Chapter 126.
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CHAP. 126.— JOINT RESOLUTION Giving authority to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make special regulations for the occasion of the reunion of the Confederate Veterans’ Association, to be held in the District of Columbia in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes incident to said encampment. February 26, 1917.[[S. J. Res. 157](/us/bill/64/sjres/157).][[Pub. Res., No. 50](/us/bill/64/pubres/50).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Commissioners of District of Columbia.
Confederate Veterans’ Reunion in. Commissioners to make special regulations for.the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to make such special regulations for the occasion of the reunion of the Confederate Veterans’ Association, which will take place in the District of Columbia in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as they shall deem advisable for the preservation of public order and the protection of life and property, to be in force one week prior to said encampment, during said encampment, and one week subsequent thereto.
Publication.Such special regulations shall be published in one or more of the daily newspapers of the District of Columbia, and no penalty prescribed for the violation of such regulations shall be enforced until five days after Schedules of cab fares, etc.such publication; and said commissioners are authorized and directed to establish a special schedule of fares applicable to public Penalty for violations.conveyances in said District during the period aforesaid. Any person violating any of the aforesaid regulations or the aforesaid schedule of fares shall, upon conviction thereof in the police court of the said District, be liable for such offense to a fine not to exceed $100, and in default of payment of such fine imprisonment in the workhouse or jail of said District for not longer than sixty days.
This resolution Appropriation for expenses. Half from District revenues.shall take effect immediately upon its approval, and the sum of $11,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and from the revenues of the District of Columbia in equal parts, is hereby appro-943priated to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to carry out the provisions of section one of this joint resolution, $1,000 Public comfort stations, etc.of which shall be available for the construction, maintenance, and operation of public-comfort stations and information booths, under the direction of said commissioners.
Sec. 2. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are Illumination permits.hereby authorized to permit the committee on illumination of the citizens’ executive committee for the entertainment of the Confederate Veterans’ Association to stretch suitable conductors, with sufficient supports wherever necessary, for the purpose of effecting the said illumination within the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That *Provisos.* Limit of use.the said conductors shall not be used for the conveying of electrical currents more than three days after the close of said reunion, and shall, with their supports, be fully and entirely removed from the streets and avenues of the said city of Washington on or before ten days after said reunion: *Provided further,* That the stretching and Placing and removing wires.removing of the said wires shall be under the supervision of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall see that the provisions of this resolution are enforced; that all needful precautions are taken for the protection of the public; and that the pavement of any street, avenue, or alley disturbed is replaced in as good condition as before entering upon the work herein authorized: *Provided further,* Nonliability for damages.That no expense or damage on account of or due to the stretching, operation, or removing of the said temporary overhead conductors shall be incurred by the United States or the District of Columbia: *And provided further,* That if it shall be necessary to Wires over parks and reservations.erect wires for illumination purposes over any park or reservation in the District of Columbia that the work of erection and removal of said wires shall be under the supervision of the official in charge of said park or reservation.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy Loan of Government flags, etc.be, and they are hereby, authorized to loan to the chairman of the subcommittee in eh urge of street decorations, or his successor in said office, for the purpose of decorating the streets of the city of Washington District of Columbia, on the occasion of the reunion of the Confederate Veterans’ Association, nineteen hundred and seventeen, such of the United States ensigns, flags (except battle flags), signal numbers, and so forth, belonging to the Government of the United States as in their judgment may do spared and are not in use by the Government at the time of the reunion.
The loan of the said ensigns, flags, signal numbers, and so forth, to said chairman shall not take place more than ten days prior to said reunion and shall be returned by him within ten days from the close of the reunion. Sec. 4. That for the protection and return of said ensigns, flags, signal numbers, and so forth, the said chairman, or his successor in office, shall execute and deliver to the President of the United States, or to such officer as he may designate, a satisfactory bond in the penalty of $50,000 to secure just payment for any loss or damage to said ensigns, flags, and signal numbers not necessarily incident to the use specified.
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to grant Use of reservations etc., for stands.permits to the citizens’ executive committee for the entertainment of the Confederate veterans’ reunion for the use of any reservation or other public spaces in the city of Washington on the occasion of said reunion which, in his opinion, will inflict no serious or permanent injuries upon such reservations or public spaces or statuary therein; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may designate for such and other purposes on the occasion aforesaid such streets, avenues, and sidewalks in said city of Washington as they may deem proper and necessary: *Provided, however,* That all stands and platforms *Proviso.* Supervision of erection.that may be erected on the public spaces aforesaid shall be 944under the supervision of the said citizens’ executive committee and in accordance with plans and designs to be approved by the Superintendent of the Capitol, the Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds, and the building inspector of the District of Columbia.
Loan of hospital tents, etc. Sec. 6. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to loan to the chairman of the medical department of the citizens' executive committee for said reunion, or his successor in said office, for the purpose of caring for the sick, injured, and infirm on the occasion of the said reunion, such hospital tents and camp appliances and other necessaries, hospital furniture, and utensils of all descriptions, ambulances, horses, drivers, stretchier and Red Cross flags and poles belonging to the Government of the United States as in his judgment may be spared and are not in use by the Government at the time of *Proviso.* Indemnity.the encampment: *Provided,* That the said chairman, or his successor in said office, shall indemnify the War Department for any loss to such hospital tents and appliances as aforesaid not necessarily incident to such use.
Approved, February 26, 1917.