Chapter 440. For the relief of the Gurley Memorial Presbyterian Church, of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 440.— An Act For the relief of the Gurley Memorial Presbyterian Church, of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. February 1, 1907. [[S. 3702](/us/bill/59/s/3702).] [[Public, No. 46](/us/pl/59/46).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theDistrict of Columbia.Refund of taxes to religious, etc., institutions. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the trustees, or other authorized representatives, of the. various religious and educational institutions mentioned herein, the sums set forth*Post*, p. 1380. in their respective cases, said amounts having been heretofore erroneously paid by the said religious and educational institutions on account of special assessments or taxes levied against such religious and educational institutions, and which character of assessments or taxes the court of appeals of the District of Columbia heretofore held, in the case of the District of Columbia against Sisters of the Visitation, of Washington, reported in volume fifteen, Tucker’s Reports, page three hundred et sequentes, to be illegal and void and not a charge against such property.
Educational properties: Corcoran Gallery of Art, one hundredEducational properties. and sixty-one dollars and fifty-three cents; Columbian University, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and five cents; medical and dental department, National University, seventyseven dollars and thirty-eight cents; Howard University, six hundred and thirteen dollars and fourteen cents. Religious properties: Church of the Covenant, one hundred andReligious properties. sixty-seven dollars and one cent;
Shiloh Baptist Church, nine dollars and seventy cents; GuntonTemple Memorial Presbyterian Church, two hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty-two cents; Saint Matthew’s Church, three hundred dollars and forty-eight cents; All Souls Church, one hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty-two cents; Epiphany Church, twelve dollars and twenty-three cents; Fourth Baptist Church, sixty-six dollars and eighteen cents; Universalist General Convention, seventy-six dollars and ninety-five cents:
Saint Paul’s English Lutheran Church, one hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty-two cents; Marvin Methodist Episcopal Church, seventeen dollars and ninety-four cents; Westminster Presbyterian Church, forty-four dollars and seventy-six cents; Lutheran Church, sixteen dollars and eighteen cents; Mount Moriah Baptist Church, forty-eight dollars and sixty cents; Gonzaga College (Saint Aloysius Church), seventy-nine dollars and forty cents; vestry of Saint Mark’s Parish, forty-one dollars and thirty-one cents;
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, seventy dollars and twenty-one cents; German Baptist Brethren Church, forty four dollars and forty-five cents; Mount Jezriel Church, twelve dollars and eighty-five cents; Washington Seventh Day Adventist Church, forty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents; Ninth Street Christian Church, fifty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents; Douglas Memorial Methodist épiscopal Church, twenty-three dollars and five cents; Israel Baptist Church, fourteen dollars and forty-eight cents;
Missionary Board Brethren Church, twenty-two dollars and ninety-six cents; Saint Cyprian’s Church, eighty-two dollars and sixty-six cents: East Washington Station Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, twenty dollars and thirty cents; Methodist Protestant Church, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and ninety-five cents; First Colored Baptist Church, twenty-five dollars and eighty-three 870cents; Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church, twenty-four dollars and seventy-two cents;
B. T. McCoy and others, trustees of church, ninety dollars; First Baptist Church. Mount Pleasant, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; Mount Pleasant Congregational Society. seventy-nine dollars and ninety-six cents; vestry of Takoma Parish, thirty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents; Memorial Church of the United Brethren in Christ, of Washington, District of Columbia, sixty-two dollars and nineteen cents; Gurley Memorial Presbyterian Church, two hundred dollars and twenty-four cents;
Presbyterian Alliance, eighty-six dollars and seven cents; Saint Anthony’s Church, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents; Brookland Baptist Church, thirty-five dollars and eighty-five cents; vestry Emanuel Protestant Episcopal Church, thirty-five dollars and sixty cents. *Proviso*.From District revenues. *Provided*, That the amounts herein authorized and directed to be paid shall be payable out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Approved, February 1, 1907.