Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-04-15
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OF GENERAL PROVISIONS.
Nheu yer in this act provision is made
ior ne appointment or removal of any off,
Ger; he successors OF such officer respect.
NeIs are TO be appointed and removed in
provided; and each officer shall continue 10
bod the office until a successor is appointed
or elected, and qualified 10 enter upon the
All salaries and compensation shall be
payable monthly. All such salaries and
comps nsation, and all payments for property
taken or damages done, or for rem or other
public purposes hereunder, shall be paid by
The Treasurer of the United States on war
rants drawn by the accounting officers OF
said District, and couptersigned by the Pres
ident OF said Council. No voucher or account
shall be audited until examined and referred
TO The Auditor by said President of said
Council, and no requisition of any kind shall
he no authority hereunder to cause, author
lie, or allow expenses. liabilities, disburse-
nerts, contracts, or obligations in excess, In
or for any year, OF the amount appropriated,
or otherwise authorized by law OF Congress
for that ear or subject-matter.
Any official position that may need TO be
hlled under this act, which is not therein
specned, and every new office that may be
creat ted by law In said Department, anu all
cases for recommendation for appOin TIM IA
or dismissal that may by reason thereof
arise, shall, in the absence OF express provis-
lon 10 the contrary, be filled and ma lie in
general conformity 10 the provision of this
act; and every provision hereof shall, as far
as in subject appropriate, be applicable GO
the same, and TO the duties OF such persons
and Ulcers.
TIE act of the legislative assembly OF the
District of Columbia entitled IAN act regu-
lat1Bg hackney carriages, c. bs, aud for other
purposes" approved August I'D. 1871, shall
nave force as If herein embodied: PTC cjj1i.
That said Council shall lave pOw,r ID All
jest, TX, and reg ulate, from time 10 tim9, the
charges for such hackney carriages ant
other vehicles.
Any person desiring to test the legality o,
the action OF said COunc in adopting any
ordiI ance or regulation materially affecting
such person may, on petition, apply for an
order To bring the same before the Supreme
Court OF said District at a special term, by
an order 10 the nature OF certiOrari; and
such court, on notice TO said Council, shall
near and decide only whether said action
regulation, or ordinance, so far as it relates
70 the ma ter so before the court, was war
raDted by law.
Any officer of said Government, or person
employed in It's service, who shall wilIfuIly
violate or ev8de any of the provisions of
ms act, or convert any of the public prop
erty TO bis own use, or knowingly permit
any other person so TO convert 1T or by gross
ard culpable neglect of duty allow the same
10 be lost 10 said District, shall be deemed
guilty OF mlsdemeanOr, and In addition
shall, on conviction, forfeit his office, and be
excluded forever after from receiving or
holding any office under said government:
and any person who shall willfully swear
falsely in any oath or affirmation required
by this act shall be guilty of perjury. And
every officer herein required to make any
Official report or record, who shall make any
false statement therein, knowing the same
TO be false, shall be guilty of mi3demeanor
The heads of Bureaus and each officer re-
CURED hereunder to keep q record, except
the Police Bureau, shall, with reasonable
furnish to any tax payer desir-
ing the same, true and certified copy of
any book, account or paper kept by such
bureau or ofhcer, or such part thereof as
vance, of five cents for every one hundred
words thereof by the person demanding the
same. All books, accounts and papers in
any Department or Bureau thereof, except
The Police Bureau, shall at all times be open
TO the inspection OF any Taxpayer, subject
TO any reasonable regulations In regard to
the time and manner of such inspection as
such Bureau or officer may make in regard
10 the same, In order to secure the safety of
such books, accounts and papers, and the
proper use of them by the Bureau or Off GER
Nothing In this act contained shall be con-
strued 10 authorize anything which the Fed
eTal Constitution prohibits being done by
any State.
All provisions OF law applicable to the in
ternal affairs of sPid District or to its gov
eminent or officers, and which are inconsis-
tent with the provisions of this act, are
hereby repealed; and the limits of the city of
Washington shall be conterminous with
those OF said District; and all existing politi-
cal divisions of said District are hereby a0ol-
ished, except so far as their continued exis-
teHce may be necessary for the purpose of
giving validity to, or securing the means
for, the payment or discharge of any obliga-
lions or liza bilities contracted within or In
the name OF either said political divisions;
and in any suit which shall be to or securing
the means for the payment or discharge OF
any obligations or liabilities contracted
within Orin the name OF either OF said politi-
cal division. But any pending sutton exist
Ing claim or liability affecting the whole or
any division of sad District shall be pre-
or -. and coiI
Or prosecuted by or In toe name of or against
said District, for the benefit of the true par
lies in interest; aud I'm any suit or proce6 l.
ing against said District, or where notice is
seI vice shall be made either upon
1re OF said Council or upon the Secretary OF
said Council.
This act shall go fully into effect on the 3Oth
isy OF June, 1876; but all those parts of the
- me hich provide for the appointment of
"a Council aud for other appointments by
lhe President, for the appointment by said
Council OF Secretary, OF members of any
mead of Bureau, or of other officers TO be
appointed on recommendations made to said
Council, or which provide for any appoint
neEt by any court or justice, or which relate
1poD said government at the last-named
late, but not In such manner as to interfere
meanwhile with the authority of the present
government in said District, shall take
or term herein provided for shall
until the 30th day of June, 1876,
except the terms and salaries OF said Coun-
I'll and of their Secretary, which shalt re-
'pectively begin when said officers shall be
appointed. And said Council shall frame
suitable ordinances and regulations for car
-yiDg this act into effect, and shall file the
anne in the office of the clerk of the Supreme
Court OF said District before the 10Th day of
une next, and they shall severally in force
rom the 30th June, 1876, until abrogated
Dr. amended by said Council. And the
present Commissioners for said District
may cause the publication and dis
in said District of such
regulations and ordinances, in q man
ner which. in the opinion of the Commits
slopers, will NEST effectually secure adequate
publicity thereof. And in the discharge OF
The duty hereby imposed, said Commission
FRS are authorized 10 employ such assistance
rs they NAV deem ad visable, at an expense
including such publication, not exceeding
two thousand five hundred dollars; and said
sum, or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary is hereby appropriat for that purpose.
Il is hereby the duty of said Council to cause
% be proposed by competent persons, and so
ar as is practicable In consultation with the
Judges of said Supreme court, and to trans
nit TO Congress, at the opening OF the next
regular session, such digest and revision of
III existing laws, applicable to said District
md such drafts for additional or amended
provisions ito be clearly Indicated as taken
together and in connection with this act)
'hall constitute a harmonious, systematic
and adequate code of laws applicable to said
District or TO the citizens thereof. But there
Deed not be incorporated in said code any of
nose laws OF the Uni ted States which have