than that now paid by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for cleaning the streets by hand:

expenditure

And provided further, That of the amount hereby appropriated, twenty-five thousand dollars, or such part thereof as the Commission- without contract. ers may deem advisable, may be expended under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract.

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extended.

[Par. 5.] (5) That hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Electric-lightColumbia are hereby authorized to grant permits for the repair, enlarge. ing conduits, how ment, and extension, under proper regulations, of existing electriclighting conduits, and in every conduit constructed or to be constructed under the provisions of this paragraph, three ducts shall be reserved for the use of the United States and the District of Columbia,

and as a condition for the right to use conduits heretofore built, or to be built under the provisions of this Act, the electric-lighting companies shall be required at all times to furnish to the public and to private consumers in all parts of the District of Columbia standard arc lights of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, at a rate of not exceeding seventy-two dollars per annum for each are light;

Rates for arc

lights.

Rates for cur

and on and after the first day of June, nineteen hundred, the maximum price of electric current sold or furnished to any consumer in the rent. District of Columbia shall not exceed ten cents per kilowatt hour.

That if consumers other than the Government shall not pay monthly electric bills within ten days after the same shall have been presented, said companies may charge and collect from said consumer so failing to pay said bill as aforesaid eleven cents per kilowatt hour for the electric current furnished to said consumer during said month:

increase for

failure to pay bill.

Amendment re

And provided further, That the right to amend, modify, or repeal the privileges herein granted, and to further limit the prices herein served. specified, is hereby expressly reserved;

any company charging or collecting an amount in excess of the rates Penalty for exherein prescribed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall cessive rates. pay to the District of Columbia the sum of fifty dollars for each and every offense, to be collected as other fines are now collected in the

District of Columbia.

Board of educa

pointed.

[Par. 6.] (6) Public schools. The Commissioners of the District of Public schools. Columbia are hereby authorized to appoint seven persons, bona fide tion to be apresidents and taxpayers of the District of Columbia, and who have been such for five years immediately preceding their appointment, who shall constitute a board of education, and whose term of office shall be seven years, except that the terms of the persons first appointed shall terminate as follows: One each year, to be determined by lot among the seven members of the board first appointed.

The compensation of members of the board shall be ten dollars each for personal attendance at each meeting, but shall not exceed for any member five hundred dollars per annum..

-term of office.

-compensa

tion.

-duties.

The board shall have complete jurisdiction over all administrative matters connected with the public schools of the District of Columbia, except that all expenditures of public funds for such school purposes -expenditures. shall be made and accounted for as now provided by law under the direction and control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

NOTES.-(5) This paragraph is a repetition of 1899, March 3, ch. 422, par. 2 (2 Supp. R. S., 988), with the addition of the word "hereafter," thus fixing the character of the legislation as general and permanent, as explained in note (9) to 1893, Feb. 27, ch. 168, par. 7 (2 Supp. R. S., 93). See also 1901, March 1, ch. 670, par. 3, post, p. 1495, requiring annual statements of receipts and expenditures of the electric and gaslight companies.

(6) The board of education created by this paragraph supersedes the board of school trustees created by 1878, June 11, ch. 180, § 6 (1 Supp. R. S., 178), and whose number and composition were changed by 1882, July 7, ch. 263, par. 2 (1 Supp. R. S., 351), and 1895, Mar. 1, ch. 144 (2 Supp. R. S., 392), and which board itself was a substitute for those created by R. S. D. C., §§ 279, 294.

-rules and regulations.

-reports.

The board shall make all needful rules and regulations which may be proper for the government and control of said schools, and shall make annual report to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall transmit the same to Congress, of the condition and operations of said schools, and the sanitary and structural condition of all buildings in use as well as those in course of construction, with recommendations as respects needed changes.

Appointment of The board shall have power to appoint one superintendent for all superintendent the public schools of the District of Columbia, two assistant superinand other officers. tendents, one of whom, under the direction of the superintendent, shall have charge of schools for colored children; a secretary, and three clerks, and to remove said officers at its pleasure, and shall also have power to employ and remove all teachers, officers, and other employees connected with the public schools not already specified:

Preference

to

Provided, That the graduates of the normal schools shall have prefnormal school erence in all cases when appointments of teachers for the grade schools are to be made.

graduates.

Text-books and

studies.

Annual estimate.

Effect.

Repeal.
Enlargement of

The superintendent shall annually submit to the board for its approval the course of studies and list of text-books and other apparatus to be used in said schools.

The board shall annually transmit to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia an estimate in detail of the amount of money required for the public schools for the ensuing year, and said Commissioners shall include the same in their annual estimate of appropriations for the District of Columbia with such recommendations as they may deem proper.

The foregoing provisions under the head of "Public schools" shall take effect on the first day of July, nineteen hundred,

and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

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[Par. 7.] That hereafter in the purchase of sites and in preparing buildings to be plans for new school buildings proper regard shall be had for future enlargement of said buildings.

considered.

tracts authorized. -regulations.

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Refuse disposal, [Par. 8.] (7) That the Commissioners may, on and after the passage five years' con- of this Act, enter into a contract or contracts for the collection and disposal of garbage, miscellaneous refuse, ashes, night soil, and dead animals, under such regulations and specifications as they may establish, for a period not exceeding five years, after advertisement and the receipt of proposals.

Collection dis

tricts.

-number of collections.

Manner of disposal.

No dumping in river, etc.

Said Commissioners shall definitely fix the collection districts in the city of Washington and District of Columbia and stipulate in said regulations and specifications the number of collections to be made, whether daily, semi-weekly, or tri-weekly in said districts, so that efficient collections may be enforced, and to require that all bidders shall stipulate in their proposals the increased compensation they will require if semi-weekly collections are required to be made tri-weekly or tri-weekly collections are to be made daily in any of said districts or portions of such districts, and the reduction in compensation said bidders will concede if daily collections are changed to tri-weekly or tri-weekly collections are changed to semi-weekly in any of said districts or portions of such districts:

Provided further, That all garbage collected under the provisions of this Act shall be disposed of through a reduction or consumption process in such a manner as to entail no damage or claim against the District of Columbia for such disposal, and subject to the sanitary inspection and approval of the Commissioners.

All contracts shall expressly provide that no garbage or other vegetable or animal matter shall be dumped into the Potomac River or any other waters, fed to animals or exposed to the elements upon lands. NOTE.—(7) See 1884, July 5, ch. 227, par. 4 (1 Supp. R. S., 464), authorizing contracts for removal of garbage to be made for periods not exceeding five years.

Contract for

Provided further, That said Commissioners may, either with or without advertisement, enter into a contract or contracts for the collec- temporary service. tion and disposal of garbage and dead animals, at a rate not exceeding seventy thousand dollars per annum, from the first day of July nineteen hundred until such time as the plant necessary for the collection and disposal of garbage, miscellaneous refuse, ashes, night soil, and dead animals, under the five-year contract hereinbefore authorized, shall be ready for operation;

and said Commissioners are hereby authorized to make all regula- Regulations and tions necessary for the collection and disposal of miscellaneous refuse, penalties. ashes, dead animals, and night soil, and to annex to such regulations such penalties as may, in the judgment of said Commissioners, be necessary to secure the enforcement thereof.

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to

[Par. 9.] (8) That no judgment heretofore or hereafter rendered Congress under the Act of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled authorize payment "An Act to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims Court of Claims. of judgments of against the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes," shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury until said judgment shall have been reported to, and specific authority for payment thereof granted by, Congress. [June 6, 1900.]

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NOTE. (8) The act here referred to is that of 1880, June 16, ch. 243 (21 Stat. L., 284), which was amended as to mode of paying judgments thereunder by 1881, March 3, ch. 134 (21 Stat. L. 466).

CHAP. 791.-An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes.

June 6, 1900.

31 Stat. L., 588.

Public build-
Electric lighting

Be it enacted, &c., * * [Par. 1.] (1) Hereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, whenever in his judgment such work should ings. be performed, to pay for the installation of engineering and electric- and engineering light plants in all buildings in process of erection, or hereafter to be plants. erected, under the control of the Treasury Department, from the construction funds of such buildings.

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[Par. 2.] (2) The Supervising Architect of the Treasury shall hereafter include in his annual report statements showing, under the following titles, the number of custom-houses, court-houses, post-offices, and buildings used for two or more of said objects:

The actual cost of construction, cost of alterations and repairs, cost of sites, and date of purchase, as to each of said buildings, and the aggregate of such expenditures under each of said titles;

Supervising Architect to report uses of buildings.

-cost.

-marine hos

also the same information, under their respective titles, as to marine hospitals, quarantine stations, and all other buildings under the control pitals. of the Treasury Department.

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[Par. 3.] (3) Life-saving service. For salaries of superintendents Life-Saving for the life-saving stations as follows:

For one superintendent for the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand six hundred dollars;

NOTES.-(1) See the similar provision as to wiring for electric lighting in 1895, March 2, ch. 189, par. 1 (2 Supp. R. S., 429).

(2) As to reports required to be made on public buildings, see 1875, March 3, ch. 130, par. 14 (1 Supp. R. S., 74); 1887, March 3, ch. 362, par. 1 (1 Supp. R. S., 562); and 1890, August 30, ch. 837, par. 1 (1 Supp. R. S., 791).

By 1898, July 1, ch. 546, par. 4 (2 Supp. R. S., 875), all public buildings outside the District of Columbia, or in military reservations erected or purchased out of any appropriation under the control of the Treasury Department, are under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury.

(3) 1882, May 4, ch. 117, § 4 (1 Supp. R. S., 340), provides for twelve districts, each with a superintendent, in the Life-Saving Service. The paragraph in the text creates thirteen, with different boundaries for the districts and different salaries for the superintendents.

Service.

Districts and superintendents.

Change of serial numbers.

Chinese exclusion officer in Treasury Depart

ment.

Commissioner

General of Immigration to administer Chinese exclusion and immigration laws.

District of Co

lumbia; salary of Deputy Recorder of Deeds fixed.

For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand six hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, to be known as the Third Life-Saving district, one thousand six hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand six hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand one hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury may change the serial numbers of the several districts as may be necessary to conform to the provisions of this Act. *

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[Par. 4.] (4) and nothing in section four of the Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (Twenty-second Statutes at Large, page two hundred and twenty-five) shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury from hereafter detailing one officer employed in the enforcement of the (5) Chinese exclusion Acts for duty at the Treasury Department at Washington.

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[Par. 5.] (6) and hereafter the Commissioner-General of Immigration, in addition to his other duties, shall have charge of the administration of the (5) Chinese exclusion law and of the various Acts regulating immigration into the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

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[Par. 6.] (7) Office of Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia: The salary of the Deputy Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia shall hereafter be two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to

NOTES. (4) The act here referred to, 1882, August 5, ch. 389, § 4 (1 Supp. R. S., 374), provides against the employment of officers, clerks, etc., in the Departments at Washington, beyond those for whom specific provision is made in the appropriation acts. See 24 C. Cls., 517.

(5) As to the Chinese exclusion act, see note (2) to 1892, May 5, ch. 60 (2 Supp. R. S., 14); also note (1) to 1888, September 13, ch. 1015 (2 Supp. R. S., 141), and note (1) to 1893, November 3, ch. 14 (2 Supp. R. S., 153).

By 1898, July 7 (Res. No. 55, § 1, 2 Supp. R. S., 896), the immigration of Chinese into the Hawaiian Islands, except upon the same conditions as are allowed by the laws of the United States, is prohibited.

(6) For duties of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, see 1891, March 3, ch. 551, § 7 (1 Supp. R. S., 935), and 1895, March 2, ch. 177, par. 10, and note (6) thereto (2 Supp. R. S., 415).

(7) The office of recorder of deeds is provided for by R. S. D. C., § 467. A deputy recorder is provided for by 1877, January 16, ch. 23 (1 Supp. R. S., 128), and salaries fixed for both the recorder and deputy recorder by 1892, July 14, ch. 171, par 4 (2 Supp. R. S., 36).

be paid out of the fees and emoluments of the office of the Recorder of Deeds. * *

Suits against

States to be dis

[Par. 7.] That so much of section four of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act to amend continued. an Act entitled 'An Act to reimburse the governors of States and Ter- 1899, Mar. 3, ritories for expenses incurred by them in aiding the United States to ch. 445, § 4 (2 Supp. raise and organize and supply and equip the Volunteer Army of the R. S., 1104). United States in the existing war with Spain,' as authorizes or directs the Secretary of the Treasury to institute any act or proceedings which he may consider advisable against any State or its representatives to secure the payment of the principal and interest of any bonds or stocks issued or guaranteed by said State the ownership of which is vested in the United States is hereby repealed, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to discontinue and dismiss any suits, actions, or proceedings which have been begun under the authority of said section four.

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Capitol, fuel de

[Par. 8.] Hereafter fuel shall be delivered to the two wings of the Capitol only during such hours and under such regulations as the livery. Architect of the Capitol shall prescribe.

[Par. 9.] That nothing in the Act to regulate the use of the Capitol grounds, approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be construed to prohibit concerts on the Capitol grounds at times when neither House of Congress is sitting by any band in the service of the United States under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol.

Capitol grounds.
Concerts, when
permitted.
1882, July 1, ch.
258 (1 Supp. R. S.,
349).

Forest reserves.
Protection and

[Par. 10.] (8) Protection and administration of forest reserves: To meet the expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry civil act administration. approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and for the employment of foresters and other emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for advertising dead and matured trees for sale within such reservations.

Selections in lieu

lands, how limited.

That all selections of land made in lieu of a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim, or by a patent, included within a public of forest reserve forest reservation, as provided in the Act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," shall be confined to vacant surveyed nonmineral public lands which are subject to homestead entry not exceeding in area the tract covered by such claim or patent:

Selections al

Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the rights of those who, previous to October first, nineteen hundred, ready made. shall have delivered to the United States deeds for lands within forest reservations and make application for specific tracts of lands in lieu thereof:

-per diem.

Provided, That forestry agents, superintendents, and supervisors, Employees seand other persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected lected for fitness. by the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to their fitness and without regard for their political affiliations and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleepingcar fares, three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available: Provided further, That forest agents, superintendents, supervisors, and all other persons employed in connection with the administration forcing fish and and protection of forest reservations shall, in all ways that are practi- game laws.

NOTE. (8) See the act referred to in the text, 1897, June 4, ch. 2, par. 7 (2 Supp. R. S., 623). A part of the paragraph in the text, consisting of the introductory clauses and the last two provisos, first appears in 1899, March 3, ch. 424, par. 5 (2 Supp. R. S., 992), and is repeated in that form in 1901, March 3, ch. 853 (31 Stat. L., 1158). The provisions in the text are repeated in 1901, March 3, ch. 831, par. 7, post, p. 1534.

-to aid in en