Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-06
for dairy and forage building. $4,000.
new; for laundry machinery. $4,000.
Reformatory Legislation.


new.
Reformatory Legislation.
Legislation as regards a new reform
atory is proposed as follows:
For the construction of temporary
quarters. including necessary furniture
and equipment for the care Of zoo in
mates, $4,000.
For beginning construction Of perma-
nent buildings, including sewers, water
mains, roads and necessary equipment
of industrial railroad, $4,000
For maintenance, including superin-
tendence, custody, clothing. guarding,
care and support of inmates; rewards
for fugitives; provisions, subsistence,
medicine and hospital Instruments. fur
nlture and quarters for guards and
other employees and inmates: purchase
of tools and equipment: purchase and
maintenance of farm implements, live
STOCK, tools, equipment: transportation
and means of transportation; main.
tenance and operation Of means of
transportation; supplies and personal
$4,000.
Provided. that whenever any person
has been convicted of crime in any
court in the District Of Columbia and
sentenced to Imprisonment for more
than one year by the court. the i'm
prisonment during the term for which
he may have been sentenced or during
the residue of said terms may be in
some suitable Jail or penitentiary or in
the reformatory of the District of Co
lumbia, above referred to; and it shall
be sufficient for the court to sentence
the defendant to imprisonment in the
penitentiary without specifying the
Of the District of Columbia and the i'm
prisonment shall be in such penitentia-
ry, Jail or the reformatory of the Dis
trict Of Columbia as the Attorney Gen
Provided further. that the Commission
ers OF the District of Columbia are
hereby vested with Jurisdiction over
such male and female prisoners as may
be designated by the Attorney General
for confinement in the reformatory of
the District of Columbia from the time
they are delivered into their custody or
into the custody of their authorized su-
perintendent, deputy. or deputies. and
until such prisoners are released or
discharged under due process of law:
Provided further, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed as apply
ing to the National Training School for
Boys or the National Training School
for Girls. The provisions of this para
graph shall take effect on and after
July 1, 1916
For fuel for maintenance, $1,000.
For the enlargement of the central
water to the reformatory and work.
house. $4,000.
For refrfgerating and ice plant for
the combined use Of the reformatory
Total for the reformatory is $129,000,
as compared with $4,000 for the cur
rent act.
For expenses Of camps, etc, $37, 900;
increase of $1,000. Rent of armories,
etc. $4,000: decrease of $46e. For
printing and postage. $1,000: increase
of $500. An additional clerk in adju-
tant generals Office at $1,000: lockers,
$4,000: increase of $7.400. Total for
militia, $95,100, compared with $79,664
in current act.
Refund Of erroneous collections.
$1,000: increase of $500.
Anacostia river flats. reclamation,
100000; an increase of 100000.
Parks.
Small parks-Legislation is recon-
mended as follows:
THAT such condemnation shall be I'M
der and In accordance with the provi-
| sions of subchapter 1 of chapter Is of
the Code of Law for the District of CO.
lumbia: Provided further. That of the
amount found to be due and awarded
by the jury in any such proceedings
as damages for and in respect of the
land to be condemned for said parks.
plus the costs and expenses of the pro-
ceeding Hereunder. not less than one
half thereof shall be assessed by the
jury as benefits, which. when collected
shall be covered into the Treasury OF
the United States. one-half to the credit
of the United States and one-half te
the credit of the District of Columbia
The public parks SO, acquired shall be-
come a part of the park system of the
District of Columbia and be under the
control of the chief Of engineers OF
the United States Army
The Commissioners recommend:
The acquisition for a public park of
the tract Of land known as the "Patter-
son tract" assessed on the records of
the Assessor Of the District of Column
bia as parcel 1892, lying north of
Florida avenue northeast, and bound
ed on the east by the grounds of the
Columbia Institute for the Deaf, on
the west by New York avenue and
the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. and on the north by
Fairyiew avenue, containing eighty
one acres, more or less.
The acquisition for public park Of