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 FIFIY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 1135, 1136. 1902. 393 six, shall not apply to such school districts: Provided, That before any bonds shall be issued the mayor and common council of the ° municipal corporation, composing in whole or in part such school district, shall cause an election to be held in such district, and said mayor and common council shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation, published in said district, a notice of the time and N¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤· place or places of holding such election. Such notice shall be given at east thirty days before such election. On the question of the issuance Q¤¤l“*¤¤ Wm of said bonds no person shall be qualified to vote except he be in all respects a qualifie elector and owner of real or personal property — subject to taxation within the school district. In case two-thirds of '1}w<>¢hird¤v<>w re the qualified voters, as above described, shall vote aiiirmatively for q°"°d` the issuance of said bonds, then the mayor and common council shall certify the result to the board of education, and said board shall issue the same, and not otherwise. Said bonds shall contain all necessary Si¤¤¤sf¤¤¤- provisions as to form, and such school district shall provide a prope1· sinking fund for the redemption of said bonds. Said bonds shall not _ Maximum me of bear a rate of interest exceeding four per centum, and the interest m°°r°”' shall be paid semiannually, and none of said bonds shall be sold at less ' than the1r par value: Provided furtlaer, That no school district under d£¤¢*¤¤ i¤=¤¢ f<>¤*>i<1- this Act shall issue bonds in excess of six per centum of the valuation “ ‘ according to the last preceding assessment of the school district issuing the same. " Approved, June 19, 1902. CHAP. 1136.-An Act Regulating the use of telephone wires in the District of J¤¤¢ 20. 1902- C°]“mbi”· [Public, Nu. ms.] Be J thenacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 0 f the United _ States of America in Cimg/ress assemble, That all tele hone poles and {’,‘§fj',§?§Cg}“"{§Q; the wires attached thereto not the roperty of the lihited States or p¤¤¤¤p<>¤¤¤¤¤dwir¤¤· the District of Columbia now upon the streets and avenues within the Am °f ”°°°v°l‘ section of the District of Columbia bounded by a line beginning at Second and B streets southeast and running thence along B street south, Third street west, Missouri avenue, Sixth street west, B street north, Twenty-third street west, Rock Creek, Cincinnati street, C0- lumbia road, Sixteenth street west (extended), Park street, Whitne avenue, Eleventh street west, R street north, New Jersey avenue, C street north, and Second street east to the point of beginning, except as hereinafter provided, shall from time to time, as may be prescribed b the Commissioners of said District, be taken down and removed. The work of taking down and removing said poles and wires shall be mgggmzf M Cmdone under the direction of said Comm1ssioners, and it is hereby made f the dutv of said Commissioners to enforce compliance with the provisions of this Act as ex ditiously as may be consistent with the public interests; and the saidm Commissioners are hereby empowered from gr§;‘;f,¤*gg;*d°\{,;¤<;$;· time to time to authorize any individual, company, or corporation now` operatin r and maintaining a telephone plant or system, partly overhead andg partly underground, in the District of Columbia, to extend and enlarge its system of underground conduits, subsidiaries, and manholes in or under any or all of the streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, o1· other public highways in said city and District as may be requisite and necessary for the purposes of this Act and for the reception of such other cables and wires as may be reasonably required in the future by the growth of such individual, company, or corporation or to adequately meet the requirements of the public for telephone service. Sec. 2. That upon the approval of this Act, and from time to time p%‘;*(¤;*§{;;g°¤ *° thereafter, any individual, company, or corporation now maintaining '