Chapter 757. making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year eliding June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 757.— An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year eliding June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes.July 9, 1886. *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 (lie folio wing .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-seven, namely:
General Expenses. for salaries and contingent expenses.Salaries and contingent expenses. Commissioners.For executive office: For two commissioners, at five thousand dollars each; one engineer commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars Secretary.Clerks.(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, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one messenger, Contingent expensesfour hundred and eighty dollars; one driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, horseshoeing, and other necessary items, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars.
Assessor, assistants, etc.For assessor’s office: For one assessor, three thousand dollars; two assistant assessors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; 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, nine hundred dollars; one clerk and messenger, nine hundred Contingent expenses.dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, detection of frauds on the revenue, and other necessary items, one thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.
Collector, cashier, clerks, etc.For collector's office: For one collector, four thousand dollars; one cashier, who shall, in the absence or inability from any cause of the collector, perform his duties, without additional compensation, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk in charge 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, Contingent expenses.six hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, printing, books, stationery, and other necessary items, seven hundred dollars; for services necessary for preparing an exhibit of all outstanding taxes in arrears, two thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.
Auditor, clerks, etc.For auditor’s office: For one auditor, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, who shall, in the 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 Contingent expenses.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.
Attorney, assistants, etc.For attorney’s office: For one attorney, four thousand dollars; one assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; one special assistant attorney, one thousand one hundred dollars; one law clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger, two hundred dollars; for rent of office, one hundred Contingent expenses.dollars; for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 757. 1886. 131 other necessary items, three hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand seven hundred dollars.
For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the UnitedSinking-fund clerks. States: For one clerk, atone thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including books,Contingent expenses. 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.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.
For engineer’s office: One chief clerk, one thousand nine hundredEngineer’s office.Clerks, inspectors, etc. dollars; 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 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; three inspectors of streets and sewers, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; three marketmasters, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one market-master, at nine hundred dollars; one harbormaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the fees collected by said harbormaster*Proviso.*Harbor fees. 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, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; contingent expenses, including rent of property-yards, books,Contingent expenses. 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-five thousand six hundred and ninety dollars: *Provided*, That overseers or*Proviso.*Temporary overseers. 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 appropriation.
For fuel, ice, gas, repairs, insurance, rebinding and repairing record-books,Fuel, ice, repairs, etc. and general necessary expenses of District offices and markets, five thousand dollars. 132 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 767. 1886. Improvements and Repairs. Repairs to pavements.For repairs to concrete pavements, with the same or other not inferior material, sixty-five thousand dollars; for materials for permit work, sixty thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District arc 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 *Proviso.*Cost to be charged against abutting property.necessary for the public health, safety, or comfort: *Provided*, That the costs of such labor shall be charged against 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 Surveys.credited to said appropriation; for continuation of surveys of the District of Columbia with reference to the extension of various avenues to Sowers.the District line, four thousand dollars; for sowers, forty-five thousand dollars; for work on sundry avenues and streets, and replacement of New pavements.pavements in localities named in Appendix Ff annexed to the estimates of the Commissioners of the District for eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars; in all, four hundred and forty thousand dollars; and the money appropriated for new sewers and for work on sundry avenues and streets shall become available *Proviso.*Limit.on the approval of this act: *Provided also*, That under this appropriation no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavement at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a quality equal to the best heretofore laid in the District.
Constructing, Repairing, and Maintaining Bridges. Bridges.Care, repairs, and maintenance.For ordinary care, under the supervision and control of the Commissioners of the District, of Benning’s, Anacostia, and Chain Bridges, including fuel, oil, lamps, and matches, two thousand dollars; for one bridge-keeper at Chain Bridge, six hundred and sixty dollars; and for repairing and maintaining bridges under the control of said Commissioners, including Benning’s and Anacostia Bridges, ten thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Washington Aqueduct.Washington Aqueduct. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars. For Reformatories and Prisons. Washington Asylum.For Washington Asylum: For one intendant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one matron, six hundred dollars; one visiting physician, one thousand aiideighty 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; five watchmen, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; one blacksmith, two hundred and forty dollars; one hostler, one hundred and twenty dollais; one ambulance-driver, one hundred and twenty dollars; one female keeper at workhouse, three hundred dollars; one female keeper at workhouse, at one hundred and eighty dollars; one cook, at one hundred and twenty dollars; three cooks, at sixty dollars each; one nurse, one hundred and eighty dollars; four nurses, at sixty dollars each; one teacher, three Contingent expenses.hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs, provisions, fuel, forage, lumber,shoes, clothing, dry-goods, hardware, medicines, repairs to tools and machinery, and other necessary articles, thirty-nine thousand dollars; erection and furnishing one Hospitalward for twenty-five patients, three thousand five hundred dol- FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 757. 1886. 133lars; purchase of dummy engine for tramway, two thousand dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand three hundred and eighty-two 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, six hundred and sixty 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; watchmen, not exceeding four in number, nine hundred and sixty dollars; secretary and treasurer of board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, meats, dry-goods, leather and shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, tableware, furniture, farm implements 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-live thousand dollars.
For the Georgetown Almshouse: For the support of inmates, oneGeorgetown Almshouse.Transportation of paupers, etc.Industrial Home School. thousand eight hundred dollars. For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, four thousand dollars. For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance of inmates 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 the erection of a new building for the Industrial Home School, three thousand five hundred dollars. For Support of the Insane For the support of the indigent insane of the District of ColumbiaSupport of indigent insane. in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided in sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundredR. S., secs. 4844, p. 939; 4850, p. 910. 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.Women's Christian Association.National Association fur Destitute Colored Women and Children. 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. For the National Association for Destitute Colored Women and Children, six thousand five hundred dollars; for furniture and heating apparatus for building, and improving grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand dollars.
For the Children’s Hospital, five thousand dollars.Children’s Hospital.Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum.Church Orphanage.Foundling Hospital. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, five thousand dollars. For maintenance of the Church Orphanage of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the trustees of the Washington Hospital for Foundlings to complete the building being erected for the use of said institution, three thousand five hundred dollars. To aid in the erection of additional accommodations for the use of theSaint Rose Industrial School.
Saint Rose Industrial School, five thousand dollars. To aid in the erection of additional accommodations for the use of theHouse of the Good Shepherd. House of the Good Shepherd, five thousand dollars. 134 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 757. 1886. Association for Works of Mercy.To enable the board of managers of the Association for Works of Mercy to discharge so much of the indebtedness of said association incurred in the purchase of a building, five thousand dollars. Homeopathic Hospital.For the repair and completion of the building for the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington, District of Columbia, five thousand dollars.
For Streets.Streets. Sweeping, etc.Repairs.For sweeping, cleaning, and sprinkling streets, avenues, and alleys, fifty-eight 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; for opening and *Proviso.*extending suburban streets, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this provision shall not be construed to authorize the widening of any Sewers.street now laid out and opened; cleaning sewers and basins, twenty-five thousand dollars; purchase of and repairs to pumps, three thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars.
Parking.For the parking commission; For contingent expenses, including laborers, cart hire, trees, tree-boxes, tree-stakes, tree-straps, planting and care of trees, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, eighteen thousand dollars. Street lamps.For street-lamps: For illuminating material and lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning lamps on avenues, streets, and alleys, and for purchasing and erecting new lampposts, and to replace such as are *Proviso.*Price per lamp.old, damaged, and unfit for use, one hundred 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 arc 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 may be necessary for that purpose; but not exceeding ten thousand dollars of the above amount Electric lights.*Proviso.*Contracts limited Io one year.may be used in providing electric lights on one or more of the principal thoroughfares of the city, without regard to this limitation: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not be authorized to make any contract for gas or other illuminating material, in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, for any longer period than one year.
For Metropolitan Police. Police.For one major and superintendent, two thousand six hundred dollars; one captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one 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 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; nine lieutenants, atone thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; one hundred and five 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-five-lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one driver, three hundred and sixty dollars;
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 757. 1886. 135 one ambulance-driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; one assistant ambulance-driver, three hundred dollars; two drivers of patrol-wagons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; rent of headquarters and Uniontown sub station, one thousand two hundred dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; repairs to station-houses, including police court, two thousand dollars; miscellaneous and contingentContingent expenses. 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, purchase and care of horses, harness, and forage, repairs to vehicles, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, ten thousand dollars; erection of brick stables, concreting the yards, concreting and paving cellars, setting stone steps, at sixth and seventh precinct stations, and completing ventilators for dormitories and for fencing at seventh precinct station, five thousand live hundred dollars; police signal and telephone system, first precinct, including patrol-wagon, four thousand five hundred dollars; reconstructing cells in third precinct, six hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and forty-four thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
For the Fire Department. For one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one fire-marshal,Fire department. 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, atone thousand dollars each; seven firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two tillermen, 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 fire and other departments of the District government, four hundred dollars; repairs to engine-houses, three thousand dollars; repairs to apparatus, new appliances, and purchase of hose, six thousand dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; purchase of horses, two thousand five hundred dollars; forage, live thousand live hundred dollars; contingent expenses, includingContingent expenses. office-rent, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, seven thousand five hundred dollars; new engine, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and sixteen thousand four 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 horse and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, seven thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Courts. For the police court: For one judge, three thousand dollars; onePolice court. 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, 136 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 757. 1886. 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 eighteen dollars.
Public Schools, District of Columbia. 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, five hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, namely: Superintendents.For officers: For one superintendent, at two thousand seven hundred dollars; one superintendent, at two thousand two hundred and fifty Clerks.dollars; one clerk to superintendent and secretary to board of trustees, atone thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to superintendent, at eight hundred dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Teachers.For teachers, not to exceed six hundred and twenty 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 fifteen thousand four hundred dollars. Night schools.Janitors.For teachers of night schools, two thousand five hundred dollars. For janitors, and care of the several school buildings: For care of the high-school building, one thousand six hundred dollars; of the Jefferson building, one thousand four hundred dollars; of the Franklin and Stevens buildings, atone thousand one hundred dollars each; 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, and Randall buildings, at seven hundred dollars each; of the Craneh, Amidon, Morse, Brent, Bannaker, Blair, Wonnley, Addison, and two new buildings, five hundred dollars each; for messenger to the superintendent of the first six divisions, three hundred dollars; for 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 school room, six thousand dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand nine hundred dollars.
Rent of school buildings, etc.Contingent expenses.For rent of school buildings, six thousand dollars; for fuel, twenty thousand dollars; repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, twenty thousand dollars; and for contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing, insurance, tools, apparatus, and materials for industrial instruction, and other necessary items, twenty thousand dollars; in all, sixty-six thousand dollars. Buildings.*Post*, p. 264.*Proviso.*Plans to be prepared by inspector of buildings, etc.For buildings for schools:
For the purchase of sites, and for the erection and completion of new buildings, and for furniture for new school buildings, fifty 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.
Miscellaneous Expenses. Miscellaneous expenses.For repairs and replacement of public hay-scales, five hundred dollars; for rent of District offices, three thousand six hundred dollars; tor general advertising, three thousand dollars; for books for register 137 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 757. 1886. of wills, printing, checks, damages, forage, care of horses, horseshoeing, and other necessary items, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
Health Department For one health officer, three thousand dollars; six sanitary inspectors,Health officer, 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, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, atone 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,Contingent expenses. rent, repairs to pound and vehicles, forage, meat for dogs, horseshoeing, maintenance of ambulance service, and other necessary items, three thousand five hundred dollars; removal of garbage, fifteen thousand dollars; purchase of one horse for pound service, two hundred dollars; in all, forty-two thousand two hundred and eighty 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. For general contingent expenses of the District of Columbia, to beEmergency expenses. expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, not otherwise sufficiently Provided for, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all*Proviso.*Purchases. 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. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsWater department. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: For one chief clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks,Clerks, etc. 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-nine dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery,Contingent expenses. forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars.
For engineers and firemen, coal, material, and for high service in Washington and Georgetown, pipe-distribution to high and low service, including public hydrants, fire plugs, material and labor, repairing and laying new mains, and lowering mains, seventy-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-sup-ply.Vol. 22, p. 168. as provided in the act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, fifty-seven thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and two cents.
Sec. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions uponRequisitions, limitation of. the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, 138 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 757–759. 1886. Drawback certificates, to be considered as money.Vol. 21, p. 36.Vol. 23, p. 132.including drawback certificates, of said District. And all the drawback certificates heretofore or hereafter received for general taxes under the acts of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and paid or deposited in the Treasury, shall be considered and treated as money in the keeping and settlement of accounts between the United States and the District of Columbia under this or any other act, and one-half of the same less any amounts heretofore credited shall be credited to said District as such, together with all other revenues, as received, upon the books of the Treasury.
Approved, July 9, 1886.