National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-03-20
THE pIsrnIcr COMMISSIONERS.
Tax Exemption OF the Academy of
the vIsitation-A New Workhouse
building.

Tax Exemption OF the Academy of
the vIsitation-A New workhouse
Building.
The commissioners yesterday addressed 1
n letter 10 Sister Teresa White, treasurer
Of tho sisters Of the Visitation" George.
town, acknowledging the receipt of her
letter of the 18th instant, asking for an
order of exemption on certain property Of
that institution, and they say that IL is
not the province Of the commissioners to
order any property to be exempt from
taxation. The law, not tho commission
ers, declares what property shall DO OK
empt and the assessor taxes all property
not exempt by law. The taxing Of GER
tain portions Of your property and not
taxing OF other portions is q matter for
the assessor, aud neither his action nor
that OF tho commissioners can bind their
successors in Office as to what such sue
oessors may do. Any action taken during
ono tax year is binding for that tax year,
and IL dcvolves upon you to protect your
! property from any taxes in the future
that you may consider unlawful or un-
just, whether such shall BIO imposed by
either the District authorities or by Con-
gress. A certificate was sent to you on
the 18th instant showing that all your
taxes are paid to date on tho property
named therein"
THE NEW woMAN's woRKHoUsE.
Plans for the new female workhouse
arc about ready. The building will be
three stories high. 81 feet front
by LOG feet deep. The main entrance
will occupy tho center of the structure,
with n wide hallway running through
the first y Or. On the west side of tho
first noe ,.rc tho rooms and Office for the
rndaht. The cast section Of the same
moor is devoted to laundry purposes. The
second story is divided into sixteen
double cells, and tho third floor is made
eight double and sixteen single cells.
There will DO accommodations for eighty
eight female prisoners, The stairway Is
to BIO of iron, aud six feet wide. The
building is to DO froproof. Red bricks
will be used for the fronta The building
will be heated by steam, and the boiler
room will DO attached TO the building on
the south side. There are twenty-four
rooms, or double coils, and sixteen single
rooms, or cells for prison purposes. This
building is intended to relieve the over
crowded condition of the old workhouse
BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS.
Tho following building permits wero
issued yesterday: John Sherman, to build
three throe-story aud basement bricks
on Sunderland Place, between Twentieth
and Twenty first streets, to cost S17, 200
=. ID. Welcker, to build a boiler room In
rear of 524 Thirteenth street, to cost $3.50
NOTES.
The commissioners yesterday approved
the liquor applications OF Michael L
Carley, 1901 Twelfth street, and August
Sellhauser & Co., 200 b street, and disap
proved the application OF Dennis Nc
earthly, IL Trumbull street.
= Tho commissioners yesterday granted {
permit to the Washington Gas Light Com
pany to lay mains on the east side of Sew
enth street from NJ to ID street; ID street
D north side, from Seventh to Tenth street
Vermont avenue, east side, from U to '
street; Eleventh street, from Park stree
) to street northeast; Massachusetts, ave.
nue., north side, from Seventh to Eight
, street northeast; Seventeenth street, ives
,, side, from q to l. street; Columbia road
: from Oakland avenue to Nineteenth stree
extended. Swormsted & Bradley have
= made application for the laying of waite
: main on the east side of Twenty-seventl
street, from the corner Of / to X street
Messrs. 5. $. Daish aud Michael b. Bowie
make like request for one to be laid oil
Twentieth street, between l. and Bound
!. AIRY street.
I WIN. n. Tennyson was yesterday par
i doned out of the workhouse by order O
- the commissioners.
A lady living on Grant place has com
/. planned to the commissioners that tina
It street has not been swept for eight week.
> Judge Edmunds has gone to New Y orl
= and is not expected back for several day
!, The notices sent to the residents {
Mount Pleasant by the commissioner
:, have awakened feeling of resistance o
> the part of the inhabitants living o
! Sheridan avenue, in that place. Severi
' meetings have been held by the citizen
It to arrange for holding on to the fftee
a feet of roadway and to maintain thei
present location.
| The health officer reports for the pa!
J, week 100 deaths, SO white and A coloreC
! Births-White, 81; colored, 2s, MAJ
, riages-Whites, 10: coored, 8. Still
!, births-White, 4; colored, 3.
Mr.. Robert l. Fleming has requisite
|. that the sewer on the east side of Fl
IT teenth, between X and $ streets, be eS
II tended north TO drain the new building
. he is about to erect on lots "a, 20, 90, an
. q, in square 207.
7. Mr.. Il. A. Mcintyre complains to tn
commissioners that the parties filling /
!. the street at Third, above o street, hav
filled up and buried out of sight sewers
i stop-cock boxes, and in one case the col
l. tractors on the sewers have broken IL
I, pipe connecting No. 1il7 Third stree
: He asks that the contractors repair I'll
n damage.
d Maj. Dye has not yet submitted the r.
y suits of the trial of Officer LOTUS, but
=, is said that the officer will be eXonerate
hut hat ha oh