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HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

A reorganization of the force in this office is made, a net increase of 1 clerk, at $1,000 per annum, being provided for. No salaries therein are increased.

POLICE COURT.

1 clerk increased from $2,000 to $2,200.

1 deputy clerk increased from $1,500 to $1,600.

WRITS OF LUNACY.

The amount authorized to be paid for the services of an alienist is increased from $1,000 to $1,200.

BOARD OF CHARITIES.

Chief clerk increased from $1,200 to $1,350.
Stenographer increased from $1,200 to $1,300.

WASHINGTON ASYLUM AND JAIL.

3 assistant engineers increased from $480 to $600 each.

1 trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, increased from $840 to $900. 2 orderlies, at $300 each (new).

1 ward maid, at $180 (new).

HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM.

Superintendent increased from $1,200 to $1,320.
Chief cook increased from $600 to $720.

Chief engineer increased from $900 to $1,000.
1 laundress, at $240 (new).

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Limitations with respect to expenditures or legislative provisions within clause 2 of Rule XXI of the House, not heretofore enacted, are recommended as follows:

On page 7, in connection with the appropriation for fish wharf and market, the following:

And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed in the name of the District of Columbia to take over, exclusively control, regulate, and operate as a municipal fish wharf and market,

the water frontage on the Potomac River lying south of Water Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, including the buildings and wharves thereon, and said wharf shall constitute the sole wharf for the landing of fish and oysters for sale in the District of Columbia; and said commissioners shall have power to make leases, fix and determine rentals, wharfage and dockage fees, and to collect and pay the same into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia, and to make and amend, from time to time, all such regulations as they may deem proper for the control, regulation, and operation of said municipal fish wharf and market; and all leases, subleases, and other private rights of occupancy in and to any or all of said property are terminated on, from, and after March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen; and all laws and parts of laws requiring the advertisement and sale of rights and privileges for a fish wharf or dock, and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof, are repealed.

On page 13, in connection with the Free Public Library, the following:

And hereafter the Takoma Park branch shall be kept open on the same days and during the same hours as the Free Public Library shall be open to the public.

On page 16:

Telephones connected with the system of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company may be maintained in the residences of the superintendent of the water department, superintendent of sewers, secretary of the Board of Charities, health officer, chief engineer of the fire department, and superintendent of police, of the District of Columbia, under appropriations contained in this act.

On page 19:

Hereafter materials for fireproof buildings, other structural materials, and all other materials purchased for and to be used by the government of the District of Columbia, and necessary to be tested, shall be tested by the Bureau of Standards under the same conditions as similar testing is required to be done for the United States Government.

On page 21:

Hereafter any final judgment or decree of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia may be reexamined, affirmed, reversed, or modified by the Supreme Court of the United States, upon writ of error or appeal, in all cases wherein is involved the validity or infringement of any patent in which the District of Columbia, or the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or a contractor doing work for the District of Columbia under a contract where said commissioners assume responsibility for infringement of patent rights, or any of them, are parties in interest, and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed. On page 21:

So much of the act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes, approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, as requires that within thirty days after the completion of the new track connection with the United States navy yard in the District of Columbia, therein provided for, the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company shall, at its own expense, remove the existing track connection with said navy yard, is hereby amended by limiting the portion of the existing track connection to be removed to that portion of track which lies east of the west building line of Second Street east; and the

portion of said existing track connection lying within public space west of the west building line of Second Street east, as the same now exists or may hereafter be changed under the authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, is hereby authorized to remain as a grade siding and spur tracks or sidings therefrom, constructed at the grade of the abutting public space, are authorized to be extended into property abutting on the public space occupied by this portion of said track connection, with the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and upon such conditions as may be imposed by them.

On page 24:

The part of Twentieth Street northwest, in the District of Columbia, beginning at Park Road and extending north along the west side of square twenty-six hundred and seventeen to the north end of said square, shall hereafter be designated Park Road; and the part of said Twentieth Street beginning at Park Road and extending south along square twenty-six hundred and four to Adams Mill Road shall hereafter be designated Walbridge Place.

On page 25:

The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, in their discretion, to use such portion of public space lying south of Water Street and east of Fourteenth Street southwest as may, in their judgment, be necessary for the site of an asphalt plant and the storage yards and other necessary accessories therefor, and to construct a bulkhead on the water side of said site, upon such lines as they may deem necessary to rectify the present bulkhead line: Provided, That the District of Columbia shall pay to the United States as compensation for the land contained in said site, one-half the estimated value thereof, namely, $19,500, and there is hereby appropriated, entirely from the revenues of the District of Columbia, said sum of $19,500, which shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States, and thereafter the title to said property shall be in the name of the District of Columbia. And they are further authorized to establish, construct or purchase, maintain, and operate, on the site above described, an asphalt plant with the necessary accessory structures, materials, means of transportation, road rollers, tools and machinery, and railroad sidings, all or any part of the above work to be executed by day labor or contract, as in the judgment of the commissioners may be deemed most advantageous to the District of Columbia, and the cost of the same and of any necessary incidental or contingent expenses in connection therewith shall be paid from the appropriation for "Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys" made herein: Provided further, That the total expenditure under the above authorization for an asphalt plant shall not exceed the sum of $90,000; and the portable asphalt plant purchased under the appropriation for repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, may be operated under the immediate direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in doing such work of resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements, in the repair of macadam streets by constructing on such macadam streets an asphalt macadam wearing surface and in the construction of asphaltic macadam surfaces on concrete base, as in their judgment may be economically performed by the use of said plant, and so much of this appropriation as is necessary for the purposes aforesaid is hereby made available for such work.

On page 27:

The authority given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in the act making appropriations for the expenses of the District of Colum

bia, approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, to make such changes in the lines of the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue and its intersecting streets in connection with their resurfacing as they may consider necessary and advisable is made applicable to such other streets and avenues as may be improved hereafter under appropriations: Provided, That no such change shall be made unless there shall result therefrom a decrease in the cost of the improvement.

On page 29, in connection with the bridge across Rock Creek, on line of Pennsylvania Avenue:

And the Capital Traction Company is authorized and required, within ninety days after said bridge shall be ready for the reception thereof, to remove its track from Twenty-sixth Street northwest between Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street and from M Street northwest between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth Streets, and relocate the same in Pennsylvania Avenue and across the bridge herein provided for to a junction with their present tracks at Twenty-ninth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, and to repave the said street space and the space on the M Street Bridge over Rock Creek from which said tracks are removed, all in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and to their satisfaction, and the same law now governing the paving and repairing of street pavements between rails and for a distance of two feet exterior thereto shall govern on the bridge herein provided for. And the Capital Traction Company shall, after the completion of said bridge, pay into the Treasury of the United States, one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia and onehalf to the credit of the United States, a portion of the total cost of said bridge and all incidental work thereto equal to one-third thereof, and the same shall be a valid and subsisting lien against the franchises and property of said Capital Traction Company, and shall be a legal indebtedness of said company in favor of the District of Columbia, jointly for its use and the use of the United States, as aforesaid, and the said lien may be enforced in the name of the District of Columbia by bill of equity brought by the Commissioners of the said District of Columbia in the Supreme Court of said District or by any other lawful proceedings against the said Capital Traction Company, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby further authorized and directed, under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, to institute in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land necessary to open Pennsylvania Avenue northwest between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-eighth Streets to sufficient width for the construction of this bridge, the cost of said condemnation to be paid out of this appropriation: Provided, however, That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said opening, plus the costs and expenses of said proceedings, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits.

The amounts assessed as benefits when collected shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the United States in equal parts.

And the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, is authorized and directed to transfer to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia the land under his jurisdiction in square eleven hundred and ninety-four,

which is necessary, in the judgment of said commissioners, for the construction of the aforesaid bridge and approaches.

On page 34:

The commissioners shall submit for the consideration of Congress, in the annual estimates for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, detailed estimates for the construction of not exceeding two public bathing beaches, with all necessary buildings, on separate sites other than that now used and where tidal waters shall be constantly available for bathing purposes.

On page 35, with reference to playgrounds employees:

In case of unauthorized absence or disability of any member of the playgrounds staff, the salary during such absence or disability shall be available to pay substitute employees during the fical year.

On page 38:

Hereafter, all railroads using engines propelled by steam shall pay to the District of Columbia for the lighting, under the direction and control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, of the public roads, streets, avenues, and alleys, for their full width, through which their tracks may be laid, for the length of the street occupied by the said tracks, whether the said tracks be laid above, below, or at grade; as well as for the lighting of the subways and bridges over or under which the tracks of said railroads pass; and in default of payment of such bills, actions at law may be maintained by the District of Columbia against said railroads or their successors, transferees, or lessees therefor: Provided, That nothing herein shall be held to repeal the act of May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, relating to the Washington Terminal Company.

On page 60, in connection with health department employees:

Not less than twelve of the sanitary and food inspectors above provided for shall be employed in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws and the regulations relating thereto and in the inspection of dairies and dairy farms.

On page 64:

The action of the commissioners in locating a pound and stable for the health department on reservation numbered two hundred and ninety, located along James Creek Canal at the intersection of South Capitol and I Streets southeast, under the authorization contained in the District appropriation act approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, is ratified and confirmed, and the jurisdiction and control over said reservation is transferred to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia: Provided, That the District of Columbia shall pay to the United States as compensation for the land contained in said reservation one-half the estimated value thereof, namely $4,100, and there is hereby appropriated, entirely from the revenues of the District of Columbia, said sum of $4,100, which shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States, and thereafter the title to said reservation shall be in the name of the District of Columbia.

On page 81:

The reimbursement required to be made to the United States by the District of Columbia under the provisions of the sundry civil appropriation act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, on account of deficiencies in payments for the care and maintenance of the insane of said District during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and

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