FOBTY-EIGHTH CON GBESS. Sess. H. Ch. 145. 1885. 319 Iurrnmssr AND SINKING-FUND. For interest and sinking-fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water- Funded debt. bonds, one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred . I¤F°’i*?°* **1* and forty-seven dollars and ninetyseven cents. °"'k'"g '"‘d‘ For general contingent expenses of the District of Columbia, to be ex- General continpended at the discretion of the Commissioners only in case of emergency, $°“* °xP°"“°°· such as riot, pestilence, calamity by Hood or hre, and of like character, not otherwise sufficiently provided for, hve thousand dollars: Provided, Proviao. That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected: Prooidedfur- Proviao. ther, That hereafter all appropriations made for contingent expenses of contingent exthe District of Columbia shall be expended under the direction and in P°¤¤°¤$ Mw to N the sole discretion of the Commissioners; but such expenditures shall °‘P°“d°d‘ 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 accordance with section one hundred and ninety- R. S.,sec.193,p-30- three, Bevised Statutes of the United States. Wuum Dnrxnrmmur. · Wttster depart- IIIBD . The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations salsriee. 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, sta- contingent eztionery, forage advertising, printing, and other necessary items and P°¤¤°•· services, two thousand four hundred dollars; engineers and firemen, coal, material, and for high service in Washington and Georgetown, High service, pipe-distribution to high and low service, including public hydrants, ¤f¤- tire-plugs, replacing the nine-inch with ten-inch tire-plugs, material and labor, repairing and laying new mains, and lowering mains, seventy- eight thousand dollars · interest and sinking-fund on water-stock bonds, Intere at • n d forty-four thousand six hundred and ten dollars; for interest and sinking- sinking-fund 0 ¤ fund on account of increasing the watensupply, as provided in the " “:”::,· act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eightytwo, fifty-tive thou- ,;,,k;,,g_;,,,,d 0,, sand and forty-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents; in all, one hun- neeountotinemeee dred and eightymine thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars ¤f Nm ngband twentyseven cents. 294182-,;.% °h* And hereafter the supply of Potomac water may be extended to Iietomee water points in the District beyond the limits of Washington and George- ¤°"¤<=° ¤¤*°¤d°d· town upon like terms and conditions as areprovided by law for the supply of the same in those cities. Sec. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon Requinitions on the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger }7¤i*¤•i 8 t ¤ t ¤ ¤ amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six than §;’::3'Yth‘;‘: Z} they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues of said Dis- D,,,,.;,,, ,.,,.,,,,,_ trict; and the District of Columbia sh lbe allowed credit, as apart of credit for half its revenues, for one-half of all drawback certiilcates heretofore received of d¤•Wb¤¤k» ¤¤· or that may hereafter be received for general taxes under acts of June °°f8.,‘g°$°, 2, °h_ twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and July fifth, n_P_ Q;’ eighteen hundred and eighty-four, less my of said drawback certitl- xm p. 132. cates already accredited thereto. Approved, February 25, 1885.
