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 FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69,70. 1870. 95 safe and more productive securities, for the purchase from time to time, lim P“'°l““?• and the redemption at maturity, of the first mortgage construction b0ndS gggdif (mmm of the company, on the road depots, stations, side tracks, and wood yards, Bonds end innot exceeding thirty thousand dollars per mile of road, payable in gold “K‘°’“ mw Pa}" coin. not l0nge1 than ‘thirty years from date, with interest payable a c' semiannually in com not exceeding the [rate] of seven per centum per annum; and no part of the principal or interest of the said fund shall $i¤l<i¤%f¤¤d be applied to any other use until all the said ‘bonds shall have been pur- }g,b§,';s° °°ly chased or redeemed and cancelled; and each of the said first mortgage llonds to bear bonds shall bear the certificate of the trustees, setting forth the manner in °°““l°*“° °i which the same is secured and its payment provided for. And the dis- mliiE;;',,,,,,,.t, trict court of the United States, concurrently with the State courts, shall ¤ney_epforce thi! have original jurisdiction, subject to appeal and writ of error, to enforce l”°‘"s‘°“‘ the provisions of this section. Sec. 6. And be it further emzcled, That the said company shall file C°mP¤¤Y?° . _ _ · . . _ . _. . _ tile assent withwith the Secrctai y of the Interior 1ts assent to this act mthm one year in &c_ from the time of its passage ; and the foregoing grant is upon condition lconditions of that said company shall complete a section of twenty or more miles of this KW-ntsaid railroad and telegraph within two years, and the entire railroad and telegraph within six years, from the same date. Approved, May 4, 1870. CHAP. LXX. — An Act to authorize the corporate Authorities of the City of Georgetown, May 4, 1870- in the District of Columbia, to pave and improve the Streets thereef Wi Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Mzited States of America in Congress assembled, That the corporation of the city G¤;>rz¤:¤w;¤ of' Georgetown shall have full power and authority to lay taxes on par- zizsgfx,. $:;,1 ticular wards, parts, or sections of the city, for their particular local im- imprevemems. provements, and to cause the curbstones to be set, the foot and carriage ““°S‘ ways, or so much thereof as they may deem best, to be graded, paved, gmvelled, or otherwise improved; to introduce the necessary sewerage Sewerage and and drainage facilities, under and upon the whole or any portion of any d"·‘““g°· avenue, street, or alley; to cause the same to be suitably graded, paved, gravelled, or otherwise improved and repaired, and at all times properly I · cleaned and watered; to cause lamps to be erected therein, and to light thghnng the same; and to pay the cost thereof, the said corporation of George- S "° S" town is hereby authorized for the purposes of grading, paving, gravellmg, or otherwise improving or repairing any street, avenue, or alley, or any part thereof, to lay and collect a general tax for the same, or any part of grgghigs the cost thereof; upon all the property of said city, or upon all property °’ ’ bordering upon such avenue, street, or alley,·or any part thereof that may be graded, gravelled, paved, or otherwise improved or repaired ; and that, for the purpose of sewerage, the said corporation shall have power to sewerage; lay and collect a tax equal to the expense, or any part thereof, upon all property bordering upon such avenue, street, or alley that may be sosewered, or any property benefited thereby, m accordance with the provisions of this act; and also to be laid, or cans; to be la1d,s1rnultaneous}lye::]|;;1 the radinv ravellinrr avin, or otherwise improving any _ , streei or ehlelygi, or at ahypothe time in which a mam water·p1pe, mum pi;;:?' Md SM gas-pipe, or main sewer may have been or shall be laid, water or gas service-pipes or lateral house-drains from such water or gas mmm, or main sewer, to one foot within the curb lme m front of every ot, or subdivisional part of a lot, which may boundton such avenue, street, op alley, and to which a gas or water service-pipe or house-draw; {pay np have been already laid ; and to pay the cost thereof, shall lgayea L; ESV0f!: and authority to lay and collect a special tax on even y suc 0 0 p lot. - Avraoveo, May 4, 1870.