The Evening critic., 1881-09-29
District Government Notes.

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ending June 80, 1888 is $63, ill.50.
District Government Notes.
j. d. johnson will build frame dwell.
ing on Sixth street extended, in the county.
The clerks of the Special Assessment
Division arc engaged in the revision of
alleys.
The three Commissioners at noon to-
day left the Columbia Building together,
and made brief formal call upon the presi-
dent.
The Commissioners have declined to
give Mr.. j. w. Buker permission to remove
fifteen loads of sand from Eleventh and b
streets.
The estimate of expenses of the Reform
School during the next fiscal year amounts
board of trustees
--Alois jana was to-day appointed by the
Commissioners as u special policeman for
duty on Ninth street northwest for the
period of one year.
james w. Drain, esq, was appointed
to-day as foreman to oversee the work
of building the two schools now being
erected in the second division.
Nicholas EclSharlt, 1874 Eighteenth
street Peter Wood, Third and n streets !,
w. II. ii. Cisscl, AL NJ street, and Mrs. A.
S, Wingatc, 1929 street, will make repairs
to their buildings.
The Commissioners have ordered an in
vcstigation of the condition of Kings Hall
to determine whether permits should be is
sued in future for entertainments to be
held in the hall.
Health Officer Townshend and J.
Cooper McGinn, his first assistant, were in
their Office to-day having returned from
Cleveland, where they went with the
funeral escort of Knights Templar.
The Health officer submitted the esti-
mate of expenses of the Health Office to the
Commissioners to-day. The expense will
be $4,000. A number of recommendations
of means, by which the sanitary condition
of the city can be improved, accompany
the report.
WIN. o. Roomc, chief of the Special
Assessment Division, transmitted to the
Commissioners to-day the drawback certi-
ficates held for account of the sinking fund,
to be transferred to the custody of the
Auditor of the District of Columbia amount
ing in the aggregate to $2l, S0l.54.
The surgeon in charge of Columbia
Hospital for Women to-day rendered an
estimate of the expenses of that institution
for the year ending June 30, 1883, stating
that $4,000 was necessary, and recommend
ing an additional appropriation of $4,000
for building west wing to the hospital for
the accommodation Of more patients.
The estimate of expenses for conduct
| ing the public schools during the next fiscal
year was submitted to the Commissioners
to-day, stating that $685., 10l.35 would be
required which sum will include all sala-
ries furniture and books, inclosing n num-
| Der of schools with fences, repairs and inn
provoments, and all other expenses.
The Commissioners received from the
School Board to-day statement of the at
tendance of the public schools during the
last fiscal year. The paper states that in
the District the number of white children,
from to II years old, last year was 20,612,
of which 17,716 were on the school lists.
OF the colorcd children 1888 attended school
out of 1896 enumerated in the census The
scholars during the past year exceeded in
number those of the previous year by $50.
Four hundred and flfty-nine teachers We're
employed,
Tho much. disputed question of making
the award for finishing the incomplete
work of Messrs. Bailey & Fletcher, on their
paving contracts was finally settled to-day
| by the Engineer Commissioner, to whom the
matter hnd been referred in the following
communication 81 recommend that the
unfinished work be awarded to the next
lowest bidders, at the prices named III their
bids of May 5, 1881, to wit The unfinished
portion Of work on contract 1913, the re-
placement of wood with asphalt pavement
on portions of Second, A, and b streets south
east, to II. j., Crawford, at FOO per square
yard The work under contract 1927, to A.
l.. Barber, being the improvement and lay
ing of asphalt pavement on portions of Yer
mont avenue and Thirteenth streets north
west, at the rate of 500 per square yard Of
asphalt" Orders were issued accordingly
awarding tho work as stated to II. l.. Gran
ford and A. l.. Barber.