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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 29 STAT. · June 11, 1896 · Chapter 419

Chapter 419. Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Colombia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 419.— An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Colombia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes. June 11, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the half of the following District of Columbia appropriations.sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the Half from District revenues.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-seven, namely:
GENERAL EXPENSES. General expenses. For Executive Office: For two Commissioners, at five thousand Executive office. Commissioners, secretary, etc.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, four hundred and eighty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty-five 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; one 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; harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, fifty one thousand and eighty-nine dollars: *Provided,* That the accounting officers of the Treasury are *Provisos.*394FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 419. 1896.Credits in accounts of former Commissioners.authorized to credit the accounts of the ex-Boards of Commissioners of the District of Columbia with all disbursements and expenditures, not exceeding in the aggregate nine thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty cents which have heretofore been suspended or disallowed in the settlement of their accounts wherein it shall satisfactorily appear that the money was paid in good faith for goods sold and delivered, work and labor done, materials furnished, or services actually No money to be paid.rendered for the benefit of the District: *Provided further,* That in crediting and allowing said disbursements and expenditures no money on account thereof shall be paid out of the Treasury of the United States.
Assessor’s office. For 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, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one 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.
Collector’s office. Deputy authorized. Duties; bond. For Collector’s Office: For collector, four thousand dollars; deputy collector, one thousand eight hundred dollars, and such deputy collector shall hereafter perform such duties as maybe required of him by the collector, and the collector may require the said deputy collector to give bond for the faithful performance of such duties; but the collector shall in every respect be responsible, as now provided by law, to the United States, the District of Columbia, and to individuals, as the ease may be, for all moneys collected; 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.
Auditor’s office. For 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, atone 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.
Attorney’s office. For 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. Sinking-fund office. For Sinking-Fund Office, under Control of the Treasurer OF the United States: For clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars.
Coroner. For Coroner’s Office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Market masters. For Market Masters: For two market masters, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one market master, nine hundred dollars; for hire of laborers for cleaning markets, one thousand two hundred *Proviso.* Payment of rents, etc.dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter all rents, fees, and income derived from the markets herein appropriated for shall be paid to the collector of taxes; and no person employed by the District of Columbia in or about the said markets shall receive any fees or compensation of any kind in addition to the salary provided by law.
Sealer of weights and measures. For Office of Sealer of Weights and Measures: For sealer of weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; 395laborer, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. For Engineer’s Office: Record division: For chief clerk, one Engineer’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; messenger clerk seven hundred and twenty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each;
Surface division: For computing engineer, two thousand four hundred Surface 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 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, nine hundred dollars: clerk, nine hundred dollars.
Subsurface division: For inspector of asphalt and cements, two Subsurface 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; one 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, one Special 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 eight Street 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 for Board 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 required Temporary 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. 396three thousand dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Surveyor’s office. For Surveyor’s Office: 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 Vol. 28, p. 689.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 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 sinking-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:
Gas company to pay expenses of inspector’s office.*And provided further,* That the whole cost of maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of gas and meters shall hereafter be paid by the Washington Report of real estate transfers.Gaslight Company: *And provided further,* That 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 required 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 cases before the supreme court of said District, eight hundred dollars.
Coroner’s expenses. For livery of horse or horse lure 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 five hundred dollars.
Notices of arrears of taxes. Vol. 26, p.24. For advertising notice of taxes in arrear July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, seven thousand five hundred dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of one dollar and twenty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. Arrears of taxes account. To enable the assessor to continue account of arrears of taxes on real 397property due the District of Columbia, including the payment of necessary clerical force, two thousand dollars.
General assessment books. To enable the assessor to transcribe the general assessment and prepare the numerical book, three thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available: *Provided,* That the employees in the office of the *Proviso.* Pay for additional services.assessor may be assigned to duty in the preparation of said numerical books in addition to their regular duties, and may be allowed a reasonable compensation for said additional services from said appropriation.
To enable the Commissioners to have plats of subdivisions of the Georgetown subdivisions.squares in that portion of Washington formerly known as Georgetown photolithographed, three hundred and forty-six dollars, to be immediately available. For special repairs to market houses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Market houses. Plats of Subdivisions Outside of Washington and Georgetown: Surveys and plats 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 within Vol. 25, p. 451.the District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars.
Extension of Highways: To pay the expenses of completing a Extension of highways. Vol. 27, p. 532.plan 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 the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ten thousand dollars, to be From District revenues. *Proviso.* Plans, etc.paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided,*That of this sum so much as maybe necessary may be expended by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the preparation of plans, in part, and for reports by Frederick Law Olmstead, or other eminent landscape architect, on the said extension of a permanent system of highways.
For advertising and court expenses necessary for the execution of the Advertising and court expenses.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. Payment for Lots, Potomac River Flats: For payment of the Potomac flats. Payment for lots.owners of the lots and parts of lots referred, to in the decrees passed by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in the case of the United States versus Morris and others, and located in squares sixty-three, eighty-nine, one hundred and twenty-nine, and one hundred and forty-eight, in the city of Washington, in said District, which lots and parts of lots have been included within the limits of the improvement of the Potomac River and its flats, in charge of the Secretary of War, twenty-six thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars and nine cents; which payment shall be made to and received by the respective owners of such lots and parts of lots in full discharge, acquittance, and release by such owners to the United States of all their right, title, interest, and claim of every description, as well in the soil of such lots and parts of lots, as of all claim of such owners on account of impairment or injury to any rights whatsoever therein claimed or suffered by such owners from the filling in of such lots and parts of lots and their inclusion within the limits of said improvement; and which payment shall be made upon orders of the said court to the persons who have already been determined by the said court to be the owners of some of the said lots and parts of lots, and also to the persons who shall hereafter be determined by said court to be the owners of the residue of said lots and parts of lots; such orders to be passed from time to time upon application to the court therefor, by the several persons so determined, or who maybe hereafter determined to be such owners; the appropriation herein made to be immediately available for the purposes specified. 398 ASSESSMENT AND PERMIT WORK.
Assessment and permit work. For assessment and permit work, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Improvements and repairs. Streets and avenues. For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix X, Book of Estimates, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Allotment. Georgetown Schedule: Thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest Section Schedule: Forty-five thousand dollars; Southwest Section Schedule: Twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; Southeast Section Schedule: Thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars; Northeast Section Schedule: Thirty-four thousand five hundred 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.
Florida avenue. For paving Florida avenue, south side, from Connecticut avenue to Eighteenth street, six thousand dollars. P street, NE. For paving P street northeast from North Capitol street to Florida, avenue, seven thousand five hundred 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. Grading Streets, Alleys, and Roads: 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, streets, etc. Condemnation of Streets, Roads, and Alleys:
For 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, pipes, etc. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, seventy-five thousand dollars. Suburban. For suburban sewers, seventy-five thousand dollars. F street and Easby’s Point sewer. For constructing the Fifteenth street and F street portion of the F street and Easby’s Point intercepting sewer, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the total cost of constructing said portion of said intercepting Contract.sewer, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed eighty-seven thousand dollars.
Fifteenth street, extended. For sewer in Fifteenth street extended between Columbia road and Kenesaw avenue, one thousand dollars; and authority is hereby given 399the Commissioners of the District to lay a water main in said street between the points named if found necessary. For the construction of the following-named sewers now under contract, namely: For continuation of the Rock Creek and B street intercepting sewer, Rock Creek sewer.sixty thousand dollars. For completion of the Eckington Valley sewer, seventeen thousand Eckington Valley.dollars, to be immediately available.
For completion of the Brookland sewer, forty-two thousand dollars. Brookland. For completion of the Kenesaw avenue sewer, four thousand dollars. Kenesaw avenue. For condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, Condemnation.and repairs of public sewers, one thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, For automatic flushing tanks, one thousand dollars. Flushing tanks. STREETS. Streets. Repairs Streets, Avenues, and Alleys: For current work of Repairs, streets, etc.
Street railways.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 be collected from such railroad company as provided by section five of Vol. 20, p. 106.“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: *Provided,* That the fifth section *Provisos.* Metropolitan Railway Company.
Vol. 28, p. 218.of the Act of Congress approved August second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, relating to reciprocal trackage arrangements by the Metropolitan and other railroad companies, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding the following thereto: *Provided,* That any suburban Use of city tracks by suburban companies.street railroad company in the District of Columbia intersecting or connecting with any urban street railroad may have such reasonable number of its trail cars drawn by such urban railroad company, over the route of such urban railroad for the transportation of through passengers, as shall not, in the judgment of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, be to the undue detriment of such urban railroad company.
The schedule, kind, and number of cars to be drawn, compensation Agreement as to schedules, etc.therefor, and all other matters relating thereto in the event of said railroad companies being unable to agree between themselves shall, from time to time, on petition of either railroad company, be decided by said supreme court: *Provided further,* That in no event To collect fares only on their own lines.shall any railroad company be entitled under said law providing for trackage arrangements or under the provisions of this Act to collect fares except from such passengers as board the cars upon their own line: *Provided further,* That this provision shall not be construed to Existing rights not affected.affect rights heretofore acquired either by contract or under any order of court made under authority of law.
For replacing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations, five Sidewalks, etc.thousand dollars. Repairs County Roads: For current work of repairs of county Repairs, roads.roads and suburban streets, forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That *Proviso.* Available for all roads.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, Vol. 27, p. 532.eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
Construction of County Roads: For construction of county Constructing county roads.roads and suburban streets, as follows: For grading and regulating Sherman avenue, Roanoke and Irving streets, continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That *Provisos.* Removing buildings, etc., Garfield Hospital grounds.this appropriation shall be available for removing buildings, terracing banks, and replacing fences of Garfield Hospital grounds and other premises abutting on Sherman avenue between Grant and Princeton 400Widening Sherman avenue.streets: *Provided,* That no part of the amount hereby appropriated shall be expended on Sherman avenue until the owners thereof dedicate to the District of Columbia the ground for widening Sherman avenue in conformity with the adopted and recorded plans of highway extensions;
Constructing building, etc., for Garfield Hospital. For taking down brick building on the northeast corner of Garfield Memorial Hospital grounds, the removal of which has been made necessary by reason of the widening and grading of Sherman avenue at that point, and constructing another building on said premises to take its place, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For grading and regulating Columbia road, Sixteenth street northwest extended. Prospect street, Crescent street, Superior street.
Erie street. Central street, Meridian and Ontario avenues. Meridian Hill: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars; Connecticut avenue extended. Report. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, required to examine into the proposed extension of Connecticut avenue from Florida avenue to the District line, and report to Congress on or before the first Monday of December next, the comparative advantages and disadvantages and comparative cost of opening said Connecticut avenue on a straight extension of the line thereof as now established in the city of Washington, instead of opening the same on the deflected line heretofore adopted and now on file; and that from and Suspension of building permits.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. *Post,* p. 672.
For grading Massachusetts avenue extended, ten thousand dollars; For grading and graveling Albemarle street and opening same by purchase or condemnation to Grant road: Continuing improvement, nine thousand dollars; For grading Illinois avenue, five thousand dollars; For grading and graveling Pierce and High streets, Anacostia, from Jefferson to Maple, provided the land necessary to unite these, streets be first dedicated, three thousand dollars; Damages, Thirty-seventh street.
For paying court expenses and fees of commissioners and paying for ground taken and damages to property to open and extend Thirty-seventh street between Rack street and Tennallytown road, at or near Schneider Jane, as per plat and proceedings already bad in the supreme court of the District of Columbia and award of court commissioners made therein, nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available; For improving and protecting Connecticut avenue extended, beyond Rock Creek, ten thousand dollars;
Broad Branch road. For continuing the macadamizing of the road extending from the Broad Branch road to Chevy Chase Circle, five thousand dollars; and Reconveyance of land.authority is given to the District Commissioners to reconvey to the original owners any portion of said road upon receiving a conveyance of an equivalent in conformity with the new plan of highways; For grading and regulating Yale, Bismark, Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia streets, between Seventh and Fourteenth streets, seventeen thousand dollars; in all, ninety thousand five hundred dollars.
Sprinkling, sweeping streets, etc. For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, one hundred and thirty thousand five hundred dollars. Cleaning snow, etc. Vol. 28, p. 899. 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. Parking Commission. For the 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; 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 401unfit for service; for storage and cartage of material, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no more than twenty dollars per *Provisos.* Limit of cost.annum for each street lamp shall be 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 To burn every night.night, on the average, from forty-five minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: *Provided further,* That before any expenditures Regulators.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 are lighting, including necessary inspection, in those Electric lighting.streets now lighted with electric arc lights in the city of Washington, and for necessary extensions of such service, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hot more than thirty cents per night shall be paid for *Provisos.* Maximum cost, etc.any electric are light burning from forty-five minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise and operated wholly by means of underground wires: and each are light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, 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 a venues of the city of Washington: *Provided,* Temporary use of overhead wires outside of fire limits.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, under such reasonable restrictions as they may prescribe, authorize any existing electric light company having overhead wires to maintain and use for a period of eight months and no longer, its existing poles and overhead *Post,* p. 673.wires west of Rock Creek in places outside of the existing lire limits of the city of Washington and of the District of Columbia, and any such overhead wire, system may be extended west of Rock Creek and outside of said tire limits to continue only for the said period of eight months, and at the end of said period ail right or authority hereby conferred shall cease.
And the said Commissioners may also authorize any such existing Conduits for wires in Georgetown.electric light company to construct and use under such regulations as the Commissioners may fix conduits for the reception of existing overhead wires within the territory formerly known as Georgetown, and to extend the same by an aggregate of not more than one and one-fourth miles of conduit in the same territory. And the United States Electric Extension of conduits east of Rock Creek.Lighting Company may extend its underground conduits and wires east of Rock Creek and within the said fire limits to Mount Pleasant, and Washington and Columbia Heights under such regulations as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may prescribe.
Harbor and River Front: For the improvement and protection Harbor 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, one Repairs to boat.thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Bathing Beach: For the care and repair of the public bathing Bathing beach.beach on the Potomac River, in the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; and toward adapting the inner basin on the Potomac flats for a public bathing pool, with the approval of the Secretary of War, four thousand dollars; in all, five 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 of Pumps.public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, filling abandoned or condemned public wells, and drilling deep wells, eight thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Care of Bridges: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, Bridges.oil, lamps, and matches, three thousand five hundred dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. 402 WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.
Washington Aqueduct. Maintenance, etc. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars. For inserting air valves and blow-off valves in the thirty-six-inch and thirty-inch mains, five thousand dollars. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Public schools. Superintendents, clerks, etc. For Officers: For superintendent first six divisions, three thousand three hundred dollars; superintendent seventh and eighth divisions, two thousand two hundred 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.
Teachers. For Teachers: For one thousand and seventy-one 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-four, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand one hundred dollars each;
For fifty-eight, 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 one, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For twenty-seven, at eight hundred dollars each; For eighty-one, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For nineteen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each;
For one hundred and five, at seven hundred dollars each; For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and eleven, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For fourteen, at six hundred dollars each; For four, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and twenty-nine, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For ninety-nine, at five hundred dollars each; For thirty-one, at four hundred and seventy-five dollars each;
For sixty-two, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; For sixty two, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For sixty-seven, at four hundred dollars each; in all, seven hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars: No sex discrimination. *Provided,* That in assigning salaries to teachers, no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school and performing a like class of duties. Night schools.
For teachers of night schools, who may also be teachers in the day schools, six thousand dollars. For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. Janitors. For Janitors and Care of Buildings and Grounds: For care 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, of the 403high-school building of the seventh and eighth divisions, and of the Business High School (the janitor in which shall also be an engineer), at one thousand two hundred dollars each;
Of the Franklin and Stevens buildings, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; Of the Peabody building, nine hundred dollars; Of the Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garnet, Giant, Henry, Seaton, Sunnier, 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, Buchanan, Carberry, Corcoran, Branch, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Harrison, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Lenox, Logan, McCormick, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Monroe, Morse, Patterson, Phelps, Pierce, Phillips, Polk, Slater, Smallwood, Taylor, Towers, Twining.
Tyler, Van Buren, Weightman, Wormley, and Wilson buildings, and the six new eight-room buildings, fifty-three 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, High Street, Potomac, Threlkeld, and Congress Heights (Giesboro) 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, tour thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars.
For rent of school buildings, and repair shop, thirteen thousand one Rent.hundred dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, Repairs, etc.thirty-two thousand dollars. For the purchase of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus, to be Tools, etc.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, as Furniture.follows:
Eighth division B, eight rooms, one thousand four hundred dollars; Tenley, Brightwood, Brookland, and Congress Heights, four rooms, at seven hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars; Ivy City and Garfield, two rooms, each three hundred and fifty dollars, seven hundred dollars; in all, four thousand tune hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing, Contingent expenses.insurance, and other necessary items, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight Free schoolbooks, etc.grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, tube distributed by the superintendent of public, schools under regulations to be made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, thirty-eight thousand dollars. For reconstructing and adding to the Wallach School building, Buildings.twenty-two thousand dollars.
For one eight-room building and site, northeast, thirty-nine thousand dollars. For additional ground and reconstructing Anthony Bowen School building, thirty thousand dollars. For one four-room school building, Langdon, eight thousand dollars. A contract is hereby authorized for the construction of an eight-room school building, sixth division B, Giesboro, at a total cost not exceeding twenty-one thousand dollars; and the appropriation of nine thousand dollars heretofore made for a four-room building, sixth division B, 404Giesboro, is hereby made available toward the construction of said eight-room building.
For one, new two-room building and site on or near the line of Connecticut avenue, extended, eight thousand dollars. Conduit road building. Purchase of site. Vol. 28, p.755. The appropriation of eight thousand dollars for one new four-room building, sixth division A, Conduit road, made by the District appropriation Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby authorized to be used for the purchase of a site and the erection of said building. For reconstructing Stevens building, six thousand dollars.
For site for, and toward the construction of, a new building for the Western High School, fifty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said Western High School building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars: *Proviso.* Coat 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 plane, 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. Flags. For the purpose of purchasing a sufficient number of United States flags to place on every public schoolhouse in the District of Columbia on school days and during school hours, the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended by the school trustees of the District, and to be immediately available.
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; 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, atone thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty- one sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; two hundred and eighty-six privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and ninety-four 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 flirty 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 *Proviso.* Deficiency in relief funds.hundred and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to deposit with the Treasurer of the United States, out of receipts from fines in the police court, a sufficient amount to meet any deficiency in the police fund or the firemen’s relief fund. 405 Each of the members of the Metropolitan Police shall be entitled to Leaves of absence.twenty days’ leave of absence each year with pay, the time of leave in each instance to be determined by the District Commissioners.
Miscellaneous: For rent of substation at Anacostia, two hundred Miscellaneous.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 bedclothing, 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, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars;
For extending the patrol system and changing the location of certain boxes, three thousand five hundred dollars; For one light ambulance to replace heavy two-horse ambulance for genera] work, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all. twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Fire department. For chief engineer, two thousand dollars; fire marshal, one thousand Salaries.dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; two assistant chief engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; fifteen foremen, at one thousand dollars each; ten engineers, at one thousand dollars each; ten firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; four tillermen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; sixteen hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one hundred and one privates, at eight hundred dollars each; eight watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred dollars: *Provided,* *Provisos.* Deductions from pay for relief fund.That hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall deduct one dollar per month from the pay of each fireman, which sum so deducted shall be kept as a firemen’s relief fund and be invested in United States or District bonds, and held in the manner provided by existing law in respect to the policemen’s fund, and shall be used for the relief of any fireman who, having served not less than twelve Allowance of relief.months, shall by reason of injuries received or disease contracted in the line of actual fire duty, going to, at. or returning from a fire, or having served not less than fifteen years shall become so permanently disabled as to be discharged from service therefor; and in the case of the death of such fireman from such injury or disease, leaving a widow or children under sixteen years of age, for their relief: *Provided,* That No allowance in cases of negligence.no fireman shall be entitled to any of the benefits of this relief fund who may by reason of his own indiscretion bring on any injury or disease which may incapacitate him from the performance of his duties as a member of the fire department, or who shall be retired for such cause or causes: *Provided further,* That such relief shall not exceed, Maximum allowances.for anyone fireman or his family, the sum of fifty dollars per month; and a sum not exceeding seventy-five dollars may be allowed from such fund to defray the funeral expenses of any fireman dying in the service of the District.
Miscellaneous: For repairs to engine houses, three thousand five Miscellaneous.hundred dollars; For repairs to apparatus, and new appliances, three thousand dollars; For purchase of hose, seven thousand dollars; For fuel, three thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, six thousand dollars; For forage, eight thousand dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and 406other necessary items, eight thousand dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
New house, etc. Increase Fire Department: For house, lot, and furniture for one engine company to be located in the vicinity of North Capitol street and Florida avenue, twenty-three thousand dollars; Engine. For one steam lire engine, four thousand two hundred dollars; Hose carriage. For one hose carriage, nine hundred dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand one hundred dollars. Exchange. To exchange old-style straight-frame engine for modern upright, three thousand five hundred dollars.
New engine, Mount Pleasant. For one new engine to be placed in house now occupied by chemical engine numbered two at Mount Pleasant, four thousand two hundred dollars. House, etc., Brightwood. For house, lot, and furniture to be located in the vicinity of Brightwood to accommodate chemical engine company numbered two, now in service at Mount Pleasant, fifteen thousand nine 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 dollars. Renewing poles, wires, etc. For Renewing City Lines:
For the purchase and setting of sixty-foot poles; necessary cross-arms and insulators to renew the decayed lines; purchase of copper wire to replace worn-out iron line wire, and extra labor for taking down the old wire and putting up new wire, five thousand dollars. Report on telephone charges. The Commissioners of the District are hereby directed to report to Congress, at its next regular session, what charges are made in the District of Columbia to the public, and to the Government for the use of telephones, and the relative charges made for the use of telephones in other cities, operated by underground and overhead wires.
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 a 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; 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 may also act as sanitary and food inspectors; clerk, one thou sand 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 thousand nine hundred dollars. 407 Miscellaneous:
For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty Rent.dollars. For collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals, fifty-seven Garbage.thousand dollars. That any balance of the appropriation for the collection and removal Balance available.of garbage in the District of Columbia, remaining unexpended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall be available for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. For the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the Scarlet fever and diphtheria.
Vol. 26. p. 691spread 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 ambulance for contagious diseases, three hundred and fifty dollars. Ambulance. COURTS. Courts. For the Police Court: For two judges, at three thousand dollars Police 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 thousand Miscellaneous.four hundred dollars; For witness fees, seven thousand dollars; For repairs of police-court building, seven hundred dollars; For repairs to police-court furniture and replacing same, 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; in all, sixteen Jurors.thousand nine hundred dollars.
Defending Suits in Claims: For defending suits in the United Defense in claims.States Court of Claims, two thousand dollars. Writs of Lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the execution Lunacy writs.of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia, under the provisions of the Act Vol. 19, p. 347.approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two thousand dollars.
INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. Interest and sinking fund. For interest and sinking final 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 cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in the purchase *Proviso.* Purchases.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. 408 FOR REFORMATORIES AND PRISONS.
Reformatories and prisons. 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. Court-House, District of Columbia: 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. Warden of jail. Warden of the Jail: For warden of the jail of the District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General.
Support of prisoners in jail, etc. Support of Prisoners: 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-five thousand dollars. Transporting paupers, etc. Transportation of Paupers and Prisoners: For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, three thousand five hundred dollars. Washington Asylum. For 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, six hundred dollars; baker, font 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; night watchman, five hundred and forty-eight dollars; carpenter, six hundred dollars; five watchmen, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; blacksmith, three 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; four cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; two cooks, at sixty dollars each; trained nurse, four hundred and twenty dollars; five nurses, at sixty dollars each; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars.
Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs, provisions, 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 painting and repairs of almshouse and workhouse, one thousand dollars. For central heating station, boilers, piping, necessary appliances for heating by steam or hot water, the buildings composing the hospital department of the institution, consisting of dispensary and physicians’ quarters, nurses’ quarters, operating rooms, and wards one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, four thousand dollars.
Reform School. For Reform School: For superintendent, one thousand five hundred 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; 409laundress, one bandied 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, flour, feed, meats, dry Support of inmates.goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, tableware, furniture, 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. Support of insane. For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided in R. S., secs. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 940.sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, one hundred and four thousand and forty-nine dollars. FOR INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB. Columbia Institution, Deaf and Dumb. For expenses attending 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 R.
S., sec. 4884, 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 CHARITIES. Charities. For relief of the poor, thirteen thousand dollars. Relief of poor. For Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army Soldiers and Sailors’ Home.of the Republic, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the Women’s Christian Association, maintenance, four thousand Women’s Christian Association.dollars.
For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance, fifteen Emergency Hospital. thousand dollars.For the Children’s Hospital, maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Children’s Hospital. For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington, Homeopathic Hospital.District of Columbia, for maintenance, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, maintenance, six thousand Foundling Hospital.dollars. For the Church Orphanage Association of Saint John’s Parish, Church Orphanage.maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the German Orphan Asylum, maintenance, one thousand eight German Orphan Asylum.hundred dollars. For the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Association for Destitute Colored Women.Women and Children, maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, maintenance, five thousand four Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum.hundred dollars. For Association for Works of Mercy, maintenance, one thousand eight Association for Works of Mercy.hundred dollars.
For House of the Good Shepherd, maintenance, two thousand seven House of the Good Shepherd.hundred dollars. 410 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 Christian 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 to building, five thousand *Proviso.* Trustees, etc., not to deal with institutions.dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no member or members of any board or boards of trustees or directors of any charitable institution, organization or corporation in the District of Columbia, which is supported in whole or in part by appropriations made by Congress, shall engage in traffic with said institution, organization or corporation for financial gain, and any member or members of such board of trustees or directors who shall so engage in such traffic shall be deemed now and hereafter legally disqualified for service on said board or boards.
Freedmen’s Hospital. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: 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, watch men, 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 supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand dollars.
Girls’ Reform School. Reform School for Girls: For superintendent, one thousand 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 tour 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, bedding, sewing machines, fixtures, books, horses, stationery, vehicles, harness, rows, stables, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand nine hundred and twenty five dollars.
Industrial Home School. *Proviso.* To be transferred to Commissioners, etc. Industrial Home School: For maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the board of manager’s of the Industrial Home School, on or before the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall transfer said school to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and said Commissioners Board of trustees.shall thereupon appoint a board of trustees of said school, consisting of nine members, whose terms of office shall be, for the first appointment, three members for one year, three members for two year’s, and three members for three years, and thereafter all appointments shall be for a term of three years, except appointments to fill out unexpired Regulations, etc.terms.
The board of trustees so appointed by the Commissioners shall manage the school under such regulations as now exist or may hereafter be made by said board, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. All designations for employment in said school made by said board of trustees shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and, in the event of 411disapproval by said Commissioners of any selection by said board of trustees, the said Commissioners shall make, the appointment.
All supplies for said school shall be obtained by requisition upon said Commissioners, and all moneys received at said school as income thereof from sale of products and from payments for board and instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to said Commissioners to be expended by them for the support of the school as herein provided. Board of Children’s Guardians: For the Board of Children’s Board 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 all office and sundry expenses, four thousand dollars; For care of feeble-minded children; care of children under three Care of 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, 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 the Declaration of policy not to support religions institutions.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, No further appropriations for religious institutions.eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, no money appropriated for charitable 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 a joint select committee is hereby authorized, to consist of three Congressional joint committee to investigate charitable institutions, etc. *Post,* p. 683.Senators to be appointed by the presiding officer of the Senate, and three Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, which select committee shall make investigation of the charities and reformatory institutions of the District of Columbia, and especially of those for which appropriations are made by this Act, as respects their relations to the Government of the District of Columbia and to the United States, whether by special charter or otherwise, their efficiency, their management and resources, whether by appropriations, investments, or otherwise, and also what portion, if any, of appropriations heretofore made to them have been used for the purpose of 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; whether such charitable or reformatory institutions are effective and economical in their organization, methods, and expenditure to provide for the poor and destitute in the District of Columbia; whether it is practicable for the Commissioners or other authority in the District to make contracts or to otherwise provide for such care of the poor and destitute with any of said institutions, and if so, which of them and to what extent, within the limitations of the policy hereinbefore declared; and if not, the probable expense of providing and maintaining public institutions for such purpose.
Said committee shall make report as soon as practicable after the Report.beginning of the next session of the present Congress, including in such report any changes by them deemed advisable as respects the methods of dealing with the charities and the reformatory institutions of said District. Said committee is authorized to sit during the recess, and the necessary Expenses, etc.expenses of the committee, including clerical and stenographic work, shall be paid oat of the contingent funds of the Senate and House of Representatives, jointly, on the certificate of the chairman of the committee. 412 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: Rent, etc. For rent, fuel, light, care, and repair of armories, fourteen thousand dollars. Current expenses. For telephone service, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For lockers, gun racks, and furniture 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, and construction and repairs on rifle range, three thousand dollars. For expenses of annual camp of instruction, seven thousand dollars. For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars: *Proviso.* Accounts to under Commissioners.*Provided,* That hereafter all leases and contracts involving expenditures on account of the militia shall be made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and appropriations for the militia shall be disbursed only upon vouchers duly authorized by the Commissioners, for which they shall be held strictly accountable.
Contracts, etc. 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 revenue 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: seven 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 bundled and sixty-four dollars each; property keeper, six hundred dollars; three firemen, at seven hundred and thirty dollars each; two flushers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; two watchmen, at four bandied and eighty dollars each; hostler, four hundred and eighty dollars; calker, seven hundred and thirty dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand nine 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.
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 419, 420. 1896. 413 For interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thousand Interest and sinking fund.six hundred and ten dollars. For interest on account of increasing the water supply, as provided Increasing water supply. Interest. Vol. 22, p. 170.in the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, two thousand nine hundred and five dollars and seventy-three cents and such additional amount as may be necessary to pay said interest in full for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
For sinking fund on account of increase of water supply, under Act Sinking fund.of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eight thousand and eighty seven dollars and sixty nine cents; and such additional amount as may be necessary to pay said sinking land in full for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: *Provided,* That riot exceeding three *Proviso.* Surplus revenues to pay principal.hundred thousand dollars of the surplus general revenues of the District of Columbia remaining on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, 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 the forty-eight-inch and Fourteenth street water mains, and in part 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 fifth year’s interest on one half the cost of the forty-eight-inch Interest 48-inch and Fourteenth street mains.and Fourteenth street mains, seven thousand four hundred and fifty-seven dollars. For continuing the extension of the high-service system of water Extending 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-seven, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. That, said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon Limit of requisitions on the Treasury.the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Approved, June 11, 1896.
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