The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-06-01
DC. ESTIMATES
SLICED $4,000
Deficiency Bill, With Total
Cut in Half, Is Reported
To House.
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for care and treatment of indigen,
patients for 1919, Home OF Aged
and Infirm. and clerks office Distric:
Court OF Appeals. $500.
An estimate OF $4,000 for re-
pairs on buildings and grounds was
cut to $4,000. Other reductions in.
ciude maintenance Of Free Public
Library. $3.50: fuel. light and power
for the public schools. $500; In,
struction Of colored deaf mutss.
$ise.6S; instruction OF blind chill
dren, $4ss.61; contingent expenses
OF the Fire Department. $500, and
forage, Si.sco; maintenance of the
disinfecting service. Health Depart
ment. $500; fees for witnesses, DIS
trict Supreme SQUIRT. $500; expenses
Of militia camps, 1911, $50; propa-
eating gardens. $3.50, and repairs to
power plant, Columbia Institute for
the Deaf. $500.
The largest District appropriation
was for the public schools, totaling
$s7,646.35- OF this amount, $4,000
was provided for longevity pay for
1890; $i42 for 1919, and 5000 each
for the years 1910 to 1916, inclusive.
Other District appropriations in-
clude $500 for the employees COM
pansatioa. fund; printing of annual
reports Of the District government.
ss7s.s7; judicial expenses for 1918.
S103.55: coroner's Office. for eontin-
gent expenses. $2.002.50. and pay for
deputy coroner, Sl55: fuel for the
District Building. 1917 $3.50: main
tenance Of the Free Public Library.
31,7ss.75: repairs and cleaning of
sewers. $1,000: repairs and improve
meats to buildings and grounds,
10000: Columbia Institute for the
Deaf, 81. 500; instruction of coiored
dAaf mutes, 1857; and Instruction Of
blind children, $1.4s7.
The District fire department was
given -. ~ee for contingent expenses
and 32.4o0 for forage. The health
department was given $500 for
maintenance of the disinfecting
tuberculosis. $500 for maintenance
a reappropriation of $500 for the
roof and retort of the public Gre
matorium.
The Juvenile Court was allotted
$3.50 for the pay of acting judges,
1918 and 1919; $3.50 compensation
for jurors: 5000 for fuel. and S25 for
meals for jurors.
The Police Court was allowed
s21.50 for meals and lodging for
Jurors for 1918, and witness fees for
1915: the Municipal Court $1,000 for
contingent expenses, and Sl.i00 for
writs of lunacy.
An appropriation OF $4,000 was
provided for witnesses before the
District Supreme Court: 100000 for
the support OF Convicts; $500 for
ambulance maintenance, Board OF
Charities; $500 for the Washing
ton Asylum and Jail hospital eX-
penses. and $4,000 for support of
prisoners.
The Home for Aged and Infrm
was given s1.162.99 for 1918; the
tuberculosis Hospital. $4,000 for
maintenance: the Board of Chill
dren's Guardians. $4,000 for main
tenance of feeble-minded children
and $50, 900 for their board and care.
Other items include $1,000 for
maintenance, Industrial Homes
School: $500 for deportation Of non
resident insane: $2i1.46 for main
tenance for the District workhouse.
1917 and 1918; $s.13S.2S for payment
Of judgments: $500 for repairs to
power plant. Columbia Institute for
the Deaf; s9,555.ss. Freedmen's
Hospital; $500. heating and light
ing. Washington Postoffice: fuel and
light. District Attorneys office.
s73.27. and printing and binding.
District Supreme Court. $500.