Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-07-19

ANEW JAIL FOR THE DIsrRIcr.-The House
OF Representatives yesterday passed bill as a
e uosu.e Ior house bill Ia, authorizing the
construction of a Jail in and for the Distri,t OF
Columbia. Section authorizes the Secretary
OF the Interior to select suitable site on some
OF the public grounds belonging to the Govern
TO provide for not less than three hundred
prisoners, with suitable Yards hos pitfalls, &c
the entire cost Of which shall not exceed 5000
Wo Sectlen provides for the employment Of
an architect 10 prepare a plan for the building
anu the ietlhg OF the contract for its construc-
TON Section provides for the retention of
~ per cent of the estimated cost of construction
enui the completion of the contract. Section
appropriates S2O0,OOO for the expenses of the
building. Section authorizes the Secretary
OF the Interior TO sell at public auction the
materials OF the old Jail, located on Judiciary
Square, and pay the proceeds thereof into the
United States Treasury. Section requires the
city authorities to raise S1O,OU0, and pay it into
the Treasury at or before the completion of
said Jail, to reimburse the United States for a
part of the cost OF the construction. George
town is required 10 raise 100000, and the
county $1,000. These sums are to be deemed
the fair proportion of the cost of said jai of the
cities and county, and the authorities of the
same are authorized to assess the levy upon
the taxable property of the District tax suf-
fcient TO raise the required sum. Section
provides that in case of failure on the part of
either OF the said cities or county to raise and
pay the sum required of IL by the time desig-
mated, the Secretary of the Interior shall ap-
the taxes assessed; and in case of failure neg
lect, or refusal to make the required assess
ment, the secretary is authorized to make such
levy and proceed to its collection aforesaid
DIVISION OF SCHOOL FUNDS WITH THE Col.
DRIED SCHooLs.-The following bill, which
had previously passed the Senate, passed the
House yesterday, and awaits the Presidents
slgnaturee to become a law:
BE AZ enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
SentdtireS Of the United States Of America in Com
gress assembled, That the eighteenth section of
the act entitled - An actto provide for the
public instruction of youth in the county of
other purposes" approved June twenty We,
eighteen hundred and sixty -four, shall be SO
construed as to require the cities of Washing
ton and Georgetown TO pay over to the trus-
tees Of colOred schools of said cities such
proportionate part of all money received or
expended for school or educational purposes
in said cities, including the cost of sites build
and all other expenditures on account of
schools, as the colored children between the
ages of six and seventeen years, in the res
pectiye cities. bear TO the whole number of
children, white and colored, between the same
ages. That the money shall be considered due
and payable TO said trustees on the first day
of October of each year, and if not then paid
over to them, interest at the rate of ten per
Centum per annum on the amount unpaid NAV
be demanded and collected from the authori-
ties of the delinquent city by said trustees
SEC. =. Ind be IL further enacted, That the
said trustees NAV maintain an action of debt
in the Supreme Court of the District of Co
and Georgetown for the non payment of any
sum of money arising under the aforesaid act
of June twenty live, eighteen hundred and
sixty -four.