one special assessment clerk, one thousand seven hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at one thousand dollars, in charge of records; one license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; one clerk and messenger, nine hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, detection of frauds on the revenue, and other necessary items, one thousand dollars; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.

For the purpose of defraying the expense of the assessment of real property in the District of Columbia, as provided by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, fifteen thousand dollars.

FOR COLLECTOR'S OFFICE: For one collector, four thousand dollars; one cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars, and such cashier shall hereafter, in the necessary absence or inability of the collector, from any cause perform his duties without any additional compensation; one bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; for services necessary for completing an exhibit of all outstanding taxes in arrears, five hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, and other necessary items, two thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand four hundred dollars.

For necessary expenses in the collection by distraint and sale of over-due personal taxes, and for other necessary items, two thousand dollars: Provided, That the fees and cost of proceeding collected by the collector of taxes under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for making distress and sale of property for personal taxes in arrears, shall be deposited by said collector in the Treasury of the United States as other revenues of the District are deposited.

FOR AUDITOR'S OFFICE: For one auditor, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, who shall, in the necessary absence or inability of the auditor from any cause perform his duties, without additional compensation, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; for temporary clerk-hire, one thousand dollars; for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and other necessary items, three hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.

FOR ATTORNEY'S OFFICE: For one attorney, four thousand dollars; one assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; one special assistant attorney, one thousand two hundred dollars; one law clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, two hundred dollars; for rent of office, one hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and other necessary items, four hundred dollars; for judicial expenses, including the printing of briefs and witness fees in District cases before the supreme court of the District of Columbia, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand six hundred dollars.

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, fortý 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.

For work on sundry streets and avenues and replacement of wood 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.

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

Q street, from Twenty-eighth to Thirtieth streets;

Ŏ 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;
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.