The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-08
The District bills introduced we're:

| The District bills introduced were:
To prevent the adulteration of foods and
| drugs;
For the further prevention of cruelty to
animals;
| To require the Baltimore and Potomac
| Railroad Company to eliminate certain
grade crossings;
To redeem certain outstanding certif-
Gates issued by the Board Of Audit and
Public Works.
To establish Board Of Charities;
To purchase a lot for school purposes
| in Brookland; -
To amend the charter OF the Capital
Traction Company;
To provide for the compulsory support
of children;
To regulate exemption of church prop
erty;
To incorporate the Columbia Telephone
Company;
To abolish the office Of constable;
To amend the criminal laws; 90
To amend the charter of the East Wash
ington Heights Traction Company;
To regulate permits for electric power
conduits;
To allow the Falls Church and Potomac
Railroad Company to enter the District;
To regulate the service Of firemen;
To incorporate the Frederick Douglass
Memorial Association;
To inspect and correct accounts Of the
employees at the Georgetown Pumping
Station:
To regulate insurance;
To abolish the office OF Justice Of the
peace;
To restore medical freedom;
To erect statue to James G. Blaine;
To provide for a municipal building ard
court house; ....,... go
To establish municipal hospital;
To incorporate the National Commission
for Education OF the Blind;
To regulate the service Of police;
To provide for the appointment OF Coll
lector of Fines for the Police Court;
To fix the salary OF the Postmaster;
To change the name Of the Potomac In
surance Company OF Georgetown;
To establish public bathing pool;
To authorize the Recorder OF Deeds to
make abstracts Of title and transcripts Of
records;
To regulate the exemption OF school
property; --7..-,....,..5.
To quiet title to lot II, in block II;
To purchase lot IL, in square 10;
To open street through square 2oo.
To confirm title to lot l, in square 1113:
Making appropriation for site and ped.
estal for statues of Ambrose E. Burnside
and George G. Meade;
Making appropriation for statue OF
John Sedgwick; ..--,.s-,
To erect statue of Robert D. oyen:
To extend LIE Droit Avenue, Street.
Wyoming Avenue, Columbia Road, Kalo-
rama Avenue, Seventeenth Street, Fifth
Street, New Hampshire Avenue.
To change the name OF Four-and-a-half
Street;
To change the names of lettered streets;
Tc widen Fifteenth Street:
To authorize the Clerk of the Supreme
Court to make abstracts Of title and trans
cripts OF records;
To exempt certain property OF the Young
Mems Christian Association;
To regulate the property rights of aliens;
To require the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
read Company to construct new terminals
and tracks;
To amend the act regulating the taxation
of corporations;
To validate deeds Of married women;
To amend the charter of the Georgetown
Gas Light Company
To require the Metropolitan Raiirc ad
Company to extend its lines;
Setting apart certain grounds for the uss
of the National Society Of the Daughters
of the American Revolution;
Revolving and annulling the subdivision
of Pencote Heights;
To transfer certain old records from the
custody OF the Commissioners to the Chief
of Engineers;
To require the equipment of street cars
with suitable device for the protection
Of motcrmen;
To regulate fares on street cars;
To extend Bacon Street and Vermont
Avenas:
To open Cathedral Avenue;
10 create a permanent board to open
streets;
To provide for improvements in the tax
department;
To create Territory of the District OF
Columbia:
To purchase the old Corcoran Art CAL
lery Building;
To amend the charter of the District Of
Columbia Suburban Railway Company;
To incorporate the East Washington and
Benning Railway Company:
To reduce the price OF electricity.
To contract for the collection of garbage
and dead animals;
To establish an inebriate asylum:
To restrict the ground for divorce;
To erect a statute to Henry w. Lawton;
To incorporate the National White Cross |
CT America
To amend the charter Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church OF the Diocese of Wash |
irgton:
To provide an automatic fire alarm sys-
TEN in the public schools;
To regulate the running of street ears:
To extend yelling Place;
To incorporate the Wesley Heights Rail- |
way Company;
To allow the Bachelor Pneumatic Tube |
Company to construct a tube between she
Government Printing Office and the Capt. |
toll;
To-require the extension OF the Capital |
Traction lines;
To regulate electrical wiring
To require payment of judgment debts |
by District employees.
To create commission to condemn I'M
sanitary buildings.
To incorporate the National Society of !