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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 478, 486. 1888. 203 ejected therefrom by the company’s employees, for any other cause than that of being drunk, disorderly, or contagiously diseased, for the use of obscene and profane language, refusing to pay the legal fare, or a failure to comply with the lawful regulations of the company. The principal offices of said company shall be situated in the of¤c<>s. District of Columbia, and all books and papers relating to the business of said company shall be kept thereat and open at all times to the inspection of the stockholders. The meeting of stockholders and directors shall be held at said office. The book in which transfers of stock shall be recorded shall be closed for the purpose of such transfer thirty days before the annual election. Sec. 4. The said Rock Creek Railway Company shall, on or before Report. the fifteenth day of January of each year, make a report to Congress O°"°“““‘ of the names of all the stockholders therein and the amount of stock held b each, together with a detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures, from whatever source and on whatever account, for the receding year ending December the thirty-first, which report shallp be verified by the aiiidavit of the president and secretary of said company; and if the said report is not made at the time specified or within ten days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to cause proceedings to be instituted to forfeit this charter; and said company shall pay to the District of Columbia, as taxes for '1‘¤¤¤¤- each year, four per centum of its gross earnings for the preceding year as shown by said verified statement, which amount shall be pay- able to the collector of taxes at the times and in the manner that other taxes are now due and payable, and subject to the same penalties on arrears; and the franchise and property of said company, both real and personal, to a sufficient amount, may be seize and sold in satisfaction thereof, as now provided by law for the sale of other property for taxes; and said per centum of its gross earnings shall be in lieu of all other assessments of taxes of whatsoever character u n its rsonal property, but the real estate of the company shall bd taxedw as other real estate in the District, provided that the tracks of the company shall not be taxed as real estate. Sno, 5. That all articles of value that may be inadvertently left in L<>S¤¤¤i<=i<·>¤· any of the cars or other vehicles of the said company shall be taken to its princi al de ot and entered in a book of record of unclaimed goods, which shall)be open to the inspection of the plublic; but when such property has been unclaimed or one year the company may sell the same. _ _ SEC, 6, Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Amendment. act at any time. Received by the President June 12, 1888. [Norm BY THE DEPARTMENT or STATE.-··Th8 foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States or his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP, 486.-An act providing for an additional associate justice of the supreme June 25.1888. court of the Territory of Utah, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representate`ve.s· of the United States of Am8T'iCG in 007197688 twsembled, That hereafter the gggféme coun in Supreme court of the Territory of Utah shall consist of a chief jus- creased to rom jus tice and three associate justices, 3-DY three of whom shall constitute "‘§`€'S_’sec_1864,p_3,0_ a quorum; but no justice shall act as a member of the supreme court in any action or proceeding brought to such court by writ of error, bill of exceptions, or appea from a decision, Judgment, or decree rendered by him as a judge of a district court.