Chapter 389. 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-eight, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 389.— 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-eight, and for other purposes.Mar. 3, 1887. *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 Hie estimated expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, namely:
General Expenses. for salaries and contingent expenses.Salaries and contingent expenses.Executive office, commissioners, secretary, etc. For Executive office: For two commissioners, at five thousand dollars each; one engineer commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); one secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one. clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; 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, stationery, horseshoeing, and other necessary expenses, three thousand dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars.
For assessor’s office: For one assessor, three thousand dollars;Assessor’s office. two assistant assessors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one special-assessment clerk,one thousand seven hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars: one assistant or clerk, Tune hundred 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, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars.
For collector’s office: For one collector, four thousand dollars;Collector’s office. one cashier, who shall, in the necessary absence or inability from any cause of the collector, perform his duties, without additional compensation, 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 services necessary for completing an exhibit of all outstanding taxes in arrears, one thousand dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, and other necessary items, seven hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For auditor’s office: For one auditor, three thousand dollars;Auditor’s office. one 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 expenses, including books, stationery, and other necessary items, three hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For attorney’s office: For one attorney, four thousand dollars;Attorney’s office. one assistant attorney, two thousand dollars, one special assistant attorney, one thousand two hundred dollars; one law clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, two hundred dollars; for rent of office, one hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including books, 572 stationery, printing, and other necessary items, three hundred dollars, in all, nine thousand dollars. For sinking-fund office, under control of the TreasurerSinking-fund office. of the United States:
For one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk,at nine hundred dollars; 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 hundredCoroner’s office. dollars; for contingent expenses, including jurors’ fees,stationery, books, blanks, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, and holding inquests, seven hundred dollars; for care of morgue, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For market masters: Two market-masters, at one thousand twoMarket-masters. hundred dollars each: market-master, nine hundred dollars; contingent, expenses, including repairs and other necessary items, eight hundred dollars; in all, four thousand one 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 j 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 £ Inspectors, etc.one inspector of buildings, two thousand tour hundred dollars; one assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of asphalt and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector of gas and meters, who shall pay to the collector, for payment 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;Harbor fees. three inspectors of streets and sewers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one harbormaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; and the fees collected by said harbormaster shall be paid to the collector, for payment into the Treasury, to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three axmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; 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, 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 (vehicles, animals, saddlery, forage, and repairs), and other necessary items and services, in all not to exceed five thousand dollars; for maintaining and keeping in good order and repair the laboratory and apparatus in the, office of the inspector of gas and meters, eight hundred dollars; in all, sixty-one thousand one hundred *Proviso*.Temporary overseers.and ninety dollars: *Provided*, That overseers and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any work 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 appropriation. 573 Improvements and Repairs.
For repairs to concrete pavements, with the same or other not interiorRepairs to pavements. material, eighty thousand dollars. For materials for permit work, ninety thousand dollars; and theMaterials for permit work. Commissioners of the District are authorized, in their discretion, to apply such material to, and pay from this appropriation, the. cost of labor for the improvement and repair of alleys and sidewalks, when, in their opinion, such course is necessary for the public health, safety, or comfort: *Provided*, That the costs of such tabor shall be charged against*Proviso*. and become a lien on the abutting property, and its collection shall be enforced in the same manner as the collection of general taxes, and shall, when so collected, be credited to said appropriation.
For continuation of surveys of the District of Columbia with referenceSurveys. to the extension of various avenues to the District line, four thousand dollars. For improvement of streets and avenues named in the schedule of workImproving streets, etc. on city streets and avenues proposed for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, contained in the Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, pages one hundred and forty-six and one hundred and forty-seven, being part six, House Executive Document Number One, Forty-ninth Congress, second session, as follows:
In Georgetown,Division of amount. forty-five thousand dollars; in the northwest section including the pavement of New Jersey avenue from M street to Boundary street northwest, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; in the southwest section, fifty thousand dollars; in the southeast section, sixty-five thousand dollars; in the northeast section, fifty thousand dollars; and for filling streets below grade, at not exceeding ten cents per cubic yard, ten thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That under appropriations contained in this act no contract*Proviso*. shall be made; for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavement at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a quality equalLimit. to the best laid in the District prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base.
For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, oil, lamps, andCare, repairs, etc., bridges. matches, two thousand five hundred dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, nine thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars. Washington Aqueduct.Washington Aqueduct. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars. For Streets.Streets. For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, and alleys,Sweeping, etc. sixty-five thousand dollars.
For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, thirtyRepairs. thousand dollars For current work of repairs on county loads and suburban streets, twenty-five thousand dollars. For constructing county roads and suburban streets including the Country roads.completion of the eastern branch road the Bennings Bridge road; the Tennallytown road and the Bladensburg road, fifty thousand dollars; no part of the above amount to be expended in the laying out of new roads or streets.
For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, includingParking Commission. 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 lighting: For illuminating material and lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning lamps on avenues, streets, and alleys, andStreet lamps. 574 for purchasing and erecting new lampposts, and replacing such lampposts as may be damaged or unfit for service, one hundred and twenty *Provisos*.Price per lamp.thousand dollars; *Provided*, That no more than twenty 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 are authorized, in their discretion, to substitute other illuminating material at the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as maybe necessary for that purpose; but not exceeding twenty thousand dollars of the above Electric light.amount may be used in providing electric lights on one or more of the principal thoroughfares of the city, without regard to this limitation, but at the lowest reasonable, price obtainable: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shah not be authorized Contracts.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 hay-scales: For repair and replacement of public hay-scales,Hay-scales. five hundred dollars. For harbor and river front: For the improvement and protectionHarbor. of the harbor and river front, the enforcement of laws and regulations, constructing and maintenance of wharves and buildings, two *Proviso*.Collections.thousand five hundred dollars; *Provided* That the amounts collected for leases and wharf charges shall be paid to the collector for payment into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia, in equal parts.
For pumps: For purchase of and repairs to pumps, three thousandPumps. dollars. For sewers: For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, thirtySewers.*Proviso*.Transfer of appropriation. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the expenditures heretofore made and to be made on account of “Repairs to sewers and basins” during the fiscal year, ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, shall be paid from the appropriation entitled “Cleaning sewers and Basins” for said year; replacing obstructed sewers, seven thousand five hundred dollars; main and pipe sewers, fifty thousand dollars; construction of suburban sewers, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
The sums herein appropriated for materials for permit work, currentCertain sums immediately available. work on county roads, and suburban streets, constructing county roads and suburban streets, for harbor and river front, for sewers, purchase, of sites, and construction and equipment of school-buildings, and for procurement of mains, engines and boilers, for the water department, shall be immediately available. Public Schools:Public schools. 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 other necessary items, seven hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars, namely:
For officers: For superintendents first six divisions, at two thousandSuperintendents. seven hundred dollars; superintendent seventh and eighth divisions at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerkClerks. to superintendent of first six divisions, and secretary to board of trustees at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to superintendent of seventh and eighth divisions at eight hundred dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For teachers:
For teachers not to exceed six hundred and fifty-fourTeachers. in number 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, four hundred and 575 thirty-eight thousand two hundred and seventy dollars; and no increase in salaries paid to teachers in grades now receiving nine hundred dollars or more and no increase in the number of teachers in any of such grades shall be made, and the minimum compensation shall not be less than at the rate of three hundred dollars per annum, and the names of and actual compensation paid to each teacher under this provision shall be reported to Congress at its next session by the commissioners.
For teachers of night-schools who shall also be teachers in the dayNight-schools. schools five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of night schools three hundred dollars. For janitors and care of buildings and grounds: For care ofJanitors. the High School building, one thousand six hundred dollars; of the Jefferson building one thousand four hundred dollars; of the Stevens building, one thousand one hundred dollars; of the Franklin building, one thousand one hundred dollars; of the Force Seaton Henry Webster Gales Peabody Wallach Garnett Sumner Analostan Curtis and Dennison buildings at nine hundred dollars each; of the Lincoln and Miner buildings at eight hundred dollars each; of the Twining, Abbot, John F.
Cook, Addison, and Randall buildings at seven hundred dollars each; of the Crunch,Morse, Brent,Bannaker, Blair, Wormley, Anthony Bowen, and three new buildings, at five hundred dollars each; for messenger to the superintendent of the first six divisions, three hundred dollars; for messenger to 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, seven thousand three hundred dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand four hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, fifteen thousandRent, repair, etc. dollars; repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, twenty thousand dollars; for sanitary improvements in old buildings in old buildings, ten thousand dollars; for contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing, insurance, and other necessary items, twenty thousand dollars; for fuel, twenty thousand dollars; for the purpose of industrial instruction, including tools, machinery, material, and apparatus, five thousand dollars; in all ninety thousand dollars.
For buildings for schools, and for furniture for the same:Buildings. For building an addition to the Columbia road school, three thousand dollars; for building an addition to the Hamilton road school, three thousand dollars; for building an eight-room school building on the lot adjoining the Wallach school building, twenty-five thousand dollars; for building an eight-room school building on the lot adjoining the Sumner school building, twenty five thousand dollars; for building an eight room school building in school division number four, twenty five thousand dollars: and the Commissioners are authorized to sell andSales. convey any lot now owned by the District in said division and to apply the proceeds of such sale to the purchase of a more eligible building lot, if in their judgment expedient; and for such purpose the additional sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary is also appropriated.
For the erection of an eight room school Building in school DivisionNew buildings. number two, twenty-five thousand dollars; for the purchase of a site for the same ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: For the erection of an eight room school building in school division number seven or eight, twenty-five thousand dollars; for the purchase of site for same ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: For the erection of an eight-room school building in division number three, twenty-five thousand dollars; for the purchase of a site for same ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: 576 For the purchase of a site and building a school building in school division number two, thirty-five thousand dollars; for the purchase of Furniture.proper and sufficient furniture for the several buildings aforesaid, eight thousand dollars; for providing and causing to be erected and affixed to such of the school buildings in the District of Columbia as require the same, under the provisions of the act approved January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled, “An act for the *Ante*, p. 365.further protection of property from fire, and safety of lives, in the District of Columbia,” such iron fire-escapes and combined standpipes and ladders, or either of said appliances, as may be approved and adopted by the Commissioners of said District, six 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.
For Metropolitan Police.Police. For one major and superintendent, two thousand six hundred dollars; one captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two lieutenants, inspectors at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one chief clerk who shall also be 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 for privates detailed 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; eight lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; one hundred and fifteen 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 eighty 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-five lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one van driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; one ambulance driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; one assistant ambulance-driver, three hundred dollars; four drivers of patrol-wagons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; rent of police headquarters and station at Anacostia, one thousand two hundred dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; repairs to stations, two thousand dollars; miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including stationery, books, telegraphing, photographs,printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals forContingent expenses. prisoners, furniture and repairs to same, beds and bed-clothing, insignia of office, purchase of van; purchase and care of horses, police equipments and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, ambulance, and patrol-wagons, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; police signal and telephone system in second or fifth precinct including wagons and horses four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and forty-four thousand seven hundred dollars 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 assistant engineers, at one thousand two hundred 577 dollars each; seven foremen, at one thousand dollars each; seven engineers, at one thousand dollars each; seven firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; nine hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; sixty privates, at eight hundred dollars each; three watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; one veterinary surgeon for all departments of the District government, four hundred dollars; repairs to engine houses, two thousand dollars; repairs to apparatus and new appliances, three thousand dollars; purchase of hose, two thousand five hundred dollars;Contingent expenses. for fuel, two thousand dollars; purchase of horses, two thousand dollars; forage, five thousand five hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including office-rent, horseshoeing, 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 nine thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars 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 repairmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; 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 horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, seven thousand dollars; putting District wires under ground, seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Health Department.Health department. For one health officer, three thousand dollars; six sanitary inspectors,Inspectors, etc. 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 one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger, five hundred and forty dollars; one pound-master, 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 vehicles, forage, meat for dogs, horseshoeing, maintenance of ambulance service, painting, and other necessary items, four thousand dollars; collection and removal of garbage, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, forty-two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
Courts. For the police court: For one judge, three thousand dollars;Police court. one clerk, two thousand dollars; 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 and twenty-four dollars.
Depending suits in clams: For necessary expenses in examinationDefending suits in claims. of witnesses and procuring evidence in the matter of claims against 578 the District of Columbia in the Departments, and defending suits against said District in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars. Interest and Sinking-Fund. For interest and sinking-fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water-bonds,Interest and sinking-fund. one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents.
Miscellaneous Expenses. For rent of District offices, three thousand six hundred dollars; forRent, advertising, etc. general advertising, three thousand dollars; for books and file-holders for register of wills, three hundred dollars; to enable the register of wills to complete the assorting, briefing, and filing the records and papers of bis office prior to eighteen hundred and sixty nine, including clerical service and purchase of file-holders, one thousand two hundred dollars; printing, checks, damages, ftp-age, care of horses, horseshoeing,, fuel, ice, gas, repairs, insurance, rebinding and repairing records, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, six thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
For Reformatories and Prisons. For Washington Asylum: For one intendant, one thousand twoWashington Asylum, etc. 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 hundred dollars; five overseers, at six hundred dollars each; one engineer, six hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; one second assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; five 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 female keeper at workhouse, at three hundred dollars; one female keeper at workhouse, at one hundred and eighty dollars; two cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; three cooks, at sixty dollars each; one nurse, one hundred and eighty dollars; four nurses, at sixty dollars each; one teacher, three hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and five dollars.
For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs,Contingent expenses. provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, shoes, clothing, dry goods, hardware, medicines, repairs to tools, cars, tracks, steam-heating and cooking apparatus, printing, and other necessary items and services, forty thousand dollars. For Reform School: For one superintendent, one thousand fiveReform School. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, nine hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, three thousand five hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; three matrons of families, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; superintendent of chair-shop, six hundred and sixty .dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at three hundred dollars each; two dining-room servants, seamstress, chambermaid, and laundress, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; florist, two hundred and forty dollars; watchman, not exceeding five in number, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars; secretary and treasurer of board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and seventy-six dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, meats, dry-goods,Support of inmates. leather and shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, tableware, furniture, farm im- 579plements and seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting and glazing, medicines, medical attendance, stock, fencing, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding nine hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, all in the discretion of the Commissioners, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For construction of greenhouses, with necessary heating apparatusConstruction. complete, four thousand five hundred dollars; for construction of one workshop building, with necessary heating apparatus complete, four thousand seven hundred dollars; for grading, draining, and permanently improving the school grounds, five hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand seven hundred dollars. For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse,Transportation. four thousand dollars.
For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance of inmatesIndustrial Home School. and salaries of superintendent and employees, the promotion of industries, and general repairs, and other necessary expenses, all in the discretion of the Commissioners, ten thousand dollars. For Support of the Insane. For support of the indigent insane of the District of ColumbiaSupport of insane. 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, seventy-five thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For Charities. For the relief of the poor, fifteen thousand dollars.Relief of the poor.Columbia Hospital. For the support and maintenance of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying in Asylum, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Women’s Christian Association, four thousand dollars.Women’s Christian Association.Association for destitute colored women, etc.Children’s Hospital.Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum.Church Oprhanage. For the National Association for Destitute Colored Women and Children, seven thousand dollars.
For the Children’s Hospital, five thousand dollars. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, six thousand dollars. For maintenance of the Church Orphanage of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the erection of anew wing for the Church Orphanage of the District of Columbia,six thousand dollars. For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, seven thousand dollars.Foundling Hospital. To complete the erection of additional accommodations for the use ofSaint Rose Industrial School. the Saint Rose Industrial School, five thousand dollars.
To complete the payment for the building of the House of the GoodHouse of the Good Shepherd. Shepherd, and repairs to the same, three thousand dollars. To enable the board of managers of the Association for Works ofAssociation for Works of Mercy. Mercy to discharge so much of the indebtedness of said association incurred in the purchase of a building, three thousand six hundred dollars. For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington,Homeopathic Hospital. District of Columbia, three thousand dollars.
The several institutions included under the heads of asylums, reformatories,Reports. industrial schools, and charities named in this act shall report to the Commissioners of the District on or before the first day of December next, a full and detailed account of receipts and expenditures, and all their operations, and said Commissioners shall transmit the same to Congress, with a report as to what legislation is necessary. To provide the District with proper institutions of this character 580 Emergency Fund.
To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence,Emergency fund. calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, not otherwise sufficiently provided for, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, 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. Water Department.Water department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsClerks, etc. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely:
For one chief clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; 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-six dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For engineers and firemen, fuel, and for high service, pipe-distributionEngineers, etc. to high and low service, including public hydrants, fireplugs, material and labor, repairing and laying new mains, and lowering mains, one hundred thousand dollars. For two, two-and-one-half million gallon pumping-engines, two corrugated-steelPumping engines. boilers and necessary connections, and other items, for high service in Washington and Georgetown, thirty-five thousand dollars. For interest and sinking-fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thousandInterest, etc. six hundred and ten dollars.
For interest and sinking-fund on account of increasing the water-supply,Interest, etc., increased water supply.Vol. 22, p. 168. as provided in the act. of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, seventy six thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents. Sec. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon theLimit of requisitions. appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District.
Approved, March 3, 1887.