For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, ten thousand dollars;
In all, eighteen thousand four hundred and five dollars.
Transporting prisoners. Transportion of prisoners: For conveying prisoners to the workhouse, two thousand dollars.
Hospitals, etc.
Medical Charities.
Freedmen's Hospital. For the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, as follows:
For subsistence, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars;
For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; two assistant surgeons, clerk, assistant clerk, pharmacist, assistant pharmacist, steward, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, sixteen thousand dollars;
For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, fifty thousand dollars.
Columbia Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars.
For minor repairs to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, two thousand dollars.
Children's Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Children's Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars.
Homeopathic Hospital. For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Emergency Hospital. For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, maintenance, fifteen thousand dollars.
Eastern Dispensary. For Eastern Dispensary, maintenance, two thousand dollars.
Women's Clinic. For the Women's Clinic, maintenance, one thousand dollars.
Home for Incurables. For the Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, four thousand dollars.
Care of children.
child-caring institutions.
Board of Children's Guardians.
Vol. 27, p. 268.
Board of Children's Guardians: For the Board of Children's Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including salaries of agents, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars, expenses in placing and visiting children, and all office and sundry expenses, ten thousand dollars;
Feeble-minded children. For maintenance of feeble-minded children, twelve thousand dollars;
Care of children. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than one thousand dollars to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than three hundred dollars for burial of children dying while under charge of the Board, forty thousand dollars;
In all, for Board of Children's Guardians, sixty-two thousand dollars.
Hart Farm school.
The Board of Children's Guardians is hereby directed to contract for the care and maintenance of sixty wards of the Board at the Hart