The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-27
DISTRICT BILLS PASSED.
LcEfslntiOn of Local Interest Occu-
pies the Senate's Attention.

DISTRICT BILLS PASSED.
Legislation of Local Interest Occu.
pies the Senate's Attention.
The Senate devoted the larger portion OF
the session yesterday 10 the consideration
OF District bills and passed twelve OF
THESE. The bill changing the name of that
portion of Four and-a-half Street between
Pennsylvania Avenue and judiciary Square,
10 Marshall Place, was among those pas: ed.
The bill to amend the act authorizing
the reassessment of the Waterman taxes
in the District Of Columbia was then taken
| up and passed with an amendment
cauceling the assessment of all I'M
| PAID Waterman taxes on Brghtwo d Ave-
nue. The bill provides that
Hereafter, whenever water main or mains
| shall be laid in the District of Columbia the
Waterman assessment or tax authorized by law
| shall be assessed within thirty DAYS after such
| water main or mains shall have been laid and
the owner or owners affected by this assessment
| or tax shall be notified that the same has been
| assessed by notice inserted daily SUNDAYS ex-
| eepted, for two weeks in two newspapers pub
| lished in the District Of Columbia, and such
assessment or tax shall be payable in four equal
instaiments, the first of which shall be payable
| without interest within thirty DAYS OF the date
OF the last publication OF said notice, the second
within enc year, the third within two years, and
| the fourth within three years from the date OF
the last publication Of said notice, and interest
| at the rate of 10 per centum per annum shall be
changed on all amounts which shall remain unpaid
al the expiration of thirty days from the date Of
| the last publication of said notice: Provided,
! That If the assessment tax is paid in full at
| any time within thirty days after the last
| publication of said notice abatement of per
| eentum shall be allowed the entire amount
| OF said assessment. The cost Of publication Of
fhr Varfaa h.r.a Vnl ball -, 1nl
| the amount Of said assessment and collected in
the same manner that said assessment is collected.
The bill incorporating the Frederick
| Douglass Memorial and Historical Asso-
| citation OF the District of Columbia was
| passed. 1t states that the purpose of the
| organization is to perpetuate the memory
of Frederick Douglass.
The bill providing for the relocation Of
certain tracks of street railways in the
District of Columbia was passed 1t FRO
vides that the Commissioners of the Dis
,, trict of Columbia be, and they are hereby
authorized, whenever the track or tracks
OF any street railway company in the Dis
trict of Columbia are, or shall be, located
in any portion of any street, avenue, road,
or highway which is sixty feet or more
in width other than in the middle thereof,
to require any of said companies to alter
| the location of any such track or tracks SO
such street avenue, road, or highway, under
such penalties as are provided in the char
ter of said company or companies for vio-
lation of the provisions thereof.
The bill establishing a board Of chari-
ties in the District of Columbia was passed
with an amendment abolishing the Office of
Superintendent of Charities in the District
of Columbia. The bill provides that there
shall be established in the District OF CO.
bnar of oh n consist n
five members, residents Of the said Dis
trict, who shall be appointed by the Presi- |
dent of the United States, by and with the |
advice and consent of the Senate each for |
a term of three years, but in such manner |
that the terms of not more than two OF |
them shall expire in any one or the same |
year. The members of the said board shall !
serve without compensation. During his |
term of Office no member shall serve as
trustee or other administrative officer of
any institution subject to the visitation |
of the said board.
A bill providing for the relocation of the |
tracks of the Capital Traction Company, as
follows, was passed:
Beginning at the intersection OF First |
and Streets northwest, east on Street |
to Delaware Avenue. and thence by loop |
around square Csc (bounded by Delaware
Avenue, B, First, and G Streets northeasO.
sylvania Avenue and Seventeenth Street
northwest; south on Seventeenth Street by
double tracks to Street northwest; west
on G Street by single track to Twenty-fifth /
Street; north on Twenty-ffth Street by
single track to Pennsylvania Avenue. Also.
beginning with the tracks at the corner of
Seventeenth and G Streets northwest;
south on Seventeenth Street by single track
to Street northwest; west on F Street by
single track to Twenty sixth Street north
west: north on Twenty-sixth Street by
single track to Pennsylvania Avenue: Pro-
vlded, That for the purpose of furnishing
loop, for use when necessary, single track
may be extended along G Street northwest
from Twenty-fifth TO Twenty sixth Streets,
with the single tracks In Twen-
ty-fifth and Twenty sixth Streets north
west, and that the Anacostia and Potomac
River Railroad Company be, and ii is here
by. authorized and required within one
year from the date of the approval of this
act, to extend the lines of its underground
electric railroad from the intersection OF
First Street east and Z Street south, north
along First Street to B Street south; thence
west along Street, connecting with It's
existing tracks between Second and Third
Streets"
A bill to amend the charter of the Capital
Traction Company was passed. This pro-
vides that:
The Capital Traction Company be, and the
same is hereby, authorized and required, within
six months from the passage OF this act, to lay
down underground electric railway, with the |
necessary switches and turD-ous, in the City OF |
" Washington, in the District OF Columbia through |
and along the following streets and avenues
namely Beginning at the main tracks at the in
tersection Of Pennsylvania Avenue and Eighth |
Street southeast, and thence easterly along said |
Pennsylvania Avenue with double tracks to Fiji |
teenth Street east: thence by a singletra loop |
Un Pennsylvania Avenue, the circle, and Fiji
leenth Streets, bounding square numbered lO7s |
and connecting with the double tracks at Penn |
syivania Avenue and Fifteenth Street east; all |
work TO be done in accordance with plans ac-
,eptablc TO and approved by the Commissioners
,f the District of Columbia.
A bill to regulate the grades of Tween
tieth Street was passed.
Il bill requiring the Metropolitan Rail- {
way Company to extend its lines in old
Sixteenth Street from Its present ter
minus at the intersection of Eighteenth
Street and Columbia Road easterly along
Road TO the present Sixteenth
Street northwest, thence north along Six
eenth Street to Park Street. was passed, ;
Threatened by Forest Fires.
LOCK HAVEN, Pa, May 26-Fires tina.
we're started Thursday on the mountain
outh of Pine station, are burning fiercely.
nd have approached SO near the pine camp :,
Meeting grounds that there is danger of
he tents and other buildings being de-
troyed. large force of men is engaged
ghting the flames.
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