and abide by and perform its judgment in the premises. Upon failure of any defendant to enter into the recognizance provided for in this section the sentence of the juvenile court shall stand and be executed; otherwise execution shall be stayed pending proceedings upon his or her application for a writ of error and until final disposition thereof by the said court of appeals.

SEC. 23. That the marshal of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed to designate one of his deputies to serve at the juvenile court, where he shall perform such services as are required by the presiding judge.

SEC. 24. That in all cases where any child shall be found to be a delinquent child, as defined in section nine of this Act, the parent or parents, legal guardian, or person having the custody of such child, or any other person responsible for or by any act encouraging, causing, or contributing to the delinquency of such child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and conviction thereof in the juvenile court of the District of Columbia, which is hereby given jurisdiction, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars or imprisoned in the District jail for a period not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The court may impose conditions upon any person found guilty under this Act, and as long as such person shall comply therewith to the satisfaction of the court the sentence imposed may be suspended.

SEC. 25. That the provisions of this Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July first, nineteen hundred and six, and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 26. That one-half of the expenses hereby incurred under the provisions of this Act shall be paid by the District of Columbia and one-half by the United States.

Approved, March 19, 1906.

[For appropriation, see District of Columbia Act, p. 89.]

[PUBLIC NO. 53.]

By the Act To require the erection of fire escapes in certain buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the owner, lessee, occupant, or person having possession, charge, or control of any building three or more stories in height, or over thirty feet in height, constructed or used or intended to be used as a tenement house, apartment house, flat, hotel, office building, store, hospital, seminary, academy, school, college, institute, dormitory, asylum, sanitarium, hall, or place of amusement, to provide and cause to be erected and fixed to every such building, connecting with each floor above the first floor by easily accessible and unobstructed openings, one or more suitable fire escapes, in such location and numbers and of such material, type, and construction as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the owner, lessee, occupant, or person having possession, charge, or control of any building already erected, or which may hereafter be erected, in which ten or more persons are employed at the same time in any of the stories above the second story, to provide and cause to be erected and affixed thereto a sufficient number of the aforesaid fire escapes, the location and number

of the same to be determined by the said Commissioners, and to keep the hallways and stairways in every such building as is used and occupied at night properly lighted, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, from sunset to sunrise.

SEC. 3. That it shall also be the duty of the owner, lessee, occupant, or person having possession, charge, or control of any building used or intended to be used as set forth in section one of this Act, or any building in which ten or more persons are employed, as set forth in section two of this Act, to provide, install, and maintain therein proper and sufficient guide signs, guide lights, exit lights, hall and stairway lights, fire hose, and fire extinguishers, in such location and numbers and of such type and character as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine.

SEC. 4. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to require any alterations or changes that may become necessary in buildings now or hereafter erected, in order to properly locate or relocate fire escapes or to afford access to fire escapes, and to require any changes or alterations in any building that may be necessary in order to provide for the erection of additional fire escapes, when in the judgment of said Commissioners additional fire escapes are necessary.

SEC. 5. That each elevator shaft and stairway extending to the basement of the buildings heretofore mentioned shall terminate in a fireproof compartment or inclosure, separating the elevator shaft and stairs from other parts of the basement, and no opening shall be made or maintained in such compartment or inclosure unless the same be provided with fireproof doors.

SEC. 6. That it shall be unlawful to obstruct any hall, passageway, corridor, or stairway in any building mentioned in this Act with baggage, trunks, furniture, cans, or with any other thing whatsoever.

SEC. 7. That no door or window leading to any fire escape shall be covered or obstructed by any fixed grating or barrier, and no person shall at any time place any incumbrance or obstacle upon any fire escape or upon any platform, ladder, or stairway leading to or from any fire escape.

SEC. 8. That no license shall be issued to any person to conduct any business for which a license is required in any building mentioned in this Act until such building has been provided and equipped with a sufficient number of fire escapes and other appliances required by this Act.

SEC. 9. That any person failing or neglecting to provide fire escapes, alarm gongs, guide signs, fire hose, fire extinguishers, or other appliances required by this Act, after notice from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia so to do, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall be punished by a further fine of five dollars for each day that he fails to comply with the notice aforesaid. Any person violating any other provision of this Act shall be punished, upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

SEC. 10. That the said notice requiring the erection of fire escapes and other appliances mentioned in this Act shall specify the character and number of fire escapes or other appliances to be provided, the location of the same, and the time within which said fire escapes or other appliances shall be provided, and in no case shall more than ninety days be allowed for compliance with said notice unless the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall, in their discretion, deem it necessary to extend their time.

SEC. 11. That said notice shall be deemed to have been served if delivered to the person to be notified, or if left with any adult person

at the usual residence or place of business of the person to he notified in the District of Columbia, or if no such residence or place of business can be found in said District by reasonable search, if left with any adult person at the office of any agent of the person to be notified, provided such agent has any authority or duty with reference to the building to which said notice relates, or if no such office can be found in said District by reasonable search if forwarded by registered mail to the last known address of the person to be notified and not returned by the post-office authorities, or if no address be known or can by reasonable diligence be ascertained, or if any notice forwarded as authorized by the preceding clause of this section be returned by the postoffice authorities, if published on ten consecutive days in a daily newspaper published in the District of Columbia, or if by reason of an outstanding unrecorded transfer of title the name of the owner in fact can not be ascertained beyond a reasonable doubt, if served on the owner of record in the manner herein before in this section provided. Any notice to a corporation shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been served on such corporation if served on the president, secretary, treasurer, general manager, or any principal officer of such corporation in the manner hereinbefore provided for the service of notices on natural persons holding property in their own right, and notice to a foreign corporation shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been served if served on any agent of such corporation personally, or if left with any person of suitable age and discretion. residing at the usual residence or employed at the usual place of business of such agent in the District of Columbia: Provided, That in case of failure or refusal of the owner, lessee, occupant, or person having possession, charge, or control of any buildings specified in this Act, to comply with the requirements of the notice provided for in section ten, then, and in that event, the Commissioners are hereby empowered and it is their duty to cause such erection of fire escapes and other appliances mentioned in the notice provided for, and they are hereby authorized to assess the costs thereof as a tax against the buildings on which they are erected and the ground on which the same stands, and to issue taxlien certificates against such building and grounds for the amount of such assessments, bearing interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum, which certificates may be turned over by the Commissioners to the contractor for doing the work.

SEC. 12. That the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in term time or in vacation, may, upon a petition of the District of Columbia, filed by its said Commissioners, issue an injunction to restrain the use or occupation of any building in the District of Columbia in violation of any of the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 13. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approved, March 19, 1906.

[PUBLIC-No. 14.]

By the Act To amend paragraph thirty-four of section seven of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes," approved July first, nineteen hundred and two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph thirty-four of section seven of the Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide

for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following:

"Persons licensed to store or sell kerosene or oils of like grade, or explosives of any kind, shall pay a license tax of one dollar per annum for each permit issued; for storing or selling fireworks the license tax shall be fifty cents per annum for each permit issued; for storing or selling gasoline or oils of like grade the license tax shall be five dollars per annum for each permit issued: Provided, That persons paying a license tax as fuel hucksters shall not be required to pay an additional tax for storing or selling such articles."

Approved, February 9, 1906.

[PUBLIC NO. 285.]

By the Act To amend sections seven hundred and thirteen and seven hundred and fourteen of "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia," approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Acts approved January thirty-first and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections seven hundred and thirteen and seven hundred and fourteen of an Actentitled "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Acts approved January thirty-first and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, are hereby amended so as, respectively, to read as follows:

"SEC. 713. All savings banks, or savings companies, or trust companies, or other banking institutions, organized under authority of any Act of Congress to do business in the District of Columbia, or organized by virtue of the laws of any of the States of this Union, and having an office or banking house located within the District of Columbia where deposits or savings are received, shall be, and are hereby, required to make to the Comptroller of the Currency and to publish all the reports which national banking associations are required to make and publish under the provisions of sections fifty-two hundred and eleven, fifty-two hundred and twelve, and fifty-two hundred and thirteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and shall be subject to the same penalties for failure to make such reports as are therein provided, which penalties may be collected by suit before the supreme court of the District of Columbia. And the Comptroller shall have power, when in his opinion it is necessary, to take possession of any such bank or company, for the reasons and in the manner and to the same extent as are provided in the laws of the United States with respect to national banks: Provided, however, That banking institutions having offices or banking houses in foreign countries as well as in the District of Columbia shall only be required to make and publish the reports provided for in this section semiannually: And provided further, That all publications authorized or required by said section fifty-two hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes, and all other publications authorized or required by existing law to be made in the District of Columbia, shall be printed in two or more daily newspapers of general circulation, published in the City of Washington, one of which shall be a morning newspaper.

"SEC. 714. The Comptroller of the Currency, in addition to the powers now conferred upon him by law for the examination of national

banks, is hereby further authorized, whenever he may deem it useful, to cause examination to be made into the condition of any bank mentioned in the preceding section. The expense of such examination shall be paid in the manner provided by section fifty-two hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the examination of national banks."

Approved, June 25, 1906.

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 16.]

By the Joint Resolution For the relief of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific Coast.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to procure, in open market or otherwise, subsistence and quartermasters supplies in addition to such supplies belonging to the Military Establishment, and available, and issue the same to such destitute persons as have been rendered homeless or are in needy circumstances as a result of the earthquake which occurred April eighteenth, and the attending conflagration and in executing this Joint Resolution, the Secretary of War is directed to cooperate with the authorities of the State of California and the mayors of the cities of the cities of San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda and such other cities on the Pacific Coast as may have sustained damages;

Be it further resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of Commerce and Labor are hereby directed to cooperate with the Secretary of War in extending relief and assistance to the stricken people herein referred to, to the extent of the use of the naval vessels, revenue cutters, and other vessels and Government supplies, under their control on the Pacific Coast;

Be it further resolved, That to enable the Secretary of War to execute the provisions of this Joint Resolution, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one million dollars, to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of War.. Approved, April 19, 1906.

$1,000,000.00

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 17.]

By the Joint Resolution Construing the joint resolution approved April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "Joint Resolution for the relief of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific Coast.'

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the appropriation of one million dollars, made by joint resolution approved the nineteenth instant, entitled "Joint Resolution for the relief of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific Coast," shall be available under the discretion of the Secretary of War to procure medical supplies, in addition to such supplies belonging to the Military Establishment, and issue the same, in like manner as the subsistence and quartermaster's supplies specifically mentioned in the joint resolution aforesaid.

Approved, April 21, 1906.