Eighty privates, class 2, at $1,140 each, are recommended in lieu of 40 drivers, at $1,150 each, and 40 assistant drivers, at $1,140 each.

The following salaries are recommended to be increased:

1 deputy clerk from $1,350 to $1,480.

2 stenographers and typewriters from $900 to $1,080 each.

HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM.

The following salaries are recommended to be increased:

1 assistant cook from $300 to $360..

$130 360

490

$1,000

600

240

1,840

3 fireman from $300 to $360....

$60 180

240

NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

A treasurer at $600 is omitted.

TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL.

The pay of a pharmacist and clerk is increased from $720 to $780

BOARD OF CHILDREN'S GUARDIANS.

The following salaries are recommended to be increased:

1 stenographer from $720 to $900..

1 messenger from $360 to $480..

2

An additional laborer at $480 is recommended.

INDUSTRIAL HOME SCHOOL FOR COLORED CHILDREN.

A supervisor of boys at $780 is recommended.

INDUSTRIAL HOME SCHOOL.

The pay of supervisor of boys is increased from $720 to $780.

WORKHOUSE AND REFORMATORY.

$180

120

300

The following employees are recommended as a combined supervisory force for the workhouse and reformatory:

Workhouse.-An assistant superintendent, at $1,680, is recom

mended in lieu of a superintendent, at $2,500.

The following employees are omitted:

1 assistant superintendent

1 chief engineer and electrician.

1 physician..

8 day guards, at $660 each.

3 night guards, at $600 each.

1 day officer..

1 night officer..

The following salaries are recommended to be increased:

1 superintendent of clothing and laundry from $720 to $840..

1 storekeeper, from $660 to $720..

1 stewardess, from $480 to $600..

1 veterinary, from $780 to $880..

1 superintendent of laundry, from $600 to $720..

2 day guards, from $720 to $900 each.

22 day guards, from $660 to $840 each.

12 night guards, from $600 to $720 each. 1 day officer, from $480 to $600...

3 night officers, from $480 to $600 each.

1 hospital nurse, $480 to $600...

1 captain of steamboat, $900 to $1,100.

1 engineer of steamboat, $840 to $1,000.

48

$900

1, 100

1,350

5, 280

1,800

480

480

11, 390

$120

60

120

100

120

360

3, 960

1, 440

120

360

120

200

160

7,240

An additional meter computer at $1,000 is recommended.
The pay of 11 inspectors is increased from $800 to $900 each.
The pay of one clerk is increased from $900 to $1,000.

LIMITATIONS.

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 21:

Provided, That the width of the roadway of Nineteenth Street northwest, between E Street and New York Avenue, shall be thirty-five feet instead of thirty-two feet as specified in the schedule.

On page 22, in connection with the appropriation for municipal improvements near Government buildings:

Provided, That the foregoing work shall be done under the direction of the commissioners, by contract, day labor, or in such other manner as in their judgment may be most advantageous to the Government.

On page 29:

The commissioners are authorized to expend from appropriations heretofore made for the upper Potomac interceptor sewer not to exceed $7,000 for the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of such land in the square west of square numbered four as may be necessary for a site for and the construction of a sewage pumping station at the northwest corner of Twenty-seventh and K Streets northwest, within the limiting lines of Rock Creek Parkway.

On page 31:

Provided, That any proceeds received from the disposal of city refuse or garbage shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts.

On page 38:

The first year of service for all teachers hereafter appointed in the graded schools shall be probationary.

On page 39:

Provided, That hereafter the board of education is authorized, on recommendation of the superintendent of schools, to withhold the longevity increase of any teacher because of an unsatisfactory efficiency rating.

On page 52:

Preliminary to permanent appointment as patrolman, there shall be a period of probation for such time as may be fixed by the Commissioners, and no person shall receive a permanent appointment who has not served the required probationary period, but the service during probation shall be deemed to be service in the uniformed force if succeeded by a permanent appointment, and as such shall be included and counted in determining eligibility for advancement, promotion, retirement, and pension in accordance with existing law. If the conduct or capacity of the proba tioner be unsatisfactory to the Commissioners, the probationer shall be notified in writing that at the end of such probationary period he shall for that reason not be retained in the service. The retention of the probationer in the service otherwise shall be equivalent to a permanent appointment therein.

On page 73:

Provided, That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, appropriations made for the National Training School for Girls shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia in the manner now provided by law for expenditures from appropriations for general expenses of the government of said District.

On page 91:

That all per diem employees and day laborers of the District of Columbia who have been regularly employed for fifteen working days next preceding such days as are legal holidays in the District of Columbia, and whose employment continues through and beyond said legal holidays, shall be granted such leave of absence with pay as is granted the regular annual employees of the District of Columbia for said legal holidays.

On page 92:

That the sum of $125,000 shall be transferred to the credit of the United States from the amount in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia to pay the indebtedness of the District of Columbia to the United States on account of the construction and equipment of the District jail, as provided in section one thousand and ninetyseven of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia.

That the sum of $97,740.50 shall be transferred to the credit of the United States from the amount in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia to pay the indebtedness of the District of Columbia to the United States on account of advances to pay teachers in the District public schools, as provided by the act entitled "An act making appropriation for the payment of teachers in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and providing for the levy of a tax to reimburse the same," approved April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.

The following comparative tables show, in parallel columns, as to each item of appropriation in the bill the amount appropriated for the fiscal year 1918, the amount estimated for 1919, and the amount recommended for 1919:

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