952 SIXTY·FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 164. 1918. watercepmment. warm:. DEPARTMENT- ¤§,°§§§‘,}“c'i,?"d i”S°°°` For revenue and inspection branch: Water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $1,500, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each; index clerk, $1,400; eight meter computers, at $1,000 each; meter clerk, $1,200; tap clerk, $1,000; in- _ _ _ spectors—·chief $1,000, nineteen at $900 each; messenger, $600; D‘St"b““°° branch For distribution branch: Superintendent, $3,300; engineer, $2,400; assistant engineers—one $1,800, one $1,700; master mechanic, $2,000; foreman, $1,800; assistant foremen—one $1,275, one $1,200, one $1,125, one $900; steam engineers-chief $1,750, two at $1,200 each, three assistants at $1,000 each; chief inspector of valves, $1,600; leveler, $1,200; inspector, $1,200; draftsman, $1,050; clerksone $1,800, one $1,500, four at $1,200 each; stores clerk $1,500, two at $1,000 each, timekeeper, $900; two rodmen at $900 each; two chainmen at $675 each; four oilers at $720 each; three Bremen at $900 each; janitor, $900; watchmen—one $875, one $700, one $610; grivers—one $700,` one $630; two messengers, at $600 each; in all, 94 945. _ C°"““g°“"‘p°“°s‘ Flor contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationexzg printing, {postage, damages, purchase of technical reference boo _ and perio icals not to exceed $75, and other necessary items, $5,000. °*’°“""°" °’*’°““" For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrantsand fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and loweringmains laying new mains and connections, and ereciziniand repairing fireplugshpurchase and maintenance of motor trucks, curses, wagons, carts, an harness necessary for the proper execution of this work and including a sum not exceeding $800 for purchase and use of, bicycles by inspectors of the water department, and to reimburse three employees for provision and maintenance by themselves of three motorcycles for use in their official work in the District of Columbia, $15 per month each $42,000. Service expenses,wa- . . . . . . . ’ . za- metets,etc. For continuing the extension of and mamtaming the high-service system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be reguired to install meters under existing regulations as may be directe by the commissioners, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to ° include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and pruchase an maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, not to exceed $420,685 of the amount available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen after providing for the expplnditures hereinbefore authorized. ,,,,°Q"§“'{f,FI°”C,‘,§,‘}{,s*f Sec. 2. at the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, ¤i¤g;;,¤€mm mgm transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and tm, em. trimpcramy mspectors temporarily r uired in connection with sewer, street, °‘“°‘°Y°d· street cleaning or road wgilr, or construction and repair of buildings and bridgles, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when slpecifically and in writing ordered by the commissioners, and all suc necessary expenditures for thetproper execution of said work shall be paid from and e uitably clrarg against the sums appropriated for said work; and the com- * missroners in their annual estimates shall report the number of such Pmm employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums Limit. paid to each, and out of what appropriation: Provided, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $90,000 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
