Evening star., 1930-12-03
BUDGET is PREDICATED
ON Sl.7O TAX RATE HERE
Contribution Of $9,5OO,OOO From Con
gress Also Included in Schedule
of Local Expenses.

additional personnel and $4,000 for
painting for the District of Columbia
Supreme Court, $4,000 for painting and
repairs of the Court of Appeals Building
and approximately $500 for promo
tionS.
Public Welfare.-The increase of $445,-
744, when considered in connection with
non-recurring appropriations for 1881
amounting to several hundred thousand
dollars, is accounted for largely as fol-
lows:
An increase of $50, $50 is proposed for
the work house and reformatory to pro-
vide additional employees, food, clothing
and other supplies for the increased
population expected at these institutions
in 1882, particularly at the reformatory;
where the completion of additional
housing facilities now under construc-
ton will enable it to care for large
number of District of Columbia prison.
erS now confined in Federal peniten-
tiaries. It is also proposed to replace
the present tug boat at cost of S25, 900.
To provide promotions, three addi-
tional nurses, one mechanic and larger
maintenance fund, and also inclose two
wards and, among other improvements,
repair the boilers and boiler house at
the tuberculosis Hospital, an increase
of $21 ,220 is submitted.
An estimate of $3.50, 900, together with
an uneXpended balance of approximate
ly $4,000, is submitted for beginning
the construction of the Children's Tu-
berculosiS Sanatorium on the site ac-
quired for this purpose IN Maryland. 1t
is further proposed to authorize the
Commissioners to enter into contract or
contracts for the complete construction
and equipment of this sanatorium at
cost not to exceed $508,000.
For CSaIlinppr HOSOital the estimates
provide $10,1 140 for promotions, and an
increase of $4,000 in the repair fund.
A net increase of 1900 is proposed
for the District Training School, of
which amount $500 is for mainte-
nance and $10,640 for additional en-
ployes and promotions. The estimates
also include $4,000 for furnishing and
equipping the domestic service build
ing, $50, 900 for heating plant additions
and improvements and $115,000 for the
construction of a special ward building
To care for 70 children now main
tanned in a private institution, the es-
Inmates for the Industrial Home School
for Colored provide $4,000 for the
construction Off two cottage dormitories
and additional school building facilities.
Parks Are Helped.
TIE estimate of $4,000 for recla-
nation ard development of Anacostia
Park is the same amount as for 1881,
exclusive of the 1881 homecoming item
of SI5000 for purchase of land.
The estimate of $250000 for the Ma
tiona1 Geological Park provides for one
additional keeper, the replacement of
motor truck and an additional allow
ance for food and other supplies, and
includes $4,000 for the construction of
a fence around the park.
The estimates for the water service
provide increases of $4,000 for operat-
ing the Washington Aqueduct, $9,120
for the transfer of six per diem en-
ployes to the annual salary roll, SAL $40
for the maintenance and $4,000 for
the extension of the distribution sys-
tenn, $685. 900 for installation of meters
and $4,000 for replacement of old
water mains.
The estimates for permanent and in
definite appropriations include increases
of $3.50, 900 for the opening and extern
sion of streets and avenues, $4,000 for
refunding enormously collected taxes,
| $50 1000 on account of the teachers re-
tirement fund, $50,000 on account of
the policemen and firemen's relief fund,
SITS 900 for the Washington redemp-
ton fund and 100000 on account Of
miscellaneous trust fund deposits.