Opening alleys, etc. Hereafter in all cases of payments for opening, widening, extending, and straightening alleys and minor streets under the provisions of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, the accounting officers Assessment and shall take into account the assessment for benefits and the award for award. County roads. Fourteenth road. street Virginia C. Huidekoper. ment widening V damages, and shall pay only such part of said award in respect of any lot as may be in excess of the assessment for benefits against the part of such lot not taken, and there shall be credited on said assessment the amount of said award not in excess of said assessment. CONSTRUCTION OF COUNTY ROADS: For construction of county roads ́and suburban streets as follows: For completing the opening, grading, and macadamizing of Fourteenth street from its present terminus, at Lydecker avenue, to Piney Branch road, thirty-seven thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars, of which amount ten thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For Sherman avenue, Florida avenue to Irving street, improve, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For Erie street and Euclid place, Sixteenth street to University place, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars. For Twentieth street, Brentwood road to Queens Chapel road, grade and improve, one thousand nine hundred and ten dollars. For Nichols avenue, Anacostia, macadamize, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For Clifton street, Eleventh to Thirteenth, grade, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For Bladensburg road, grade and improve, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For Messmore street, grade and improve, one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. For Grant street, School to Mount Pleasant, grade and improve, two thousand two hundred dollars. For S street, First to Le Droit street northwest, grade and pave, six thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. For streets in Anacostia, grade and improve, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For Trumbull street, First to Four-and-a-half street northwest, grade and improve, three thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For Lowell street, Eighteenth street to Columbia avenue, grade and improve, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For streets in American University Park, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars. For Pennsylvania avenue extended, grade, ten thousand dollars. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed Credit for Assess to credit the assessment for benefits in the matter of the widening of V street northwest, under the Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, with the sum of one thousand and fifty dollars, against lots numbered nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen in square one hundred and thirty-nine; lot numbered eight in square one hundred and forty; the east fifty-five feet by the depth thereof of lot numbered one and lots numbered two and three in square one hundred and forty-one; and lots numbered two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight, in square one hundred and forty-two, all in the subdivision of Burleith, said amount being the sum paid by Virginia C. Huidekoper as a deposit under said Act, which deposit was intended to be applied upon said assessment. District quarry. Repairs. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to invite bids and to make contracts for operating the District quarry for such periods, not exceeding five years each, as may be determined by them to be most advantageous to the District. REPAIRS STREETS, AVENUES, AND ALLEYS: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, two hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad company as provided by section five of "An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia," approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and municipal buildings, nine thousand five hundred dollars. REPAIRS COUNTY ROADS: For current work of repairs of county roads and suburban streets, eighty-five thousand five hundred dollars. BRIDGES: For construction and repairs of bridges, fourteen thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Connecticut avenue extended, three hundred and ninetyfour thousand dollars, of which sum one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available. Street railways. Vol. 20, p. 106. Sidewalks. County roads. Bridges. Connecticut Avenue Bridge. Potomac River. For completing construction, including approaches and acquisition Highway of land therefor, of the highway bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, District of Columbia, and for personal services and any and all purposes connected therewith, two hundred thousand dollars. For maintenance of said bridge, including necessary personal services therefor, seven thousand dollars. Maintenance. bridge, Anacostia Bridge. Limit of cost increased. Approaches. Provisos. Time of construction. The reconstruction of the Anacostia Bridge authorized in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hun- tion. dred and five may be on the line of the existing bridge or on such other line as may be determined by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and the limit of cost for this work is increased from two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, and the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, out of the appropriation made for said reconstruction, such land as is necessary to provide proper approaches for said bridge, and in case there is any dispute regarding the title of any land so condemned, the value thereof, as determined under said condemnation proceedings, shall be deposited into the registry of the court, and upon such deposit being made the title to the land claimed shall be vested in the District of Columbia: Provided, That the time within which said bridge shall be constructed is extended to July first, nineteen hundred and seven: And provided Underfloor electricfurther, That in addition to the requirements heretofore made as to the payment for a portion of said work upon said bridge by the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company, said company shall, when directed by the said Commissioners, deposit with the collector of taxes of the district of Columbia, to the credit of the appropriation for the reconstruction of said bridge, the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars, to defray the cost of such underfloor construction as may be necessary in order that the cars of said company may be propelled over said bridge by underfloor electrical conductors or cables, and the entire cost of maintenance of said underfloor construction shall thereafter be borne by said railroad company, and no cars shall be propelled across said bridge unless all electrical conductors or cables furnishing power for the propulsion of the same shall be placed under floor of said bridge. al conductors street railroad. bridge. For construction of a concrete bridge across Piney Branch on the Pines line of Sixteenth street extended, twenty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of said bridge at a cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, to be paid from time to time as appropriations therefor may be made by law. for Branch SEWERS. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, forty-two thousand dollars.' For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, forty-four thousand dollars. For suburban sewers, forty-four thousand dollars. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing construction of the sewage-disposal system pumping station, and for machinery therefor, ninety-seven thousand dollars. For completing construction of the B street and New Jersey avenue trunk sewer, one hundred and thirty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. For completing the outfall sewer, siphon, and outlet, including cost of securing rights of way for outfall sewer by purchase or condemnation, three hundred thousand seven hundred dollars. For completing lower section of Rock Creek and B street intercepting sewer, twenty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty dollars, to be immediately available. For completing Water and L street intercepting sewer, one hundred and forty-three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, to be immediately available. For completing Four-and-a-half street intercepting sewer, seventyeight thousand and eighty dollars. For completing outlet to old B street sewer, twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Any balances of former appropriations remaining after the execution of contracts for works of the sewage-disposal system may be applied by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in the execution of other portions of said sewage-disposal system. STREETS. SPRINKLING, SWEEPING, AND CLEANING: For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, including rent of stable and storage rooms; purchase, maintenance, and livery of horses; purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons and harness, and necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work done under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract: Provided, That, whenever it shall appear to the Commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards, in accordance with the specifications under which the same was last advertised for bids, it shall at once be their duty to advertise to let said work under said specifications to the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents per thousand square yards, they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications; one hundred and ninety-one thousand five hundred dollars, and the Commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein. For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand five hundred dollars. DISPOSAL OF CITY REFUSE: For the collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; for collection and disposal of night soil in the District of Columbia, and for the payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That if it shall appear to the Commissioners that any part of this work can be done under their immediate direction at less cost than is proposed by the lowest and best responsible bidder under the contracts authorized to be entered into by the Act approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, said Commissioners are hereby authorized to undertake such work and to use this appropriation, or any part thereof, for that purpose, other provisions of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, and such use shall be reported in detail in the estimates submitted to Congress. FOR THE PARKING COMMISSION: For contingent expenses, including laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, twenty-four thousand dollars. BATHING BEACH: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman, four hundred and fifty dollars, now authorized and being paid from the general appropriation; and for temporary services, maintenance, and repairs, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available; in all, three thousand dollars. FOR PUBLIC SCALES: For repair and replacement of public scales, two hundred dollars. Proviso. Work under Commissioners. Ante, p. 621. Parking Commission. Bathing beach. Scales. FOR PUBLIC PUMPS: For the purchase, replacement, and repair of Pumps. public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, filling abandoned or condemned public wells, including the hire and maintenance of necessary horse and wagon, three thousand dollars. PLAYGROUNDS: For equipment and maintenance of playgrounds, two thousand dollars. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. For electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; two electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; expert repair man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; four repair men, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. For the following, now authorized and being paid from general appropriations, namely: Playgrounds. paid from general appro For two electrical inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars Employees each; one electrical inspector, one thousand three hundred and fifty priations. dollars; one cable splicer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars each; one clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant cable splicer, six hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant repair man, six hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant repair men, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred and sixty dollars; four telephone operators, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one telephone operator, four hundred and fifty dollars; one storekeeper, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; and one laborer, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, Supplies telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of Placing wires underground. Police-patrol sys tem. Fire-alarm boxes. Lighting. Provisos. Maximum perlamp. poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of stable and storeroom, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars. For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, and police telephone service under ground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, twenty-three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of new boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand three hundred dollars. For the purchase of twenty-five additional fire-alarm boxes, and for the purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand five hundred dollars. LIGHTING: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unfit for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items, two hundred and eleven thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than twenty dollars per annum shall be paid for each gas lamp equipped with a selfregulating flat-flame burner so adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour, nor more than twenty-six dollars per annum for each gas or oil lamp equipped with an incandescent mantle burner of not less than sixty candlepower. And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six the price prescribed by Congress for lighting each street lamp in the District of Columbia with gas or oil shall be construed to include the cost of the illuminating material used, lighting and extinguishing lamps, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expense of erecting and maintaining lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures: Provided, That all of said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: And provided further, Street designation That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may purchase, erect, light, and maintain such posts, lanterns, signs, and fixtures for street designation purposes, in addition to those mentioned above, as in their judgment may be necessary, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph except as to the time of burning: Contracts for high- And provided further, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to enter into one-year or three-year contracts for any one of the above systems of lighting by gas or oil lamps equipped with incandescent Average candle mantle burners of not less than sixty candlepower; and hereafter the illuminating power of gas furnished by any gas-lighting company, person, or persons in the District of Columbia shall be equal to twenty-two candles. All-night service. signs. power lamps. power. Electric lighting. Maximum price. For electric arc lighting, and for extensions of such service, not exceeding eighty-four thousand four hundred dollars: Provided, That not more than eighty-five dollars per annum shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to fortyfive minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wire; and each are light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for |