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CHAP. 95.— An act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and for other purposes. Mar. 3, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Appropriations. 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, for the purposes following, being the estimated expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES. for salaries and contingent expenses. Commissioners.For executive office : For two Commissioners, at five thousand dollars each ; one Engineer Commissioner, one thousand one hundred and sixty one dollars and fifty cents (to make salary five thousand dollars); Secretary.Clerks.one secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one driver, four hundred and eighty dollars;Contingent expenses. for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, two thousand six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty cents.
Assessor, assistants, clerk, and others.For assessor’s office: For one assessor, three thousand dollars; two assistant assessors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; for temporary clerk hire, two thousand four hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, detection of frauds on the revenue, and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand six hundred dollars.
Collector, cashier, clerks, and others.For collector’s office: For one collector, four thousand dollars; one cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; temporary clerks, one thousand seven hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundredContingent expenses. dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars; in al), seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
Auditor and comptroller, clerks, etc.For auditor and comptroller’s office: For one auditor and comptroller, three thousand dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each ; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.
Temporary clerks.For temporary clerk-hire to enable the auditor to bring up the books and arrange the records of his office, and to audit the books of the collector, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, which shall be available immediately. 463 FORTY SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 95. 1883. For attorney’s office: For one attorney, four thousand dollars ; oneAttorney, assistant, and others. assistant attorney, one thousand nine hundred dollars; one special assistant attorney, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; for rent of office three hundred dollars; for contingent expenses,Rent; contingent expenses. including books, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars.
For sinking-fund office : For two clerks, at one thousand two hundredSinking-fund office. dollars each ; for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven hundred dollars. For coroner’s .office: For one coroner, one thousand eight hundredCoroner, jurors, etc. dollars; for contingent expenses, including juror’s fees, stationery, books, blanks, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, and holding inquests, seven hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For engineer’s office: One chief clerk, one thousand nine hundredEngineer’s office dollars; three clerks at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one clerk at one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, atone thousand two hundred dollars each ; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each ; one computing engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector of buildings, two thousand tour hundred dollars; one assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand dollars; one inspector of asphalt and cement, two thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector of gas and meters, who shall pay into the Treasury of the United States all fees collected by him, two thousand dollars; one superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; one superintendent of roads, one thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector of plumbing, one thousand five hundred dollars; one superintendent of lamps, nine hundred dollars; one superintendent of parking, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant superintendent of parking, seven hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, one at one thousand five hundred dollars, and one at one thousand four hundred dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three rod-men at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three axmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; three inspectors of streets, sewers, and buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three market masters, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; one market master at nine hundred dollars; one harbor master, at one thousand two hundred dollars, *provided* that the fees collected by said harbor-master*Proviso*. shall be paid into the Treasury; one janitor, seven hundred dollars; five messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; three watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two laborers at three hundred and sixty dollars each; contingent expenses, including rent of property-yards, books, stationery, binding, and preservation of records in the engineer’s and surveyor’s offices; printing, transportation, (vehicles, animals, saddlery, forage, and repairs), and miscellaneous items not otherwise provided for, five thousand dollars; in all, sixty-one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided,* That overseers or*Proviso*. inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction or repair of buildings, done under contracts authorized by appropriations, shall be paid out of the sums appropriated for the work, and for the time actually engaged thereon; and the Commissioners of the District, in their annual reports to Congress, shall report the number of such overseers, and inspectors, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation.
For fuel, ice, gas, repairs, insurance, and general miscellaneous expensesFuel, ice, gas, etc. of District offices and markets, five thousand dollars. 464 FOR IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS AND FOR CARE AND REPAIR OF BRIDGES. Repairs of pavement, etc.For repairs to concrete pavements, fifty thousand dollars; for materials for permit work, thirty thousand dollars; for continuation of surveys of the District of Columbia with reference to the extension of various avenues to the District line, five thousand dollars; for boundary intercepting sewers, seventy-five thousand dollars; for lateral sewers, twenty thousand dollars; for work on sundry avenues and streets, and replacement, of pavements on streets named in classes A, B, C, and D of Appendix B. b, annexed to the estimates of the commissioners of the District for eighteen hundred and eighty-four, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That out of this sum all the work on avenues and streets and replacement of pavements on streets named in the aforesaid classes situated east of the Capitol shall be completed in full; in all, five hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
Benning’s, Anacostia, and Chain Bridges.For ordinary care of Benning’s, Anacostia, and Chain Bridges, two thousand dollars; and for repairing and maintaining bridges under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred dollars. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. Washington Aqueduct.For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs twenty thousand dollars; and the lessees of the Alexandria Canal shall keep in good repair at least two spans of the aqueduct bridge, so that no leakage or wastage of water shall occur FOR MAINTAINING INSTITUTIONS OF CHARITY, REFORM ATOHIES, AND PRISONS.
Washington Asylum.For Washington Asylum : For one commissioner and intendant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one matron, six hundred dollars; one visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; one resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; one engineer, six hundred dollars ; one assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; one ove seer, eight hundred dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; one baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; five overseers, at six hundred dollars each; one watchman, three hundred dollars; three watchmen, at two hundred and forty dollars each ; one blacksmith, one hundred and twenty dollars ; one hostler, sixty dollars ; one cook, one hundred and twenty dollars; two cooks, at sixty dollars each ; five nurses, at sixty dollars each; for contingent expenses, including improvements, provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, shoes, clothing, hardware, dry goods, medicines, and miscellaneous items, thirty-five thousand dollars; and for repairs to wards and closets, five hundred dollars; in all, forty-six thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Georgetown Almshouse.For the Georgetown Almshouse: For the support of inmates, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Indigent insane of the District of Columbia.For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided in sections forty eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, forty-six thousand seven hundred dollars. For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, three thousand dollars.
Reform school.For Reform School: For one superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand dollars; four teachers, three thousand dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars ; two matrons of family, three hundred and sixty dollars; farmer, five hundred and forty dollars; superintendent of chair shop, four hundred and eighty dollars; shoemaker, three hundred and sixty dollars; baker, three hundred dollars; engineer, three hundred dollars; tailor, three 465 hundred dollars; seamstress, one hundred and forty-four dollars; dining-room servant, one hundred and forty-four dollars ; chambermaid, one hundred and forty-four dollars; laundress, one hundred and forty-four dollars; florist, two hundred and forty dollars; cook, three hundred dollars; watchmen, not exceeding five in number, one thousand and eighty dollars; in all, ten thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For subsistence : For groceries, five thousand dollars; for flour, threeSubsistence. thousand dollars; for meat, two thousand five hundred dollars; for dry goods, two thousand two hundred dollars; for leather, six hundred dollars; for gas, six hundred dollars; for coal, two thousand dollars; for hardware and table and wooden ware, five hundred and fifty-four dollars; for furniture, six hundred dollars; for farm implements and seed, five hundred dollars; for harness and repairs to same, one hundred and fifty dollars; for fertilizers, five hundred dollars; for stationery and books, three hundred dollars ; for plumbing, painting, and glazing, six bundled dollars; for medicine and medical attention, six hundred dollars; for miscellaneous expenditures, one thousand three hundred and ten dollars ; for the purchase of stock, five hundred dollars ; for fencing, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand and fourteen dollars.
For the following charities, namely:Charities. For the relief of the poor, fifteen thousand dollars. And the compensation of the physicians to the poor shall not exceed fifty dollars per month each. For the support and maintenance of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Women’s Christian Association, five thousand dollars. For the National Association for Destitute Colored Women and Children, seven thousand dollars. For the erection of a building by the Commissioners of the District for said National Association, in accordance with plans to be prepared by the Inspector of buildings, and approved by the Architect of the Capitol, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary : *Provided,* That the cost of said building shall not exceed the sum herein named.
For the Children’s Hospital, five thousand dollars. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, five thousand dollars. For the Industrial Home School, ten thousand dollars, five thousand of which shall be used for building a house on the premises under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For maintenance of the Church Orphanage of the District of Columbia,Church Orphanage. the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars. And hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are requiredReports of receipts and expenditures to be made to Commissioners. to visit and investigate the management of all the institutions of charity within the District which may be herein appropriated for, and shall require an itemized report of receipts and expenditures to be made to them, to be transmitted with their annual report to Congress.
That the appropriation of five thousand dollars made by the actGerman Orphan Asylum Association of D. C “making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, “for the erection of a building on the grounds recently purchased by the German Protestant Orphan Asylum Association of the District of Columbia, now the German Orphan Asylum Association of the District of Columbia, provided that the Asylum shall contribute an equal sum for this purpose,” be, and the same is hereby, continued and made available for the same purpose and subject to the like condition for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty four. 466 Claim due from estate of Jay Cooke and Company to Soldiers and Sailors Orphans’ Home.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to demand and receive from the assignee of the estate of Jay Cooke, and Company the sum proved against said estate by the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans’ Home, and to cover the same into the Treasury of the United States ; and in case of refusal to pay over the money aforesaid, the Attorney-General is required to take steps to enforce the claim of the United States thereto. for streets.Streets, sweeping, etc.
For sweeping, cleaning, and sprinkling streets and avenues, forty thousand dollars; cleaning alleys, seven thousand five hundred dollars; for current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, twenty-five thousand dollars; current repairs to county roads and suburban streets, twenty thousand dollars; cleaning and repairing lateral sewers and basins, twenty thousand dollars; cleaning tidal sewers, three thousand dollars; repairs to pumps, three thousand dollars ; in all, one hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Parking.For the parking commission : For contingent expenses, including laborers, cart-hire, trees, tree-boxes, tree-stakes, tree-straps, planting and care of trees, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, eighteen thousand dollars. Lamps.For street-lamps: For illuminating material, and lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning lamps on avenues, streets, and alleys, and for purchasing and erecting new lampposts, and to replace such as are old, damaged, and unfit for use, ninety-live thousand three hundred and eighty dollars; and hereafter all railroad companies using engines propelled by steam shall pay to the District for the lighting of the streets, avenues, alleys, and grounds through which their tracks may be laid, under the direction and control of the Commissioners; and in case of default of payment of such bills, actions at law may be maintained by the District of Columbia against said railroad companies*Proviso*. therefor: *Provided,* That no more than twenty-two dollars per annum for each street lamp shall be paid for gas, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning, under any expenditure provided for in this act.
And in case a contract cannot be made at that rate, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to substitute other illuminating material, for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that *Proviso*.purpose: *Provided further,* That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not be authorized to make any contract for gas or other illuminating material, in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, for any longer period than one year. for metropolitan police.Police.
For one major and superintendent, two thousand six hundred dollars; one captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one property clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; four surgeons for the police and fire departments, at four hundred and fifty dollars each ; for additional compensation to privates detailed from time to time for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; ten lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; twenty sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each ; eighty privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and thirty-five privates, class two, Station-keepers.Laborers.at one thousand and eighty dollars each; sixteen station-keepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eight laborers, at four hundred and twenty dollars each ; one messenger, seven hundred dollars; one messenger, five hundred dollars; one major and superintendent, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; one captain, mounted, two hundred and 467 forty dollars ; twenty lieutenants, sergeants and privates, mounted, at two hundred anti forty dollars each ; one driver three hundred dollars; one ambulance driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; one assistant to driver, three hundred dollars; rent of sixth and seventh precinctRent of buildings. station houses, substation at Uniontown, and police headquarters, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; for fuel, one thousand live hundred dollars; repairs to station-houses, one thousand two hundred dollars; miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including stationery,Contingent expenses. books, telegraphing, photographs, printing and binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture, and repairs to same, police equipments, and repairs to same, beds and bed-clothing, insignia of office, horses, harness, and forage, repairs to van and ambulance, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, nine thousand live hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and one thousand live hundred and sixty dollars. for the fire department.Fire Department.
For one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one assistant engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; eight foremen, at one thousand dollars each ; six engineers, at one thousand dollars each; six firemen, at eight hundred dollars each; two tillermen, at eight hundred dollars each; eight hostlers, at eight hundred dollars each ; fifty-four privates, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one veterinary surgeon, three hundred dollars; repairs to engine-houses, five hundred dollars; for remodeling and furnishing the old town hall in Georgetown, District of Columbia, for the use of engine company number live, three thousand dollars; and in addition to this sum the proceeds of sale of the lots in Georgetown authorized to be sold by the act approved April first,Pamphlet laws, 1st sess. 47th Cong., 37. eighteen hundred and eighty-two, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be applied to this purpose; for fuel, two thousand dollars; purchase of horses, two thousand dollars; forage, five thousand live hundred dollars; hose, two thousand dollars; repairs to apparatus, four thousand dollars ; exchanging one Amoskeag engine, three thousand dollars; contingent expenses, including horseshoeing, furniture, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and miscellaneous items, seven thousand dollars; in all, ons the District are authorized, in their discretion, to pay the claim of George Schlosser, for care of James Fleming, injured by being run over in eighteen hundred and eighty by William O.
Drew, assistant engineer of the lire department of the District, to be paid out of the contingent fund of the fire department: *Provided,* that after said payment no*Proviso*. liability shall remain against the District on account of the damage to said Fleming. Telegraph and telephone service: For one general superintendent,Telegraph and telephone service. one thousand six hundred dollars ; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; two repair men, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; one laborer, four hundred dollars; general supplies, repairs, and battery, including battery supplies, telephone rental, wire and insulators, brackets and pins, gas and fuel, record books and stationery, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, and the purchase of raw implements and tools, four thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and forty dollars. courts.
For the police court: For one judge, three thousand dollars; one clerk,Police court. two thousand dollars; one deputy clerk, one thousand dollars; two bailiffs, at three dollars per day each; one messenger, nine hundred 468 dollars; one doorkeeper, five hundred and forty dollars; United States marshal’s fees, one thousand four hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including compensation of a justice of the peace acting as judge of the police court during the absence of said judge, not exceeding three hundred dollars, books, stationery, fuel, ice, gas, witness fees, and miscellaneous items, two thousand two hundred dollars; for judicial expenses, Judicial expenses.two thousand five hundred dollars; in all fifteen thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars. public schools, district op columbia.Public schools.
Superintendents, teachers, and others.For salaries of superintendents, teachers, and janitors, secretary of the board, and clerks, including additional teachers, rents, repairs, fuel, furniture, books, stationery, new school buildings, furniture for new school buildings, and miscellaneous items, five hundred and forty-three thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars, namely : For officers: For one superintendent, at two thousand seven hundred dollars; one superintendent, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk to committee on accounts, at three hundred dollars; one clerk to superintendent, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at eight hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand and fifty dollars.
For teachers: For five hundred and twenty-five teachers, to be employed at a rate of compensation not to exceed the rate provided by the present schedule of salaries, and at an average salary not to exceed six hundred and sixty five dollars, three hundred and forty-nine thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Janitors.For janitors, and care of the several school buildings: For care of the high school building, one thousand four hundred dollars; of the Jefferson building, one thousand two hundred dollars ; of the Franklin building, one thousand one hundred dollars; of the Force, Seaton, Henry, Webster, Gales, Peabody, Wallach, Garnett, Sumner, and Analostan buildings, at nine hundred dollars each ; of the Lincoln, Miner, and Stevens buildings, at eight hundred dollars each ; of the Riggs, Abbott, John F.
Cook, and Randall buildings, at seven hundred dollars each; of the Curtis building, six hundred dollars; of the Cranch, Amidon, arid Bannaker buildings, five hundred dollars each; for one janitor and messenger to the board and superintendent of the first six divisions, three hundred dollars; for one janitor and messenger to the superintendent of the seventh and eighth divisions, two hundred dollars; for care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, at a rate not to exceed forty-eight dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, three thousand dollars; *Proviso*.in all, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the janitors of the principal school buildings, in addition to their other duties, shall do all minor repairs to buildings and furniture, glazing, fixing seats and desks, and take care of the heating apparatus, and shall be selected with reference to their qualifications to perform this work.
Rent of school buildings.For rent of school buildings, eight thousand dollars; for fuel, eighteen thousand dollars; repairs and improvements to school buildings, including grading graveling, inclosing, and putting in order grounds about the High, Henry, Force, Webster, Gales, Garnett, and the county school buildings, fifteen thousand dollars; and for contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing, insurance, and miscellaneous items, fifteen thousand dollars, in all, fifty-six thousand dollars.
Heating apparatus for school buildings.For new heating apparatus for the John F. Cook school building, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the Randall school building, two thousand four hundred dollars; for the Minor school building, three thousand nine hundred dollars j for the Abbott school building, three thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars. New school buildings, purchase of sites, etc.For buildings for schools: For the purchase of sites, when necessary, and the erection and completion of three buildings for primary and grammar-schools, two of said buildings to be erected in the second school di- 469 vision, and one in the third school division, and for the purchase of a site and the erection and completion of a school building on the old Bladensburg road, near Brook’s Station; for addition to school building on the new Bladensburg pike; and for the erection of a school building at Benning’s Station; in all, ninety thousand dollars: *Provided, **Proviso*.That the plans and specifications for each of said buildings shall be prepared by the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Architect of the Capitol and the Commissioners of the District, and said buildings shall be constructed by the Commissioners in conformity therewith ; and shall be contracted for before the first day of May next, and finished by the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty four, the money herein appropriated to be apportioned as follows, namely: for the second school division, fifty seven thousand dollars ; and for the third school division, twenty three thousand dollars; and for the site and school building near Brooks’s Station, three thousand dollars; for addition to school building on the new Bladensburg pike, two thousand dollars; and for the school building at Benning’s Station, five thousand dollars; and the entire cost of sites, buildings, and heating the same, and all expenditures on account of said buildings and grounds, shall in no event exceed the sum of ninety thousand dollars.
For furniture for the above-named new school buildings, six thousandFurniture.Western portion of square 446 set apart for school purposes. dollars; and the western portion of square numbered four hundred and forty-six, now owned by the District, is hereby dedicated to school purposes. MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.Miscellaneous expenses.Items. For repairs and replacement of public hay-scales, five hundred dollars ; for rent of District offices, three thousand six hundred dollars; for general advertising, four thousand dollars; for books for register of wills, printing, checks, damages, and miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. For one health officer, three thousand dollars; six sanitary inspectors,Health officer, inspectors, and others. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one inspector of marine products, one thousand two hundred dollars; for clerks, seven thousand dollars; one messenger, five hundred and forty dollars; one poundmaster, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceeding thirty dollars per month, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; and for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, fuel, rent, repairs to pound, and wagon and horse for poundmaster, forage, meat for dogs, disinfectants, horseshoeing, and miscellaneous items, three thousand eight hundred dollars; removal of garbage, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, forty two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
INTEREST AND SINKING-FUND. For interest and sinking-fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water-bonds,Funded debt.Interest and sinking-fund.Time for filing claims, etc., in Court of Claims, extended, etc.[21 Stat., 284](/us/stat/21/284). one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty seven dollars and ninety seven cents, and the time allowed for filing claims in the Court of Claims under an act entitled “An act to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes” approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty be, and the same is hereby, extended thirty days from and after the approval of this act; and all claims not so presented shall be forever barred.
For general contingent expenses of the District of Columbia, to beGeneral contingent expenses. expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, calamity 470 by flood or fire, and of like character, not otherwise sufficiently provided*Proviso*. for, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this bill no more than the market price shall be paid for any such article, and all bids for any of such articles above the *Proviso*.market price shall be rejected: *And provided further,* That hereafter, whenever any horses, carriages, or wagons, or property of any descriptionPropert y condemned, to be sold at auction, etc. may become unfit for service, in the judgment of the commissioners, the same shall be sold at auction to the highest bidder, after due advertisement, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the appropriation out of which the purchase was made WATER DEPARTMENT.Water Department.
The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, unless otherwise provided: Salaries.For one chief clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and forty-two dollars;Contingent expenses. contingent expenses, including books, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, and miscellaneous items, two thousand four hundred High service, etc.dollars; engineers and firemen, coal, material, and for high-service in Washington and Georgetown, pipe-distribution to high and low service, including public hydrants, fireplugs, replacing the nine-inch with ten-inch fireplugs, material and labor, repairing and laying now mains, lowering mains, forty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty *Proviso*.Cost of new mains paid from general revenues, to be reimbursed, etc.one dollars and fifty cents; *Provided,* That the immediate cost of laying new mains, not to exceed the sum herein appropriated for this purpose, may be defrayed from the general revenues of the District, as other expenses are paid, but shall be reimbursed from the collection of the water-main tax; for completing the laying of twelve inch water-mains with proper fireplugs and connections for the proper protection of the Government Printing Office, three thousand five hundred dollars, of which the United States shall pay one-half, and one thousand seven hundred Interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds.Commissioners to deposit to credit of appropriation for interest, etc., for funded indebtedness, etc.Treasurer U.
S., etc., to invest certain balances in D. C. bonds.and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for this purpose; interest and sinking-fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thousand six hundred and ten dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are directed to deposit the amount annually appropriated for interest and sinking-fund for the water-bonds to the credit of the appropriation for interest and sinking-fund for the funded indebtedness of the District of Columbia; and that the Treasurer of the United States, as sinking-fund commissioner of the District of Columbia, shall, after paying the interest on the funded indebtedness of the District, including the interest on the water-bonds, out of the combined funds, invest the balance thereof on account of the several sinking-funds in such bonds of the District of Columbia, including the water-bonds, as he may deem most advantageous; in all, one hundred and five thousand eight hundred and fifty three dollars and fifty cents.
Sec. 2. Appropriations, together with revenues, to be deposited in U. S. Treasury.[20 Stat., 105](/us/stat/20/105). That hereafter all moneys appropriated for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, together with all revenues of the District of Columbia from taxes or otherwise, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, as required by the provisions of section four of an act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, and shall be drawn therefrom only on requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia (except that the moneys appropriated for interest and the sinking-fund shall be drawn therefrom only on the requisition of the Treasurer of the United States), Such requisition specifying the appropriation upon which the same is drawn; and in no case shall such appropriation be exceeded either in requisition FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 95, 96. 1883. 471 or expenditure and the accounts for all disbursements of the CommissionersDisbursement accounts made monthly, etc. of said District shall be made monthly to the accounting officers of the Treasury by the auditor of the District of Columbia, on vouchers certified by the Commissioners, as now required by law : *Provided,* That*Proviso*. said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues of said District, including one-half of all general taxes paid in drawback certificates during said fiscal year, as required by the third section of the act approved June twenty-seventh,[21 Stat., 36](/us/stat/21/36). eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An act fixing the rate of interest upon arrearages of general taxes and assessments for special improvements now due to the District of Columbia, and tor a revision of assessments for special improvements, and for other purposes.” .
Approved, March 3, 1883.