Teachers of class three shall receive an annual increase of salary of twenty-five dollars for ten years, or until the maximum is reached. Teachers of class four shall receive an annual increase of salary of thirty dollars for ten years, or until the maximum is reached.

Teachers of class five shall receive an annual increase of salary of forty dollars for ten years, or until the maximum is reached.

Teachers in Group A of class six, after the probationary year, shall receive an annual increase of salary of one hundred dollars for eight years; in Group B, of one hundred dollars for three years.

SEC. 7. That principals of grade-school buildings shall receive for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, the yearly sum of thirty dollars for each session room in the building.

The term "session room" shall be held to designate a class room in which the regular work of a class of not less than twenty-five people is carried on.

Principals of normal, high, and manual training schools shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, together with an annual increase of one hundred dollars for five years. All such principals shall be appointed at the minimum salary, and each shall have entire control of his school, both executive and educational, subject only in authority to the superintendent of schools for the white schools and to the colored assistant superintendent for the colored schools, to whom in each case he shall be directly responsible.

DIRECTORS.

SEC. 8. That the salary of the directors shall be as follows: Directors of drawing, physical culture, music, fifteen hundred dollars, with an annual increase of one hundred dollars for five years; domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens shall receive a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum with an annual increase of fifty dollars per year for five years; the assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, in charge of colored schools shall receive a salary of one thousand three hundred dollars per annum, with an annual increase of fifty dollars per year for five years; the director of primary instruction shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year, with an increase of fifty dollars per year for five years; the assistant director of primary instruction, in charge of colored schools, shall receive a salary of one thousand four hundred dollars, with an increase of fifty dollars per year for five years. Directors and assistant directors shall be appointed at the minimum salary.

PAY OF OFFICERS.

SEC. 9. That the pay of officers shall be as follows: The superintendent, five thousand dollars; the assistant superintendents, three thousand dollars each; director of intermediate instruction, supervisor of manual training, and supervising principals, two thousand two hundred dollars per annum, with an increase of one hundred dollars per year for five years.

Director of intermediate instruction, supervisor of manual training, and supervising principals who may be hereafter appointed shall be appointed at the minimum salary provided in this Act unless the said salary is less than that received at the time of his appointment.

SEC. 10. When a teacher is on trial or being investigated he or she shall have the right to be attended by counsel and by at least one friend of his or her selection.

SEC. 11. That a commission, consisting of the superintendent of schools, the Engineer Commissioner, and the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, is hereby created for the purpose of submitting to Congress at its session beginning December, nineteen hundred and six

First. A general plan for the consolidation of the public schools in the District of Columbia, and the abandonment and sale of such school buildings and sites as may by them be deemed necessary and desirable for the best good of the public school service.

Second. A general plan for the character, size, and location of school buildings in accordance with which the educational and business interests of the public school system may be subserved.

SEC. 12. That wherever the masculine pronoun occurs in this Act it shall be construed to apply to either male or female teachers or employees of the board of education.

SEC. 13. That this Act shall take effect on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and six, and all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved, June 20, 1906.

[PUBLIC-No. 251.]

By the Act To classify the officers and members of the fire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fire department of the District of Columbia shall embrace the whole of the said District, and its personal and movable property shall be assigned and located as the Commissioners of said District may direct within the appropriations made by Congress.

SEC. 2. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall appoint, assign to such duty or duties, promote, reduce, fine, suspend, with or without pay, and remove all officers and members of the fire department of the District of Columbia according to such rules and regulations as said Commissioners in their exclusive jurisdiction and judgment may from time to time make, alter, or amend: Provided, That the rules and regulations of the fire department heretofore promulgated are hereby ratified and shall remain in force until changed by said Commissioners.

SEC. 3. That the fire department of the District of Columbia shall consist of one chief engineer, one deputy chief engineer, both of whom shall have had at least five years of experience in some regularly organized municipal fire department, such number of battalion chief engineers as said Commissioners may deem necessary from time to time within the appropriations made by Congress; one fire marshal; such number of deputy fire marshals, inspectors, and clerks as said Commissioners may deem necessary from time to time within the appropriations made by Congress; such number of captains and lieutenants as said Commissioners may deem necessary from time to time within the appropriations made by Congress; one superintendent of machinery; such number of assistant superintendents of machinery, engineers, assistant engineers, pilots, marine engineers, assistant marine

engineers, drivers, assistant drivers, privates of class numbered two and privates of class numbered one as said Commissioners may deem necessary from time to time within the appropriations made by Congress: Provided, That the chief engineer of the fire department of the District of Columbia shall have the right to call for and obtain the services of any veterinary surgeon employed by the District who at the time shall not be engaged in a more emergent veterinary service for the District: And provided further, That the police surgeons of said District are required to attend, without charge, the members of the fire department of said District, and examine all applicants for appointment to, promotion in, and retirement from said fire department.

SEC. 4. That the salaries of the officers and members of said fire department herein provided shall commence, for the purposes of this Act, with the fiscal year beginning July first, nineteen hundred and six, and shall continue thereafter annually, unless changed by Congress, as follows: The chief engineer shall receive an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars; the deputy chief engineer shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; battalion chief engineers shall each receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars; the fire marshal shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars; deputy fire marshals shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand four hundred dollars; inspectors shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand and eighty dollars; one chief clerk at an annual salary of one thousand four hundred dollars and one clerk at an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars; captains shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand four hundred dollars; lieutenants shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars; the superintendent of machinery shall receive an annual salary of one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant superintendents of machinery shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars; engineers shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; assistant engineers shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand one hundred dollars; pilots shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; marine engineers shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; assistant marine engineers shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand one hundred dollars; drivers shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; assistant drivers shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand one hundred dollars; privates of class numbered two shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand and eighty dollars; privates of class numbered one shall each receive an annual salary of nine hundred and sixty dollars.

SEC. 5. That no officer or member of said fire department, under penalty of forfeiting the salary or pay which may be due him, shall withdraw or resign, except by permission of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, unless he shall have given the said Commissioners one month's previous notice, in writing, of such intention.

SEC. 6. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. That this Act shall take effect and be in force on and after July first, nineteen hundred and six.

Approved, June 20, 1906.

[For appropriations under the foregoing, see District of Columbia and Deficiency Acts, pp. 86 and 363.]

[PUBLIC-No. 79.]

By the Act To amend an Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and five, entitled "An Act to amend section four of an Act entitled 'An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,' approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this Act the provision of the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and five, entitled "An Act to amend section four of an Act entitled 'An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,' approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one," for the relief, during widowhood, of dependent mothers of unmarried deceased members of said Metropolitan police force and of unmarried deceased members of the fire department of said District, shall include such mothers of any such deceased members of said police force and of said fire department who have died from injury or disease prior to March first, nineteen hundred and five.

Approved, March 31, 1906.

[PUBLIC NO. 205.]

By the Act To amend section one of an Act entitled "An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia," approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section one of the Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia," be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

"PARAGRAPH 1. The Metropolitan police district of the District of Columbia shall be coextensive with the District of Columbia, and shall be subdivided into such police districts and precincts as the Commissioners of said District may from time to time direct.

"PAR. 2. The Commissioners of said District shall appoint to office, assign to such duty or duties as they may prescribe, and promote all officers and members of said Metropolitan police force according to such rules and regulations as said Commissioners in their exclusive jurisdiction and judgment may from time to time make, alter, or amend: Provided, That original appointments of privates on said police force at the time this Act takes effect shall be classified as follows: Class one: Privates who have served under their present appointments less than three years shall be included in class one, and at the expiration of three years from the date of said appointment shall be promoted to class two, if the conduct and intelligent attention to duty of such privates shall justify such promotion. Class two: Privates who have served under their present appointments more than three years and less than five years shall be included in class two; and after the expiration of five years from the date of said appointment shall be promoted to class three, if the conduct and intelligent attention to duty of such privates shall justify such promotion. Class three: Privates who have served under their present appointment more than five years shall be included in class three. All original appointments of privates shall be made to class one, and promotions shall be made from class one to class two in order of appointment to the force after three

years' service as privates of class one, and from class two to class three after five years' service as privates of class two, in all cases where the conduct and intelligent attention to duty of any private shall justify such promotion.

"PAR. 3. The said Metropolitan police force shall consist of one major and superintendent, who shall continue to be invested with such powers and charged with such duties as is provided by existing law; and also of one assistant superintendent with the rank of inspector; four surgeons for the police and fire departments; three inspectors; ten captains; twelve lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master; and such number of sergeants; and privates of class three; privates of class two; privates of class one; mounted inspectors, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates on horses and bicycles, and such others as said Commissioners may deem necessary within the appropriations made by Congress: Provided, That the inspectors shall form the duties at present required of captains in the force, that the captains shall command police precincts and perform such duty or duties in connection therewith as the laws and regulations of the said Commissioners may prescribe: And provided further, That the said Metropolitan police force shall continue as at present constituted until the offices created hereby are filled and promotions are made by said Commissioners as provided in this Act.

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"PAR. 4. Said Commissioners, in addition to the powers vested in them by law, are also hereby authorized and empowered to make, modify, and enforce, under such penalties as they may deem necessary, all needful rules and regulations for the proper government, conduct, discipline, and good name of said Metropolitan police force; and said Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to fine, suspend with or without pay, and dismiss any officer or member of said police force for any offense against the laws of the United States or the laws and ordinances or regulations of the District of Columbia, whether before or after conviction thereof in any court or courts, and for misconduct in office, or for any breaches or violation of the rules and regulations made by said Commissioners for the government, conduct, discipline, and good name of said police force: Provided, That no person shall be removed from said police force except upon written charges preferred against him in the name of the major and superintendent of said police force to the trial board or boards hereinafter provided for and after an opportunity shall have been afforded him of being heard in his defense; but no person so removed shall be reappointed to any office in said police force: Provided further, That special policemen and additional privates may be removed from office by said Commissioners, or a majority of them, without cause and without trial: Provided further, That charges preferred against any member of said police force to the trial board or boards hereinafter provided for may be altered or amended, in the discretion of such trial board or boards, at any time before final action by such board or boards, under such regulations as the Commissioners may adopt, provided the accused have an opportunity to be heard thereon.

"PAR. 5. The said Commissioners are also hereby authorized and empowered to create one or more trial board or boards, to be composed of such number of persons as said Commissioners may appoint thereto, for the trial of officers and members of said police force; and said Commissioners are hereby also authorized and empowered to make and amend rules of procedure before such trial board or boards and to change or abolish any such trial board or boards as they may deem proper; and the findings of such trial board or boards shall be final and conclusive unless appeal in writing therefrom is made within five days to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the hearings on appeal to be submitted either orally or in writing, and the decision