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 1302 r1rrY.s1X1*1-1 CONGRESS. sm. 11. GH. 854. 1901. SUBCHAPTER NINE. S“°°"`““"’“*'“· STREET RAILWAYS. h_$K¤;¤¤v¤1 of <1i¤¤¤¢d Sec. 710. REMOVAL or DISUSED TRACKS.—WhBD8V8P the track or °tracks, or any art thereof, of any street railway compan in the District of Columbia shall not have been regularly operated, for railway purposes upon a schedule approved by the Commissioners for a period of t ree months, the Commissioners of said District, in their discretion, may thereupon notify such company to remove said unused tracks and P°”““Y· to place the street in good cond1tion; and if such company shall neglect or refuse to remove said tracks and place the street in good condition within sixty days after such notice, the said company shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars for each and every day during which said tracks are permitted to remain upon the street or streets, or said roadway shall remain out of repair, which fine shall be recovered in the police court of said . District, •in the name of said District, as other fines and penalties are now recovered in said court. . P,g§g€ug;§°,j, $1*;*},*,; Sec. 711. Usme OTHER COMPANY’S LINES.-—It shall be unlawful for sv-me motive power- any street railway company operating its systenror parts of its system over any portion of the underground electric lines owned and operated . by anot er street railway company in the city of Washin ton to continue such operation, or to enter into reciprocal trackage rgations with any other comtpany, as provided for under existing law, unless its motive power or the propulsion of its cars shall be the same as that —pe¤¤1¢s*- of the companywhose tracks are used or to be used. For every vio- · lation of this subchapter the- company violating it shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars for every car operated in violation of the provisions of this subchapter, said fine to be collected and applied in the same manner as is rovided by the preceding section. me m¤¤f€*¤· Sec. 712. FREE TRANSFERS.-All street railway companies within the District of Columbia now operating their systems, or arts of their _ systems, in the city of Washington by use of the tracks of one or more of such companies, under a reciprocal trackage agreement, as provided for under. existing law, which shall be compelled to discon- E tinue the use of the tracks of another company, shall 1ssue free trans- fers to their patrons from one system to the other at such junctions of their respective lines as may be provided for by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. SUBCHAPTER TEN. Savings banks. Report no be made Sec. 713. REr01rr TO BE MADE TO COLTTROLLER, AND TO BE sms- °° °°"“’”°u°" JECT TO rzzovxsrons or LAW APPLICABLE T0 NATIONAL BANKS.-—All savings banks or savin s companies or institutions organized under authority of any act 0% Congress to do business in the District of Columbia shall be, and are hereby, required to make to the Comptroller 52% S·i)¤gg¤6,5ig,;,5212· of the Currency, and publish, all the reports which national banking ’p’associations are required to make and publish under the rovisions of sections fifty-two hundred and eleven, fifty-two hundred) and twelve, and fifty-two hundred and thirteen of the Revised Statutes, and shall be subject to the same penalties for failure to make or publish such reports as are therein provided; which penalties may be collected by suit before the supreme court of the District of Columbia. 0§§gj;*¢;*;§,%{;§{;°Qg And all savings or other banks now organized, or which shall heremmoual banks. after be organized, in the District of Columbia, under any act of Congress, which shall have capital stock paid up in Whole or in part,