Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-26
DISTRICT ESTIMATES,
The Commissioners Submit Them Today
With Some Remarka
Estimates Up to the Expected Receipts
and Supplemental Estimates
The Totals Asked This Year.

The Commissioners today completed their
estimates for the support of the District
government for the next fiscal year, and
sent them to the Secretary Of the Treasury
with the following letter of explanation:
The Commissioners Of the District of Co.
lumbia herewith transmit their estimate Of
appropriations for the support of the gov
err Ment Of said District for the fiscal year
to end June 90, 1895. amounting to Sc, 701,-
07s.23, payable out of the general revenues,
and s265 oS3.9s. payable out Of the revenues
of the water department.
Accompanying these estimates of expen-
ditures are statements Of estimated re-
ceipts of the District government, exclusive
Of the receipts Of the water department
for said period; memorandum Of the rea-
sons for submitting new changed items
compared with the appropriations for the
support Of the said government for the cur
rent fiscal year. and schedules of proposed
work on sundry Streets avenues and roads
embraced in these estimates.
Following the custom observed in sub
hitting the annual estimates for District
expenditures since the establishment of the
present form of government Cor the Dis
trict. the Commissioners have confined the
estimate of expenditures within the amount
Of estimated receipts. They are not aware
Of any law which requires them to SO limit
their estimate Of expenditures. but they
have thought it advisable to conform to the
usage in the premises
The estimated appropriations are $685..
~ less than the estimated receipts, ex-
elusive Of the water department, but the
Commissioners have not included in their
estimates the amount that will be neces-
sary to pay the fourth installment on the
Districts share Of the expense on account
Of Rock Creek Park. as required by act
of September q. 1890 (U. s. Stats. at Large.
VOL &C. page 1867. and the amounts to pay
the salaries Of the justices Of the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia
Appeals of the District of Coiumbia, one
half Of which are made payable from the
revenues of the District by the act OF Feb
ruary 8. 1893 U. s. Stats. -at-Large. vol. q.
not required by law to estimate for these
purposes they have endeavored to comply
with the manifest intent Of the law by
leaving a sufficient balance Of their esti-
The estimates herewith SO submitted do
not. in the Judgment Of the Commissioners,
embrace all the items necessary for the
proper administration of the District gov
eminent for the period they are intended
to cover, hence. while adhering to prece-
dent they deem 1t their duty to add to these
estimates supplemental statement regard
ing certain public works whose execution
cannot further be delayed without s1-'~'--
prejudice to the public interests, and they
earnestly desire these supplemental state
ments to be considered by Congress for the
fiscal year for which these estimates have
The delay which the Commissioners re-
greet In the submission of these estimates
was due to the fact that the principal ba sis
OF the estimated receipts was the footings
OF the general assessments as revised under
the provisions OF the act of August s. 1892
winch have only recently been furnished.