The Washington times., 1902-04-27

by the Commissioners on the recommen.
dation of the Health Officer.
Hereafter the estimates for expenses
of the government of the District of Co.
| lumbia shall be prepared and submitted
each year according TO the order ant
arrangement Of the appropriation act foI
| the year preceding, and any changes il
such order and arrangement and trans
| fers of salaries from one Office or depart
ment to another desired by the Commits
sioners may be submitted by note in the
| estimates.
The Amounts Recommended.
The following are the amounts recom-
mended in the bill for the various pur-
poses specified:
The Salary List.
Salaries-Executive office, sss,s2i. AS
SCISSORS office. s42 800; Collectors office
$4,000; Preparation OF tax-sale certif-
Gates, $500; Auditors office. S22, 500: At
torney's office. sl2. go; Sinking fund office,
$500; Coroner's office. $500; Market
masters. $3.50: Sealer of weights and
measures. $3.50; Engineers Office, s67,-
OH; special assessment office, sl1 900:
street sweeping office, $25, 100 board of
examiners. steam engineers, $500; depart
ment of insurance. $1,000; Surveyors Of
flee. $le,S00: free public library, SIS,
Total salaries, s32l,1
Contingent and Miscellaneous.
Contingent and miscellaneous-Free
public library, $500; executive Office.
$4,000; Engineer Department, stables,
etc, 5000: Rent and District Offices,
$4,000; Rent of old record vault, $500;
rent Of property yards and storeroom,
5000; rent. Department of Insurance, s24O;
collecting overdue personal taxes. 81, 500;
judicial expenses, $1,000; Coroner's Office.
livery. expenses, etc, 1900; advertising.
general, $1,000; advertising. notice of
taxes in arrears, $1,000: market houses.
repairs. 2,250; File cases. register OF
Wills, $4,000. Total contingent and mis-
cellaneous, .6i, ,3sO.
System of Highways.
Permanent system OF highways payable
wholly out of District revenuesl, s2.5O0.
Improvements and Repairs.
improvements and repairs Assessment
and permit work $4,000; paving road
ways under permit system, $4,000: work
ON streets and avenues, Sl50,000; grading
streets. alleys. and roads. 5000; con-
demnation of streets, roads, and alleys
81 600; plats of subdivision outside of
Washington $1,000: county roads, con-
struction. s55. 800; repairs of streets, ave
nues, and alleys. including resuriacing.
5000 900; sidewalks and curbs, public
reservations, $4,000; repairs, county
roads. $50 900. Bridges-care of, $4,000;
construction and repairs, $4,000. Total
improvements and repairs, s675, 800.
Improvements for Sewers.
Sewers-Cleaning and repairing sewers
and basins, 5000; main and pipe sewers
and receiving basins. $4,000; suburban
sewers. $4,000; rights of way. $1,000;
automatic flushing tanks. $1,000; con-
struction east side intercept.Ag sewer be-
tween Twenty-second and A Streets
northeast and Twelfth Street southeast.
$50, 900: extension of boundary sewer to
Twenty y-second and A Streets northeast.
10000; sewage disposal system pumping
STATEN, $3.50, 600. Iow-area trunk sewer,
100000. Total sewers. $3.50, 1000.
The Street Appropriations.
suteiS - SpTlnhIinB, sweeping, anu
cleaning. $4,000; removal Of snow and
ice from cross walks. 81 1000; collection
and disposal of garbage. ashes. and refuse
from privao houses, s115,0O0; Parking
Commission, $4,000; harbor and river
front, $1,000 bathing beach. $500: public
scales, $3.50; public pumps. 5000; total
streets, s3i6,l50.
The Electrical Department.
Electrical Experimentation salaries,
si6,22O; general supplies and repairs, sl2,-
600; placing wires under ground, 5000;
extension of fire-alsrm telegraph $3.50;
purchase of poles and fittings, 5000; re-
pairs TO ire-alarm headquarters, SO $500;
extension to patrol system. 5000: light
ing. gas or oil, slS5,000: lighting. electric
arc, s65,000; total electrical department,
$780,
Washington Notwithstanding and
1900: filtration plant,
s600,0 eco. Total Washington Aqueduct,
Ss33. 600
Increasing water supply-Completing