Chapter 422. Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes
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Chap. 422: Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes. Chapter 422 30 Stat. 1045 1899-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 3 public chap. 422.— An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes.March 3, 1899. *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. Half from District revenues. sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of 1046FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 422. 1899. 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, nineteen hundred, namely: GENERAL EXPENSES.General expenses. For executive office:
For two Commissioners, at five thousand Executive office. Commissioners, secretary, etc. dollars each; Engineer Commissioner, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight 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 clerk, six hundred dollars; 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: veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of buildings, two thousand four hundred dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars; and the principal assistant inspector of buildings may hereafter perform and discharge any of the duties of the inspector of buildings when so directed by the Commissioners: assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand two hundred dollars; four assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand dollars each; 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; 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; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; 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: inspector of plumbing, two thousand dollars; five assistant inspectors of plumbing, at one thousand dollars each, five members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each; harbor master, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, fifty-six thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars.
For assessor’s office: For assessor, three thousand five hundred Assessor’s office. 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 ; four 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-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For collector’s office: For collector, four thousand dollars; Collector’s office. 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: For auditor, three thousand six hundred Auditor’s office. dollars; chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand dollars: mes-1047senger, six hundred dollars; in all, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For attorney’s office: For attorney, four thousand dollars; Attorney’s office. 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 Sinking-fund office. of the United States: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For coroner’s office: For coroner, one thousand eight hundred Coroner. dollars. For market masters: For two market masters, at one thousand Market 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 sealer Sealer of weights and measures. of weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For engineer’s office: Record division: For chief clerk, one Engineer’s office. thousand nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each ; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; computing engineer, two thousand four hundred 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 three hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of parking, nine hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; inspector of asphalt and cements, two 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 seven 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, two thousand dollars; Street sweeping office. 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 1048 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 two hundred 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 in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and Payment of temporary employees, report. 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 District, in their annual report, to Congress, shall report the number of such overseers, inspectors, and other employees, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation.
Superintendent of charities: For superintendent of charities, Superintendent of charities. three thousand dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; traveling expenses, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars. For surveyor’s office: For surveyor, three thousand dollars; Surveyor’s office. 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.
Free public library: For librarian, one thousand six hundred Free public library. dollars; first assistant librarian, nine hundred dollars; second assistant librarian, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant librarian, six hundred dollars; and for rent, fuel, light, fitting up rooms, and other contingent expenses, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, Contingent expenses. namely:
For printing, checks, books, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market, houses, painting; 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-three thousand five hundred dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided,* That horses and *Proviso.* Horses, etc. vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall be used only for official purposes.
For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department, Engineer department, stables. including forage, livery of horses, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oil, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles and expenses, five thousand dollars; and no expenditure on account of the engineer department for the items named in this paragraph shall be made from any other fund.
For rent of District offices, nine thousand dollars.Rent. For rent of old record vault, six hundred dollars. For rent of property yards, three hundred dollars. 1049 For necessary expenses in the collection of overdue personal taxes Collection personal taxes. by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, one thousand five hundred dollars. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the Judicial expenses. 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, one thousand dollars.
For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees, Coroner’s expenses. 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, one thousand two hundred dollars. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax Advertising. and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, eighteen hundred Notice of arrears of taxes. Vol. 26, p. 24. and ninety-nine, 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. To enable the assessor to continue account of arrears of taxes on real property, due the District of Columbia, including the payment of necessary clerical force, two thousand dollars.
For special repairs to market houses, two thousand two hundred and Market houses. fifty dollars. For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District of Enforcing game and fish laws. Columbia, to be expended under direction of the Commissioners, five hundred dollars. For four volumes general assessment books, eighteen hundred and General assessment books, 1899–1900; preparation of. ninety-nine-nineteen hundred, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided,* That the employees in the office of the 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 this appropriation.
For two typewriting machines for reproducing additional copies, with mimeograph, four hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For fireproof facilities for the office of the surveyor of the District Fireproof facilities, surveyor’s office. of Columbia, three thousand dollars. PLATS OF SUBDIVISIONS OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON. To pay the expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to enable Surveys and plats of outside subdivisions. 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 Vol. 25, p. 451.
District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars. PERMANENT SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS. To pay the expenses of completing a plan for the extension of a Extension of highways. Vol. 27, p. 532. 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, three 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 thirty thousand Assessment and permit work. dollars. 1050 IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.Improvements and repairs. For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix Y, Book of Streets and avenues. Estimates, nineteen hundred, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:
Georgetown schedule: Thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.Allotment. Northwest section schedule: Forty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Southwest section schedule: Twenty-one thousand dollars. Southeast section schedule: Thirty-eight thousand dollars. Northeast section schedule: Forty-four thousand dollars. *Provided,* That the streets and avenues shall be contracted for in the *Provisos.* Order of precedence. order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.
Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be Limit for contract of asphalt pavements. 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, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base: *Provided,* That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not Increase for certain streets. 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.
For paving the west side of North Capitol street from P street to North Capitol street. Florida avenue, three thousand dollars. For completion of removing cobblestones and repairing with asphalt D street. block D street between Sixth and Seventh streets southeast, eight hundred and fifty dollars. Grading streets, alleys, and roads: For purchase and repair Grading. 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, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, seven thousand dollars.
Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: For purchase or Condemnation of streets, etc. condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars. SEWERS.Sewers. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, fifty thousand dollars.Cleaning. For replacing obstructed sewers, twenty-five thousand dollars.Replacing. For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, fifty thousand dollars.Main, pipe, etc. For suburban sewers, fifty thousand dollars.Suburban. For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, Condemnation of rights of way, etc. and repair of public sewers, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For automatic flushing tanks, one thousand dollars.Automatic flushing tanks. For completing contract on the Tiber Creek and New Jersey avenue Tiber Creek, etc. high-level intercepting sewer, eighty-eight thousand dollars. For completing the northerly portion of the Tiber Creek and New Jersey avenue high-level intercepting sewer, now under contract, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the preparation of Pumping station. plans and acquiring of land for the sewage disposal pumping station shall remain available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred.
For extension of the boundary sewer to the vicinity of Twenty-second Extending boundary sewer. and A streets northeast, twenty-five thousand dollars. And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the extension of the boundary sewer to the vicinity of Twenty-second and A streets northeast at a cost not to exceed one 1051 hundred and ninety thousand dollars, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations may be made by law. For constructing in part east side intercepting sewer, between East side intercepting.
Twenty-second and A streets northeast and Twelfth street southeast, twenty thousand dollars. And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the construction of said intercepting sewer, at a cost of not to exceed one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations may be made by law. For constructing in part east side intercepting sewer, from Twelfth street southeast to the pumping station at foot of New Jersey avenue, twenty thousand dollars.
And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the construction of said intercepting sewer, at a cost not to exceed eighty six thousand dollars, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations may be made by law. STREETS.Streets. Repairs, streets, avenues, and alleys: For current work of Repairs. repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall be Street railways. available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary.
The amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad Vol. 20, p. 106. 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. and municipal buildings, fifteen thousand dollars.
Repairs, county roads: For current work of repairs of county County roads. roads and suburban streets, sixty thousand dollars. Construction of county roads: For construction of county roads and suburban streets, as follows: For paving University place between Welling and Huntington places, University place. six thousand five hundred dollars; For grading and regulating Wilson street, Howard University subdivision, Wilson street. five thousand dollars; For paving Spruce street, Le Droit Park, from Larch street to Harewood Spruce street. avenue, five thousand dollars;
For paving Harrison street, Anacostia, continuing improvement, five Harrison street. thousand dollars; For paving Kennesaw avenue and Columbia avenue and Harvard Kenesaw avenue. Street from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets, fifteen thousand dollars; For grading Pennsylvania avenue extended southeast, and Branch Pennsylvania and Branch avenues. avenue, three thousand dollars; For completion of grading and improving Michigan avenue to a Michigan avenue. width of one hundred feet, ten thousand dollars;
For completion of grading of Albemarle street to a width of fifty Albemarle street. feet and laying cobble gutters and macadam roadway thirty-five feet wide, five thousand dollars; For the grading and regulating Thirty-seventh street, between New Thirty-seventh street. Cut road and Tennallytown road, two thousand five hundred dollars; For grading and regulating Kenesaw avenue and Park road, continuing Kenesaw avenue and Park road. improvement, ten thousand dollars; For grading and graveling Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth streets, Langdon.
Langdon, four thousand dollars; For grading and paving Kenyon street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Kenyon street. streets, completing improvement, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For paving Belmont street from Eighteenth street to Columbia road, Belmont street. completing improvement, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available; 1052 For constructing granite block and asphalt roadway on Bennings Bennings road. road from Fifteenth street eastward, seventeen thousand dollars;
For grading and regulating Adams Mill road from Columbia road to Adams Mill road. the Zoological Park entrance, three thousand dollars; For grading and regulating Illinois avenue, one thousand dollars;Illinois avenue. For grading and regulating Kansas avenue from Brightwood avenue Kansas avenue. toward Trenton street, two thousand dollars; For improvements of Connecticut avenue extended, ten thousand Connecticut avenue. dollars; For paving Sheridan circle, fifteen thousand dollars;Sheridan circle.
For paving Kalorama avenue from Eighteenth street to Columbia Kalorama avenue. road, five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning: For sprinkling, sweeping, Sprinkling, sweeping, etc., streets. and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Commissioners of *Provisos.* Specifications for bids. the District shall make specifications for the manner of sweeping and cleaning the streets by machinery and by hand labor, and shall advertise to let the work to the lowest responsible bidder, according to such specifications, and if the same, or any part thereof, can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty-two cents for hand work and twenty-two cents for machine work per thousand square yards, then they may do said work under their immediate direction, but the same shall be done according to the said specifications: *Provided,* That the —limit of price under. specifications for bids shall provide that the payment for labor in the execution of said contract shall not be less than that now paid by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for cleaning the streets by hand.
For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, and so forth, Cleaning snow and ice. Vol. 28, p. 809. under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars. For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, including Parking commission. laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Lighting: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, Lighting. and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining 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 seventy-two thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided,**Provisos*.
Limit per lamp. That no more than twenty dollars per 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 night, on the average, To burn every night. from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: *Provided further,* That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined Self-regulating burner and tip. and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour: *And provided further,* That not more than five thousand dollars of said appropriation Amount available for lamps of higher candlepower, etc. may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, repairing, painting, and cleaning public lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph excepting as to the time of burning.
For electric arc lighting, including necessary inspection, in those Electric lighting. streets now lighted with electric arc lights in the city of Washington, and for extensions of such service along the lines of lawful conduits now existing, not exceeding sixty-three thousand dollars: *Provided,**Provisos.* Limit of price, etc. That not more than twenty-five cents per night shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five 1053 minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wire; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington: *Provided further,* That the Commissioners Enlargement, etc. of existing conduits. of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to grant permits for the repair, enlargement, and extension, under proper regulations, of existing electric-lighting conduits, and in every conduit constructed or to be constructed under the provisions of this paragraph, three ducts shall be reserved for the use of the United States and the Reservation of ducts for city, etc.
District of Columbia, and as a condition for the right to use conduits heretofore built, or to be built under the provisions of this Act, the electric lighting companies shall be required at all times to furnish to the public and to private consumers in all parts of the District of Columbia standard arc lights of not less than one thousand actual candle-power, at a rate not exceeding seventy-two dollars per annum for each arc light; and on and Reduction of rates. after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the maximum price of electric current sold or furnished to any consumer in the District of Columbia shall be reduced from the present maximum of fifteen cents per Kilo-watt hour to not exceeding ten cents per Kilo watt hour.
That if consumers other than the Government shall not pay monthly Increase for failure to pay bill. electric bills within ten days after the same shall have been presented, said companies may charge and collect from said consumer so failing to pay said bill as aforesaid eleven cents per Kilo watt hour for the electric current furnished to said consumer during said month: *And provided further,* The right to amend, modify, or repeal the privileges Amendment. herein granted, and to further limit the prices herein specified, is hereby expressly reserved; any company charging or collecting an Penalty, excessive rates. amount in excess of the rates herein prescribed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall pay to the District of Columbia the sum of fifty dollars for each and every offense, to be collected as other fines are now collected in the District of Columbia.
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. Bathing beach: For the improvement, care, and repair of the Bathing beach. public bathing beach in the Potomac River, in the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For public scales: For repair and replacement of public scales, Public 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, five thousand dollars. BRIDGES.Bridges. For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, oil, lamps, and Care. matches, four thousand dollars. For construction and repairs of bridges, twenty-five thousand dollars.Repairs, etc. Toward the construction of a bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Massachusetts avenue, across Rock Creek.
Massachusetts avenue extended, upon plans to be made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and approved by the Chief of Engineers of the Army, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of said bridge in accordance with said plans at a total cost for its completion, including foundations, not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid for as appropriations may be made by law.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.Washington Aqueduct. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty-one thousand Maintenance. dollars. 1054 For repairing the Conduit road, one thousand dollars.Conduit road. For repairing the north connection of the by-conduit, Dalecarlia reservoir, three thousand dollars. For additional amount to enable the proper officer of the Government Filtering water supply. having charge of the Washington Aqueduct and the water supply to the city of Washington to make an investigation of the feasibility and propriety of filtering the water supply of Washington and to submit to Congress a full and detailed report thereon, and to meet all necessary expenses of said investigation, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
INCREASING THE WATER SUPPLY.Washington Aqueduct tunnel. For continuing work on the Washington Aqueduct tunnel according Continuing work. to the estimate of the board of experts, two hundred thousand dollars. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.Public schools. For officers: For superintendent first eight divisions, three thousand Superintendent, clerks, etc. six hundred dollars: superintendent ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners and give bond and oath, to be approved by them, and perform such duties as they shall prescribe, two thousand 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, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For teachers: For one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine Teachers. 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 fourteen, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; For four, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; For thirty, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; For seventy-two, at one thousand dollars each;
For eighteen, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; For twenty, at nine hundred dollars each: For fourteen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For sixteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; For eighty-two, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For thirty-two, at eight hundred dollars each, For eighty-five, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For seventeen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; For one hundred and twenty-two, at seven hundred dollars each;
For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and thirty-one, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; For twenty-two, at six hundred dollars each; For six, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each; For one hundred and fifty-three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For one hundred and twenty-two, at five hundred dollars each; For thirty seven, at four hundred and seventy-five dollars each;
For fifty-four, at four hundred and fifty dollars each; For fifty, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; For fifty-six, at four hundred dollars each; in all, eight hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; 1055 *Provided,* That in assigning salaries to teachers, no discrimination *Proviso.* No sex discrimination. shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school and performing a like class of duties. For teachers of night schools, who may also be teachers in the day Night schools. schools, eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars. For kindergarten instruction, fifteen thousand dollars. For janitors and care of buildings and grounds: For care Janitors. 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, Western High School, Business High School, High School of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, and Stevens School buildings, five, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;
Of the Franklin Building, one thousand one hundred dollars; Of the Wallach Building, one thousand dollars; Of the Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, Webster, and O Street Manual Training School, twelve, at nine hundred dollars each; Of the Lincoln, Miner, and Mott buildings, three, at eight hundred dollars each: Of the Abbott, Berrett, John F. Cook, and Randall buildings, four, at seven hundred dollars each: Of the Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Brightwood, Brookland, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Cranch, Douglass, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings.
Eckington, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Lenox, Logan, Lovejoy McCormick, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Monroe, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Peabody Annex, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Slater, Smallwood, Taylor, Tenley, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Buren, Weightman. Wilson, and Wormly buildings, and two new eight-room buildings, sixty-two in all, at five hundred dollars each. Of the Garfield, Hillsdale, Thompson, Van Buren annex, and Woodburn buildings, five at two hundred and fifty dollars each;
Of the Bennings (white). Bennings (colored), Birney, Chevy Chase, Hamilton, High Street, Langdon, Potomac, Reservoir, and Threlkeld buildings, ten, 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, sixty-five thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of school buildings and repair shop, fourteen Rent. thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, fifty Repairs. thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus to be Tools, etc. used in connection with instruction in manual training, ten thousand dollars. For fuel, thirty-seven thousand dollars.Fuel.
For furniture for new school buildings and additions to buildings, as Furniture. follows: Third division, southeast, one thousand four hundred dollars; Sixth division, northeast, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, printing, Contingent expenses. insurance, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, 1056 including maintenance of horse and carriage for the two principal superintendents, thirty thousand six hundred dollars.
For text books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight Free text-books. grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of United States flags, one thousand dollars.Flags.
Buildings and grounds: For completing manual training school Buildings. building, first eight divisions, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available, said building to be fireproof; and the total cost of said fireproof manual training school building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For one eight-room building and site, seventh division, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For one eight-room building, Hillsdale, thirty thousand dollars. For one four-room building and site, Takoma Park, eighteen thousand dollars. For purchase of lot adjoining Peabody Annex building on the north, four thousand two hundred dollars or so much as may be necessary. For site for, and toward the construction of, a fireproof manual-training school building for ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, fifty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
That the total cost of the site and of the several and respective —limit of cost. buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated for such purposes. That the plans and specifications for each of said buildings, and for Preparing plans, etc. all other buildings provided for in this Act, shall be prepared under the supervision of 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 building shall be constructed by the Commissioners in conformity therewith.
That hereafter pupils shall not be admitted to or taught free of charge Nonresident pupils not admitted, etc. in the public schools of the District of Columbia who do not reside in said District, or whose parents do not reside or are not engaged in business or public duties therein: *Provided,* That such pupils may be *Proviso.* —payment. admitted to and taught in said public schools on payment of such amount, to be fixed by the board of school trustees, with the approval of the Commissioners of the District, as will cover the expense of their tuition and cost of text-books and school supplies used by them; and all payments hereunder shall be paid into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE.Police. For major and superintendent, three thousand three hundred dollars; Salaries. 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 service in the detection and prevention of crime, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; nine lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-two sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; three hundred and twenty-five privates, class one, at nine hun-1057dred dollars each; two hundred privates, class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; twenty station keepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; ten 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, six hundred and twenty-two thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, on application Special policemen for corporations, etc. of any corporation or individual, or in their own discretion, may appoint special policemen for duty in connection with the property of, or under the charge of, such corporation or individual; said special policemen to be paid wholly by the corporation or person on whose account their appointments are made, and to be subject to such general regulations as the said Commissioners may prescribe.
Miscellaneous: For rent of substation at Anacostia, three hundred Miscellaneous. and sixty dollars; For fuel, two thousand two hundred dollars; For repairs to stations, three thousand dollars; For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including stationery, Contingent expenses. books, telegraphing, photographing, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bedclothing, insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, bicycles, 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, twenty-two thousand dollars;
For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For rent of police and fire department headquarters, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars. FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.Fire department. For chief engineer, two thousand dollars; two assistant chief engineers, Salaries. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, nine hundred dollars; fire marshal, one thousand dollars; twenty foremen, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen engineers, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; four tillermen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one hundred and thirty-two privates, at eight hundred dollars each; eight watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; machinist, one thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty three thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Miscellaneous: For repairs to engine houses, four thousand five Miscellaneous. hundred dollars; For repairs of apparatus, and new appliances, four thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of hose, nine thousand dollars; For fuel, four thousand dollars; For purchase of horses, eight thousand dollars; For forage, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, eleven thousand dollars;
In all, forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. Increase fire department: For one chemical engine, two thousand Increase. two hundred dollars; 1058 For two trucks, seven thousand dollars; For house, lot, and furniture for a truck company to be located in the northern part of West Washington, twenty-three thousand dollars; For house, lot, and furniture for a truck company to be located in Columbia Heights, twenty-three thousand dollars; For house, lot, and furniture for a chemical engine company to be located in Tennallytown, fifteen thousand dollars;
In all, seventy thousand two hundred dollars. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE SERVICE.Telegraph and telephone service. For superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; electrician, Salaries. one thousand two hundred dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; expert repair man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; three repair men, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; in all, eleven thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, 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. For placing wires of fire-alarm telegraph and police telephone service Fire-alarm telegraph, etc. under ground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to existing conduits, manholes, handholes, and other necessary items, six thousand dollars.
Extension of the fire-alarm telegraph: For purchase and —extension. erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, and extra labor, five thousand dollars. For extension of police-patrol system including purchase of new —police-patrol system. boxes, poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, and extra labor, five thousand dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT.Health Department. For health officer, three thousand dollars; fourteen sanitary and food Salaries. inspectors, who shall also oversee the collection of garbage and dead animals, 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, 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, two of whom may act as sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; 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-seven thousand nine hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty dollars.Rent. For collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals, fifty-seven Garbage. thousand dollars. For the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the Scarlet fever and diphtheria. Vol. 26, p. 691. Vol. 29, p. 635. spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 1059 under the direction of the health officer of the District, six thousand dollars.
For abatement of nuisances under section twenty-six of an ordinance Abatement of nuisances. Vol. 28, p. 257. to revise, consolidate, and amend the ordinances of the board of health, and so forth, legalized by the Act of August seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the cost of such abatement, when collected from the responsible party, to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, two hundred dollars. For maintaining the disinfecting service, three thousand dollars:
Disinfecting service. *Proviso.* No additional employees.*Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be expended for additional employees. 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; three 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; doorkeeper, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand two hundred and ninety six dollars.
Miscellaneous: For witness fees, four thousand dollars;Miscellaneous. For repairs of police court building, seven hundred dollars; For repairs to police court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dollars; For feeding, jurors, two hundred dollars; For rent of property adjoining police-court building, for police court and other purposes, six hundred dollars; For compensation of jury, eight thousand dollars; For purchase of linoleum, four hundred dollars; In all, fourteen thousand one hundred 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, six hundred dollars. INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water Interest and sinking fund. bonds, one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents.
EMERGENCY FUND. To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, Emergency fund. public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, eight thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in the purchase of all *Proviso.* Purchases. 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.
ROCK CREEK PARK.Rock Creek Park. For the care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, to be expended Care and improvement. under the direction of the board of control of said park, the unexpended 1060 balance, amounting to twenty-three thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty-five cents, of the appropriation made by the Act Vol. 20, p. 492. approved September twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, for expenses of acquiring said park, is hereby appropriated. FOR REFORMATORIES AND PRISONS.Reformatories.
Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation Support of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-six thousand dollars. Court-house, District of Columbia: For the following force Court-house. 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 the jail: For warden of the jail of the District of Warden of jail. Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General. Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail Support of prisoners in jail. of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-one thousand dollars. Transportation of paupers and prisoners: For transportation Transporting paupers, etc. of paupers, two thousand dollars.
For conveying prisoners to the workhouse, two thousand dollars. For Washington Asylum: For intendant, one thousand two hundred Washington Asylum. 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; property clerk, seven hundred and eighty 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 watchman, five hundred and forty-eight dollars; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred dollars; carpenter, five hundred dollars; driver for the dead-wagon, three hundred and sixty-five 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; hospital cook, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; four cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; two cooks, at sixty dollars each; trained nurse, four hundred and eighty dollars; graduated nurse, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; pupil nurses, not less than five in number, nine hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars.
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, fifty thousand dollars. For erection of a north wing of the almshouse, fifteen thousand dollars. For erection of a workhouse for males, fifty thousand dollars. For hospital furnishing, beds, bedding, and furniture for nurses’ home, surgical instruments and appliances, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available.
For repairs to buildings, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, removal of floors, and repairs to plumbing, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars. 1061 For Reform School: For superintendent, one thousand five hundred Reform School. 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 six hundred and twenty dollars; secretary and treasurer of board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry 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 construction of assembly hall, including plumbing, heating, and lighting fixtures, nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. FOR SUPPORT OF THE INSANE. For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Support of insane. R. S., secs. 4844, 4850, pp. 939, 940. the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District as provided in sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, one hundred and twenty-two thousand four hundred and ninety four dollars and eighty cents.
FOR INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons Columbia Institution, Deaf and Dumb. R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942. admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 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, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For the Women’s Christian Association, maintenance, four thousand Women’s Christian Association. dollars. For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance, Emergency Hospital. fifteen 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 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, etc. Women and Children, maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. 1062 For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, maintenance, five thousand four St.
Ann’s Asylum. hundred dollars. For Young Women’s Christian Home, one thousand dollars.Young Women’s Christian Home. For Hope and Help Mission, maintenance, two thousand dollars.Hope and Help Mission. For Newsboys’ and Children’s Aid Society, maintenance, one thousand Newsboys’ Aid. dollars. For Eastern Dispensary, maintenance, one thousand dollars.Eastern Dispensary. For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, two thousand Home for Incurables. dollars. For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, including rent, Municipal lodging house. four thousand dollars.
For the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, maintenance, Lying-in Asylum. twenty thousand dollars. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, as follows:Freedmen’s Hospital. 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. Garfield and Providence Hospitals: For isolating wards for minor Garfield and Providence hospitals. contagious diseases at Garfield and Providence hospitals, maintenance, each, three thousand dollars, six thousand dollars.
Reform School for Girls: Superintendent, one thousand dollars; Girls Reform School. treasurer, six 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, five thousand and twenty-five dollars; For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, back hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, six thousand dollars;
For additional building, twenty-five thousand dollars; In all, thirty-six thousand and twenty-five dollars. For the Industrial Home School: For maintenance, twelve Industrial Home School. thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements to buildings, fences, roads, and grounds, one thousand dollars; For enlargement and improvement of plant for industrial training, one thousand dollars. 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 salaries of agents, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars, expenses in placing and visiting children, and all office and sundry expenses, six thousand dollars; For care of feeble-minded children; board and care of all children Care of children. committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, thirty-one thousand dollars;
In all, thirty-seven thousand dollars. MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.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, and telephone Rent, etc.1063 service, fourteen thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.* Armories. That in the disbursement of this appropriation part thereof may be applied to leasing premises for armory purposes at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, for a term not exceeding three years;
For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, four hundred dollars; For printing and stationery, five hundred dollars; For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, five hundred dollars. For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, nine hundred dollars. For expenses of drills and parades, one thousand dollars. For expenses of rifle practice and matches, three thousand six hundred dollars. For expenses of camps of instruction and practice marches, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available.
For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars. And no contract shall be made or liability incurred under appropriations for the militia of the District of Columbia beyond the sums herein appropriated. NAVAL MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.Naval Militia. for lighting and heating practice ships, three hundred and fifty dollars; for repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, two hundred dollars; for annual practice cruise (corresponding to encampment of National Guard), one thousand one hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including painting and other repairs to ships, due to general wear and tear, as required by contract of agreement under law authorizing assignment of vessel, five hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
WATER DEPARTMENT.Water department. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations To be paid from its revenues. of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely: For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shall Revenue and inspection branch. also perform the duties of 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;
For distribution branch: For superintendent, two thousand four hundred Distribution branch. 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; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; property keeper, six hundred dollars; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; hostler, four hundred and eighty dollars; calker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirty thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars.
For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, forage, Contingent expenses. advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe Fuel, repairs, etc. distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs and public hydrants, ninety thousand dollars.
For interest and sinking fund on water stock bonds, six thousand and Interest and sinking fund. twenty-five dollars. 1064FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 422, 423. 1899. For continuing the extension of the high-service system of water distribution, Extending high-service system. to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred, 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 nineteen hundred than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues of said District: *Provided,*No issue of drawback certificates after June 30, 1899. That after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, no drawback certificates shall be issued.
Approved, March 3, 1899.
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