Chapter 227. 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-five, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 227.— 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-five, and for other purposes.July 5, 1884. *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-five, namely:
General Expenses. for salaries and contingent expenses. For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousand dollarsCommissioners. each; 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, including printing, books,Contingent expenses. stationery, and other necessary items, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars.
For assessor’s office: For one assessor, three thousand dollars; twoAssessor, assistant assessors, clerk, and others. 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 assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk one thousand dollars; one clerk and messenger, nine hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, detection of 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, clerks, and others. 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; one messenger, six hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, includingContingent expenses. temporary clerks, printing, books, stationery, and other necessary items, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
For auditor’s office: For one auditor, three thousand dollars; oneAuditor, chief clerk, clerks, and others. 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; for contingent 124 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 227. 1884. Contingent expenses.expenses, including books, stationery, arid other necessary items, three hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars. Temporary clerks.For temporary clerk-hire to enable the auditor to bring up the books and arrange the accounts of his office and to audit the books of the collector, one hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-six cents, to be immediately available. Attorney, assistant, clerk, and others.For attorney’s office:
For one attorney, four thousand dollars; one 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 Contingent expenses.dollars; for rent of office, one hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and other necessary items, five hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand six hundred and twelve dollars.
Sinking-fund office, clerks.Contingent expenses.For sinking-fund office: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Coroner.For coroner’s office: For one coroner, one thousand eight hundred Contingent expenses.dollars; 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.
Engineer’s office, chief clerk, clerks, and others.For engineer’s office: One chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one clerk, at oue thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one 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 four hundred dollars; one assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand dollars; one inspector of asphalt and cement, two thousand four hundred dollars; ne 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; for necessary expenses, and for maintaining and keeping in good order and repair the laboratory and apparatus of inspector of gas and meters, six hundred 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 to 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; one harbor master, at one thousand two hundred *Proviso*.dollars: *Provided*, That the fees collected by said harbormaster shall be paid into the Treasury, to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia, in equal parts; 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, Contingent expenses.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 (six vehicles, six animals, care of same, saddlery, forage, and repairs), and other necessary items and services, five thousand dollars; in *Proviso*.Temporary overseers to be paid, etc.all, sixty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; *Provided*, That overseers or inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction or repair of buildings, 125 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 necessary expensesFuel, ice, etc.*Proviso*.Insurance of property, etc. of District offices and markets, live thousand dollars: *Provided*, That property belonging to the District of Columbia may be insured in advance for periods of five years or less. 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; 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 and lateral sewers, one hundred thousand dollars; for work on sundry avenues and streets, and replacement of pavements on streets named in Appendix J. j. annexed to the estimates of the commissioners of the District for eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars; in all, four hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars; and hereafter in executing public works the Commissioners are authorized to make separate contracts for materials and for labor, and the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are authorized to settle the accounts of the Commissioners since July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for materials so purchased.
For ordinary care of Benning’s Anacostia, and Chain Bridges, twoBenning’s, Anacostia, and Chain Bridges. thousand dollars; and for repairing and maintaining bridges under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, five hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. Washington aqueduct. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousandWashington Aqueduct. dollars; and hereafter 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, 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 engineer, six hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; one overseer, eight hundred dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; one baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; five overseers, at six hundred dollars each; 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; five nurses,-at sixty dollars each; for contingent expenses, including improvements, provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, shoes, clothing, hardware, dry-goods, medicines, and other necessary items, thirty-five thousand dollars; repairs to almshouse, including new blinds, painting, and putting in gas-pipe and fixtures, and moving and refitting stable, two thousand five hundred dollars; dump-cars, iron rails, ties, switches, joints, and spikes, to construct two thousand five hundred feet of movable track for the purpose of grading streets and 126 avenues in the eastern portion of the city, and for filling in marshes adjoining the asylum grounds, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand three hundred and ten dollars.
Reform School.For Reform School: For one superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, nine hundred dollars; four teachers, three thousand dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; two matrons of family, three hundred and sixty dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; superintendent of chair-shop, five hundred dollars; shoemaker, three hundred dollars; baker, three hundred dollars; engineer, three hundred and thirty-six dollars; tailor, three hundred dollars; seamstress, one hundred and forty-four dollars; two dining-room servants, atone hundred and forty-four dollars each; 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 sixteen dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence, including groceries, flour, meats, dry-goods, leather, gas, coal, hardware, woodenware, tableware, furniture, farm implements and seed, harness and repairs, fertilizers, stationery and books, plumbing, painting and glazing, medicines and medical attention, purchase of stock, fencing, and other necessary expenditures, all in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District, over and above the income from the farm and school, twenty-two thousand dollars; and an itemized account of said income shall be submitted to and approved by the Commissioners quarterly.
Georgetown Almshouse.For the Georgetown Almshouse: For the support of inmates, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Indigent insane of the District of Columbia.R. S. 4844, 939.R. S. 4850, 940.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, fifty thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Transportation of paupers, etc.For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, three thousand dollars. Charities.For the following charities, namely: For the relief of the poor, fifteen thousand dollars. And 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, seven thousand dollars. For heating apparatus and for furnishing and other necessaries for the new building for said National Association, two thousand dollars. For the Children’s Hospital, five thousand dollars. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, five thousand dollars. For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance of inmates and salaries of superintendent and employees, the promotion of industries, additional water supply, bathroom, fencing, improvements, payment of indebtedness heretofore incurred, and necessary expenses over and above any income from the school, all in the discretion of the Commissioners, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; and au itemized account of said income shall be submitted to the Commissioners quarterly.
For maintenance of the Church Orphanage of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. That the appropriation of five thousand dollars made by the act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District ofColambiafor 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 127 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,” and continued and made available for the same purpose and subject to the like condition for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available, without condition, for the uses of the institution, in the discretion of the board of directors And hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are requiredReports of receipts mid expenditures, etc., to be made by Commissioners to Congress. to visit and investigate the management of all the institutions of charity within the District which may be appropriated for out of the District revenues, in whole or in part, and shall require and itemized report of receipts and expenditures to be made to them, to be transmitted with their annual report to Congress, which report shall also include such recommendations as the Commissioners may deem proper concerning the necessity for such institutions, together with a plan for their organization and management, and estimates of appropriations necessary for their maintenance.
For Streets. For sweeping, cleaning, and sprinkling streets and avenues, fortyStreets, sweeping, cleaning, etc., of.*Proviso*. thousand dollars; cleaning alleys, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter contracts for cleaning streets and alleys may be made for periods not exceeding five years, and subject to annual appropriations therefor by Congress; for current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, twenty-five thousand dollars; current repairs to county roads and suburban streets, twenty-five thousand dollars; cleaning and repairing lateral sewers and basins, twenty-two thousand dollars; cleaning tidal sowers, three thousand dollars; repairs to pumps, three thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, includingParking, etc. 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 lampposts, and to replace such as are old, damaged, and unfit for use, ninety-five thousand three hundred and eighty dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty-two dollars per annum*Proviso*. 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 price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners*Proviso*.Contracts for gas limited, etc. 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 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 128 necessary; ten lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty-dollars each; ninety privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and forty privates, class two, at one thousand and 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; one assistant to driver, three hundred dollars; rent of sixth anti seventh precinct station-houses, substation at Uniontown, and police headquarters, three thousand and twenty dollars; for fuel, two thou-and dollars; erection of stable in first precinct, three thousand New station in sixth precinct.dollars; purchase of site and erection of new station in sixth precinct, fifteen thousand dollars; repairs to station houses, one thousand two Contingent expenses.hundred dollars; miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including stationery, 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, and other necessary items, nine thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand one hundred dollars.
Gamewell alarm telegraph and telephone police stations.To purchase, if on due trial found useful and necessary, twenty Game-well alarm telegraph and telephone police stations, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For The Fire Department. Fire department.For one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one fire marshal, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two foremen acting as assistant engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six 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 eighty dollars each; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one veterinary surgeon, three hundred dollars; repairs to engine-houses, seven hundred and fifty dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; purchase of horses, two thousand five hundred dollars; forage, six thousand dollars; hose, two thousand dollars; repairs to apparatus, four thousand dollars; exchanging three Amoskeag engines, Contingent expenses.nine thousand dollars; contingent expenses, including office-rent, horseshoeing, furniture, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, seven thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of site and erection of new engine-house, ten thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and nineteen thousand two *Proviso*.Fireman’s relief fund.hundred and thirty dollars: *Provided*, That the Commissioners shall deduct one dollar each month from the monthly pay of each fireman, which sum so deducted shall be kept as a firemen’s relief fund under the control of the Commissioners, and shall be used for the relief of any fireman who by accident, while in actual performance of duty, shall become so permanently disabled as to be discharged from service therefor, and in case of his death, leaving a widow or children under sixteen *Proviso*.years of age, for their relief: *Provided further*, That such relief shall not exceed for any one fireman or his family the sum of forty dollars per month.
Rezin W. Darby, payment to.To pay Rezin W. Darby the amount due him on his contract for remodeling the Georgetown town-hall and converting the same into a fire- 129 engine house, one thousand six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-one cents. And the amount which shall be received from the sale of the Georgetown fish-wharf, authorized by the act of March third,22 Stat., 467. eighteen hundred and eighty-three, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Telegraph and telephone service:
For one general superintendent,Telegraph and telephone service. one thousand six hundred dollars; one electrician, atone 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 extension of lines, insulators, brackets and pins, gas and fuel, record-books and stationery, office-rent and wagon, harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, and the purchase of new fire-alarm boxes, implements, and tools, twelve thousand dollars: in all, twenty thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
Courts. For the police court: For one judge, three thousand dollars; onePolice court. clerk, 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; 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 other necessary items, three thousand dollars; for judicial expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred anti eighteen dollars.
Public Schools, District of Columbia.Public schools. For salaries of superintendents, teachers, and janitors, secretary ofSuperintendents, 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 forty-one thousand eight hundred and forty 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, at eight hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For teachers: For five hundred and fifty-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 seventy dollars, three hundred and seventy-one thousand eight hundred and fifty 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 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 Twining, Abbott, John F.
Cook, and Randall buildings, at seven hundred dollars each; of the Curtis building, six hundred dollars; of the Crunch, Ami-don, Morse, Brent, and 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 hun 130 dred 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 all, *Proviso*.twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty 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 buildings.For rent of school buildings, six thousand four hundred and sixty dollars; for fuel, eighteen 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 alb sixty-four thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Buildings of schools, etc.For buildings for schools: For addition to school building on the new Bladensburg pike, three thousand five hundred dollars: for the purchase of sites, when necessary, and the erection and completion of new buildings, and for furniture for new school buildings, sixty-six thousand *Proviso*.dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, 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 and finished by the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
Holmead Cemetery act relative to, amended.20 Stat., 353.That the act entitled “An act to protect Holmead Cemetery in the District of Columbia” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be amended by adding the words “and convey” after the word “sell” so as to make it read “sell and convey any part or 1 he whole of said square.” Miscellaneous Expenses. Miscellaneous expenses.For repair’s 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, cheeks, damages, and other necessary items, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand six hundred dollars Health Department.
Health officer, inspectors, and other’s.For one health officer, three thousand dollars; six sanitary 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 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, and other necessary items, four thousand dollars; for purchase of ambulance, horse, and harness, and pay of driver, one thousand two hundred dollars; removal of garbage, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, forty-four thousand one hundred and *Proviso*.Contracts for removal of garbage.eighty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter contracts for removal of garbage may be made for periods not exceeding five years, subject to annual appropriations by Congress.
Interest and Sinking-fund. Funded debt.Interest and sinking-fund.*Proviso*.For interest and sinking-fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water-bonds, one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents: *Provided*, That any 131 balances now unexpended of the appropriations for interest and sinking-fund for the District of Columbia may be consolidated on the booksConsolidation of unexpended b a 1-antes of appropriations for interest and sinking-fund.*Proviso*.Eight per cent, certificates of indebtedness and coupons, etc., destruction of, authorized. of the Treasury Department, and hereafter any amount appropriated for any fiscal year may be consolidated with the unexpended balances of the appropriations for the same purpose for the years preceding: *And provided further*, That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized to cause to be destroyed, in the same manner as United States securities are destroyed, all the eight per centum certificates of indebtedness, and coupons thereof, together with all coupons of other District of Columbia bonds due prior to July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, which have been or may hereafter be paid or retired by payment of taxes or by purchase.
That no payment shall be made of any certificate issued by the lateCertain certificates of Board of Audit to be presented within one year, etc.18 Stat., 119.Commissioners to give notice. Board of Audit of the District of Columbia under authority of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, that shall not be presented for payment within one year from the date of the approval of this act; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to cause notice to be given to the holders of said certificates to make presentation within the time fixed, by publication in two newspapers published in the city of Washington each once a week for three successive weeks immediately following the approval of this act, and once a week for three successive weeks immediately preceding the date of expiration of the time fixed herein within which payment may be made.
For general contingent expenses of the District of Columbia, to beGeneral contingent expenses. expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, calamity by Hood or fire, and of like character, not otherwise sufficiently provided for, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles*Proviso*. provided for in this act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such article, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected: *Provided further*, That all appropriations for*Proviso*. contingent expenses made by this act shall be expended under the direction and in the sole discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; but such expenditures shall be accounted for in the Treasury Department as other expenditures for the District, and a detailedAnnual report of expenditure of contingent fund.R.
S. 193, 30. statement of such expenditures shall be reported to Congress in accordance with section one hundred and ninety-three, Revised Statutes of the United States. Water Department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsWater department. 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, oneSalaries. 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 thirty-nine dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery,Contingent expenses. forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand four hundred 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 new mains, and lowering mains, one hundredAppropriations for interest and sinking-fund for water bonds to be deposited to credit of interest and sinking-fund for funded debt, etc. thousand dollars; 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 commis- 132 Treasurer U.
S. to invest certain balances in bonds of D. C. in his discretion.sioner 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 Interest on amount appropriated for increase of supply of water, etc., to be drawn only on requisition of Treasurer U.
S.22 Stat., 168.advantageous; to pay interest on one half of all moneys already advanced, and that may be advanced to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, by the United States (excepting the amounts advanced for constructing fishways), under the provisions of an act approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An act to increase the water supply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes,” thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, said amount to be drawn from the Treasury only on the requisition of the Treasurer of the United *Proviso*.Treasurer U.
S. to estimate amount to refund to U.S., in installments, with interest, one-half the amount advanced by IT. S. remaining unpaid for increase of water supple.22 Stat., 170.Requisitions of commissioners limited, etc.States: *Provided*, That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to include in their annual estimates for the expenses of the water department an estimate, to be made by the Treasurer of the United States, of the amount necessary to refund, in not less than twenty-five annual instalments, one half of the amount advanced by the United States under the said act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, with interest on said amount at the rate of three per centum per annum, computed annually on the principal sum remaining unpaid; in all, one hundred and eighty-six thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars.
Sec. 2. That 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-five 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 Special assessments, drawback certificates, etc., to be issued to holders of outstanding lieu certificates for interest, etc.said fiscal year.
And where special assessments have been reduced on revision as required by law, drawback certificates receivable for all arrears of general taxes due and unpaid June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be issued to the holders of outstanding lien certificates, for the interest accrued on the amount of such reduction up to the date of the passage of this act. Approved, July 5, 1884.