Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-24
District Government Affairs.

the appeals for consideration has been agreed
upon, and will be done on the principle OF
numerical order of squares on which property
is located commencing from square No. l.
The time for making returns OF personal
property having expired the assessors will in
adding the penalties. In view Of this, tax
payers may avoid the unpleasant results by
coming forward at once and rendering their
returns.
The owners Of building No 1907 street
northwest, We're yesterday notified by the in
spectOr Of building Of its condemnation, and
paired to make it habitable or tear it down
and remove it within thirty days. The ten Mt
Rebecca Smith was also notified OF the action
Mr. o. 4. Brummel has been awarded the
contract for painting the roofs of the public
schools of the District.
District Commissioners that there have been
issued permits for GIL new buildings at stated
value OF $i.53i,6 ,670 from July l, 1877, to June 30
1878. inclusive.
THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Health Omcer ToWnShend has made a
request on the District Commissioners for the
appointment of six additional sanitary inspec
tors, one to be permanent and one to be skilled
in matters pertaining to oysters and other ma
rine products; the others to serve till Noyem,
Der only. He directs attention to the fact
| that at present he has only four inspectors
| available for street duty; one being fully Occu
| pied with the supervision of the market pro
| duce, and another DIR. Mead, as medical sani-
| tary inspector. In response to the health oifi
| GERS request for the appointment OF six ad-
| ditional sanitary lnspeeI IOrS, the Commission
| ers reply that the law fixes the number of in
SpectOrS from which the Commissioners can
| not depart.
| EX-sCHooL TRUSTEE DAVIS ASKS THE DISTRICT
| COMMISSIONERS TO RECONSIDER THEIR AC-
TION IN REMOVING HIM.
| Benz. p. Davis writes from the Fourth Audi
tors Office to-day to the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia as follows: Il have
| received your letter of the 23d inst. revOking
my appointment as trustee of public schools,
| on the ground that l am not citizen OF the
| District. / cannot but express surprise that
you should take such action without notifying
the evidence upon which your decision was
based. l stated to you. in reply to your circu-
District of Columbia" and that / did mot
| claim the right to vote in any of the states or
territories" now repeat that statement. 1t
is true, as stated in a letter printed in the
upon which you acted, that l did vote in the
state of Massachusetts in 1876. ! did not vote
in 1877, nor hay have 1 voted d. during the pre- pres,
in the District of Columbia, requires a resi-
dence of twelve months in the District and
nothing more. ] have resided more than that
| time in the District without exercising the
| rights of citizenship elsewhere. When my at
tention was called to this subject by your ci:
cular satisfied myself by examining the law
| and consulting competent authorities that /
was eligible to the office to which l was ar-
| pointed; and that there might be no possible
| misunderstanding in any quarter, l immedi-
| ately requested friend to ascertain whether
| my name was still borne upon the assessors
register in NeWburypOrt, and if it was found
thereon to direct the city clerk to strike it off
| for the reason that was not citizen Of Mas
| sachusetts. This was done TO avoid even the
| appearance of claiming residence in two
places at once, and for no other purpose what
| over. am not citizen of Massachusetts,
| do not claim nor could / exercise the right to
| vote in that or any other state. Ii am not q
| citizen of this District, then l have certainly
| no citizenship anywhere. | again declare that
| l am an actual resident, in the brOadeSt sense
| in which that term is used in the act creating
| the school board of the District of Columbia
| In view OF the above facts, | trust that sense
OF justice will lead you to reconsider your ac-
tiOn in this matter, and to recall the revoca-
| tlOn OF my appointment"
| BIDS WERE OPENED TO-DAY
in the Office of the District engineer for heat
| ing apparatus for the new wOrkhOuSe as fol
| lows: H.. l. GregOry-1 OF Colds cast iron
! furnaces, large size; of BarStoW'S Dome fur
| naces. large size, for $724 Haywood & Hutch
| inSon-2 No. 81 Manhattan furnaces with not
| air pipes, registers, ventilatOrS, smoke pipes,
| cold air boxes all complete for $S59 ChaS. G.
| Ball. No. 30 largest size BOyntOn'S improved
| gas tight furnaces, all complete with the
| necessary piping and registers, for 1922. The
| award has not been made.
| BUILDING PERMITS
| issued by Inspector EntWise: Geo. FOllanS-
bee, repair frame, 2O2 G street northwest: $50.
northwest; $45. F. L. Moore, repair brick,
south side Water, west of High streets: 500.
| Irwin B. Linton, repair brick hOnSe, 1880 llth
street northwest so.