290 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 785. 1900. p,1&€°dm°¤’S H°s· FREEDMEN’S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM: For contingent expenses, fiscal yealr eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,1ifteen dollars and thirty· · ei .t cents. · _ Tor repairs to buildings, three thousand five hundred dollars. G,§;§],§§,$; Ch"d’°¤'¤ BOARD or CHILDREN S GUARDIANS: For amount required by the Board of Children’s Guardians- fertile service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, nine thousand two hundred dollars; and authority to pay from this amount one thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary, to the House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, at Baltimore, and two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Saint Rose Industrial School, District of Columbia, ’ for the maintenance of wards of the board, is hereby granted. Dgg$,{g¤¤¤¢¤’ Paws] WATER DEPARTMENT: Authority is hereby given to pay the Mery Company. . . ramen: ec. chants’ Parcel Delivery Company, In excess of contract rates for hauling extra-size water pipe, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-nine cents. · grggiL¤§¤;};i¤ md- Foiygrading and paving Columbia road east of Thirteenth street 'extended through square numbered twenty-three, ten thousand dollars, one-half to be paid from the revenues of the District of Colum- _f;ggQ{j¤· bia: Provided, That said street be first extended to its present width, _ so as to connect with Steuben street at Sherman avenue. s,§,°g’§§§f,§j’,’ggf‘ m' REDEMPTION or TAx—sALE CERTIFICATES! For redempltion of one tax-sale certiicate dated October fourteenth, eighteen undred and seventy-two, and four tax-sale certificates dated June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, provided the amount hereby appropriated be accepted as a settlement in full, four hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-six cents, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia. { H¤1fer>Pr¤¤¤¤*i¤¤S Except as otherwise herein provided, one-half of the foregoing KOH) DISEHCE I'EV€· • • - • · mes. amounts to meet deficiencies IH the appropriations on account of the ' `I District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. WM¤·=¤¤¤¤¤€¤*· WAR DEPARTMENT. A°l"€“i$i¤g· ADVERTISING: To enable the Secretary of War to pay the accounts, certified in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty- one of this session, due certain newspapers for publishing advertisements for recruits, fuel, horses, an so forth, for the Army, three _ hundred and nineteen dollars and fifteen cents. i §;,§,§,‘§§,‘§*§;,_ REPAYMENT TO C. B. CARLISLE: For repayment of amount stopped from pay of Chaplain C. B. Carlisle, Second United States Volunteers, on account of subsistence stores erroneously distributed by him to Second United States Volunteers at Holguin, Cuba, in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and one cent. fgjhgégéggwggg; ADJUSTMENT or ACCOUNTS or MAJOR J. B. BELLINGER: On account counts Ot. of duties resulting from the war with Spain, the time prescribed by V°l28·P·2°·’>· law, Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for ‘ the settlement of his accounts having expired, the accounting oflioers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to_ reopen, adjust, and settle the accounts of Captain J. B. Bellinger, assistant quartermaster, United States Army, late disbursing officer of the Military Academy at West Point, New York, involving applropriations for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five,_eig teen hundred and ninety-six, and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, on the principles of equity and justice, and to give credit for such disbursements as shall _ be shown to have been actually and honestly made in good faith and _§§,Q’§‘§§· mm, my have accrued to the benefit of the Government: Provided, That the iw Mc- total credits allowed under the provisions of this Act shall not be more
