Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-27
District APPROXIMATIONS.

NEW FEATURES INTRODUCED IN THE BILL
WHICH HAS JUST BECOME A LAW.
Through close attention to the needs of Dis
trict legislation in Congress the Commissioners
have had several new features introduced in
the bill making appropriations to provide for
the expenses of the government of the District
of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June
30th, 1856.
Among them is the making of the records of
the surveyor of the District of Columbia part
Of the public property of the District of Colum-
bia; providing that hereafter property belong
Ing to the District of Columbia may be insured
for the purpose Of defraying the expenses of the
assessment of the real property of the District
81 ss BY s act
sors employed for this purpose have never yet
been paid for that Service.)
Another new clause appropriates $4,000 for
materials, tor permit work SOO,OOO, and au-
thorizes the Commissioners in their discretion
to apply such materia to the improvement and
repair OF alleys and side walks when in their
opinion, such course Is necessary for the public
health and com .ort, provided that the costs of
labor small be charged against, and become a
lien on, the abutting property, and it's collection
shall be enforced in the same manner as the
collection of general taxes; providing that all
moneys which have been, or may hereafter be,
vested in bonds of the United States or the Dis
trlct OF Columbia and held by the Treasurer of
the United states, and any sum which has been
or shall be realized from such investments in
excess OF the amounts due to contractors shall
be deposited In the Treasury to the credit of the
United States and OF the District of Columbia in
equal parts. There are also the following items
in the act: For the purchase or construction of a
building for the National Homeopathic Hos
pitai Association of the District of Columbia
$4,000, to be Immediately available: for the
construction of an additional building for the
National Association for Destitute Colored Wo-
men and Children, SIS 900, to be at on avail
able; purchase of site and erection of new sta
ton In seventh precinct, $4,000; that here
after the Commissioners shall deduct one
dollar each month from the pay of each
policeman, which sum SO deducted shall be
added to and form a part of the present police
fund to be invested In United States or District
and be held by him subject to the drafts of the
Commissioners for expenditures made in pur-
suance flaw, and such expenditures shah be
accounted for as required by law for other ex-
penditures of the District, and said police fund
shall be used for the relief of any policeman
who, by injury received or disease contracted,
In line ofduty, or having served not less than
fifteen years, shall become SO permanently dis
abled as to be discharged from service therefor;
and In case of his death from such injury or dis
ease, leaving a widow or children under six
teen years for their relief &C., &c. There is
also similar provision in this bill for the relief
Of fremen In the District fire service. A
provision Is also made that the supply of Poto-
mac water may be extended to points in the
District beyond tie limits of Washington and
Georgetown on like terms and conditions as are
provided by law for the supply of the same in
those cities.