The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-08
BILLS OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Measures Submitted to the District
Officials for Report.

The following bills have been referred
by the Senate Committee on the District
of Columbia to the District Commission
ers for examination and report:
For the construction of q memorial
bridge across the Potomac River from
Washington to Fort Myer and the Ma
tional Cemetery at Arlington; eliminatiI Z
certain grade crossings en- the line of he
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Con-,
pany; amending section OF an act ap-
proved July 22. 1892, entitled An act TO
provide for the opening OF alleys in the
District OF Columbia" the regulation Of in
surance; relating to names of streets;
concerning land titles; providing for the
appointment of collector OF fines in the
Police Court: for the relief OF Francesca
Perna. authorizing and requiring certain
extensions to be made to the lines of the
Capital Traction Company: redeeming
certain outstanding certificates of the
board OF audit, authorizing the Falls Church
and Potomac Railway Company OF Virginia
to extend its lines into and within the Dis
trict Of Columbia. and for other purposes;
regulating the service and fix the hours
Of service for persons employed as police.
men. firemen. and officers; confirming title
to lot 1. In square li13; changing the name
Georgetown: extending Seventeenth Street
10 the wslbridge subdivision OF Ingleside:
amending the charter OF the East Wash
ington Heights Traction Company; pro-
yiding for the purchase OF certain PROF.
erty for school purposes. extending Fifth
Street northwest. in Takoma Park; amend
ing the act. entitled An act to better de-
fine and regulate the rights of aliens to
hold and own real estate in the Terri
tories approved March . 1897: opening
Cathedral Avenue; authorizing and requir-
ing the Metropolitan Railroad Company TO
extend its lines In old Sixteenth Street:
providing for improvements in the Tax
Departments: for the transformation of
the inner basin OF the Potomac flats into
public bathing pool; exempting from
taxation certain property Of the Y NJ. C.
a. OF Washington. d. c.: amending the
act, entitled An act to amend the crimi-
nal laws of the District OF Columbia ap-
proved July S. 1898. for the relief OF Mar
garetta Riehl: regulating permits for pri-
yRte conduits: providing for compulsory
support OF children by parents: to quiet
title to lot II. block Il. South BrcoNland
permitting the Washington Telephone eld
Telegraph Company to install. maintain.
and operate a telephone and telegraph
plant and exchanges: widening Fifteenth
Street. or Columbia Avenue. authorizing
the Recorder OF Deeds and the clerk of the
Supreme Court of the District of Column
bia 70 make abstracts OF title and OF their
respective Offices reyokiag and annulling
the subdivision OF Pencote Heights: ex-
tending Bacon Street: amending section
II of the act approved March g. 1877:
regulating the taxation Of corporations:
establishing municipal court for the
District OF Columbia. to abolish the Of
fees OF justice of the peace and constable
and for other purposes; extending Wyom
ing Avenue: extending Columbia Road
east of Thirteenth Street: extending
Kalorama Avenue; providing for a munich
pal building and court house: establishing
a board OF charities; for a municipal hos
pital: extending Le DrOit Avenue and :
Street northwest: amending the charter OF
the Capital Traction Company: for the
further prevention Of cruelty to animals;
for the relief of Priscilla J. Shipman. ad
ministratrix of the estate OF John J.
Shipmap deceased, for work done and ma
terials furnished to the District of Colum-
bia: incorporating the Frederick Douglass
Memorial and Historical Association;
changing the name OF Four and half
Street: designating distinctively parcels OF
land in the District of Columbia Tor the
purposes of assessments aud taxation
regulating the exemption OF church and
school property: for the relief OF John \.
Narjes. and for the relief Of Christiana
Dcngipr