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 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Snss I. Ch. 171. 1892. 167 eighty dollars; one watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; one hostler, four hundred and eighty dollars; one caulker, seven hundred and thirty dollars; and three laborers, at five hundred dollars each; and for not to exceed at any time two inspectors on manufacture of cast-iron pipe, at a maximum rate of four dollars and fifty cents per day for such periods as their services may be actually necessary, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-one thousand six hundred and ufty-six dollars. For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, forage, C <>¤ Mu gent cxadvertising, printing, and other necessary items and services, two p°”"S‘ thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe F¤¤*·¤>v¤i*¤»¤¤¤~ distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service,, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and lab0r in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing nrc plugs and public hydrants, ninety thousand dollars. For interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thou- I¤¢¤r¤¤¤- sand six hundred and ten dollars. For interest on account of increasing the water supply as provided Vol-22.p-170. in the act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, twenty- three thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty-seven cents. For sinking fund on account of increase of water supply under act Si¤ki¤s f¤¤•i- 0f July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, forty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-four cents. For first year’s interest on one-half of the cost of the forty-eight inch mg“;::ji°](°*lf1¥é§;zl¤|t and Fourteenth street mains, eight thousand eight hundred and sev- streetmains? D enty-seven dollars and thirty-eight ments. For iirst installment in repayment of one-half the cost of the forty- 0,f,fg’*;!{g{18’;Q;,{*;{)Qr’j eight inch and Fourteenth street mains, eleven thousand eight hundred wimu sm-et mm. and thirty-six dollars and fifty-one cents. For extending the high-service system of water distribution, to include Ext and ing highall necessary land, machinery, buildings, standpipes, mains, and appur- “""°° ”“°"" tenances, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the nscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated; and the Riebwf way- Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the land, including necessary portions of public roads, required for the said extension, and the right of way, where necessary, for the construction, maintenance, and repair of the requisite water mains and their appurtenances for said extension. - Sec. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon Limitnfrequlsitionn the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger “"°" T"’“’“"" amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certiticates, of said District. Sec. 3. That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby directed S¤{r>1¤¤ ¤>~;¤¤¤¤ M and authorized to apply such portion as may be deemed expedient of },’{*{',,£f-`§`§°f;p{,'}?§{°0”{°° any surplus which may remain at the close of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and of each fiscal year thereafter, of the general revenues of the District of Columbia in excess of one-half of those appropriations payable equally out of the revenues of the District and the United States, exclusive of the revenues of the water department, to the payment of the balances yet remaining unpaid of the debts of the District of Columbia created by the act approved July fifteenth, eight- 6811 hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An act to increase the water Vql-21h-170-. Silpply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes,” and of section two of the District of Columbia appropriation act approved March v¤1.2es,p.1o·zs. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one: Provided, That the amount of said surplus shall be first reported to the Commissioners of the District