Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
S9,245 FUND
|NDEF|C|ENCY BILL
Salaries, Uniforms, School
Needs and General Ex-
pense Covered.

Appropriations totaling $95, ,245. iden.
tical with the budget recommenda-
tions for the District of Columbia, are
contained in the first deficiency ap-
preparation bill for the present fiscal
year, which totals $1S3 S67 .S44.01, and
which was reported TO the House to-
day. ~
These District items are 10 care for
urgent needs. Representative WIN r.
Wood OF Indiana stated in his report
10 the House. They are as follows:
Assessors Office, salaries, 1927,
$7,425.
public schools. furniture. 1927
Metropolitan police. uniforms. 1927,
$39.320.
Fire Department. uniforms. 1927,
S30. 900.
Public Utilities Commission, salaries,
1927. SIS. 500
General expenses, 1927, $4,000.
Juvenile Court, compensation OF
Jurors, 1927, 81 500.
Mr. Wood explained that the items
for the Assessors office. the Juvenile
Court and the Public Utilities CommiS-
sion are due to laws recently enacted
and carry out the express wish of Con-
gress in those acts. The amount for
High School is due TO the early COM
pletion of the addition to that building
and it's occupancy for classroom pur-
poses. The amounts for uniforms for
the Police and Fire departments are
in accordance with the act of last sfay,
and provide the allotments for th%Se
purposes for the laA six months Of
the current fiscal year, following a de-
tailed survey of the requirements for
the full year.
The principal other items in the bill
are the refund of taxes Illegally col
lected, sits, 600 900. fighting forest fires
in national forests. So. 155 600: forest
roads and trails under contract, ST.
400 900: naval air station, Pensacola
Fla, on account of hurricane damage.
$780, 000; marine railway. San Diego
Naval Station, $200.000; naval station,
Lake Denmark. n. j., $347 900: mine
depot, Yorktown, Va, $3.50, 900; fight
ing fires and repairing food damage in
national parks, S235 600: Inland Water
ways Corporation, 1900 900: judg-
ments of courts, S374.946.29. and au-
dited claims, S53S, 1899.
S7.425 for Assessors.
The S7.425S for employment of addi-
tional personal services for the AS
sesor's Office for the period between
February /, 1927, and June 80. 1927,
covers the compensation of two as
sistant assessors at SO, 300 each, two
field men at 81 800 each and five clerks
at $500.
These additional positions are pro-
vided for in the budget for the fiscal
year 1928. The need for the positions
arises as the result of the passage of
the act of Congress approved July 3,
1926, providing for the annual assess
ment of real estate in the District of
Columbia, as against the requirement
for biennial assessments of real es-
tate. Section 10 of this act of July 3,
1926, authorizes an appropriation for
the employment of additional personal
services to enable the Assessor to
carry. on the work of annual assess
ment of property.
During the period between the first
Monday in January-that is, this
the first Monday in June
the Board of Equalization and Review,
composed of the Assessor as chair
man and the three assistant assessors
In charge of real estate and the three
assistant assessors in charge of per--
sonal property is required to sit as a
board for the purpose of hearing and
considering appeals of property owners
against the assessment OF their real
estate.
1t will be necessary to have a. fieldAI
force operating between now and the
end of the present fiscal year for the
purpose of bringing on the tax roll
all new buildings erected between JULY
/, 1926, and June 80, 1927.
The Assessor states that it is urac-
tically impossible for him to carry out
the annual assessment of property and
to make a thorough assessment, effec.
tive on the 1st of July next, unless he
has this additional force to render the
assistance.
See Revenue Increase.
1t Is estimated that the annual as.
sessment of real estate will represent
to the District a return of $10O, 900 to
$50 900 more in taxes year than has
been received under the biennial as
sessment.
While the present six assessors will |
be constantly hearing appeals between /
now and the end of June, the three
additional assessors will not only be |
employed going throughout the Dis, |
trict for the purpose of bringing new
buildings on the tax roll on the 1st of |
July next, but they will also be EN- |
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