Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-18

south of Rock Creek road and north o
Girard street, approximately 10000 SQUARE
feet, $4,000.
ANY unexpended balance not obligate,
1or the completion of the Mckinley man
uai training school building is reappro
prlated and made Immediately available
for the further extension of that building
al appropriations for sites for schoo
buildings and for the construction 0
school buildings are made immedatel.
available
Increase in Police Force.
The appropriation for the metropolitan
ipolice is Increased from S934,5S9 tc
s972.see.
This allows the following increases in
the police force: Lieutenants, from Il t.
10; sergeants, 45 to 81; privates of class
from q to 90. and the mounted force
% to 60, and an increase in the allow.
ance of mounted pay from S24O to S27O
For the support of the national bureau
OF criminal Identification, $1,000 is pro.
vided
Fire Experimentation additional bat
taifon CHIEF is authorized, at $1,000: one
superintendent of machinery, at $500
For repairs. including motor vehicle, an
increase of 1000 is provided. For forage
an increase of $1,000. Contingent OK
!penses are increased $1,000.
For new engine house In the vicinity
bounded by 9th, 14th, * and \ streets,
$5a 600.
Health department-New Office of in
spector OF dairies created, at 81 900, and
a bacteriologist provided at $4,000, a la
oorer at 5000 and a driver at 5000. The
fund for preventing tuberculosis in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000. For equip
ment of the bacteriologist laboratory.
$500 The contingent fund is increased
$500.
Juvenile Court Provisions.
Juvenile Court-A bailiff at s700 is pro-
vided and the general fund increased to
s11.14O.
The following limitation on moneys
paid in the Juvenile Court is added:
provided. That hereafter all moneys
pald by order of the Juvenile Court un-
oef the provisions of an act of Congress
approved March 23, 1905, entitled AN act
making 1t misdemeanor in the District
of Columbia to abandon or willfully neg
lect to provide for the support and
maintenance by any person Of his wife
or OF his or her minor children in des-
t'tute or necessitous circumstances and
acts amendatory thereto, which are now
collected and disbursed by the clerk of
SAID court, shall be deposited weekly by
the clerk with the collector Of taxes of
the District OF Columbia and covered
into the Treasury to the credit of the
appropriated trust fund account denomi-
mated miscellaneous trust fund deposits
District of Columbia. and all expendi-
lures therefrom shall be made and ac-
counted Tor in the manner now required
by law for other expenditures Of the gov
eminent OF the District OF Columbia, and
the said expenditures shall be made
weekly on pay rolls approved and certi-
fled by the Juvenile Court"
| District courthouse-Three additional
Watchmen are D. divided at S72O, and three
additional laborers at $50 each The
salary OF the engineer of the Washington
Asylum is increased to 800.
Provisions for Charities.
The appropriation for the Home for the
Aged and 1nfirm is increased SIP The
appropriation for the Eastern Dispensary
IS increased $1,000; Central Dispensary.
81 600; Home for Incurables. 81. 900 Tuber
! cuiosis Hospital-Salaries of graduate
nurses are increased to $425 cook in
creased to 5000, fund for provisions in
creased $Z,OO repairs increased $50
Board of childrens guardians-The COM
mittee authorizes two placing officers at
$1,000 each and increases the fund for
Feeble minded children $1,000.
Industrial Home school-superintend-
| ent's salary is increased 500, engineer.
increase. $40; farmer increased 500,
maintenance fund increased $1,000.
Washington Home for Foundlings in
| creased $500.
Militia Allotment.
Militia-For expenses of camps the fund
is increased from $45.3OO TO $49,1oO. For
| lockers. etc. increased from S75O 10
| creased $500. Pay of troops increa sed
from s1s,52O to $4,000
The following proviso is added to the
clause relating to the militia:
/ That hereafter all moneys collected
| on account Of deductions made from the
pay OF any officer Or enlisted man of
| the National Guard of the District of
columbia for or on account of any viola
| ton of the regulations governing said
National Guard, and all moneys which.
by reason Of the absence OF officers or
| ENLISTED men from duly ordered assem-
nhes or other duty. are not expended
for pay of troops. shall be held by the
commanding general of the militia of the
| provided further, That the command
ing general of the District of Columbia
militia is hereby and hereafter author
ICED to make such deductions from any
pay of any officer or enlisted man de-
rived from appropriations or allotments
MADE under the provisions of section
1861. United States Revised Statutes or
other federal enactment may be
necessary to reimburse the United States
or the District Of Columbia tor y lic
property lost. destroyed OF damaged by
| Water department-One additional meter
computer is au horned. at $1,000: and the
authorization for expenditures of the de-
| pdrtlnenL increased $1,OUD.
Police Court Repairs.
For repairs to the Police Court build
ing. $3.50.
Emergency fupd-The following limita-
! ton on the expenditure of the emergency
| fund is made:
Provided, That in the purchase of all
| articles provided for in this act no more
than the market price shall be paid for
| any such articles. and all bids for any
| of such articles above the market price
| shall he rejected and new bids received:
| II the latter are rejected because the
| prices are above the market. or the ar
| ticles offered of unsatisfactory quality.
| then the purchases may be made in open
market bids again received. as may
/ be most economical and advantageous to
| the District of Columbia.
THAT hereafter section 300 Of the Re-
| vised Statutes of the United States shall
not be construed to apply to any purchase
| or service rendered for the District of CO.
| lumbia when the aggregate amount in
| volved does not exceed the sum of $2o.'
Favor Uniform Law.