Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-03-08
Items in the Sundry Civil Bill, as
Finally Passed.


fecting the District of Columbia, Included in
the sundry civil appropriation bill, taken from
the act filed In the Department of State:
Under the sub-heaG " District of Columbia"
in the bill Is the following: That the sum OF
g. 632 o9s. IS be, and is hereby appropriated for
the purpose OF paying one half OF the estimated
expenses of the government of the District OF
Columbia, for the fiscal year ending June 30th,
1850, namely: For improvements and repairs
sewer, 100000; lateral sewers, Sl5,O0O work
upon sundry avenues and Streets 100000: re-
placing OF pavementS, at not to exceed $2.25 per
ments, 800, GOO; material issued for permit work
SIS, 600; In all, $4SO,00O. For constructing, re-
pairing, and maintaining bridges as follows:
care OF and
matches, and SO forth, $1,000; replanking and
painting Chain bridge, $500; repairing Ben
ning's bridge and its carriage ways s., ,5oO rats
pairing piers and abutments, 5000; repairs of
Rock Creek bridges, $1,000: In all $4,000
And one OF the two railroad tracks now on said
maintaining institutions of charity, reforma-
tories, and PRISONS as follows: Washington
Asylum, $45, 100; Georgetown AlmshOuse, 81, 800:
Hospital for the insane ST. 600; Transportation
house. 81, 2,5OO Reform School, 800 900; and section
thirteen of the act entitled 'An act revising and
amending the various acts establishing and re-
latiDg to the Reform School OF the District of
Columbia, approved May 3d.. 1876" is hereby
continued In full force; Columbia Hospital for
Women and Iying-in Asylum, ST., 900; Children's
Hospital, s., 900; Saint AIMS Infant Asylum,
$4,000; Industrial Home School, $1,000; National
Association for COlored Women and Children.
$4,000; Women's Christian Association, $1,000;
relief OF the poor, 5000; Howard University,
$4,000; Washington Aqueduct, $4,000.
For salaries and contingent expenses, as fol-
lows: Executive Office proper, s2l 900; auditor
office, 200; coroner's Office, $500; collectors
office, $l3, 500. Attorneys Office-One attorney,
81 ooo one assistant attorney. 900; one special
clerk, sl92; contingent expenses, including
books, stationery, and miscellaneous items,
ssss; in all, 600. And for the expenses Of
5000. Treasurer's Office, $1,000; inspectors of
buildings Office, $3.50; superintendents of as
sessments and taxes Office, $500.
That from and after the passage OF this act,
certain piece Of property situated about. 2h
miles north OF the Capitol, being the property
known as "Edgewood" of the estate of the late
and all the buildings, grounds, and property
appurtenant thereto, and used inr connection
Herewith, in the District OF Columbia, shall be
exempt from any and all taxes or assessment,
national, municipal, or county: Prorided, That
such exemption shall continue only until the
3Oth day OF June, A. d. 1880; and all taxes, to-
gether with the interest and penalties now due
and unpaid. upon said property, shall be, and
they hereby are, RENTED - ~
Inspectors of gas and meters, Office, s., 900;
assessors Office, $50; harbor master of George
town, $50; sealer Of weights and measures $50;
In all, $l6O; engineers Office, $53S4O; fuel Ice,
repairs, general miscellaneous expenses for
District offices, $1,000; for the public schools,
$4750C
For the Metropolitan police. as follows: One
major and superintendent, 81, ,666: one captain,
$3.50; one property clerk, 81 500; one clerk,
500: three surgeons, at $3.50 each 81, $50; six
detectives, at S, 800 each, 1920; ten leuten-
ants at 81, 200 each, $4,000; twenty sergeants,
at 8, ,140 each s22 500; seven acting sergeants,
at 81, ,0s0 each, s. $50; seventy three privates
class one, at $90e each $65, 100; one hundred and
twenty privates, class twO at 81 ,OsO each, $129-
600; sixteen station keepers at 1916 each $3.50;
eight labOrers at $420 each s. $50; two telegraph
operators at $3.50 each, s1,560; one messenger,
5000; one messenger, $3.50; one major and SUPER
lntendent, mounted service, 1860; one captain,
mounted service, S24O; fifty 1eutenants, ser
geants and privates, mounted, at s94O each,
$12 600; rent OF police station houses and police
headquarters, g. 200; fuel 81 ,543; repairs to sta
cluding stationery, ,:gas, telegraphing, ice wash
van and SO forth, s121s4; in all, sso5, ,24O; Pro
to class one; And proridtd: That the number in
any class shall not at any time exceed the mum.
Der herein designated.
s1O5, 700. This includes: 1.-TWO commissioners
zone OF whom shall be appointed by the Secre.
tary OF the Interior to represent the interests OF
missioners), at $500 each, 800; one commissioner
and secretary, 500" [The entire force is pro-
vided for as at present constituted, without
cnange IN number OF men, or pay OF oficers and
Police Court: One Judge, 5000; one clerk,
$4,000: one deputy clerk 81 900; two bailifrs, at
g per day each, 81 ,s7s; one messenger, $780, one
doorkeeper, $40; one justice of the peace, act
Ing as Judge In Judges absence, 1920; United
States marshal's fees, $2,316; rent of building
for Police Court, q, 100; contingent expenses,
ness fees, and miscellaneous Items, 81, ,046 judi
cial expenses, $500; In all, Sis, 500. Lighting
and extingushing street lamps, and gas, re-
pairs to street lamps, erection OF street lamps;
parking commission, including laborers, cart
hire, trees, tree boxes, tree straps, tree stakes
planting and care OF trees, whitewashlng, care
OF parks, and miscellaneous; current work OF
repairs OF streets, alleys, county roads, &C.,
cleaning and sprinkling streets and avenues,
cleaning eI alleys, repairs to pumps, cleaning IT,
penses, $3O,s75; health department., $24, 400; in
terest and sinking fund on funded debt, 81 l,l55,-
5s3;55; contingent expenses, $1,000
The clause OF the bill providing for the re-
demption OF the District 365 bonds was printed
In yesterdays STAR. The final paragraph of
the District clause OF the bill is as follows:
gether with all revenues of the District OF CO.
lumbla from taxes or otherwise, shall be
deposited, to the credit OF the Treasurer OF the
United States, In the Treasury, as required by
the provisions OF section four of an act approved
June 18th, 1878, and shall be drawn therefrOm
upon the requistion OF the Commissioners of
tne District or Columbia such requiSttOhS spe-
cifying the appropriation upon which the same
ls drawn; and In no case shall such appropria-
tiOnS be exceeded either In requisitiOn or ey-
pend1ture; and the accounts for all disburse-
ments shall be made monthly to the accounting
officers OF the Treasury by the Auditor or the
District OF Columbia, upon vouchers certified
Dy the commissioners Of the District OF Coum-
Ola as now required by law. And section two
OF an act approved March 3D. 1877, entitled An
act Ior the support OF the government OF the
DlstricL a OF Columbia for the fiscal year ending
, Jnne SOth 1875 and for other purposes, be, and
the same Is hereby, repealed"
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS,
items OF District interest under other head
lhgs IN the bill are as follows: Bureau OF En-.
sIaFlng and Printing, viz: For labor and print
ing, $35O, 600; expenses OF the removal OF the
bureau, $5O,0 ,0OO printing pension checks for fis-
Ca year 1879, $S, 800, and for the fiscal year $780,
s!,oOV General expenSeS-FOr rent OF buildings
LOT oIiceS, WofkrOOmS, and workshops in Wash
lngtOn, $l3 500; for rent OF fire proof building
NO. 20a New Jersey avenue south excepting
rooms for standard weights and meaSures,) for
the safe keeping and preservation of the Origi-
nal astronomical, magnetic, photographic and
other records; the original Typographical and
photographic maps and charts; Instruments,
engraved plates, and other valuable articles OF
the Coast Survey, 5000; for maintenance OF the
United carp ponds in the city of Washington
and elsewhere, 5000. improvement and care
OF public grounds: South OF Executive Mansion.
$4,000; for ordinary care OF greenhouses and the
nursery, s1 800; Lafayette square, s., ,OOO Monu
ment grounds, s., 900; iron fences, $500; manure
4,0OO painting iron fences, vases lamps and
lamp posts, ,5oO purchase and repair OF seats,