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messenger. $50. $50: travelling expenses.
$50 $50
Surveyors office-Surveyor. 81 900. 81 0 0;
assistant surveyor, 81. 500. S1.sOo; employees,
$500 81 900
Free Public Library.
Librarian. 1900, $1,000; one assis ant
librarian 500, $1,000: one assistant Iihra-
rian. s12o. $500; one assistant librarian,
$om, $50; one assistant librarian new),
5000; two cataoguers at 5000 each tnewD.
5000: one janitor new. $50; one attendant,
reading room tnew), $50; one attendant.
delivery room tuew). $3.50; one messenger
(new), 500, for purchase Of books Ue~).
$1,000. for binding (new). Sf,J00; for co:.tn-
gent expenses. 5000. 5000.
Contingent Expenses.
Contingent expenses of the government
OF the District of Columbia, s23,5oo. So 900;
contingent expenses of stables of the en-
gneer department. 5000. 5000; rent of
District offices. 5000. $1,000. rent of old
record vault. 5000, 5000: rent of property
yards, $}p), 500: necessary expenses in coll
lection of overdue personal taxes, Sl,!'S,
Sl.J1; judicial expenses, $l,p)o $1,000; cor
oner's office, Sl,2H. 81 400; furniture for
municipal building. s1.-JbD; general advertis-
ing, 5000. $500; advertising notice of
taxes in arrears. 5000. 5000; for assessor.
account of arrears of taxes. including ma
S21s' S2.:,1: special repairs to market
houses. $2.2:Io. $50; enforcement of game
and fish law. $500 $500; portraits, retouch
ing new, $500.
Plats of subdivisions outside of Washing
tcn-To pay the expenses of such survey as
may be necessary to enable the Commits
sioners of the District to determine whether
patS Of subdivisions of land within said
District offered for record have been made
in conformity to the Act to regJilte sub
division of land within the District of Co
lumbia." approved August -. 1SSS, 5000,
$,UID
Permanent system of highways-To pay
the expenses of carrying out a plan for the
extension Of permanent system Of high
ways in conformity with the Act to pro-
vide permanent system of highways in
that part of the District of Columbia lying
outside Of cities approved March ,, 1893,
s. OOp s.. 800.
For assessment and permit work, $40 800,
SlaoUsho: for paving roadways under assess
nlent system new. $4,000.
improvements and Repairs.
For work on streets and avenues, &c, to
be apportoned among the several sections
by Congress- s2'Heno- Special s:reets-Pave
with asphalt or asphalt block, 9TH street
northwest. between Pennsylvania avenue
and F. and between G. and X, 81 900; pave
with asphalt asphalt block street
northwest. from Rock Creek bridge to S'th
street Sl1.3Gp: pave with asphalt or asphalt
block c street northeast. between New jtr-
scY avenue and 4th street. S1i.Jih: widen
ing and paving roadway OF q street north
west. between 9th and 18th streets. Sf9V30;
grading streets, alleys and roads, 5000.
S1anl0: purchase or condemnation of land
necessary TO extend School street at its
present width from its present southern
terminus to kcneSaw avenue. $lI.rnD. Con-
demnation of streets. roads and alleys: For
purchase or condemnation of streets, roads
and alleys. $1.Up0, $1,000.
sewers.
Cleaning and repairing sewers and basins.
$1,oDo. $3o.nOo: replacing obstructed sew
ers. $2,.0oo. S25.on0; main and pipe sewers
and receiving basins. $s0Hn $4,000: subur-
ban sewers. $5o.oDD. $4,000. purchase or
condemnation of rights of way for
struction. maintenance and repair of public
sewers. or so much thereof as may be
necessary. Loco. $1,000: automatic flushing
tanks. 81 900. S1.H,f: pumping plant on New
Jersey avenue CTew). $11ooDO; Arizona ave
nue. sewer, 10000. l. street sewer, $4,000.
For Streets and Roads.
Repairs streets. avenues and alleys. s1JD-
op. S2poooo; replacing and repairing side
walks and curbs around public reservations
and municipal buildings. $1,000. $4,000. Re-
pairs county roads: For current repairs
of county roads and suburban streets $50
900, $4,000 Construction of county roads:
GrauIuS and paving Connecticut avenue
extended between Columbia road and Ka-
lorama avenue. 5000: improving lonuec-
ticut avenue west of Rock creek, $1,000;
paving H street between Florida and Mas
saChu-cttS avenues. 5000. grading and
regulating California avenue, Wyoming
avenue 30. 2ith and S streets Kainrama
Heights. $1,000: constructing granite block
and asphait roadway on " stafsia a.enIe.
from :;1th street mort Inward. S15.ot0; macad-
amiziHg kenesaw avenue and park drive,
Sio,%H: grading ana macaGan4Zl ns Ere
street and Ontario avenue. Meridian Hin,
SI.Go completing grading of Illinois ave
nue.. S10.0pp; maCaliauizing Michigan ave-
nue.. $1o"n: grading and regulating streets
in Woodbridge subdivision, $1,000; construct
ing granite block ana asphalt roadway on
Bladensburg road from 18th street north
ward. Sl;,.HH; paving Gales and kraeIner
streets between 18TH and nth, $14.NH; grad
in;; and regulating Messmore street. Erie
to Huron, Siopo; grading and macadamiz-
ing Frankfort street and 22d street. Lang
don, $4,000: paving 18th street extended and
Cincinnati street from Columbia road to
Rock creek and completing paving of 10Th
street between Baltimore and Cincinnati
streets Sll,1o. grading and regulating Ben
ming road and AnacoStia road east of East
ern branch. $4,000; grading and regulating
Blagden avenue, $4,000; totals, Sl3o,oGU.
S1S4,Uo0.
Street Cleaning.
Sprinking, sweeping and cleaning-For
sprinkling. sweeping and cleaning streets.
avenues. alleys and suburban streets, $li5,-
600, saop.al1: for cleaning snow and ice from
crosswalks and cutters. etc. under the act
approved March = 1885, 81 900. $1,000.
Parking commiSsion-For contingent eK-
penses including iaborerS, cart hire, trees,
tree boxes, tree stakes tree traps, planting
and care Of trees on city and suburban
streets whitewashing, care of parks and
miscellaneous items. So $50, $4,000
street Lighting.
For Illuminating material. lighting, ex
tinguishing, repairing and cleaning public
lamps on avenues, streets. roads and al
leys: purchasing and expense of erecting
and maintaining new lamp posts, street
desigua lions. lanterns and fixtures: moving
lamp posts painting lamp posts and Ian
terms replacing and repairing lamp posts
and lanterns damaged or UNFIT for service.
for storage and carriage of material. S1t2,-
goo l1:i.Gl0. for electric lighting. in
Guiding necessary Inspection in those
streets now lighted with electric arc lights
in the city of Washington. and for extern
sions of such service along the lines of
lawful couduits now existing. $G3u1O $I5,-
obb. Harhor and river front: For the i'm
pruvemcnt and protection of the harhor and
river front. the enforcement of laws and
regulations construction and maintenance