Assessment and permit work.

Improvements and

repairs.

Streets and avenues.

Allotment.

Proviso.

ASSESSMENT AND PERMIT WORK.

For assessment and permit work, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.

IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.

For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix X, Book of Estimates, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:

GEORGETOWN SCHEDULE: Thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; NORTHWEST SECTION SCHEDULE: Forty-five thousand dollars; SOUTHWEST SECTION SCHEDULE: Twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;

SOUTHEAST SECTION SCHEDULE: Thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars;

NORTHEAST SECTION SCHEDULE: Thirty-four thousand five hun dred dollars:

Provided, That the streets and avenues shall be contracted for in the Order of precedence. order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such

Cleaning, etc.
Replacing.

Main, pipes, etc.

Suburban.

F street and Easby's Point sewer.

Contract.

order as nearly as practicable.

For paving Florida avenue, south side, from Connecticut avenue to Eighteenth street, six thousand dollars.

For paving P street northeast from North Capitol street to Florida avenue, seven 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 one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base: Provided, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.

GRADING STREETS, ALLEYS, AND ROADS: For purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same and horses, to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, six thousand dollars.

REPAIRS TO PAVEMENTS: For renewal, resurfacing, and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

CONDEMNATION OF STREETS, ROADS, AND ALLEYS: For condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars.

SEWERS.

For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, fifty thousand dollars.
For replacing obstructed sewers, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, seventy-five thou
sand dollars.

For suburban sewers, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For constructing the Fifteenth street and F street portion of the F street and Easby's Point intercepting sewer, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the total cost of constructing said portion of said intercepting sewer, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed eighty seven thousand dollars.

Fifteenth street, ex- For sewer in Fifteenth street extended between Columbia road and Kenesaw avenue, one thousand dollars; and authority is hereby given

tended.

the Commissioners of the District to lay a water main in said street between the points named if found necessary.

For the construction of the following-named sewers now under contract, namely:

For continuation of the Rock Creek and B street intercepting sewer, sixty thousand dollars.

For completion of the Eckington Valley sewer, seventeen thousand dollars, to be immediately available.

For completion of the Brookland sewer, forty-two thousand dollars. For completion of the Kenesaw avenue sewer, four thousand dollars. For condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repairs of public sewers, one thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For automatic flushing tanks, one thousand dollars.

STREETS.

Rock Creek sewer.

Eckington Valley.

Brookland.

Kenesaw avenue.
Conderanation.

Flushing tanks.

Streets.

Repairs, streets, etc.
Street railways.

Provisos.
Metropolitan Rail
way Company.
Vol. 28, p. 218.

Use of city tracks by

REPAIRS STREETS, AVENUES, AND ALLEYS: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, thirty thousand dollars. And this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad company as provided by section five of Vol. 20, p. 106. "An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia," approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventyeight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected: Provided, That the fifth section of the Act of Congress approved August second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, relating to reciprocal trackage arrangements by the Metropolitan and other railroad companies, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding the following thereto: Provided, That any subur ban street railroad company in the District of Columbia intersecting suburban companies. or connecting with any urban street railroad may have such reasonable number of its trail cars drawn by such urban railroad company, over the route of such urban railroad for the transportation of through passengers, as shall not, in the judgment of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, be to the undue detriment of such urban railroad company. The schedule, kind, and number of cars to be drawn, compensation therefor, and all other matters relating thereto in the event of said railroad companies being unable to agree between themselves shall, from time to time, on petition of either railroad company, be decided by said supreme court: Provided further, That in no event shall any railroad company be entitled under said law providing for trackage arrangements or under the provisions of this Act to collect fares except from such passengers as board the cars upon their own line: Provided further, That this provision shall not be construed to affect rights heretofore acquired either by contract or under of court made under authority of law.

any order For replacing sidewalks and curbs around public reservations, five thousand dollars.

Agreement as to schedules, etc.

To collect fares only on their own lines.

Existing rights not affected.

Sidewalks, etc.

Repairs, roads.
Proviso.
Available for all

REPAIRS COUNTY ROADS: For current work of repairs of county roads and suburban streets, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the repair of all county roads, roads." except such as are rendered useless by the opening and improving of new highways established under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

CONSTRUCTION OF COUNTY ROADS: For construction of county roads and suburban streets, as follows:

Vol. 27,

Constructing county roads.

Provisos.

For grading and regulating Sherman avenue, Roanoke and Irving streets, continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That Removing buildings, this appropriation shall be available for removing buildings, terracing etc., Garfield Hospital banks, and replacing fences of Garfield Hospital grounds and other grounds. premises abutting on Sherman avenue between Grant and Princeton

avenue.

Widening Sherman streets: Provided, That no part of the amount hereby appropriated shall be expended on Sherman avenue until the owners thereof dedicate to the District of Columbia the ground for widening Sherman avenue in conformity with the adopted and recorded plans of highway extensions; For taking down brick building on the northeast corner of Garfield ing, etc., for Garfield Memorial Hospital grounds, the removal of which has been made necessary by reason of the widening and grading of Sherman avenue at that point, and constructing another building on said premises to take its place, seven thousand five hundred dollars;

Constructing build

Hospital.

Connecticut avenue extended.

Report.

For grading and regulating Columbia road, Sixteenth street northwest extended, Prospect street, Crescent street, Superior street, Erie street, Central street, Meridian and Ontario avenues, Meridian Hill: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars;

That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, required to examine into the proposed extension of Connecticut avenue from Florida avenue to the District line, and report to Congress on or before the first Monday of December next, the comparative advantages and disadvantages and comparative cost of opening said Connecticut avenue on a straight extension of the line thereof as now established in the city of Washington, instead of opening the same on the deflected line heretofore adopted and now on file; and that from and Suspension of build- after the passage of this Act, no building permits shall be granted upon ground which would be covered by either extension of said Connecticut avenue, until otherwise provided by law.

ing permits.

Damages, Thirtyseventh street.

Broad Branch road.

For grading Massachusetts avenue extended, ten thousand dollars; For grading and graveling Albemarle street and opening same by purchase or condemnation to Grant road: Continuing improvement, nine thousand dollars;

For grading Illinois avenue, five thousand dollars;

For grading and graveling Pierce and High streets, Anacostia, from Jefferson to Maple, provided the land necessary to unite these streets be first dedicated, three thousand dollars;

For paying court expenses and fees of commissioners and paying for ground taken and damages to property to open and extend Thirtyseventh street between Back street and Tennallytown road, at or near Schneider lane, as per plat and proceedings already had in the supreme court of the District of Columbia and award of court commissioners made therein, nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available;

For improving and protecting Connecticut avenue extended, beyond Rock Creek, ten thousand dollars;

For continuing the macadamizing of the road extending from the Broad Branch road to Chevy Chase Circle, five thousand dollars; and Reconveyance of authority is given to the District Commissioners to reconvey to the original owners any portion of said road upon receiving a conveyance of an equivalent in conformity with the new plan of highways;

land.

For grading and regulating Yale, Bismark, Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia streets, between Seventh and Fourteenth streets, seventeen thousand dollars; in all, ninety thousand five hundred dollars.

For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, one hundred and thirty thousand five hundred dollars. For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, and so forth, under the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, one thousand dollars.

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, twenty thousand dollars.

LIGHTING: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp posts and lanterns damaged or

Provisos.
Limit of cost.

To burn every night.

unfit for service; for storage and cartage of material, one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than twenty dollars per
annum for each street lamp shall be paid for gas or oil, lighting, extin-
guishing, repairing, painting, and cleaning, under any expenditure pro-
vided for in this Act: Provided, That all of said lamps shall burn every
night, on the average, from forty five minutes after sunset to forty-five
minutes before sunrise: Provided further, That before any expenditures Regulators.
are made from the appropriations herein provided for the contracting
gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a self-regulating burner
and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary varia-
tions of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas
per hour.

Electric lighting.

Provisos.
Maximum cost, etc.

Overhead wires.

Temporary use of

For electric arc lighting, including necessary inspection, in those streets now lighted with electric arc lights in the city of Washington, and for necessary extensions of such service, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than thirty cents per night shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from forty-five minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise and operated wholly by means of underground wires; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington: Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, under such overhead wires outreasonable restrictions as they may prescribe, authorize any existing side of fire limits. electric light company having overhead wires to maintain and use for a period of eight months and no longer, its existing poles and overhead wires west of Rock Creek in places outside of the existing fire limits of the city of Washington and of the District of Columbia, and any such overhead wire system may be extended west of Rock Creek and outside of said fire limits to continue only for the said period of eight months, and at the end of said period all right or authority hereby conferred shall cease.

Conduits for wires in Georgetown.

Extension of conduits

And the said Commissioners may also authorize any such existing electric light company to construct and use under such regulations as the Commissioners may fix conduits for the reception of existing overhead wires within the territory formerly known as Georgetown, and to extend the same by an aggregate of not more than one and one-fourth miles of conduit in the same territory. And the United States Electric east of Rock Creek. Lighting Company may extend its underground conduits and wires east of Rock Creek and within the said fire limits to Mount Pleasant, and Washington and Columbia Heights under such regulations as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may prescribe.

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

To provide for new hull and necessary repairs for harbor boat, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

Harbor and river front.

Repairs to boat.

BATHING BEACH: For the care and repair of the public bathing Bathing beach. beach on the Potomac River, in the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; and toward adapting the inner basin on the Potomac flats for a public bathing pool, with the approval of the Secretary of War, four thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars.

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

Scales.

FOR PUBLIC PUMPS: For the purchase, replacement, and repair of Pumps. public pumps, cleaning and protecting public wells, filling abandoned or condemned public wells, and drilling deep wells, eight thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available.

CARE OF BRIDGES: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, Bridges. oil, lamps, and matches, three thousand five hundred dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.

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

For inserting air valves and blow-off valves in the thirty-six-inch and thirty-inch mains, five thousand dollars.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

FOR OFFICERS: For superintendent first six divisions, three thousand three hundred dollars; superintendent seventh and eighth divisions, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to superintendent of first six divisions and secretary to board of trustees, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk to superintendent of seventh and eighth divisions, eight hundred dollars; messenger to superintendent first six divisions, three hundred dollars; messenger to superintendent seventh and eighth divisions, two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand and fifty dollars.

FOR TEACHERS: For one thousand and seventy-one teachers, to be assigned as follows:

For one, at two thousand five hundred dollars;

For eleven, at two thousand dollars each;

For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For twelve, at one thousand five hundred dollars each;

For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;

For four, at one thousand three hundred dollars each;

For twenty four, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;

For three, at one thousand one hundred dollars each;

For fifty-eight, at one thousand dollars each;

For eighteen, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each;

For eighteen, at nine hundred dollars each;

For twelve, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each;

For sixteen, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each;

For seventy-one, at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars each;

For twenty-seven, at eight hundred dollars each;

For eighty-one, at seven hundred and seventy-five dollars each;

For nineteen, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each;

For one hundred and five, at seven hundred dollars each;

For four, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each;

For one hundred and eleven, at six hundred and fifty dollars each;

For fourteen, at six hundred dollars each;

For four, at five hundred and seventy-five dollars each;

For one hundred and twenty-nine, at five hundred and fifty dollars each;

For four, at five hundred and twenty-five dollars each;

For ninety-nine, at five hundred dollars each;

For thirty-one, at four hundred and seventy-five dollars each;

For sixty-two, at four hundred and fifty dollars each;

For sixty-two, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each;

For sixty-seven, at four hundred dollars each; in all, seven hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars:

Provided, That in assigning salaries to teachers, no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school and performing a like class of duties.

For teachers of night schools, who may also be teachers in the day schools, six thousand dollars.

For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools, five hundred dollars.

FOR JANITORS AND CARE OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS: For care of the high school and annex of the first six divisions, two thousand dollars;

Of the Jefferson building, one thousand four hundred dollars;
Of the Eastern high-school building of the first six divisions, of the