Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-23
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.
About n Tax Sale.

IhOmaS Jonn Mayor ana henrietta Maria
Brightwell in petition to the Commits
sioners today request that the tax sale of
April IL, 1893, for the tax due for year
ending June 80, 1892, on thirty-two acres
and improvements on the Anacostia road,
plat 81. Washington county, and purchased
by John B. Torbett, appear by the books
in the Office of the assessor. be declared
null and void, and that said sale be can
celled on the proper books of the collector
of taxes and OF the assessor for the Dis
trict of Columbia, for the reason that the
sale was illegal, being enormously adver-
tised as the property OF Thomas and
Brightwell Nayior. when it was the prop
erty of Thomas John Naylor and Henrietta
Maria Brightwell as per deed of Novem-
Der .. 1865. Since the error was discover
ed, the petition states, the books in the as
SCISSORS office have been corrected.
Claim for Clothing.
Messrs. Obear and Douglass attorneys,
representing Mr.. George l.. Anderson of
this city, have presented his claim to the
Commissioners against the District Of Co.
lumbia, amounting to $74.15, being the
value of certain household articles and
clothes burned Oh the 2Sth of October 1894
by direction of the health department, on
account of the smallpox. The subject has
been referred to the health officer for re-
port upon the matter.
Necessary to Health.
Health Officer Woodward has recon-
nenGed to the Commissioners that the paw
ing of Jackson alley, adjoining the govern
Inent printing Office, on the south, is neces-
sary to public health.
Special Policeman.
B. Mcclure, secretary of the Corcoran
Art Gallery, has requested that the com
mission given to Mr.. Thomas ]. Cassidy in
June, 1881, to act special policeman in
and about that building, be renewed.
Alley Complained cr.
Relative to the communication of D. NJ.
Hall, complaining of the filthy condition
of the alley in square so, caused by the
deposit of ashes, garbage, &C., Health
Officer Woodward, in his report to the
Commissioners upon the subject, says that
the street cleaning department has been
requested to clean this alley and the police
department to prevent repetition OF the
nuisance.
Water Main Tax.
S. Thomas Brown, chairman Of thesboard
of directors of the West Street Presby-
terrain Church Of Georgetown, writes to the
Commissioners today stating that a tax
for water main on 3ith street northwest
between @ and Z streets, has been as
sessed upon the Presbyterian burial ground.
The bill, he says, amounts to S16G.2t. About
six years ago, says Mr. Brown, intermGntS
in this burial ground were prohibited by
the District Commissioners. Since that
time no intermentS have been made. Most
OF the bodies have been removed, and as
internentS are prohibited, the usefulness of
the place as a burial ground has passed
away. He further states that they are
unable to dispose of the property until au-
thoriZed by Congress to do so. Continuing,
he says:
I'm view of the foregoing facts we pro-
test against the payment of any taxes on
the Presbyterian burial ground until such
time as Congress shall enable US to make
some use of the property. In view Of the
facts that cemeteries are generally in
corporated. institutions, established, as
business enterprises, it may seem just and
proper that the burden of taxation should
be born by them as well as other business
property whereas, in this case the ceme-
terry has ever since its existence been more
of a charitable adjunct to our church than
source of revenue, about the only charges
which have been made being those for dig
ging the graves" The matter has been le-
ferred to the engineer department for in
vestigation and report.
Entitled to Pay.
In relation to the claim of H. L. Gran
ford to compensation for extra work on
the Easby's point interceptng sewer, over
which there was a disagreement between
Mr. Crawford and Capt. Beach, assistant
to the Engineer Commissioner, Attorney
Thomas gives it as his opinion that IL in
order to secure a firm base for the sewer it
gineer Commissioner for Mr.. Crawford to
make the excavation, for which he claims
COMPENSATION, he is entitled to pay for it.