Chapter 96. To provide for the payment of certain claims against the District of Columbia by drawback certificates
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CHAP. 96.— An Act To provide for the payment of certain claims against the District of Columbia by drawback certificates. January 26, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the auditor of the District of Columbia. Claims for losses by destruction of Northern Liberty Market to be examined.supreme court of the District of Columbia is hereby empowered and directed to examine and audit for settlement all claims for property taken, injured, or destroyed by reason of the destruction or removal of the Northern Liberty Market, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in September, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, as also all claims for payments made for the purchase, rent, or use of any stall or privilege in said market house and for license for conducting any business therein, to the extent of the unexpired term of said purchase, rent, use, or license.
Issue of drawback certificates. Sec. 2. That when the auditor has ascertained the amount of the loss as above described, in any case growing out of the removal or destruction of the market as aforesaid, he shall issue a drawback certificate, signed by him as auditor, to the party or parties who suffered such loss or damage, or to their legal representatives, stating the amount found to be due and on what account issued, and shall keep a Interest.registry thereof; and said drawback certificates with interest thereon at three and sixty-five one hundredths per centum per annum from September Receivable for arrears of taxes.fourth, eighteen hundred anti seventy-two, shall be received for arrears of taxes due the District of Columbia and unpaid on June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
Examination by auditor. Sec. 3. That said auditor shall make a tabular statement of all claims presented, the persons owning the same, and the amount found to be due on account of each; and for the purposes hereinbefore specified said auditor shall have the power to subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and examine witnesses under oath, and shall have full access to all of the records, books, papers, and vouchers of every kind whatsoever of the late board of public works and the District of Columbia, and shall provide, by fair and equitable rules, for the examination of the same by claimants or their attorneys.
Said auditor shall give notice for the presentation of the claims hereinbefore specified in such manner as be may deem necessary, and no claim shall be audited or allowed unless presented within ninety days after the first publication Report.of such notice; and said auditor shall make full report of all his acts 501and proceedings to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Said auditor shall complete his work under this Act within two years from its passage, and be paid the necessary costs, expenses for clerical Expenses.and other services, stationery, books, advertising, and other incidentals under this Act, on the order of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the request, in writing, of the said auditor, out of the surplus revenues of said District: *Provided,* That no claim shall be *Proviso.* Approval.allowed, and no drawback certificate shall issue, upon such claim, until the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have first approved the same.
Approved, January 26, 1897.