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 1074 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 546. 1891. one chief clerk, who shall act as deputy to the health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred each; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger, five hundred and forty dollars; one pound master, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceedin forty dollars per month, one thousand nine hundred and twenty r the enforcement of the provisions of an act entitled "An act Am 892 to prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District °’p'of Co1umbia," approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, five thousand dollars. · Counrs. # P°l*°° °°¤”°· Fon THE Pomom COURT: For one judge, three thousand dollars; J¤d8:£°'•¢*i¤8Il¤d8€· compensation of a justice of the peace acting as judge of the police m h' court during the absence of said judge, not exceeding three hundred dollars; one clerk, two thousand dollars; one deputy clerk, one thousand dollars; two bailiifs, at three dollars per day each; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one doorkeeper, five hundred and gorlty dollars; in all, nine thousand six hundred and twenty-four o rs. . m°°“““°°“'· M1sc11LLAN1:oUs; For United States marshal’s fees, one thousand fom- hundred dollars; _ For witness fees, four thousand nve hundred dollars; For repairs of police court building, eight hundred dollars: For rent of property adjoining po ice court building for police court and other urposes, six hundred dollars; In all, seven tllousand three hundred dollars. D°*°¤°° *¤ Mm DEFENDING 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 De art1nents,'and defendin suits against said District in the Court oip Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars. I·¤¤¤¢¥ *¤‘**¤- Wnirs or LUNAGY: To defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo an commitments made thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane Itpersons committed, or sought to be committed, to the Government ospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the v01.:0,p.a4v. provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two thousand dollars. ,$,'f"'“°“"*"‘**”8 Inrmnnsr AND Smxmc FUND. For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water bonds, one million two hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-seveh cents. mmm-geucy umu. EMERGENCY FUND. To be expended onlsy in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, calamity by Hood or re, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, five thousand Proves- dollars: Provided, That in the purchase of all articles provided for P¤¤>1=¤¤©¤1i¤g_jc¤sdw in this act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such P""' articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected.