National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-02-27
OUR APPROPRIATIONS.
Figures Arranged by the Senate Dis
tricr Committee.
substitute for Sections 3 and 4 of the sun
dry Civil Bnl-A Number of Changes in
the Amounts to be Appropriated
Tho Pay of the Police Not to
be Disturbed-Other Al
terations i'm the Bill.
The District Appropriations.

ing as q substitute for sections 3 and
of the sundry civil bill, relating to the District
Of Columbia, which passed the House uuder
suspension of the rules, aud therefore without
an opportunity for consideration or amend
ment:
That the sum or5l 5s3,33 80 be, and Is here
by, appropriated for the purpose of paying one
| half of the estimated expenses of the govern.
mont of the District of Columbia for the fiscal
| year ending June 80, 1880, namely For I'M
| provements and repairs as follows: Work on
Boundary.street auxiliary sewer, 100000; lat
era sewers, $4,000; work upon sundry ave-
nues and streets SloOO01; replacement Of
pavemcuts at not to exceed S2.2j per square
yard, S2j1,000 repairs TO concrete pavcments
| 100000; material issued for permit work,
| Sl5OOO in all, $4,000. For constructing, re-
pairing, and maintaining bridges, as follows
| Ordinary care of Beunng's. Anacostia, and
Chain bridges, including fuel, oil, lamps,
Matches &C., 1900; rcplanking and painting
Chain bridge, $500; repairing Benning's
bridge aud its carriageways, $500; raising
entertainments of Anacostia bridge and repair
| ing piers aud abutments, $1,000; repairs OF
| Rock Creek bridges, 81 900; in all, $4,000.
For maintaining institutions of charity
reform atories, and prisons, as follows: Wash
! ington'Asylum, one commissioners, 5000 onoin-
| tendent, 5000; one matrou, 5000; one visiting
physician, 81 200; one resident physician, $50;
one resident physician, $780, one clerk, SiS0;
one baker, Si20; six ovorsecrs, at 5000 each,
$1,000; one Waterman, $500 three watchmen,
at $3.50 each, $40; one driver, Sl2O one
hostler, $50; one cook, S120 two cooks, at $50
each, Sl20; five nurses, mt $50 each, 1900 con-
tingent expenses, including provisions,
fuel, forage, lumber, hardware, shoes,
dry goods, medicines, and miscellaneous items,
1885, 500; total Washington Asylum $4,000;
Georgetown Almshousc support of inmates,
II 500; Hospital for the Insane, board and
clothing of inmates, $4,000; transportation of
paupers and conveying prisoners to work house,
~, 500; Reform School, District Of Columbia,
support Of inmates, $4,000; Procid5d, That all
and singular the powers conferred and duties
enioined by existing laws upon the Depart
mont of Justice or the board of trustees relat-
ing TO the Reform School, in the District of
Columbia, be, and the same are hereby, trans
ferrod to to the Commissioners of the District
Of Columbia for the support and maintenance
: of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Ly-
ing-in Asylum, $4,000; for the support and
) maintenance of the Children's Hospital
; 5000; for ST. AIMS Infant Asylum, $4,000;
for the Industrial Home School, $1,000; for
the National Association for Colored Women
aud Children, $1,000; for the Women's
Christian Association, $1,000 Procided, That
the above specified amounts shall be paid to
said institutions by the Commissioners of the
District Of Columbia quarterly only, upon the
presentation of a detailed report, accompanied
: by the proper vouchers, showing the receipts
! and disbursements for the preceding quarter
4 and If the Commissioners shall at any time be-
y come satisfied that said institution is not being
s conducted in the most economical manner pos
sible, or in way not calculated to best serve
the ends Of charity, they shall withhold all fur
= Their payments: and prorided, That hereafter nc
d appropriation shall be made for any charities
e within the District of Columbia unless the same
. be included in the annual estimates of the Com
ia ..
4 include in said estimates such charities as they
$ may think proper objects of public aid and
/ support; and shall also appoint two trustees
for every other charitable organization rccev
~ ing aid under the provisions of this act, and
10 shall include in thcirannual report statement
a. made by the trustees aud visitors so appointed
G. to the respective institutions aided by tho
e public funds Procidcd, That said board Of visi
g tors and trustees shall serve without compcn
rs stion relief of the poor, $4,000 in all, Sl3S,
ie 300. For the Washington AqucduCt, rs follows
y Engineering maintenance, and general re
~ pairs, 100000.
d General expenses-For salaries and contin
gent expenses, as follows: Executive Ollie
s. proper, sci 900; auditor and comptroler's of
20 fec, $4,000; sinking fund Office y, 700; corO
4 ncr's Office =, 800; collectors Office, Sl3S00
d attorneys office, $1,000 for the expenses Of
revision of the laws of the District of Colum
bia $1,000: treasurer's office, 49, 500; inspccto
assessments and taxes Office 1900; inspector
of gas and meters Office, $1,000; assessors o!
fec, 81 $50; harbOr master of Georgetown, $50
a. scalcr of weights aud measures, $50 in all
Sc $lG0; engineers office, S53,Si Fuel, ice, re
~ pairs, general miscellaneous expenses &C., 10
V District offices, 5000; for the public schools O
IS, the District of Columbia, payment of snlaric
~ of the present corps of janitors, TEACHERS
SO &c, also additional teachers and incrcas
,e of pay by continuous service, $4,000; fuc
49, $4,000 repairs to school buildings, $4,000
contingent expenses, including books sta
oil tionery, printing, insurance, and miscolla
IS neous items, SCI 5S737 for the construction
Tia two new school buildings, purchase Of lots, an
u.s. furniture, complete aud ready for occupancy, q
DIS :37 800 each, 75 600 PtOrided, That two lots
ed square 15S, south side of Massachusetts, avenu
n and west of Seventeenth street, belOngin
of TO the United States, may be use
of by the Commissioners of the DstriC
cd for school purposes, and they may cree
ed one of said school houses thereon: An
rs prOrided, That the inspector of buildings of til
he District shall have authority aud control ovC
u and supervision tthe construction and repair
or of all school buildings, if the Commissioner
Nv deem best to delegate the same TO him in nj
ks $4,000 for the Metropolitan Police, $500
an 0O0 Provided That all new appointments sha
rs be made to class / aud pT0Dided That I'll
number in any class shall not any time eXceC
the number herein designated. There are SO
oral changes made Tor the FIRE Depaftnel
~. and lre.alarm, $l033OO. This includes Il
y pay of three Commissioners, as ut present
'N For the courts as follows: Police Court, $3.50
'er For the streets, including tho removal
m. garbage, lamps, lighting, extnguishng, n.
ng gas parking commission current work of I
ave pairs of streets, alleys, county roads, a.
ND sweeping, cleaning and sprinkling streets al
A avenues, cleaning alleys, repairs to puml
be cleaning Tiber sewer, &c, in all, 1926, 100
nst For miscellaneous expenses rs follows
bo Markets-one market.master, 1850; OF
ny market.mastcr, 1900 two market-mastel
81 500; contingent expenses, including gas, I
pairs, and miscellaneous items $3.50; rent
rt. market site and property yards, ~, l75; hi
~ scales, 5000; rent of District Offices 5000
'"s general Advertising $1,000 miscellaneO
ng items, books to Register of Wills, printin
N. checks, damages, &c, $4,000; In ALL $30,37
I'm For the Health Department, S2i 400: PrOcdt
-. That no officer of the District of Couml
~ shall receive any compensation other than I
-, salary herein provided and no officer or O.
oS ployeo of the District shall draw more tn
VT one salary or fill more than one Office.
Ia For the interest and sinking fund on I
~ funded debt, 81 ,l55 5S3.55; and there is here
appropriated out OF the proportional sum viii
the United States may contribute toward
&c. expenses of the District of Columbia, in puT
- ance of the act of Congress approved June
van 1873, for the fiscal year ending June 30, Is