Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-06
May File Suit in Equity.


| Provided, that should any one or more
| of the owners Of said . 40 shares of stock
! of the Georgetown Gas Light Company
refuse to accept the said sum Of 500 per
share for said stock, the said Washing
| ton Gas Light Company Is authorized TO
| file a suit in equity in the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia against all
| said shareholders SO refusing to accept
| said price for said shares. for the purpose
of obtaining a decree condemntng said
shares of said. stock to the use OF the
Washington Gas Light Company, aud fun
jurisdiction.is hereby conferred upon SAID
court to hear and determine said suit
TN case any owner or owners of shares
defendant in said suit shall be nom
resident of the District of Columbia the
said court shall have power to proceed IN
said cause by publication as IN proceed
ings In rem; and in case any such share
holders shall be an infant or non compoS
the said court shall have power to appoint
a guardian ad Item, according to the
practice in equity to protect the rights OF
such shareholder.
upon the court obtaining Jurisdiction
Of said parties by personal service or
by publication. the court shall proceed
| in summary way, upon, the evidence
| adduced by the parties. to determine
| longing to, the defendants to said suit.
| and by Its decree fix thesvalue thereof
per share. Within ninety days after
| the said decree is entered the Wash
ington Gas Light Company shall pay
| to the said owners of said shares the
| amount fixed by said decree or pay into
| court the amount fixed by said decree
| for the shares of any defendant who
| shall refuse to accept the same or who
| shall not have appeared in said cause,
and upon such payment the full title
| to said shares shall be vested in the
said Washington Gas Light Company"
Enforcing New Labor Law.
Employment of females: To carry out
the provisions of the act approved Feb
ruary n. 1914, entitled, AN act to regu-
late the hours of employment and safe
the District Of Columbia as follows: For
three inspectors, two OF whom shall be
women, at the rate of 81, 200 per annum.
81 o0
Public Library Items.
Public Library, including Takoma Park
branch: Three janitors at $3.50 each. in
stead of S1,OsO; for purchase and install
lation of eighty-horsepower auxiliary
boiler. 81, 800
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses:
Two additional motor vehicles instead of
one, automobiles for offices of Commits
| sioners. thirteen in all. instead of
twelve In all, for motor vehicles, S15, 634
instead of S9,1J0: all motor vehicles are
to have painted on them District of Co
lumbia'' in letters three inches high.
In the paragraph dealing with tele-
phones in residences of the officials of
the street cleaning department, assistant
superintendent is substituted for chief
inspector.
The following paragraph has been in
serted:
Provision for Street Car Fare.
The Commissioners Of the District Of
Columbia are hereby authorized, in their
discretion. to furnish necessary transpor-
tation in connection with strictly official
business of the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia by the purchase Of car
| tickets from appropriations contained in
| this act: Provided, That the expendi-
! lures herein authorized shall be so ap-
portioned as not to exceed a total Of
5000 for the fiscal year 1918: Provided
further. That the provisions Of this para
graph shall not include the appropria-
| tons herein made for the fire and police
departments.
For repair of the morgue building
SID.
For the purchase of new apparatus in
the office of the inspector of asphalts and
dement's, 81 900
The Borland amendment is stricken out.
In the paragraph providing for repay
ing with asphalt the granite roadway of
p street northwest between Rock creek
and 18th street the width is made forty
feet instead of thirty feet.
Benning Road Viaduct.