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 an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops.

For general incidental expenses of the service, three hundred dollars.

WATER DEPARTMENT.

The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely:

For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; eight inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars;

For distribution branch: For superintendent, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; two. clerks, at one thousand dollars each; timekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; tapper and machinist, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; calker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and six dollars.

For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, purchase and care of horse, buggy, and harness for use of superintendent for purposes of inspection, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service. including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs and purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of Potomac water used by the Departments and offices of the United States Government in the District of Columbia, by meter or otherwise, three thousand dollars.

For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service system of water distribution, and for laying necessary trunk mains for low service, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.

. 2. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to report to Congress at its next session a plan for the removal to a suitable place within the city of Washington of the remains of Pierre Charles L'Enfant and erecting a proper monument or gravestone over them, or erecting such monument or stone where they are now buried, as may seem to them most desirable.

. 3. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District, except as otherwise provided herein.

. 4. That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to