Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-16


Tor the support of the government of the Dis
trlct OF Columbia for the fiscal year ending
June 3oth, 1878, and for other purposes" or
Ttn other the Existing laws prescribe the time or
dltlOns OF prompt payment, and the duties OF
assessors and collectors in relation thereto;
that all taxes collected shall be paid into the
Treasury of the United States, and the same,
as we'll as the appropriations 10 be made by
Congress as aforesaid, shall be disbursed for
the expenses of said District, on proper
vouchers certified by said Commissioners. or a
majority of them; and the accounts of said
commissioners, and the tax collectors, and all
other officers required to account, shall be set.
tled ana adjusted by the accounting officers OF
the Treasury department of the United States.
Sec. 8. That hereafter the Secretary of the
Treasury 1n y shall pay the interest accrning on
the 365 per centum bonds Of the District of
Columbia as the same natures, and the
amounts so paid shall be credited as part of
ne appropriation for the year by the United
States toward the expenses of the government
OF the District, as herein provided: Prorided,
That nothing herein contained shall ever be
SO SO construed as to commit the government to
the payment of the principal of these bonds.
Sec. 9. That the offices of sinking fund com
mlssOnerS are hereby abolished and all the
duties and powers possessed by said commits
sioners s IS, are transferred to, and shall be exer
clSed by, the Treasurer of the United States,
who shall perform the same in accordance
with the provisions of existing laws.
Sec. 10 That in lieu of the Board of Health
now authorized by law, the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia shall appoint a ply
Slcitii dS nedltl OIcer- whose duty 1t shall be,
under the direction. .of the said Commissioners,
70 execute and enforce all laws and regWla-
uonS relating to the public he alth and vital
statistics, and to perform all such duties as
may be assigned to him by said Commits
SlohGrs; and the Board of Health now existing
Sha,i; from the date OF the appointment of
SAID health officer, be abO iShed.
sec. II. That there may be appOnted by the
commissioners of the District of Columbia. on
The recommendation of the health officer a
reasonable number of sanitary inspectors Tor
linn frSb- to hold
appointment at any one time, of whom two
may be physicians, and one shall be a person
skilled IN matters OF drainage and ventilation:
and said Commissioners may remove any of
the subordinates, and from time to time may
prescribe the duties of each: and said in
spectors shall be respectively required to
MAKE, a. least once III two weeks, a report to
sad hea officer in writing, of their fnSpec-
tons which shall be preserved on file: and
SAID health officer shall report in writing an
nually to said Commissioners of the District
OF Columbia, and SO much Oftener as they shall
require.
Sec. u. That the Commissioners may ap-
pOlnt, on the like recommendation of the
health officer, a reasonable number of clerks:
but no greater number shall be appointed,
and no more persons Shall be employed under
said health officer than the public Interests
demand and the appropriation shall justify.
Sec: Is. That the salary of the health officer
shall be $500 per annum and the salary of
the sanitary inspectors shall not exceed $1,000
per annnm each; and the salary of the clerks
and other assistants of the health officer shall
not exceed in the aggregate the amount of
$500, to be apportloned as the Commissioners
OF the District of Columbia may deem best.
Sec. a. That the Commissioners aforesaid
are here by authorized, as far as practicable,
by naming and numbering the streets aud
dwellings in Georgetown. to make said streets
conform to the streets of Washington Citv. as
continuation thereof.
See 10. That from and after July lst, 1873,
the board of metropolitan police, and all
boards of fire commissioners and boards of
school trustees, shall be abolished: and all the
powers and duties now exercised by them
Shal siGnd be 9e M transferred to the said Comms
shall have authority to employ such officers
and agents and to adopt such provisions as
may be necessary to carry into execution the
powers and duties devolved upon them by this
act:
Prorided, That the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia shall appoint nineteen
persons actual residents of said District of
Columbia, OF W HON five at least shall be of the
cOlored race, to constitute the trustees of
public schools of said District, who shall serve
without compensation and for such terms as
said Commissioners shall fix. Said trustees
shall have the powers and perform the duties
IN felatl0n TO the care and management of the
vested in the board of trustees of pubic schools
for the District of Columbia.
~ Sec. 10. That it shall be the duty of the said
commissioners to report to Congress at the
next session succeeding their appointment a
draft OF such additional laws or amendments
70 existing laws as seem to be needed for the
mug VI the SYSTEM NefeOy
adopted, and for the effectual and proper gov
ernment of the District of Columbia, and said
Commissioners are required to report their
official dOingS in detail to Congress on or be-
fore the first Monday in December i'm each year
Sec. II. That all laws inconsistent with the
provisions of this act be, and the same are
hereby, repealed.
THE BILL DEFEATED.
After adopting the bill by sections, as above,
yea and nay vote was called on the final
passage of the bill, and, to the surprise of the
friends of the bill, and indeed to the House
itself, the bill was defeated by vote of "a yeas
to 1A nays.
Mr.. Hendee voted against the bill and en-
tered motion to reconsider.
Mr. Cox (Ohio) moved to lay the motion on
THE BILL RECOMMITTED.
8 p. M.-The motion to lay on the table Mr..
Hendees motion to reconsider the vote where
blythe bill was defeated was lost by yeas IL to
nays l06. Mr.. Hendee then gave notice that if
the vote was recOnSidered he would move to
recOmmit the bill to the District committee
The House did reconsider its vote and by
an almost unanimous vote recommitted the
bill.
What seemed to defeat the bill was the prop
erty qualification imposed on the council
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the tour per cent. loan to-
day amounted to $4,000.
THE RELEASED INDIAN PRIsoNERs.-The
Indian Office is informed by telegraph from
Baltimore that SO of the st. Augustine Indian
prisoners left that city TODAY for the west