District of Columbia AppropriationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 - Washington (D.C.) |
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additional amount Anacostia River annum appro assistant Avenue bill BLAIR Board of Charities board of education bonds BOWERMAN cent Chairman charge clerk committee Conduit Road Congress Congress Heights connection construction cost current appropriation DAVIDSON DAVIS District of Columbia duties employees engineer commissioner estimates for 1915 expenditure expenses fiscal fund Georgia Avenue HARDING High School HINEBAUGH horses hospital increase inspection inspector institution June 30 K Streets KOBER labor LANGFITT located maintenance matter McANDREWS ment motor municipal necessary NEWMAN paid Park patients police Potomac River present priation probation officer purchase purpose recommendation repairs Road Rock Creek Rock Creek Park salary school buildings sewer SIDDONS sinking fund SISSON statement stories and basement Street NW superintendent teachers tion vehicles wagons Washington Western High School WILSON WOODWARD workhouse
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Page 227 - The board of education shall annually on the first day of October transmit to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia an estimate in detail of the amount of money required for the public schools for the ensuing year, and said commissioners shall transmit the same in their annual estimate of appropriations for the District of Columbia, with such recommendations as they may deem proper.
Page 77 - June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, said appropriation to become operative upon the execution by the duly appointed delegates of said nation, specially empowered to do so, of a release and conveyance to the United States of all right, title, interest and claim of said nation of Indians, in and to said lands, in manner and form, satisfactory to the President of the United States; and Whereas, said...
Page 76 - That the said Chief of Engineers and the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to make all needful rules and regulations for the government and proper care of all the public grounds placed by this act under their respective charge and control: and to annex to such rules and regulations such reasonable penalties as will secure their enforcement.
Page 401 - Board, or by a committee of its members, of the management of any penal, reformatory, or charitable institution of the State ; and said Board or committee in making any such investigation, shall have power to send for persons and papers, and to administer oaths and affirmations ; and the report of such investigation, with the testimony, shall be made to the Governor, and shall be submitted by him, with his suggestions, to the General Assembly.
Page 437 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia...
Page 143 - That a free public library and reading room is hereby estab* lished and shall l>e maintained in the District of Columbia, which shall be the property of the said District and a supplement of the public educational system of said District. All actions relating to such library, or for the recovery of any penalties lawfully established in relation thereto, shall be brought in the name of the District of Columbia...
Page 430 - The data upon which this statement is based is taken principally from the annual reports of the Treasurer of the United States on the sinking fund and funded debt of the District of Columbia, fiscal years 1879-1910, inclusive. Bonded indebtedness. The $5,146,350 reported above as "issued...
Page 76 - States, one-half to be placed to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
Page 461 - For installing and repairing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations...
Page 230 - Every new teacher at the time of his appointment shall be assigned to a class or group by the board of education on the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, and shall receive for the first year the minimum pay of said class or group.