Chapter 12. To provide for improvements in the tax departments of the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 12.— An Act To provide for improvements in the tax departments of the District of Columbia. February 8, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia. Improvements in offices of assessor and collector of taxes authorized. That in order to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to enlarge the rooms now occupied by the assessor and collector of taxes of the District of Columbia, and to rearrange the space so as to better accommodate the public who have occasion to transact business with those offices, and to provide fixtures and pay other necessary expenses incident thereto, and to put in operation the card system for the improvement of the business methods of those offices, including the temporary hire of clerks, the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may 7 be needed, is hereby appropriated, one-half out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, to be immediately available.
Approved, February 8, 1900.