For necessary furniture and equipment, to be immediately available, eight thousand dollars

For grading, road making, purchase of farm implements, tools, seed, and so forth, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars. For acquiring, by purchase or condemnation, additional ground, being part of lot seven in the subdivision of Bellevue or Blue Plains, containing nineteen acres, more or less, bounded on three sides by the ground purchased by the District of Columbia for a site for a municipal almshouse and a burial place for the indigent dead, or so much thereof as may be necessary, four thousand dollars

FOR REFORM SCHOOL: For care and maintenance of boys committed to the Reform School by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said Reform School, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary

REFORM SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; treasurer, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; two teachers, at six hundred dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; seven teachers of industries, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and twenty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; laborer, three hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars;

For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars; For repairs to building, three thousand dollars;

In all, twenty-four thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars. TRANSPORTATION OF PRISONERS: For conveying prisoners to the workhouse, including salary of driver, not to exceed seven hundred and twenty dollars, and the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, two thousand dollars

[Total amount for Reformatories and Correctional Institutions, $179,726.]

MEDICAL CHARITIES.

For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum by the Board of Charities, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars.. For repairs to Columbia Hospital building, two thousand dollars For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Children's Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars.

For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand dollars

For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, two thousand dollars..

$8.000.00

5,000.00

4, 000. 00

20,000.00

24, 365. 00

2,000.00

25, 500.00

20,000.00 2,000.00

14,000.00

8,000.00

8, 500.00

2,000.00

For the Women's Clinic, maintenance, seven hundred and fifty dollars

For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, including elevator, seven thousand dollars

For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars

For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars

To enable the Board of Charities to provide for emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients, under contracts or agreements with hospitals and dispensaries, four thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to establish or maintain any hospital or dispensary not now existing in the District of Columbia.

For erection and equipment, complete, of a hospital for treatment of indigent tuberculosis patients only, said hospital to be located and erected on the site heretofore acquired for a municipal hospital, and to be situated and constructed on said site without reference to existing or proposed plans for any other hospital on said site, one hundred thousand dollars

[Total amount for Medical Charities, $197,750.]

CHILD-CARING INSTITUTIONS.

BOARD OF CHILDREN'S GUARDIANS: For the Board of Children's Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, and all office and sundry expenses, three thousand one hundred dollars;

For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk, one thousand and eighty dollars; placing officer, nine hundred dollars; placing officer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; investigating clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; record clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; visiting inspector, four hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars;

For maintenance of feeble-minded children, sixteen thousand dollars; For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than one thousand five hundred dollars to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than three hundred dollars for burial of children dying while under charge of the Board, fifty-four thousand dollars:

In all, for Board of Children's Guardians, eighty-one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. [Correct amount by items. $79,820.]- - -For completion of buildings for an industrial home school for colored children, fifty thousand dollars

FOR THE INDUSTRIAL HOME SCHOOL: For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; matron, four hundred and eighty dollars; two matrons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant matrons, at three hundred dollars each; housekeeper, three hundred and sixty dollars; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; nurse, three hundred dollars; manual training teacher, six hundred dollars; florist, six hundred dollars; engineer, six hundred dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; two housemaids, at

$750.00

7,000.00

3,000.00

3,000.00

4,000.00

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79, 820.00

50,000.00

one hundred and forty-four dollars each; temporary labor, not to exceed four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars.

For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and harness, nine thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars;

In all, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand dollars

For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars.

For erection of suitable fire escape, two hundred dollars

For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed nine thousand nine hundred dollars...

For the Working Boys' Home and Children's Aid Association, maintenance, five hundred dollars.

For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the Washington Hospital for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars

For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with Saint Ann's Infant Asylum by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars...

For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be made with the German Orphan Asylum by the Board of Charities not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars

[Total amount for Child-Caring Institutions, $171,114.]

TEMPORARY HOMES.

For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely: For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; and laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, including rent, one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred dollars..

For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, namely: For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; and cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war shall also be admitted to the Home

For the care and maintenance of women and children under a contract to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, two thousand dollars

HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE: For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law, two hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress "To change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes," approved January thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand dollars.

That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may require of said secretary, sums of

$17, 144. 00

1,000.00

550.00

200.00

9,900.00

500.00

5, 400.00

5,400.00

1,200.00

3,700.00

5,500.00

2,000.00

272,800.00

3,000.00

money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.

RELIEF OF THE POOR: For relief of the poor, including pay of physicians to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand three hundred dollars..

TRANSPORTATION OF PAUPERS: For transportation of paupers, three thousand dollars

[Total amount for Temporary Homes, $302,300.]
[Total amount for Charities and Corrections, $865,250.]

MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely:

For rent, fuel (including fuel for cruises), light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, and for telephone service, twenty-four thousand dollars...

For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, one thousand five hundred dollars

For printing and stationery, six hundred and fifty dollars For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, one thousand dollars

For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, one thousand dollars

$12,300.00

3,000.00

24, 000. 00

1,500.00

650.00

1,000.00

1,000.00

720.00

1,700.00 1,500.00

For clerk, office of the adjutant-general, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For expenses of drills and parades, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For postage, one thousand five hundred dollars

For expenses of rifle practice and matches, four thousand seven hundred dollars, to be immediately available.

For expenses of camps, instruction, practice marches, and practice cruises, fifteen thousand dollars; and three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the sum appropriated for these objects for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six shall be available for expenses of rifle practice and matches and for repair of practice ships for that year...

For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the authority and direction of the commanding general, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That all moneys collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia on account of Government property lost or destroyed by such individual shall be repaid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the officer of the militia of the District of Columbia who is accountable to the United States Government for such property lost or destroyed: Provided further, That all moneys collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said National Guard shall be held by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys so collected for necessary clerical and general expenses of the service, heretofore or hereafter incurred, including law books and books of reference, or for the pay of troops,

4, 700.00

15,000.00

other than Government employees; and for all moneys so collected and expended the commanding general shall make an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops

For general incidental expenses of the service. five hundred dollars. [Total amount for Militia, $69,870.]

WATER METERS.

For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters to be placed in such private residences as may be directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia; to be repaid from revenues of the water department at the rate of twenty thousand dollars per annum, beginning with the fiscal year to end June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred thousand dollars.

WATER DEPARTMENT.

The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely:

For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; nine inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; eight inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each; assistant tapper, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars;

For distribution branch: For superintendent, three thousand dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; timekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; calker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; two rodmen, at nine hundred dollars each; two chaiumen, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant storekeeper, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; chief steam engineer, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant steam engineers, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; four oilers, at six hundred and ten dollars each; three firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; machinist, one thousand two hundred dollars; two machinists, at nine hundred and seventy-five dollars each; carpenter, one thousand and fifty dollars; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; blacksmith, one thousand and fifty dollars; two plumbers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; janitor, nine hundred dollars; watchman, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; watchman, seven hundred dollars; watchman, six hundred and ten dollars; two drivers, at seven hundred dollars each; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; driver, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, eightyfive thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars.

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100,000.00

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