Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-16
District Provisions in the General
Deficiency Bill.
FIRE DEPARTMENT AND TELEGRAPH
To Pay Judgments Against the
District.
NJ l s CELLANE OUS ITEM S

Following are the provisions of local in
terest in the deficiency appropriation bill
reported to the House yesterday afternoon:
To pay DR.. L. W. Glazebrook. deputy
coroner, for services during the absence of
the coroner from the city. S275.
To pay accounts for expenses on account
of the coroner's. Office. S449.S2
To pay account for supplies furnished
the office of sealer of weights and meas
ures. s227.45
To pay accounts for general advertising
for fiscal year 1897, S35o.7 for fiscal year
1885, S476.
To pay for repairs to cuts in concrete
ravcments, being for the service of the
fiscal year 1880. $1I1.02.
To pay amounts. on account of permit
work. fiscal year 1892. S2i9.5J.
To pay special counsel for services, to be
paid wholly from the revenues of the Dis
trict of Columbia. s341G &c.
To pay james Robbins for services in
making estimate of damages to house in
Dennison Il LeightOn's division, to be paid
wholly from the revenues of the District of
Columbia. SJ6.
Extension of Connecticut Avenue
To pay juror. for services in the con-
dcmrdtion of lard. to be paid wholly from
the revenues OF the District of Columbia.
$i''S.o' For advertising notice of condcm-
nation of land. to be paid wholly from the
revenues of the District Of Columbia $3.50
Metropolitan poIice-For contingent ex-
p6nses. 81. 500.
To pay TO the heirs of the late Charles
NJ SkippoH. for ray due him while a mem
Der OF the police force. sos
Fire epartment-For additional story on
engine house on Sth street tetween ID ami
Z street northwest. in which shall be To-
Gated the permanent headquarters of the
hre alarm department. 5000.
For contingent expenses, 81 .6l5.
Authority is granted the Commissioners
O. the District of Columbia to transfer the
uEexpended balance of the appropriation
for the fiscal year 1897 for house lot AMI
furniture. to be located in the vicinity of
Brightwood. to accommodate chemical en-
CINE numbered ., SO to permit the ap-
pi1catlon of such portion of said balance rs
may De necessary and desirable to the aD-
preparation for the fiscal year 1895 for the
Rouse. lot and furniture for one engine
company to be located in Anacostia
Telegraph and Telephone Service
For the complete equipment of the cer-
tral station of the fire alarm system in
GLIDING provision for thirty box circuits
ana ten alarm circuits. equipped with all
modern appIiahCes. to take the place of
the present system. $21,J0o; necessary cab
lfet work for mounting the same, s. 600:
storage battery system. to take the place
OF the gravity battery system now in usn
%',JU replacing sixty old fire alarm boxes
winch have been worn out, with sixty new
modern boxes. 5000; placing in eighty
boxes standard cut-Outs. to prevent their
beng destroyed by lightning or other eIeo
trlcal disturbances, $1,000; for twenty Wis
uai indicators, to he placed in the engine
tcuSes Tor recording usually alarms re-
CeiEed' 10 prevent any errors in responding
10 ilres, 5000; in ALL $1,000
SChDnlG-Enr
school building, $500: for janitor of West
EN- high School building. 500: for ianitor
OF CheNy Chase school building, $40; for
Janitor of Stevens School building SlS. for
she rent OF Miner School building 81 30:
for fuel, 81 500 F-'-'0'
The Commissioners of the District of Co
iumbla are authorized to use the unexpend-
ed balance of the appropriation for fueI for
the fiscal year 1897 for the service of the
fiscal year 1898
To pay Frank W. Hackett for services as
referee in sundry cases; sos: for defending
suits In Court of Claims. 81 900.
Judgments Against the District
FOR the payment of judgments, including
costs, against the District of Columbia
S1,2Sl.tJ, together with further sum +,
pay the interest on the judgments, as pro-
yided by law, from the date the same he
came due until date of payment.
The claimants are as follows; Marearet
krause, Michael L. Sullivan. Eta n Vail
Hermann Perls, Philip r. Pulliam and
Elizabeth Pulliam. Annie Barron. Charles
T. llrman. Thomas +. Latimer, Fulton
anu Edwards, assignees, ard John r. and
Belle T.. Dickerson.
Freedmen 5 Hospital and Asylum-To nav
accounts Tor fiscal year 1896 S26 70. for
fiscal year 1885, 81;
Police Court-To pay Samuel c. Mills for
services as Judge during the illness of the
late Judge Thomas f. Miller. $3.50; to nav
Arson 5. Taylor for services as indigo Sr0.
Tor witness fees. 81 600; for amount renuired
to pay outstanding certificates for witness
les Ist' beihs Tor the service of the fiscal year
1876 so; for Police Court. addition to cells
and other improvements, 81 200
Beard OF children's guadians-For admin
istrative expenses. S6I11S
+ 1f care of feeble-mi1ded children board
ana care of I'll children committed to the
guardianship of the board by the courts of
the District, and for the temporary care OF
children pending investigation or while be-
81, 7o2. 20.
To pay the 10 per cantum retained under
contract numbered 1921 with Andrew Glee-
son, $22.2i.
To pay F. T. Nash for five unused build
ing permits. to be paid wholly from the
revenues of the District of Columbia. SO.
To pay Ernest y. A. Dunn for erroneous
payment of water main tax on lot ID
square 9ii. to be paid wholly from the
revenues of the water department. SO
ing officers of the treasury to the Albany
county penitentiary, at Albany, n. Y, for
support, maintenance and TRANSFORMATION
of ccnvicts from the District of Columbia
on account of the fiscal year 1897. 81, 1851 O6
To defray the expenses attending the exc
cution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and
commit mentS hereunder. in all cases of in
digent insane persons committed or sought
to be committed to the Government Hos
pital for the Insane by order of the execu-
tive authority Of the District of Columbia,
under the provisions of the act approved
March 3, 1877, 81 300.
Hereafter in all proceedings by the
Commissioners of the District of Columbia
to commit resident INDECENT insane persons
to the Government Hospital for the In
sane, IL shall be the duty of the marshal to
impanel juries in such cases from the
jurors in attendance upon the criminal
courts of said District, who shall perform
such service in addition to and as part of
their duties in said courts.
To reimburse the general commanding
the District militia