approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, that shall not be presented for payment within one year from the date of the approval of this act; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to cause notice to be given to the holders of said certificates to make presentation within the time fixed, by publication in two newspapers published in the city of Washington each once a week for three successive weeks immediately following the approval of this act, and once a week for three successive weeks immediately preceding the date of expiration of the time fixed herein within which payment may be made.

For general contingent expenses of the District of Columbia, to be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, not otherwise sufficiently provided for, five thousand dollars: Provided, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such article, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected: Provided further, That all appropriations for contingent expenses made by this act shall be expended under the direction and in the sole discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; but such expenditures shall be accounted for in the Treasury Department as other expenditures for the District, and a detailed statement of such expenditures shall be reported to Congress in accord ance with section one hundred and ninety-three, Revised Statutes of the United States.

WATER DEPARTMENT.

The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, unless otherwise provided:

For one chief clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand four hundred dollars; engineers and firemen, coal, material, and for high service in Washington and Georgetown, pipedistribution to high and low service, including public hydrants, fireplugs, replacing the nine-inch with ten-inch fire-plugs, material and labor, repairing and laying new mains, and lowering mains, one hundred thousand dollars; interest and sinking-fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thousand six hundred and ten dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are directed to deposit the amount annually appropriated for interest and sinking-fund for the water-bonds to the credit of the appropriation for interest and sinkingfund for the funded indebtedness of the District of Columbia; and that the Treasurer of the United States, as sinking-fund commissioner of the District of Columbia, shall, after paying the interest on the funded indebtedness of the District, including the interest on the water-bonds, out of the combined funds, invest the balance thereof on account of the several sinking-funds in such bonds of the District of Columbia, including the water-bonds, as he may deem most advantageous; to pay interest on one half of all moneys already advanced, and that may be advanced to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, by the United States (excepting the amounts advanced for constructing

fishways), under the provisions of an act approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act to increase the water supply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes," thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, said amount to be drawn from the Treasury only on the requisition of the Treasurer of the United States: Provided, That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to include in their annual estimates for the expenses of the water department an estimate, to be made by the Treasurer of the United States, of the amount necessary to refund, in not less than twenty-five annual instalments, one half of the amount advanced by the United States under the said act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, with interest on said amount at the rate of three per centum per annum, computed annually on the principal sum remaining unpaid; in all, one hundred and eighty-six thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars.

SEC. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues of said District, including one-half of all general taxes paid in drawback certificates during said fiscal year. And where special assessments have been reduced on revision as required by law, draw-back certificates receivable for all arrears of general taxes due and unpaid June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be issued to the holders of outstanding lien certificates, for the interest accrued on the amount of such reduction up to the date of the passage of this act.

Approved, July 5, 1884.

[PUBLIC-No. 102.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named:

Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: Continuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Bangor and Penobscot River, Maine: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars.

Improving breakwater at the mouth of Saco River, Maine: Continuing improvement and repairs, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont: Continuing improvement, twenty five thousand dollars; for repairs, twenty five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Scituate, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts; Continuing im provement, two thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Wood's Holl, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, twenty five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Wareham, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Constructing a national harbor of refuge of the first class at Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Massachusetts, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That a board of three engineers, to be appointed by the Secretary of War, shall decide that this point is the best location on the coast between Boston and Portland for such a harbor that shall serve all the uses for which it may be needed.

Improving breakwater at Block Island, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Newport, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at New London, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Stonington, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Black Rock, Connecticut: Commencing new improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving Buttermilk Channel, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Canarsie Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving Sheepshead Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars, to restore broken breakwater and for dredging. Improving harbor at Flushing Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Greenport, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Oak Orchard, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Ogdensburg, New York: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: Continuing improvement, eighty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Rondout, New York: Continuing improvement, one thousand dollars.

Commencing construction of breakwater at Rouse's Point, on Lake Champlain, New York, thirty five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Saugerties, New York, five thousand dollars. Improving channel between Staten Island and New Jersey: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Raritan Bay, New Jersey: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Delaware Breakwater, Delaware: Continuing improvement, seventy five thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at New Castle, Delaware: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars.