Chapter 724. 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-one, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 724.— 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-one, and for other purposes.August 6, 1890. *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-one, namely:
General Expenses. salaries and contingent expenses.Salaries, etc. For Executive Office: For two Commissioners, at five thousandExecutive office. dollars each; one Engineer Commissioner, four hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); one Secretary,Commissioners, Secretary, etc. two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars: one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars: one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter, 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, who shall also perform the duties of inspector of elevators and fire escapes, without additional compensation, one thousand 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 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 294FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 724. 1890. 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; in all, forty-three thousand and seventy-seven dollars. contingent expenses.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, stationery, detection of frauds on the revenue, repairs of market-houses, painting, binding, rebinding, repairing and preservation of records, books and repairs of books for register of wills, maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the offices of the inspector of gas and meters and inspector of Asphalt and cement, damages, care of horses not otherwise provided for, horseshoeing, fuel, ice, gas, repairs, insurance, repairs to pound and vehicles, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, health department, and police court, twenty-three thousand Apportionment.and eighty dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Engineer Department stables, etc.For contingent expenses of stables of the Engineer Department, including forage, livery of horses, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap-robes, Purchase of horses, whips, oil, brushes, combs, spones. chamois-skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other Expenditure limited.necessary articles and expenses, six thousand dollars: and no expenditure on account of the Engineer Department for the items named in this paragraph shall be made from any other fund.
Rent.General advertising.Register of wills.Reproduction of old dockets, etc.For rent of District offices, three thousand six hundred dollars. For general advertising, three thousand dollars. To enable the register of wills to complete the reproduction of the old administration and guardian dockets, prior to eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, including clerical service and purchase of books, four hundred and fifty dollars. Enlistment of indigent boys in Navy.To pay the register of wills for preparing papers in connection with the appointment of guardians to enable indigent boys to enlist in the United States Navy, as provided by law, one hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
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, in charge of records, one thousand dollars; 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; in all seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
Arrears of taxes, etc.To enable the assessor to prepare and complete within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one. a book showing all existing arrears of taxes oh real property due the District of Columbia including the payment of necessary clerical force, three thousand dollars. Collector’s office.Cashier to perform duties of collector in bis absence.For Collector’s Office: For one collector, four thousand dollars; 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 Cashier’s bond.compensation; and the collector may require the said cashier to give bond for the faithful performance of such duties during the absence FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 724. 1890.295 or inability of the collector; but the collector shall in every respectCollector’s responsibility. be responsible, as now provided by law, to the United States, the District of Columbia, and to individuals, as the case may be, for all moneys collected; 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; in all, seventeen thousand two hundred dollars.
For necessary expenses in the collection of overdue personal taxesDistraint for personal taxes. by distraint and sale or otherwise, and for other necessary items, two thousand dollars. For Auditor’s Office: For one auditor, three thousand dollars;Auditor’s Office.Chief clerk to perform duties of Auditor in his absence. one chief clerk, who shall hereafter, in the necessary absence or inabilityChief clerk’s bond. of the auditor from any cause, perform his duties, without additional compensation, and the auditor may require the said chief clerk to give bond for the faithful performance of such duties during the absence or inability of the auditor; but the auditor shall in every respect be responsible to the United States, the DistrictAuditor’s responsibility. of Columbia, and to individuals, as now provided by law, 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; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars.
For Attorney’s Office: For one attorney, four thousand dollars;Attorney’s Office. one assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; one special assistant attorney, one thousand two hundred dollars; one law clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, two hundred dollars; for rent of office, one hundred dollars; for 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 two hundred dollars.
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: in all, two thousand four hundred dollars. For Coroner’s Office: For one coroner, one thousand eightCoroner’s Office. hundred dollars; for horse hire, jurors’ fees, and removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, and holding inquests, eight hundred dollars; for services in care of morgue, including purchase of ice, three hundred dollars: in all, two thousand nine 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; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. For Engineer’s Office: One chief clerk, one thousand nineEngineer’s Office. hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, 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; four inspectors of streets and sewers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three 296 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-one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Board of Examiners, Steam Engineers.Board of Examiners, Steam Engineers: For compensation for board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Temporary overseers, etc.That overseers, inspectors, and other employees, temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any work 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.
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 permit system, one *Provisos*.Owners to pay half.hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the property owners requesting such improvements, under the permit system, shall pay one-half of the total cost: *And provided further*, That hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized in their discretion to order such of the Necessary work.above-enumerated work as in their opinion is necessary for the public health, safety, or comfort, and to pay the total cost of such work from appropriations therefor: one-half of the cost of such work so done, Mode of assessing Charge, etc.including material and labor, shall be charged against and become a lien upon the property abutting upon the line of 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 appropriations 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 pro rata 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 charged against such abutting property shall be paid as Payments.follows:
One third of the amount within sixty days from the date of service of 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 notioe on all amounts that shall remain unpaid at the expiration of thirty days after the service of the notice of such Property sold for taxes.assessment: *Provided*, That if any property so assessed shall become subject to sale for any other 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 297 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 appropriations for permit work shall be bought after due advertisement therefor, as required by existing law.
For the paving and curbing of the roadway of any street in thePaving and curbing roadways. District of Columbia, ordered by the District Commissioners, upon payment in advance by the owners of abutting property of one-half the estimated cost of said work, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limitations. That said pavement shall join, abut upon, or connect with, some existing pavement, and that the work so done shall be complete for the entire width of roadway, and shall in length be at least one square.
Improvements and Repairs.Improvements and repairs. For work on sundry streets and avenues named in AppendixStreets and avenues, named in Estimates, Appendix ”Ee,” etc. “E e,” Book of Estimates, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, six-hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred dollars, and to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said Appendix and upon streets and avenues hereinafter named and in the aggregate tor each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Georgetown Schedule: Sixty thousand dollars.Georgetown.Northwest section. Northwest Section Schedule: To include the paving of Thirteenth street from T to Boundary streets; U street from Fourteenth to sixteenth streets; R street from New Hampshire avenue to Twentieth street; D street from seventeenth to Eighteenth streets; eighteenth street from D to E streets; T street from Ninth to Tenth streets; N street from Twenty-second to Twenty-fourth streets; and Caroline street; grading and regulating Boundary street from First to Fourth streets, and cutting away the parking and paving New York avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, making a continuous roadway, two hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars.
Southwest Section Schedule: Seventy-five thousand dollars.Southwest section.Southeast section. Southeast Section Schedule: Excepting B street from First to Second streets, and to include the grading and regulating of Thirteenth street from D to E streets, one hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars. Northeast Section Schedule: To include the paving of ThirdNortheast section. street from F to H streets, and Ninth street from Massachusetts avenue to Maryland avenue, instead of the grading and regulating of same, one hundred and thirty-six thousand seven hundred dollars.
That under appropriations contained in this act no contract shallLimit for concrete pavements. be made for maxing 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: *Provided*, That these conditions*Proviso*.Not to apply to certain streets. as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners of the District, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars and twenty-five cents per square yard.
Grading Streets, Alleys, and Roads: For grading streets,Grading. alleys, and roads not otherwise provided for, at a price not to exceed ten cents per cubic yard, twenty thousand dollars. Repairs to Pavements: For repairs to concrete pavements withRepairs,pavements. the same or other not inferior material, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, eight thousand dollars of which shall be immediately available for completing the resurfacing of Pennsylvania Avenue from First Street to Seventeenth Street northwest. 298 District surveys; avenues, etc.Surveys of the District:
For completion of the surveys of the District of Columbia with reference to the extension of various avenues to the District line, seven thousand six hundred dollars, of which sum three thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary shall be expended in establishing and permanently marking points of reference for the extension of streets and avenues throughout the District. Subdivision surveys.Surveys on Account of Subdivisions of Land: To pay the expenses 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 Vol. 25, p. 451.conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within the District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, live thousand dollars Sewers.Sewers.
For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, forty-two thousand dollars. For replacing obstructed sewers, twenty-six thousand dollars. For main and pipe sewers, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. including .eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for dredging James Creek Canal. For suburban sewers, seventy-five thousand dollars. Sewer gauge.Rights of way.For gauging sewers and rainfall, three thousand dollars. For condemnation of rights of way for the construction, maintenance, and repairs of public sewers, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Testing shed.For the construction of a brick shed for storing and testing hydraulic cements needed for street and sewer work, two thousand five hundred dollars. Streets. Repairs, streets, etc.Repairs Streets, Avenues, and Alleys: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, forty-five thousand dollars. Repairs, roads.Repairs County Roads; For current work of repairs of county roads and suburban streets, sixty thousand dollars. County roads.Construction of County Roads:
For construction of county roads and suburban streets, as follows: For paving Nichols avenue from end of pavement toward the foot of hill, seven thousand dollars; For paving Linden street from Boundary to College street five thousand dollars For paving Maple street from Boundary to Hare wood avenue, ten thousand dollars; For paving Larch street from Boundary to Spruce street, five thousand dollars; For paving Fourteenth street from Yale street northward, twelve thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
For paving Brightwood avenue from Irving street northward, ten thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Kenesaw and Wallach streets, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For grading and regulating Howard avenue from Sixth street to Seventh street, two thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Lincoln avenue from Boundary to Bunker Hill road, ten thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Brightwood avenue from Rock Creek Church road to the District of Columbia line, ten thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Donated land.*Post*, p. 1067.*Provided*, That, sufficient land be donated on both sides of the avenue to make its width ninety feet; 299 For grading and regulating Pennsylvania avenue extended toward Suitland road, five thousand dollars;
For grading and regulating Nourse road, two thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Bunker Hill road from Harewood avenue to Queen’s Chapel road, five thousand dollars: For grading and regulating Connecticut avenue extended from Columbia road to Woodley road, five thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Brentwood road and Patterson avenue, five thousand dollars; For paving R street extended from Lincoln avenue to Fourth street, fifteen thousand dollars: For grading and regulating streets of Takoma Parks, ten thousand dollars:
For grading and regulating Anacostia road westward of Pennsylvania avenue extended, when widened, not exceeding ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That sufficient land be donated on both sides of*Proviso.*Donated land. said road to make its width ninety feet; For grading and regulating Naylor road from Anacostia road to District of Columbia line, two thousand five hundred dollars: For grading and regulating New Cut road, three thousand dollars; For grading and regulating California avenue from Columbia road to Massachusetts avenue, five thousand dollars;
For grading and regulating Sherman avenue from Boundary to Princeton streets, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That sufficient*Proviso*.Donated land. land be donated on both sides of the Avenue to make its width ninety feet. For grading and regulating North Capitol street extended, ten thousand doll rs; For grading and regulating First street west extended, two thousand five hundred dollars; For grading and regulating Eighteenth street extended between Boundary street and Columbia road, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For grading and regulating Laurel avenue, six hundred dollars; For grading and regulating Seventeenth street extended, two thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Ridge and Loughborough roads, five thousand dollars: in all. one hundred and seventy-eight thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Condemnation of Streets, Roads, and Alleys: For condemnationCondemnation of streets, etc. of streets, roads, and alleys, five thousand dollars. And authority is hereby conferred upon the Proprietors of Prospect Hill Cemetery to open North Capitol street extended through their grounds, to be approvedExtension of North Capitol street, through Prospect Hill Cemetery. by the commissioners of the District, and to convey to the District of Columbia the land necessary therefor without compensation, and said proprietors are also authorized to sell all or any part of saidProprietors may sell, and purchase grounds for cemetery elsewhere. cemetery grounds and invest the proceeds thereof in the purchase and improvement of suitable grounds for cemetery purposes elsewhere in the District, and the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Proprietors of Prospect Hill Cemetery.” approved June thirteenth,Vol. 12, p. 32, amended. eighteen hundred and sixty, is amended accordingly.
Sprinkling, Sweeping, and Cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping.Sweeping, etc. and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, one hundred thousand dollars. 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 300 lamps and lampposts damaged or unfit for service, one hundred and *Provisos*.Maximum cost, etc.twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty dollars per annum for each street lamp shall be paid for gas or oil lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning, under any expenditure provided tor in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than Contracts.two thousand six hundred hours per annum: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not be authorized to make any contract for gas or other illuminating material, in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, for any longer period than one year.
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 and two arc lights for Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, forty-six *Provisos*.Limit per light.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than sixty cents per 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 Overhead wires.and ninety, by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the cities of Washington and Georgetown:Report on contracts, etc. *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall investigate, ascertain, and report to the second session of the Fifty-first Congress what deduction may be made for gas and electric lighting, both for annual, five year, and for ten 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, construction, and maintenance of wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, including the purchase of a new boiler for boat, three 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 pumps and the filling of abandoned public wells, five thousand dollars.
Bridges, repairs, etc.Care of Bridges: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers. oil, lamps, and matches, five thousand dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges twenty thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars. Washington Aqueduct.Aqueduct. Engineering, etc.For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars. Land near distributing reservoir.For the purchase of five acre$ of land near the distributing reservoir, four thousand dollars.
Survey, drainage, etc.For the cost of a survey by a sworn surveyor, for removing the cattle-pens, clearing up and fencing the ground, for the works for controlling the drainage, and for other necessary improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars. Public Schools.Public Schools. Superintendents.For Officers: For superintendent first six divisions, two thousand seven hundred dollars; superintendent seventh and eighth Clerks, etc.divisions, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk to superintendent of first six divisions and secretary to board of trustees, 301 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.
For Teachers: For teachers, not to exceed seven hundred andTeachers. ninety-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-five dollars, five hundred and forty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars; and no increase in salaries paid to teachers in grades now receiving one thousand one 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, drawing, physical training, 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, physical training, 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 the Commissioners: *Provided*, That in assigning salaries*Proviso*.No discrimination. to teachers, no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers 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 ofEstimates. teachers required in 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-two.
For teachers of night schools, who may also be teachers in the dayNight schools. schools, six thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of night schools, six hundred dollars. For Janitors and Care of Buildings and grounds: For careJanitors, etc. of the high-school building and annex, two thousand 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, Miner, and Mott buildings, at eight hundred dollars each; of the Abbot, John F.
Cook, Randall, and Berrett 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, Twining, Smallwood. Adams, Jones, Arthur, Corcoran, Briggs. Lenox. Bell, McCormick, and five new buildings, thirty-three in all. at five hundred dollars each; of the Hillsdale
(old)Anacostia. Thompson, and Lovejoy buildings, at two hundred and fifty dollars each; of the Mount Pleasant, Potomac, Greanleaf, Hamilton Road, Chamberlain, High Street, Hillsdale
(new)Bennings (white) Bennings (colored), and Threlkeld buildings, at one hundred and sixty-five dollars each; for care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including Cooking schools, at a rate not to exceed forty-eight dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, four thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars; in all, forty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars. For rent of school buildings, and repair shop, ten thousand dollars.Rent. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds,Repairs. twenty two thousand dollars. 302 Tools, etc.For the purchase of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus, to he used in connection with instruction in manual training, ten thousand dollars. Fuel.Furniture.Contingent expenses.For fuel, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For furniture in new school buildings, ten thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing, insurance, and other necessary items, twenty-five thousand dollars. New buildings, etc.For erection and purchase of sites for four eight-room school buildings in the first, third, seventh, and eighth school divisions, respectively, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, For one new eight-room school building in Anacostia, twenty-five thousand dollars. For erection of colored high-school building, seventy-nine thousand dollars, in addition to unexpended amount appropriated for Vol. 25, p. 801, reappropdated.said building and site by act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, which unexpended amount is hereby reappropriated. For inclosing grounds of Arthur school building, three thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For purchase of grounds contiguous to school building on Twelfth street, near R, in square two hundred and seventy-six, for play grounds for said building, six thousand seven hundred and fifty *Proviso*.Cost limited to appropriations.dollars: *Provided*, The total cost of the several and respective sites and buildings herein provided for when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated for such purposes. Sites, etc., to be acquired by condemnation.Vol. 25, p. 357.That hereafter 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 “An act to authorize condemnation of land for sites for public buildings, and for other purposes,” for the condemnation of land for sites for school buildings, engine houses, and for police stations, and for the right of way for the construction, Procedure.maintenance, and repair of public sewers; 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 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 nine hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; nine lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; two hundred privates, class one. at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and sixty-five privates, class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; twenty station keepers, at seven hundred and 303 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 dollars; thirty 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; two assistant ambulance-drivers, at three hundred dollars each; ten drivers of patrol-wagons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four hundred and fifty four thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Miscellaneous: For rent of police headquarters and station atContingent expenses. Anacostia, one thousand two hundred dollars; For fuel, two thousand two hundred dollars; For repairs to stations, two thousand dollars; For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including stationery,Miscellaneous. 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, sixteen thousand dollars; For completion of the police signal and telephone system in theSignal and telephone system, etc. District of Columbia by the erection of overhead wires for the same in the fifth and eighth precincts, including horses, wagons, harness, and other necessary items, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand four hundred dollars. Buildings: For additional story to the fourth and sixth precinctBuildings, etc. station-houses, ten thousand dollars; For stables in the fifth and eighth precincts to accommodate horses and patrol-wagon, five thousand dollars; For appliances for heating water and drying in three station-houses, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; in all, fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five 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; eleven foremen, at one thousand dollars each: eight engineers, at one thousand dollars each; eight firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; three tillermen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twelve hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; seventy-six 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 and nine thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Miscellaneous: For repairs to engine-houses, three thousandMiscellaneous. dollars; For repairs to apparatus and new appliances, three thousand thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, three thousand dollars; For fuel, two thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of horses, three thousand six hundred dollars; For forage, five thousand five hundred dollars; For two aerial turntable trucks, seven thousand dollars; For contingent expenses, including office rent, horseshoeing, furniture,Cont in gent expenses. fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, 304 blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, eight thousand dollars; in all, thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars. New truck house.For purchase of site and erection of a truck house in a central location, and necessary furniture, twenty-two thousand dollars. Telegraph and Telephone Service.Telegraph and telephone service. For one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; three 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, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. 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 harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, eight thousand dollars. Underground wires, etc.Board of electrical, etc.. ejqierts, to be appointed.The President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint a board consisting of three persons, one of whom shall be an Army engineer, skilled in electrical matters, one a civil engineer, of known skill and experience in Municipal engineering, and one an expert *Proviso*.Limitations as to residence, etc.electrician of high repute: *Provided*, That not more than one member shall be a resident of the District of Columbia; and no member shall be in the employ of any electrical Company, or shall have any interest in the business or securities of such company, or be interested in any patent for any form of conduit or subway, or device Duties.pertaining thereto. The said board shall consider the location, arrangement and operation of electric wires in the District of Columbia, whether used, or to be used, for electric lighting, transmission of power, telegraphy, telephony, or signalling, with a view to Objects.securing, as soon as practicable, the construction of a safe and convenient system of conduits or subways, the placing therein of all necessary electric wires along the streets, avenues and other public spaces, and the removal of all unused overhead wires and their supports. To this end, the board, will, as soon as practicable, and not Report.later than December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, report to the President, who shall submit the same to the first session of the Fifty-second Congress, as follows: First. Complete system of subways, etc. Recommendations for a complete system of conduits or subways, with all suitable branches, connections, and appurtenances for the safe and efficient operation therein of the necessary cables and conductors; such recommendations shall be accompanied by maps, detailed drawings and estimates of cost. Second. Under public or private control, etc. Opinion as to whether the conduits or subways should be built, owned and operated by private corporations or individuals, subject to public control, or constructed and maintained by public authority, and leased to companies or individuals. If the latter, recommendation will be made as to the terms and conditions upon which such leases should be executed. Third. Construction, etc. Also recommendations concerning the construction, location. operation, and maintenance, of underground cables and conductors carrying currents of different intensities, with a view to promote the public safety, and to secure the most convenient and efficient use of such cables and conductors, and the appliances connected therewith. Fourth. Restrictions upon currents, etc. Recommendations as to the restrictions, if any, which should be imposed by law, upon the character and intensity of electric currents conveyed by conductors situated over or under the pub- 305lic streets, avenues, and spaces, and used for electric lighting, transmission of power, telegraphy, telephony, or signalling. Fifth. 5 Recommendations respecting the regulation of the arrangementOverhead wire regulation, etc. and use of authorized overhead wires. To meet the expenses of the said board there is hereby appropriatedExpenses of board. the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, that the officer detailed from the Corps of Engineers*Proviso*.Army engineer member. shall not receive any salary except that due to his rank. Health Department.Health department. For one health officer, three thousand dollars; six sanitary inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two food inspector’s, 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; for rent, one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; for collection and removal of garbage, twenty-two thousand dollars; in all, forty-seven thousand six hundred and sixty 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 eight hundred dollars: for witness fees, four thousand dollars; repairs of police court building, eight hundred dollars; 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; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars. For rent of property adjoining police court building for policeRent of adjoining property. court and other purposes, six hundred dollars: and the commissioners of the District may lease such property for a term not exceeding ten years. For constructing cells and otherwise improving said property,Constructing cells, etc. three thousand five hundred 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 executionLunacy writs. of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments made thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons committed, or sought to be 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 hundredVol. 19, p. 34. and seventy-seven, two thousand dollars. Compilation of the Laws of the District of Columbia: ForCommission on compilation of District Laws.Expenses, etc.Vol. 25, p. 872.Appropriation immediately available. clerical assistance and incidental expenses for the commission on the compilation of the laws of the District of Columbia, authorized by the act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for completion of the work, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available. 306 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. 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 *proviso*.Purchases limited to market price, etc.dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected. For Reformatories and Prisons.Reformatories and prisons. Transportation of prisoners, etc.Transportation of Paupers and Prisoners: For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, four thousand dollars. Washington asylum.For Washington Asylum: For one intendant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one matron, six hundred dollars; one visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; one resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; one baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; one overseer, at 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; three cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each: two cooks, at sixty dollars each; one trained nurse, four hundred and twenty dollars; four nurses, at sixty dollars each; one tailor, three hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses including improvements and repairs, 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-five thousand dollars. Female workhouse addition.For raising magazine building two stories and fitting it for female workhouse, twenty thousand dollars. Male workhouse additions.For constructing addition, with bathing appliances, at male workhouse, five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For new roof for male workhouse, five hundred and fifty dollars. For new ward, four thousand two hundred dollars. Burial grounds addition.That all of that portion of Reservation Thirteen lying six hundred feet east of the east curb line of Nineteenth street east and south of the south line of B street south be transferred to the control of the commissioners of the District of Columbia for the purpose of the burial of the indigent dead of the District, to be an addition to the present burial grounds of the Washington Asylum. Reform School.For Reform School: For one superintendent, one thousand five 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; one assistant 307 engineer, three hundred 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 eight hundred and ninety-six dollars. For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry-goods,Support of inmates, etc. 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 and draining, and permanently improving grounds, three hundred dollars. For painting buildings, five hundred dollars. *Provided*, That hereafter the proceeds of farm and shops shall be*Proviso*.Disposal of farm and shop proceeds. covered back into the Treasury, to be divided equally between the District of Columbia and the United States. 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, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For material for industrial labor and for necessary repairs, two thousand dollars. For small hospital building for the institution, five 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[R. S., sections 4544, 4850. pp. 930, 940](/us/rs/t/s4544/4850/pp930/940). and fifty of the Revised Statutes, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For Charities.Charities. For relief of the poor, sixteen thousand dollars.Relief of the poor.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 four hundred dollars; and from this sum the Commissioners may allot, not exceeding two thousand five hundredDistribution. 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 Hope and Help Mission, and not exceeding four hundred dollars to the Washington Night Lodging House Association. For the support and maintenance of the Columbia Hospital forColumbia Hospital. Women and Lying-in Asylum, twenty thousand dollars. For the Women’s Christian Association, four thousand dollars.Women’s Christian Association.Association, for destitute colored women, etc.Colored foundlings For the National Association for Destitute Colored Women and Children, ten thousand dollars. To enable said association to care for colored foundlings, two thousand dollars. For the Children’s Hospital, ten thousand dollars.Children’s Hospitals 308 Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum.German Orphan Asylum.Church Orphanage.For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, six thousand five hundred dollars. For the German Orphan Asylum, six thousand dollars. For maintenance of the Church Orphanage Association of Saint John’s Parish of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. Foundling Hospital.For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, for maintenance, seven thousand dollars. Association for Works of Mercy.For Association for Works of Mercy, for maintenance and repairs, two thousand dollars, and to complete purchase of lot, six thousand and forty-two dollars: in all, eight thousand and forty-two dollars. Homeopathic Hospital.For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington, District of Columbia, for maintenance, six thousand dollars; for payment of balance of purchase money, three thousand dollars; and for payment of floating indebtedness, three thousand dollars; in all twelve thousand dollars. National Temperfence Home.For maintenance of the National Temperance Home, two thousand five hundred dollars. Saint Rose Industrial School.For Saint Rose Industrial School, for payment of indebtedness and completion of building, two thousand five hundred dollars. House of the Good Shepherd.For House of the Good Shepherd, for maintenance, three thousand dollars. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital.For the erection and completion of a building for the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital on ground owned by the hospital on Fifteenth street, thirty thousand dollars. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from [R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/t/s4864/p942).from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Superintendent of chanties to be appointed.That for the purpose of securing a more equitable and efficient expenditure of the several sums appropriated “for charities” there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as soon as may be after the passage of this act, Qualifications.Designation.Duties and powers.some thoroughly experienced and otherwise suitable person, not a resident of the District of Columbia, to be designated superintendent of charities for the District of Columbia, whose duty it shall be to formulate for the purposes of the expenditures for charities in said District such a system or plan of organized charities for said District as will by means of consolidation, combination, or other direction, in his judgment, best secure the objects contemplated by the several institutions and associations for which such appropriations are made, and for the other charitable work of the District, with the least interference each with the other, or misapplication of effort or expenditure, and without duplication of charitable work or expenditure; and all such appropriations shall be expended for the purposes indicated, under the general direction of said superintendent, and Limitation.in conformity, as near as may be. with such system or plan, subject to the approval of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. And it shall also be the duty of said superintendent, to examine into the character of the administration of said institutions and associations, and the condition, sufficiency, and needs of the buildings occupied for such charitable purposes, and also to ascertain in each case the amount contributed from private sources for support and construction, the number of paid employees, and the number of inmates received and benefited by the sums appropriated Recommendations.by Congress, and to recommend such changes and modifications therein as in his judgment will best secure economy, efficiency, and the highest attainable results in the administration of charities in Reports.the District of Columbia. And said superintendent, shall from time to time, report in detail to the Commissioners of the District, who shall communicate the same with their estimates for appropriations 309 to the then next session of Congress, his doings hereunder, together with such estimates and recommendations for the future as in hisEstimates, etc. judgment will best promote the charitable work of the District. Said superintendent shall be entitled to a compensation at the rateCompensation, etc. of three thousand dollars a year, which sum is hereby appropriated, for this purpose, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and all estimates submitted hereunder shall be included in the regular annual Book of estimates. Militia of the District of Columbia.District militia. For rent, fuel, light, and care of armories: For eight battalions,Rent, etc., of armories. and for light battery and separate companies, ten thousand dollars; for headquarter offices, storerooms, band and drum-corps armories, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for rifle-gallery, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars. For lockers, gun-racks, and furniture for armories, one thousandLockers, etc. five hundred dollars. For printing blank forms and books of instruction, three hundred dollars. For printing orders and circulars, one hundred dollars. For music and horses for parades and inspections, eight hundredParade music, etc dollars. For cleaning, repairing, and altering uniforms, and for repairing arms and equipments, one hundred and fifty dollars. For expenditures for campgrounds, and for expenses of annualCamp-grounds, etc. encampment for six days namely: For repairs of roads, five hundred dollars. For building rifle-range, six hundred dollars. For repairing roofs, gutters, spouts, cisterns, and pumps in Fort Washington, for water supply, seven hundred dollars. For building and fitting up cookhouse, five hundred dollars. For building stable sheds, four hundred dollars. For roofing mess-sheds, two hundred dollars. For purchase of mess-furniture for one thousand five hundredMeas furniture, etc. men, one thousand five hundred dollars. For tent floors, five hundred dollars. For clearing and mowing grounds, two hundred dollars. For hire of cooks, waiters and laborers, four hundred and fifty dollars For ice, vegetables, milk and butter, three hundred dollars. For hire of horses, eight hundred and twenty dollars.Horses, music, etc: For music, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For incidental expenses, two hundred and fifty dollars. 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 Revenue and Inspection Branch: For one chief clerk, at oneRevenue and inspection branch.Clerks, etc. thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one clerk, at one thousand dollars: one inspector, at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; six inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger, at six hundred dollars: For distributionDistribution branch.Clerks, engineers,etc. Branch: For one superintendent, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars: one foreman, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars: one timekeeper, at eight hundred dollars: one assistant foreman, at nine hundred dollars; one tapper and machinist, at nine hundred dollars; one assistant tapper, at six hundred 310 dollars; four engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; one engineer (Sunday), at one hundred and fifty-six dollars; one blacksmith, at seven hundred and fifty dollars; two plumbers, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant machinists, at six hundred dollars each: one property-keeper, at six hundred dollars: six firemen, at seven hundred and thirty dollars each: two flushers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one driver, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one watchman, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one hostler, at four hundred eighty dollars; one caulker, at seven hundred and thirty dollars: and three laborers, at Limitation.five hundred dollars each; and for not to exceed at any time two inspectors on manufacture of cast-iron pipe, at a maximum rate of four dollars per day for such periods as their services may be actually necessary, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and seventy-two dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services two thousand five hundred dollars. Fuel, repairs, etc.For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in Mains, etc.repairing. replacing, raising and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting fireplugs and public hydrants, sixty-two Unexpended balance reappropriated.thousand dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation 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, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, which unexpended balance *Proviso*.New main.Repayment modified.Vol. 25, p. 337.is hereby reappropriated: *Provided*, That one-half the cost of laying the new water main from K street northwest along Fourteenth street to B street southwest, including necessary connections, as provided in the act approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be repaid from the revenues of the Water department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, and the other half from the revenues of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Interest and sinking funds.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 Vol.22.pa70.in the act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, thirty-one thousand eight hundred and nine dollars and forty-four cents. For sinking fund on account of increase of water-supply, under *Ibid*.act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, fifty-three thousand and fifteen dollars and seventy-four cents. Sec. 2. Limit of requisit ions Upon Treasury. 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-one than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates of said District, Sec. 3. Street railroad companies. changing motive power, etc.May issue stock, to cover cost. That any street railroad company in the District of Columbia authorized to run cars drawn by horses, which has changed or may change its motive power on any of its lines now constructed, to cable or electricity, or change its rails in accordance with the Sales at market price.provisions of law, shall have the right to issue and sell, at the market price thereof, stock of said company to an amount necessary to cover the cost of making said changes, the cost of said changes and the Sworn statement to be filed.amount of said stock sold, together with the price pei” share, to be fully set forth, under the oath of the President of said Company, and Companies accepting privilege must, dispense with horses in two years.filed with the Commissioners of the District. And any company availing itself of the privileges herein granted shall within two years, wholly dispense with horses as motive power on all portions of its Power to be substituted.line and substitute therefor the power provided for in the act making FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 724, 726. 1890.311 appropriations for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.Vol. 25, pp. 797.799. or pneumatic or other modern motive power which shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, butApproval of commissioners required.No overhead wires.Proviso. nothing in this act contained shall in any wise authorize the use of overhead appliances: *Provided*, That if any such company operating a line or lines of street railroad from Georgetown or West. Washington to and beyond the Capitol grounds shall fail to substitute forForfeiture of franchise on failure to comply. horse power the power herein provided for on all its lines within two years from the date of this act, such company shall forfeit its corporate franchises. Approved, August 6, 1890.