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 572 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 789. 1900. regulations and specifications the number of collections to be made, whether daily, semi-weekly, or tri-weekly in said districts, so that §§sg€<=i¤¤¤i°¤¤ in efficient collections may be enforced, and to require that all bidders " shall stipulate in their pro osals the increased com ensation they will require 1f semi-weekly collhctions are required to he made tri-weekly or tri-weekly collections are to be made daily in any of said districts or portions of such districts, and the reduction in compensation said bid ers will concede if dailv collections are chan ed to tri-weekly or tri-weekly collections are changed to semi-week? in any of said dis- §g>s’sjgs§·s, disposal tricts or portions of such districts: P1·0cided_fiert/giver, That all gsrbage em.collected under the provisions of this Act shall be disposed of t rough a reduction or consumption. process in such a manner as to entail no damage or claim against the District of Columbia for such disposal, and subject to the sanitary inspection and approval of the Commissioners. All contracts shall exiiressly provide that no garbage or other vegetable or animal matter shall be umped into the Potomac River or any other waters, fed to animals or exposed to the elements ulpon m§s9gg•s§;sf°’ °°mP°· lands: Prorvidedfurther, That said Commissioners may, either wit or ` without advertisement, enter into a contract or contracts for the collection and disposal of giarbage and dead animals, at a rate not exceeding seventy thousand dollars per annum, from the first day of July nineteen hundred until such time as the plant necessary for the collection and disposal of garba e, miscellaneous refuse, ashes, night soil, and dead animals,_under the five-year contract hereinbefore authorized, ss£¤S¤l¤*i°¤¤· P°¤¤l· shall be ready for olperation; and said Commissioners are hereby ` authorized to make al regulations necessary for the collection and disposal of miscellaneous refuse, ashes, dead animals, and night soil, and to annex to such regulations such penalties as may, in the judgment of said Commissioners, be necessary to secure the enforcement thereof. courts- COURTS. P¤¤¤¤ wm- Fon trim romon oomrr: For two jud es, at three thousand dollars each; compensation of two jsustices of tie peace, acting as judges of the olice court during the a sence of said judges, not exceeding three hundred dollars each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two de uty clerks, at on‘e~thousand five hundred dollars each; two de uty clgrks, at one thousand dollars each; three bailiffs, at nine hungred dollars each; one deputy marshal, nine hundred dollars; doorkeeper, five hundred and fort dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; `anitor, three hundred analysixty dollars; in all, nineteen thousand dollars. Mi¤ce11¤p¤<>¤¤- Mxsommxxnousz For witness fees, four thousand dollars; For repairs of police-court building, seven hundred dollars; For relpairs to police-court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dol rs; For feeding jurors, two hundred dollars; For rent of property adjoining police-court building, for police court and other purposes, six hundred dollars; For compensation of jury, eight thousand dollars; ‘ _ _ In all, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars. c,,§$,§‘g}"*‘“g ”“'“ ’“ Dnrnnnme surrs IN CLAIMS; For defendiqgy suits in the United gvvivv- ss aushos States Court of Claims, two thousand dollars: voided, That no judgize p’§§LiZ°m of judy- ment heretofore or hereafter rendered under the Act of June sixteent, ’“‘{3Qf·2, is 2,% eighteen hundred andeighty, entitled "An Act to provide for the set- ` tlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes," shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury until said judghment shall have been reported to, and specific authority _ for payment thereof granted by, Congress. L“““°Y “'“‘*· W BITS OF LUNACY; To defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder, in all