National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-04
rAE DISTINCT ooMMIssIoNERs.
current transactions IN the Various
nlatrIct ncpariinents.

The Commissioners have completed their
estimates Of expenses for the District for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1888, and they have been for
war1ed to the Secretary OF the Treasury. The
total amount required will be 1851 ,ds.s1, and
among the items Of interest are the following
Street improvements, s273,0O0; materials for per.
NIT work, $4,000; repairs TO macadam roadways,
$4,000; Boundary street intercepting sewer $4,000;
lateral sewers, $4,000 COMBINATIONS Of lond for
Fourteenth street extended, $40, 1890 grading and
improving Fourteenth street, $1,000; Washington
Aqueduct $4,000; maintaining bridges, $4,000 ;
maintaining the insane ofthe Dstrictof Columbia,
$4,000; current work Of repairs to alleys, streets,
and avenues, $4,000; cleaning and repairing
lateral sewers, $4,000; repairs to county roads,
$4,000; sweeping Streets s33OOO sweeping alleys,
$500; Metropolitan police, s3i1 ,ii6; telegraph and
telephone service, sls,79O; reform school. s3sG7i;
public schools, sjjO29l Qncluding 100000 for new
school houses payment of judgments, $500; In
terest and sinking fund, S12l3,9i7.W surveys OF
avenues and streets Of the District, 5000.
Building permits have been granted TO IT, A.
Singer, Nineteenth street, between Land NJ north
west, two story brick office, Sl,10O; j. w. Shilcs,
and Streets Streets southwest brick dwe
Ing, 5000; A. g. Youut, G25 Sixth street northwest,
raise story and repair roof of dwelling, $3.50 j. II.
HOskins, corner Sherman avenue and SheHdan
street, county, frame addition, $500; Mrs. J. ],
Gould, 400 street northwest, brick addition, $50;
ii. NJ. Dellnger, GO and CD Ninth street north
q street, between Third and Four -and-a half
streets southwest raise and repair frame dwelling,
syO, and J; u Coumbe, S93 Thirteenth ;and-a-half
The Commissioners have declined to accept the
proposition Of W. II, Burr for compromise on the
$500 damages recently awarded Mrs. Victoria Burr
for cutting roadway through her farm.
Acting Second Assistant Postmaster General II.
D. Lyman having requested the Commissioners TO
furnish him the distances between the various
public buildings and the city post office, on Louisi
ana avenue, the following table has been prepared
and forwarded to him: State Department, LIZ
mile Navy Department, LIZ mile War Depart.
ment, 1.1G mile Department of Justice, .06 mile (;
Surgeon Generals Office, 0i mile Treasury De-
Parlment, SO mile Interior Department, "a mile ;
Post Office Department, SO mile; City Hall, %
mile District building .25 mile; Bureau of Agri-
culture. 81 mile; Bureau Of Engraving and Print.
Ing, LOG mile; Smithsonian Institute, .6l mile;
United States Pension ONCE, Al mile; Capitol
building, 81 mile; COust Survey, LOG mile branch
ost.ollice Capitol HILL 1.l6 mile; United States
yard, $40 miles.
The trustees Of Mount Zion NJ T.. Church, corner
of Fifteenth and X streets northwest, having re-.
quested revision Of the charges for general taxes
against the property for the years from 1873 to 1884,
the Commissioners have replied that they have no
power to change assessments of real estate when
once made by assessors duly appointed. The At
torney for the District having decided that church
and school property is exempt from taxation only
poses, and as the Zion Church was not so used till
after July !, 1873, II cannot be legally exempted
from taxation for the year ending July !, 1874.
Inv COMMISSIONER HuNc lllOTlHcu tHO tTustVcn
OF the Children's Hospital that on w street, be-
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets northwest,
the roadway VIII be put in o passable condition
and n sidewalk laid.
A delegation of plumbers had conference with
the Commissioners yesterday afternoon In relation
to the plumbing regulations, at the conclusion Of
which they announced their willingness to COM
ply with the regulations recently adopted.
The. Commissioners have received a memorial
signed bya number of property: owners in the
northeastern portion of the city, In which they
are asked to include IN their estimates for street
improvements the following streets. which arc
greatly In need of repairs: New jersey avenue
northwest to X street; First street west from to
street; around and about the circle at the inter-
section Of New Jersey and Massachusetts, avenues
and q street northwest, and Immediately in front
of tho new school. house now being built, and
along G street north to North Capitol street. as
fully one-half OF the travel TO and from the Gov.
eminent Printing Office Is along q street and
around the circle.
The Commissioners have recommended the con.
struction of public sewer through square No 1Sl
ut Seventeenth street and Massachusetts avenue
northwest,