Chapter LXX. *to authorize the corporate Authorities of the City of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, to pace and improve the Streets thereof*
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CHAP. LXX.— An Act *to authorize the corporate Authorities of the City of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, to pace and improve the Streets thereof*. May 4, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Georgetown may lay local taxes for local improvements.Streets. That the corporation of the city of Georgetown 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 curbstones to be set, the foot and carriage ways, or so much thereof as they may deem best, to be graded, paved, gravelled, or otherwise improved ; to introduce the necessary sewerageSewerage and drainage. and drainage facilities, under and upon the whole or any portion of any avenue, street, or alley; to cause the same to be suitably graded, paved, gravelled, or otherwise improved and repaired, and at all times properly cleaned and watered; to cause lamps to be erected therein, and to lightLighting streets. the same; and to pay the cost thereof, the said corporation of Georgetown is hereby authorized for the purposes of grading, paving, gravelling, or otherwise improving or repairing any street, avenue, or alley, or any part thereof, to lay and collect a general tax for the same, or any part ofTaxes for grading, &c.; the cost thereof, upon all the property of said city, or upon all property bordering upon such avenue, street, or alley, or any part thereof that may be graded, gravelled, paved, or otherwise improved or repaired; and that, for the purpose of sewerage, the said corporation shall have power tosewerage; lay and collect a tax equal to the expense, or any part thereof, upon all property bordering upon such avenue, street, or alley that may be so sewered, or any property benefited thereby, in accordance with the provisions of this act; and also to be laid, or cause to be laid, simultaneously with the grading, gravelling, paving, or otherwise improving any avenue, street, or alley, or at any other time in which a main water-pipe, mainwater and gas pipes. gas-pipe, or main sewer may have been or shall be 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 subdivisional 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 authority to lay and collect a special tax on every such lot or part of lot.
Approved, May 4, 1870.