Washington Asy

lum.

Contingentexpenses.

Reform School.

FOR REFORMATORIES AND PRISONS.

SUPPORT OF CONVICTS: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars.

COURT-HOUSE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For the following force necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: One engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and seven assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General.

WARDEN OF THE JAIL: For warden of the jail of the District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General.

SUPPORT OF PRISONERS: For expenses for maintenance of the jail of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thou sand dollars.

TRANSPORTATION OF PAUPERS AND PRISONERS: For transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to the workhouse, three thousand five hundred dollars.

FOR WASHINGTON ASYLUM: For intendant, one thousand two hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, six hundred dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; overseer, nine hundred dollars; six overseers, at six hundred dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, three hundred and fifty dollars; second assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; night watchman, five hundred and forty-eight dollars; carpenter, six hundred dollars; five watchmen, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; blacksmith, three hundred dollars; hostler and ambulance driver, two hundred and forty dollars; female keeper at workhouse, three hundred dollars; female keeper at workhouse, one hundred and eighty dollars; four cooks, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; two cooks, at sixty dollars each; trained nurse, four hundred and twenty dollars; five nurses, at sixty dollars each; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars.

For contingent expenses, including improvements and repairs, provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, hardware, medicines, repairs to tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, painting, and other necessary items and serv ices, forty-four thousand dollars.

For painting and repairs of almshouse and workhouse, one thousand dollars.

For central heating station, boilers, piping, necessary appliances for heating by steam or hot water, the buildings composing the hospital department of the institution, consisting of dispensary and physicians' quarters, nurses' quarters, operating rooms, and wards one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, four thousand dollars.

FOR REFORM SCHOOL: For superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, nine hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, five thousand and forty dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; four matrons of families, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; three foremen of workshops, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at three hundred dollars each;

laundress, one hundred and eighty dollars; two dining-room servants, seamstress, and chambermaid, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; florist, three hundred and sixty dollars; watchmen, not exceeding six in number, one thousand four hundred and ten dollars; secretary and treasurer of board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars.

For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry Support of inmates. goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, tableware, furniture, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, includ ing compensation, not exceeding nine hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, all under the control of the Commissioners, twentysix thousand dollars.

FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE INSANE.

For support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided in sections forty-eight hundred and forty-four and forty-eight hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, one hundred and four thousand and forty-nine dollars.

Support of insane.

R. S., secs. 4844, 4850,

pp. 939, 940.

Columbia Institution, Deaf and Dumb.

FOR INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB. For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942. of the Revised Statutes, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and all disbursements for this object shall be accounted for through the Department of the Interior.

FOR CHARITIES.

For relief of the poor, thirteen thousand dollars.

Charities.

Relief of
poor.
Soldiers and Sailors'

For Temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army Holdi

of the Republic, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Women's Christian

For the Women's Christian Association, maintenance, four thousand Association. dollars.

For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars.

Emergency Hospital.

Children's Hospital.

For the Children's Hospital, maintenance, ten thousand dollars. For the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington, Homeopathic HosDistrict of Columbia, for maintenance, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, maintenance, six thou- Foundling Hospital. sand dollars.

For the Church Orphanage Association of Saint John's Parish, maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the German Orphan Asylum, maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars.

Church Orphanage.

German Orphan Asylum.

Association for Destitute Colored Women.

Saint Ann's Infant

For Saint Ann's Infant Asylum, maintenance, five thousand four Asylum. hundred dollars.

Association for

For Association for Works of Mercy, maintenance, one thousand eight works of Mercy. hundred dollars.

House of the Good

For House of the Good Shepherd, maintenance, two thousand seven shepherd. hundred dollars.

Saint Rose Industrial School.

Saint Joseph's Asylum.

Young Women's Christian Home.

Hope and Help Mission. Newsboys' Aid.

Eastern Dispensary.
Home for Incurables.

Municipal lodging

house.

Columbia Hospital for women.

Proviso.

Trustees, etc., not to

For the Saint Rose Industrial School, maintenance, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For Saint Joseph's Asylum, maintenance, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For Young Women's Christian Home, one thousand dollars.
For Hope and Help Mission, maintenance, one thousand dollars.
For Newsboys' and Children's Aid Society, maintenance, one thou-
sand dollars.

For Eastern Dispensary, maintenance, one thousand dollars.
For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, two thousand
dollars.

For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, including rent, four thousand dollars.

For the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, maintenance, twenty thousand dollars; for repairs to building, five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no member deal with institutions. or members of any board or boards of trustees or directors of any charitable institution, organization or corporation in the District of Columbia, which is supported in whole or in part by appropriations made by Congress, shall engage in traffic with said institution, organization or corporation for financial gain, and any member or members of such board of trustees or directors who shall so engage in such traffic shall be deemed now and hereafter legally disqualified for service on said board or boards.

FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM: For subsistence, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;

For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, sixteen thousand dollars;

For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicine and medical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand dollars.

REFORM SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: For superintendent, one thousand dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; laborer, three hundred dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For groceries, provisions, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicine, medical attendance, hack hire, freight, furniture, beds, bedding, sewing machines, fixtures, books, horses, stationery, vehicles, harness, cows, stables, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.

INDUSTRIAL HOME SCHOOL: For maintenance, including repairs, nine thousand nine hundred dollars: Provided, That the board of managers of the Industrial Home School, on or before the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall transfer said school to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and said Commissioners shall thereupon appoint a board of trustees of said school, consisting of nine members, whose terms of office shall be, for the first appointment, three members for one year, three members for two years, and three members for three years, and thereafter all appointments shall be for a term of three years, except appointments to fill out unexpired terms. The board of trustees so appointed by the Commissioners shall manage the school under such regulations as now exist or may hereafter be made by said board, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. All designations for employment in said school made by said board of trustees shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and, in the event of

disapproval by said Commissioners of any selection by said board of trustees, the said Commissioners shall make the appointment. All supplies for said school shall be obtained by requisition upon said Commissioners, and all moneys received at said school as income thereof from sale of products and from payments for board and instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to said Commissioners to be expended by them for the support of the school as herein provided.

BOARD OF CHILDREN'S GUARDIANS: For the Board of Children's Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including salary of agent, not to exceed one thousand six hundred dollars, expenses in placing and visiting children, and all office and sundry expenses, four thousand dollars;

For care of feeble-minded children; care of children under three years of age, white and colored; board and care of all children over three years of age, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, twentythree thousand four hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.

Board of Children's
Guardians.
Vol. 27, p.2 268.

Care of children, etc.

Declaration of policy not to support reli

gious institutions.

And it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Government of the United States to make no appropriation of money or property for the purpose of founding, maintaining, or aiding by payment for services, expenses, or otherwise, any church or religious denomination, or any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control; and it is hereby enacted that, from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, no money appropriated for chari priations for religious table purposes in the District of Columbia, shall be paid to any church or religious denomination, or to any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control.

That a joint select committee is hereby authorized, to consist of three Senators to be appointed by the presiding officer of the Senate, and three Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, which select committee shall make investigation of the charities and reformatory institutions of the District of Columbia, and especially of those for which appropriations are made by this Act, as respects their relations to the Government of the District of Columbia and to the United States, whether by special charter or otherwise, their efficiency, their management and resources, whether by appropriations, investments, or otherwise, and also what portion, if any, of appropriations heretofore made to them have been used for the purpose of maintaining or aiding by payment for services, expenses, or otherwise any church or religious denomination or any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control; whether such charitable or reformatory institutions are effective and economical in their organization, methods, and expenditure to provide for the poor and destitute in the District of Columbia; whether it is practicable for the Commissioners or other authority in the District to make contracts or to otherwise provide for such care of the poor and destitute with any of said institutions, and if so, which of them and to what extent, within the limitations of the policy hereinbefore declared; and if not, the probable expense of providing and maintaining public institutions for such purpose.

Said committee shall make report as soon as practicable after the beginning of the next session of the present Congress, including in such report any changes by them deemed advisable as respects the methods of dealing with the charities and the reformatory institutions of said District.

Said committee is authorized to sit during the recess, and the necessary expenses of the committee, including clerical and stenographic work, shall be paid out of the contingent funds of the Senate and House of Representatives, jointly, on the certificate of the chairman of the committee.

institutions.

Congressional joint

committee to investi

gate charitable insti tutions, etc.

Report.

Expenses, etc.

District militia.

Rent, etc.

Current expenses.

Proviso.

MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

For the following, to be expended under the authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, namely:

For rent, fuel, light, care, and repair of armories, fourteen thousand dollars.

For telephone service, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For lockers, gun racks, and furniture for armories, eight hundred dollars.

For printing and stationery, three hundred dollars.

For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, three hundred dollars.

For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, nine hundred dollars.

For expenses of drills and parades, eight hundred dollars.

For expenses of rifle practice and matches, and construction and repairs on rifle range, three thousand dollars.

For expenses of annual camp of instruction, seven thousand dollars. For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars: Accounts to under Provided, That hereafter all leases and contracts involving expenditures on account of the militia shall be made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and appropriations for the militia shall be disbursed only upon vouchers duly authorized by the Commissioners, for which they shall be held strictly accountable.

Commissioners.

Contracts, etc.

Water department.

To be paid from

water revenue

Revenue and inspection branch.

Distribution branch.

And no contract shall be made or liability incurred under appropriations for the militia of the District of Columbia beyond the sums herein appropriated.

WATER DEPARTMENT.

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

For revenue and inspection branch: For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; seven inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars;

For distribution branch: For superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; timekeeper, eight hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; assistant tapper, six hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; blacksmith, seven hundred and fifty dollars; two plumbers, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant machinists, at eight hundred and sixty-four dollars each; property keeper, six hundred dollars; three firemen, at seven hundred and thirty dollars each; two flushers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; two watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; hostler, four hundred and eighty dollars; calker, seven hundred and thirty dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars.

Contingentexpenses. For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, forage, advertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Fuel, repairs, etc.

For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs and public hydrants, ninety thousand dollars.