August 23, 1871. ized to contract with CHAP. LXXIV.-An Act to provide for recording wills and other papers in the office of the register of wills left unrecorded by the late register of wills, James R. O'Bierne. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Governor author- Columbia, That the Governor be, and he is hereby, authorregister of wills for ized to enter into an agreement or contract with Amos wills, &c., as were Webster, the present register of wills, to make a proper gister and not prop- record of such wills, inventories, and other papers or doc recording of such received by late re erly recorded. Proviso. uments as were received by James R. O'Bierne, late regis ter of wills, and not properly recorded by him: Provided, The making of the said records shall not exceed the price allowed by law to the register of wills for recording like documents; and the attorney of the District of Columbia late register fees is hereby authorized to collect from the said James R. paid him for record- O'Bierne the amount of fees paid to him for recording the aforesaid wills. Attorney of District to collect from ing said wills. August 23, 1871. Tax levy for 1872. Washington. Approved August 23, 1871. CHAP. LXXV.-An Act imposing taxes for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, That, for the support of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes herein stated, there shall be levied on all taxable property in the city of Washington an aggregate tax of one dollar and seventy cents on each hundred dollars of the assessed value of said property; on like property in the city of Georgetown a tax of ninety-five cents; on the same in the Washington County of Washington, outside of the limits of said cities, a tax of eighty-five cents on each hundred dollars of the assessed value of said property. Georgetown. county. Taxes collected in town and Washing kept separate. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the taxes collected Washington, George from the inhabitants of Washington, Georgetown, and the ton county to be county of Washington, by virtue of this act, shall be kept separate by the collector, and so that his books will at all times show the amount collected and uncollected in each of said localities; and the money thus collected shall be as the general fund. regarded and known as the general fund of said District: Provided, That the local expenses of Washington, Georgetown, and the county shall be paid out of said fund in the proportion the taxable property in each of said localities bears to the whole taxable property of said District. And to be known Proviso. a SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not apply to parsonages, churches, or the grounds on which church or parsonage may be erected; nor shall it apply to any burial grounds owned by churches and where the proceeds are used for church purposes. Parsonages, churches, and their tain burial grounds, grounds, and cerexempt. Penalty to be added to taxes unpaid 1872. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That on all taxes remaining unpaid after the first day of January, eighteen after January 1, hundred and seventy-two, a penalty of three per centum for each month after said date shall be added, until the same shall be paid or advertised for sale for taxes, and said penalty shall be added to the amount due in tax-sale list. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum named in the first section of this act shall be divided as follows: act. On property in the city of Washington: For District fund, seventy cents. For lighting the city with gas, fifteen cents. For Metropolitan police, twenty cents. For the support of the public schools, including colored schools, and for the erection of school-houses, sixty cents. For redemption of bonds of the corporation of Washington, ten cents. On property in the city of Georgetown: For District fund, thirty-five cents. For lighting the city with gas, fifteen cents. For Metropolitan police, twenty cents. For the support of the public schools, including colored schools, and for the erection of school-houses, twenty-five cents. On property in the county of Washington outside of the limits of said cities: For District fund, thirty cents. For Metropolitan police, fifteen cents. For the support of the public schools, including colored schools, and for the erection of school-houses, forty cents. Approved August 23, 1871. Division of tax collected under this CHAP. LXXVI.—An Act authorizing the Board of Public Works to condemn alleys in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and roads and streets in the county of Washington. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, That the Board of Public Works be, and they are hereby, authorized to condemn and open alleys in the August 23, 1871. Alleys to be conupon petition of maholders interested. demned and opened jority of property 1 Board of Public Works empowered cities of Washington and Georgetown upon the presentation of a plat of the alley to be opened, accompanied by a petition of a majority of the property-holders interested in said alley. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Board of to condemn and Public Works shall also have power to condemn and open streets in Washing roads and streets in the county of Washington in con open roads and ton county. formity with section eight of the act of Congress, approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An act to define the powers and duties of the Levy Court of the county of Washington, District of Columbia, in regard to roads and other purposes.' Approved August 23, 1871. August 23, 1871. defraying expenses CHAP. LXXVII.—An Act making appropriations for defraying the expenses of the Board of Health. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Appropriation for Columbia, That the following sums, needed for defraying of Board of Health. the expenses of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia for the current year, commencing first of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and ending first of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, namely: For fuel and lights, three hundred dollars; for furniture and repairs, one thousand dollars; for books, stationery, postage, advertising, and printing blanks, one thousand dollars; for sanitary work in the cities of Washington and Georgetown and throughout the District of Columbia, including the abatement of all nuisances injurious to health, the removal of dead animals, the prevention of the sale of unwholesome food, the employment of necessary agents, and contingent expenses of the board, twenty-five thousand dollars; for disinfectants, two thousand dollars: Provided, That the Warrants to be money hereby appropriated shall be paid out but by ernor and comptrol- the treasurer of the District of Columbia, upon warrants drawn by the Governor and comptroller of said District : And provided further, That none of said money shall be Money not to be drawn or paid until after the work has been performed done or material and the materials furnished for which such money shall be paid: And provided further, That no money appropriated by this act for any specific purpose shall be drawn or paid out for any other purpose whatever-for vaccine mat Proviso. drawn by the Gov ler. Proviso. paid till work is furnished. Proviso. Specific appropriations not to be otherwise applied. ter, two hundred dollars; for quarantine expenses, including the means to be employed for the prevention of the introduction and spread of contagious and infectious and epidemic diseases, one thousand dollars; for payment of clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; and for payment of messenger, nine hundred dollars. Appropriation continued. ject to approval by Governor. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all officers or Appointments subagents of the board shall be appointed by said board, subject to the approval of the Governor. Approved August 23, 1871. CHAP. LXXVIII.-An Act directing the recorder of deeds to number certificates of incorporation recorded in his office. August 23, 1871. Recorder of deeds to number benevo Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, That the recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia shall number benevolent societies or associations lent associations. in the order in which the certificates of incorporation of said societies or associations have been, or may hereafter be, filed for record in his office. Approved August 23, 1871. CHAP. LXXIX.—An Act appropriating ten thousand dollars for sweeping certain avenues and streets. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of the Washington fund, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works, to sweep and cleanse Pennsylvania avenue from First to Fifteenth streets west, and Fifteenth street to New York avenue, and M street from Fifteenth to New Jersey avenue, for the period of one year. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from the necessity arising to have the work done immediately, this act shall go into effect on and after its passage. Approved August 23, 1871. CHAP. LXXX.—An Act making an appropriation to defray the expenses of the Board of Public Works incurred prior to the fifteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, That the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, or August 23, 1871. Appropriation for sweeping certain avenues and streets. Act to take effect at once. August 23, 1871. defray expenses of Works, incurred Appropriation to so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is Board of Public hereby, appropriated to defray the expenses of the Board prior to July 15, 1871. of Public Works prior to the fifteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, incurred in advertising, printing, binding, stationery, incidental repairs, legal expenses, and for pay of employés, clerks, and watchmen. Approved August 23, 1871. August 23, 1871. pay K. C. Linewea furnished to the CHAP. LXXXI.—An Act for the relief of K. C. Lineweaver. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Appropriation to Columbia, That the sum of sixty-six dollars and fifty-five ver for medicines cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of the general fund to pay K. C. Lineweaver for medicines furnished to the poor of the Sixth ward from the first day of June to the fifteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, inclusive. poor. August 23, 1871. laid on Vermont avenue. Approved August 23, 1871. CHAP. LXXXII.—An Act authorizing the construction of a water-main on Vermont avenue, between K and M streets north. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Water-main to be Columbia, That the Board of Public Works be, and they are hereby, authorized and requested to cause a watermain to be laid on Vermont avenue, between K and M streets north; the work to be done in accordance with existing laws; and to defray the expense thereof a sum sufficient be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of the water fund, to be reimbursed as provided for by law. Approved August 23, 1871. Appropriation. August 23, 1871. pay contractor for ment in front of St. Ann's Infant CHAP. LXXXIII.-An Act for the relief of St. Ann's Infant Orphan Asylum. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Appropriation to Columbia, That the sum of eight hundred and twenty-four laying foot pave- dollars and sixty cents be, and the same is hereby, approproperty owned by priated out of the general fund to enable the Governor to pay the contractor for laying a foot pavement in front of the property owned by the St. Ann's Infant Asylum, for which said asylum has been illegally assessed, and that the collector be, and is hereby, directed to erase said charges from his books against the asylum. Approved August 23, 1871. |