Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-14

States by the act Of August I, 1855, entitled
Ian act TO authorize condemnation Of land for
sites Of public buildings and for other pur-
poses, for the condemnation OF land for sites
for school buildings, engine houses, and for
police stations Application for such proceed
ings shall be fled in the Supreme Court Of said
District. by the attorney thereof. under such
orders as said court may prescribe in such
cases.
Tha. the plans and specifications for each Of
said buildings. and for all other buildings pro-
vided for in this act shall be prepared by the
inspector OF buildings Of the District OF Co
iumoia, and shah be approved by the architect
OF the capitol and the Commissioners OF the
oy the Commissioners in conformity Herewith.
Inc appropriation made in this act for the
erection of school buildings for addition 20
school buildings shall be Immediately svaila-
BILE.
OVERHEAD WIRES
In connection with the appropriation for the
telegraph and telephone service il 10 provided
''that the Commissioners OF the District OF 90.
lumbia may hereafter under such reasonable
conditions as they may prescribe authorize the
overhead wires OF any telegraph, telephone OF
electric light company 90 be laid under any
street, alley, highway, footway, or sidewalk in
the District, whenever in their judgment the
public interest may require the exercise of
such authority, such privileges rs NAV be
granted hereunder to be reyocable at the viii
of Congress, without compensation. and this an.
thority 70 continue only until the termination
OF the Fifty-ffrst Congress-"
The usual appropriations are made for rs-
formatories and prisons.
CHARITIES.
The following charities are provided for:
For relief of the poor, $4,000. For tenn
porary support Of INDECENT persons. male and
female, to De expended in such manner as the
atoaso - A.
$1,000; and from this sum the Commissioners
may allot not exceeding $500 to the board OF
management OF the temporary home for sol
diers and sailors, Grand Army Of the Republic.
District OF Columbia, and not exceeding 81 600
to the Young Womans Christian home. aud not
exceeding $1,000 TO the Woman's Christian
Temperance union. For the support and main
tenance Of the Columbia hospital for women
and lying-in asylum, $4,000. For the wo-
mems Christian association. $1,000 For the
National association for destitute colored wo-
men and children, 5000. To complete and
connect drainage and sewerage of build
ing with main sewer. 5000 To erect
coal-vault and 20 change the laundry. $500.
10 enable said association 20 care for colored
foundings, $1,000. For the Children's hospital.
$1,000. For Saint AIMS Infant asylum. 81 OOO
10 complete the erection of additional accom-
modations for the use Of the st. Rose industrial
school, $1,000. For the erection of a suitable
brick building TO be used by the German
on the ground now owned by said association
$1,000. Procided, That said association ex-
ponds an equal amount IN the erection OF said
building. For maintenance of the Church
orphanage association of Saint Johns Parish
of the District of Columbia. 1900. For the
Washington hospital for foandlings. for main
tenance, $1,000. Association for Works of
Mercy. for purchase Of lot, 5000; for mainte-
nance and repairs. $500; in all S5,5 For
the National Homeopathic hospital association
OF Washington. District of Columbia. for MAIN ,
tenance, $1,000. To aid the House OF the Good
Shepherd in erecting building, $4,000. For
maintenance OF the National Temperance
Home. % J00
That hereafter the several institutions in
cluded under the heads of asyluins reforrnato-
ries industrial schools, and charities named in
this act and in former and succeeding appro-
priation acts for the support of the District OF
Columbia shall report TO the Commissioners OF
the District on or before the first day of Octo-
Der of each wear, a full and detailed account OF
receipts and expenditures, and all their opera
tons. and said Commissioners shall transmit the
same TO Congress at the beginning of each reg
ular session, with such suggestions and recon-
mendatlons as they may deem pertinent, to-
gether with estimates for maintaining the same.
All sums Of money heretofore appropriated
by Congress or which may hereafter be appro-
priated and expended in aid of the purchase OF
real estate shall Subject TO any trust deed,
mortgage, OF other security OF incumbrance
existing on such property at the time Of its
purchase, or created at the time of it's purchase)
be lien upon such property, and in case OF the
dissolution Of any such corporation in the
preceding paragraph II mentioned. owning such
property, or in case OF the disposal of such
property by such corporation, entitle the
United States 10 reimburse in proportion TO
any other contributions or funds used in the
purchase Of such property. The acceptance OF
any sum OF money by any such corporation
is in this act appropriated for Its benefit shall
be deemed an acceptance of and agreement to
this provision.
WATER DEPARTMENT
In connection with the sums appropriated 10
carry on the operations of the water depart
ment is provided that said commissioners
shall not make acquisitions upon the appropri-
atoms from the Treasury of the United Stats
for larger amount during the fiscal year 1910
than they make on the appropriations arising
from the revenues, including drawback certifi-
Gates. of said District.
That hereafter all moneys received from the
sales OF animals or materials of any sort, pur-
chased under appropriations made for the Dis
trict Of Columbia since July I, 1875, other than
for the water department. shall be paid into
the Treasury of the United States, TO the credit
OF the United States and the District in equal
parts; and all balances OF appropriations that
have been heretofore or that shall be hereafter
made for the District of Columbia under Sec
ton of the act of j lne IL, 1873, entitled An
act providing permanent form of government
for the District of Columbia" heretofore or
hereafter remaining unexpended at the end of
two years from the close of the fiscal year for
which such appropriations have been or shall
be made, shall be covered into the Treasury,
one-haf to the credit of the surplus fund and
one-half TO the credit of the general fund Of
the District of Columbia.
For the establishment of a geological park in
the District of Columbia, S200.000 is appro-
priated.
THE INCREASE OF THE WATER SUPPLY.
The appropriation of s575,OOO for the pro-
posed new forty-eight-inch main to form @
between the distributing reservoir
above Georgetown and the new reservoir 10
in the deficiency appropriation act.
The text of the provision is as follows: TO en-
able the Secretary of War 10 cause TO be con-
s,aucted and put in operation a forty-eight-
inch cast-iron main from the present distribut-
ing reservoir above Georgetown, easterly to
Rock creek at NJ street, and thence along NJ
street TO New Hampshire avenue; thence north
easterly along New Hampshire avenue TO Il
street, TO connect with the present forty-eight-
inch main from the new reservoir at Il and
It'll streets, and TO make the necessary connec-
lions and to provide the necessary ap-
paratus for thereby specially supplying
he present DEFICIENCIES OF water at the higher
evels of the city. and in general TO increase
the water supply, s575,00 The said work
hall be done under the direction of the chief
,f engineers, in the shortest practicable time
4 it shall appear to the Secretary of War, on the
'eport Of the chief of engineers, that for any
,ause the work cannot be carried on, or nate
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