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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. C11. 176. 1895. 757 TELEGBAPH AND TELEPHONE SERVICE. Pggggxxd falc- For superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars; electrician, swims. one thousand two hundred dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three telephone operators, at six hundred dol- · lars each; expert repairman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two . repairmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; in all, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. For general supplies, repairs, new batteries and battery supplies, S“PP“°°· telephone rental, wire, extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pin s, hardware, cross- arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, purchase of harness, washing, blacksmithin g, forage, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, eleven thousand dollars. · For rent, including light, fuel, and janitors’ service, four hundred R¤¤t¤t<>- and fifty dollars. For extension of the police patrol service and the iire-alarm telegraph to E**·°¤•i°¤°*¤•¤•’i·=¤· suburbs and city, seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. umm aspmmm. For health onicer, three thousand dollars; nine sanitary and food S°‘*"*°'· inspectors, who shall also be charged with enforcement of garbage regulations, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products, and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand two hundred dollars; inspector of marine products, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand tour hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two of whom may also act as sanitary and food inspectors; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; pound master, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborers, at not exceeding forty dollars per month, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; ambulance driver, tour hundred and eighty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. d }{1scELLANEOUs: For rent, one thousand one hundred and twenty Mi•¤•l1n¤w¤•· ol ars. For chemicals for the laboratory, two hundred and fifty dollars, For collecting and removing garbage within the cities of Washing- G¤¤·l·¤s¤.¤w- ton and Georgetown daily, and in their more densely populated suburbs three times a week, from April fifteenth to November iirst, and twice a week, and daily from hotels and other like places, from November first to April fifteenth, and for collecting and removing dead animals within the District of Columbia daily, including Sunday, during the entire year, forty thousand dollars. ‘ For destroying by cremation or reduction or otherwise disposing of ¤,{,>•·*~*°S’*¤¢¤•*l··8°· all garbage and dead animals collected as above specitied, or brought ' to the establishment for cremation or reduction by private parties, _ twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That from the amount appropriated §$;‘f.;‘{g¤,_,Mmd_ for the cremation or reduction or otherwise disposing of garbage and dead animals there may be deducted a sum not to exceed two dollars and fifty cents per day, to be paid to a weigher appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, whose duty it shall be to weigh _ and keep record of all garbage brought to the establishment for cremation or reduction, and to have general oversight of the sanitary condition of this establishment: Provided further, That said Commissioners yg,‘},‘;f_{,},,'Q£f °"" may, on and after the passage of this Act, enter into contract, after due _ advertisement as required by law, under such regulations and specifications as they may establish, for the collection and removal of garbage and dead animals, as hereinbefore mentioned, for a period not exceeding live years, and for incinerating or otherwise disposing of the same for a gross sum of not exceeding sixty thousand dollars per year for such