Chapter 1355. To amend an Act entitled “An Act permitting the Washington Market Company to lay a conduit and pipes across Seventh street west,” approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and five
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CHAP. 1355.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act permitting the Washington Market Company to lay a conduit and pipes across Seventh street west,” approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and five. March 31, 1906. [[S. 4838](/us/bill/34/s/4838).] [[Public, No. 75](/us/pl/34/75).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section one of the ActDistrict of Columbia.Washington Market Company may lay conduit Across Seventh street west. entitled “An Act permitting the Washington Market Company to lay a conduit and pipes across Seventh street west,” approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and five, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “That the Washington Market Company is hereby authorized toConditions.Vol. 33, p. 741, amended. lay a conduit and pipes from Center Market eastward across and under Seventh street west, for refrigerating purposes, under the following conditions, namely: The conduit and pipes therein shall be laid in a straight direction, at a right angle to the building lines of said Seventh street, to the west building line of square numbered four hundred and sixty-one of the city of Washington, and from and near the intersection of said conduit with the west building line of said square; the said conduitPrivileges increased. and pipes may be conducted through excavations to be made under the sidewalks on the west and south sides of said square, in directions parallel to said sides, respectively, and under the pavement of the alley in said square numbered four hundred and sixty-one, with such service pipe connections extending to buildings on said square as said Washington Market Company may think proper.
They shall be located astaxation and inspection. directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and be laid under their inspection; and the cost of such inspection, together with the cost of replacing the pavement, curbs, and sidewalks disturbed in connection with said work, shall be paid in advance by the Washington Market Company. The conduit and pipes shall be used for no otherUse of conduit, etc., restricted. purpose than refrigeration for the use of persons engaged in said square numbered four hundred and sixty-one in the traffic in meat and other articles of market produce; and the said company shall not rent or sell the said conduit or pipes, or any part thereof, but may sell for a time, not to exceed twelve months at any one sale, the use of the fluid transmitted.
” " Sec. 2. That said Washington Market Company shall make affidavitGross earnings. to the board of personal tax appraisers on or before the first day of August each year as to the amount of its gross earnings for the preceding year ending the thirtieth day of June from the conduit or conduits herein authorized to be laid, and shall pay to the collector of taxesPayment of 4 per cent of, to District. of the District of Columbia the sum of four per centum per annum on such gross earnings.
Approved, March 31, 1906.