Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-06-29
The District Commissioners.

The District Commissioners.
THE JULY INTEREST AND OTHER MATTERS
As yet but one of the District commissioners
has accepted the appointment under the pro-
visions of the bill to provide new form Of gov
eminent for the District Of Columbia. OF
course, considerable anxiety is manifest in
the community to be informed OF the Intentions
OF the other two, inasmuch as the interest on
the debt is due on the lat proximo, and a great
many necessitous creditors are in actual nsed
OF relief. The interest is specifically provided
for, as under the three main req uirem ants
OF the bill, it is the first recognized obligation
to be discharged.
In the very last stages of the session the sun-
conference with particular reference to the
clause making the 81 800, 900 appropriation for
the District. The certified bill was received al
the Treasury this morning, and in addition to
what has heretofore been published provides
tor the distribution of the money as follows: Ist
For the PAYNE mt of interest on the funded debt
ID To the pay ment Of officers, employees AMI
proper or the Board OF Public Works 3D. For
the payment of any indebtedness for which the
securities OF the District are pledged.
HOW THE BILL is GUARDED.
An additional amendment was inserted, set
ting forth specifically how the money should be
drawn from the Treasury, az follows:
"The money herein appropriated shall be
drawn from the Treasury from time to time as
the same may be needed and only upon detailed
statements OF amounts to be paid and the per-
sons to whom or on what account payable To
which statements shall be appended the certis.
cate OF such commissioners thatthey have care
fully examined such accounts, and that they
believe them to be just and due to the respec-
tive claimants thereof, copies of said statements.
together with a report of all receipts and dis
bursements shall be transmitted by them TO the
PRESIDENT to be by him transmitted to Congress
at the beginning Of its next session. Procidsd
Ihat Gil sums due any party exceeding one
hundred dollars shall be paid only by checks on
the treasury issued directly b the party TO
whom the same is due; And proridea further
That the sum of SI5, 900 of said sum hereby an
propriated shall be used for the payment OF
the workingmen employed on public improve
ments on the streets and excavations of Wash
ington under the Board OF Public Works of the
District OF Columbia or the contractors of the
same; and the Commissioners are hereby
authorized and ordered to retain from the sew
eral contractors who are indebted to the work
ingmen and where accounts have not been Get
tied by the Board Of Public Works the several
sums due the workingmen."
1t will thus be seen that the new machinery
cannot go into effect any too soon, inasmuch a.
some time will be required for claimants (other
than those on account of interest) to prove their
claims, have them certified to, and the proper
amounts drawn TO meet the obligation.
THE INTEREST ON THE DEBT.
The following correspondence, which is Of in
ferest, will explain itself:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
WAsHINGTeN, June Goth.
Geo. r; Baker, Esq, Cashier First National Bank,
SIR: L am in receipt of your letter of the 18th
instant, stating that the coupons due on the frs.
proximO upon the loans of the District of Co
lumbia are PAYABLE at the above-named bank.
and the commissioners of the sinking fund re-
quest you to advance money for their payment,
and asking whether, If you make the advance
as requested. you can rely upon being REIN.
bursed from the appropriation made by Con-
gress for the District Of Columbis.
In reply l have to state that the sum OF one
three hunfrA6
propriated to be expended by the commissioners
to be appointed for the government of the Dis
On des t9 the
trict due July 1874 The act, as will be observed
from the above, contemplates that the moneys
appropriated shall be disbursed through the
Board Of Commissioners Of the District. Upon
the proper statement and certificates OF the
commissioners the interest will be promptly
paid by the Treasury.
Very respectfully,
B. II. BRTsTow, Secretary.
NAVAL ORDHRs.-Lieutenant Franklin Han
ford has been ordered to Newport, r. l., for in
struction in torpedo service; Midshipman Frank
II. Holmes to the Benica on her arrival at San
Francisco; Midshipman Allderdice to the re-
ceiying ship Potomac.
Two MORE EXECUTIONS I'M MARYLAND
Death Warrants for Colored en-Gov. Groome
hss resisted the appeals made to him in behalf
OF the colored man, Charles II. Jones, unde:
sentence Of death for murder, and has signed
bis death warrant, fixing the date OF execution
Anguish. On the same dav Ernest Smith, also
colored, will be hanged at Easton, Talbot coun-
ty, for rape. Jones was convicted in Baltimore
March IL, of the murder OF Edward Berry,
colored, on Sunday, January Il, 1874, By stab
bling him with knife in light growing out OF
cards and previous iIl-feeling. The quarrel took
place in lunch house in Union street, kept by
Lewis Scott colored. After Quarreling some
time they both went out into the street for q fist
fight. when, according to the evidence, Jones
caught Berry by the right arm, pulled him round
ana stabbed him in the back with q dirk knife
from which he soon died.
The crime for which Ernest Smith is to suffer
death at EastoD, is an outrage on Miss Kate
Bartlett white, In Trapps district, Talbot conn
~, Md, on Sunday, the 10Th OF April last. His
trial at Easton created considerable excitement
IN the county. Smith Is about IS years of age
and has a bad reputation. He was convicted a.
the May term Of the Circuit Court for Talbot
county.