Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-07

Company Of the District of Columbia is
authorized to charge and collect, after the
passage of this act, for Illuminating gas
furnished to and paid for by the govern
Ineht of the United States, and other con-
sumers in the District of Columbia, at the
rate OF not exceeding one dollar per thou
sand cubic feet: Provided That If con-
suiners other than the government shall
rot pay monthly any gas bill within ten
Gays after the same shall have been pre-
Sented, said company may charge and col
iect from said consumer so failing to pay
Saiu Dili as AFORESAID one dollar and twenty
nFe cents per thousand cubic feet for the
gas furnished to said consumer during said
month.
Rate for Georgetown.
Section 2. That the Georgetown Gas
Light Company, doing business in that
Part of the District of Columbia formerly
Known as Georgetown, is authorized to
charge and collect. after passage of this
act ior illuminating gas furnished 20 and
palu !or by the government of the United
states, and other consumers in that part
VI 'ne District of Columbia, at the rate Of
rot exceeding s1.25 per thous md Gu
TIC feet: Provided That if custon-
ers other than the government shall
iiot pay monthly any gas bill within ten
u.ss sii'er the Same 81 all have been pre-
Sen'ed' san company may charge and COL
lect from said consumer so falling to nav
saio Dill. SlD per thorsand cubic feet for
'he gas furnished during the moath.
Increase Of Candle Power.
Sec :" That section 1 of an act entitled
An act regulating gas works." approved
June -'' !Si4, is amended so as to read as
ioiio"S: Ihat from and after the Both day
ol June, 1874, the Illuminating power Of the
gas iurnlshed by any gaslight company
person. or persons in the District of Column
pia SHALL be equal to twenty-five candles
ps the Bunsen photOmeter, using the Eng
lish parliamentary standard Argand bur
her, having fifteen holes and a seyen-inch
chimney, consuming five cubic feet Of gas
per hour: and such gas shall not contain
,iloIe ,a man twenty grains of sulphur in any
ioTm IN 100 cubic feet, nor more than five
grains OF ammonia in any form in 100 cubi,.
ieet, and shall be free of the impurity
kno"h as sulphuretted hydrogen said i'm
purity 10 be determined by passing the gas
,hroush glass vessel containing strips of
plpuious paper moistened with a solution
OF the acetate of lead, and if any discolora-
.ioh OF the test paper is found to have taken
pldce TINS Is TO be held conclusive as to the
presence of sulphuretted hydrogen in the
gas w men the Illuminating gas supplied
ny ny any company, person or persons in the
district of Columbia shall at any one time
be of less illuminating power or of Isss
purity than according to the standard lust
heretofore given, it shall be SO reported Inv
tne inspector of gas and meters to the com
pahS' person or persons supplying the
same, who shall be subject to a penalty of
Sioo 10 be recovered before the proper tri-
Dunai and paid into the treasury of the
biStr1ct OF Columbia aforesaid for each
anu every day during which such viola ton
shail continue: Provided, however, That if
IL snail appear that such deviation from the
ABOVE named standards could not have been
PteFeited by ordinary care and prudence,
plit was occasioned by some unavoidable
cause. then the said penalty shall NOT he
enforced oe w
As to Meters
Sec. 4. Tha: any gas company or perso,
piacihS gas meter in service in the Dis
OF Columbia that has rot been in
spected, proved and sealed, as provided for
pS the act of March B.. 1873, entitled An
act making appropriations for the ex
PthScs OF the government of the District
OF Columbia for the fiscal year ending June
80 ls9l, and for other purposes for each
ana every such violation OF said act shall
De subject to a penalty of 500 to he re-
covered before the proper tribunal of the
District of Columbia
sec .. That a clerk shall be appointei
by TIE Commissioners of the District nf
Columbia to perform clerical services and
assist generally in the work required in
the laboratories Of the inspector of gas
ana meters, and his compensation shall he
*l,"D per annum. That an add;ticua! in
spector OF lamps shall be appointed bv said
commissioners, and his condensation shall
be SSOO per Gnnum