Chapter 102. To facilitate the use for manufacturing purposes of square numbered three hundred and twenty-eight in the city of Washington, as authorized in the Act of Congress of February first, nineteen hundred and seven
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CHAP. 102.— An Act To facilitate the use for manufacturing purposes of square numbered three hundred and twenty-eight in the city of Washington, as authorized in the Act of Congress of February first, nineteen hundred and seven. March 23, 1910.[[S. 1864](/us/bill/61/s/1864).][[Public, No. 89](/us/pl/61/89).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Washington Market Company may lay switch and conduit in square 328.Vol. 34, p. 873.
That to promote the purposes of the Act approved February first, nineteen hundred and seven, allowing the manufacture of ice on square numbered three hundred and "twenty-eight, in the city of Washington, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to issue permits to the Washington Market Company for the laying and maintaining of a line of railroad or a switch from square numbered three hundred across Twelfth street and into said square numbered three hundred and twenty-eight, by an overhead track to be approved by said Commissioners, and for the laying of an underground conduit and pipes from the said square numbered three hundred and twenty-eight across and under Water street, to and into the Potomac River, for the taking of water from said river to be used for manufacturing 239purposes in said square, but for the purposes of said overhead track no present grades of Twelfth street shall be disturbed, and said overhead track shall have a clearance of at least eighteen feet above the curb of said street, and said overhead track and the underground conduit and pipes hereby authorized shall be located and from time to time moved as may be directed by the said Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and be laid and maintained under their inspection in such locations as they may prescribe, and the cost of such inspection and of replacing the pavements, curbs, and sidewalks disturbed by said work shall be paid by the parties to whom the permits shall be granted: *Provided*, That the Washington Market Company,*Provisos*.Annual franchise tax. its successors or assigns, to whom under authority of this Act permission may be granted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to construct or maintain the overhead track and line of conduit hereinbefore authorized shall pay for the privilege of the construction and maintenance in public space of the said overhead track conduit and pipes an annual franchise tax of one hundred dollars, which sum shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia during the month of May of each year subsequent to the granting by the commissioners of the original permit for the work: *Provided further*, That failure to pay to the collector of taxes the saidAnnulment for nonpayment. sum annually within the period named shall operate to annul and render void the privileges herein authorized in respect to the overhead track conduit and pipes referred to: *And provided further*, ThatDisposition of tax. any sums paid to the collector of taxes in accordance with this measure shall be credited as are other taxes of the District of Columbia: *And provided further*, That the franchise tax of one hundred dollarsOther taxes continued. above referred to shall be in addition to any and all other taxes now or hereafter imposed by law.
Sec. 2. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repealAmendment. this Act. Approved, March 23, 1910.