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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 676. 1888. 327 To complete the erection of additional accommodations for the use smut Rose indusofrthe baint Rose Industrial School, five thousand dollars. mm S°h°"1· fo enable the board of managers of the Association for Works of WASS°°i¤*i<>¤ for Mercy to discharge the balance of the indebtedness of Said associa— wks of Mercy' tion incurred in the purchase of a building, two thousand dollars; for. construction of wall, one thousand five hundred dollars; for maintenance, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. For the _National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washing- _H<>m¢<>p¤fhi¤ Hoston, District of Columbia, for improvements upon the buildings, pim three thousand five hundred dollars; for maintenance, three thousand dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars. For maintenance of the National Temperance Home, two thousand N¤**<>¤¤1T¢>¤¤perfive hundred dollars. ““°" H°“‘°· For the payment of the balance due upon the building now owned Em“g°“°YH°$Pi*¤l· and occupied by the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, of Washington, District of Columbia, twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. That hereafter the several institutions included under the heads of R°P°*‘¤· asylums, reformatories, industrial schools, and charities named in the annual appropriation acts for the support of the District of Columbia shall report to the Commissioners of the District, on or before the first day of December of each year, a full and detailed account of receipts and exlpenditures, and all their operations, and said Commissioners shal transmit the same to Congress at the beginning of each regular session, with such suggestions and recommendations as they may deem pertinent, together with estimates for maintaining the same. EMERGENCY FUND. - Emergency fund. To be expended on? in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, ‘ calamity by flood or re, and of like characte1·, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, five thousand dollars ; Provided, That in the purchase of all articles provided for Prvviso. in this act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such P“'°‘*’°”S· articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected. VVATER DEPARTMENT. The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the opera- Water depanmenz. tions of the water department, to e, paid wholly from its revenues, namel : For bne chief clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks. €*****<¤· ~**¤· at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one draughtsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, at three dollars per day, mne hundred and thirty-six dollars; six inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; contingent expenses. including books, blanks, stationery, forage, advertising. printing, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars. _ _ _ For engineers and firemen, fuel. material for high service, in \Vash- E¤s¤¤¤¤rS· vw. ington and Georgetown, pipe distribution to high and low service, including public hydrants. fire—plugs, material a11d labor, repairing and laying new mains, and lowering mains, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For laying a new water-main from K street northwest down Four- New ¤¤¤i¤· teenth street to B street southwest, including necessary connections. thirty-one thousand dollars; this sum to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and to be repaid from the revenues of the water department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety.