The Washington times., 1894-07-13
LIBERAL ALLOWANCE MADE
District Appropriation Bill Increased
Over 100000 By the Senate.
INCREASES IN THE WHOLE LIST
Assessments, Fire, Police, Water, Health,
School and Other Departments of Our
Local Government Well Cared For-street
Lighting, Garbage, and Car Tenders.

The Senate has dealt generously with the
District of Columbia in making the annual
appropriations for the coming year. 1t has
added in the District appropriation bill re-
ported yesterday s64S, ,O65 to the appropria-
tions made in the House bill, and provides for
total OF 1854 53S. 81 against %, ,4l3 223 81
for the year just past. This, in view OF the
times. is very liberal treatment, and the Dis
trict has no reason for complaint at the con-
sideration it has received at the hands OF the
Senate. The Commissioners in their esti-
mates asked for Sc, ,966, 1876, but the appro-
priations are always below the Commission
ers' figures
The changes as given in the appropriations
are as follows:
Executive oflce, $40; collectors Office 81 500;
auditors office, 81 ,2225 plumbing board, 81 900;
| superintendent Of charities, clerk. $500: con-
tingent expenses, 5000; horse hire, coroners
offlce, $50: general advertising, sl,iOo; adyer-
tising taxes in arrears, 5000; 10 continue ac-
count, taxes in arrears, 81 900; repairs. Western
market house, f3,l70; permit work, 900; paw
ing Streets $4,000: relief sewers, $685. ,00O main
and pipe sewers, s45, 900; Rock Greek intercept
ing sewer, 10000; widening Fourteenth street.
5000; Roanoke and Irving street, grading and
graveling, 5000 First street, extending and
paving, $4,000; Harrison street, Anacostin, paw
ing, $500; X street northwest, extending
paving, 5000; Albemarle street, grading
and graveling, s9,000 macadamizing road
from Broad Branch road TO Chevy Chase
circle, 5000; sprinkling, sweeping, and
cleaning streets. 5000; gas and electric
lighting, sl5,500; bathing beach, $1,000; public
pumps, $1,000; care OF bridges - 900: Aqueduct
bridge repair, s5i 90; repair and caro- of Rock
Creek Park, 81 600; receiving reservoir, St5OOO;
protecting conduit near Great Falls, 5000; re-
pair and improvement school buildings, $1,000;
eight-rooin school, Mt Pleasant, $4,000; steam
heating boilers, sumner school, $3.50: fre-proof
stairways, Curtis, Seaton and Abbott schools,
1900 metropolitan police, SIS $50: fire depart T.
ment, s222,s $40; telegraph and telephone service,
800; health department, sol ,l30; repairs Police
Court building, $500; compilation District laws,
5000: emergency fund, $4,000; transportation
paupers and prisoners, $500; support Of con-
victs 5000; Central Dispensary 5000; Column
bia Hospital for Women, $4,000; National
Homeopathic Hospital, 5000; District militia,
$a,l00; water department, 1850 Total H.
creases, $G51,0i5.
The reductions re:Reforrn school for boys,
S1,7l0; reform school for girls, 1920. Total,
Ss,9S0
In the executive Office there are substitu-
tions of a stenographer and messenger at
ST20 in place OF a messenger at $780, and the
addition OF a deputy property clerk at 81 600
and another clerk at $500. A deputy collec-
tor is also added to the collectors force at
: 500 year, and the auditor gets an addi-
tional clerk at 3 1000 and an addition of S125
A new item appropriates 200 for each OF
the five members of the plumbers board.
For the improvement and repair Of alleys
and sidewalks an assessment OF 500, 900 is
made, and it is provided that notice OF assess
ment OF property-holders for their share of
this work is to be published twice a week for
two weeks in some newspaper published in
Washington, with the estimated cost. and a
time and place appointed where property
owners can appear 10 protest against unjust
assessments. 0ne-half of the total eos. is to
be assessed against abutting property. and is
to become lien upon 1t. Payment is to be
made of this one-half, as follows One-third
within sixty days after notice Of assessment,
without interest: one-third within year. and
one-third within two years. interest in each
case at the rate of per cent from the date of
service on all amounts unpaid at the eXpira-
tion of sixty days.
The service of notice where owner or tenant
or agent resides in the District is TO be either
personal or by leaving at the residence with
some person of suitable age, return to be
made in writing and filed in the office OF the
Commissioners. Any property upon which
assessments are unfair is to be liable to sale
at expiration of two years from date of
service, under same conditions a. required
for non-payment of general taxes. Property
owners who desire improvements under the
permit system are to deposit in advance with
the collector Of taxes. Upon the completion
of work done, the Commissioners shall repay
out of the permit fund a sum equal to one
half of the cost of the work done and return
to depositors. as application may be made.
any surplus over and above one-half of cost.
All sums received under this provision by
collectors shall be credited to the appropria-
ton for assessment and permit work for the
fiscal year in which they are collected. The
cost of service connections with water mains
and sewers are to be collected in the same
manner as assessment work
The increase for paving is divided as fol-
lows: Georgetown, from IS. 500 TO S17. 900;
northwest section, from S3s 900 to $4,000:
southeast district. from $4,000 to S3S, 600,
and southwest section. from $4,000 to S26,-
900; Northeast. from S2l 900 to S42. 900. In
each case the appropriation is doubled.
The Rock Creek sewer may be continued
across lands OF the United States where neces-
sary, and the Commissioners are authorized
TO continue the construction from time to
time as appropriation may be made.
The District Commissioners are authorized
to require railways propelled by electricity
or cable to provide their cars with suitable
tenders fer the protection of life and limb.
For street lighting the provisions of the
bill require that payment shall not be in excess
of s21.50 per annum lamp for gas or oil,
and no lamp shall burn less than 5000 hours
year. The gas company is directed to equip
each lamp with self-regulating burner, so
adjusted as to consume six cubic feet Of gas
an hour. Electric lights are to cost not to
exceed so cents night from sunset to sun
rise.
The receiving reservoir to be completed in
the coming fiscal year gets an appropriation
Of $4,000.
The police department is increased 10 pri-
Yates to 240, at $500, and $50 at 81, ,0S0. An
additional patrol wagon is allowed. The fire
department gets new engine house in the
northeast.
Changes in the health department provide
an assistant chemist at $500. The Commits
sioners are authorized to enter into a contract
for collection Of garbage daily from May 1,
to November /, twice a week from November
l to May l, for a gross sum of $50, 900. The
ordinances OF the late board Of health are to
have the same effect as if enacted by Con-
gress.
The Commissioners are placed in complete
control of the reform school. The charity
funds for the different asylums are: st. Johns
parish orphanage, $1,000; German Orphan
Asylum. 81 $780, National Association for Des-
titute Colored Women. 80, 900; st. AIMS In
FAINT Asylum, S5, 400; st. Joseph's Asylum,
81 800; Association for Works of Mercy,
$1,000: Home of Good Shepherd, 81, 700; In
dustrial Home School. SO, 900; st. Roses In
dustrial School. s4,5O0; board of children's
guardians, S13.150.
The District militia receives $1,000 for the
expenses of an instruction camp, and for fife
matches, 81 500.
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