The Washington times., 1902-02-27
Ruling of City Solicitor On
Temporary Detention.
MEASURES BEFORE CONGRESS
Corporations Chartered Outside of the
District Doing Business and Having
Headquarters Here Are Not Amenable
to the Code.

The District Commissioners yesterday
received from Mr. A. B. Duval the City
Solicitor, three opinions on bills sub
united to the Commissioners by the com
mittees of Congress.
ca Senate bill No. 26g9, to provide for
the temporary detention of persons dan
gerously insane, the Solicitor says:
This Lill, in my judgment, provides
appropriate proceedings for the temporary
detention OF the dangerously insane. and
at the same time safeguards their rights.
Some of its provisions as to apprehension,
detention etc. arc declai atory OF the
course of proceeding now adopted without
express authority of law
The Solicitor submits a few suggestions
as regards the wording, and udds that
the bill appears to be in good form and
should receive the favorable recommended
tion of the Commissioners.
Onirion on Salaries.
A second opinion was that rendered on
the communication OF the Recorder of
Deeds requesting the District Commits
sioners TO report on an amendment de-
sired by him to section 55S, OF the code
of law for the District The proposed
amendment consists OF striking out the
words eighteen hundred ard ninety-one"
in the sixteenth line of the section, and
inserting in lieu thereof the words nine
teen hundred and one"
THE object of the amendment" ex-
plains Mr. Duval, the Solicitor, lis to re-
store the provision for the payment of the
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the office which made by the act Of
March 3, 1899. / am not prepared to say
whether the section, if amended as de-
sired, would not affect the pay OF any
other clerk or employe in the Office of the
Recorder of Deeds and therefore, in my
Judgment, it would be better to remedy
the matter by providing specifically
therefor, ami instead of striking out the
words eighteen hundred and ninety-one'
il line 16, to amend it by inserting after
those words the following:
% Except that there shall be paid to
the janitor $3.50 per annum, and to the
charwoman, $3.50 per annum.'
Il think that the Office should have the
services of such employees, and l do not
sdPPSSS mat I2-AeoSS3oS. Vi SNNIiSii
553 was adopted with the purpose of de-
priving the office of such services"
With the exception CT these employees,
the officials and clerks in the Office of the
Recorder of Deeds are paid from the fees
collected in the Office
Corporations Question Law.
The third opinion rendered yesterday
was in regard to the communication Of H.
NJ. Adams, requesting Information as to.
whether sections 609, Gil, and 622 to CO.,
inclusive, of the code of law for the Dis
trict, are applicable to existing corpora
tons chartered outside of the District,
but doing business and having headGuar-
tiers in the District, or whether the see
tions apply only to corporations chartered
in the District.
These sections the Solicitor says,
relate to the matter of election of Off
GERS, annual reports, transfer of stock,
and inspection of books. They constitute
part of subchapteT of chapter IS. re-
lating to corporations formed in the
District of Columbia, and apparently have
no relation to corporations chartered out
side of the District OF Columbia but do
ing business and having headquarters in
the District