Chapter XLVIII. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to incorporate the Inhabitants of the City of Washington, passed May fifteen, eighteen hundred and twenty,” approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.* Feb. 23, 1865. 1820, ch. 104
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Chap. XLVIII.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to incorporate the Inhabitants of the City of Washington, passed May fifteen, eighteen hundred and twenty,” approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.* Feb. 23, 1865. 1820, ch. 104. Vol. iii. p. 587. 1864, ch. 81. *Ante,* p. 68. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to amend ‘An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington,’ passed May fifteen, eighteen hundred and twenty,” he construed amended so as to read Taxes for local improvements, &c.as follows:
That the said corporation shall have full power and authority to lay taxes on particular wards, parts, or sections of the city, for their particular local improvements, and to cause the curb-stones to be set, the Paving. Sewerage.foot and carriage ways, or so much thereof as they may deem best, to be graded and paved; to introduce the necessary sewerage and drainage THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 48, 49. 1865. 435facilities under and upon the whole or any portion of any avenue, street, or alley; to cause the same to be suitably paved and repaired, and at all times properly cleaned and watered; to cause lamps to be erected therein, Street lamps.and to light the same and to pay the cost thereof, the corporation of Washington is hereby authorized to lay and collect a tax upon all property Tax.bordering upon each street or alley that may be paved, sewered, lighted, cleaned, or watered by said corporation in accordance with the provisions of this act.
And also to lay, or cause to be laid, simultaneously with the grading or paving of any avenue, street, or alley in which a main Water and gas pipes and lateral house drains.water-pipe or main gas-pipe, or main sewer may have been laid, water or gas service pipes or lateral house drains, from such water or gas main or main sewer to one foot within the curb line in front of every lot or sub-divisional part of a lot which may bound on such avenue, street, or alley, and to which a gas or water service pipe or house drain may not have been already laid, and to pay the cost thereof, shall have full power and Tax.authority to lay and collect a special tax on every such lot or subdivisional part of a lot.
Approved, February 23, 1865.