Chapter 387. 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-eight, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 387.— 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-eight, and for other purposes. March 3, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled*, That the half of the followingDistrict of Columbia appropriations. sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in666 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-eight, namely : general expenses.
General expenses. For executive office: Executive office. Commisioners, secretary, etc.For two Commissioners, at five thousand dollars each; Engineer Commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars) ; secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; two assistant secretaries to Commissioners, at one thousand dollars each ; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars ; driver, tour hundred and eighty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty-live dollars; inspector of buildings, two thousand four hundred dollars ; assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand dollars each ; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; janitor, seven hundred dollars; steam engineer, nine hundred dollars; fireman, four hundred and eighty dollars; property clerk, one, thousand six hundred dollars; deputy property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; two elevator operators, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; three watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each ; inspector of plumbing, two thousand dollars; five assistant inspectors of plumbing, at one thousand dollars each ; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each ; harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, fifty-one thousand and eighty-nine dollars.
For assessor’s office: Assessor’s office.For assessor, three thousand five hundred dollars; three assistant assessors, at three thousand dollars each; two assistant assessors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, atone thousand dollars each; assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk in charge of records, one thousand dollars; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; in all, thirty three thousand three hundred dollars.
For collector’s office: Collector’s office.For collector, four thousand dollars; deputy collector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each : clerk and messenger, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars. For auditor’s office: Auditor’s office.For auditor, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars: messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars.
For attorney’s office: Attorney’s office.For attorney, four thousand dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; special assistant attorney, one thousand six hundred dollars; law clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: messenger, two hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand dollars. For sinking-fund office, under control of the Treasurer of the United States: Sinking-fund office. For clerk, one thousand five hundredFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 387. 1897.667 dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For coroner’s office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars.Coroner. 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, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. For office of sealer of weights and measures: For sealerSealer of weights and measures. of weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars: assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborer, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
For engineer’s office: Record division: For chief clerk, oneEngineer’s office Record division. thousand nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; Surface division: For computing engineer, two thousand four hundredSurface division. dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five 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 handled dollars; two assistant inspectors of streets, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent, of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of county roads, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of quirking, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of parking, nine hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars;
Subsurface division: For inspector of asphalt and cements, twoSubsurface division. thousand four hundred dollars; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, one thousand dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; superintendent of lamps, one thousand dollars; three inspectors of gas and electric lighting, at nine hundred dollars each; inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; superintendent of sewers, two thousand four hundred dollars; general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; 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; permit clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant permit clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars: in all, sixty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars.
Special assessment office: For special assessment clerk, oneSpecial assessment office. thousand seven hundred dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred dollars. Street sweeping office: For superintendent, one thousand eightStreet-sweeping office. hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; chief inspector of streets, one thousand two hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand one hundred dollars each ; three assistant inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each ; foreman of public dumps, nine hundred dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand 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. 668 Temporary overseers, etc.That overseers, inspectors, and other employees temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any work authorized by appropriations, and all expenses incidental to or necessary for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the Report.sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District, in their animal 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: Superintendent of charities.For superintendent of charities, three thousand dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. For surveyor’s office: Surveyor’s office.Vol. 28, p. 689.For surveyor, three thousand dollars; assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for such employees as may be required, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, five thousand two hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars.
CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, namely: For printing, cheeks, books, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses, painting; surveying instruments and implements, drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of 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 sin king-fund office, office of the superintendent of charities, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, and police court, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this *Provisos*.Horses, etc.sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall be used only for official purposes:
Nocharge for reporting real estate transfers.*And provided further*, That hereafter the recorder of deeds shall make no charge for reporting to the assessor of the District of Columbia for entry upon the tax books transfers of real estate as provided by law. Stables.For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department, including forage, livery of horses, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oil, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles and expenses, five thousand dollars; and no expenditure on account of the engineer department for the items named in this paragraph shall be made from any other fund.
Rent.For rent of District offices, nine thousand dollars. For rent of property yards, three hundred dollars. Collecting personal taxes.For necessary expenses in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, one thousand five hundred dollars. Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District eases before the supreme court of said District, one thousand dollars.
Coroner’s expenses.For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, eight hundred dollars. Advertising.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, two thousand dollars. 669 For advertising notice of taxes in arrear July first, eighteen hundredNotices of arrears of taxes.Vol. 26, p. 24. and ninety-seven, 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: *Provided*, That all penalties on taxes due*Proviso*.Remission of penalties. and payable on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, be, and the same are hereby, remitted, provided that the taxes due and payable on or prior to said date are paid with six per centum interest on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
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. To enable the Commissioners to have the numerical books for the CityReproducing numerical books. of Washington and County photolithographed, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars, to be immediately available. For special repairs to market houses, one thousand five hundred dollars.Market houses.Rehearing of board of public works claims, etc., repealed.Vol. 28, p. 664;
Vol. 21, p. 284. That the Act approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes,’ approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and all proceedings pending shall be vacated and no judgment heretofore rendered in pursuance of said Act shall be paid.
FLATS OF SUBDIVISIONS OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON. To pay the expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to enableSurveys and plats of outside subdivisions.Vol. 25. p. 451. 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 within the District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand dollars.
PERMANENT SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS. To pay the expenses of completing a plan for the extension of a permanentExtension of highways.Vol. 27, p. 532. system of highways in conformity with the “Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the 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 of this sum soProviso.Services. much as may be necessary may be expended by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for consultation services by Frederick Law Olmsted, or other eminent landscape architect, on the said extension of a permanent system of highways.
For advertising and court expenses necessary for the execution ofAdvertising and court expenses. the Act entitled “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ten thousand dollars, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. ASSESSMENT AND PERMIT WORK. For assessment and permit work, one hundred and fifty thousandAssessment and permit work. dollars.
IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Improvements and repairs. For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix “Bb,” Book ofStreets and avenues. Estimates, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in670 said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely: Georgetown schedule: Allotment.Fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Northwest section schedule: Forty-eight thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars. Southwest section schedule: Twenty-two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Southeast section schedule: Thirty-five thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars. Northeast section schedule: Forty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty five dollars: *Proviso*.Order of precedence.*Provided*, That the streets and avenues shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable.
H street.For paving H street, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets northwest, four thousand five hundred dollars. Morris street.For paving Morris street, between Sixth and Seventh streets northeast, four thousand dollars. D street.For removing cobble stones and repairing with asphalt block I) street, between Sixth and Seventh streets southeast, four thousand dollars. North Capitol street.For paving North Capitol street between O and Q streets, five thousand dollars.
Limit for concrete pavement.That under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, *Proviso*.Increase for certain streets.eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base: *Provided*, 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 case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.
Grading streets, alleys, and roads: Grading.For purchase and 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, six thousand dollars. Repairs to pavements: Repairs to pavements.For renewal, resurfacing, and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: Condemnation, streets, etc.For purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars.
SEWERS. Sewers. Cleaning, etc.For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, fifty thousand dollars. Replacing.For replacing obstructed sewers, twenty-five thousand dollars. Main, pipe, etc.For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, fifty thousand dollars. Suburban.For suburban sewers, seventy thousand dollars. For the construction of the following-named sewers now under contract, namely: Rock Creek intercepting.For completion of the upper portion of the Rock Creek and B street intercepting sewer, ninety thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
F street, and Easbys Point.For completion of the F street portion of the F street and Easbys Point intercepting sewer, sixty-two thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Tiber Creek.Contracts authorized.For constructing, in part, the Tiber Creek and New Jersey avenue high-level intercepting sewer, fifty thousand dollars. And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the portion of said sewer between the foot of New Jersey avenue and the Capitol Grounds at a cost not to exceed three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations may be made by law. 671 For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,Condemnation. maintenance, and repairs of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For automatic Hushing tanks, one thousand dollars.Flushing tanks. STREETS. Streets. Repairs streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work ofRepairs. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, thirty thousand dollars. And this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary: the amounts thus expended shall beStreet railways.Vol. 20, p. 106. collected from such railroad 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.
For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations,Sidewalks, etc. five thousand dollars. Repairs county roads: For current work or repairs of countyRepairs.*Proviso*.Available for all roads. roads and suburban streets, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the repair of all county roads, except such as are rendered useless by the opening and improving of new highways established under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
Construction of county roads: For construction of county roadsConstructing county roads. and suburban streets, as follows: For paving Connecticut avenue and Columbia road, between FloridaConnecticut avenue and Columbia road. avenue and Eighteenth street extended, thirty six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if any surplus remains of the sum hereby appropriated,*Provisos*.Surplus. the same shall be expended for regulating, grading, and paving Baltimore street from Columbia road to Twentieth street, and thence along Twentieth street to the Adams Mill road entrance to the Zoological Park: *Provided, however*, That the portions of Baltimore street andDedications from owners.
Twentieth street so regulated, graded, and paved are, or shall be, dedicated by the, owners for conformity with the plans for highway extension; For grading and regulating Clifton, Irving. Yale, Bismark, Harvard,Clifton, etc., streets. Columbia, Steuben, Kenesaw, Wallach, and Thirteenth streets, from Seventh to Fourteenth streets, and Roanoke and Princeton streets from Seventh to Thirteenth streets, completing improvement, eight thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Sherman avenue, ten thousand dollars;
For grading and regulating Kenesaw avenue and Park road, tenKenesaw avenue and Park road.*Proviso*.Dedication. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That Park road, or Park highway, between Kenesaw avenue and Klingle road, be dedicated to the District of Columbia, for conformity with recorded plans of highway extensions: For grading and regulating Twelfth street extended, from Florida avenue to Mount Olivet road, ten thousand dollars; For paving Massachusetts avenue extended, from Twenty-second street to Sheridan Circle, five thousand dollars;
For grading and regulating Emporia street, from Twelfth street toEmporia street. Brentwood road, four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the owners thereof shall dedicate the spaces for widening and extending said street*Proviso*.Dedication. within the limits named for conformity with the plans of highways extensions; For improving Thirty seventh street between Back street and TennallyThirty-seventh street.*Ante*, p, 400. town road at or near Schneider lane, three hundred and seventy-four dollars and forty-eight cents (the same being unexpended balance of appropriation of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for paying court expenses and fees of commissioners, and paying for ground taken, and damages to property to open and extend said street), together with five hundred dollars additional for the same purpose; 672 For paving Spruce and Bohrer streets, from Larch street to Florida avenue, seven thousand dollars;
For grading and graveling Joliet street from Connecticut, avenue extended to the Zoological Park and acquiring same by purchase or condemnation to a width of one hundred and thirty feet, five thousand dollars; For grading, regulating, and paving Princeton street and Roanoke street from Thirteenth street to Fourteenth street, nine thousand dollars: in all, one hundred and four thousand five hundred dollars. For the straight extension of Connecticut Avenue: Connecticut avenue extended.Line adopted.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to extend and open Connecticut avenue, on the straight extension of the line thereof as now established in the city of Washington, from Connecticut avenue extended, as now laid out and opened on the west, side of Rock Creek, to Kalorama avenue on the east side of Rock Creek, thence by a curved line or offset to join with the present adopted and recorded location of Connecticut avenue, south of Kalorama avenue, and to include in Connecticut avenue a circular reservation at or near Kalorama avenue in line with the straight extension of Connecticut avenue, with suitable passageway around such circle; and also to include in such avenue such portions of the corners of squares at the intersection of Connecticut avenue with Kalorama avenue as the Com-missioners may find necessary for ample and convenient connections of streets; and they are authorized and directed to abandon the deflected line for Connecticut avenue heretofore adopted, north of Kalorama avenue, and to conform the plan of highway extension to the extension *Proviso*.Dedication from owners.of Connecticut avenue as aforesaid: *Provided*, That, conditioned upon the dedication by the owners of the property lying within the lines of said proposed extension between the water-side drive on the east side of Rock Creek and the present extension of Connecticut avenue on the west side of Rock Creek, the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, to be immediately available, for the purchase or condemnation by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia of the property lying within the extension of Connecticut avenue and extending from said waterside drive southerly to Florida avenue.
Condemnation.As to all lots or parts of lots and improvements not purchased or contracted to be purchased within thirty days from the passage of this Act, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are instructed to commence suit for condemnation. Rock Creek.Designs for bridge.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to secure designs, by competition, for a bridge or viaduct across Rock Creek on the line of the extension of Connecticut avenue, and the sum of two thousand dollars is appropriated therefor.
Connecticut avenue.Suspension of building permits revoked.*Ante*, p. 400.That the statute incorporated in the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, making appropriation for the District, of Columbia, reading as follows: “And that, from and after the passage of this Act. no building permits shall be granted upon ground which would be covered by either extension of said Connecticut avenue until otherwise provided by law,” is hereby repealed. Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning:
Sprinkling, sweeping, streets, etc.For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Cleaning snow and ice.Vol. 28, p. 800.For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, and so forth, under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars. For the parking commission: Parking commission.For contingent expenses, including 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, twenty thousand dollars.
Lighting: Lighting.For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys;673 purchasing and expense of erecting new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp posts and lanterns damaged or unfit for service; for storage and cartage of material, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty dollars per annum*Provisos*.Limit. for each street lamp shall he paid for gas or oil, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, and cleaning, under any expenditure provided for in this Act: *Provided*, That all of said lamps shall burn every night,To burn every night. on the average, from forty-five minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: *Provided further*, That before any expendituresRegulators. 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 all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour.
For electric arc lighting, including necessary inspection, in thoseElectric lighting. streets now lighted with electric arc lights in the city of Washington, fifty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than twenty-five*Provisos*.Limit. cents per night shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from forty-five minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before 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 thisOverhead wires. appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington.
Until Congress shall provide for a conduit system it shall beFurther extension of wires prohibited. unlawful to lay conduits or erect overhead wires for electric lighting purposes in any road, street, avenue, highway, park, or reservation except as hereafter specifically authorized by law; *Provided, however*,*Proviso*.Permits for house connections, etc. That the Commissioners of the .District of Columbia are hereby authorized to issue permits for house connections with conduits and overhead wires now existing adjacent to the premises with which such connection is to be made; and also permits for public lighting connections with conduits already in the portion of the street proposed to be lighted.
And nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect in any wayLitigation not affected. any pending litigation involving the validity or invalidity or legality of the construction of any conduits made since June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nor to prevent the United States Electric Lighting Company from extending conduits into Columbia Heights, Washington Heights, and Mount Pleasant within the fire limits as specifically provided in the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,*Ante*, p. 401. making appropriations for the expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia; and the existing overhead wires of the Potomac ElectricTemporary continuance of overhead wires west of Rock Creek.
Power Company west of Rock Creek and outside the fire limits are hereby authorized to be maintained for a period of one year from the passage of this act and no longer. 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. To provide for new hull and necessary repairs for harbor boat, oneRepairs to boat. thousand two hundred dollars, to be immediately available.
Bathing beach: For the rare and repair of the public bathingBathing beach. 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: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District*Proviso*.Change of location. of Columbia may change the location of any public hay scale in said District whenever they may deem such change in the public interest. For public pumps: For the purchase, replacement, and repair ofPumps. public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, tilling abandoned or condemned public wells, and drilling deep wells, seven thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. 674 BRIDGES.
Bridges. Care.For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, oil, lamps, and matches, three thousand five hundred dollars. Repairs, etc.For construction and repairs of bridges, fifteen thousand dollars. P Street Bridge.Widening.Payment by Metropolitan Railroad Company.Vol. 20, p. 106.For widening P Street Bridge and its approaches, seven thousand dollars; and the Metropolitan Railroad Company is hereby required to pay one-half of the cost of widening P Street Bridge and its approaches under this appropriation, to 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 the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
Rock Creek.Report on cost of steel bridge, Massachusetts avenue extended.That the Chief of Engineers of the Army shall report to Congress at its next regular session plans tor and the cost of erecting a stone arch bridge, and also a steel bridge with stone foundations, over Rock Creek on the line of Massachusetts avenue extended, the full width of said avenue, and for this purpose the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.
Washington Aqueduct. Maintenance.For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty-one thousand dollars. Telephone line.For constructing new telephone line between office and Great Falls, five thousand dollars. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Public schools. For officers: Superintendent, clerks, etc.For superintendent first eight divisions, three thousand three hundred dollars; superintendent ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to superintendent of first eight divisions and secretary to board of trustees, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk to superintendent of ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, eight hundred dollars; messenger to superintendent first eight divisions, three hundred dollars; messenger to superintendent ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand and fifty dollars.
For teachers: Teachers.For one thousand one hundred and seven teachers, to be 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 twenty-five, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand one hundred dollars each;
For sixty-one, at one thousand dollars each; For eighteen, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For eighteen, at nine hundred dollars each; For twelve, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For sixteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For seventy-four, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For thirty-two, at eight hundred dollars each; For eighty, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For nineteen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each;
For one hundred and seven, at seven hundred dollars each; For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and eighteen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For fourteen, at six hundred dollars each; For eight, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; 675 For one hundred and twenty-nine, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For twenty, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For ninety-nine, at five hundred dollars each; For forty-two, at four hundred and seventy-five dollars each;
For fifty-three, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; For sixty-two, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For sixty-one, at four hundred dollars each; in all, seven hundred and sixty-one thousand one hundred dollars: *Provided*, That in assigning salaries to teachers, no discrimination*Proviso*.No sex discrimination. shall he 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 and other necessary expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. For janitors and care of buildings and grounds: For careJanitors, etc. of the high school and annex, of the first eight divisions, two thousand dollars; Of the Jefferson building, one thousand four hundred dollars; Of the Eastern high-school building of the first eight divisions; of the high-school building of the ninth and tenth divisions; of the Business High School (the janitor in which shall also be an engineer), atone thousand two hundred dollars each;
Of the Franklin and Stevens buildings, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; Of the Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, Wallach, and Webster buildings, at nine hundred dollars each; Of the Lincoln and Mott buildings, at eight hundred dollars each: Of the Abbott, Berrett, John F. Cook, and Randall buildings, at seven hundred dollars each; Of the Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Brightwood, Brookland, Buchanan, Carberry, Corcoran, Cranch, Douglass, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Lenox, Logan, McCormick, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Monroe, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Phelps, Pierce, Phillips, Polk, Slater, Smallwood, Taylor, Tenley, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Buren, Weiglitman, Wormley, and Wilson buildings, and two new eight-room buildings, fifty-five in all, at five hundred dollars each;
Of the Garfield, Hillsdale, Lovejoy, Thompson, Van Buren annex and Woodburn buildings, at two hundred and fifty dollars each; Of the Bennings (white), Bennings (colored), Birney, Conduit Road, High Street, Langdon, Potomac, and Threlkeld 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-eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings, and repair shop,Rent. thirteen thousand one hundred dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds,Repairs, etc. thirty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus to beTools. used in connection with instruction in manual training, nine thousand dollars. For fuel, thirty-five thousand dollars.Fuel. For furniture for new school buildings and additions to buildings, asFurniture. follows:
Sixth division, northeast, eight rooms, one thousand four hundred dollars; 676 Conduit Road, Congress Heights, and Langdon, four rooms, at seven hundred dollars per building, two thousand one hundred dollars; Seventh division, Connecticut avenue extended, two rooms, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expense.For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing, insurance, telephone service, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Free text-books, etc.For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight 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 text-books and supplies, forty thousand dollars. Flags.For purchase of United States flags, one thousand dollars.
Filters.For purchase of water filters, two thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Buildings and grounds: Buildings.For one eight-room building and site, northeast, third division, forty thousand dollars. For one eight-room building and site, northwest, fifth division, forty thousand dollars. For one eight-room building and site, seventh division, county, forty thousand dollars. For eight-room building and site in the vicinity of North Capitol and R streets, forty thousand dollars.
For lot adjoining Curtis School building, to be acquired by purchase or condemnation, five thousand dollars. For constructing second story, and for heating plant of school building at Congress Heights, to be immediately available, twelve thousand dollars. For purchase of additional ground, and for additional building of two rooms near line of Connecticut Avenue south of Chevy Chase Circle, to be immediately available, eight thousand dollars. For completing Western High School, to be immediately available, fifty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said Western High School building, including site, is hereby increased from one hundred thousand dollars to one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars, and a further contract for the completion of said building is hereby authorized within the said limit of one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. *Proviso*.Cost limited.*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 made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated for such purposes.
Preparing plans, etc.That the plans and specifications for each of said buildings, and for all other buildings provided for in this Act, shall be prepared by the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Architect of the Capitol and the Commissioners of the District, and said buildings shall be constructed by the Commissioners in conformity therewith. FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE. Police. Salaries.For major and superintendent, three thousand three hundred dollars captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three lieutenants, inspectors, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at five hundred and forty dollars each; additional compensation for twelve privates detailed for special service677 in the detection and prevention of crime, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, or so much therein 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; three hundred privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; two hundred 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; laborer in charge of the morgue, six hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, seven hundred dollars; messenger, five hundred dollars; major and superintendent, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; captain, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; forty-three lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-three drivers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five hundred and ninety-six thousand and twenty dollars.
Hereafter each of the members of the Metropolitan Police shall beLeaves to officers. entitled to leave of absence each year with pay for such time, not exceeding twenty days, as the Commissioners shall determine. Miscellaneous: For rent of substation at Anacostia, two hundredMiscellaneous. dollars; For fuel, two thousand two 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 the prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, eighteen thousand dollars;
For four additional cells at the fourth precinct station, nine hundred and ninety-six dollars; In all, twenty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Fire Department. For chief engineer, two thousand dollars; fire marshal, one thousandSalaries. dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; two assistant chief engineers. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eighteen foremen, at one thousand dollars each; twelve engineers, at one thousand dollars each; twelve firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; four tillermen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eighteen hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one hundred and twenty privates, at eight hundred dollars each; eight watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Hereafter each of the members of the fireLeaves to members. department shall be entitled to leave of absence each year, with pay, for such time, not exceeding twenty days, as the Commissioners shall determine. Miscellaneous: For repairs to engine houses, three thousand fiveMiscellaneous. hundred dollars; For repairs to apparatus, and new appliances, three thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of hose, seven thousand dollars; For fuel, three thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, seven thousand dollars;
For forage, eight thousand dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, nine thousand five hundred dollars; In all, forty-one thousand five hundred dollars. 678 Increase fire department: New engine.For one new engine, four thousand two hundred dollars; Hose carriage.For one hose carriage, nine hundred dollars; New house, etc.For house, lot, and furniture for one engine company, to be located in the section bounded by Seventh and Twelfth streets and C and F streets northwest, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available;
House, etc., Anacostia.For house, lot, and furniture tor one engine company, to be located in Anacostia, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars, to be immediately available; in all, fifty-six thousand three hundred dollars. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE SERVICE. Telegraph and telephone service. Salaries.For superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; expert repairman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two repairmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; in all, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
Supplies.For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, purchase of harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. Extension of fire-alarm telegraph:
Extension of fire-alarm telegraph.For extension of the fire alarm telegraph, including new boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles with cross arms, insulators, pins, and braces, wire for extension of lines, and extra labor for stringing the wire, seven thousand *Proviso*.Use of poles.five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That wherever there are telegraph or telephone poles, or telephone conduits, available for the use of the said Fire Alarm Telegraph, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to make arrangements for the use Restriction on poles in alleys.Vol. 28, p. 256.of such poles or conduits without expense to the said District; and the authority granted to the said Commissioners in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to authorize the erection and use of telephone poles in the alleys of the City of Washington shall be limited as follows: hereafter no wire shall be strung on any alley pole at a height of less than fifty feet from the ground at the point of attachment to said pole; temporary permits may be granted by said Commissioners to string wires from cable poles, or from existing overhead trunk lines, to poles in, or to be erected in, alleys, and from alley poles in one square to alley poles, or house-top fixtures, in another square for the purpose of making necessary house connections from all cable poles and existing overhead trunk lines within the District of Columbia; such house connection to be made from the cable poles or overhead trunk lines nearest the subscriber.
No poles authorized on streets, etc.Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the erection of any additional pole or poles upon any street, avenue, or public reservation within the said City; and such privileges as may be granted hereunder to be revokable at the will of Congress without compensation. Renewal of portions of the patrol system: New patrol boxes, etc.For purchase of new patrol boxes and station-house instruments to take the place of worn-out boxes and instruments in the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, and Ninth precincts, five thousand dollars.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Health department. Salaries.For health officer, three thousand dollars; nine sanitary and food inspectors, who shall also be charged with enforcement of garbage regulations, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products, and shall be a679 practical chemist, one thousand five hundred dollars; sanitary and food inspector, who shall be a veterinary surgeon for all departments of the District government and act as inspector of live stock and dairy farms, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of marine products, one thousand two hundred dollars; two inspectors of garbage, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; chief clerk and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two of whom shall act as sanitary and food inspectors; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; pound master, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceeding forty dollars per month, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; ambulance driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand three hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twentyRent. dollars. For collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals, fifty-sevenGarbage. thousand dollars. For the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the spreadScarlet fever and diphtheria.Vol. 26, p. 691. of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, under the direction of the health officer of the District, five thousand dollars.
For two isolating buildings, to be constructed, in the discretion ofIsolating buildings at hospitals. the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, on the grounds of two hospitals and to be operated as a part of such hospitals, thirty 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 exceeding three hundred dollars each; 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; messenger, nine hundred dollars; doorkeeper, five hundred and forty dollars; 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, two thousand dollars. And hereafter there shall beWitness fees limited. paid to witnesses in cases on the police court not exceeding seventy-five cents per diem for each day of attendance, to be allowed only in the discretion of the court. For repairs of police-court building, seven hundred dollars; For repairs to police-court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dollars;
For addition to cells and other improvements, one thousand two 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, fourteen thousand one hundred dollars. Depending suits in claims: For defending suits in the UnitedDefense in claims. States Court of Claims, two thousand 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 ActVol. 19, p. 347. approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two thousand dollars. 680 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 lire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided *Proviso*.Purchases.for, eight 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. Support of convicts: Support of convicts.For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars. Court-house, District of Columbia: Court-house.For the following force necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia:
One engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and seven assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Jail grounds, District of Columbia: Jail.Erection of wall.Toward the erection, under the direction of the Attorney-General, of a brick or stonewall to in close the grounds upon which the jail in the District of Columbia now stands, including the purchase of material and the employment of such skilled and other labor as may be necessary for the purpose, ten thousand dollars.
Warden of the jail: Warden of jail.For warden of the jail of the District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General. Support of prisoners: Support of prisoners in jail.For expenses for maintenance of the jail of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty thousand dollars. Transportation of paupers and prisoners: Transporting paupers, etc.For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For Washington Asylum: Washington Asylum.For intendant, one thousand two hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk and storekeeper, six hundred dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; overseer, nine hundred dollars; six overseers, at six hundred dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, three hundred and fifty dollars; second assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; five watchmen, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; night watchmen, five hundred and forty-eight dollars; blacksmith and wood worker, three hundred dollars; carpenter, six hundred dollars; hostler and ambulance driver, two hundred and forty dollars; female keeper at workhouse, three hundred dollars; female keeper at workhouse, one hundred and eighty dollars; tour cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; two cooks, at sixty dollars each; trained nurse, four hundred and twenty681 dollars; five nurses, at sixty dollars each; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars.
For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs, provisions,Contingent expenses. fuel, forage, lumber, gas, ice, 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. For completion of heating station for the hospital department, fourHospital. thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For resurfacing walls and floors of almshouse and male workhouse, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For Reform School: For superintendent, one thousand five hundredReform School.Salaries. dollars; assistant superintendent, nine hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, five thousand and forty dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; four 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; 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 six in number, one thousand four hundred and ten dollars; secretary and treasurer of board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, Hour, feed, meats, drySupport of inmates. goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting, 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 THE SUPPORT OF THE INSANE. For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in theSupport of insane. Government Hospital for the Insane in said District as provided in sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundredR.S. secs. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 940. and fifty of the Revised Statutes, one hundred and nine thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-six cents. FOR INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb personsColumbia Institution.
Deaf and Dumb. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-fourR.S., sec. 4864, p. 942 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 CHARIT1ES. Charities. For relief of the poor, thirteen thousand dollars.Relief of poor. For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand ArmySoldiers and Sailors’ Home. of the Republic, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Women’s Christian Association, maintenance, four thousandWomen’s Christian Association. dollars. For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance, fifteenEmergency Hospital. thousand dollars. 682 Children’s Hospital.For the Children’s Hospital, maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Homeopathic Hospital.For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington, District of Columbia, for maintenance, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Foundling Hospital.For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, maintenance, six thousand dollars.
Church Orphanage.For the Church Orphanage Association of Saint John’s Parish, maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars. German Orphan Asylum.For the German Orphan Asylum, maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Association for Destitute Colored Women.For the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum.For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, maintenance, five thousand four hundred dollars.
Association for Works of Mercy.For Association for Works of Mercy, maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars. House of the Good Shepherd.For House of the Good Shepherd, maintenance, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Saint Rose Industrial School.For the Saint Rose Industrial School, maintenance, four thousand five hundred dollars. Saint Joseph’s Asylum.For Saint Joseph’s Asylum, maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Young Women’s Home.For Young Women’s Christian Home, one thousand dollars.
Hope and Help Mission.For Hope and Help Mission, maintenance, one thousand dollars. Newsboys’ Aid.For Newsboys’ and Children’s Aid Society, maintenance, one thousand dollars. Eastern Dispensary.For Eastern Dispensary, maintenance, one thousand dollars. Home for Incurables.For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, two thousand dollars. Municipal lodging house.For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, including rent, four thousand dollars. Columbia Hospital for Women.For the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, maintenance twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs and furniture, two thousand dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital.For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, as follows: For subsistence, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, sixteen thousand dollars: For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicine and medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, fifty-four thousand dollars. Reform School for Girls: Girl’s Reform School.Superintendent, one thousand dollars; treasurer, three hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars: engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; laborer, three hundred dollars; in all, four thousand seven 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, betiding, sewing machines, fixtures, books, horses, stationery, vehicles, harness, cows, stables, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, six thousand dollars;
In all, ten thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the Industrial Home School: Industrial Home School.For maintenance, including repairs, eleven thousand dollars. 683 For building to replace the old almshouse building, thirty thousand 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 six hundred dollars, expenses in placing and visiting children, and nil office and sundry expenses, four thousand dollars;
For care of feeble-minded children; care of children under three yearsCare of children. 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, twenty-three thousand four hundred dollars; In all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred dollars. And it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Government of thePolicy not to support religious institutions declared.
United States to make no appropriation of money or property for the purpose of founding, maintaining, or aiding by payment for services, expenses, or otherwise, any church or religious denomination, or any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control; and it is hereby enacted that, from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, no money appropriated for charitableNo further appropriations for religious institutions. purposes in the District of Columbia shall be paid to any church or religious denomination, or to any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control.
That the Joint Select Committee, authorized by the Act makingCommittee to investigate charities, etc., continued.*Ante*, p. 411. appropriations for the expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, to make inquiry and report concerning the charities and reformatory institutions of the District of Columbia, are hereby continued during the Fifty-fifth Congress, with all the powers and duties imposed upon them by said Act.
And any vacancies whichSupplying vacancies. may occur in the membership of said committee by expiration of service or otherwise of any Senator shall be tilled by appointment by the presiding officer of the Senate, and any vacancies which may occur by reason of the expiration of service of any House members of said committee shall be filled by appointment to be made by the Speaker of the present House of Representatives from members-elect to the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fifth Congress; and any vacancies which may occur by reason of death or resignation of any House member shall be tilled by appointment to be made by the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the time being; and said committee shall haveSittings. authority to sit during the recess, and shall make report as soon as practicable after the beginning of the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress: *Provided*, That the clerk designated by the committee may*Proviso*.Clerk. be paid for clerical services such compensation as may be fixed by the committee in addition to any salary he may be receiving.
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 telephone service, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.Current expenses. For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, eight hundred 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, eight hundred dollars. For expenses of rifle practice and matches, three thousand six hundred dollars. 684 For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars. Contracts.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. To be paid from water revenues.The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: Revenue and inspection branch.For revenue and inspection branch: For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; eight inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars;
Distribution branch.For distribution branch: For superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; timekeeper, eight hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; assistant tapper, six hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; blacksmith, 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; property keeper, six hundred dollars; three firemen, at seven hundred and thirty dollars each; two Hashers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; two watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; hostler, four hundred and eighty dollars; calker, seven hundred and thirty dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars. Fuel, repairs, etc.For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs and public hydrants, ninety thousand dollars.
Interest and sinking fund.For interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, six thousand six hundred and twenty dollars and thirteen cents. Increasing water supply.Interest.Vol. 22, p. 179.For interest on account of increasing the water supply, as provided in the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty two, such amount as may be necessary to pay said interest in full for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Sinking fund.For sinking fund on account of increase of water supply, under Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, such amount as may be necessary to pay said sinking fund in full for the fiscal year *Proviso*.Surplus revenues to pay principal.eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: *Provided*, That not exceeding one hundred and four thousand seven hundred and thirty eight dollars and twenty-four cents of the surplus general revenues of the District of Columbia remaining on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, shall be transferred to the water fund, to be applied in payment in full of the balance 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.
Extending high-service system.For continuing the extension of the high-service system of water 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-eight, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated. Sec. 2. Limit of requisitions on the Treasury.That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight thanFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 387, 388. 1897.685 they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Approved, March 3, 1897.