Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-06
THE DISTRICT IN CONGRESS

Mr.. Wiley, to- day, from the Senate District
Committee, reported back the bill to incorpor-
ate the District of Columbia Canal and Sew.
erage bill, with sundry amendments among
them as follows: The name of VIM H. Noble
OF Minnesota, inserted amongst the incorpora.
tors. The second section Is amended so AS to
authorize the company to construct a canal
and sewer between the Anacostia, from a point
thereon near its junction with the Potomac
river, 10 point on the old canal, near Eir-
ginia avenue, thence along and in the
old canal to western limits of the CITY,
and thence to the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal at or near Georgetown: the said
canal or sewer, when constructed, shall
constitute and remain a Gepositary and duct
for the sewerage Of the city of Washington
and from the property OF the United States
therein: and the corporate authorities of the
city OF Washington shall always have unre-
stricted and full power TO determine where
the sewers of said city shall connect with the
said canal and sewer in which said connection
shall be made, so as the manner of making the
connection shall not injure or impair the bank
OF said canal and sewer where the connection
shall be made, nor shall the company make
any charge or receive any compensation for
any connection OF sewers. 1t is redaired that
at least twenty per cent. of the capital
stock shall be subscribed before the
company shall be authorized to commence op-
erations. Restrictions are put upon the com
pany in the matter of condemning property
and the company is required, within thirty
days OF the passage of this act 70 cause a con-
and upon the said old canal, and to flow
through the same from the western corporate
limits OF the city Of Washington to the Ana
costa river, and to continue SO to flow until
the goth day OF October next: IN default whore.
OF the said cOrporators of said company
shall forfeit and be jointly and seyerally
liable to pay TO the United States the
sum Of $4,000, recoverable on motion made by
the Mayor OF the city of Washington. or any
other person. after ten days notice thereof, duIy
served IN the Supreme Court OF the District of
Columbia, or any other Court having compe-
tent jurisdiction, and unless the said canal and
sewer shall have been fully constructed on or
against the LIST day OF June, 1S61, or in case the
said Company shall, thereafter, fail TO keep the
SAID canal and sewer in good repair, or clear
OF all sediment and deposits, for three consecu-
tive months, this franchise is forfeited
Mr.. Pomeroy introduced bill to incorporate
the First Congregational Society of Washing
ton, with Oliver G. Howard. Silas II. Hodges
Daniel L. Eaton, Henry A. Brewster, Charles
d. Bliss, Ezra l.. Stevens, b. r. Morris, Dan'l
Tyler, l.. Deane, s. G. Pomeroy, and Calvin S
Maltoon, corporators. Referred to District
Committee.
Yesterday, the following bills, already passed
oy the Senate, We're taken from the Speakers
table and referred to the House Committee on
the District OF Columba:-An act TO lncorpo-
rate the Women's Hospital Association of the
District OF Columbia; an act TO preserve eyI.
dence OF marriage in the District of Columbia:
an act to incorporate the National Safe Deposit
company OF Washington, in the District of
Columbia; an act to prescribe the mode OF set
Ting the accounts Of the Clerk of the Supreme
Court OF the District of Columbia an act ex-
empting the property of debtors in the District
OF Columbia from levy, attachment, or sale on
executlon an act enlarging the powers of the
Levy Court Of the County of Washin gton in
the District of Columbia; and an act TO incor-
porate the Potomac Navigation and Transpor.
tation Company of the District of Columbia