *Provisos.* Restricted to specified improvements. constitute one fund and be available immediately: *Provided,* That no part of such fund shall be used for the improvement of any street or section thereof not herein specified: *Provided further,* That Assessments under existing law.assessments in accordance with existing law shall be made for paving and repaving roadways where such roadways are paved or repaved with funds derived from the collection of the tax on motor-vehicle Priority to through thoroughfares.fuels and accretions by repayment of assessments: *Provided further,* That in the performance of the street-paving work specially provided for in this Act priority shall be given to those streets which are more in the nature of through thoroughfares or arterial highways. street repair, grading, and extension Grading. Grading, streets, alleys, and roads: For labor, purchase and repair of carts, tools or hire of same, and horses, $50,000. Condemnation. Condemnation: For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and for the condemnation of small park areas at the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the commissioners, $5,000. Opening streets, etc., under permanent highways system.Vol. 37, p. 950.Exception. To carry out the provisions of existing law which authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to open, extend, straighten, or widen any street, avenue, road, or highway, except Fourteenth Street extension beyond the southern boundary of Walter Reed Hospital Reservation, in accordance with the plan Wholly from District revenues.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 1929, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Repairs. Repairs: For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, and 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: *Proviso.*Nonpassenger vehicles.*Provided,* That the amount expended for purchase and exchange of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles shall not exceed $40,000. Street railways pavements.Vol. 20, p. 105. This appropriation shall be available for repairing pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad companies as provided by section 5 of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. 657 The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and Changing sidewalk widths, etc.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 around public Sidewalks, etc.reservations and municipal and United States buildings, $10,000. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available Open competition for street improvement contracts.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 requiring contractors to Repairs for inferior work, etc., by contractors, required for additional period.keep new pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date of the completion of the work, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall further require that where repairs are necessary during the four years following the said one-year period, due to inferior work or defective materials, such repairs shall be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense. bridges Bridges. For construction and repair of bridges, including maintenance of Construction, repair, etc.nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $50,000. Highway Bridge across Potomac River: For personal services in Highway Bridge.accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,780; labor, $1,920; power, miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $7,360; in all, $19,060. Anacostia River Bridge: For employees, miscellaneous supplies, Anacostia Bridge.and expenses of every kind necessary to operation and maintenance of the bridge, $6,000. Francis Scott Key Bridge: For miscellaneous supplies and expenses Francis Scott Key Bridge.of every kind necessarily incident to the maintenance of the bridge and approaches including personal services, $2,000. For reconstruction of the floor system of the Highway Bridge Reconstructing floor system, Highway Bridge.across the Potomac River, including personal services and other necessary expenses, $178,000, to be immediately available. trees and parkings Trees and parking. For contingent expenses, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, Contingent expenses.repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motor trucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, purchase and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $112,500. public convenience stations Public convenience stations. For maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation Station at Thirty-second and M Streets NW.of necessary employees, $28,000. The unexpended balance of appropriations now available for the Balance for Ninth and F Streets station made available therefor.construction of a public convenience station numbered 5 at Ninth and F Streets, northwest, is reappropriated for the construction of a public convenience station in the vicinity of Thirty-second and M Streets, northwest. 658 SEWERS Sewers.Cleaning, etc. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the replacement of three motor trucks at not to exceed $1,250 each for Pumping service.operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics and laborers, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $255,000. Main and pipe. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, $195,000. Suburban. For suburban sewers, including the maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles used in this work, $600,000. Assessment and permit work.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1309. For assessment and permit work, sewers, $410,000; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928 shall remain available until June 30, 1929. Rights of way. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $1,000. Upper Potomac interceptor. For continuing the construction of the Upper Potomac main interceptor, $50,000. Upper Anacostia interceptor. For continuing construction of the Upper Anacostia main interceptor along the Anacostia River between Benning Road and the District line, $15,000. COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE City refuse.Personal services. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923. $126,740. Sweeping, cleaning, snow and ice removal, etc. For dust prevention, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance Vehicles, etc.of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; 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. Garbage, ashes, dead animals, etc. Collection and disposal of.*Post,* p. 1274. To enable the commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing law governing the collection and disposal of garbage, dead animals, night soil, and miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the District of Columbia (no contract shall be let for the collection of dead animals), including inspection; fencing of public and private property designated by the commissioners as public dumps; and incidental Garbage reduction plant.*Provisos.*Deposit of receipts.expenses, $950,000, including not to exceed $25,000 for repair and improvement of the garbage reduction plant: *Provided,* That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in the manner provided Use restricted.by law: *Provided further,* That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments in which the landlord furnishes heat to tenants. PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS Public playgrounds.Personal services.*Proviso.*Employments restricted. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $101,230: *Provided,* That employments hereunder, except directors who shall be employed for twelve months, shall be dis-659tributed as to duration in accordance with corresponding employments provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act Vol. 42, p. 1340.for the fiscal year 1924. For general maintenance, improvement, equipment, supplies, incidental Maintenance, etc.and contingent expenses of playgrounds, including labor, purchase and exchange at not exceeding $675, and maintenance of one motor truck, under the direction and supervision of the commissioners, $51,500. For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open Public school grounds 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, $25,000. For supplies, installing electric lights, repairs, maintenance, and Swimming pools.necessary expenses of operating three swimming pools, including $3,000 for additional lockers and recementing pools, $6,000. 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,* That *Proviso.*Double pay restriction not applicable to superintendent.Vol. 39, p. 120.section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply to the position of superintendent of these bathing pools during the fiscal year 1929. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT Electrical department. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act Personal services.of 1923, $117,160. 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, printing, livery, purchase and repair of bicycles, blacksmithing, extra labor, new boxes, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary items, $33,000. For placing wires of fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone Placing wires under ground, police patrol, fire alarm systems, etc.services underground, extension and relocation of police-patrol and fire-alarm systems, purchase and installing additional lead-covered cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment and expenses, including not to exceed $6,000 for replacing obsolete type of police-patrol signal system in the eleventh precinct, and including not to exceed $5,600 for replacement of forty-one obsolete fire-alarm boxes by new type boxes, $34,000. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public Lighting streets, etc.lamps, lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost of maintenance of lights at Bolling Field necessary for operation of Air mail lights at Bolling Field.the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of stables and storerooms, livery and extra labor, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal Vol. 36, p. 1008.Vol. 37, p. 181.year 1912, and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913, and other laws applicable thereto, including not to exceed $950 for purchase of two light nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles and including not to exceed $20,000 for the purchase, installation, and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $949,450: *Provided,* That this appropriation *Provisos.*Electric lighting rates.shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal 660year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed: Awards of contracts to lowest bidders.*Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. Improving system, etc., in fifteenth precinct.*Post,* p. 1276. 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, $4,570. Completing addition to electrical storehouse. For additional amount to complete the erection and equipment of an addition to storehouse, on land belonging to the District of Columbia, in square 298, to be used for the examination, repair, and storage of material and supplies of the electrical department, including the inclosing, grading, and improving of the ground, to be immediately available, $2,000. 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, $633,900. Clerical, etc., personnel. For personal services of clerks and other employees in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $127,540. School attendance and work permits department. For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924, and the Act approved February 5, 1925, $32,800. teachers Teachers.Salaries.Vol. 43, p. 367. Salaries: For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924, $5,841,920. Soliciting subscriptions, etc., prohibited. No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to Exception.school officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools. Vacation schools. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools and playgrounds, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools and playgrounds may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $33,000. Annuities.Vol. 44, p. 728. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, 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,” $380,000. night schools Night schools.Salaries. Salaries: For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $95,000. 661 Contingent expenses: For contingent and other necessary expenses, Contingent.including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $4,500. the deaf, dumb, and blind Deaf, dumb, and blind. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons Instruction expenses.R. S., 4864, p. 942.Vol. 31, p. 884.admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $27,500. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable Colored deaf-mutes.Tuition of, under contract.age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $6,500: *Provided,* That all expenditures under this appropriation *Proviso.*Supervision.shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Blind children.Instruction 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 work Americanization work. For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages Instructing foreigners of all ages.in both day and night classes, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day schools, $10,000. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, Equipment, etc.equipment, and supplies, $1,000. community center department Community centers. For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and community Salaries and expenses.Vol. 43, p. 375.secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924; part-time employees, including janitors on account of meetings of parent-teacher associations and other activities, and contingent expenses, equipment, supplies, and lighting fixtures, $41,000. care of buildings and grounds Care of buildings and grounds. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Salaries.Act of 1923, $619,260. For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking Smaller buildings and rented rooms.and manual-training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each schoolroom, other than those occupied by atypical or ungraded classes, for which service an amount not to exceed $120 per annum may be allowed, $7,000. For the maintenance of schools for tubercular pupils, $7,000. Schools for tubercular pupils. For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular Transportation. *Proviso.*Car fares allowed.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. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, Manual training expenses.and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $85,000. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $270,000. Fuel, light, and power. 662 furniture Furniture, etc.For designated schools. For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings, as follows: Combination assembly hall and gymnasium, Wheatley School, $3,000; eight-room addition, including combination assembly hall and gymnasium, Morgan School, including repair, replacement, and extension of equipment of old building, $16,000; combination assembly hall and gymnasium. Takoma School, $3,000; in all, $22,000, to continue available until June 30, 1930. McKinley Technical High.Completing equipment, etc. 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, $350,000. Contingent expenses, flags, etc. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, printing, 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 replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed *Proviso.*No bond for Army supplies to cadets.$300 each, and not exceeding $5,000 for labor, $155,000: *Provided,* That a bond shall not be required on account of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. Supplies to pupils. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, including necessary *Proviso.*Exchanges.labor not to exceed $1,000, $125,000: *Provided,* That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in their discretion, are authorized to exchange any badly damaged book for a new one, the new one to be similar in text to the old one when it was new. Kindergartens. For maintenance of kindergartens, including not to exceed $3,000 for furnishing and equipping three additional kindergartens, $10,000. School gardens. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $3,000. Nature study, etc., teachers. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. Supplies for physics, etc., departments. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and normal schools, and for the installation of the same, $14,000. Children of Army, Navy, etc., admitted free. The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. Improving grounds of new buildings.Unexpended balances available for.Vol. 43, pp. 1320,1233; Vol. 44, pp. 168, 433. Not to exceed $100,000 of the unexpended balances of appropriations for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the second Deficiency Act fiscal year 1925, the District of Columbia Appropriation Act fiscal year 1926, the first Deficiency Act fiscal year 1926, and the District of Columbia Appropriation Act fiscal year 1927, is hereby made available until June 30, 1929, for the improvement of grounds surrounding public-school buildings, constructed under appropriation for the fiscal year 1927 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. Repairs, etc., to buildings and grounds. For repairs and improvements to school buildings, repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric lighting equipment, and installation of sanitary 663drinking fountains, and maintenance of motor trucks, including not to exceed $1,500 for purchase of two dump trucks, $529,610, of which $60,000 shall be immediately available. For necessary remodeling, painting, and completely equipping the Remodeling McKinley High, and Shaw Junior High, etc.old McKinley Technical High School for use as the Shaw Junior High School and the old Shaw Junior High School for use as a business high school, including the repair and refinishing of existing equipment, $70,500. For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stock rooms, Rent.$11,000. For purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, for School yards playgrounds. *Proviso.*Use, etc.grounds, 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 grounds Buildings and grounds. For completing the construction of the McKinley Technical High McKinley Technical High.School, $250,000; For erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a Grant Road.combination gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site on Grant Road now owned by the District of Columbia, $175,000; For erection of the E. A. Paul Junior High School building in E. A. Paul Junior High.Brightwood, in accordance with the plans of the Macfarland Junior High School, modified as the limits of the site may require, $250,000, 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; For erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a Fourteenth and Upshur Streets.combination gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site now owned by the District of Columbia at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets, including the moving of the residence of the superintendent of the Tuberculosis Hospital, $185,000; For construction of a combination gymnasium and assembly hall Takoma.Gymnasium, etc.at the Takoma School, $60,000; For construction of an eight-room addition, including a combination Raymond.Addition, etc.gymnasium and assembly hall, to the Raymond School, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $185,000; For erection of an elementary school building, including a combination Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road.To replace Force, Adams, and Morgan Schools.gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site already purchased at Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road, to replace the Force, Adams, and Morgan Schools, $250,000, 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; Not to exceed $60,000 of the unexpended balances in the appropriations Wheatley. Gymnasium, etc., for, from balances for Petwort h and West Schools.*Post,* p. 1279.for the construction of combined gymnasiums and assembly halls at the Petworth School and the West School are hereby made available for the construction of a combined gymnasium and assembly hall at the Wheatley School in accordance with the original plans for the construction of said building; For construction of an eight-room addition to the Morgan School, Morgan.Addition.including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $157,000; For construction of a ten-room addition, including gymnasium and Francis Junior High.Addition.lunch room at the Francis Junior High School, and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $250,000; For construction of an eight-room addition to the Burrville School, Burrville.Addition.including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $180,000; 664 S. J. Bowen.Addition from appropriation for Amidon.Vol. 44, p. 433. The appropriation of $80,000 for a third-story addition to the Amidon School contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927 is hereby made available for the construction of a four-room addition to the S. J. Bowen School; Bell and Cardozo.Replacement. For construction of an eight-room extensible building, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, to commence the replacement of the old Bell School and the Cardozo School, $175,000; Langley Junior High and McKinley High.Athletic grounds for. 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 joint site for the Langley Junior High School and the McKinley High School, $250,000, to be immediately available; Disbursed as one fund, etc. In all, $2,367,000, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Buildings and grounds, public schools,” and for that purpose shall constitute *Proviso.*Restricted to specified buildings.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 restricted. 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 a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful *Proviso.*Rejection of bids.performance of the contract: *Provided,* That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the commissioners the right to reject all bids. Purchase of building and playground sites. For the purchase of school-building and playground sites, as follows: Health school for colored pupils. For the purchase of land for a new health school for colored pupils, to be located on a site to be selected by the Board of Education and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Replacing Bell and Cardozo. For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the old Bell School and the Cardozo School, to provide for the erection of a new building to replace the present old Bell School and the Cardozo School; Additional sites.Vol. 43, p. 986. For the purchase of additional school-building and playground sites authorized to be acquired in the five-year School Building Program Act; Addition from unexpended balance.Vol. 44, p. 435. In all, $245,000, and in addition thereto the sum of $100,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $703,500 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, is reappropriated and made available for the purposes of *Proviso.*Cost restriction.this paragraph, to remain available until June 30, 1930: *Provided,* That, with the exception of $80,000, no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site the cost or which shall exceed the full value assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value. Unexpended balance continued available until June 30, 1929. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $703,500 for the purchase of school building and playground sites, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, is continued available until June 30, 1929, for the purchase of school building and playground sites authorized to be acquired in the Purchase of part of site under 125 per cent limitation.five-year school building program Act, provided 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. Preparation of plans. The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Act under appropriations administered by the Commissioners 665of 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 herein shall Exits required.be constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward, and each of said buildings having an excess of eight rooms shall have at least four exits. Appropriations carried Doors to open outward, etc.in this Act shall not be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from Unlocking outside doors.one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours. METROPOLITAN POLICE Police. salaries For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Salaries, officers, etc.Vol. 43, p. 174.police force, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia,” including compensation at the rate of $1,860 per annum for the present assistant property clerk of the police department, $2,740,700. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Personal services.1923, $99,770. miscellaneous For fuel, $8,500. Fuel. For repairs and improvements to police stations and station Repairs, etc.grounds, $9,500. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for Contingent expenses.fugitives, purchase of modern revolvers and other firearms, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, books of reference, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, not to exceed $200 for car tickets, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, motor cycles, police equipments and repairs to same, repairs to vehicles, van, patrol wagons, and saddles, mounted equipment, flags and halyards, storage of stolen or abandoned property, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary expense, $60,000; of which amount a sum not exceeding $2,000 may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided,* *Provisos.*Army mounted equipment.That the War Department may, in its discretion, furnish the equipment, commissioners, for use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required: *Provided further,* That the Repairs of speedometers.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. For purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles and the replacement Motor vehicles.of those worn out in the service and condemned, $60,000. Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment Uniforms.prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the Metropolitan police, $67,075. For additional amount for heavy-duty Diesel-engine police boat, Police boat.to be immediately available, $10,000. For a garage for the fourteenth police precinct station, $8,000. Garage, fourteenth precinct. 666 Fifteenth precinct.Building for.*Post,* p. 1282. For the erection of a building to be known as the fifteenth police precinct station house, including garage, on land owned by the District of Columbia described as parcel 175/20 in square 5087, $52,000. Ninth precinct heating plant. For the installation of a steam-heating plant for the ninth precinct station house, $3,000. house of detention House of detention.Maintenance. For maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detention of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including transportation, the purchase and maintenance of necessary motor vehicles, clinic supplies, food, upkeep and repair of building, fuel, gas, ice, laundry, supplies, and equipment, electricity, and other necessary expenses; $11,000; for personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, *Proviso.*Location barred.$10,000; in all, $21,000: *Provided,* 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 Harbor patrol. For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $2,000. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN’S RELIEF FUND Policemen, etc., relief fund.Payments from. To pay the relief and other allowances as authorized by law, a sum not to exceed $650,000 is appropriated from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund. FIRE DEPARTMENT Fire department. salaries Salaries, officers, etc.Vol. 43, p. 175. For the pay of officers and members of the fire department, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force, the United States park police force, and the fire department of the District of Columbia, $1,895,000. Personal services. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,040. miscellaneous Repairs, etc., to buildings. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $25,000. 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 fire department, $30,975. Repairs to apparatus, etc. For repairs to apparatus motor vehicles and other 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 purchase of necessary *Proviso.*Construction at repair shop.supplies, materials, equipment, and tools, $51,000: *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, $4,500. For fuel, $30,000. 667 For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, Contingent expenses.gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, and other necessary items, $30,000. For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $15,500. New apparatus. For one pumping engine, triple combination, motor driven, $11,000. For one rescue-squad wagon, motor driven, $12,000. For two automobiles at $2,000 each, $4,000. For a site for an engine company to be located m the vicinity of Site near Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues.*Proviso.*Purchase price restriction.Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues, northwest, $12,000: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site the cost of which shall exceed the full value assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized Sale of site acquired for engine house at Sixteenth and Webster Streets.and directed to sell the property at the corner of Sixteenth and Webster Streets, heretofore acquired for a fire engine house site at public or private sale at not less than the purchase price paid therefor by the District of Columbia and pay the proceeds thereof into the Deposit of proceeds.Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the District of Columbia; New company house at Sixteenth Street and Colorado Avenue.and the Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to erect a fire engine house, with furniture and furnishings for a fire engine company, at the northwest corner of Sixteenth Street and Colorado Avenue, on property belonging to the United States, and there is hereby set aside for such purpose a plot of ground running north from the junction of Sixteenth Street and Colorado Avenue, as now publicly owned, one hundred

(100)feet on Sixteenth Street, thence west at right angles to the street, one hundred and sixty feet (160), thence south at right angles to the line of Colorado Avenue. The Balance of appropriations available.Vol. 44, pp. 437, 1318.balance of the appropriations carried in the Acts of May 10, 1926, and March 2, 1927, for an engine house in the vicinity of Sixteenth Street and Piney Branch Road Northwest, is made available for the purpose aforesaid. HEALTH DEPARTMENT Health department. salaries For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Personal services.1923, $166,430. prevention of contagious diseases Contagious diseases prevention. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisions Enforcement expenses.Vol. 29, p. 635.Vol. 34, p. 889.of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907, and an Act Tuberculosis registration.Vol. 35, p. 126.to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908, under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infantile paralysis and Infantile paralysis.Venereal diseases.Vol. 43, p. 1001.other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925, including salaries or compensation for personal services, when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, 668and harness, purchase of reference books and medical journals, and Smallpox hospital, etc.*Proviso.*Bacteriological examinations.maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, $43,000: *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, Garfield and Providence Hospitals. For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence Hospitals, maintenance, $15,000 and $8,000, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the commissioners may be necessary; in all, $23,000. Tuberculosis and venereal dispensaries. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for *Provisos.*Volunteer services.personal services, supplies, and contingent expenses, $20,000: *Provided,* That the commissioners may accept such volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance No pay authorized therefor.of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further,* That this shall not be construed to authorize the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. Health department clinics. For rental, repair, and alteration of quarters for Health Department clinics, including installation of necessary equipment, to be immediately available, $8,000. 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, $5,500. Drainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125. For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896, Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.and an Act to Provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $3,000. Food, etc., adulteration. For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, $100. hygiene and sanitation, public schools Personal services.*Provisos.*Day duty, etc., of inspectors. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $67,340: *Provided,* That the person employed in the capacity of chief medical and sanitary inspector shall, under the direction of the health officer of the District of Columbia, give his whole time from nine o’clock antemeridian to four thirty o’clock postmeridian, to, and exercise the direction and control of the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of the public schools of the District Division of inspectors and nurses.of Columbia: *Provided further,* That of the persons employed as medical inspectors one shall be a woman, four shall be dentists, and four shall be of the colored race, and that of the graduate nurses employed as public-school nurses three shall be of the colored race. Free dental clinics. For maintenance of free dental clinics in the public schools, $1,000. laboratories Laboratories.Maintenance, etc. For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books and periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $2,500. dairy farm inspection Dairy farms.Inspection expenses. For maintenance of laboratories, including reference books and periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $2,500. 669 For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act Preventing food, candy, etc., adulteration.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398.relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia approved February 17, 1898; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; Pure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768.an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, and an Act to regulate, Milk regulations.Vol. 43, p. 1004.within the District of Columbia, the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, and for other purposes, approved February 27, 1925, $1,000. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematorium, Crematorium.*Proviso.*Containers, etc., to be furnished.$3,000: *Provided,* 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. For maintenance and operation of motor ambulances and motor Motor vehicles.vehicles, including not to exceed $475 for the purchase of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $2,225. For maintaining a child hygiene service, including the establishment Child hygiene service.Maintenance, etc., of welfare stations.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, $48,360: *Provided,* That the commissioners may accept *Provisos.*Volunteer services.such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the service herein authorized: *Provided further,* That this shall not be construed to authorize No payment therefor.the expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service. COURTS AND PRISONS Courts and prisons. juvenile court Juvenile court. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Personal services.Act of 1923, $54,910. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $2,000. Jurors. For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing, books of Contingent expenses.reference, periodicals, typewriters and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, meals of jurors and prisoners, repairs to courthouse and grounds, furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $5,000. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to Advances authorized for returning, etc., absconding probationers.advance to the chief probation officer of the juvenile court upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court and the auditor of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed $50 at any one time, to be expended for transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. police court Police court. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Personal services.Act of 1923, including $300 additional for presiding judge, $88,050: *Provided,* That no part of the appropriations made herein *Proviso.*Time restriction for traffic violations cases.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. 670 Contingent expenses. For printing, law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, typewriters and repairs thereto, fuel, ice, gas, electric lights and power, telephone service, laundry work, removal of ashes and rubbish, mops, brooms, buckets, dusters, sponges, painter’s and plumber’s supplies, toilet articles, medicines, soap and disinfectants, 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, $8,700. Witnesses. For witness fees, $1,500. Jurors. For compensation of jurors, $40,000. Building repairs, etc. For repairs and alterations to building, $2,500. municipal court Municipal court.Personal services. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including $300 additional for presiding judge, $58,736. Jurors.*Proviso.*Deposits for jury trials earned, unless new date set by court, etc.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 clays 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, blanks, dockets, lodging and meals for jurors, and for deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court, fixtures, repairs to furniture, building, and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $5,000. supreme court, district of columbia District Supreme Court.Salaries. Salaries: Chief justice, $10,500; five associate justices, at $10,000 each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, $14,400; in all, $74,900. Witnesses. Fees of witnesses: For mileage and per diem of witnesses and for per diems in lieu of subsistence, and payment of the actual R. S., sec. 850, p. 160.Vol. 44, p. 323.U. S. Code, p. 2035.expenses of witnesses in said court as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $33,000. Jurors. Fees of jurors: For mileage and per diems of jurors, $82,000. Bailiffs, etc. Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, clerk of jury *Proviso.*Jury commissioners.commissioners, and per diems of jury commissioners, $41,903: *Provided,* That the compensation of each jury commissioner for the fiscal year 1929 shall not exceed $250. Probation system. Probation system: For personal services, $8,920; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $9,420. Courthouse.Care, etc., of. Courthouse: For personal services for care and protection of the courthouse, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia, $29,704, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to the courthouse, including repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment, and for labor and material and every item incident thereto, $2,500, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. 671 court of appeals District Court of Appeals. Salaries: Chief justice and two associate justices, at $12,500 each; Salaries, etc.all other officers and employees of the court, including reporting service, $24,190; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $950; in all, $62,640: *Provided,* That the reports of the court *Proviso.*Sale of reports.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 the Care, etc., of buildings.Court of Appeals Building, including one mechanician, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $7,020: *Provided,* That the *Proviso.*Custodian.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, electrical Incidental expenses.supplies, books, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $780. miscellaneous Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation Support of convicts out of the District, etc.of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; and discharge gratuities provided by law; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $120,000. Writ of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de Lunacy writs.Expenses of executing.Vol. 33, p. 740.lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, including personal services, $8,530. Miscellaneous court expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as Miscellaneous expenses authorized by Attorney General.may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and including such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $35,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Supreme Printing and binding for the courts.Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, $4,500. PUBLIC WELFARE Public welfare. board of public welfare Board of Public Welfare. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of Personal services.1923, $97,770. division of child welfare Child welfare division. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing Administration expenses.and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses, $5,000; and no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used Limitation on visiting wards outside the District, etc.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 672of 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, $160,000. 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, including not to exceed $12,470 for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $125,290. Building apart from House of Detention, for detention of children under 17 arrested by police, etc.Expenses of maintenance, etc. 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 or one 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 and equipment, and other necessary expenses, including personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $25,000, *Proviso.*Use of deficiency appropriation for District contingent expenses.*Ante,* p. 8.to be immediately available: *Provided,* That such portion as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine of the appropriation of $25,000 for rent, under the heading “Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia,” contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, shall be available for the purposes of this paragraph. Advances to director. 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 such security as may be required of said director by the commissioners, Limit.sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. jail Jail.Personal services. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $63,710. Maintenance and support of prisoners. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of 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, $64,600. workhouse and reformatory Workhouse and reformatory.Personal services. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $15,400. Advances authorized for returning escaped prisoners. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the general superintendent of penal institutions, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of 673Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require Limit.of said superintendent, sums of money not 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. For the purchase of approximately one and one-half acres of land Purchase of additional land for reformatory.to provide suitable switching connections and switching yards for industrial railroad adjacent to main line of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, $150; and for the purchase of approximately eight acres of land in close proximity to permanent buildings at the reformatory, $2,500; in all, $2,650, to be immediately available. workhouse Workhouse. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act, Personal services.1923, $75,760. For maintenance, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support Maintenance.of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine, and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, livestock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles; supplies and labor; and all other necessary items, $120,000. For fuel for maintenance and manufacturing, $47,500. Fuel. For the reconditioning of barges, repairing the wharves at Occoquan Reconditioning barges, wharves, etc.and Washington, and purchase of brick-handling equipment, $28,000. For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including Construction, repairs, etc.sewers, water mains, and roads; for equipment for new buildings; for material for repairs to buildings roads, and walks; and not to exceed $36,000 for reconditioning and enlarging brick plant, including Brick plant.the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, $116,000. For purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor Motor vehicle.vehicle, $475. In all, $387,735, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. reformatory Reformatory. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Personal services.Act of 1923, $63,980. For continuing construction of permanent buildings, including Buildings, construction, etc.sewers, water mains, roads, and necessary equipment of industrial railroad; for equipment for new buildings; for material for repairs to buildings, roads, and walks; and not to exceed $12,000 for a water-supply tank and connecting pipe, $62,000. For maintenance, custody, clothing, care, and support of inmates; Maintenance.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 labor, and all other necessary items, $83,000. 674 Fuel. For fuel, $10,000; In all, $218,980, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the commissioners. Working capital fund.Created by transfers from appropriations for industrial work of these institutions. Working Capital: To provide working capital for industrial enterprises at the workhouse and the reformatory, the commissioners 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 $25,000 as are available for industrial work at these Purchase of products by departments, etc.institutions. 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 Receipts deposited to, as revolving fund.farm products as meet their requirements. 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 Availability of fund.be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1929. 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 in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, 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 in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $34,140. 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 tills, and for maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, 38,000. medical charities Medical charities.Care, etc., of indigent patients at designated hospitals. For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $17,000. Children’s Hospital, $27,000. Providence Hospital, $15,300. Garfield Memorial Hospital, $15,300. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $23,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $15,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000. Georgetown University Hospital, $7,200. George Washington University Hospital, $7,200. 675 columbia hospital and lying-in asylum Columbia Hospital. For general repairs and for additional construction, including Repairs, etc.labor and material, and for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, including not to exceed $15,000 for replacement of elevators, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $30,000, of which $15,000 shall be immediately available. For payment to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Refund.Vol. 44, p. 1423.Asylum in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the refund of $25,000 to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum,” approved March 4, 1927, $25,000, to be immediately available. tuberculosis hospital Tuberculosis Hospital. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Personal services.Act of 1923, $61,360. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs to Contingent 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, $58,500. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds including Repairs, etc.roads and sidewalks, $6,000. gallinger municipal hospital Gallinger Hospital. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Personal services.Act of 1923, $198,180. For maintenance, maintenance of horses and horse-drawn vehicles, Maintenance.books of reference and periodicals, not to exceed $50, maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, $147,000. For repairs to buildings, $5,000. Repairs. Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense of commencement Incidental expenses.exercises, entertainments, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $500. For purchase and exchange of one nonpassenger-carrying motor Motor vehicle.vehicle, $475. For completing the construction of the domestic service and ward Domestic service and ward buildings.Completion, etc.Vol. 44, p. 445.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, $465,000, to be immediately available. district training school District Training School. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act Personal services.of 1923, $57,350. For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the Maintenance.maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, the purchase and maintenance of horses and wagons $68,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including Repairs to buildings, etc.purchase of machinery and tools for same, $5,000. For artesian wells, pumps, and necessary water lines, $9,000. Water supply. For a steel-girder bridge across Little Patuxent River, $18,500. Bridge. For furnishing and installing high-pressure steam boiler in power Power house boiler.house, $10,000. For furnishings and equipment for two schoolrooms and for two Schoolrooms and dormitories.new dormitories, $7,000. 676 industrial home school for colored children Industrial Home School for Colored Children.Personal services. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $29,900; temporary labor, $500; in all, $30,400. Maintenance. For maintenance, including horses, wagons, and harness, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $22,500. Repairs. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. Manual training. For manual-training equipment and materials, $1,250. Motor vehicle. For purchase of one nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle, $475. Deposit of receipts from sale of products. All moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board or of instruction or otherwise shall be 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 in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $22,050; temporary labor, $500; in all, $22,550. Maintenance. For maintenance, including care of horses, purchase and care of wagon and harness, $24,600. Repairs. For repairs and improvement to buildings and grounds, $6,000. home for aged and infirm Home for Aged and Infirm.Personal services. Salaries: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $45,910; temporary labor, $2,000; in all, $47,910. Contingent expenses. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, and maintenance of nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicles, $53,000. Repairs, etc. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the commissioners, $15,000, of which $3,000 shall be immediately available. municipal lodging house and wood yard Municipal lodging house. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $3,360; maintenance, $3,000; in all, $6,360. temporary home for union ex-soldiers and sailors (department of the potomac, g. a. r.) Grand Army soldiers, etc., temporary home. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $3,360, maintenance and repairs to building, $9,500; in all, $12,860, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners; and Union ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Civil War, ex-soldiers, sailors, or marines of the Spanish War, Philippine insurrection, or China relief expedition and soldiers, sailors, or marines of the World War or who served prior to July 2, 1921, shall be admitted to the home, all under the supervision of a board of management. florence crittenton home Hope and Help Mission. For care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Home by the Board of Public Welfare, maintenance, $4,000. southern relief society Southern Relief Society for needy Confederate veterans. For care and maintenance of needy and infirm Confederate veterans, their widows and dependents, residents in the District of Columbia, under a contract to be made with the Southern Relief Society by the Board of Public Welfare, $10,000. 677 national library for the blind For aid and support of the National Library for the Blind, located National Library for the Blind.at 1800 D Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $5,000. columbia polytechnic institute To aid the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, located Columbia Polytechnic Institute.at 1808 H Street northwest, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $3,000. saint elizabeths hospital Saint Elizabeths Hospital. For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Support of District insane in.Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $1,448,250. nonresident insane For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811.the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899, $5,000. In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District Advances authorized to Director of Public Welfare.of Columbia is authorized to advance to the Director of Public Welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the commissioners may require of said director, sums of money not exceeding $300 at Limit.one time, to be used only for deportation of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officer of the District of Columbia. relief of the poor For relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, Relief of the poor.artificial limbs, and for pay of physicians to the poor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Welfare, $8,000. For payment to beneficiaries named in section 3 of “An Act making Payment to abandoned families.Vol. 34, p. 87.Vol. 44, p. 758.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, $2,500. burial of ex-service men Ex-service men. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or Burial of indigent, in Arlington Cemetery, etc.in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, 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 For transportation of indigent persons, including indigent veterans Transporting indigent persons.of the World War and their families, $3,500. 678 MILITIA Militia.Expenses authorized. For the following, to be expended under the authority end direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely: Personal services. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $17,170; temporary labor, $7,000; in all, $24,170. 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, $12,780. Printing, etc. For printing, stationery, and postage, $750. Contingent expenses. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, $1,200. Target practice matches. For expenses of target practice matches, including matches held outside of the District of Columbia and travel incident thereto, $2,500. Pay of troops. For pay of troops other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, $9,000. ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS Anacostia Park.Continuing development. For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, in accordance with the revised plan as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 37, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, $180,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS Public Buildings and Parks. salaries, public parks, district of columbia Personal services. For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $355,460. general expenses, public parks Public parks.Maintenance, services, and general expenses. General expenses: For general expenses in connection with the maintenance, care, improvement, furnishing of heat, light, and power of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, including Tourists’ camp, East Potomac Park.$5,000 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 679with 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; and not to exceed $475 for the purchase and exchange of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $486,975: *Provided,* That not exceeding $35,000 of the *Provisos.*Outdoor sports, band concerts.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 Anacostia Park, recreation.Rock Creek and Potomac parkway.recreation parks of Sections C and 15, Anacostia Park; not exceeding $93,000 for 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, etc.and not exceeding $5,000 for the erection of minor auxiliary structures: *Provided,* That not to exceed $5,000 may be expended by Architectural, etc., services.contract or otherwise for architectural or other professional services without reference to the Classification Act of 1923 or civil-service rules, as approved by the director. Not exceeding $2,000 of the appropriation contained in Public Franklin Park comfort station and widening Thirteenth Street.Amount available.Vol. 44, p. 1329.Act Numbered 688, Sixty-ninth Congress, making appropriation for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1928 for General Expenses, Public Parks, is hereby made available for the necessary alteration to the Franklin Park comfort station and storage yard, to permit the widening of Thirteenth Street northwest provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928. park police Park police. Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police Pay, etc.Vol. 43, p. 175; Vol. 44, p. 834.force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $143,300. For uniforming and equipping the United States park police Uniforms and equipment.force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor cycles, uniforms and ammunition and including the purchase, not to exceed $475, and operation and maintenance of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $13,900. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION National Capital Park and Planning Commission. For each and every purpose requisite for and incident to the work Incidental, etc., expenses.Vol. 43, p. 463; Vol. 44, p. 374.of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital,” approved June 6, 1924, as amended, including not to exceed $100 for technical books and periodicals, not to exceed $40,530 for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, and the Act approved April 30, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 374), and not to exceed $3,500 for printing and binding, $850,000, to be immediately available and to remain 680*Proviso.*Limitation on prices 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 assessment of such property last made before purchase thereof plus 25 per centum of such assessed value. 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, 1929. 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, $182,050, no part of which sum shall be available for architect’s fees or compensation. 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: washington aqueduct Washington Aqueduct.Maintenance, etc., of, and accessories. For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueduct 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, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $425,000. Control of Secretary of War not affected. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. Revenue, inspection, and distribution branches. For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $144,360. Operation expenses. For maintenance of the water department distribution system, including pumping stations and machinery, water mains, valves, fire and public hydrants, water meters, and all buildings and accessories, and the purchase and maintenance of motor trucks, purchase of fuel, oils, waste, and other materials, and the employment of all labor necessary for the proper execution of this work; and for con-681tingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, postage, damages, purchase of technical reference books, and periodicals, not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $7,500; in all for maintenance, $335,000. For extension of the water department distribution system, laying Distribution extension.of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $250,000; to be available immediately. For installing water meters on services to private residences and Meters in residences, etc.business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, $30,000. For installing fire and public hydrants, $50,000. Hydrants. For replacement of old mains in various locations, on account of Replacing old mains.inadequate size and bad condition of pipe on account of age, and laying mains in advance of payment, $50,000. For five thousand nine hundred feet of thirty-six-inch main in M New mains.Street from Eleventh Street to New Hampshire Avenue northwest, $177,000. For nine hundred feet of twelve-inch water main in Eighteenth Street northwest from Pennsylvania Avenue to F Street, $5,600. For two thousand eight hundred feet of twelve-inch water main in Georgia Avenue northwest, Fairmont Street to Park Road, $21,350. For one thousand nine hundred feet of sixteen-inch water main in Wisconsin Avenue northwest, P Street to Reservoir Street, and in Reservoir Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Thirty-fourth Street, $23,400. For two thousand nine hundred and fifty feet of twelve-inch water main in Tenth Street northwest, K Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, $20,000. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, Construction work, etc., under Commissioners.Draftsmen, inspectors, etc., temporarily employed.transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, street-cleaning, or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their Budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the *Provisos.*Limit.sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: *Provided,* That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $20,000 during the fiscal year 1929: *Provided further,* That, excluding five inspectors in the Employment period limited.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. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily Temporary laborers, mechanics, etc.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. 682 Horses, vehicles, etc.Special authority from Commissioners, for using. Sec. 3. That all horses, harness, horse-drawn vehicles necessary for use in connection with construction and supervision of sewer, street, street lighting, road work, and street-cleaning work, including maintenance of said horses and harness, and maintenance and repair of said vehicles, and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies in connection therewith, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations, may be purchased, hired, and maintained and motor trucks may be hired exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners; and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said Report.work; and the commissioners in the Budget estimates shall report the number of horses, vehicles, and harness purchased, and horses and vehicles hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation; and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so *Proviso.*Temporary work for excavations.far as may 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. Temporary laborers, etc., water department. Sec. 4. The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred. Miscellaneous trust funds.Expenses payable from.Vol. 33, p. 368. Sec. 5. That the commissioners are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved April 27, 1904, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector 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 of one passenger-carrying motor vehicle at a cost not to exceed $475, purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles for inspection and transportation purposes, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account. Leaves of absence for persons employed ten months consecutively. Any person employed under any of the provisions of this Act months 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. Materials, supplies, vehicles, etc.Purchases of, directed from stock of Government activities no longer needing them. Sec. 6. That the commissioners and other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible shall purchase material, supplies, including food supplies and equipment, when needed and funds are available, in accordance with the 683regulations and schedules of the General Supply Committee or from the various services of the Government of the United States possessing material, supplies, passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, and equipment no longer required because of the cessation of war activities. Surplus articles purchased from the Government, if the Price stipulation.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 Sales authorized.price based upon length of usage. The various services of the Government of the United States are authorized to sell such surplus articles to the municipal government under the conditions specified, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided,* That this section shall not be construed *Proviso.*Transfers under Executive order not affected.to amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities. Approved, May 21, 1928.

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