Chapter 280. To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to enter into contract for the collection and disposal of garbage, ashes, and so forth
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CHAP. 280.— An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to enter into contract for the collection and disposal of garbage, ashes, and so forth. January 27, 1905.[[H. R. 16802](/us/bill/34/hr/16802).][[Public, No. 29](/us/pl/34/29).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That, the Commissioners ofDistrict of Columbia.Garbage, etc.Contracts for collection, etc., authorized.Bids. the District of Columbia may, on and after the passage of this Act, enter into a contract or contracts with the lowest and best bidder for the collection and disposai of garbage, miscellaneous refuse, ashes, night soil, and dead animals, in accordance with contract specifications, for a period or periods not to extend beyond June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.
Said Commissioners shall definitely fix the collectionCollection districts. districts in the city of Washington and District of Columbia, and stipulate in said contract specifications the number of collections to be made, whether daily, semi weekly, or triweekly in said districts, so that efficient collections may be enforced, and to require that all biddersCompensation. shall stipulate in their proposals the increased compensation they will require if semiweekly collections are required to be made triweekly or triweekly collections are to be made daily in any of said districts or port ions of such districts, and the reduction in compensation said bidders will concede if daily collections are changed to triweekly or triweekly collections are changed to semi weekly in any of said districts or portions of such districts: *Provided,* That all garbage collected*Provisos.*Disposal of garbage, etc. under the provisions of this Act shall be disposed of through a reduction or consumption process in such manner as to entail no damage or claim against the District of Columbia for such disposal, and subject, to the sanitary inspection and approval of the Commissioners.
All con-tracts shall expressly provide that no garbage or other vegetable or animal matter shall “be dumped into the Potomac River or any other waters, fed to animals, or exposed to the elements upon lands within the District of Columbia: *Provided, further,* That said CommissionersRegulations. are hereby authorized to make all regulations necessary for the collection and disposal of garbage, miscellaneous refuse, ashes, dead animals, and night soil, and to annex to such regulations such penalties as mayPenalties. in the judgment of said Commissioners be necessary to secure the enforcement thereof.
Approved, January 27, 1905.