VURTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Suss. I. Ch. 227. 1884. 125 done under contracts authorized by appropriations, shall be paid out of the sums appropriated for the work, and for the time actually engaged thereon ; and the Commissioners of the District, in their annual reports to Congress, shall report the number of such overseers and inspectors, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation. For fuel, ice, gas, repairs, insurance, and general necessary expenses Fuel, iw, BwofDistrict offices and markets, Eve thousand dollars: Provided, That P¢·<w€·~w· property belonging to the District of Columbia may be insured in ad- Insurance of vance for periods of five years or less, Pl`°P°l't5'» °*°· Fon Iiurnovmmnurs Ann Ruriuns, Arm ron CARE Arm Burma or Bnrnons. _ For repairs to concrete pavements, fifty thousand dollars; for mate- Rgpakg of paw,. rials for permit work, fifty thousand dollars; for continuation of sur- ments, etc. veys of the District of Columbia with reference to the extension of various avenues to the District line, five thousand dollars; for Boundary intercepting and lateral sewers, one hundred thousand dollars; ior work on sundry avenues and streets, and replacement of pavements on streets named in Appendix J. j. annexed to the estimates of the Commissioners of the District for eighteen hundred and eighty-five, two hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars; in all, four hundred and sixty· eight thousand dollars; and hereafter in executing public works the Commissioners are authorized to make separate contracts for materials and for labor, and the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are authorized to settle the accounts of the Commissioners since July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for materials so purchased. For ordinary care of Benning’s Anacostia, and Chain Bridges, two Benning’¤, Ana thousand dollars; and for repairing and maintaining bridges under the %°*!*·*°· *“‘d Cham control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, five hundred °dg°°' dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. WASHINGTON AQUEDUGT. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand Washington dollars; and hereafter the lessees of the Alexandria Canal shall keep A•l¤¤d¤<=*· in good repair at least two spans of the Aqueduct Bridge, so that no leakage or wastage of water shall occu1·. Fon MALNTAINHWG INSTITUTIONS OF CHARITY, BEFORMATOBIES, AND Parsons. For Washington Asylum : For one commissioner and intendant, one Washingtonluy thousand two hundred dollars; one matron, six hundred dollars; one l¤¤¤· visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars ; one resident phy- sician, four hundred and eighty dollars; one engineer, six hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, three hundred dollars; one overseer, eight hundred dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; one baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; five overseers, at six hundred dollars each; four watchmen, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; one blacksmith, two hundred and forty dollars; one hostler, one hundred and twenty dollars; one ambulance driver, one hundred and twenty dollars; one cook, at one hundred and twenty dollars; two cooks, at sixty dollars each; five nurses, at sixty dollars each; for contingent expenses, including improvements, provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, shoes, clothing, hardware, dry-goods, medicines, and other necessary items, thirtynve thousand dollars ; repairs to almshouse, including new blinds, painting, and putting in gas-pipe and fixtures, and moving and retltting stable, two thousand five hundred dollars; dump-cars, iron rails, ties, switches, joints, and spikes, to construct two thousand five hundred feet of movable track for the purpose of grading streets and
