Evening star., 1901-02-06
BILLS Of LOCAL INTEREST
FAVORABLE REPORT ON MEASURE
RELATING TO INDECENT INSANE.
House Committee Also Approves Wild
enfng of AnacOstfa Road and
Other Projects.

| The House District committee today or
dered a favorable report on the bill re-
lating to interest payments by delinquent
| taxpayers.
| A favorable report was ordered on the
| Commissioners bill regulating admission
to the Government Hospital for the In
| sane. The bill provides that hereafter
| proceedings for admission to the Govern
nent Hospital for the Insane Of INDECENT
| insane persons residing in the District Of
Columbia and of insane persons of homi-
cidal or violent tendencies found therein
| and for admission, temporarily, to the hos
| pital of nonresident insane persons found
| in the District, shall be upon petition OF
| the Commissioners sworn to by one or
more of the Commissioners or by some
| O her responsible person, flied in the Su-
| preme Court Of the District of Columbia
| holding equity court, which court snaii,
upon filing of such petition issue writ
de lunatico inQuirendo, whereupon tne pro-
| ceeuings shall be in conformity with the
| law relating to such matters in force In
| the District Of Columbia.
| 1t shall be the duty of the Commission
ers so soon as practicable, to return 10
| their places of residence or to their 1riends
| all INDECENT insane persons not RESIDENTS
| of the District al the time they became IN
sane who are now or may be hereafter ue-
tanned in the Government Hospital for the
| Insane or who shall be committed to the
! hospi al to be temporarily cared Ior, as
| provided in section 4SJo or tne feSiseu
| Statutes of the United States, and the Com.
| missioners are authorized to defray all
necessary expenses incurred In ascertain
ing the locality where such persons or thelr
| friends belong and in returning them 10
such locality.
Wills Affecting Real Estate.
The committee also reported favoraDly
the bill introduced by Mr. Jenkins (H R.
1nH N
comforting on the Supreme Court Of the
District of Columbia jurisdiction to take
proof of the execution of wills affecting
real estate, and for other purposes, ap-
proved June 8, 1898
The bill is to be drafted to CONFORM 10
the amendments suggested by the Commis-
sioners, which have been pupllshed IN 1 ne
Star.
The bill to widen the Anacostia road was
taken up and the subcommittee ordered to
report the bill. with the Commissioners
amendments. This bill provides that with
| in twenty days after the passage of this
act the Commissioners Of the District OF
| Columbia be authorized and directed to
| institute in the Supreme Court OF the DIS
| trict of Columbia sitting as district court,
by petition particularly describing the
| lands to be taken, proceeding In rem TO
| condemn the land that may be necessary
| for the extension and widening OF Anacos-
| tia road from Watts creek easterly to the
| District line in accordance with record
highway plans of the fourth section, Dis
! trict of Columbia. The proceedings to be
| in accordance with AN act for the ex-
tension of Co umbia roa cast of 18th street,
| and for other purposes
| So much of the act entitled IAN act to
| authorize the extension eastwardly of the
! Columbia railway (public-No. 1879, ap-
proved June Il. 1898, providing for the con-
| struction of branch of that railway cons
| pany's line from the intersection OF Watts
| creek and Anacostia road along Anacostfa
| road to its intersection with the eastern
| boundary line of the District of Columbia;
! is renewed for one year from the approval
of the act, it oeing provided that the branch
| of the railway may be constructed along
| Anacostia road as widened under the pro-
visions of this act, the construction to
be subject to the approval of the Commits
| sioners of the District of Columbia.
| The Commissioners recommended that a
provision will be inserted requiring at least
| one-half the land to be donated and esti-
mating that the District would then be re-
| quired to pay only 500. The committee Is
| informed, it is said. that IS per cent of
! the land will be donated.