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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 676. 1888. 323 necessary; water, heating, and drying ap aratus in six stations, at one hundred dollars each, six hundred dohars; in all, four hundred and six thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Fon run Finn DEPARTMENT. FM depmmeuv. For one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars: one fire-marshal, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two assistant chief engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; nine foremen, at one thousand dollars each; eight engineers, at one thousand dollars each; eight firemen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two tillermen, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; ten hostlers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; sixt -six privates, at eight hundred dollars each; four watchmen, at six hunred dollars each; one veterinary sur eon for all departments of the District government, four hundred dodlars; repairs to engine-houses, two thousand dollars; repairs to apparatus and new appliances. three thousand dollars; purchase of hose, four thousand Eve hundred dollars; for fuel, two thousand dollars; purchase of horses, four thousand dollars; forage, five thousand five hundred dollars; for purchase of one new fire-engine, four thousand five hundred dollars; for erect- h New ¤¤si¤¤ nd ing eng1ne-house in southeastern section of Washington and furnish- °°”°` ing same, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; h0se—carriage for same, seven hundred dollars; contingent C°¤“¤S‘°¤*°¤P¤¤=¤¤’~ expenses, including office—rent horse-shoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred dollars. TELEGRAPH AND Tnrnrnonn Snavron pfxidm For one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; one expert repair-man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two repair-men, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers at four hundred dollars each; in all, nine thousand eight hundred dollars. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, ¤¤n1>¤<¤¤- telephone rental, wire, extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines, purchase of poles, insulators, brackets, pins_, hard ware, cross·arms, gas, fuel, ice, record-books, stationery, printing, office-rent, purchase of horses and harness, washing, blacksmithzng, forage, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, seven thousand dollars. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not, after the wm€Oz;:rgt·“!jgg; fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, per- ground. P mit or authorize any additional telegraph, telephone, electric lighting or other wires to be erected or maintained on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington, and the said Commissinners are herebydirected to investigate and report to Congress at the beginning of its next session the best method of removing all electric wires from the air or surface of the streets, avenues and alleys, and the best method of interring the same under ground, and such legal regulation thereof as ma be needed; and they shall report what manner of conduits should), be maintained by the city of Wasl1— ington. if any. and the cost of constructing and maintaining the same, and what charge. if any, should be made by the city for the use of its conduits by the persons or corporations placing wires therein, and upon what terms -and conditions the same should be used when required so to do, and for such investigation, one thousand dollars is