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 804 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 370. 1889. Supplies. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, telephone rental, wire, extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines, purchase of poles, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, gas, fuel, ice record-books, stationery, printing, office-rent, purchase of horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, seven thousand dollars. PS31g w¤‘¤= ¤¤d•>¤‘ That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may hereafter, gm under such reasonable conditions as they may prescribe, authorize the overhead wires of any telegraph, 'telep one, or electric light com- ' pany to be laid under any street, alley, highway, footway, or sidewal in the District, whenever in theirjudgment the public interest may require the exercise of such authority, such privileges as may be granted hereunder to be revocable at the will of Conlgress without compensation, and this authority to continue only unti the termina- _ · tion of the Fiftydirst Congress. H¤¤“=¤¤¤v¤¤¤¤¤¤- · HEALTH DEPARTMENT. · For one health officer, three thousand dollars; six sanitary inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one inspector of marine products, one thousand two hundred dollars; for one clerk, one thou- ' sand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one » clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger, nve hundred and forty dollars; one pound—master, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceeding forty dollars per month, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; one ambulance driver, four hundred ` and eighty dollars; and for contingent expenses, including books, stationery, fuel, rent, repairs to pound and vehicles, forage, meat for dogs, horse-shoeing, painting, and other necessary items, four thou- _ sand dollars; collection and removal of garba e, twenty thousand dollars; in all forty-eight thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Corners. ·"°“°° °°“'*· FOR THE PoLICE COURT: For one `udge, three thousand dollars; one clerk, two thousand dollars; one deputy clerk, one thousand dollars; two bailiffs, at three dollars per day each; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one door-keeper, Eve hundred and fort dollars; United States marsl1al’s fees, one thousand four hundred' dollars; contingent expenses, including compensation of a justice of the peace acting as gudge of the police court uringxthe absence of said judge, not excee ing three hundred dollars; boo ’s, stationery, fuel, ice, gas, and other necessary items, eight hundred dollars; for witness fees, three thousand do lars; in ad], fourteen thousand five hundred and ei%1teen dollars. Defeusein claims. EFENDING SUITS IN CLAIMS: For necessary expenses in examination of witnesses and procuring evidence in the matter of claims against the District of Columbia in the Departments, and defending suits against said District in the Court of Claims, to be expende under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars. Lunney mm. WRITS or LUNACY: To defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments made thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of the act a proved gzfalrch third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two thlousand o ars.