Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-12

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dead animals and tho distribution, 1000;
enforcement of the act to prevent the
spread Of scarlet fever and diphtheria.
5000; for ambulance for contagious dis
Under the head of the Police Court the
following items are appropriated:
For two judges, at 5000 each: two JUS
tees Of the peace. acting as judges Of the
Police Court during the absence of said
Judges. not exceeding 800 each: clerk,
$z,On; one deputy clerk, $500; two dep
uty clerks. at 81 900 each three bailiffs. at
Is per day each. s2.s17: one deputy mar
shall. at 3 per day, 1893; messenger. $500;
SIS. 196.
for witness fees, $1,000 for repairs of Po-
lice Court building. 500; for repairs to
Ponce Court, furniture and repairing same,
$2tO; for rent of property adjoining Police
purposes, $500: for compensation for jury.
$1,000 in all. $4,000. For defending suits
IN the United States Court of Claims,
800; 10 defray the expenses attending
the execution Of writs de lunatico In
auirendo in cases of indigen. insane per-
sons committed to the Government Hos
pital for the Insane. $1,000. - =
Interest and Sinking Fund +'
For interest and sinking fund on the
funded debt, exclusive of water bonds,
$l,2l3.eA7.97 is appropriated
Inc Commissioners emergency fund for
riot pestilence, flood, fire, etc., is fixed at
$S,ooo; the amount for the care and trans
portation Is fixed at $45, 600; for the care
and protection Of the court house $40 !NaO
Is given. to be expended under the direction
or the Attorney General. The salary of the
warden OF the Jail is fixed at 81 800 also to
pc expended under the direction Of the At
torney General; for maintaining the tail
the allowance is $4,000; for Transported ting
paupers and prisoners to the work house.
S2Wo; Tor the Washington Asylum. $16,-
i63; Tor contingent expenses at the asylum,
A4.NW; for repairs of aims house and
work house. $1,000: for central heating sta
ton for the hospital department, $4,000;
Tor the reform school, $1624O; for the sup
port OF the inmates. SEQ for the support
or the insane at st. Elizabeth's, O4,Oi9;
for the instruction Of the deaf and dumb,
$4,000.
The Charities Schedule.
The charities schedule as agreed upon in
conference is as follows: For relief Of the
roor $4,000; for temporary home for ex-
Union soldiers and sailors, Grand Army
OF the Republic. $500: for tire Women's
christian Association, maintenance, $4,000;
Tor Central Dispepsary and Emergency
Hospital. maintenance. $4,000: for the
Ch1ldren's Hospital, maintenance, 10000:
for the National homeopathic Hospital
association OF Washington, District of
Columbia for maintenance. ss.5O; for the
tenance, $4,000; for the Church Orphanage
Association of st. Johns Parish. mainte-
nance. 81. 800 for the German Orphan Asy-
ium. maintenance. s1.SOO for the National
Association for the Relief of Destitute Col
ored Women and Children, maintenance,
including repairs. $500: for st. AIMS In
lant Asylum. mainter ance, $5iD: for AS
SCciation for Works of Mercy mainte-
ance, 800; for House of the Good Shep-
herd. maintenance, 81. 100: for the St Rose
Industrial School. maintenance, $500: for
st. Joseph's Asylum maintenance. $500;
Tor Young Womens Christian Home, ST.
900; for Hope and Help Mission, mainte-
rance, $1,000; for Newsboys' and Chldrens
Aid Society maintenance $1,000; for East
ern D1SpenSary, maintenance, 81 900; for
Washington Home for Incurables. main
tenance. 5000; municipal lodging house
and wood and stone yard, including rent.
$4,000; for the Columbia Hospital for Wo-
men and Lying-in Asylum. maintenance,
$2O,oO: for repairs to building. 5000:
in all. $4,000. Provided. That no member
or members of any board or boards Of
trus tees directors of any charitable in
stitution, organization or corporation in
the District of Columbia, which is sup
ported In whole or in part by appropria-
tons made by Congress. shall engage in
traffic with said institution, organzati ton or
corporation for financial gain, and any
member or members Of such board of trus-
tees or directors who shall so engage in
such traffic 81 all be deemed now and here
after legally disqualified for service on said
he ard or boards.
Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum-For
subsistence, s22,5CO; for salaries. $4,000;
for rent Of hospital buildings and grounds,
$4,000: for miscellaneous expenses. $ll.5U.
Reform school for girls-For salaries 81
425; for necessary items. $500
Industrial Home Sckool-For 1painte-
nance Glcluding rerairs), $500. provided
that the board of managers of the indus
trial Home School, on or before the both
day of June, 1896. shall transfer said school
to the Commissioners of the District of Co
a., -,
thereupon appoint a beard OF trustees of
said school, consisting of nine members,
whose terms CT office shall be: For the first
appointment three members for one year.
three members for two years and three
members for three years. and thereafter
all appointments shall be for term OF
three years. except appointments to fill out
unexpired terms The tcard of trustees so
appointed by the Commissioners shall man
age the school under such regulations as
now exist or may hereafter be made by
said board, subject to the approval of the
Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
All designations for employment in said
school made by said board of trustees shall
be subject to the approval of the Commits
sioners Of the District of Columbia, and. in
the event Of disapproval by said Commits
trustees. the said Commissioners shall
make the appointment. All supplies for
said school shall be obtained by requisiton
upon said Commissioners, and all moneys
from sale of products and from payments
for board and instruction, otherwise,
shall he paid over to said Commissioners,
to be expended by them for the support Of
the school, as herain provided.
For the board of childrens guardians
Administrative expenses. $1,000; for care Of
children, s23, 100.
The Investigating Committee.
A Joint select committee Is created, con-
sisting of three Senat ors and three Repre-
sentative to Investigate the charities and
re formatory institutions of the District and
to ascertain all the facts in relation 20
their means of support and methods Of
work and to report whether they are eff
fective and whether 1t is practical for
the Commissioners to make contracts for
the care of the poor and destitute within
the limits of policy declared as follows:
And 1t is hereby declared to be the pol
icy of the government of the United States
to make no appropriation of money or
property for the purpose of founding,
| maintaining. or aiding by payment for
services, expenses, or otherwise, any
church OR religious denomination or any
| Institution or society which is under sec
tartan or ecclesiastical control. And 1t is
hereby enacted that from and after the
i0th day of June, 1897 no money appro-
priated for charitable purposes in the Dis
trct of Columbia shall be paid to any
church or religious denomination or To any