Chapter 320. To provide for the disposition of assessment certificates of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 320.— An Act To provide for the disposition of assessment certificates of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. March 1, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Treasurer of theDistrict of Columbia.Treasurer U. S. to deliver to Commissioners certain certificates for unpaid assessments for special improvements, etc. United States, ex officio commissioner of the sinking fund of the District of Columbia, shall deliver to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia all assessment certificates remaining in his custody issued against private property in the District of Columbia for unpaid assessments for special improvements under the act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia approved August tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and deposited with the commissioners of the sinking fund of the District of Columbia under the provisions of section two of the act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
Sec. 2. That all moneys derived from the collection of special-improvement—special-improvement tax funds, etc., in custody of, etc., to be deposited in Treasury as general revenues of the District.Vol. 28, p. 277. taxes, now in the custody of the Treasurer of the United States, or that may hereafter be collected on account of the assessment certificates mentioned in section one of this Act, in excess of the amount required to pay eight per centum certificates of indebtedness and coupons therefrom, called for payment prior to the Act of Congress approved August thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to provide for the payment of the eight per centum greenback certificates of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as general revenues of the District of Columbia; and all future collections onCollections on account of assessment certificates to be made by the collector of taxes; deposit.Commissioners to redeem outstanding drawback certificates, etc.Vol. 20, p. 166. account of the aforesaid assessment certificates shall be made by the collector of taxes of said District, who shall deposit said collections as prescribed in this section; and the Commissioners of said District shall redeem, out of the general revenues of said District, any of the outstanding drawback certificates issued under the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for the revision and correction of assessments for special improvements in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as they may be presented to them for redemption, as prescribed by said Act.
Sec. 3. That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby relievedTreasurer relieved from collection, etc., of said assessments; except. from all duty and responsibility in connection with the collection or application of the proceeds of said assessments, except as to the payment of the outstanding eight per centum certificates and coupons referred to in section two, and the deposit, as prescribed in said section, of the balance of the amount already in his custody not needed for such payment.
Sec. 4. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage,Effect; repeal. and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, March 1, 1899.