The times., 1898-10-28
EXPENSES OF THE DISTRICT
Annual Report of the Auditor for
the State and Other Deuartnent,.


the State and Other Departments.
The annual report of the auditor for
the State and other departments,
Ernest G. Timme, has been submitted to
the Secretary of the Treasury The re-
port deals in an exhaustive manner with
the details of the auditors office and
speaks favorably of the recent legisla-
ton of Congress comforting concurrent
jurisdiction with the Court of Claims
upon the circuit and district courts of the
United States in certain cases.
The auditor states that. acting under
the authority of the act of Congress d.
recting that all books, papers, and other
matters relating to the accounts of the
officers of the District Government shall
be subject to his inspection, he has been
and still is making such examinations,
and that it affords him pleasure to report
that the accounts have been correctly
and accurately kept, as far as he has
Investigated. si-1'F
After giving the appropriations for the
various departments, the report shows
the following disbursements made and
allowed for the District of Columbia for
the fiscal year ended June 30 last:
Salaries, officers and employees, s255, ,29l. .95;
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Si9. SOLO;
as5essment and permit work, SOS, ,Il7.i9; improve
mcnts and repairs Sysg 65f .as permanent system
of highways, si0,ss0.4s: sewers, S5ii 1885;
streets, s46f $50 90: construction OF county rods
SlOO, O,4ss6l; bridges, Sls,276.6S; public schools.
500, $500; buildings spd grounds public schools
s1e0 5O4.5O; militia, S2b039.0s; metropolitan
police. SSl 7Ss-9 o.; fire department S223, 1854 +;
buildings, fire department. $50, 1886; telegraph
and telephone service, So. .135 81 health depart
ment. s97.7i2Ss; -erierrency fund =, ,s0s. 10;
courts. S26, ,527 2G; wits of lunacy. 81 o00 iudg
ments, 20, %; transportation OF paupers and
prisoners. sS.099.il; Washington Asylum, s5l.-
27422; buildings, Washington Asylum. -. In
dustrial Home School Sl3,2i3is; hospital for in
sane, slo9. 27s.e 90; Freedman's Hospital and Asy-
lum, sIs.7'5.I9; relief of the poor, si5,557 -;
water department, 500, ,605.l9; guaranty fund.-
S293 49, police relief fund. S26 $50. 49, firemen' 5
relief fund, S9,70567; refunding taxes, sli629.l5
Washington redemption fund Sg,C9i.i5; refunding
water rents and taxes, SsSs.Ii; expenses of eN-
else board, si.ii9 So; investigating Northern
Liberty Mar6et claims, s3,0s0.i0 smallpox hos
pital. So 2.S4l9l; permit fund, S9,s3951; increasing
water supply. SIS 0s6.as.
Office commissioner of sinking fund, District
OF Columbia: +H
Salaries sinking fund Office, 50. 400; redemption
cf bonds old funded debt. s257 ,950.7i; mpti n
of bonds, 3-G5 loan. SSH 100; redemption of water
stock bonds, $500; interest on old funded debt.
s9d, $3.50; interest on S-65 bonds Sol9,I9-6i; (;
interest on water-stock bonds $40
Office of collector OF taxes, District of Columbia
Collection of taxes for fiscal year 1898. on &C
count of general fund, sS.SlS.290 40; water fund,
$3.50. g97.1S.
Revenue account. 1881:
Ggne.al fund, S65i. .lO5.O6; water fund, 291.
Department Of Justice:
support OF convicts, District of Columbia,
! 81, ,l03.el.
Albany County Penitentiary:
Support Of convicts District of Columbia, s29.
6i0SO
New Jersey State Prison:
Support Of convicts, District OF Columbia, Sll.
0i4.05.
Office OF marshal District OF Columbia:
Support Of prisoners So, ,30369; salaries of en-
ployes court house, So s32 is; cells and repairs
10 jails. S10,93l.5s
Office of recorder of decdss
Receipts and expenditures, SO, 3,so4.27.
Office of register oil wills:
Receipts and expenditures, le,S31.sI.
Other figures shown are as follows:
Salaries and expenses of the diplomatic service,
$3.50 10 34 amount received in passport fees, 81,
9l31i; salaries OF principal consular officers and
their compensation from fees OF agencies S6ls,-
2O6 80; ntngent expenses of consuls, $40 1921
allowances for clerks $780, 0i; fees collected.
! S75s, ,925. .25.
The report shows that during the year
S5S American seamen have received relief
from American consuls at a total expense
| of 30 and that wages have been
collected for the seamen to the amount
| of S157, ,097. SIS. Four hundred and eighty
| one seamen have been sent to the United
OF n pf 81 $50 81