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Appropriations, &c.—Continued.

Superintendent's of assessments and taxes office: One superintendent, $2,400; two clerks, at $1,200, $2,400; one messenger, 720; contingent expenses, books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, $2.280; in all, $7,800.

Inspector's of gas and meters office: One inspector, $2,000; one assistant inspector. $1,000; in all, $3,000.

Assessor's office: Two clerks, at $1,200 each, $2,400; one messenger, at $1.50 per day, $469.50; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, temporary clerks, and so forth, 84,380.50; in all, $7,250.

Harbor master of Georgetown, 880; sealer of weights and measures, 880; in all, $160. Engineer's office: One chief clerk, $1,760; one clerk. $1,440; five clerks, at $1.200 each, 6,000; one clerk, $960; one clerk. 8900; one clerk, $720; one clerk, at $3.20 per day, $1,001.60; one clerk, at $3 per day, $939; one computing engineer, $2,400; one draughtsman, 31,000; one leveller, $1,600; two levellers, at $4 per day each, $2.504; two rodmen, at $780 each, $1,560; one axeman, at $2 per day, $626; one axeman, $600; one inspector of asphalt pavements, 82,400; one inspector, 1,440; one inspector, at $2.50 per day, $882.50; eleven inspectors, at 84 per day each (employed for six months), 86,886; two overseers, at $1,200 each, $2,400; one overseer, $960; one overseer, at $4 per day, 81,252; one superintendent of property, $1,800; one watchman at property yard, $720; two watchmen at property yard, at $1.50 per day each, $1,095; one inspector of fuel, at $2 per day, 626; one janitor of public buildings, $720; two watchmen at public buildings, at 2600 each, $1,200; one laborer. 8600; one laborer, $480; one laborer, at 31.25 per day, 8391.25; one laborer, at $1.50 per day, $469.50; one superintendent of permits, $1,400; one sewertapper, $1,000; two messengers, at $600 each, $1,200; one messenger, $540; one driver, 2600; contingent expenses, books, stationery, and so forth, $4,927.15; in all, 853,840. Fuel, ice, repairs, general miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, for District offices, $3,000. For the public schools of the District of Columbia, as follows: One superintendent, $2,700; one superintendent, $2,250; one secretary, $150; one clerk to committee of ac counts, board of trustees, $150; one clerk, $900; one clerk, 8800; five teachers, at $1,650 each, $2,250; one teacher, $1,600; two teachers, at $1,350 each, $2,700; one teacher, $1,300; one teacher, $1,200; one teacher, $1,100; fifteen teachers, at $1,000 each, $15,000; one teacher, $960; two teachers, at 8950 each, $1,900; twelve teachers, at $900 each, $10,800; ten teachers, at 8850 each, $8,500; twenty teachers, at $200 each, $16.000; thirty-one teachers, at $750 each, 823,250; fifty-one teachers, at 8700 each, $35,700; fifty-seven teach. ers, at 3650 each, 837,050; eighty-three teachers, at $600, $49,800; twenty-five teachers, at $550 each, $13,750; ten teachers, at $500 each, $5,000; five teachers, at $450 each, $2,250; twelve teachers, at $425 each, $5,100; fifty teachers, at $400 each, $20,000; one temporary teacher, $350; six teachers, at $250 each, $1,500; one janitor, $1,140; one janitor, $1,102; one janitor, $1,087; one janitor, $922; one janitor, 8914; one janitor, $900; one janitor, $880 one janitor, 8850: one janitor, $682; one janitor, $622; one janitor, $602; one janitor, $588; one janitor, 8584; one janitor, 8582; one janitor. $540; one janitor, $430; two janitors, at 8384 each, $768; two janitors, at $288 each, $576; one janitor, $250; one janitor, 8230; one janitor, $225: one janitor, $216; one janitor, $192: three janitors, at $172 each, $516; one janitor, 8180; one janitor, $150 two janitors, at $160 each, $320; one jan. itor, $140; one janitor, $92.23; six janitors, at $36.40 each, 8518.40; twelve janitors, at 880 each, $960: three janitors, at $120 each, $360; four janitors, at $60 each, $240; eleven janitors, at $54 each, 8594; nine janitors, at $50 each, $450; additional teachers and increase of pay by continuous service, $22,000; rent of school buildings, $30,000; fuel, $12,000; repairs to school buildings, 825,000; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, insurance, and miscellaneous items, $21,587.37; for the construction of two new school buildings, purchase of lots, and furniture, complete and ready for occupancy, at $37,500 each, $75,000: Provided, That two lots on square 158, south side of Massachu setts avenue and west of Seventeenth street, belonging to the United States, may be used by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for school purposes, and they may erect one of said school-houses thereon: And provided, That the inspector of buildings of the District shall have authority and control over and supervision of the construction and repairs of all school buildings if the Commissioners deem best to delegate the same to him; in all, $475,000.

For the Metropolitan police, as follows: One major and superintendent, $2.665; one captain, $1,800; one property clerk, $1,800; one clerk. $1.500; three surgeons, at $450 each, $1,350; six detectives, at $1,320 each, $7,920; ten lieutenants, at $1,200 each, $12,000; twenty sergeants, at $1,140 each, $22.800; seven acting sergeants, at $1,080 each, $7,560; seventy three privates, class one, at $900 each, $35,700; one hundred and twenty privates, class two, at $1,080 each, 8129,600; sixteen station keepers, at 8516 each, 88,256: eight laborers, at $420 each, $3,360; two telegraph operators, at $780 each, $1,560; one messenger, $900; one messenger, 8360; one major and superintendent, mounted service, $360; one captain, mounted service, $240; fifty lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at $240 each, $12,000; rent of police station houses and police headquarters, 86.200; fuel, $1,543; repairs to station-houses, $1,200; miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, gas, telegraphing, ice, washing, printing, meals to prisoners, repairs to van, &c., $12,184 in all, 8305,240: Provided, That all new appointments shall be made to class one: And provided, That the number in any class shall not at any time exceed the number herein designated.

For the fire department and fire alarm, as follows: Two commissioners (one of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to represent the interests of the general government on said board of commissioners), at $200 each, $400; one commissioner and secretary, 8400; one chief engineer, $1,800; one assistant engineer, 81,400; one superintendent of fire alarm telegraph $1,500; two telegraph operators, at $1,000 each. 81,000; eight foremen, at $1,000 each, 33,000; six engineers, at $1,000 each, $6,000; six firemen, at $500 each, 84,800; two tillermen, at 8300 each, $1,600; eight hostlers, at $500 each, $6.400; forty-eight privates, at 8720 each, $34,560; six privates, at 8720 each, temporarily employed, 4,320; repairs to engine-houses, $1,000; fuel, 8500; purchase of horses. 82.000; repairs to apparatus, $5.000; contingent expenses, including hose, forage, stationery, horseshoeing, washing, and miscellaneous items, $25,420; in all, $105,700.

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Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

For the courts, as follows: Police court, one judge, $3,000; one clerk, $2,000; one deputy clerk, $1,000; two bailiffs, at $3 per day each, $1,878; one messenger, $900; one doorkeeper, $540; one justice of the peace, acting as judge in judge's absence, $620; United States marshal's fees, $2,316; rent of building for police court, $1,700; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, fuel, ice, gas, witness fees, and miscellaneous items, $2,046; judicial expenses, $2,500; in all, $18,500.

For the streets, as follows: Removal of garbage, $10,355; street lamps, lighting, extinguishing, and gas, $125,000; repairs to street lamps, $1,000; erection of street lamps, $1,500 matches for use of lamp-lighters, $30; one superintendent, $800; four lamp. lighters, at $480 each, $1,920; one lamp-lighter, $120. Parking commission: one superintendent, $1,200; one assistant superintendent, $700; contingent expenses, including laborers, cart-hire, trees, tree-boxes, tree-straps, tree-stakes, planting and care of trees, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, $13,400. Current work of repairs of streets, alleys, country roads, &c.: one overseer of repairs, $2,000; one clerk, $1,900; four supervisors of roads, at $900 each, $3,600; labor, cart-hire, materials, and miscellaneous items, $75,500; sweeping, cleaning, and sprinkling streets and avenues, $35,100; cleaning alleys, $7,500; repairs to pumps, $2,500; cleaning Tiber sewer, $10,000; in all, 8326,455.

For miscellaneous expenses, as follows: Markets: one market master, $1,650; one market master, $1,500; two market masters, $1,800; contingent expenses, including gas, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $4,550; rent of market site and property yards, $1,175; hay scales, $200; rent of District offices, $6,000; general advertising, $7,000; miscella neous items, books to register of wills, printing checks, damages, and so forth, $6,500; in all, $30,375.

For the health department, as follows: One health officer, $3,000; six sanitary inspectors, at $1,200, $7,200; two food inspectors, at $1,200 each, $2,400; clerks, $7,000; one pound-master, $1,000; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, fuel, rent, disinfectants, and miscellaneous items, $3,800; in all, $24,000.

For the interest and sinking fund on the funded debt..

And there is hereby appropriated, out of the proportional sum which the United States may contribute toward the expenses of the District of Columbia in pursuance of the Act of Congress, approved June 11, 1878, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, and annually thereafter, such sums as will, with the interest thereon at the rate of 3.65 per centum per annum, be sufficient to pay the principal of the 3.65 bonds of the District of Columbia, issued under the act of Congress approved June 20, 1874, at maturity; which said sums the Secretary of the Treasury shall annually invest in said bonds at not exceeding the par value thereof; and all bonds so redeemed shall cease to bear interest and shall be cancelled and destroyed in the same manner that United States bonds are cancelled and destroyed.

For general contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia

All moneys appropriated under this act, together with all revenues of the District of Columbia from taxes or otherwise, shall be deposited, to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, in the Treasury, as required by the provisions of section four of an act approved June 11, 1878, and shall be drawn therefrom upon requisition of the Com. missioners of the District of Columbia, such requisitions specifying the appropriation upon which the same is drawn; and in no case shall such appropriations be exceeded, either in requisition or expenditure; and the accounts for all disbursements shall be made monthly to the accounting officers of the Treasury by the Auditor of the District of Columbia, upon vouchers certified by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as now required by law. And section two of an act approved March 3, 1877, entitled "An act for the support of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, and for other purposes" be and the same is hereby, repealed. Total.....

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For repair of harbor at Plymouth, Mass..

For the maintenance and annual repairs of the harbor at Provincetown, Mass

For improving the harbor of Hyannis, Mass

Of which sum $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in the removal of the wreck at that point.

For improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, R. I......

For improving Connecticut River below Hartford, Conn., including dredging between
Hartford and Middletown

For improving Taunton River, Mass.

For improving Little Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

For improving harbor at Stonington, Conn.

For improving harbor at Bridgeport, Conn..

For improving Thames River, Conn., to secure a fourteen-foot channel

For improving harbor at Norwalk, Conn

Of which sum not exceeding $1,500 shall be expended on the bar below the bridge.

For improving harbor at Port Jefferson, Long Island Sound, N. Y

For improving harbor at New Haven, Conn..

For improving Hudson River, N. Y..

For removing obstructions in East River and Hell Gate, N. Y.

For improving Echo Harbor, New Rochelle, N. Y.

Eor improving harbor at Plattsburg, N. Y., dredging

For improving Raritan River, N. J.

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For improving Superior Bay, Wis..
For improving Duluth Harbor, Minn
For improving Passaic River, N. J

For improving East Chester Creek, N. Y
For improving harbor at Burlington, Vt
For improving harbor at Swanton, Vt..

For improving Otter Creek, Vt

For constructing pier in Delaware Bay, near Lewes, Del.

For piers of ice-harbor at New Castle, Del.

For improving harbor at Wilmington, Del

For improving Schuylkill River, Pa...

For improving Delaware River below Bridesburg, Pa.

For improving Delaware River between Trenton and White Hill, N. J..

For the improvement of the navigation of the Allegheny River from the mouth of French
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For improving Rappahannock River, Va

For improving Great Kanawha River, W. Va..

For improving harbor at Norfolk, Va., and its approaches...

For improving the harbors and channels at Washington and Georgetown, District of Columbia

Of which sum $20,000 shall be expended in dredging the channel of the Potomac River between the Long Bridge and the United States Arsenal, and $30,000 shall be expended in Georgetown Harbor and Channel; and the whole of said sum of $50,000 is hereby directed to be so expended as to produce the greatest immediate benefit to navigation and commerce.

For improving Blackwater River, Va....

For improving Neuse River, N. C

For improving Hampton River, Va

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For improving harbor at Edenton, N. C.

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For improving harbor at Cedar Keys, Fla., including removal of wrecks..
For improving Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama

For improving Saint Augustin's Creek, Ga

For improving inside passage between Fernandina and Saint John's, Fla

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For improving Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama and Mississippi

For improving Alabama River, Ala.

For improving Chattahoochie River, Ga.

For improving Flint River, Ga

Of which sum $10,000 shall be expended on the Tombigbee above Columbus, and $20,000 on the Warrior and Tombigbee below Columbus.

For improving the Apalachicola River, Fla., including the slough connecting the Apalachicola with the Chippola River

For improving New River from Lead Mines, in Wythe County, Va, to mouth of Greenbrier..

For improving Pensacola Harbor, Fla..

For improving harbor at New Orleans, La

For deepening channel of Sabine Pass and at Blue Buck Bar, Tex....

For improving entrance to Galveston Harbor, Tex..

For improving Narrows of Sabine River above Orange, Tex., and to deepen the channel at the mouth of the Sabine River

For improving mouth of Trinity River, Tex

For improving mouth of Neches River, Tex..

For improving Passo Cavallo Inlet into Matagorda Bay, Tex

For examinations and surveys of South Pass of the Mississippi River: To ascertain the depth of water and width of channel secured and maintained from time to time by James B. Eads at the South Pass of the Mississippi River, and to enable the Secretary of War to report during the construction of the work the payments made from time to time, and the probable times of other payments, and to report during the construction of the work all important facts relating to the progress of the same, materials used, and the character and permanency with which the said jetties and auxiliary works are being constructed, as required by act approved March 3, 1875, and act approved June 19, 1878, which impose on the engineer officer the duty of certifying to the correctness of expenditures for labor, material, and so forth, amounting to $500,000, to be paid to Mr. Eads in monthly installments

For removing raft in Red River and closing Tones Bayou, La.

For removing obstructions from Red River, La

For improving Cypress Bayou, Texas and Louisiana.

For improving mouth of Red River, La...

For improving harbor and the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn..

For improving Mississippi River at and near Vicksburg, and protection of harbor at
Vicksburg, Miss....

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For improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana.
For improving Yazoo River, Miss..

For annual expense of gauging the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries:
Continuing observation of the rise and fall of the river and its chief tributaries, as re-
quired by joint resolution of February 21, 1871

For improving Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers: Removing snags, sand-bars, wrecks, and other obstructions, and correcting and deepening the channel.

of which sum $100,000 shall be expended on the Mississippi River, $60,000 shall be expended on the Missouri River, and $30,000 shall be expended on the Arkansas River. For improving Mississippi River from Saint Paul to Des Moines Rapids...

Provided, That not exceeding $20,000 thereof may be used by the Secretary of War in his discretion in making a practical test of the flume invented by M. J. Adams, the said test to be made under the supervision and direction of said Adams, but without compensation to said Adams for his services; And provided further, That such test shall not be made until the right shall be secured to the United States to use said flume, in the event of the favorable result of said test, upon terms satisfactory to the Secretary of War.

For survey of Missouri River from its mouth to Fort Benton, Mont

For improving Missouri River at or near Fort Leavenworth

For improvement of Arkansas River, between Fort Smith, Ark., and Wichita, Kans.
For improving Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa

For improving Missouri River at Atchison, Kans.

For improving Missouri River opposite Saint Joseph

For improving Missouri River at Eastport, Iowa, and at Nebraska City, Nebr.

For improving Missouri River at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and at Omaha, Nebr

For improving Missouri River above mouth of the Yellowstone River

For improving the Mississippi River between the mouths of the Illinois and Ohio Rivers.
Of which sum $15,000 shall be expended between the mouths of the Illinois and Mis.
souri Rivers, $30,000 between the foot of Dickey's Island and the mouth of the Ohio
River, and $8,000 between Islands Numbers Fourteen and Fifteen, near the town of
Kaskaskia, Ill.

For improving Upper Mississippi River: Operating snagboat......

For improving Mississippi River from Des Moines Rapids to mouth of the Illinois River.
For improving White River, Arkansas

For removing bar in the Mississippi River opposite Dubuque, Iowa.

For improving Rush Chute and the harbor of Burlington, Iowa.

For improving harbor at Fort Madison, Iowa

For operating the canal at Des Moines Rapids

For improving Rock Island Rapids, Mississippi River

For improving Des Moines Rapids

For improving Galena River and Harbor, Illinois.

For improving Saint Croix River below Taylor's Falls.

For improving Red River of the North, Minnesota and Dakota, exclusively for dredging.
For improving Illinois River

For improving Cumberland River below Nashville, Tenn..

For improving Fourche Le Fevre River, Arkansas.

For improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tenn...

Of which sum $18,000 shall be expended from Nashville to the Kentucky line, $6,000
from the Kentucky line to Smith's Shoals, and $15,000 at Smith's Shoals.
For improving Tennessee River above Chattanooga..

For improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, including Muscle Shoals, and Duck
River Shoal, and the Shoal at Reynoldsburg

Provided, That whenever, in the prosecution or maintenance of the work of improving
Tennessee River between Decatur and Florence, in the State of Alabama, it may be
necessary, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, to take possession of any lands for
canals or cut-offs, and a reasonable price for the same can be agreed upon between the
owner of said lands and the officer in charge of said work on the part of the United
States, the Secretary of War may authorize the purchase of said lands: Provided, That
in case the owners of said lands shall refuse to sell the same at a reasonable price, then
the price to be paid shall be determined, and the title and jurisdiction procured, in the
manner prescribed by the laws of the State of Alabama: And provided, That in either
case the entire cost of such lands to the United States shall not exceed $10,000.
In consideration of the proposition of the Buffalo Bayou Ship Channel Company to turn
over their work at Morgan's Point, and to surrender their charter granted by the
legislature of Texas, and the rights accruing thereunder, to the United States, which
proposition is now on file in the War Department, and is hereby accepted, the govern-
ment hereby adopts the line surveyed from the cut in Red Fish Bar to the cut in Mor-
gan's Point, and the sum of $80,000 is hereby appropriated for the improvement of that
line

Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended until said Buffalo Bayou Ship Channel Company shall file with the Secretary of War in manner and form to be by him approved, their acceptance of this provision of this act.

For improving Coosa River, Georgia and Alabama...

For improving Hiwassee River, Tennessee.....

For improving Oostenaula and Coosawattee Rivers, Georgia.

For improving Ocmulgee River, Georgia.

For improving Oconee River, Georgia.

For an ice harbor at the mouth of the Muskingum River, Ohio..

For improving the Ohio River...

Of which sum $50,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in the removal of obstructions at Grand Chain, and not exceeding $100,000 on the Davis Island Dam.

For improving Little Kanawha River, West Virginia, dredging, removing obstructions, and for wing-dams, if required..

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For improving Guyandotte River, West Virginia

For improving harbor at Ontonagon, Mich

Of which sum $15,000 shall be exdended in the construction of piers, and $2,000 in redging.

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For improving Eagle Harbor, Michigan..

For improving harbor at Marquette, Mich., for repairs

For improving harbor at Menomonee, Wis

For improving harbor at Green Bay, Wis..

For harbor of refuge at entrance of Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wis.

For improving harbor at Ahnapee, Wis

For improving harbor at Two Rivers, Wis.

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For improving harbor at White River, Mich.

For improving Saint Mary's River and Saint Mary's Falls Canal

Of which sum $200,000 shall be expended on the canal, and $100,000 shall be expended on the survey and improvement of the river toward obtaining a depth in present chan

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For improving harbor at Grand Haven, Mich

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For improving harbor at South Haven, Mich

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For improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, N. Y.

For improving Oakland Harbor, Cal

But this sum shall not be available until the right of the United States to the bed of the estuary and training-walls of this work is secured, free of expense, to the government, in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War; and if said right shall not have been so secured by September 1, 1879, said sum shall be returned into the Treasury. For improving harbor at Little Sodus Bay, N. Y..

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For improving Lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers, from Portland, Oreg., to the sea.
For improving Upper Willamette River

For improving Upper Columbia River, including Snake River

For constructing canal around the Cascades of Columbia River

For continuing the survey and observation of currents at the bar of the mouth of the
Columbia River

For protection of river bank at Fort Brown, Tex

For examinations and surveys for reservoir at sources of the Mississippi, Saint Croix,
Chippewa, and Wisconsin Rivers: completing survey
For improving the entrance to Coos Bay and harbor of, Oreg

For improving Lower Clearwater River, Idaho

For improving Elk River, W. Va., the sum of $5,000, appropriated by the act of June
18, 1878, is directed to be expended in the removal of obstructions to open navigation
from Braxton Court House to the mouth of Big Sandy: Provided, however, That not ex-
ceeding $500 thereof may be expended for the improvement of steamboat navigation at
Jarrett's Ford, but in no way to obstruct navigation by boats and rafts.
For improving Scuppernong River, N. C.

For improving Mispillian Creek, Del.

For improving Delaware River, at or near Cherry Island Flats..

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