Sinking fund office.

Coroner's office.

Market-masters.

Engineer's office.

Deposit and credit of fees.

Contingent expenses.

Temporary overseers, etc.

FOR SINKING FUND OFFICE, UNDER CONTROL OF THE TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES: For one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred dollars.

FOR CORONER'S OFFICE: For one coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including jurors' fees, stationery, books, blanks, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, and holding inquests, seven hundred dollars; for services in care of morgue, three hundred dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

FOR MARKET-MASTERS: For two market-masters, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one market-master, nine hundred dollars; for hire of laborers for cleaning markets at rate not exceeding one hundred dollars per market, three hundred dollars; for repairs and painting during fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand dollars; contingent expenses and other necessary items, four hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars.

FOR ENGINEER'S OFFICE: One chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one computing engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector of asphalt and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; one inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; one superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; one superintendent of roads, one thousand four hundred dollars; one superintendent of lamps, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of parking, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant superintendent of parking, seven hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one draughtsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three inspectors of streets and sewers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three axmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; one messenger clerk, at six hundred dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, forty thousand and fifty dollars.

That hereafter all fees collected by the inspector of gas and meters and the harbor-master and amounts collected for leases of streets and reservations and wharf charges shall be paid to the collector for payment into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts.

For contingent expenses, including books, stationery, binding and preservation of records in the engineer's and surveyor's offices, printing, transportation (vehicles, animals, saddlery, forage, and repairs), maintaining and keeping in good order and repair the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of gas and meters, and other necessary items, four thousand six hundred dollars.

For placing in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement and for general supplies, one thousand dollars.

That overseers and inspectors, temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any work done under contracts authorized by appropriations shall be paid out of the sums appropriated for the work, and for the time actually engaged thereon; and the Commissioners of the District, in their annual report to Congress, shall report the number of such overseers and inspectors, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation.

STREETS, AVENUES, ALLEYS, AND ROADS.

of streets, etc.

For work on sundry streets and avenues and replacement of wood Improvement, etc., pavements, six hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners on streets and avenues specified in the following schedules and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:

GENERAL SCHEDULE:

For paving the following streets and avenues, namely:

C street (southwest and southeast), from First street to New Jersey

avenue;

Seventh street northwest, from Q to Boundary streets;

Eleventh street southeast, from Pennsylvania avenue to Anacostia Bridge;

Four-and-a-half street, from H street to Arsenal, and from D street northwest to Pennsylvania avenue;

Brightwood avenue, Seventh street extended, from Grant avenue to Princeton street;

Street on the south and west side of the Treasury Building, from Fifteenth street to Pennsylvania avenue, and removing gates and other obstructions;

For grading and regulating Pennsylvania avenue southeast, from Eleventh street to new bridge; in all, for general schedule, one hundred and forty-four thousand six hundred dollars.

General schedule.

GEORGETOWN SCHEDULE: For paving the following streets, namely: Georgetown. Thirtieth street, from P to Q streets;

Q street, from Twenty-eighth to Thirtieth streets;

O street, from Thirty-fifth to College gate;

For grading and regulating the following streets and avenue,

namely:

Thirty-third street, from P street northward;

Thirty-fourth street, from M to N streets;

Prospect avenue, where necessary, from Thirty-third to Thirtysixth streets; in all, for Georgetown schedule, thirty-eight thousand six hundred dollars.

NORTHWEST SECTION SCHEDULE: For paving the following streets and avenues, namely:

New York avenue, from Seventh street to New Jersey avenue; Fifteenth street (west side), from Pennsylvania avenue to New York avenue;

Twelfth street, from R to S streets;

R street, from Seventh to Ninth streets;

S street, from Seventh to Eleventh_streets;

Fifth street, from O street to Boundary;

Rhode Island avenue, from Fifth street to Boundary;

O street, from Twenty-first to Twenty-second streets;

Twenty-second street, from M to P streets;

Boundary street, from Seventh street to New Jersey avenue;

Q street, from Fifth street to New Jersey avenue, from Seventeenth to Nineteenth streets, and from Rhode Island to Vermont avenues;

Thirteenth street, intersection to B street;

Eighth street, from S street to Boundary;
Seventeenth street, from Q to R streets;

New Hampshire avenue, from Q to R streets;

Corcoran street, from Fifteenth street to New Hampshire avenue;
L street, from Twenty-sixth street to Twenty-seventh street;
For grading and regulating the following streets, namely:
Twenty-fifth street, from K street to New Hampshire avenue;

Northwest section.

Southwest section.

Southeast section.

Northeast section.

Replacing wood pavements.

Limit for concrete pavements.

F street, from Twenty-third to Twenty-sixth streets;

N street, from Third to North Capitol streets, and from Twentysecond to Twenty-fourth streets; in all, for northwest section schedule, one hundred and ninety-one thousand four hundred dollars. SOUTHWEST SECTION SCHEDULE: For paving the following streets, namely:

G street, from Third to Four-and-a-half streets;

H street, from First to Third streets;

C street, from Twelfth to Fourteenth streets;

Thirteenth street, from Maryland avenue to Water street;
For grading and regulating the following streets, namely:

I street, from First to Water streets;

G street, from Third to South Capitol streets;

L street, from First to Four-and-a-half streets;

Canal street, from B to First streets; in all, for southwest section schedule, fifty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.

SOUTHEAST SECTION SCHEDULE: For paving the following streets and avenue, namely:

Seventh street, from D street to Virginia avenue;

South Carolina avenue, from Seventh to Ninth streets;
Sixth street, from E street to. Virginia avenue;

Pennsylvania avenue, from Eighth to Eleventh streets;

C street, from Sixth to Seventh streets;

D street, from Third to Sixth streets;

For grading and regulating the following streets, namely:

H street, from First to Second streets;

Ninth street, from East Capitol street to G street;

C street, from Seventh to Eleventh streets;

South side, Lincoln square; in all, for southeast section schedule, fifty-four thousand four hundred dollars.

NORTHEAST SECTION SCHEDULE: For paving the following streets and avenues, namely:

North Capitol street, from I to K streets;

C street, from Sixth to Eighth streets;

Seventh street, from B to D streets;

Massachusetts avenue, from Sixth to Eighth streets;

Maryland avenue, from Sixth street to Boundary, including intersection;

Eighth street, from East Capitol street to Massachusetts avenue;
Eleventh street, from North Carolina avenue to Maryland avenue;
F street, from North Capitol to Third streets;

Sixth street, from H to K streets;

For grading and regulating the following streets, namely:
C street, from Eighth to Eleventh streets;

G street, from Second to Sixth streets;

B street, from Eleventh to Fourteenth streets;

Third street, from E to H streets;

Second street, from F to H streets;

Ninth street, from B street to Maryland avenue; in all, for northeast section schedule, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars.

REPLACEMENT OF WOOD PAVEMENTS SCHEDULE: For paving D street southeast (south side), from Seventh to Ninth streets;

For paving D street southeast (north side), from Pennsylvania avenue to Eighth street; in all, for replacement of wood pavements schedule, three thousand five hundred dollars.

That under appropriations contained in this act no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavement at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base.

GRADING STREETS, ALLEYS, AND ROADS: For grading streets, alleys, and roads not otherwise provided for, at a price not to exceed ten cents per cubic yard, fifteen thousand dollars.

REPAIRS TO PAVEMENTS: For repairs to concrete pavements, with the same or other not inferior material, ninety-five thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter contracts for repairs to pavements may be made for periods not exceeding five years, and subject to annual appropriation therefor by Congress.

PERMIT WORK: For the improvement and repair of alleys and sidewalks and the construction of sewers under the permit system, ninety thousand dollars: Provided, That the property owners requesting such improvements shall pay one-half of the total cost: And provided further, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized in their discretion to order such of the above enumerated work as in their opinion is necessary for the public health, safety, or comfort, and to pay the total cost of such work from said appropriation, one-half of the cost of such work to charged against and become a lien upon the abutting property, and its collection to be enforced in the same manner as the collection of general taxes, and when so collected to be credited to said appropriation; and the material purchased under this appropriation shall be bought after due advertisement therefor, as required by existing law.

REPAIRS STREETS, AVENUES, AND ALLEYS: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, thirty-five thousand dollars. REPAIRS COUNTY ROADS: For current work of repairs on county roads and suburban streets, forty-five thousand dollars.

CONSTRUCTING COUNTY ROADS: For constructing county roads and suburban streets, as follows:

To grade and regulate Howard avenue middle section, seven thousand seven hundred dollars;

To grade Jefferson street, Jackson street, and Washington street, eastern section, four thousand dollars.

To grade and macadamize Harrison street and Good Hope road from the Navy-Yard Bridge to the Bowen road, eastern section, thirteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars;

To pave Nichols avenue from Harrison street southward, eastern section, thirteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars;

For work on Fourth street northeast extended toward the Bunker Hill road and on First street extended to Michigan avenue, and from thence along said avenue to Lincoln road, fifteen thousand dollars. To grade Thirteenth street, from Clifton avenue north, one thousand dollars;

For the grading and paving of Fourteenth street northward from the Boundary, for the grading and paving of Stoughton street and of Chapin street from Fourteenth street extended to Wayland Seminary, and the paving of Pomeroy street in front of the Freedmen's Hospital, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

For condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, ten thousand dollars. SURVEYS OF THE DISTRICT: For continuation of surveys of the Dis- Surveys. trict of Columbia with reference to the extension of various avenues to the District line, ten thousand dollars.

CARE OF BRIDGES: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, Bridges. oil, lamps, and matches, two thousand five hundred dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, including retaining wall on M street at the approach to the new free bridge across the Potomac, which bridge is hereby placed under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand dollars.

Sewers.

Sweeping, etc.

Parking commission.

Lighting.

Provisos.
Maximum.

Contracts.

Electric lighting.

Proviso.

Limit per light.

Harbor front.

Scales.

Pumps.

Aqueduct.

Public schools.

SEWERS.

For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, thirty thousand dollars.

For replacing obstructed sewers, ten thousand dollars.

For the preparation of plans for sewage disposal, five thousand dollars.

For main and pipe sewers, seventy thousand dollars.

For constructing suburban sewers, thirty-five thousand dollars.

CURRENT EXPENSES, STREETS, AVENUES, AND ALLEYS.

SPRINKLING, SWEEPING, AND CLEANING: For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, and alleys, seventy-seven thousand dollars: Provided, That no expenditure hereunder shall be made at a price higher than twenty-seven cents per one thousand square yards.

FOR THE PARKING COMMISSION: For contingent expenses, including laborers, cart-hire, trees, tree-boxes, tree-stakes, tree-straps, planting, and care of trees, on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, eighteen thousand dollars.

LIGHTING: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning lamps on avenues, streets, roads and alleys, and for purchasing and erecting new lamp-posts and replacing such lamps and lamp-posts as may be damaged or unfit for service, one hundred and five thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than twenty dollars per annum for each street-lamp shall be paid for gas, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than two thousand six hundred hours per annum; and the Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to substitute other illuminating material at the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided further, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not be authorized to make any contract for gas or other illuminating material, in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, for any longer period than one year.

For electric lighting, including necessary expenses of inspection, on one or more of the principal streets of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than fifty cents shall be paid for each light per night burning from sunset to sunrise, and each light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candle power.

HARBOR AND RIVER FRONT: For the improvement and protection of the harbor and river front, the enforcement of laws and regulations, constructing and maintenance of wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars.

FOR PUBLIC SCALES: For repair and replacement of public scales. two hundred and fifty dollars.

FOR PUBLIC PUMPS: For the purchase, replacement, and repair of public pumps, four thousand dollars.

WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.

For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

For salaries of superintendents, teachers, and janitors, secretary of the board, and clerks, including additional teachers, rents, repairs, fuel, furniture, books, stationery, new school buildings, furniture for