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 470 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 95. 1883. by ilood or nre, and of like character, not otherwise sutlieiently pro- Pmviso. · vided for, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That in the purchase of all articles provided for in this bill no more than the market price shall be paid for any such article, and all bids for any of such articles above the Pr-mm. market price shall be rejected: And provided further, That hereafter, · whenever any horses, carriages, or wagons, or property of any de- Property con- scription may become unnt for service, in the judgment of the Comd°*¤¤°‘¥· ‘° "° wld missioners, the same shall be sold at auction to the highest bidder, after “° "“°°°“* °°°‘ due advertisement, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid_ into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the appropriation out of which the purchase was made _ W•terDep•rt- WATER DEPARTMENT. ment. · The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, unless otherwise provided: Salaries. 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 forty-two dol- Contingent sx- lars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, forage, adver- P¤¤¤¤¤- tising, printing, and miscellaneous items, two thousand four hundred Highser-vi¤e,•t¤. dollars; engineers and Bremen, coal, material, and for high-service in Washington and Georgetown, pipe-distribution to high and low service, including public hydrants, nre-plugs, replacing the nine-inch with ten-inch iireplugs, material and labor, repairing and laying new mains, lowering mains, forty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty pmpao, one dollars and fifty cents; Provided, That the immediate cost of laying Cost or n sw new mains, not to exceed the sum herein- appropriated for this purpose, ‘“°*f5 P““1 from may be defrayed from the general revenues of the Dishict, as other exfsuso m,:K::;,°§’ penses are paid, but shall be reimbursed from the collection of the watermi, ’ main tax; for completing the laying of twelve inch water-mains with proper fire-plugs and connections for the proper protection of the Government Printing Office, three thousand five hundred dollars, of which the United States shall pay one-half, and one thousand seven hundred I n terest and and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for this purpose; interest and ¤i¤ k ¤¤S{¤¤d 3 sinking-fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thousand six hundred and 'ggfg umn ten dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are diwdqmgwmdg rected to deposit the amount annually appropriated for interest and or np propriation sinking-fund for the water·bonds to the credit of the appropriation for xw om Columbia; and that the Treasurer of the United States, as sinking-fimd p,,,,,,,,,, U_ g_, commissioner of the District of Columbia, shall, after paying the interest ste., to invest cer- on the funded indebtedness of the District, including the interest on the 3°¤;;’¤L0°°•mD- water-bonds, out of the combined funds, invest the balance thereof on ‘ " account of the several sinking-funds in such bonds of the District of Columbia, including the water-bonds, as he may deem most advantageous; in all, one hundred and five thousand eight hundred and nfty three dollars and fifty cents. Avvmvriationsi Sec. 2. That hereafter all moneys appropriated for the expenses of ',;‘g8""" the government of the District of Columbia, together with all revenues itad i;, U_ S_ Try.; of the District of Columbia from taxes or otherwise, shall be deposited sry. in the Treasury of the United States, as required by the provisions of 20 Stat., 105. section four of an act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, and shall be drawn therefrom only on requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia (except that the moneys appropriated for interest andthe sinking~ihnd shall be drawn therefrom only on the requisition of the Treasurer of the United States), such requisition specit§.·ing the appropriation upon which the same is drawn; and in no ease shall such appropriation be exceeded either in requisition
 * °' iJ¤'°¤•*»H¤;:: p interest and sinking-fund for the funded indebtedness of the District of