Chapter 676. making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 676.— An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes.July 18, 1888. *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 Half from District revenues.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-nine, namely:
General Expenses. for salaries and contingent expenses.Salaries, etc. For executive office: For two Commissioners, at five thousandExecutive office. Commissioners, Secretary, etc. dollars each; one Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); one secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars: one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: 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 hundred 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, eight hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, horseshoeing, and other necessary expenses, three thousand dollars; in all. forty-three thousand *Proviso.*Contingent expenses.Vol. 23, p. 319.eight hundred and sixty-four dollars: *Provided*, That so much of the District of Columbia appropriation act approved February FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 676. 1888.315 twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, as provides “that hereafter all appropriations made for contingent expenses of the District of Columbia shall be expended under the direction and in the sole discretion of the Commissioners,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed. For assessor’s office: For one assessor, three thousand dollars;Assessor’s office two assistant assessors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one special assessment clerk, one thousand seven hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one 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 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. seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
For the purpose of defraying the expense of the assessmentAssessment expenses.Vol. 22, p. 568. of real property in the District of Columbia, as provided by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, fifteen thousand dollars. For collector’s office: For one collector, four thousand dollars;Collector’s office. one cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars, and such cashier shall hereafter, in the necessary absence or inability of the collector, from any cause perform his duties without any additional compensation; 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 services necessary for completing an exhibit of all outstanding taxes in arrears, five hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, and other necessary items, two thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand four hundred dollars.
For necessary expenses in the collection by distraint and sale Distraint for personal taxes.of overdue personal taxes, and for other necessary items, two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the fees and cost of proceeding*Proviso*.Fees.Vol. 19, p. 398. collected by the collector of taxes under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-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.
For auditor’s office: For one auditor, three thousand dollars;Auditor’s office. one chief clerk, who shall, 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.
For attorney’s office: For one attorney, four thousand dollars;Attorney’s office. one assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; one special assist ant 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. 316 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 eightCoroner’s office. hundred 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; for repairs and painting during fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand dollars; contingent expenses and other necessary items, four hundred dollars; in all, five thousand 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, 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, 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 and fifty dollars.
That hereafter all fees collected by the inspector of gas and metersDeposit and credit of fees. and the harbormaster and amounts collected for leases of streets and reservations and wharf charges shall be paid to the collector for payment into the. Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts. For contingent expenses, including books, stationery, binding andContingent expenses. preservation of records in the engineer’s and surveyor’s offices, printing, transportation (vehicles, animals, saddlery, forage, and repairs). maintaining and keeping in good order and repair the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of gas and meters, and other necessary items, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For placing in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement and for general supplies, one 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 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. 317 streets, avenues, alleys, and roads.
For work on sundry streets and avenues and replacement of woodImprovement, etc., of streets, etc. pavements, six hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners on streets and avenues specified in the following schedules and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely: general schedule:General schedule. For paving the following streets and avenues, namely: C street (southwest and southeast), from First street to New Jersey avenue;
Seventh street northwest, from Q to Boundary streets; Eleventh street southeast, from Pennsylvania avenue to Anacostia Bridge; Four-and-a-half street, from H street to Arsenal, and from D street northwest to Pennsylvania avenue; Brightwood avenue. Seventh street extended, from Grant avenue to Princeton street; Street on the south and west side of the Treasury Building, from Fifteenth street to Pennsylvania avenue, and removing gates and other obstructions; For grading and regulating Pennsylvania avenue southeast, from Eleventh street to new bridge; in all. for general schedule, one hundred and forty-four thousand six hundred dollars.
Georgetown schedule: For paving the following streets, namely:Georgetown. Thirtieth street, from P to Q streets; Q street, from Twenty-eighth to Thirtieth streets; O street, from Thirty-fifth to College gate; For grading and regulating the following streets and avenue, namely: Thirty-third street, from P street northward; Thirty-fourth street, from M to N streets; Prospect avenue, where necessary, from Thirty-third to Thirty-sixth streets: in all. for Georgetown schedule, thirty-eight thousand six hundred dollars.
Northwest section schedule: For paving the following streetsNorthwest section. and avenues, namely: New York avenue, from Seventh street to New Jersey avenue; Fifteenth street (west side), from Pennsylvania avenue to New York avenue; Twelfth street, from R to S streets; R street, from Seventh to Ninth streets; S street, from Seventh to Eleventh streets; Fifth street, from 0 street to Boundary; Rhode Island avenue, from Fifth street to Boundary; O street, from Twenty-first to Twenty-second streets;
Twenty-second street, from M to P streets; Boundary street, from Seventh street to New Jersey avenue; Q street, from Fifth street to New Jersey avenue, from Seventeenth to Nineteenth streets, and from Rhode Island to Vermont avenues; Thirteenth street, intersection to B street; Eighth street, from S street to Boundary: Seventeenth street, from Q to R streets; New Hampshire avenue, from Q to R streets; Corcoran street, from Fifteenth street to New Hampshire avenue; L street, from Twenty-sixth street to Twenty-seventh street;
For grading and regulating the following streets, namely: Twenty-fifth street, from K street to New Hampshire avenue; 318 F street, from Twenty-third to Twenty-sixth streets; N street, from Third to North Capitol streets, and from Twenty-second to Twenty-fourth streets; in all. for northwest section schedule. one hundred and ninety-one thousand four hundred dollars. Southwest section schedule: For paving the following streets, namely:Southwest section. G street, from Third to Four-and-a-half streets;
H street, from First to Third streets: C street, from Twelfth to Fourteenth streets; Thirteenth street, from Maryland avenue to Water street; For grading and regulating the following streets, namely: I street, from First to Water streets; G street, from Third to South Capitol streets; L street, from First to Four-and-a-half streets; Canal street, from B to First streets; in all, for southwest section schedule, fifty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. Southeast section schedule:
For paving the following streets and avenue, namely:Southeast section. Seventh street, from D street to Virginia avenue: South Carolina avenue, from Seventh to Ninth streets; Sixth street, from E street to Virginia avenue; Pennsylvania avenue, from Eighth to Eleventh streets; C street, from Sixth to Seventh streets; D street, from Third to Sixth streets; For grading and regulating the following streets, namely: H street, from First to Second streets; Ninth street, from East Capitol street to G street;
C street, from Seventh to Eleventh streets; South side, Lincoln square; in all. for southeast section schedule, fifty-four thousand four hundred dollars. Northeast section schedule: For paving the following streets and avenues, namely:Northeast section. North Capitol street, from I to K streets; C street, from Sixth to Eighth streets; Seventh street, from B to D streets; Massachusetts avenue, from Sixth to Eighth streets; Maryland avenue, from Sixth street to Boundary, including intersection;
Eighth street, from East Capitol street, to Massachusetts a venue: Eleventh street, from North Carolina avenue to Maryland avenue; F street, from North Capitol to Third streets; Sixth street, from H to K streets; For grading and regulating the following streets, namely: C street, from Eighth to Eleventh streets; G street, from Second to Sixth streets; B street, from Eleventh to Fourteenth streets; Third street, from E to H streets; Second street, from F to H streets; Ninth street, from B street to Maryland avenue; in all, for northeast section schedule, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars.
Replacement of wood pavements schedule: For paving DReplacing wood pavements. street southeast (south side), from Seventh to Ninth streets; For paving D street southeast (north side), from Pennsylvania avenue to Eighth street; in all, for replacement of wood pavements schedule, three thousand five hundred dollars. That under appropriations contained in this act no contract shallLimit for concrete pavements. 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 eighty-six, and with same depth of base. 319 Grading streets, alleys, and roads:
For grading streets, alleys,Grading. and roads not otherwise provided for. at a price not to exceed ten cents per cubic yard, fifteen thousand dollars. Repairs to pavements; For repairs to concrete pavements, withRepairs to pavements. the same or other not inferior material, ninety-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter contracts for repairs to pavements may be made for periods not exceeding five years, and subject to annual appropriation therefor by Congress. Permit work:
For the improvement and repair of alleys andPermit work. sidewalks and the construction of sewers under the permit system, ninety thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the property owners requesting*Provisos*.Owner to pay half. 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 is necessary for the publicNecessary work. health, safety, or comfort, and to pay the total cost of such work from said appropriation, one-half of the cost of such work to charged against and become a lien upon the abutting property, and its collection to be enforced in the same manner as the collection of general taxes, and when so collected to be credited to said appropriation; 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. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, thirty-five thousand dollars. Repairs county roads: For current work of repairs on countyCounty roads. roads and suburban streets, forty-five thousand dollars. Constructing county roads:For constructing county roads and suburban streets, as follows: To grade and regulate Howard avenue middle section, seven thousand seven hundred dollars; To grade Jefferson street, Jackson street, and Washington street, eastern section, four thousand dollars.
To grade and macadamize Harrison street and Good Hope road from the Navy-Yard Bridge to the Bowen road, eastern section, thirteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars; To pave Nichols avenue from Harrison street southward, eastern section, thirteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars; For work on Fourth street northeast extended toward the Bunker Hill road and on First street extended to Michigan avenue, and from thence along said avenue to Lincoln road, fifteen thousand dollars.
To grade Thirteenth street, from Clifton avenue north, one thousand dollars; For the grading and paving of Fourteenth street northward from the Boundary, for the grading and paving of Stoughton street and of Chapin street from Fourteenth street extended to Wayland Seminary, and the paving of Pomeroy street in front of the Freedmen’s Hospital, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. For condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, ten thousand dollars.
Surveys of the District: For continuation of surveys of the DistrictSurveys. of Columbia with reference to the extension of various avenues to the District line, ten thousand dollars. Care of bridges: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers,Bridges. oil. lamps, and matches, two thousand five hundred dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, including retaining wall on M street at the approach to the new free bridge across the Potomac, which bridge is hereby placed under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand dollars. 320 SEWERS.Sewers.
For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, thirty thousand dollars. For replacing obstructed sewers, ten thousand dollars. For the preparation of plans for sewage disposal, five thousand dollars. For main and pipe sewers, seventy thousand dollars. For constructing suburban sewers, thirty-five thousand dollars. CURRENT EXPENSES, STREETS, AVENUES, AND ALLEYS. Sprinkling, sweeping, and Cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping,Sweeping, etc. and cleaning streets, avenues, and alleys, seventy-seven thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no expenditure hereunder shall be made at a price higher than twenty-seven cents per one thousand square yards.
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 *Provisos.*hundred and five thousand dollars: *Provided*, Maximum.That no more than twenty dollars per annum for each streetlamp shall be paid for gas, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning, under any expenditure provided for in this act: and said lamps shall burn not less than two thousand six hundred hours per annum; and the Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to substitute other illuminating material at the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Contracts.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 electric lighting, including necessary expenses of inspection,Electric Lighting. on one or more of the principal streets of the cities of Washington and *Proviso.*Georgetown, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*,Limit per light. That no more than fifty cents shall be paid for each light per night burning from sunset to sunrise, and each light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candle power. Harbor and river front: For the improvement and protectionHarbor front. 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.
For public scales: For repair and replacement of public scales,Scales. two hundred and fifty dollars. For public pumps: For the purchase, replacement, and repair ofPumps. public pumps, four thousand dollars. washington aqueduct.Aqueduct. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars. public schools.Public schools. For salaries of superintendents, teachers, and janitors, secretary of the board, and clerks, including additional teachers, rents, repairs, fuel, furniture, books, stationery, new school buildings, furniture for 321 new school buildings, and other necessary items, nine hundred and fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars, namely:
For officers: For superintendent first six divisions, at two thousand seven hundred dollars; superintendent seventh and eighth divisions, at twoSuperintendents. 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 clerkClerks, etc. 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.
For teachers: For teachers, not to exceed six hundred and ninety-threeTeachers. 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 seventy dollars, four hundred and sixty-six thousand eight hundred and ten dollars; and no increase in salaries paid to teachers in grades now receiving nine hundred 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, and country schools and no increase inNo increase in salaries. the number of teachers in any of such grades shall be made, and the minimum compensation shall not be less than at the rate of three hundred dollars per annum, and the names of and actual compensation paid to each teacher under this provision shall be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session by the Commissioners: *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers, no discrimination *Proviso.*No discriminations.shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school, and performing a like class of duties.
For teachers of night schools, who may also be teachers in the day Night schools.schools, five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of night schools, live 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, Sea-ton, Henry, Webster, Gales.
Peabody. Wallach, Garnett, Sumner, Analostan. Curtis, and Dennison buildings, at nine hundred dollars each: of the Lincoln and Miner buildings, at eight hundred dollars each; of the Twining, Abbot, John F. Cook. Addison, and Randall buildings, at seven hundred dollars each; of the Amidon. Crunch, Morse, Brent, Bannaker. Blair. Wormlev, Anthony Bowen. Maury, Weightman. Bradley. Blake. Carberry, Giddings, Towers, Magruder, and Phelps buildings, at five hundred dollars each; of the Mott, Hills-dale.
Anaeostia. Thompson, and Lovejoy 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, atone 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, thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars.
For rent of school buildings, fifteen thousand dollars.Rent.Repairs For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, including construction of fireproof stairways in Lincoln school building, thirty-five thousand dollars. For sanitary improvements in old buildings, three thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, Contingent expenses.printing, insurance, and other necessary items, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. 322 For fuel, twenty-two thousand dollars.
For the purchase of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus toManual training. be used in connection with instruction in manual training, eight thousand dollars. For furniture for new school buildings, nine thousand dollars. For erection of new school buildings and purchase of sites therefor.New buildings. as follows: Two in first school division, one in second school division, one in third school division, one in fourth school division, one in fifth school division, one in seventh school division, and two in eighth school division, three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Size.*Provided*, That no one of the foregoing school buildings shall be constructed with less than eight rooms.
For erection of two new school buildings and purchase of sites therefor in sixth school division, twelve thousand dollars. That the plans and specifications for each of said buildings, and for all other buildings provided for in this act, shall be prepared by the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the. Architect of the Capitol and the Commissioners of the District, and said buildings shall be constructed by the Commissioners in conformity therewith.
For Metropolitan Police.Police. For one major and superintendent, two thousand 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-two sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; one hundred and forty-five privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and forty 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, Contingent expenses.two hundred and forty dollars; twenty-five lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one van-driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; one ambulance-driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; one assistant ambulance-driver, three hundred dollars; five drivers of patrol-wagons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; rent of police headquarters and station at Anacostia, one thousand two hundred dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; repairs to stations, including police-court building and cells, two thousand four hundred dollars; miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including stationery, books, telegraphing, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs to same, beds and bed-clothing, insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, police equipments and repairs to same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, ambulance, and patrol-wagons. and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, fourteen thousand dollars: police signal and telephone system in third or fifth precinct, including horses and wagons, four thousand five hundred dollars;
New station-house.additional story to First precinct station, four thousand five hundred dollars: purchase of lot and erecting and furnishing station-house in northeastern section of Washington, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be 323 necessary: water, heating, and drying apparatus in six stations, at one hundred dollars each, six hundred dollars: in all, four hundred and six thousand live hundred and forty dollars. For the Fire Department.Fire department. For one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one fire-marshal, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two assistant chief engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; nine foremen, at one 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; ten hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; sixty-six privates, at eight hundred dollars each; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; one veterinary surgeon for all departments of the District government, four hundred dollars; repairs to engine-houses, two thousand dollars; repairs to apparatus and new appliances, three thousand dollars; purchase of hose, four thousand five hundred dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; purchase of horses, four thousand dollars; forage, five thousand five hundred dollars: for purchase of one new fire-engine, four thousand five hundred dollars; for erecting engine-house in southeasternNew engine and house. section of Washington and furnishing same, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; hose-carriage for same, seven 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; in all, one hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred dollars.
Telegraph and Telephone ServiceTelegraph 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.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies,Supplies. telephone rental, wire, extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines, purchase of poles, insulators, brackets, pins, hard ware, 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. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not, after theTelegraph, etc., wires to be put under ground. fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, permit or authorize any additional telegraph, telephone, electric lighting or other wires to be erected or maintained on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington, and the said Commissioners are hereby directed to investigate and report to Congress at the beginning of its next session the best method of removing all electric wires from the air or surface of the streets, avenues and alleys, and the best method of interring the same under ground, and such legal regulation thereof as may be needed; and they shall report what manner of conduits should be maintained by the city of Washington, if any, and the cost of constructing and maintaining the same, and what charge, if any, should be made by the city for the use of its conduits by the persons or corporations placing wires therein, and upon what terms and conditions the same should be used when required so to do, and for such investigation, one thousand dollars is 324 hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District *Proviso*.Permits.may, under such reasonable conditions as they may prescribe, authorize the wires of any existing telegraph, telephone or electric light company now operating in the District of Columbia, 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 no such authority to be exercised after the termination of the present 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 thirty dollars per month, one thousand four hundred and forty 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; purchase of one horse, two hundred and fifty dollars; collection and removal of garbage, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, forty-three thousand three hundred and ten dollars.
Courts. For the police court: For one judge, three thousand dollars:Police court. one clerk, two thousand dollars; one deputy clerk, one thousand dollars; two bailiffs, at three dollars per day each; one messenger, nine hundred dollars: one doorkeeper, five hundred and forty dollars; United States marshal’s fees, one thousand four hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including compensation of a justice of the peace acting as judge of the police court during the absence of said judge, not exceeding three hundred dollars; books, stationery, fuel, ice, gas. and other necessary items, eight hundred dollars; for witness fees, three thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars.
Defending suits in claims: For necessary expenses in examinationDefense in claims. 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. Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionWrits of lunacy. 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.
Interest and Sinking-Fund.Interest and sinking-fund For interest and sinking-fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water-bonds, one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents. 325 Miscellaneous Expenses.Miscellaneous. For rent of District offices, three thousand six hundred dollars; forRent, etc. 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, and tiling the records and papers of his office 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.
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 hostle, one hundred and twenty dollars: one ambulance-driver, one hundred and twenty dollars; one female keeper at workhouse, at three hundred dollars; one female keeper at workhouse, at one hundred and eighty dollars; two cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each: three cooks, at sixty dollars each: one nurse, one hundred and eighty dollars: four nurses, at sixty dollars each; one teacher, three hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars.
For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs,Contingent expenses. provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, shoes, clothing, dry-goods, hardware, medicines, repairs to tools, cars, tracks, steam-heating and cooking apparatus, painting, and other necessary items and services, forty thousand dollars. For new kitchen, two thousand five hundred dollars. For tire escapes, six hundred dollars. For introduction of gas into Alms-House, three hundred dollars. For Reform School:
For one superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars:Reform School. assistant superintendent, nine hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, three thousand five hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars: three matrons of families, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; superintendent of chair-shop, six hundred and sixty dollars: farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at three hundred dollars each: two dining-room servants, seamstress, chambermaid, and laundress, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; florist, 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.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, drySupport of inmates. 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 326 other necessary expenses incident to secure suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding live hundred dollars: all under the control of the Commissioners, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For two brick water closets with proper drainage and ventilation,Construction. one thousand two hundred dollars. For addition to hog-pen, one hundred and fifty dollars. For grading, draining, and improving grounds and roads, three hundred dollars. For completing boiler-house, new boiler, removal of boilers to new boiler-house. radiators, piping, connections, and laving same, four thousand dollars. Transportation of paupers and prisoners: For transportationTransportation, of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, four thousand dollars.
For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance of inmatesIndustrial Home School. and salaries of superintendent and employees, the promotion of industries. and general repairs, and other necessary expenses, all under the control of the Commissioners; ten thousand dollars. For new boiler and connections, and repairing and restocking green houses, one thousand live hundred dollars. For Support of the Insane. For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia inSupport of Insane. the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided in sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, seventy-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars.
For Charities. For the relief of the poor, fifteen thousand dollars.Relief of the poor. To enable the Commissioners of the District to furnish temporaryWashington Night Lodging Rouse. food and lodging to indigent persons, male and female, to be expended in their discretion, two thousand five hundred dollars, and from this sum the Commissioners may allot to the Washington Night Lodging House Association a gross sum not exceeding one thousand live hundred dollars, to be expended in the discretion of said association.
For the support and maintenance of the Columbia Hospital forColumbia Hospital. Women and Lying-in Asylum, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Womens Christian Association, four thousand dollars.Women’s Christian Association. For the National Association for Destitute Colored Women and Children, nine thousand dollars.Association for Destitute Colored Women, etc. 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. For maintenance of the Church Orphanage Association of Saint Church Orphanage.John’s Parish of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars For the payment of the debt contracted in completing the wing lately erected to the house of the Church Orphanage Association of Saint John’s Parish. Washington. District of Columbia, furnishing the same, and in making necessary repairs to said house, three thousand dollars; and for repairing the broken ground, terraces, and pavements, restoring fences, making entrances to, and providing heating apparatus for. the said Orphanage, one thousand dollars; in all. four thousand dollars.
For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, for erecting andFoundling Hospital. completing a ward for colored foundlings, five thousand dollars; for heating apparatus, six hundred dollars; and for maintenance, seven thousand dollars: in all, twelve thousand six hundred dollars. 327 To complete the erection of additional accommodations for the useSaint Rose Industrial School. of the Saint Rose Industrial School, five thousand dollars. To enable the board of managers of the Association for Works ofAssociation for Works of Mercy.
Mercy to discharge the balance of the indebtedness of said association incurred in the purchase of a building, two thousand dollars; for construction of wall, one thousand five hundred dollars: for maintenance, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington.Homeopathic Hospital. District of Columbia, for improvements upon the buildings, three thousand five hundred dollars: for maintenance, three thousand dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For maintenance of the National Temperance Home, two thousandNational Temperance Home. five hundred dollars. For the payment of the balance due upon the building now ownedEmergency Hospital. and occupied by the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, of Washington, District of Columbia, twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. That hereafter the several institutions included under the heads ofReports. asylums, reformatories, industrial schools, and charities named in the annual appropriation acts for the support of the District of Columbia shall report to the Commissioners of the Distinct, on or before the first day of December 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.
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.
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, 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, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For engineers and firemen, fuel, material for high service, in WashingtonEngineers, etc. and Georgetown, pipe distribution to high and low service, including public hydrants, fireplugs, material and labor, repairing and laying new mains, and lowering mains, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For laying a new water-main from K street northwest down FourteenthNew main. street to B street southwest, including necessary connections, thirty-one thousand dollars: this sum to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and to be repaid from the revenues of the water department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety. 328FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 676, 677. 1888. For purchase of pump-house lot on U street northwest, Washington. District of Columbia, two thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For interest and sinking-fund on water stock bonds, forty-fourInterest, etc. 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, thirty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For sinking-fund on account of increase of water-supply, under act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. fifty-two thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-six cents. Sec. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions uponLimit of requisitions. the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District.
Sec. 3. That all moneys received from sales of animals or materialMoney from sales of property to be deposited to creditor District of Columbia and United States equally. of any sort purchased under appropriations, other than for the water department, for the District of Columbia, made since July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, 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 made for the District of Columbia under section three of the act of June eleventh, Vol. 20, p. 104.eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” remaining unexpended at the end of two years from the close of the fiscal year for which such appropriations were or may 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.
Approved, July 18, 1888.