The evening times., 1896-07-23
.W0RKIM6 on his REPORT
Health Officer Woodward Will
Treat Of Laws for Doctors.
NEW MEASURES MUST BE BOUGHT
The Commissioners VIII, After Mon
day Next, Rtgidly Enforce the Act
of COngress-COntracto Cabell's
Case Brings A bout Anew Ruling for
the Auditor'sGu uidance.

Health Officer Woodward is at work on
the draft Of the regulations required un-
der the late Congressional enactment for
the Incorporation and government OF med
icai and dental colleges in the District.
The report will treat OF the rules for
carrying out the provisions requiring a
registration by the officers of such colleges
and the application for permit as pre-
requisite for engaging in businsss .Ee
fern of the application will be prescribed,
and also the character of the evidence to
be submitted in support of it. The method
or taking the testimony as to the regularity
OF the colleges will also receive attention.
Inc law prescribes that 1t shall be un-
lawful for any medical or dental college,
Claiming the authority to confer, or actu-
ally conferring, the degree OF cDctor of
medicine or doctor Of dental surgery, it not
Incorporated by act of Congress, to con-
duct its business in the District without be-
Ing registered by the missioaers and
granted by them a written permit 10 COM
mence or continue business.
While the Commissioners are empowered
to make and enforce the regulations pre-
scribed, and it is provided that no registra-
due inquiry the board shall be satisfied as
to the character of the institution, it is
stipulated that hearings shall be accorded
the representatives of all colleges affected
by the law, and of these hearings due notice
shall be given.
1t is to provide the regulations for this
important system that Dr.. Woodward's re-
port is made.
METHOD OF PROCEDURE.
Penalties for the violation OF the law
are 10 be considered also and the method
OF procedure ID collecting them. Tile law
says any act in disregard of any Jr It's pro
visions shall be deemed to be INSIDE
meanor, punishable by fine OF not less
than S25 nor more than $3.50 for each Of
fense, but the reg ulations to be adopted
upon the health officers report will doubt
less prescribe more particularly the meth
DDS necessary to secure conviction.
Section of the law provides that when
in the judgment of the Commissioners it
shall be necessary, in order to give full
effect to the intent OF the act, they shall
be empowered to file in the supreme court
OF the District bill in equity against the
opening or continuance OF any college that
may fail, neglect or refuse to conform to
the requirements.
Another section requires that colleges rot
Incorporated by act of Congress shall,
within thirty days after the passage Of the
act, apply for permit and registration.
So many important subjects have de-
manded the attention of the health officer
since Congress adjourned that this law was
necessarily laid aside for time, but DR..
Woodward has his report now Wen under
way and will submit it at an early day.
The Commissioners having the assurance
that several local firms will be supplied
with the measures made after the speci-
fications laid down in the law lately en-
acted to regulate weights and measures in
the District, the announcement is made
that on and after Monday next the pro-
visions of the act will be rigidly enforced,
and any dealer who may then and there
after be found using a measure different
from the one prescribed may expect to
suffer the penalty.
Gen. +. A. Bond, sealer of weights and
measures, addressed u letter to the Com
niissioncrs today, announcing the fact, and
also responding to communication re-
ferred TO him from Orndorrf & Truxton,
a local firm that has been supplying meas
ures under the old law, in whichit had been
| stated that it was impossible to procure
the new measure.
AS TO DRY MEASURES.
Gen. Bond says he finds 1t impossible to
reconcile the statements made by the firm
with the facts.
at is incredible" he says, "that tile
Richmond Cedar Works should have inform
ed them that it would require complete
change in their machinery and several
months time before they could supply the
new measures, when the measures required
are precisely the same as those in use in
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Penn
syivania.
immediately upon the passage of the
act of May 20, 1886, Orndorff Truxton
were officially requested to provide the
new measures, but they declined to do so,
claiming that the old law was not repealed,
and they intended to sell what measures
they had before purchasing Others"
Gen. Bond then stated that B. L. Osborn
at the corner of First and D streets north
west will supply the new measures, and
has the assurance of full supply on or
before Monday next,
The business complications that arose
between Contractor 7. E. Cabell AMI Il num-
Der of sub contractors over the to siruc-
tion of several school buildings, hereto
fore detailed in The Times, have given rise
to an order, which will be strictly enforced
as to pending and future contracts, where
by those who supply material and labor will
| be paid therefor as work progresses.
Hereafter when q contractor presents
his voucher for his first payment he will
be required to file statement of the
several amounts unpaid for labor and on
| subcontracts, and not only that, but to
satisfy the District auditor that these
amounts have been paid, as a condition
to receiving the money shown to be due.
Auditor Petty presented the matter in
| its strongest aspect to the Commissioners
while the controversy was on between Mr..
Cabell and the subcontractors, and he was
instructed to adopt that rule for all future
operations.
The auditor was engaged today in ap-
portioning the money due those whose
claims were filed for work and material
on the Tenleytown school. Each mans
account was scaled about 8 per cent, as
the money on hand was less in the aggre-
gate than the amount of the claims. The
same process will be adopted in settling
the accounts as to the Congress Heights
and Stevens buildings.