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CHAP. 370.— 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 ninety, and for other purposes.March 2, 1889. *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 theHalf from District revenues. purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, namely:
General Expenses. for salaries and contingent expenses.Salaries, etc. For Executive Office: For two Commissioners, at five thousandExecutive office. 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 thousandCommissioners, sec rotary. etc. five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, stenographer and typewriter, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; one driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; one inspector of buildings, two thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; one janitor, seven 794 hundred dollars; one laborer, at. one dollar per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars: one steam engineer, nine hundred dollars; one property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger clerk, six hundred dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; three watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one chief inspector of plumbing, two thousand dollars; two assistant inspectors of plumbing, at one thousand dollars each: one harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars: for rent of property yards, one thousand dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, and other necessary expenses, three thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars.
Assessor’s office.For Assessor’s Office: For one assessor, three thousand dollars; 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 clerk, at one thousand dollars, in charge of records; one license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant or clerk, nine 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. eighteen thousand three hundred dollars.
Collector’s office.For Collector’s Office: For one collector, four thousand dollars; one cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars: one bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, and other necessary items, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Distraint for personal taxes.For necessary expenses in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale or otherwise, and for other necessary items one *Proviso*. Fees. Vol. 19, p. 398.thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the fees and cost of proceeding, collected by the collector of taxes under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for making distress and sale of property for personal taxes in arrears, shall be deposited by said collector in the Treasury of the United States as other revenues of the District are deposited.
Auditor’s office.For Auditor’s Office: For one auditor, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, who shall hereafter, in the necessary absence or inability of the auditor from any cause, 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.
Attorney’s office.For Attorney’s Office; For one attorney, four thousand dollars: 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, stationery, printing, and other necessary items, four hundred dollars; for judicial expenses, including the printing of briefs and witness fees in District cases before the supreme court of the District of Columbia, two thousand five hundred dollars: in all. eleven thousand six hundred dollars. 795 For Sinking-Fund Office, under control of the TreasurerSinking-fund office of the United States:
For one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, 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 services in care of morgue, three hundred dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For Market-Masters: For two market-masters, at one thousandMarket-masters. two hundred dollars each; one market-master, nine hundred dollars; for hire of laborers for cleaning markets, at rate not exceeding one hundred dollars per market, three hundred dollars: contingent expenses, repairs and painting, and other necessary items, one thousand dollars: in all. four thousand six hundred dollars. For Engineer’s Office: One chief clerk, one thousand nine hundredEngineer’s office. dollars; one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one computing engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector of asphalt and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; one inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; one superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; one superintendent of roads, one thousand four hundred dollars; one superintendent of lamps, one thousand 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, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each three axmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; one messenger clerk, at six hundred dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, forty thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses, including books, stationery, binding andContingent expenses preservation of records in the engineer’s and surveyor’s offices, printing, maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of gas and meters, and in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement and other necessary items, five thousand dollars. That overseers and inspectors, temporarily required in connectionTemporary overseers, etc. with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any work done under contracts authorized by appropriations, and all expenses incidental to or necessary for the proper execution of said work, shall be paid out of the sums appropriated for said 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.
Streets, Avenues, Alleys, and Roads.Streets, avenues, alleys, and roads. For work on sundry streets and avenues named in AppendixImprovement, etc. “CC,” Book of Estimates, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, including fifteenth street between Pennsylvania and New York Avenues, seven hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners on streets and 796 avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix, and on fifteenth street between Pennsylvania and New York Avenues, and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
General schedule.General Schedule: Including fifteenth street between Pennsylvania and New York Avenues, one hundred and eighty-five thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars. Georgetown.Georgetown Schedule: Fifty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Northwest section.Northwest Section Schedule: Two hundred and twenty-four thousand two hundred and ten dollars. Southwest section.Southwest Section Schedule: Eighty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Southeast section.Southeast Section Schedule:
Eighty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Northeast section.Northeast Section Schedule: One hundred and fifteen thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars. For paving Twentieth street from R street to S street, and for paving S street from Twentieth street to Connecticut avenue northwest. fen thousand dollars. Limit for concrete pavements.That under appropriations contained in this act 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 laid in the District prior to July first, eighteen hundred and *Proviso*.eighty-six, and with same depth of base: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to the pavement Fifteenth street.authorized by this act on Fifteenth street between Pennsylvania and New York Avenues.
Grading.Grading Streets, Alleys, and Roads: For grading streets, alleys, and roads not otherwise provided for, at a price not to exceed ten cents per cubic yard, fifteen thousand dollars. Repairs.Repairs to Pavements: For repairs to concrete pavements, with the same or other, not inferior, material, ninety thousand dollars; for resurfacing and repairing Pennsylvania avenue from First to Seventeenth streets northwest, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Permit work.Permit Work: For the improvement and repair of alleys and sidewalks and the construction of sewers and sidewalks, of such form and materials as the Commissioners may determine, under the *Provisos*.permit system, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Owners to pay half.*Provided*, That the property owners requesting such improvements shall pay one-half of the total cost: And *provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized in their discretion to order such of the above enumerated work as in their opinion Necessary work.is necessary for the public health, safety, or comfort, and to pay the total cost of such work from said appropriation, one half of the cost of such work so done, including material and labor, shall be charged against and become a lien upon the property abutting upon the line of Mode of assessing charge.such improvement, and shall be levied pro rata, according to the lineal frontage of each lot or part of lot abutting upon such improvement, within sixty days after making such assessment, and in order to reimburse said appropriation so expended one-half of the cost of such work so done, including labor and material, shall be charged against and become a lien upon the property abutting upon the line of the said work, and shall be levied prorata upon said property, according to its lineal frontage, upon such terms and regulations as to notice to proprietors and the method and terms of such notice as shall seem to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia right and proper, due notice of such terms and regulations being given by publication thereof in some newspaper published in the city of Washington for such time as said Commissioners shall prescribe, and the one-half so Payments.charged against such abutting property shall be paid as follows: one-third of the amount within sixty days from the date of service of 797 notice of such assessment, without interest: one-third within one year and the remaining third within two years from the date of service of notice of such assessment, and interest shall be charged at the rate of ten per centum per annum from the date of service of such notice on all amounts shall remain unpaid at the expiration of thirty days after the service of the notice of such assessment: *Provided*, That if any property so assessed shall become subject to sale for any otherProperty sold for taxes. assessment or tax whatever, then the assessment levied under this act shall become immediately due and payable, and such property may be sold therefor, together with the accrued interest thereon to the date of such sale, together with the costs of advertising and sale; and any property upon which such assessment and accrued interest thereon, or any part thereof, shall remain unpaid at the expiration of two years from the date of service of notice of such assessment, shall be subject to sale therefor under the same conditions and penalties as are imposed by existing law for the nonpayment of general taxes, and the material purchased under this appropriation shall be bought after due advertisement therefor, as required by existing law.
Repairs Streets, Avenues, and Alleys: For current work ofRepairs, streets. etc. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, forty thousand dollars. That any company authorized by law to run cars propelled byStreet cars. horses within the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to substituteMay be run by electricity or cables. for horses electric power by storage or independent electrical batteries or underground wire, or underground cables moved by steam power, on the whole or any portion of its roadway, with authority to purchase and use any terminal grounds and facilities necessary for the purpose; and any such street railway company electing to substitute such power on any part of its tracks or roadbeds on the streets of the District of Columbia shall, before doing so. cause such part of its roadbeds to be laid with a flat grooved rail andRails. made level with the service of the streets upon each side of said tracks or roadbeds, so that no obstruction shall be presented to vehicles passing over said tracks: *Provided*, That in the event said companies*Provisos*. or either of them shall fail for the period of two years from the passageGrooved rails to be used in two years. of this act to exercise the powers and privileges herein before given, such companies are hereby required to cause said rails and road beds to be relaid with the flat grooved rail hereinbefore mentioned, so as to be level with the surface of the streets upon each side of said tracks or road beds and the cost of making the changes hereinbefore required shall be paid by the corporations or persons owning or operating said street railroads, and if, after being notified by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in writing to comply with the terms of this act, the said corporations or either of them shall not within ninety days thereafter begin the work required and complete the same within a reasonable time, not more than twelve months from the expiration of said period of ninety days it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to cause the necessary changes in saidCommissioners to make change on neglect of company.
Certificates of Indebtedness for cost. rails and roadbeds to be made as soon as practicable: and shall issue certificates of indebtedness against the property, real or personal, of such railway company, which certificates shall bear interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum until paid, and which, until they are paid, shall remain and be a lien upon the property on or against which they are issued, together with the franchise of said company: and if the said certificates are not paid within one year the said Commissioners of this District of Columbia may proceed to sell the propertySale of property. against which they are issued, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the amount due. such sale to be first duly advertised daily for one week in some newspaper published in the city of Washington, and to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder: *Provided further*, That after the passage of this act no other rail thanNo other rail to be hereafter used. that herein mentioned shall be laid by any street railway company in the streets of Washington and Georgetown, and all companies 798 granted franchises or extensions by the Fiftieth Congress shall have extension of one year’s time within which to lay their tracks.
So much of the charters of the street railway companies of the District of Columbia as is inconsistent with this section is hereby repealed. *Provided further*, That the foregoing requirements as to Not applicable out of city limits.motive-power, rails and roadbed shall not apply to street railroads outside the city of Georgetown and the Boundary limits of the city of Washington: and *Provided*, That the authority hereinbefore granted in Approval of Commissioners.each and every particular shall be exercised only with the approval of the Commissioners of. the District of Columbia, expressed by resolution of said board.
Repairs, roads.Repairs County Roads: For current work of repairs of county roads and suburban streets, fifty thousand dollars. County roads.Constructing County Roads: For construction of county roads and suburban streets, as follows: For Pennsylvania Avenue, extended to Bowen road, twenty-five thousand dollars; To grade and regulate Fourth street east, extended to Bunker Hill road, ten thousand dollars; For Canal road, from Free to Chain bridges, thirteen thousand dollars; To complete pavement of Fourteenth street extended to top of hill, ten thousand dollars;
For paving Pomeroy street, from the west building line of the Freedmen’s Hospital to the east building line of Brightwood avenue, one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; To extend Eighteenth street, middle section, to Columbia road, five thousand dollars; To grade and regulate Massachusetts avenue extended, from Boundary to Rock Creek, twenty-five thousand dollars; To grade and regulate Sheridan street from Seventh to Ninth streets, three thousand dollars; To widen grade and regulate Brightwood avenue, ten thousand dollars;
For Rock Creek Church road, five thousand dollars; For Naylor road, three thousand five hundred dollars; To grade and regulate Seventeenth street from Park street to Piney Branch, one thousand dollars; To grade and regulate Washington street, Anacostia, three thousand dollars; To grade and regulate Jackson street, Anacostia, three thousand dollars; To grade and regulate Jefferson street, Anacostia, three thousand dollars; To grade and regulate Adams and Taylor streets, from Harrison to Jefferson streets, four thousand four hundred dollars;
For Howard Avenue. Mount Pleasant, one thousand dollars; For Bunker Hill road, four thousand dollars; . For River road from Tennallytown west, five thousand dollars; in all one hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. Condemnation of streets, etc.Condemnation of Streets, Roads, and Alleys: For condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, five thousand dollars. Hancock Circle. Location.And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to condemn a sufficient amount of ground at the intersection of Sixteenth and U streets and New Hampshire avenue, from squares one hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and seventy-six, North, one hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and eighty-nine, and one hundred and ninety, for the purpose of constructing a circular reservation the same to be called Hancock Circle: *Proviso*.
Not to be acquired at public expense.*Provided* that the said ground be acquired, or the cost of the same be defrayed, otherwise than at public expense. 799 Surveys of the District: For completion of surveys of the DistrictSurveys. of Columbia with reference to the extension of various avenues to the District line, ten thousand dollars. Surveys on Account of Subdivisions of Land: To pay the expensesSubdivisions. of such surveys as may be necessary to enable the Commissioners of the District to determine if plats of subdivisions of land within the District offered for record have been made in conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within the District of*Ante*, p. 431.
Columbia”, approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, live thousand dollars. Care of Bridges: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers,Bridges. oil, lamps, and matches, three thousand four hundred dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, ten thousand dollars: in all, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. Sewers.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, thirty-five thousand dollars. For replacing obstructed sewers, fifteen thousand dollars.
For main and pipe sewers, ninety thousand dollars. For suburban sewers, fifty thousand dollars. The appropriations made in this act for the erection of schoolAppropriations for school buildings immediately available. buildings and for additions to school buildings, shall be immediately available. The President of the United States is hereby authorized to appointSewer Commission to be appointed. Duties. Report three competent sanitary engineers who shall examine and report upon the system of sewerage existing in the District of Columbia, together with such suggestions and recommendations as may to them seem necessary or desirable for the modification and extension of the same, and such report shall be transmitted to Congress by the President at its next session.
And for the purpose of defraying the expenses of such examination and report the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. Current Expenses, Streets, Avenues, And Alleys. Sprinkling, Sweeping, and Cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping,Sweeping. and cleaning streets, avenues, and alleys, eighty-five thousand dollars: And the payments for such work for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine shall be at the rate and according to terms of the contracts now existing under which the same is being done, and forContracts. this purpose a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated, to be immediately available.
For the Parking Commission: For contingent expenses, includingParking Commission. laborers, cart-hire, trees, tree-boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting, and care of trees, on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, eighteen thousand dollars. Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing,Lighting. and cleaning lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys, and for purchasing and erecting new lampposts and replacing such lamps and lampposts as may be damaged or unfit for service, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than*Provisos*.
Maximum. 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 may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall 800 Contracts.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:
Electric lighting.For electric lighting, including necessary expenses of inspection, on one or more of the principal streets of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, including the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, *Provisos*.forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than sixty cents per Limit per light.night shall be paid for any light burning from sunset to sunrise, and no more than forty cents per night shall be paid for any light burning from sunset to sunrise and operated wholly or in part by overhead wires: and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting after September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and Overhead wires.eighty-nine, by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the cities of Washington and Georgetown: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Report on contracts for lighting.Columbia shall investigate, ascertain, and report to the first session of the Fifty-first Congress what deduction may be made for gas and electric lighting, both for annual and for five year contracts, and that they be authorized to invite proposals for supplying said light at reduced rates, and in this they are not limited to any one system.
Harbor front.Harbor and River Front: For the improvement and protection of the harbor and river front, the enforcement of laws and regulations, constructing and maintenance of wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars. Scales.For Public Scales: For repair and replacement of public scales, two hundred and fifty dollars. Pumps.For Public Pumps: For the purchase, replacement and repair of public pump, four thousand dollars.
Washington Aqueduct.Aqueduct. For engineering, maintenace, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars. Public Schools.Public schools. Superintendents.For Officers: For superintendent first six divisions, at two thousand seven hundred dollars; superintendent seventh and eighth Clerks, etc.divisions, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: one clerk to superintendent of first six divisions and secretary to board of trustees, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to superintendent of seventh and eighth divisions, eight hundred dollars; messenger to superintendent first six divisions, three hundred dollars: messenger to superintendent seventh and eighth divisions, two hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Teachers.For Teachers: For teachers, not to exceed seven hundred and forty-five in number, including teachers of manual training schools, 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 eighty dollars, five hundred and six thousand six hundred dollars; and no increase in salaries paid to teachers in grades now receiving one thousand dollars or more, except in cases of promotion to fill vacancies occurring before or after the passage of this act and except in salaries to principals of normal, manual training, drawing and country schools, and no increase in the number of teachers in any of such grades exclusive of principals of such normal, manual training, drawing and country schools, 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 the beginning of each regular session by 801 the Commissioners: *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers,*Proviso*. no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachersNo discrimination. employed in the same grade of school, and performing a like class of duties; and the Commissioners are directed to report to Congress at its next session an estimate of the number of teachers required inEstimates. each of the grades and classes of the schools in the District, and the amount of salary for each of the teachers in each and all of the grades and classes of the schools in the District for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety one.
For teachers of night schools, who may also be teachers in the dayNight schools. schools, five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. For Janitors and care of Buildings and Grounds: For careJanitors, etc. of 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 Abbot, John F.
Cook, and Randall buildings, at seven hundred dollars each: of the Amidon, Addison, Cranch, Morse, Brent, Bannaker, Blair, Wormley, Anthony Bowen, Maury, Weightman, Bradley, Blake, Carberry, Giddings, Towers. Magruder, Phelps, and Twining, and nine new eight-room school buildings, at five hundred dollars each; of the Mott, Hisdale, Anacostia, Thompson, and Love-joy buildings, at two hundred and fifty dollars each; of the Mount Pleasant, McCormick, Potomac, Greenleaf, Hamilton Road, Chamberlain, High Street, Montgomery Street, and Threlkeld buildings, at one hundred and sixty-five dollars each; 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, five thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars; in all, forty-one thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars.
For rent of school buildings, and repair shop ten thousand dollars.Rent. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds,Repairs. twenty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery,Contingent expenses. printing, insurance, and other necessary items, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fuel, twenty-four thousand dollars.Fuel. For the purchase of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus, toTools, etc. be used in connection with instruction in manual training, ten thousand dollars.
For furniture for new school buildings, seven thousand dollars.Furniture. For erection of new school buildings and purchase of sites therefor,New buildings, etc. as follows: One in third school division, one in fifth school division, one in seventh school division, and one in eighth school division, one hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no one of the*Proviso*. foregoing school buildings shall be constructed with less than eightSize. rooms. For addition to Washington High School, forty thousand dollars.
For erection of a colored high-school building and purchase of site therefor, sixty thousand dollars. For erection of buildings and purchase of sites therefor, and for additions to school building in sixth school division, as follows: Erection of one eight-room school building and purchase of site therefor; one four-room school building and purchase of site therefor at Hillsdale, one two-room school building and purchase of site therefor at Good Hope; and for additions to the Mott, the Bennings, white, and the Bennings, colored, school buildings, fifty-nine thousand dollars. 802 To enable the Commissioners of the District to purchase lots fifty-one, fifty-two, and fifty-three, in square six hundred and thirty three, adjoining the Arthur school building lot. for the use of said school, five thousand seven hundred and ninety two dollars and fifty cents; and also to purchase lots seventy-three and seventy-four in said square for use of said school, three thousand one hundred and ninety-two dollars and eighty cents: in all, eight thousand nine hundred and eighty five dollars and thirty cents: *Provided*, That not exceeding one dollar per square foot shall be paid for said lots or either of them.
Sites to be purchased without employing agents.That hereafter the Commissioners in making purchases of sites for schools or other public buildings shall do so without the employment of agents or through other persons not regular dealers in real estate in the District of Columbia, or through such regular dealers who have not had the property for sale continuously from the date of the passage of this act, and in no case shall commission be paid to more than one person or firm greater than the usual commission Condemnation powers.That the Commissioners shall have all the powers conferred on the Secretary of the Treasury and other officers of the United States by the act of August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled *Ante*, p. 857.“An act to authorize condemnation of land for sites of public buildings, and for other purposes,” for the condemnation of land for sites for school buildings, engine houses, and for police stations:
Application for such proceedings shall be filed in the supreme court of said District, by the attorney thereof, under such orders as said court may prescribe in such cases. Plans, etc.That the plans and specifications for each of said buildings, and for all other buddings 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 seven 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; nine lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty eight sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; one hundred and eighty-five privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and fifty privates, class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each: nineteen station-keepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine 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: 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, at three hundred dollars: seven drivers of patrol-wagons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, four hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. 803 For rent of police headquarters and station at Anacostia. one thousandContingent expenses. two hundred dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; repairs to stations, one thousand eight hundred dollars; miscellaneous and contingent expenses. including stationery, books, telegraphing, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds, and bed-clothing, insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, police equipments and repairs of same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, ambulance, and patrol wagons, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, fourteen thousand dollars; remodeling station-houseStations, etc. and for building for cells and lodging-rooms, third precinct seven thousand dollars; stable for horse and patrol-wagon, and for grading yard and making gateway, third precinct two thousand live hundred dollars; remodeling station house and for building for cells and lodging-rooms, fifth precinct, seven thousand dollars; purchase of lot adjoining fifth precinct station-house, two thousand live hundred dollars; police signal and telephone systems in fifth, seventh, or eighth precincts, including horse, wagon, harness, and other necessary items, four thousand five hundred dollars; for stables to accommodate the stock and vehicles for said system, two thousand five hundred dollars; twelve additional stations for patrol-service in sixth and ninth precincts, two thousand four hundred dollars; for setting patrol boxes, two hundred dollars; horse, harness, wagon, and mattress, six hundred and seventy five dollars: electrical apparatus for ninth precinct, two hundred and fifty dollars; ambulance, three hundred dollars; horse, two hundred and fifty dollars; harness, sixty-five dollars; in all, forty-nine thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
For the Fire Department.Fire department. For one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; oneEngineers, etc. fire marshall, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two assistant chief engineers, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; ten foremen, atone thousand dollars each: eight engineers, at one thousand dollars each; eight firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two tillermen. at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eleven hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; sixty eight privates, at eight hundred dollars each; six watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; one veterinary surgeon for all departments of the District government, four hundred dollars; in all, one hundred thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
For repairs to engine-houses, two thousand dollars; repairs to apparatusContingent expenses, etc. and new appliances, three thousand dollars: purchase of hose, three thousand dollars: for fuel, two thousand dollars: purchase of horses, three thousand dollars; forage, five thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of one chemical engine, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; exchanging two fire engines, eight thousand 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, thirty six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Telegraph and Telephone Service.Telegraph and telephone service. For one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two telegraph operators. at one thousand dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; one expert repairman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two repairmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; in all. nine thousand eight hundred dollars. 804 Supplies.For 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 wires underground.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may hereafter, under such reasonable conditions as they may prescribe, authorize the overhead wires of any telegraph, telephone or electric light company to be laid under any street, alley, highway, footway, or sidewalk in the District, whenever in their judgment the public interest may require the exercise of such authority, such privileges as may be granted hereunder to be revocable at the will of Congress without compensation, and this authority to continue only until the termination of the Fifty-first Congress.
Health Department.Health department. 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 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, one thousand dollars; one messenger, five hundred and forty dollars: one pound-master, one thousand two hundred dollars: laborers, at not exceeding forty dollars per month, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; one ambulance driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; and for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, fuel, rent, repairs to pound and vehicles, forage, meat for dogs, horseshoeing, painting, and other necessary items, four thousand dollars; collection and removal of garbage, twenty thousand dollars; in all forty-eight thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
Courts. Police court.For the Police Court: For one judge, three thousand dollars: 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, and other necessary items, eight hundred dollars: for witness tees, three thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars.
Defense in claims.Defending Suits in Claims: For necessary expenses in examination of witnesses and procuring evidence in the matter of claims against 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. Lunacy writs.Writs of Lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments made thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two thousand dollars. 805 Interest and Sinking Fund.
For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, exclusive ofInterest and sinking fund. water bonds, one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents. Miscellaneous Expenses.Miscellaneous. For rent of District offices, three thousand six hundred dollars;Rent, etc. for general advertising, three thousand dollars; for books, and repairs of books for register of wills, two hundred dollars; to enable the register of wills to complete the assorting, briefing, indexing, and filing the records of his office, and reproducing the administration and guardian dockets, prior to eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, including clerical service and purchase of file-holders and books, one thousand dollars; printing, checks, damages, forage, care of horses not otherwise provided for, horseshoeing, fuel, ice, gas. repairs, insurance, rebinding and repairing records, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, seven thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Emergency Fund.Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles provided for*Proviso*. Purchases. 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.
For Reformatories and Prisons. For Washington Asylum: For one intendant, one thousand twoWashington Asylum. 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 and fifty dollars; one second assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; five watchmen, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; one blacksmith three hundred dollars; one hostler, and ambulance driver, two hundred and forty 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 four hundred and fifteen dollars.
For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs, provisions,Contingent expenses. fuel, forage, lumber, shoes, clothing, dry goods, hardware, medicines, repairs to tools, cars, tracks, steam-heating and cooking apparatus, painting, and other necessary items end 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, 806 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, three hundred and sixty dollars; watchmen, 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 five hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Support of inmates.For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather and shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, table ware, furniture, farm implements and seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers. books, stationery, plumbing, painting and glazing, medicines, medical attendance, stock, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding nine hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, all under the control of the Commissioners, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For grading, draining, and permanently improving grounds, three bundled dollars. For coal-vaults, one thousand dollars. Industrial Home School.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 under the control of the Commissioners, ten thousand five hundred dollars. To provide for heating the several buildings by steam and lighting same by gas. six thousand seven hundred dollars; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one thousand five hundred dollars for new boiler and connections and repairing and restocking *Ante*, p. 326.greenhouses, made by the District appropriation act approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty height, shall be covered into the Treasury.
Transportation.Transportation of Paupers and Prisoners: For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, four thousand dollars. For support of the Insane. Support of insane. R. S., sec. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 949.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, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For Charities. Relief of the poor.For relief of the poor, sixteen thousand dollars. Temporary support of indigent.For temporary support of indigent persons, male and female, to be expended in such manner as the Commissioners of the District may deem best, five thousand dollars: and from this sum the Commissioners may allot not exceeding two thousand five hundred Distribution.dollars to the Board of Management of the Temporary Home for Soldiers, and Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, District of Columbia, and not exceeding one thousand dollars to the Young Woman’s Christian Home, and not exceeding one thousand dollars to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
Columbia Hospital.For the support and maintenance of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, twenty thousand dollars. Women’s Christian Association. Association for Destitute Colored Women, etc.For the Women’s Christian Association, four thousand dollars. For the National Association for Destitute Colored Women and Children, nine thousand dollars. To complete and connect drainage and sewerage of building with main sewer, two hundred dollars. To erect coal-vault and to change the laundry, five hundred dollars. 807 To enable said association to care for colored foundlings, one thousand dollars.
For the Children’s Hospital, five thousand dollars.Children’s Hospital. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, six thousand dollars.Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum. St. Rose Industrial School. To complete the erection of additional accommodations for the use of the St. Rose Industrial School, five thousand dollars. For the erection of a suitable brick building to be used by theGerman Orphan Asylum. German Orphan Asylum Association, and to be located on the ground now owned by said association, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said association expends an equal amount in the erection of said building.
For maintenance of the Church Orphanage Association of SaintChurch Orphanage. John’s Parish of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, for maintenance, sixFoundling Hospital. thousand dollars. Association for Works of Mercy, for purchase of lot three thousandAssociation for Works of Mercy. dollars; for maintenance and repairs, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars. For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington,Homeopathic Hospital.
District of Columbia, for maintenance, five thousand dollars. To aid the House of the Good Shepherd in erecting a building, fifteenHouse of the Good Shepherd. thousand dollars. For maintenance of the National Temperance Home, two thousandNational Temperance Home. five hundred dollars. That hereafter the several institutions included under the heads ofReports. asylums, reformatories, industrial schools, and charities named in this act and in former and succeeding appropriation acts for the support of the District of Columbia shall report to the Commissioners of the District, on or before the first day of October of each year, a full and detailed account of receipts and expenditures, and all their operations. and said Commissioners shall transmit the same to Congress at the beginning of each regular session, with such suggestions and recommendations as they may deem pertinent, together with estimates for maintaining the same.
All sums of money heretofore appropriated by Congress or whichMoney appropriated for real estate of charitable institutions to be a lien in event of dissolution. may hereafter be appropriated and expended in aid of the purchase of real estate shall (subject to any trust deed, mortgage, or other security or incumbrance existing on such property at the time of its purchase, or created at the time of its purchase) be a lien upon such property, and in case of the dissolution of any such corporation as in the preceding paragraph is mentioned, owning such property, or in case of the disposal of such property by such corporation, entitle the United States to reimbursement in proportion to any other contributions or funds used in the purchase of such property.
The acceptance of any sum of money by any such corporation as is in this act appropriated for its benefits shall be deemed an acceptance of and agreement to this provision. Water Department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsWater departments 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 one thousand dollars; one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; six inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; contingent expenses including books, blanks, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, three 808 thousand dollars; in all eighteen thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Engineers, etc.For engineers and firemen, fuel, material for high service, in Washington and Georgetown, pipe distribution to high and low service, including public hydrants, fireplugs, material and labor, repairing and laying new mains, and lowering mains, eighty-six thousand dollars. Interest.For interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thousand six hundred and ten dollars. For interest on account of increasing the water-supply, as provided in the act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, Vol 22, p. 170.thirty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-one cents.
Sinking fund.For sinking fund on account of increase of water-supply, under act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, fifty-three thousand and fifteen dollars and seventy-three cents. Sec. 2. Limit of requisitions. 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 ninety than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District.
Sec. 3. Deposit of money from sales. That hereafter all moneys received from the sales of animals or material of any sort, purchased under appropriations made for the District of Columbia since July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, other than for the water department, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the United States and the District in equal parts; and all balances of appropriations that have been heretofore or that shall be hereafter made for the District of Columbia under section three of the act of June Balances.
Vol. 20, p. 104.eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” heretofore or hereafter remaining unexpended at the end of two years from the close of the fiscal year for which such appropriations have been or shall be made, shall be covered into the Treasury. one-half to the credit of the surplus fund and one-half to the credit of the general fund of the District of Columbia. Sec. 4. Zoological park established.
For the establishment of a zoological park in the District of Columbia, two hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under and in accordance with the provisions following, that is to say: That in order to establish a zoological park in the District of Columbia, for the advancement of science and the instruction and Commission.recreation of the people, a commission shall be constituted, composed of three persons, namely: The Secretary of the Interior, the president of the board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which shall be known and designated as the commission for the establishment of a zoological park.
Selection of site.That the said commission is hereby authorized and directed to make an inspection of the country along Rock Creek, between Massachusetts avenue extended and where said creek is crossed by the road leading west from Brightwood crosses said creek, and to select from that district of country such a tract of land, of not less than one hundred acres, which shall include a section of the creek, as said commission shall deem to be suitable and appropriate for a zoological park.
Map.That the said commission shall cause to be made a careful map of said zoological park, showing the location, quantity, and character of each parcel of private property to be taken for such purpose, with the names of the respective owners inscribed thereon, and the said On filing, land to be condemned.map shall be filed and recorded in the public records of the District of Columbia: and from and after that date the several tracts and parcels of land embraced in such zoological park shall be held as 809 condemned for public uses, subject to the payment of just compensation, to be determined by the said commission and approved by the President of the United States, provided that such compensation be accepted by the owner or owners of the several parcels of land.
That if the said commission shall be unable to purchase any portionProceedings in condemnation. of the land so selected and condemned within thirty days after such condemnation, by agreement with the respective owners, at the price approved by the President of the United States, it shall, at the expiration of such period of thirty days, make application to the supreme court of the District of Columbia, by petition, at a general or special term, for an assessment of the value of such land, and said petition shall contain a particular description of the property selected and condemned, with the name of the owner or owners thereof, and his, her, or their residences, as far as the same may be ascertained, together with a copy of the recorded map of the park: and the said court is hereby authorized and required, upon such application, without delay, to notify the owners and occupants of the land and to ascertain and assess the value of the land so selected and condemned by appointing three commissioners to appraise the value or values thereof, and to return the appraisement to the court: and when the values of such land are thus ascertained, and the President shall deem the same reasonable, said values shall be paid to the owner or owners, and the United States shall be deemed to have a valid title to said lands.
That the said commission is hereby authorized to call upon theSurveys. superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or the Director of the Geological Survey to make such surveys as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this section; and the said officers are hereby authorized and required to make such surveys under the direction of said commission. Approved, March 2, 1889.