Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-23
District Go gerument Affairs.

SommsSi oRi Jent returned from Oakland,
Coimmhia bUii DIG, and was at his de SIX at the
NT I'm ZIG U dings at the usual hour.
me assess RS, who have been engag d since
t baya Isl ne "a april on the general as 'sments
nav ne" iiy completed their labors, AMI the
the t ~ j inst The assessors win then sit as a
SNth of appeal from August 1St TO August
NJ d, 10 hear cases and correct their work
I ere 1t can De shown TO De erroneous, After
a. time there is no redress except through
tie courts, ard this Tact should be borne i'm
mind by all taxpayers.
Today tie bonds of George R. Ruff, as in
spector and measurer of wood in the Analos
tan DIS, ret, was approved by the DiStric.
commissioners.
The clerk of the Police Court has made a
Tequisltlon upon the District Commissioners
1or mating, carp citing, chairs, water coolers.
desks, &c, for the new Police Court building,
to make it comfortable.
MIR. w. IL. Bailey, superintendent OF lamps,
has IN communication to the District Com
missiOners recommended that the gas com
pany be required to erect new lamp posts to
replace old and damaged ones at their own
expense, instead of at the expense OF the Dis
trict as heretofore.
The District Commissioners to-day awarded
the bid for supplying fuel for the various de-
partments of the District government for the
next year to johnson l. Bros. as the lowest re-
spOnsible bidders, and ordered the contract to
Commissioners Phelps and Twining to-day
rode out TO Meridian Hill to inspect the work
being done there for the stand pipe. They
factory condition, and the materials used of
the firSt-claSS.
Inspector Entwisle yesterday condemned
the Grand Lodge, No. 3, Good Samaritans To-
Gated in alley between l. and nj and 18th and
10th streets northwest, as unit for human hap
itatiOn on account of their dilapidated cOndi-
ton. The Grand Lodge was ordered to have
them removed within thirty days.
Mrs. Maria c. Fitzhugh and Annie c. Car
roll owners OF squares 735 and 736, the Carroll
n m tn
the District commissioners, ask to be relieved
from al taxes due on that square, budding
ton, and offer to sell said square to the Dis
trict for one dollar per square fo:t. They
think it would make a good site on which to
locate the National Observatory.
SCHOOL TRUSTEES NOT YET APPOINTED.
The appointment of trustees OF public schools
was further postponed to-day, owing to the
desire of different parties interested to pre-
sent their views to the District Commissioners
both for and against candidates To-day there
has been continual calling of persons in the
various school districts upon the Commits
SiOnerS for this purpose, and the intention is
TO give all an opportunity to be heard
a delegation of citizens of East Washington
and Capitol Hill called to-day upon the Com
mi$Sioners to speak in favor of Dr.. S. A. Ii.
Mchlm Tor school trustee for the third school
district. They presented several good reasons
why, III their opinion, he should receive this
app0intment: They also advocated the claims
OF Mr. }. Madison Davis as another trustee for
the same district.
Mr.. James Mckenzie, No 81 street
northwest, in a communication TO the District
Commissioners in relation to the rules for the
REVISION OF SPECIAL assessments recently pub
nshed. states that in some instances property
sustained the most serious and manifest dam
age by the pubic Improvements; nevertheless
special assessments were uniformly issued
therefor which practically represented in
some cases:-1 Work or public improvements
that had brought ruin on particular property.
z. They represented labor and materials
Dicks, curbS, &c, which had either been
buried up or were absolutely DESTROYED g.
Iney frequently represented just three times
the amount that the law allowed, under Ordi-
admitted under the rules. He submits that
the operation OF the fundamental law and
rule OF assessment is as specific and plain in
us Application only to property specially bene-
hted by the Improvements, as it is, that the
maximum charge against property benefited
shall in no case exceed One-third of the cost.
The point he makes is that the Commits
SlOnerS will consider the ACCESSIBILITY of sus-
pending the operation of the law in extreme
cases, where 1t shall be made manifest as to
property has sustained special damage by the
Improvement; or, that the special assessment
from Which the certificate emanated, repre-
Sented no benefit whatever to the property,
and that they will, in case they consider this
course to be beyond the jurisdiction of the
commissioners, bring the subject to the
special notice of the President for his execu
tive lnterpOSitiOn, to the end that the spirit
ana Intent OF the law may be equitably carried
out.
BUILDING PERMITS
issued by Inspector Entwisle:-Wm. James,
repair a frame house, 3D. between M and n
SITS. s:w-; $2S. j. III. Ward, repair a brick
dwelling, 80 Sth ST. Sc. 800. David Murphy,
gInla avenue, between I'd and Sd SITS. sw.:
$3.50.