Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-15
AMOUNT OF MONEY NEEDED
ESTIMATES BY DISTRICT SURVEYOR
FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
Recommendations for Small Increase
In ApprOprfatiOns-Ite Regard
ed as of Great Importance.

Mr.. Henry B. LOCKER the District sur
veyor, has submitted to the Commissioners
an estimate of funds needed in his office
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902.
Mr.. LOCKER thinks that provision should be
made for the following personnel:
Surveyor salary fixed by law, $1,000: as
sistant surveyor SALARY fixed by law.
S1,S0O; second assistant surveyor, $1,000:
chief clerk, 1880; computer 81, 4OS; record
clerk, 81, 200; draughtsman, 1888; transit
man, $3.50; transitman, s1S2; rodman, s7S2:
rodman, s704 two drivers leach $500, s93s:
one charwoman, s104; total, s15717.
Mr.. LOCKER explains that this total of
s15,717 to provide for the regular organiza-
ton of the office, is based upon the ser
vices of two complete field parties of four
men each, and compenSations commensu-
rate with the responsible work done. At
present one field party is one man short
necessitating manual work by one or the
other assistant, which is no economy what
ever, he thinks, and very Gripping to eff
ticiency.
increase Required.
In view of the fact that a very large
amount of work is now being done by the
surveyors office for the District, and for
various departments of the general gov
eminent the bulk of which was formerly
done by the surface division of the engi-
Heer department, some S5,JOo Is expended
out of the appropriation for this office,
chargeable to such official work. AS the
work, says Mr.. LOCKER, very properly
should be done by his office-aS here alone
are located the data for such surveys and
the authority to determine questions of To-
catlon-he thinks it eminently proper for
an increase to that extent to be made to
the appropriation, in addition to such in
crease as is necesstated by the constantly
increasing demands upon the office made
by private citizens.
Another very important reason. in Mr.
LOCKERS opinion, for increase of appro-
priauon is found in the fact that the re-
cent death of Mr.. Henry W. Brewer for
merly for many years official surveyor of
Georgetown, will inevitably throw into his
office at least all city surveys in George
town which formerly came to him, and
probably much suburban work. He therefore
hopes before the meeting of Congress to be
able to recommend a specific appropriation
to purchase all of Mr.. Brewers survey notes
relating to lands in the District.
Items of Importance.
There are three items of great import
ance," says Mr.. LOCKER, "for which 1
recommend specific appropriations, to be
expended under authority of the Commits
sioners
First. A resurvey Of Barry Farm sub
division, which has become most pressing
The existing recorded plat is exceedingly
indefinite. and the earlier field work done
within the tract was equally bad. The
result is that this office has for some time
declined to make any surveys whatever in
this growing suburb, because of the risk
of error and utter inability to locate GER
tain essential points. For this purpose
$500 is asked
Second. A resurvey of Beatty & Haw-
kins Addition to Georgetown, a large tract
now rapidly improving, valuable buildings
constantly being under construction. The
existing records of this tract largely by
of of 1f5 feet LOG
In the total recorded length are absolute
ly incapable of Interpretation with any
reference to existing holdings. Surveys in
this tract are also necessarily refused by
this office. An appropriation of 5000 for
this purpose will provide new map of
actual holdings, upon which basis quit
claim deeds may be executed by all the
owners affected and all trouble ended The
assessors office chiefly, and in less degree
almost all divisions of the District govern
ment, are subjected to constant errors in ac-
counts and actual losses Of taxes by reason
of the chaotic condition of the records and
lines of Barry Farm and Beatty & Haw-
kins Addition.
Boundary Lines.
Third. Two thousand dollars should be
appropriated to completely redefine on the
ground the entire boundary between Mary
land and the District of Columbia and to
re-estabish permanently the monuments
marking the block corners Of the city of
Washington in the eastern and northeast
ern section, where from vandalism and
utter neglect, especially during the time
of the civil war, when all that section was
used for camps and corrals. the few re-
manning monuments are damned out of
position by heavy wagon wheels and made
worse than useless. AS to the District of
Columbia line, no one today can point out
accurately the boundary of the district,
which is all grown up with trees and
shrubbery. except in isolated places, and
it would be not only propriety, but econ
omy, to have this work done in bulk, and
not as immediate need arises for bound
aries of abutting subdivisions"
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