134 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 757. 1886. Association for To enable the board of managers of the Association for Works_ of w°’k“ °f M°'°5’· Mercy to discharge so much of the indebtedness of said association incurred in the purchase of a building, five thousand dollars. lic in c o poi liic For the repair and completion of the building for the National Homeo- “°“I‘i*°‘· pathic Hospital Association of Washington, District of Columbia, five thousand dollars. snooze Fon STREETS. Sweeping, ctc, For sweeping, cleaning, and sprinkling street , avenues, and alleys, ltcpoiis. iitty-eight thousand dollars; for current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, twenty-five thousand dollars; current work on county roads and suburban streets, forty thousand dollars; for opening and 1'rvriw- extending suburban streets, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That this provision shall not be construed to authorize the widening of any sowois. street now laid out and opened; cleaning sewers and basins, twenty-five thousand dollars; purchase of and repairs to pumps three thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars. Parking. For the parking commission: For contingent expenses, including laborers, cart-hire, trees, tree—boxes, tree-stakes, tree-straps, planting and care of trees, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, eighteen thousand dollars. Street lamps. For street-lamps: For illuminating material and lighting, extinguishing, repairing, and cleaning lamps on avenues, streets, and alleys, and for purchasing and erecting new lamp-posts, and to replace such as are I’#‘¢>¤‘€¤0· old, damaged, anduniit for use, one hundred thousand dollars: Pro- Pri¤¤1>¤¤l¤¤¤¤l·- vided, That no more than twenty dollars per annum for each streetlamp 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; but not exceeding ten thousand dollars of the above amount Electric lights. may be used in providing electric lights on one or more of the principal Prmriao. thoronghfares of the city, without regard to this limitation: Provided Contracts limit- further, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not
- 1 *° °°° Fm"- 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. Fon Maruoromnu POLICE. Police. For one major and superintendent, two thousand six hundred dollars; one captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one lieutenant, night inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars; one property clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; four surgeons for the police and tire departments, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; for additional compensation for privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; nine lieutenants, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty sergeauts, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each; one hundred and live privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each; one hundred and forty privates, class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; seventeen station-keepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eight laborers, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred dollars; one messenger, five hundred dollars; one major and superintendent, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars ; one captain, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; twenty- five lieutenauts, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one driver, three hundred and sixty dollars;
