Chapter 171. 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-three, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 171.— 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-three, and for other purposes.July 14, 1892. *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 Half from District revenues.the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the 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-three, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES. for salaries and contingent expenses.Salaries, etc. For Executive Office: For two Commissioners, at five thousandExecutive office. dollars each, one Engineer Commissioner, one thousand seven hundred Commissioners, secretary, etc.and sixty-eight 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; 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; two laborers at three hundred and sixty dollars each, seven hundred and twenty 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; three assistant inspectors of plumbing, at one thousand dollars each; one harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, forty-five thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars. 151 For Assessor’s Office:
For one assessor, three thousand dollars:Assessor’s office. three assistant assessors, until January first, eighteen hundred andAssistant assessors to Jan. 1, 1893. ninety-three, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum each, who shall within the calendar year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, under the direction of the assessor of the District of Columbia, make the assessments of real property in said District for the triennial period beginning with the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and perform such other duties and have all the power and authority to do the things required of the twelve assessors under the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three,Vol. 22, p. 568. and perform such other duties as may be assigned to them by the assessor not inconsistent with existing law in the assessment of real and personal property; two assistant assessors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one special assessment clerk, one thousand seven hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk and draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three 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 assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For Collector’s Office: For one collector, four thousand dollars;Collector’s office. one cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. For Auditor’s Office: For one auditor, three thousand dollars;Auditor’s office. one chief clerk, 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; one disbursing clerk, one thousand five hundredDisbursing clerk. dollars, and the disbursing clerk is authorized to hereafter pay laborers and employees of the District of Columbia, and such paymentsPayments to employees. may be made with moneys advanced to him by the Commissioners in their discretion, upon pay rolls or other vouchers audited and approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and certified by the commissioners as now required by law.
Said pay rolls and other vouchers shall be included in the account of the Commissioners: *Provided*, That*Provisos*. he shall give bond to the United States, to the satisfactionBond. of the Commissioners, in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the benefit of the United States, the District of Columbia, the, Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all persons interested, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of his office; but said disbursing clerk shall be subordinate to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and they shall in every respect be responsible to the UnitedResponsibility of Commissioners.
States, the District of Columbia, and to individuals for the acts and doings of the said disbursing clerk: *Provided further*, That his accountsAccounts. shall be audited by the auditor of the District of Columbia, who shall promptly forward the same to the Commissioners for their approval; in all, sixteen thousand seven 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; in all, eight thousand six 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. 152 For Coroner’s Office: For one coroner, one thousandCoroner’s office. 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; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For Engineer’s Office: One chief clerk, one thousand nine hundredEngineer’s office. 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; two inspectors of lamps, at nine hundred dollars each; 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 draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; four 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; in all, forty-two thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.
Board of Examiners, Steam Engineers: For compensation forBoard of examiners, steam engineers. board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars. Sewer Division: For one superintendent of sewers, two thousandSewer division. four hundred dollars; one general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three axmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectors of property, at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars each; two sewer tappers, at one thousand dollars each; one permit clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant permit clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand five hundred and two dollars.
That overseers, inspectors, and other employees temporarily requiredTemporary overseers, etc. 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 from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said works; and the Commissioners of the District, in their annual report to Congress, shall report the number of such overseers, inspectors, and other employees, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation.
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall embrace inEstimates for all officers, etc., to be made. the estimates of appropriations for the support of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, estimates for all officers, overseers, inspectors, clerks, and other employees, except day laborers, other than those now specifically appropriated for, whom they deem to be necessary to an efficient and economical execution of the appropriations for which they may submit estimates for sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any other work, specifying the number of persons to be so employed, the office in which they would be employed, the period of employment, and the rate of compensation to each. 153 That the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia shall notRegister of Wills. after December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. retainAllowance for salary. of the fees and emoluments of his office for his personal compensation, over and above his necessary clerk hire and the incidental expenses of his office, certified to by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or by one of its Justices appointed by it for that purpose, and to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, a sum exceeding three thousand six hundred dollars a year, orRate. exceeding that rate for any time less than a year; and the surplus of such fees and emoluments shall be paid into the Treasury to the credit of the.
District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the number of clerks and*Provisos*. others employed in the office of the Register of Wills shall not beNo increase of clerks, etc. increased, except that additional copyists may be employed for temporary service as the necessities of the office may require, nor shall the salary or compensation of clerks and others, be increased beyond the salaries or compensation paid during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and nintyone: *Provided further*, That the Register of Wills may designate one of the employees in his office to be paid at not exceedingClerk to perform the duties of register. the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum out of such fees and emoluments, who shall be authorized hereafter in the necessary absence or inability of the Register, from any cause, to perform his duties without additional compensation.
That the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia shall not,Recorder of Deeds. after December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, retain ofAllowance for salary. the fees and emoluments of his office for his personal compensation, over and above his necessary clerk hire and the incidental expenses of his office, certified to by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, or by one of its Justices, appointed by it for that purpose, and to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, aRate. sum exceeding four thousand dollars a year, or exceeding that rate for any time less than a year; and the surplus of such fees and emoluments shall be paid into the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the number of clerks and others employed in the*Proviso*. office of Recorder of Deeds shall not be increased, except that additionalNo increase of clerks, etc. copyists may be employed for temporary service as the necessities of the office may require, nor shall the salary or compensation of clerks and others, be increased beyond the salaries or compensation paid during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the salary of the deputy recorder of deeds shall hereafter be one thousand eight hundredDeputy recorder. dollars per annum to be paid out of the tees and emoluments of said office of Recorder of Deeds.
Superintendent of Charities: For Superintendent of Charities,Superintendent of charities. three thousand 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, 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, office of superintendent of charities, health department, and police court, twenty-four thousand dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this act shall beUse of horses, etc. used only for official purposes. For contingent expenses of stables of the Engineer Department,Stables. including forage, livery of horses, shoeing, purchase and repair of 154 vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oil, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other 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.
For rent of District offices, three thousand six hundred dollars.Rent. For rent of property yards, three hundred dollars. For necessary expenses in the collection of overdue personal taxes byCollecting personal taxes. distraint and sale, or otherwise, and for other necessary items, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, theJudicial expenses. printing of briefs and witness tees in District cases before the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars.
For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors fees, removalCoroner’s expenses. of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice for morgue, and holding inquests, nine hundred and seventy-live dollars. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for taxAdvertising. and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, two thousand nine hundred dollars. That whoever, hot being a Senator or Representative in Congress, intends to present to CongressPetitions for incorporations to be published. a bill for an act of incorporation, or for an alteration or extension of the charter of a corporation in the District of Columbia, or of any special privileges in said District, shall give notice of such intention by publishing a copy of the bill at least once a week for four successive weeks, in a newspaper published in the District of Columbia, the last of said publications to be made at least fourteen days prior to the presentation of such bill.
Such newspaper shall be designated by the person proposing the bill and approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For advertising notice of taxes in arrear July first, eighteen hundredAdvertising notice of arrears of taxes. Vol. 26, p. 34. and ninety-one, as required to be given by act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, seven thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of one dollar and twenty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised.
The register of wills shall hereafter prepare papers in connectionEnlistment papers. with appointment of guardians to enable indigent boys to enlist in the United States Navy as provided by law, without making any charge therefor. To enable the assessor to continue account of arrears of taxes onArrears of taxes account. real property due the District of Columbia, including the payment of necessary clerical force, two thousand dollars. PERMIT WORK.Permit work. For the improvement and repair of alleys and sidewalks and theAlleys, sidewalks, and sewers. construction of sewers and sidewalks, of such form and materials as the Commissioners may determine, under the permit system, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. For work on sundry streets and avenues named in Appendix Cc,Streets and avenues. Book of Estimates, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely: Georgetown schedule, twenty-four thousand three hundred dollars.Allotment.
Northwest section schedule, ninety-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars. 155 Southwest section schedule, thirty-six thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars. Southeast section schedule, fifty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars Northeast section schedule, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and six dollars: *Provided*, That the streets and avenues shall be completed in the*Proviso*. order in which they appear in said schedules, except High street, soOrder of precedence. far as the amount of money herein appropriated shall suffice for the work, and one-half of the cost of widening High street named in the High street, Georgetown.
Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway Company to pay one-half cost of widening.Georgetown schedule shall be charged to the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway Company of the District of Columbia and collected from said company in the same manner as the cost of laying down pavements, sewers, and other works, or repairing the same, lying between the exterior rails of the tracks of street railways, and for a distance of two feet from and exterior to such track or tracks on each side thereof, are collectible under the provisions of section five of the Vol. 20, p. 106.act entitled “An act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia, approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight”; and the act of August twenty-second, eighteen hundredVol. 25, p. 447. and eighty-eight, entitled “ An act to incorporate the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway Company of the District of Columbia,” is hereby altered and amended so as to authorize and require such charge and collection.
That under appropriations contained in this act no contract shall beLimit for concrete pavements. 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: *Provided*, That these conditions as to*Proviso*. price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, inIncrease for certain streets. 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 the purchase ofGrading. horses, cars, carts, or the hire of the same, to be used by prisoners and inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, two thousand dollars. Repairs to Pavements: For repairs to concrete pavements withRepairs pavements. the same or other not inferior material, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Plats of Subdivisions Outside of Washington and Georgetown:Subdivision surveys. 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 conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within theVol. 25, p. 451.
District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, four thousand dollars. sewers.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, forty-five thousandCleaning, etc. dollars. For replacing obstructed and insufficient sewers, twenty-five thousandReplacing. dollars. For main and pipe sewers, seventy-five thousand dollars.Main and pipes. For commencing the construction of a main intercepting sewer as aNew main. part of, and in accordance with, the general plan for sewers recommended by the Board of Sanitary Engineers, appointed by the President of the United States, pursuant to the provisions of an act of CongressVol. 25, p. 799. approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and whose report is published in House Executive Document Numbered Four 156 hundred and forty-five, first session, Fifty-first Congress, to run from the Potomac River near Easbys Point to near the intersection of Fifteenth *Provisos*.and E streets northwest, ninety thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Contract.Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to enter into contract for the construction of the whole of the said sewer, at a cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law.
And the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to construct the said sewer where necessary across lands and reservations belonging to the United States: *Provided*, That after the construction of the said Restoration of excavations.sewer the excavated portions of the said lands and reservations shall be restored to their original condition from the appropriations herein Plans.provided for: *Provided further*, That the detailed plans for said sewer shall be approved by a consulting civil and sanitary engineer, who shall be selected by the President for that purpose, and whose services shall be paid for from this appropriation at a rate to be fixed by the President.
For suburban sewers, sixty-five thousand dollars.Suburban. For gauging sewers and rainfall, two thousand five hundred dollars.Gaunging. For condemnation of rights of way for the construction, maintenance,Rights of way. and repairs of public sewers, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. STREETS.Streets. Repairs Streets, Avenues, and Alleys: For current work ofRepairs, streets, etc. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, forty thousand dollars.
Repairs County Roads: For current work of repairs of countyRepairs, roads, etc. roads and suburban streets, fifty thousand dollars. Construction of Counts Roads: For construction of countyConstructing county roads, etc. roads and suburban streets, as follows: For Pennsylvania avenue toward Bowen road, fifteen thousand dollars; For Steuben street, six thousand dollars; For Sixteenth street extended, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to expend in improving Sixteenth street northwest, extended, from Boundary to Morris street, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of seventeen thousand dollars, appropriated for said street by Vol. 26, p. 1067.the “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-two, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one: and said balance shall become immediately available.
For Quarry road, four thousand dollars. For the extension of Kenesaw avenue to the Zoological Park, fourKenesaw avenue. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall *Proviso*.be expended until the owners of the land shall dedicate a Dedication by owners.street at least ninety feet wide for said purpose, nor until a street is dedicated by the owners of the land sixty feet wide from Quarry road around the east side of the Zoological Park to the Rock Creek National Park and connecting said Quarry road with Kenesaw avenue extended;
That the ten thousand dollars appropriated by the act of MarchStreet connecting Columbia road with Connecticut avenue. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for graveling the street connecting Columbia Road with Connecticut Avenue extended, and thence along said avenue to the District Line, shall be used for regulating and macadamizing the same; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to contract for regulating and *Proviso*.macadamizing said street and avenue forthwith: *Provided*, That the Assessment on abutting property.excess of cost for the same above ten thousand dollars shall be assessed upon the property fronting on said street and avenue in proportion to 157 the number of front feet of each lot or parcel of land so fronting; such assessment shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes are collected on real estate in the District of Columbia.
All contracts for such grading and macadamizing of said street and avenue in excess of the ten thousand dollars heretofore appropriated as aforesaid shall be made payable and be paid out of the money derived from the taxes to be collected as herein provided. For Harewood road (widening, grading, and extending to Bates road),Harewood road. five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That there is dedicated to the District*Provisos*. of Columbia enough of the abutting land on each side of said HareDedication of abutting land wood road to make said road ninety feet wide (the cost of removing and rebuilding the Soldiers’ Home east gate lodge, and the fencing, to be paid for out of said appropriation); and the board of commissioners of the Soldiers’ Home is hereby authorized to dedicate its share of the abutting land, and to allow the said road to be so widened, graded, and improved where it abuts on the Soldiers’ Home grounds: *Provided further*, That the extension to the Bates road shall be dedicated alongDates road. such line as may be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia: *And provided further*, That nothing herein contained shallException. apply to that portion of the Harewood road between the Soldiers’ Home and the National Cemetery.
For Linden street, from Pomeroy to College, five thousand dollars; in all, fifty thousand five hundred dollars. Condemnation of Streets, Roads, Alleys: For condemnationCondemnation of streets. etc. of streets, roads, and alleys, two thousand five hundred dollars: *And provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia*Proviso*. be and they are hereby authorized and directed to open by condemnationOpening of Thirty-seventh street. and extend Thirty-seventh street between Back street and Tennhllytown road, so called, at or near Schneider Lane, so soon as the ground necessary therefor shall have been donated for that purpose, or money to pay for such ground shall have been provided and paid into the Treasury of the United States.
Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping,Sweeping, etc. and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, one hundred and ten 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 public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys, and for purchasing and erecting new lampposts and lanterns, moving lampposts, painting lampposts and lanterns, and replacing lamp posts and lanterns damaged or unlit for service, one hundred and forty-one thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty-one*Provisos*. dollars and fifty cents per annum for each street lamp shall be paid forMaximum cost. gas or oil. lighting, extinguishing, repairing and cleaning, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum: *Provided*, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a self-regulatingRegulators. burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour.
For electric lighting, including necessary expenses of inspection, onElectric, lighting. one or more of the principal streets in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, maintaining existing service, and necessary extensions, fifty-nine thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That not more than*Proviso*. fifty cents per night shall be paid for any electric are light burningMaximum cost. every night from sunset to sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wires; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candle power, and no part of this appropriation shall 158 be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or overOverhead wires. any of the streets or a venues of the cities of Washington and Georgetown.
Harbor and River Front: For the improvement and protectionHarbor front. 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, two thousand six hundred dollars. For Public Scales: For repair and replacement of public scales,Scales. one hundred dollars. For Public Pumps: For the purchase, replacement, and repair ofPumps. public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells and filling abandoned public wells, five thousand dollars.
Care of Bridges: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers,Bridges. oil, lamps, and matches, five thousand dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, fourteen thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company to repair M street bridge.dollars. That the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company is hereby required to repair the bridge across Rock Creek at M. street northwest at a cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars, said repairs to be made under the direction of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia and in accordance with plans and specifications to be prepared by him.
Washington Aqueduct.Aqueduct. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars.Engineering. etc. Public Schools.Public schools. For Officers: For superintendent first six divisions, three thousandSuperintendents. clerks, etc. three hundred dollars; superintendent seventh and eighth divisions, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk to superintendent of first six divisions and secretary to board of trustees, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to superintendent of seventh and eighth divisions, eight hundred dollars; messenger to superintendent first six divisions, three hundred dollars: messenger to superintendent seventh and eighth divisions, two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand and fifty dollars.
For Teachers: For eight hundred and ninety-five teachers to beTeachers. assigned as follows: For one, at two thousand five hundred dollars; For eleven, at two thousand dollars each; For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; For ten, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For four, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; For eleven, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For four, at one thousand one hundred dollars each;
For forty-one at one thousand dollars each; For fifteen, at nine, hundred and fifty dollars each: For fifteen, at nine hundred dollars each; For nine, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For sixteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For fifty-five, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For eighteen, at eight hundred dollars each; For sixty-eight, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For thirty-two, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each:
For ninety, at seven hundred dollars each; For four at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For ninety-three, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For seven, at six hundred dollars each; For two, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and four, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For three, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For ninety, at five bundled dollars each; 159 For thirty-six, at four hundred and seventy-five dollars each;
For thirty-four, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; For fifty-six, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each: For sixty-one, at four hundred dollars each; in all, six hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers, no discrimination*Proviso*. No discrimination. 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 dayNight schools. schools, six thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. For Janitors and Care of Buildings and Grounds: For careJanitors, etc. of the high-school building and annex, two thousand dollars; of the Jefferson building, one thousand four hundred dollars; of the Eastern high school building of the first six divisions, of the high-school building of the seventh and eighth divisions, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; of the Stevens and Franklin buildings, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; of the Peabody, Force, Seaton, Henry, Webster, Gales, Wallach, Garnett, Sumner, Grant, Curtis, and Dennison buildings, at nine hundred dollars each; of the Lincoln and Mott buildings, at eight hundred dollars each; of the Abbott, John F.
Cook, Randall, and Berrett buildings, at seven hundred dollars each; of the Amidon, Addison, Cranch, Morse, Brent, Baunaker, Blair, Wormley, Anthony Bowen, Maury. Weightman, Bradley, Blake, Carberry, Giddings, Towers, Magruder, Phelps, Twining, Smallwood, Adams, Jones, Arthur, Corcoran, Briggs, Lenox, Bell, McCormick, Madison, Jackson, Monroe, Garrison, Ambush, Phillips, Slater, Logan, Tyler, Van Buren, Harrison, Polk, Wilson, and Taylor buildings, forty-two in all, at five hundred dollars each; of the Hillsdale, Anacostia, Thompson and Lovejoy buildings at two hundred and fifty dollars each; of the Mount Pleasant, Potomac, Greenleaf, Hamilton Road, High Street, Birney, Bennings (white), Bennings (colored), Threlkeld, Brightwood, Tennallytown, and Brookland buildings, at one hundred and sixty five dollars each; for care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual-training schools, wherever located, 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, fifty-one thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For rent of school buildings, and repair shop, twelve thousand dollars.Rent. For repairs and improvements to school building and grounds, twenty-sixRepairs. thousand dollars. For the purchase of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus, to beTools, etc. used in connection with instruction in manual training, eight thousand dollars. For fuel, thirty thousand dollars.Fuel. For furniture for new school buildings, one thousand six hundred Furniture.dollars. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing,Contingent expenses. insurance, and other necessary items, thirty thousand dollars.
For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first sixFree school books, etc. grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the Superintendent of Public, Schools under regulations to be made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, thirty-five thousand dollars. For one eight-room building and site in fifth division, thirty-fiveBuildings. thousand dollars.
For addition to colored school building in sixth division, at Burrville, one thousand dollars. For iron stairways in Wallach school building, two thousand dollars. 160 *Provided*, That the total cost of the site and of the several and respective*Proviso*. Limit of cost. 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.
That the plans and specifications for each of said buildings, and forApproval of plans. 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. The Commissioner of Education is hereby authorized and directed Examination by Commissioner of Education.to examine and report to Congress, on the first day of its next session, on the schools of the District of Columbia, as respects their organization, efficiency, methods, and cost, and, with said report, make such recommendations as to him may seem advisable; and for this service he shall receive five hundred dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, as compensation in addition to the compensation now received by him.
For Metropolitan Police.Police. For one major and superintendent, three thousand three hundredSalaries. 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; tour surgeons for the police and fire departments, at five hundred and forty dollars each; for additional compensation for twelve privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, two thousand eight hundred and eighty 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 and twenty privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and seventy privates, class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; twenty station keepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eight laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer who shall have charge of the morgue, six hundred and eighty dollars; 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-eight lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two bun died 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; thirteen drivers of patrol wagons at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four hundred and eighty-two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
That hereafter, the police shall, as far as practicable, aid in the enforcementEnforcing garbage regulations. of the garbage regulations. Miscellaneous: For rent of police headquarters and station atMiscellaneous. Anacostia, one thousand two hundred dollars; For fuel, two thousand dollars; For repairs to stations, two thousand dollars; For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including stationery,Contingent expenses. books, telegraphing, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bedclothing, 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 seven hundred 161 and fifty dollars;
In all, twenty-two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Buildings: For stable for ambulances and horses on ground nowStable. owned by the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars. For the Fire Department.Fire Department. For one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one fireSalaries. 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.
For the following additional force from the first day of January,Additional force from Jan. 1, 1893. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, namely: One foreman, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; one engineer, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; one hostler, at the rate of eight hundred and forty dollars per annum; six privates, at the rate of eight hundred dollars each per annum; in all, seven thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Miscellaneous: For repairs to engine houses, three thousand dollars;Miscellaneous.
For repairs to apparatus, and new appliances, three 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 exchanging engine, four thousand dollars; For one new engine, and house and lot for same, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing,Contingent expenses. oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, eight thousand dollars;
In all, sixty-one thousand one hundred dollars. Telegraph and Telephone Service.Telegraph and telephone service. For one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; oneSalaries. electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; three telegraph opera tors, 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.
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, 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. For new instruments for Fourth and Ninth precincts, two thousandNew instruments. seven hundred dollars. 162 Health Department.Health department.
For one health officer, three thousand dollars; eight sanitary andSalaries. food inspectors, who shall also be charged with enforcement of garbage regulations, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of marine products, one thousand two hundred dollars; for one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars, and the chief clerk shall hereafter act as a deputy to the health officer; 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 poundmaster, 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; in all, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent, one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.Miscellaneous. For chemical laboratory for food inspection, eight hundred dollars.Laboratory. For collection and removal of garbage and dead animals, twenty-fourGarbage. thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of Additional for using steel tanks, etc.the District of Columbia may, in their discretion, allow, in addition to the above sum, two thousand five hundred dollars in case said garbage is removed in inclosed steel tanks and immediately destroyed, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose.
For the enforcement of the provisions of an act entitled “An act toScarlet fever and diphtheria. prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Vol. 26, p. 692.Columbia,” approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, four thousand dollars. Courts.Courts. For the Police Court: For two judges, at three thousand dollarsPolice court. each; compensation of two justices of the peace acting as judges of the police court during the absence of said judges, not exceed in three hundred dollars each; one clerk, two thousand dollars; one deputy clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one deputy clerk, one thousand dollars; three bailiffs, at three dollars per day each; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one doorkeeper, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, fifteen thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
Miscellaneous: For United States marshal’s fees, one thousandMiscellaneous. four dollars; For witness fees, six thousand dollars; For repairs of police-court building, eight hundred dollars; For rent of property adjoining police-court building for police court and other purposes, six hundred dollars; For additional story to the police-court building, fourteen thousand dollars; For compensation for jury, eight thousand dollars; in all, thirtyJurors. thousand eight hundred dollars.
Writs of Lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionLunacy writs. of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments 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 hundred and seventy-seven, two thousand dollars. Compilation of the Laws of the District of Columbia:
ForCompiling laws. clerical assistance and incidental expenses for the commission on the compilation of the laws of the District of Columbia, authorized by the Vol. 25, p. 872.act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for 163 completion of the work, six hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Interest and Sinking Fund.Interestand 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 dollars: *Provided*, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in*Proviso*. this act no more than the market price shall be paid for any suchPurchases. articles, and all bids for any such articles above the market price shall be rejected.
For Reformatories and Prisons.Reformatories and prisons. Support of Convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-one thousand dollars. Transportation of Paupers and Prisoners: For transportationTransporting prisoners. etc. of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, four thousand dollars. 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, nine 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; four cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each: two cooks, at sixty dollars each; one trained nurse, four hundred and twenty dollars; five nurses, at sixty dollars each; one tailor, three hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs, provisions,Contingent expenses. fuel, forage, lumber, shoes, clothing, dry goods, hardware, medicines, repairs to tools, ears, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, painting and other necessary items and services, forty-five thousand dollars. For addition to kitchen and cooking appliances, three thousand dollars. For finishing new barn, five hundred dollars. For additional boiler and enlarging boilerhouse at female workhouse, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For Reform School: For superintendent, one thousand five hundredReform school. 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; three foremen of workshops, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; one assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at three hundred dollars each: laundress, one hundred and eighty dollars; two dining-room servants, seamstress, and chambermaid, at one 164 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, fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, drySupport of inmates. goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, tableware, furniture, farm implements and seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting and glazing, medicines and 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 Support of the Insane.Support of insane. For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District as provided in R. S., secs. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 940.sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, ninety-four thousand seven hundred dollars. For Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.Deaf and dumb. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb personsSupport in Columbia Institution. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the R.
S., sec. 4864, p. 942.District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and all disbursements for this object shall be accounted for through the Department of the Interior. For Charities.Charities. For relief of the poor, fourteen thousand dollars.Relief of the poor. For a municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, four thousandMunicipal lodging house, etc. dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Commissioners of the District are authorized to employ a superintendent of the same and to rent or otherwise secure suitable premises for carrying on the work.
For temporary support of indigent persons, male and female, to beTemporary support. expended in such manner as the Commissioners of the District may deem best, five thousand four hundred dollars; and from this sum the Distribution.Commissioners may allot not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars to the Board of Managers 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 exeeding one thousand to the Hope and Help Mission, and not exceeding four hundred dollars to the Washington Night Lodging House Association.
For the Woman’s Christian Association, maintenance, four thousand dollars.Woman’s Christian Association. For the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, maintenance,Columbia Hospital. twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That as *Proviso*.vacancies occur among the trustees, other than members of Trustees.Congress, they shall be filled by the District Commissioners. For the Children’s Hospital, maintinance, ten thousand dollars.Children’s Hospital. For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintinance, fourEmergency Hospital. thousand five hundred dollars.
For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington,Homeopathic Hospital. District of Columbia, for maintenance, seven thousand dollars. For the Church Orphanage Association of Saint John’s Parish, maintenance,Church Orphanage. two thousand dollars. 165 For the German Orphan Asylum, maintenance, two thousand dollars.German Orphan Asylum. For the National Association for Destitute Colored Women and Children.Association for Destitute Colored Women, etc. maintenance, ten thousand dollars.
To enable said association to care for colored foundlings, three thousand dollars. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, maintenance, six thousand five hundredSaint Ann’s Infant Asylum. dollars. For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, maintenance, sixFoundling Hospital. thousand dollars. For Association for Works of Mercy, maintenance, two thousandAssociation for Works of Mercy. dollars. For maintenance of the National Temperance Home, two thousandNational Temperance Home. dollars.
For House of the Good Shepherd, maintenance, three thousand dollars.House of the Good Shepherd. For Saint Joseph’s Asylum, maintenance, two thousand dollars.Saint Joseph’s Asylum. For the Women’s Union Christian Association, maintenance, twoWomen’s Union Christian Association. hundred and fifty dollars. That in all cases where members of Congress or Senators are appointedService of Members or Senators as trustees. to represent Congress on any Board of Trustees or Board of Directors of any corporation or institution to which Congress makes any appropriation, the terms of said members or Senators as such trustee or director shall continue until the expiration of two months after the first meeting of the Congress chosen next after their appointment.
For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance, includingIndustrial Home School. construction of fire escape, thirteen thousand dollars. Reform School for Girls: For the erection and completion, accordingGirls’ reform school. to plans and specifications to be prepared by the inspector ofConstruction. buildings and approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, of a suitable building or buildings, to be used as a reform school for girls, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of said Commissioners.
Said building shall be erected on land belonging to the United States to be selected by the Attorney-General, the Secretary of War, and the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That if, in their judgment, a suitable*Provisos*. site can not be obtained on lands now owned by the United States, notSite. exceeding five thousand dollars of the sum herein appropriated may be used for the purchase of not exceeding twenty acres of ground, to be selected by them, on which to erect said Reform School for Girls: *Provided further*, That said building shall not be erected on land belongingNot to be built on Reform School land. to the Reform School of the District of Columbia.
For the Saint Rose Industrial School, maintenance, five thousandSaint Rose Industrial School. dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the educationEducation of feeble-minded children. of feeble-minded children belonging to the District of Columbia, as provided for in the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, four thousand three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as mayVol. 21, p. 275. be necessary. Militia Of The District Of Columbia.District militia.
For the following to be expended under the authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, namely: For rent, fuel, light, care, and repair of armories, fourteen thousandRent, etc. dollars. For current expenses, namely: For lockers, gun racks, and furnitureCurrent expenses. for armories, one thousand dollars. For printing and stationery, three hundred dollars. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, one hundred and fifty dollars. 166 For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, nine hundred dollars.
For expenses of drills and parades, one thousand two hundred dollars. For expenses of rifle practice and matches, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars. Limit.And no contract shall be made or liability incurred under appropriations for the militia of the District of Columbia beyond the sums herein appropriated. National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic.National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic.
Expenses. For the proper and legitimate expenses attending the reception and entertainment of such honorably discharged Union soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the War of the Rebellion as may attend, as delegates or otherwise, the twenty-sixth national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and attending the preparation for such reception and entertainment, ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may From District revenues.
Condition.be necessary, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, after a fund of fifty thousand dollars, subscribed by the citizens of the District of Columbia for the foregoing purposes, shall have been paid and exhausted under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. The sum hereby appropriated shall be paid to, and be disbursed by,Disbursements. the citizens’ executive committee, of Washington, having in charge such reception and entertainment, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, who shall report to Congress at its next session, in detail, the purposes for which said sum was expended; and the Use of reservations, etc.Secretary of War is hereby authorized to grant permits for the use of any reservation, or other public space, in the city of Washington, for reunion or camp purposes connected with such encampment, and which in his opinion will inflict no serious or permanent injury upon such reservation or other public space; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may designate for such or other purposes such streets, avenues, and sidewalks in the District as they may deem proper and necessary therefor.
Water Department.Water Department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsFrom water revenues. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: For Revenue and Inspection Branch: For one chief clerk, one thousandRevenue and inspection branch. five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand Salaries.dollars each; one chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; six inspectors at nine Distribution branch.hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars.
For Distribution Branch: For one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one timekeeper, eight hundred dollars: one assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; one tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; one assistant tapper, six hundred dollars: four steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; extra steam engineer’s services for such times as may be actually necessary on account of sickness, leave of absence and Sundays, not to exceed five hundred and forty dollars; one blacksmith, seven hundred and fifty dollars; two plumbers, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each: two assistant machinists, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; one property keeper, six hundred dollars; six firemen, at seven hundred and thirty dollars each; two flushers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one driver, four hundred and 167 eighty dollars; one watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; one hostler, four hundred and eighty dollars; one caulker, seven hundred and thirty dollars; and three laborers, at 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 and fifty cents per day for such periods as their services may be actually necessary, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-one thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, forage, Contingent expenses.advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipeFuel, repairs, etc. distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs and public hydrants, ninety thousand dollars.
For interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thousandInterest. six hundred and ten dollars. For interest on account of increasing the water supply as providedVol. 22, p. 170. in the act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, twenty-three thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty-seven cents. For sinking fund on account of increase of water supply under actSinking fund. of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, forty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-four cents.
For first year’s interest on one-half of the cost of the forty-eight Interest forty-eight inch and Fourteenth street mains.inch and Fourteenth street mains, eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and thirty-eight cents. For first installment in repayment of one-half the cost of the forty-eightRepayment, forty-eight inch and Fourteenth street mains. inch and Fourteenth street mains, eleven thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty-one cents. For extending the high-service system of water distribution, to includeExtending high service system. all necessary land, machinery, buildings, standpipes, mains, and appurtenances, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated; and theRight of way.
Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the land, including necessary portions of public roads, required for the said extension, and the right of way, where necessary, for the construction, maintenance, and repair of the requisite water mains and their appurtenances for said extension. Sec. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions uponLimit of requisitions upon Treasury. the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District.
Sec. 3. That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby directedSurplus revenue to pay balance, increase of water supply, etc. and authorized to apply such portion as may be deemed expedient of any surplus which may remain at the close of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and of each fiscal year thereafter, of the general revenues of the District of Columbia in excess of one half of those appropriations payable equally out of the revenues of the District and the United States, exclusive of the revenues of the water department, to the payment of the balances yet remaining unpaid of the debts of the District of Columbia created by the act approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An act to increase the waterVol. 22, p. 170. supply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes,” and of section two of the District of Columbia appropriation act approved MarchVol. 26, p. 1078. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one: *Provided*, That the amount of said surplus shall be first reported to the Commissioners of the District 168 of Columbia and the Treasurer of the United States by the First Comptroller of the Treasury when called upon to do so.
Approved, July 14, 1892.