APPENDIX B.-Summary statement showing the amount paid, &c.—Continued. Aggregate. G Grand aggre. gate. SINKING-FUND COMMISSIONERS. Redemption of county school bonds.... 2, 550 001 Interest on District bonds......... .........440, 128 34 Interest on bonds of the late corporation of Wash 64, 239 74 . Interest on bonds of the late corporation of Georgetown.... 15,501 30 Interest on water-certificates ........ 13, 308 00 Total interest to sinking-fund commissioners. 533, 177 38 Interest on 3.65 bonds due February 1, 1876, by transfer check No. 11. 198, 622 79 Total interest on bonds ........ 731, 800 17 Aggregate for redemption and interest.... t................................. 734, 350 17 1, 653 79 Contingent expenses ......... 395 40 Total for Eastern and Northeastern markets... 2, 049 19 APPENDIX B.-Summary statement showing the amount paid, &c.—Continued. Aggregate. Grand aggre- Washington: Lighting, cleaning, extinguishing, and for gas.. 126, 035 77 162 42 Erection of street-lamps... 3, 629 08 Lettering street-lamps .... 130 00 12, 612 34 Repairs to street-lamps 278 92 Erection of street-lamps.... 565 40 Lettering street-lamps .. 150 00 Contingent expenses in lighting street-lamps... 48 75 Compensation of lamplighters ... 1, 920 00 Aggregate for street-lamps and gas ... B6, 678 69 1, 844 33 Repairs to concrete pavements. 10, 201 69 Rebuilding James Creek Canal. Erection of public urinals ..... 1,349 41 Laying water-main on Pennsylvania avenue 24,988 86 Laying water main to new jail....... 467 00 Apportionment to parking-commission.. 20, 131 11 alleys, &c ......... MISCELLANEOUS. 8, 250 75 Printing checks on United States Treasury. 230 40 Auctioneer's fees for selling real estate, &c 110 00 Expenses in condemning alleys ...... 325 02 APPENDIX B.-Summary statement showing the amount paid, Sc.-Continued. 84, 480 05 80 00 3, 301 00 3, 200 00 MISCELLANEOUS-Continued. ander act of Congress approved March 3, 1875 ... Payments to register of wills for list of transfers and for books .... Abstement of nuisances...... Payment of special taxes on District property.... Refund amount deposited by levelers for instru. menis........................................ Aggregate for above miscellaneous ......... APPENDIX C.-Statement of appropriations made by Congress, showing balances on hand December 1, 1875, amount since appropriated, amount erpended from December 1, 1875, to Vorember 30, 1876, and balances unexpended November 30, 1876. Paymeat debts fire department, act June 23, 1874........ $49 Payment of laborers, act June 23, 1874... 217 35 $217 35 296 31 4.00 292 31 Kelief of the poor, act March 3, 1875.. 400 00 400 00 Maintenance fire department, act March 3, 1875.. 25, 000 0025, 000 00 Maintenance fire department, act July 31, 1876.... 25, 000 0025, 000 90 936, 545 15 936, 252 35 292 80 JOHN T. VINSON, Auditor and Comptroller. ALLTUR AND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington, December 2, 1676. III.-REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING. FUND. 998, 700 OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING-FUND, Washington, D. C., November 29, 1876. GENTLEMEN: The operations of this office since our last report have been as follows: Of the 3.65 bonds issued underact of Congress approved 20th June, 1874, there were outstanding at the date of our last report........ ....... $12, 056, 300 Since then there has been issued in exchange for certificates of the board of audit, until the conversion was stopped by the action of Congress ........... 1, C86,950 Making total issue to date...... 13,743, 250 of the special-assessment 8 per cent. bonds secured by assessment on the property there was outstanding per last report................. $1, 142, 650 There has been redeemed and canceled since then, having been received in payment of special assessments......... 143, 950 Leaving amount outstanding .. No interest has been paid on these bonds since the 1st of July, 1874, but in receiving them in settlement of assessments interest is allowed on them to the date of such payment. There are in tbe hands of this commission, as security for the nltimate redemption and extinction of the above-named amount of bonds, assessments amounting to (exclusive of the interest due on them).... $755, 007 98 To this should be added the amount of bills recently issued and remaining unpaid, for which certificates will be deposited with us .......... 481, 669 72 Making a total of ......................... ....................... 1,236, 757 70 Of the funded debt of the District of Columbia there was outstanding at the date of our last report ....................................... $8,441, 113 43 This bas since been reduced by redemption of bonds, as follows: And of stocks, as follows: 35, 537 22 Leaving outstanding at this time. .. 8, 405, 576 21 The bonds referred to above, as well as coupons paid to date, have been sent to the Secretary of the Treasury to be destroyed by burning, as required by law. The interest of the various obligations of the District, as above stated, has been promptly met from funds turned over to us from your honorable board. The early attention of Congress should be called to the necessity of appropriate legislation to carry out the pledge upon the part of the United States in section 7 of an act of Congress approved June 20, 1874, entitled "An act for the government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," and to prevent default or delay in the payment of the interest on the bonds authorized by said act, which interest is by an act approved February 20, 1875, (amending said act of June 20, 1874,) made payable at the Treasury of the United States. Permanent provision should be made for the payment by the Secre. tary of the Treasury of the interest on these bonds (known as the 3.65 per centum bonds of the District of Columbia) as the same matures. . We beg to renew our recommendation that the functions of this commission be transferred, by appropriate legislation, to the Treasury of the United States, where the funds of the District are now kept, its securities finally destroyed, and where the transfer of the 3.65 bonds is DOW made. The operations of this office for the past year show a satisfactory steadiness in the financial affairs of the District, economy in the man. agement of its affairs, and a gradual approximation to that simplicity of financial method which sbould, in our opinion, characterize the transactions of this District. We transmit herewith an estimate of the amount required to pay the interest of the funded debt for the next fiscal year, showing the amount required to be $516,895.57, or $1,465.31 less than last year; of which amount $348,600 is gold and $168,295.57 currency. The interest on the 3.65 bonds being paid directly from the Treasury of the United States, as ordered by Congress, no estimate therefor is submitted by us. HORACE J. FROST, Secretary, for Commissioners of the Sinking.Fund. To the Hon. COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Comparatire echibit of the funded indebtedness of the District of Columbia and of the late cor porations of Washington and Georgelown, December 1, 1874, and December 1, 1876. Kind of bonds. Outstanding, as per ex. Outstanding, December 1, 1876. Of the District of Columbia Perthanent-improvement coupon-bonds, issued under an act of assembly, approved July 10, 1871; 6 per cent. gold interest.... $4,000,000 00 ........... $4,000,000 00 Permanent-improvement coupon.bonds, issued under acts of assembly, approved June 23 and 25, 1873; 7 per ....... .... 790, 000 00 $120, 000 00 670, 000 00 Chicago-relief coupon-bonds, issued under an act of as sembly, approved October 18, 1871; 7 per cent. cur. 100, 000 00 100, 000 00 Market-stock coupon-bonds, issued under an act of as. sembly, approved August 23, 1871; 7 per cent. cur. 152, 400 00 152, 400 00 Water-stock coupon-bonds, issued under acts of assem bly, approved July 20, 1871, and June 26, 1873; 7 per 485, OCO 00 3 9, 000 00 446, 000 00 County-school coupon-bonds, issued under an act of ay. sembly, approved June 26, 1873; 7 per cent. currency 18, 200 00 16,250 00 1, 950 00 Making..... 5, 545, 600 00 275, 250 00 5, 270, 350 00 Of the late corporation of Washington Funding-loan coupon-bonds, issued under an act of Con. gress, approved May 8, 1872; 6 per cent. gold interest. 1, 1, 150, 000 00 Funding loan coupon-bonds, issued under an act of as. sembly, approved June 20, 1872 ; 6 per cent. gold inter 1, 650, 000 00 990, 000 00 660, 000 00 Ten-year (Bowen) coupon-bonds, issued under an act of Congress, approved July 27, 1868; 6 per cent. currency interest ............................................. 351, 400 00 / 66,400 00 / 285,000 00 |