Chapter 232. 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-five, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 232.— 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-five, and for other purposes.August 7, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia appropriations.Half from District revenues. 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 the purposes following, being 244 for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. for salaries and contingent expenses.Salaries, etc. For Executive Office: For two Commissioners, at five thousandExecutive office.Commissioners, Secretary, etc. dollars each; one Engineer Commissioner,one thousand seven hundred 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, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty 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; two assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand dollars each; and one of the assistant inspectors of buildings shall hereafter also perform the duties of inspector of elevators and fire escapes, without additional compensation; 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; one steam engineer, nine hundred dollars; one property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one deputy property clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger clerk, six hundred dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; three watchmen, at lour hundred and eighty dollars each; one chief inspector of plumbing, two thousand dollars; four assistant inspectors of plumbing, at one thousand dollars each; one harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, *Proviso*.Redemption of scrip certificates allowed.forty-six thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars: *Provided*, That the accounting officers of the Treasury, in the settlement of the accounts of Josiah Dent, Thomas P.
Morgan, and William J. Twining, late commissioners of the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized and directed to credit and allow audit numbered fifteen thousand and seventy-seven, made in favor of John F. Cook, collector of the District of Columbia, October seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, for four thousand and seventy-nine dollars and seventy cents, on account of the redemption of special tax scrip certificates numbered, respectively, eight hundred and nineteen, nine hundred and fourteen, nine Delivery to owner.hundred and twenty-six, and nine hundred and twenty-eight: *And provided further*, That in crediting and allowing said audit fifteen thousand and seventy-seven, as aforesaid, no money on account thereof shall be paid out of the Treasury of the United States, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to deliver the said special tax scrip certificates to Isaac S.
Lyon, the owner thereof. For Assessor’s Office: For one assessor, three thousand dollars;Assessor’s office.*Post*, pp. 282, 285. 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-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For Collector’s Office: For one collector, four thousand dollars;Collector’s office. one cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, 245one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four bundled dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk and messenger, one thousand dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, fourteen 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, atone thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one disbursing clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seventeen 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 six hundred dollars; one law clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, two hundred dollars: in all, nine thousand 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 tour hundred dollars.
For Coroner’s Office: For one coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars.Coroner’s office. 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: Record division: One chief clerk, oneEngineer’s office.Record division. thousand nine 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 clerk, six hundred dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each;
Surface division: Computing engineer, two thousand four hundredSurface division. dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand live hundred dollars each; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of streets, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant inspectors of streets, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of county roads, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of parking, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of parking, seven hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars;
Subsurface division: One inspector of asphalt and cements, twoSubsurface division. thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; one assistant inspector of gas and meters, one thousand dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; one superintendent of lamps, one thousand dollars; three inspectors of gas and electric lighting, at nine hundred dollars each; one inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; one superintendent of sewers, two thousand 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 chainmen,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 246 forty dollars; in all, sixty-seven thousand one hundred and thirty-two *Proviso*.Engineer assistants.Vol. 20, p. 107.dollars; *Provided*, That the last clause of section live of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
The President of the United States Three authorized.may detail from the Engineer Corps of the Army not more than three officers, junior to the engineer officer belonging to the Board of commissioners of said District, to act as assistants to said Engineer commissioner in the discharge of the special duties imposed upon him by the provisions of this Act. 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.
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 work; and the Commissioners of the Report.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.
Superintendent of Charities: For superintendent of charities,Superintendent of charities. three thousand dollars; messenger to the superintendent, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia,Contingent expenses. 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 the 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 the superintendent of charities, including rent, harbor master, health department, and police court, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; and the Commissioners shall so *Proviso*.Use of horses, etc.apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall be 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 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, five thousand five hundred 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 five hundred dollars. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, theJudicial expenses. printing of briefs and witness fees in District cases before the court of appeals 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, disinfectants, and other 247 necessary supplies for the morgue, and holding inquests, and photographing unidentified bodies, one thousand dollars. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for taxAdvertising. and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, one thousand nine hundred dollars. - For advertising notice of taxes in arrear July first, eighteen hundredNotices of arrears of taxes.Vol. 26, p. 24. and ninety-four, us required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, twelve thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of one dollar and twenty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised.
To enable the assessor to continue account of arrears of taxes on realArrears of taxes account. property due the District of Columbia, including the payment of necessary clerical force, two thousand dollars. For additions arid repairs to Georgetown market house, six thousandGeorgetown market house. five hundred dollars. Plats of Subdivisions outside of Washington and Georgetown:Surveys and plat of outside subdivisions. To pay the expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to enable the Commissioners of the District to determine whether plats of subdivisions of land within said District offered for record have been made in conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land withinVol. 25, p. 451. the District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Extension of Highways: To pay the expenses of preparing a planExtension of highways. for the extension of a permanent system of highways in conformity with the “Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of theVol. 27, p. 532.From District revenues. District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, six thousand dollars; to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Report, etc., by Fred crick Law Olmsted. of the above-named sum three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the preparation of sketch-plans and report by Frederick Law Olmsted, on the extension of the streets and avenues of the District of Columbia.
ASSESSMENT AND PERMIT WORK. For assessment and permit work, one hundred and sixty-five thousandAssessments and permit work. dollars, and a sufficient amount of this appropriation may be applied to and expended for the immediate removal of the parking, except trees, and paving the space, in the center of New York avenue,New York avenue. between Ninth and Tenth streets, and one-half the cost thereof shall be assessed against the abutting property and collected as herein provided for assessment and permit work: *Provided*, That hereafter the commissioners*Proviso*.Work necessary to health, etc.Vol. 26, p. 206. of the District of Columbia are authorized and empowered, whenever in their judgment the public health, safety, or comfort require it, or whenever application shall be made therefor, accompanied byApplications. a deposit equal to one-half the estimated cost of the work, to improve and repair alleys and sidewalks, and to construct sewers and sidewalks in the District of Columbia of such form and materials as they may determine, and to pay the total cost of such work from appropriations for assessment and permit work.
Said Commissioners shall give notice by advertisement, twice a weekAdvertisements of work proposed. for two weeks in some newspaper published in the city of Washington, of any assessment work proposed to be done by them under this Act, designating the location and the kind of work to be done, specifying the kind of materials to be used, the estimated cost of the. improvement, and fixing a time and place when and where property-owners to be assessedHearings. can appear and present objections thereto, and for hearing thereof.
One-half of the total cost of the assessment work herein providedAssessment of cost. for, including the expenses of the assessment, shall be charged against and become a lien upon abutting property, and an assessment therefor 248 shall be levied pro rata according to the linear frontage of said property. Payment of one-half of cost.One-half of the cost of the assessment work done under the provisions of this Act shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia., as follows:
One-third of the amount within sixty days after Interest.service of notice of such assessment, without interest; one-third within one year, and the remainder within two years from the date of such service Notice.of notice, and interest shall be charged at the rate of eight per centum per annum from the date of service of such notice on all amounts which shall remain unpaid at the expiration of sixty days after service of notice of such assessment, which in all cases shall be served upon each lot owner, if ho or she be a resident of the District, and his or her residence known, and if he or she be a nonresident of the District, or his or her residence unknown, such notice shall be served on his or her tenant or agent, as the ease may be, and if there be no tenant or agent known to the Commissioners, then they shall give notice of such assessment by advertisement twice a week for two weeks in some newspaper Service of notice.published in said District.
The service of such notice, where the owner or his tenant or agent resides in t he District of Columbia, shall be either personal or by leaving the same with some person of suitable age at the residence or place of business of such owner, agent, or tenant; and return of such service, stating the manner thereof, shall be made in *Provisos*.Cost of publication, etc.writing and tiled in the office of said Commissioners: *Provided*, That the cost of publication of the notice herein provided for, and the service of such notices shall be paid out of the appropriations for assessment and Sale of property.permit work.
Any property upon which such assessment and accrued interest thereon, or any part thereof, shall remain unpaid at the expiration of two years from the date of service of notice of such assessment shall be subject to sale therefor under the same conditions and penalties which are imposed by existing laws tor the nonpayment of general taxes; and if any property assessed as herein provided for shall become liable to sale for any other assessment or tax whatever, then the assessments levied under this Act shall become immediately due and payable, and the property against which they are levied may be sold therefor, together with the accrued interest thereon, and the cost Deposits for requested improvements.of advertising, to the date of such sale.
Property owners who request improvements under the permit system shall deposit in advance with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia an amount equal to one-half the estimated cost of such improvements, and in such cases it shall not be necessary to give the notice hereinbefore provided for. All moneys received by the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia for work done upon the request of property-owners, as herein provided for, shall be deposited by him in the United States Treasury to Payment on completionthe credit of the permit fund.
Upon the completion of work done as aforesaid at the request of property-owners, the Commissioners shall repay to the then current appropriation for assessment and permit work, out of the permit fund, a sum equivalent to one-half of the cost of the work, and shall return to the depositors, from the same fund, as Return of surplus.Receipts.application may be made therefor, any surplus that may remain over and above one-half of the cost of the work. All sums received by the collector under the provisions of this Act on account of assessment work, and in payment of assessments heretofore made for compulsory Water and sewer connections.permit work, shall be credited to the appropriation for assessment and permit work for the fiscal year in which they are collected: *Provided further*, That the costs of service connections with water mains and sewers shall be assessed against the lots for which said connections are made, and shall be collected in the same manner and upon the same conditions as to notice as herein provided for assessment work:Repeal. *And provided further*, That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. 249 IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs.
For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix “Z,” Book ofStreet and avenues. Estimates, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and forty-five thousand seven hundred and fifty 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: Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.Allotment. Northwest Section Schedule:
Fifty-seven thousand dollars. Southwest Section Schedule: Nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Southeast Section Schedule: Twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Northeast Section Schedule: Twenty eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the streets and avenues shall be contracted for in*Proviso*.Order of precedence. the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable. For paving streets on the north side of Lincoln Square, betweenLincoln Square.
Eleventh and Thirteenth Streets, eight thousand five hundred dollars. That under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shallLimit for concrete pavement. be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavement at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base. *Provided*,*Proviso*.Increase for certain streets. That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which ease 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 andGrading. repair of cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same and horses, to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, four thousand dollars. Repairs to Pavements: For renewal, resurfacing, and repairs toRepairs of pavements. concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, forty-five thousand dollars.Cleaning etc.
For relief sewers and replacing obstructed sewers, sixty-five thousand dollars.Replacing, etc. For main and pipe sewers, ninety thousand dollars.Main and pipes.Intercepting sewer. For completing main intercepting sewer from Easbys Point, Potomac River, to near the intersection of Fifteenth and E streets northwest, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For suburban sewers, twenty thousand dollars.Suburban.Rock Creek sewer.*Provisos*.Contract for whole work. For continuing the construction of the Rock Creek intercepting sewer, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for said work at a cost not to exceed eighty thousand dollars, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations may be made by law; and the said Commissioners are authorized to construct said sewer, where necessary, across lands belonging to the United States: *Provided*, Restoring lands.That after the construction of said sewer the excavated portions of said lands shall be restored to their original condition from the appropriation herein provided for. 250 For ganging sewers and rainfall, two thousand dollars.Gauging.Rights of way.
For condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repairs of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For automatic siphons for flushing sewers, two thousand five hundredFlushing siphons. dollars. STREETS.Streets. Repairs, Streets, Avenues, and Alleys: For current work ofRepairs, streets, etc. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including the repair of cuts Pavements, street railways.made by the sewer department, thirty-five thousand dollars.
And this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of street CollectingVol. 20. p. 106.railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from said railway company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they areFenders required for street cars not rim by horses. hereby, authorized and empowered to make and to enforce all reasonable regulations in respect to requiring street cars operated by other means than horse power in the District of Columbia to be provided with proper fenders for the protection of the lives and limbs of all persons within the District of Columbia.
Such power and authority shall extend to the adoption by the said Commissioners of any fender or fenders deemed by them to be superior to the fenders now in use as the fender or fenders which shall be used on cars operated within the *Proviso*.Railway liability not relieved..said District: *Provided*, That nothing contained in this Act shall operate to relieve any street railway company from liability for accidents on its lines. For Repairing Sidewalks and Curbs: For repairing sidewalksSidewalks, etc. and curbs around public reservations, five thousand dollars.
Repairs, County Roads: For current work of repairs of countyRepairs, roads, etc. roads and suburban streets, forty thousand dollars. That the provision in the District appropriation Act of March third,Sidewalks, etc.Vol. 26, p. 1066. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, authorizing assessment against abutting property for new sidewalks or curbing required to be laid on streets being improved, is amended to read as follows: That when new sidewalks or curbing are hereafter required to be laidCharge to abutting property of new sidewalks, etc. on streets being improved, one-half the total cost shall be assessed against abutting property, in like manner and under the law governing *Proviso*.in theLimit of liability. case of assessment and permit work: *Provided*, That abutting property shall not be liable to such assessment when sidewalk and curbing have been laid by the District authorities in front of the same under the assessment and permit system within two years prior to such assessment.
Construction of County Roads: For construction of countyConstructing county roads. roads and suburban streets, the following sums to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the Commissioners of the District may determine, namely: For grading and regulating Sixteenth street northwest, extended, Prospect street, Crescent street, Central street, Meridian avenue north of Morris street and Ontario avenue, Meridian Hill, ten thousand dollars; For grading and graveling Twelfth street, extended, from University Heights to Rhode Island avenue, eight thousand dollars;
For grading and graveling Pennsylvania avenue, extended, and Branch avenue, ten thousand dollars; For grading and graveling Sherman avenue from Grant avenue northward, ten thousand dollars; For purchasing land for widening Fourteenth street extended,Fourteenth street extended. between Kenyon street and Whitney avenue, to the established width, 251 and for paving the roadway of the portion widened, six thousand and ninety dollars; one-half the cost of said widening and paving hall be borne by the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, andPayment by railroad company. shall be collected in the same manner as the cost of laying pavements between the rails and tracks of street railways, as provided for in section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for theVol. 26, p. 100.
District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. For grading and graveling Albemarle street from Grant road to connecticutAlbemarle street. avenue extended, nine thousand dollars to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia; *Provided*, That this amount*Proviso*.Dedication. shall not be expended until said street shall have been dedicated to the District of Columbia; For macadamizing the road now extending from the Broad BranchRoad to Chevy Chase.From District revenues road to Chevy Chase Circle, five thousand dollars, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, and to be available when the right of way, not less then sixty feet in width, shall have been dedicated to public use, under the laws and regulations applicable to suburban roads in the District of Columbia;
For opening entrance into Zoological Park, from Woodley Lane road,Entrance to Zoological Park and opening driveway into Zoological Park, from said entrance along the west bank of Rock Creek, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia; For improving Eighteenth street extended from Florula avenue toEighteenth street extended. Columbia road by widening the roadway to fifty feet, and paving same with sheet asphalt, and changing the grade where deemed necessary by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, twelve thousand dollars; one half of the cost of such widening, paving and change of grade outside of a strip two feet exterior to the outer rails of railroad track shall be assessed against, and collected from, the abutting property in the same manner as assessments and collections are made under the law governing assessments and permit work;
For grading and macadamizing M street, extended, between Twelfth street and Trinidad avenue, five thousand dollars; in all, seventy-seven thousand five hundred and ninety dollars. That the supreme court of the District of Columbia is hereby directedNorth Capitalstreet extension.Order of court vacated.*Ante*, p. 20. to vacate its order confirming t he report of the commissioners appointed to appraise the value of the lands of the Prospect Hill Cemetery and Annie E. Barbour, proposed to be taken for the extension of North Capitol street under the Act approved December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act to extend North Capitol street to the Soldiers’ Home,” and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to proceed to carry into effect said Act,Condemnation proceeding.[R.
S., D. C., chap. 11, p. 28](/us/rs/dc/chap11/p28). and to acquire the title by condemnation, according to chapter eleven of tire Kevised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia. That section three of the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteenProceedings to condemn land not applicable to highways, etc.Vol. 20, p. 412. hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes,” shall not be, construed to apply to the condemnation of land for public highways nor to repeal chapter eleven of the Revised Statutes of the United[R.
S., D. C., chap. 11, p. 28](/us/rs/dc/chap11/p28). States relating to the District of Columbia, in regard to public highways, roads and bridges. Sprinkling, sweeping,Sweeping, etc. and cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred 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, fifteen thousand dollars. 252 Lighting:
For illuminating material, lighting,extinguishing, repairing,Lighting. and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys, for purchasing mid expense of erecting new lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lampposts, painting lampposts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp posts and lanterns damaged or unfit for service; for storage and cartage of material, one *Proviso*.Maximum cost.hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty dollars and fifty cents per annum for each street lamp shall be paid for 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:
Regulators.*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 regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under nil 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, *Proviso*.Maximum cost.forty-seven thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That not more than forty cents per night shall be paid for any electric are light burning 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 Overhead wires.be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the cities of Washington mid Georgetown.
Harbor and River Front: For the improvement and protectionHarbor and river 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. Bathing Beach: For the care, repair, and extension of the publicBathing beach. bathing beach on the Potomac River, in the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For Public Scales: For repair and replacement of public scales,Scales. two hundred dollars.
For Public Pumps: For the purchase, replacement, and repair ofPumps. public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, mid tilling abandoned or condemned public wells, four thousand dollars. Care of Bridges: For ordinary care,of bridges, including keepers,Care of bridges. oil, lamps, and matches, five thousand dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars. Street railways to pay half the rust of bridges used.And hereafter one-half the cost, of the maintenance and repair of any bridge across Rock Creek occupied by the tracks of a street railway or railways shall be borne, by the said railway company or companies,.and shall be collected in the same manner as the cost of laying pavements between the rails and tracks of street railways as provided for in Vol. 20, p. 106.section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
The amounts thus collected shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. For the repair of the Aqueduct bridge, fifty-one thousand and seventyAqueduct bridge. dollars, said sum to be expended by, and the work to be done under the direction of, the Chief of Engineers of the Army, by contract, or otherwise, and by the purchase of material in open market in order to prevent delay in the prosecution of the work. Rock Creek Park:
That the authorities in joint control of RockRock Creek Park.Vol. 26, p. 405 Creek Park, as provided in section seven of the Act of September twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, establishing said park, Lease of buildings, etc., authorized.are authorized to rent or lease, for periods not exceeding one year at any one time, the buildings and arable ground therein, for such rental 253 as shall seem proper to said authorities, and deposit the proceeds oi such rents or leases with the collector of taxes to the credit of the United States and said District in equal parts.
Washington Aqueduct.Aqueduct. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars.Engineering, etc. Towards the improvement of the receiving (or Dalecarlia) reservoirReceiving reservoir. by the works required for cutting off the drainage into it of polluted water and sewage from the surrounding country; for the purchase or condemnation of the small amount of land required for the purpose, and the excavation necessary at the head of the reservoir, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars, the work to be completed within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five at a cost not to exceed ninety thousand dollars.
For protecting the conduit at wasteweir numbered one, near GreatConduit. Falls, five thousand dollars. For repaving Griffith’s Park and Cabin John bridges, five thousandBridges. dollars. Public Schools.Public schools. For Officers: For superintendent first six divisions, three thousandSuperintendebts to, clerks, etc. three hundred dollars: superintendent seventh and eighth divisions, two thousand two hunched and fifty dollars; clerk to superintendent of first six divisions and secretary to board of trustees, one thousand two hundred dollars; 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 nine hundred and ninety-one 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 twelve, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For four, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; For sixteen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand one hundred dollars each;
For fifty-five, at one thousand dollars each; For seventeen, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For seventeen, at nine hundred dollars each; For thirteen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For sixteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For sixty-one, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For eighteen, at eight hundred dollars each; For seventy-three, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For twenty-nine, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each;
For one hundred and two. at seven hundred dollars each; For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For ninety-eight, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For nine, at six hundred dollars each: For four, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and sixteen, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For one hundred, at five hundred dollars each; For twenty-six, at four hundred and seventy-five dollars each;
For fifty, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; For sixty-one, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; 254 For sixty-nine, at four hundred dollars each; in all, six hundred and seventy-nine thousand four hundred 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, live hundred dollars. For Janitors and Care of Buildings and Grounds: For careJanitors, etc. of the high school and annex, of the first six divisions, two thousand dollars; of the Jefferson building, one thousand four hundred dollars; of the Eastern high-school building of the first six divisions, and 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, Crunch, Morse, Brent, Bannaker, Blair, Worndey, Anthony Bowen,Manry, 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, Pierce, Polk, Wilson, Fillmore, Paterson, and Taylor buildings, forty-five 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, Garfield, Greenleaf, High Street, Birney, Bennings (white), Bennings (colored), Threlkeld, Brightwood, Tennallytown, and Brook-land 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-two thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For rent of school buildings, and repair shop, nine thousand dollars.Rent.Repairs. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, twenty-six thousand dollars. For the purchase of tools, machinery, material, and apparatusTools, etc. to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, eight thousand dollars. For fuel, thirty thousand dollars.Fuel.Furniture. For furniture for new school buildings, one thousand four hundred dollars. . For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing,Contingent expenses. insurance, and other necessary items, twenty eight thousand dollars.
For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eightFree school books. 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 *Proviso*.No official to receive benefit from supplies, etc.said textbooks and supplies, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter no school official, teacher, or trustee shall receive any pecuniary benefit on account of school supplies or textbooks purchased for the use of the public schools in the District of Columbia.
For one eight-room building in the sixth school division, MountBuildings. Pleasant, twenty-nine, thousand dollars. For one eight-room building and site in the third school division, *Proviso*.Cost.southeast, thirty-nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total cost of the site and of the several and respective buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously 255 made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated for such purposes.
For two new steam-heating boilers for the Sumner school building, two thousand five hundred dollars. For fireproof stairways for the Curtis, Seaton, and Abbott school buildings, nine thousand dollars. That the plans and specifications for each of said buildings, and forPreparation, etc., 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.
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; four surgeons of 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-one sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; two hundred and forty privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and eighty 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 in 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: forty-three 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; fifteen drivers of patrol wagons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; and three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of police headquarters, including fuel,Miscellaneous. light, and janitor’s service, and for substation at Anacostia, two thousand and eighty dollars; For fuel, one thousand nine hundred 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 bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, police equipments and repairs of same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, ambulances, and patrol wagons, and expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, twenty thousand dollars;
For covers for two patrol wagons, one hundred and fifty dollars; In all, twenty-six thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. For the Fire Department.Fire department. For one chief engineer, two thousand dollars: one fire marshal, oneSalaries. thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two assistant chief engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve foremen, 256 at one thousand dollai’s each; nine engineers, at one thousand dollars each; nine firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; three tillermen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; thirteen hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eighty-two 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 seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For additional force for one new chemical engine company for sixAdditional force. months: One foreman, five hundred dollars; one hostler, tour hundred and twenty dollars; tour privates, at four hundred dollars each; in all, two thousand five hundred and twenty 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, four thousand dollars; For fuel, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For purchase of horses, four thousand dollars; For forage, seven thousand dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, eight thousand dollars; For one new engine house, lot, and furniture for same, in northeasternNew house, etc. section of Washington, twenty-three thousand two hundred dollars; For one new house, lot, and furniture tor chemical engine companyMount Pleasant chemical engine house, etc. in Mount Pleasant, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one new chemical engine, two thousand two hundred dollars; In all, seventy-one thousand seven hundred dollars. Telegraph and Telephone Service.Telegraph and tele phone service. For one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one electrician,Salaries. 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.
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, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, crossarms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, purchase of harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, nine thousand dollars. And the Commissioners of the said District are hereby empoweredErection of poles in alleys. to authorize the erection and use of telephone poles in the public alleys *Proviso*.Use for fire-alarm, etc.of the city of Washington: *Provided, however*, That all telephone poles so erected shall be subject to use by the said District for the stringing of wires thereon to be used for fire-alarm and police purposes without any charge therefor to the said District, such privileges as may be granted hereunder to be revocable at the will of Congress without compensation.
For rent, including light, fuel and janitors’service, four hundred andRent. fifty dollars. Health Department.Health department. For one health officer, three thousand dollars; nine sanitary and foodSalaries. 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 257 practical chemist, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector oi marine products, one thousand two hundred dollars; for one chief clerk and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand lour hundred dollars; four clerks,at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two of whom may also act as sanitary and food inspectors; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger and janitor, six hundred 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; in all, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent, one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.Miscellaneous. For chemicals for the laboratory, two hundred and fifty dollars. For collection and removal of garbage and dead animals, twenty-fourGarbage.*Provisos*.Additional for daily collections. thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, in their discretion, in case the safety and health of the District in their judgment require it, allow for the daily collection of garbage during the months of May June, July, August, and September of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, an additional sum, not exceeding one thousand dollars per month, during the time when such daily collection is made to the satisfaction of the commissioners, and the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for such purpose: *Provided, further*, That said Commissioners shall make special investigation asInvestigation as to best method of disposing of garbage. respects the best’ method of collecting and disposing of garbage and dead animals in the District of Columbia, and may receive proposals for disposal of same under the different methods presented, if more than one, and report, specially the result of such investigation at the next session of Congress.
For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act toScarlet fever and diphtheria.Vol. 26. p. 692. prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia/’ approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, four thousand dollars. That the ordinances of the late board of health of the District ofOrdinances of Board of Health declared in effect.Vol. 21, p. 3U4. Columbia, as legalized by Joint Resolution of Congress, approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty, be, and the same tire hereby, declared to have the same force and effect within the District of Columbia as if enacted by Congress in the first instance, and that . the powers and duties imposed upon the late board of health, in andDuties conferred on health officer. by the said ordinances, are hereby conferred upon the health officer of said District, and that all prosecutions for violations of said ordinancesProsecuting violations. and regulations shall be in the police court of the District of Columbia in the name of the said District: *Provided*, That said regulations shall*Proviso*.Nuisances. not be enforced against established industries which are not a nuisance in fact.
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 exceeding three hundred dollars each; one clerk, two thousand dollars; one deputy clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars: two deputy clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three bailiffs, at three dollars per day each, two thousand eight hundred and seventeen dollars; one deputy marshal, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and thirty nine dollars; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one door keeper, five hundred and forty dollars; one engineer, nine hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Miscellaneous: For United States marshal’s fees, one thousandMiscellaneous. four hundred dollars: For witness fees, four thousand five hundred dollars; 258 For repairs of police-court building, and for ventilation of cells, nine hundred dollars; For rent of property adjoining police-court building for police court and other purposes, six hundred dollars; For compensation for jury, eight thousand dollars;Jurors. In all fifteen thousand one hundred dollars. Writs of Lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionLunacy writs. of writs de lunatieo hiquirendo and commitments thereunder, in all eases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive Vol. 19, p. 347.authority of the District of Columbia, under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two thousand dollars.
Interest and Sinking Fund.Interest and sinking fund. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water bonds, one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty seven dollars and ninety-seven cents. Emergency Fund.Emergency fund. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all other eases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently *Proviso*.Purchases.provided for, twenty-five thousand 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. 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-five thousand dollars. Transportation of Paupers and Prisoners: For transportationTransporting prisoners, etc. of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, three thousand five hundred 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, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; one baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; one overseer, nine hundred dollars; live 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; live 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; in all, fourteen thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars.
For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs, provisions,Contingent expenses fuel, forage, lumber, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, hardware, medicines, repairs to tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, painting, and other necessary items and services, forty four thousand dollars. 259 For new hospital ward, for male patients, to accommodate twenty-fiveNew ward. beds, four thousand dollars. For Reform School: For superintendent, one thousand fiveReform school. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, nine hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, three thousand five hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars: three matrons of families, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; 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 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-five thousand 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., secs. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 940](/us/rs/t/s4844/4850/pp939/940). and fifty of the Revised Statutes, ninety-six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb: For expenses attendingColumbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, ten [R.
S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/t/s4864/p942).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.Municipal lodging house, etc. For a municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, four thousand dollars. For the Temporary Home for Ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, twoTemporary home, soldiers and sailors. thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Women’s Christian Association, maintenance, four thousandWomen’s Christian Association. dollars. For the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance,Emergency hospital. twelve thousand dollars. For the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, maintenance,Columbia Hospital. twenty thousand dollars; for an addition, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand dollars. For the Children’s Hospital, maintenance, ten thousand dollars.Children’s Hospital.Homeopathic hospital.
For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington, District of Columbia, for maintenance, eight thousand dollars. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, as follows: For subsistence, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;Freedmen’s hospital. 260 For salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer, and matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, fifteen thousand dollars;
For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicine and medical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand live hundred dollars; For reading matter for patients, twenty-five dollars; in all, fifty-three thousand and twenty-five dollars. Reform School for Girls: Superintendent, one thousand dollars;Girls’ Reform School. matron, six hundred dollars; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one night watchman, three bundled and sixty-five dollars; one laborer, three hundred dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For groceries, provisions, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicine, medical attendance, hack hire, freight, furniture, beds, beddings, sewing machines, fixtures, books, horses, stationery, vehicles, harness, cows, stables, and sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, five thousand dollars. For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, for final aid toward maintenance,Foundling Hospital. six thousand dollars. For the Church Orphanage Association of Saint John’s Parish, maintenance,Church Orphanage. one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the German Orphan Asylum, maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars.German Orphan Asylum. For the National Association for the Relief of Destitute ColoredAssociation for Destitute Colored Women. Women and Children, maintenance, including its care of colored foundlings, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, maintenance, five thousand fourSt. Ann’s Infant Asylum. hundred dollars. For Saint Joseph’s Asylum, maintenance, one thousand eight hundredSt.
Joseph’s Asylum. dollars. For the Association for Works of Mercy, maintenance, one thousand eight hundredAssociation for Works of Mercy. dollars: For House of Good Shepherd, maintenance, two thousand seven hundredHouse of the Good Shepherd. dollars. For the Industrial Home School, maintenance, nine thousand nine hundredIndustrial Home School. dollars. For Saint Kose’s Industrial School, maintenance, four thousandSt. Rose’s Industrial School. five hundred dollars. Board of Children’s Guardians.—For the Board of Children’sBoard of Children’s Guardians.Vol. 27. p. 268.
Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including salary of agent not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, expenses in placing and visiting children, and all office and sundry expenses, four thousand dollars; For care of feeble-minded children; care of children under threeCare of feeble-minded children, etc. years of age, white and colored; board and care of all children over three years of age, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, thirteen thousand dollars;
In all, seventeen thousand dollars. 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. In the disbursement of this appropriation part thereof may 261 be applied to leasing premises for armory purposes at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, fora term not exceeding three years.
For lockers, gun racks, and furniture for armories, eight hundredCurrent expenses. dollars. For printing and stationery, three hundred dollars. For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, three hundred dollars. 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 rille practice and matches, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses of camp of instruction, seven thousand dollars.Camp of instruction For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars. And no contract shall be made or liability incurred under appropriations for the militia of the District of Columbia beyond the sums herein appropriated. Water Department.Water department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operationsTo be paid from 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. eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, atone thousand dollars each; one chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty six dollars; six inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; For Distribution Branch: For one superintendent, one thousand sixDistribution branch. hundred dollars; one draftsman, one housand live bundled dollars; one foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each: one timekeeper, eight hundred dollars: one assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; one tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; one assistant tapper, six hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; one black smith, seven hundred and fifty dollars: two plumbers, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant machinists, at eight hundred and sixty-four dollars each; one property keeper, six hundred dollars; three 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; two watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one hostler, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one calker, at seven hundred and thirty dollars: in all. thirty-six thousand eight hundred and thirty-four 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 extra clerical services in transcribing water-rent books to serve for the three fiscal years next ensuing, eight hundred and seventy-five 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 and sinking fund. six hundred and ten dollars. For interest, on account of increasing the water supply, as providedIncreasing water supply.Interest. in the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eleven 262 thousand and five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-oneVol. 22, p.170. cents, and such additional amount as may be necessary to pay said interest in full for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
For sinking fund on account of increase of water supply, under ActSinking fund. of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, twenty-four thousand and twenty-six dollars and sixty-nine cents, and such additional amount as may be necessary to pay said sinking fund in full for the fiscal*Proviso*.Payment of principal from surplus revenues. year eighteen hundred and ninety-five: *Provided*, That not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars of the surplus general revenues of the District of Columbia remaining on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, shall be transferred to the water fund to be applied in payment of the principal of the debt incurred for increasing the water supply as provided in the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
For third years interest on one-half the cost of the forty-eight-inchInterest, 48-inch and Fourteenth street mains. and Fourteenth street mains, eight thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and nineteen cents. For third installment in repayment of one half the cost of the forty-eight-inchRepayment. and Fourteenth street mains, eleven thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty-one cents. For continuing the extension of the high-service system of waterExtending high-service system. distribution, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions uponLimit of requisitions upon Treasury. the appropriations from the Treasury of the I'nited States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Approved, August 7, 1894.