Chapter 742. Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to furnish Potomac water without charge to charitable institutions, and so forth, in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 742.— An Act Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to furnish Potomac water without charge to charitable institutions, and so forth, in the District of Columbia. February 23, 1905. [[H. R. 17746](/us/bill/58/hr/17746).] [[Public, No. 96](/us/pl/58/96).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Charitable institutions, etc., furnished Potomac water free. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and are hereby, authorized to furnish Potomac water without charge to charitable institutions and such institutions as receive annual appropriations from Congress, to an amount to be fixed in each case by the said Commissioners, not to exceed a rate of one Limit.hundred gallons per day for each inmate of said institutions; and for all water used beyond such an amount, to be ascertained by water meters installed and maintained at the expense of the consumer, the institution shall be charged at the prevailing rate for the rise of water in the District of Columbia, which shall be collected in the manner Churches.prescribed for the collection of water rents.
The said Commissioners are further authorized to furnish Potomac water without charge to churches to an amount to be fixed in each case by the said Commissioners,Limit. and any amount used in excess of the amount allowed, to be ascertained in the manner aforesaid, shall be charged and collected as Restrictions.hereinbefore described. For the purposes of this Act a charitable institution is one whose objects are primarily eleemosynary; and nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to include educational institutions other than charity schools wholly supported by voluntary contributions or institutions supported wholly or in part by Congressional appropriations.
Sec. 2. Amendments. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 23, 1905.