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CHAP. 145.— 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-six, and for other purposes.February 25, 1885. *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 311 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
SESS. II. CH. 145. 1885. for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, namely: General Expenses. for salaries and contingent expenses. For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousand dollarsCommissioners. each j one Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); one secretary, two thousandSecretary.Clerks. one hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; one driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; for contingent expenses, includingContingent expenses. printing, books, stationery, and other necessary items, in the discretion of the Commissioners, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars.
And the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the accounts of the ex-Commissioners of the District of Columbia accruing since eighteen hundred and seventy-eight with all such disbursementsDisbursements and expenditures not allowed heretofore, to be credited. and expenditures, made in good faith, heretofore disallowed in the settlement of the same, wherein it shall satisfactorily appear that the money was paid for goods sold and delivered, work and labor done, materials furnished, or services rendered to the District in accordance with contracts and agreements made in good faith on behalf of the District, and also to adjust and settle equitably said accounts, allowing all payments made for expenses incurred in good faith for the benefit of the District.
For assessor’s office: For one assessor, three thousand dollars; twoAssessor, assistant assessors, clerks, etc. assistant assessors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; one clerk and messenger, nine hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, detection ofContingent expenses. frauds on the revenue, and other necessary items, one thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars.
For collector’s office: For one collector, four thousand dollars; oneCollector. cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of special assessments, one thousand seven 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; one messenger, six hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, Contingent expenses.books, stationery, and other necessary items, eight hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
For auditor’s office: For one auditor, three thousand dollars; oneAuditor, bookkeeper, clerks, etc. chief clerk, who shall, in the necessary absence or inability from any cause of the auditor, perform his duties, without additional compensation, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; for temporary clerk-hire, one thousand dollars; forTemporary clerks. contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and other necessary items, three hundredContingent expenses. dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For attorney’s office: For one attorney, four thousand dollars; oneAttorney, assistants, clerks, etc. assistant attorney, two thousand 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 rentRent; contingent expenses. of office, one hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including books, 312 stationery, printing, and other necessary items, five hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars.
For sinking-fund office: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundredSinking-fund ofiBce. dollars each; for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred dollars. For coroner’s office: For one coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars;Coroner, jurors, etc. for contingent expenses, including jurors’ 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 ofiBce: One chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars;Engineer, chief clerk, clerks, etc. three clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one computing engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector of buildings, two thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of asphalt and cement, two thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector of gas and meters, who shall pay into the Treasury, to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, 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 eight hundred dollars; one assistant inspector of plumbing, one thousand dollars; one superintendent of lamps, nine hundred dollars; 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, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one draughtsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three rodmen, 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; *Proviso* as to fees of harbormaster.one harbormaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the fees collected by said harbormaster shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the United States and District of Columbia in equal parts; one janitor, seven hundred dollars; two messenger clerks, at six hundred dollars each; three 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, care of same, saddlery, forage, and repairs), and other necessary items and services, in all not to exceed five thousand dollars; for necessary expenses of office of inspector of gas and meters, for maintaining and keeping in good order and repair the laboratory and apparatus, eight hundred dollars; in all, sixty-five thousand six hundred and ninety dollars:*Proviso* as to temporary inspectors. *Provided*, That overseers or 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 report to Congress, shall report the number of such overseers and inspectors, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what *Proviso*.Surveyors’ records to be public property.Miscellaneous.*Proviso*.appropriation: *Provided further*, That the records of the surveyor of the District of Columbia shall be a part of the public property of the District of Columbia.
For fuel, ice, gas, repairs, insurance, and general necessary expenses of District offices and markets, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That 313 hereafter property belonging to the District of Columbia may be insuredInsurance. in advance for periods of five years or less. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the assessment of theDefraying expenses of assessment of real property of District of Columbia.1883, ch. 137,vol. 22, p. 568. real property of the District of Columbia, as provided by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, fifteen thousand dollars.
For Improvements and Repairs, and for Care and Repair of Bridges. For repairs to concrete pavements, fifty thousand dollars; for materialsRepairs of pavements, etc. for permit work, fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District are authorized, in their discretion, to apply such material to theMaterial improvement and repair of alleys and sidewalks when, in their opinion, such course is necessary for the public health and comfort: *Provided*, That*Proviso*. the costs of labor shall be charged against and become alien on the abutting property, and its collection shall be enforced in the same manner as the collection of general taxes; 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 lateral sewers, twenty-five thousand dollars; for work on sundry avenues and streets, and replacement of’ pavements named in Appendix Gg, annexed to the estimates of the Commissioners of the District for eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars: *Provided, That* all moneys which have*Proviso*.Moneys retained from contractors. been or may hereafter be legally retained from contractors shall be invested in bonds of the United States or the District of Columbia and held by the Treasurer of the United States, and any sum which has been or shall be realized from such investments in excess of the amounts due to contractors, shall be deposited in the Treasury, to the credit of the United States and of the District of Columbia in equal parts.
For ordinary care of Benning’s, Anacostia, and Chain Bridges, includingBenning’s, Anacostia, and Chain bridges. fuel, oil, lamps, and matches, two thousand dollars; for draw-keeper at Anacostia Bridge, seven hundred and twenty dollars; for one bridge-keeper at Chain Bridge, six hundred and sixty dollars; and for repairing and maintaining bridges under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Washington Aqueduct.Washington aqueduct.General repairs. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars. For the redemption of four certificates of indebtedness issued by authorityRedemption of certificates of indebtedness. of section seven of the act of the legislative assembly approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, dated July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, of the denomination of fifty dollars each, with interest, payable semiannually, at the rate of eight per cent, per annum, numbered eight thousand five hundred and twenty-four, eight thousand five hundred and twenty-six, eight thousand five hundred and twenty-seven, and eight thousand five hundred and twenty-eight, payable July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, three hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety-six cents.
For Maintaining Institutions of Charity, Reformatories, and Prisons. For Washington Asylum: For one commissioner and intendant, oneWashington Asylum. 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 clerk, six hundred dollars; one baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; one overseer, eight hun- 314 dred dollars; five overseers, at six hundred dollars each; one engineer, six hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; four watchmen, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; one blacksmith, two hundred and forty dollars; one hostler, one hundred and twenty dollars; one ambulance driver, one hundred and twenty dollars; one cook, at one hundred and twenty dollars; two cooks, at sixty dollars each; four nurses, at sixty dollars each; one nurse, one hundred and eighty dollars; for contingent expenses, including improvements, provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, shoes, clothing, hardware, dry-goods, medicines, and other necessary items, thirty-eight thousand dollars; for conversion of magazine number one into a workhouse for females, twenty thousand dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
For Reform School: For one superintendent, one thousand five hundredReform school. dollars; assistant superintendent, nine hundred dollars; teachers and assistant, teachers, three thousand dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; two assistant matrons of families, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; superintendent of chair-shop, seven hundred and twenty dollars; engineer, three hundred and thirty-six dollars; baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at three hundred dollars each; two dining-room servants, seamstress, chambermaid, and laundress, atone hundred and forty-four dollars each; florist, two hundred and forty dollars; watchmen, not exceeding four in number, nine hundred and sixty dollars; secretary and treasurer, six hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, meats, dry-goods,Support of inmates. leather and shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, tableware, furniture, farm implements and seeds, harness and repair’s to same, fertilizers, stationery and books, plumbing, painting and glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, fencing, and other necessary items, including compensation not exceeding six hundred dollars for additional labor or services, all in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized Accounts ordered closed.to close the accounts of the Reform School for the fiscal year’s eighteen hundred and eighty three and eighteen hundred and eighty-four, if the same can be done without the payment of any money from the Treasury; and hereafter all the revenues Revenues to be paid into the Treasury of the United States.derived from the labor of the inmates and from the products of the farm 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.
For the Georgetown Almshouse: For the support of inmates, one thousand eightGeorgetown Almshouse. hundred dollars. For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the GovernmentIndigent insane.R. S. sec. 4844, p. 939.R. S. sec. 4850, p. 940. 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, fifty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars. For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse,Transportation of paupers and prisoners to workhouse.Charities. four thousand dollars.
For the following charities, namely: For the relief of the poor, fifteen thousand dollars. And hereafter the compensation of the physicians to the poor shall not exceed forty 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, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Children’s Hospital, five thousand dollars. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, five thousand dollars. 315 For maintenance of the Church Orphanage of the District of Columbia,Church Orphanage. one thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase or construction of a building for the National Homeopathic National Homeopathic Hospital.Hospital Association of Washington, District of Columbia, fifteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For the construction of an additional building for the National AssociationBuilding for National Association for Destitute Colored Women and Children.Industrial School Home. for Destitute Colored Women and Children, eighteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
For the Industrial School Home: For maintenance of inmates and salaries of superintendent and employees, the promotion of industries, construction of a stable and laundry, with appurtenances, and for fences and general repairs, and other necessary expenses, all in the discretion of the Commissioners, twelve thousand dollars; and hereafter all the revenues derived from the labor of the inmates shall be paidRevenues to be paid into the Treasury of the United States. into the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts.
For Streets. For sweeping, cleaning, and sprinkling streets and avenues, forty-fiveStreets; sweeping, etc. thousand dollars; cleaning alleys, ten thousand dollars; for current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, twenty-five thousand dollars; current work on county roads and suburban streets, forty thousand dollars; cleaning and repairing lateral sewers and basins, twenty thousand dollars; cleaning tidal sewers and Rock Creek Basin, five thousand dollars; purchase of and repairs to pumps, three thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars.
For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, includingParking. 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. For streetlamps: For illuminating material and lighting, extinguishing,Lamps. repairing, and cleaning lamps on avenues, streets, and alleys, and for purchasing and erecting new lamp posts, and to replace such as are old, damaged, and unfit for use, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That no more than twenty-two dollars per annum for each streetlamp shall be paid for gas, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than two thousand six hundred hours per annum; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less Substituting other illuminating material.*Proviso*.price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that 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. For one major and superintendent, two thousand six hundred dollars;Police. one captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one lieutenant, night inspector, one thousand five 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 eighty dollars each; for additional compensation to privates detailed from time to time for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; nine lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; ninety-five privates, class one, at nine hundred dol- 316 lars each; one hundred and forty privates, class two, at one thousandStation-keepers.Laborers. eighty dollars each; seventeen 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 forty dollars; twenty lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two’ hundred and forty dollars each; one driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; one ambulance driver, four hundred and eighty dollars;
Rent, fuel, etc.New station ill seventh precinct.one assistant ambulance driver, three hundred dollars; rent of seventh precinct station-houses and substation at Uniontown, and police headquarters, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; purchase of site and erection of new station in seventh precinct, fifteen thousand dollars; repairs to station-houses, one thousand five hundred dollars; miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including stationery, books, telegraphing, Contingent expenses.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, patrol wagon and pay of driver, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, eleven thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the Commissioners shall deduct one dollar each month from the pay of each policeman, which sum so deducted shall be added to and form a part of the present police fund, to be invested in United States or District bonds by the Treasurer of the *Proviso*.United States, and be held by him subject to the drafts of the Commissioners for expenditures made in pursuance of law, and such expenditures shall be accounted for as required by law for other expenditures of the District;
Police relief fund.and said police fund shall be used for the relief of any policeman who, by injury received or disease contracted in line of duty, or having served not less than fifteen years, shall become so permanently disabled as to be *Proviso*.discharged from service therefor; and in case of his death from such injury or disease, leaving a widow or children under sixteen years, for their relief: *Provided further*, That such relief shall not exceed for any one policeman or his family the sum of fifty dollars per month; and a sum not exceeding seventy-five dollars may be allowed from said fund to defray the funeral expenses of any policeman dying in the service of the District.
To purchase for the seventh police precinct ten Gamewell alarm telegraphGamewell alarm telegraph and telephone police stations. and telephone police stations, two thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the Fire Department. For one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one fireFire department. marshal, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two foremen acting as assistant chief engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; seven foremen, at one thousand dollars each; seven engineers, at one thousand dollars each; seven firemen at eight hundred dollars each; two tillermen, at eight hundred dollars each; nine hostlers, at eight hundred dollars each; sixty privates, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; one veterinary surgeon, three hundred dollars; repairs to engine-houses, one thousand dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; purchase of horses, two thousand five hundred dollars; forage, five thousand five hundred dollars; hose, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; repairs to apparatus and new appliances, four thousand dollars; contingent expenses, including office-rent, horse shoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and eight thousand one hundred and fifty 317 dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the Commissioners shall deduct one*Proviso*.Firemen’s relief fund. dollar each month from the pay of each fireman, which sum so deducted shall be kept as a firemen’s relief fund, and be invested in United States or District bonds and held in manner provided in this act for the police fund, and shall be used for the relief of any fireman who, by injury received or disease contracted in line of duty, or having served not less than fifteen years, shall become so permanently disabled as to be discharged from service therefor; and in case of his death from such injury or disease, leaving a widow or children under sixteen years of age, for their relief: *Provided further*, That such relief shall not exceed for*Proviso*. any one fireman or his family the sum of fifty dollars per month; and a sum not exceeding seventy five dollars may be allowed from said fund to defray the funeral expenses of any fireman dying in the service of the District.
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, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental, wire, extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines, purchase of poles, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross-arms, gas, fuel, ice, record-books, stationery, printing, office-rent, purchase of horse and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, and other necessary items, seven thousand dollars; in aU, fifteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
Courts. For the police court: For one judge, three thousand dollars; one clerk,Police court. two thousand dollars; and hereafter the salary of said clerk shall be two thousand dollars per annum; one deputy clerk, one thousand dollars; two bailiffs, at three dollars per day each; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one doorkeeper, five hundred and forty dollars; UnitedUnited States marshal’s fees.Contingent expenses. 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 other necessary items, three thousand dollar’s; for judicial expenses,Judicial expenses. two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars.
Public Schools, District of Columbia.Public schools. For salaries of superintendents, teachers, and janitors, secretary of Superintendents, teachers, and others.the board, and clerks, including additional teachers,rents, repairs, fuel, furniture, books, stationery, new school buildings, furniture for new school buildings, and other necessary items, five hundred and fifty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty 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 two hundred dollars; one clerk to superintendent, at eight hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For 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 seventy dollars, three hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For janitors, and care of the several school buildings: For care of theJanitors. high-school building, one thousand six hundred dollars; of the Jefferson building, one thousand four hundred dollars; of the Franklin build- 318 ing, one thousand one hundred dollars; of the Force, Seaton, Henry, Webster, Gales, Peabody, Wallach, Garnett, Sumner, Analostan, and Dennison buildings, at nine hundred dollars each; of the Lincoln, Miner, and Stevens buildings, at eight hundred dollars each; of the Twining, Abbot, John F.
Cook, and Randall buildings, at seven hundred dollars each; of the Curtis building, six hundred dollars; of the Crunch, Amidon, Morse, Brent, Bannaker, and two new buildings, five hundred dollars each; for one janitor and messenger to the board and superintendent of the first six divisions, three hundred dollar’s; 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, six thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; in *Proviso*.Janitors’ duties defined.all, thirty thousand six hundred and eighty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter 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.
For rent of school buildings, seven thousand dollars; for fuel, twentyRent of school buildings.Fuel, repairs, etc.Contingent expenses. thousand dollars; repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, twenty thousand dollars; and for contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing, insurance, and other necessary items, twenty thousand dollars; in all, sixty seven thousand dollars. For buildings for schools: For the purchase of sites, when necessary,New school buildings.Purchase of sites, etc.*Proviso*.Plans, etc. and the erection and completion of new buildings, and for furniture for new school buildings, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the plans and specifications for each of said buildings, and for all other buildings provided for in this act, 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 and finished by the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.
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 other necessary items, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand six hundred dollars. Health Department. For one health officer, three thousand dollars; six sanitaryHealth officer, inspectors, and others. inspectors, 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 and other assistants to the health officer, seven thousand dollars; one messenger, five hundred and forty dollars; one poundmaster, one thousand two Contingent expenses.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 for poundmaster, forage, meat for dogs, horseshoeing, maintenance of ambulance service, and other necessary items, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; erecting new iron pens for dogs at pound, two hundred dollars; removal of garbage, fifteen thousand dollars; repair of pest hospital, six hundred dollars; in all, forty-four thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. 319 Interest and Sinking-fund.
For interest and sinking-fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water-bonds,Funded debt.Interest and sinking fund. one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty seven dollars and ninety-seven cents. For general contingent expenses of the District of Columbia, to be expendedGeneral contingent expenses.*Proviso*. at the discretion of the Commissioners only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, not otherwise sufficiently provided for, live thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Pronto*.
That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected: *Provided further*, Contingent expenses; how to be expended.That hereafter all appropriations made for contingent expenses of the District of Columbia shall be expended under the direction and in the sole discretion of the Commissioners; but such expenditures shall be accounted for in the Treasury Department as other expenditures for the District, and a detailed statement of such expenditures shall be reported to Congress in accordance with section one hundred and ninety-three,R.S.,Sec. 193, p. 30.
Revised Statutes of the United States. Water Department.Water department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsSalaries. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues unless otherwise provided: 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 Contingent expenses.dollars per day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand four hundred dollars; engineers and firemen, High service, etc.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 new mains, and lowering mains, seventy-eight thousand dollars; interest and sinking-fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thousand six hundred andInterest and sinking-fund o n water-stock bonds.Interest and sinking-fund o n account of increase of water supply.1882, vol. 22, ch.294, p. 168.Potomac water service extended. ten dollars; for interest and sinking-fund on account of increasing the water-supply, as provided in the act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, fifty-five thousand and forty-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents; in all, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty-seven cents.
And hereafter the supply of Potomac water may be extended to points in the District beyond the limits of Washington and Georgetown upon like terms and conditions as are provided by law for the supply of the same in those cities. Sec. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations fromRequisitions on United States Treasury not t o exceed those o f District revenue.Credit for half of drawback, under acts.1879, vol. 21, ch.41, p. 36.*Ante* p. 132. the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues of said District; and the District of Columbia shall be allowed credit, as a part of its revenues, for one-half of all drawback certificates heretofore received or that may hereafter be received for general taxes under acts of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, less any of said drawback certificates already accredited thereto.
Approved, February 25, 1885.