The Washington times., 1916-05-18
ESTIMATES CUT IN
DISTRICT BUDGET
House Committee Admits citi-
zens Must Furnish 69.3 Per
Cent Of Expenditures.
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into the Treasury and credited wholly
/. to the revenues Of the District OF Co
lunnbia.
Sec. 8. That hereafter the Commis-
sioners OF the District of Columbia are
authorized and directed to assess ana
COLLECT rent from all users Of space oc-
cupied under the sidewalks and streets
in the District Of Columbia. which said
space In occupied or used In connection
with the business Of said users.
sec. o. That appropriations In this
or any other act shall not be used
during the fiscal year nineteen hundred
and seventeen for the purchase OF any
typewriting machine at price In ex-
cess of the lowest price paid by the
same make and substantially the same
model OF machine during the fiscal year
nineteen hundred and fifteen; such price
shall include the value OF any typewrit-
ing machine or machines given In. ex.
change. but shall not apply to special
prices granted on typewriting machines
used In schools of the District OF Cos
lumbia or Of the Indian Service. the
lowest OF which special prices paid for
typewriting machines shall not be ex-
oeeded In future purchases for such
schools: Provided. That in constituting
this section the Commissioner OF Pat.
the Treasury as to whether the changes
in any typewriter are Of such structural
character as to constitute new ma
chine not within the limitations of this
section.
Cost of Paving.
"Sec. 10. That hereafter the half
cost of the paving or repairing of a
roadway between the side thereof and
the center thereof with sheet asphalt.
asphalt block. granite block. vitrified
block, cement concrete. bituminous con-
crete, macadam. or other form Of pave
nlent shall be assessed against the prop
erty abutting the side Of the street so
Improved. such assessments to be levied
and collected as now provided as TO
alleys and sidewalks: Provided, That
the advertisement by publication OF the
Commissioners intention to do such
work and the formal hearing in respect
thereto required by law as to- alley
and sidewalk improvements shall not
be required as 20 roadway Improve
ments.
There shall be included in the area
the cost Of which Is assessable here
under only the roadway area abutting
the property between lines normally
projected from the building line Of the
street being improved at the points OF
intersection with the building lines OF
interesting streets.
"There shall be excluded from the
cost Of the roadway work to be as
sessed hereunder:
First The cost Of all such work
beyond a line twenty feet from the
side thereof.
Second. The cost Of all such work
wfthins the space within which street
railway companies are required to pave
by law. and nothing herein contained
shall be construed as relieving street
railway companies from bearing all the
expenses Of paving and repairing streets
and avenues between lines two feet ex.
terior to the outer rails Of their tracks
as REQUIRED by section five of the act
providing a permanent form Of gov.
ernment for the District of Columbia
approved June II. 1878.
~ Protection of Streams. e..
''sec. II. That for the protection Of
streams flowing through United States
Government parks and reservations in
the District OF Columbia from pollution
by sewage discharged therein from sew.
craEe systems of Maryland towns and
villages bordering said District the
Commissioners are authorized to enter
into an agreement with the proper
authorities OF the State OF Maryland for
the draIne ge of such sewerage systems
into and through the sewerage system
OF the District of Columbia, and the ga
Commissioners are further authorized
to permit connections of MARYLAND SOW
.ers with the District of Columbia sew
traEe system at or near the District line
whenever. In their Judgment, the sani-