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 748 FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. RES. 40,41. 1902. the volume of agricultural statistics, the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to complete and bring up to date of the crop year of nineteen hundred and two the statistics relating to rrrrgatron, the area of land reclaimed, the cost and value. of the works, and such other information as can be obtained bearing upon the present condition of irrigation. Approved, June 30, 1902. June 30. 1902 [No. 41.] Joint Resolution Giving authority to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make s ial regulations for the occasion of the Thirty-srxthlélatronal [ Encampment of the Gicand Army of the Republic, to be held rn the Drstrrct of Columbia in the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes incident to said encampment. Resolved by the Semzte and House of Representatives of the United G¤·¤d *3**5 Em States of Ame1-tea in Congressassemb, That the Commissioners of the mgfrhligriglroneé pu- District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to make such f,}}§§',§_,°d,,,§°g,§’,§‘T{'§§lb€ special reglulations for the occasion of the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which will take place in the District of Columbia during the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, as they shall deem advisable for the preservation of public order and the protection of life and property, to be in for·ce one week prior to said encampment, during said encampment, and one week subsequent rutrremou. thereto. Such special regulations shall be published in one or more of the daily newspapers of the District of Columbia, and no penalty rescribed for the violation of such regulations shall be enforced until Schedule of <=·*>- Eve days after such publication; and said Commissioners are authorm" m°°` ized and directed to establish a special schedule of fares applicable to ugenslty fer ri<>¤¤· public conveyances in said District during the period aforesaid. Any ` person violating any of the aforesaid regulatrons or the aforesaid schedule of fares shall, upon conviction thereof in the police court of the said District, be liable for such offense to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, and in default of payment of such fine to imprisonment in the workhouse (or jail; of said District for not longer than Ar>¤¤>1¤fi=*i¤¤· sixty days. This resolution s all take effect immediately upon its approval, and the sum of eleven thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, payable from any money rn the Treasury not otherwise appropriate and from the revenues of the District of Columbia, in equal parts, is hereby appropriated to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to carry out the rovisions of ,,,§,‘;"§g?°m‘°" “‘”‘ this section one of this joint resolution, one thousand dollirrs of which 1>eJ1.p. rm. shall be available for the construction, maintenance, and o eration of public-comfort stations and information booths, under the direction of said Commissioners. ‘"“”"°"°‘°“· Sno, 2. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to permit the committee on illumination of the citizens’ executive committee for the entertainment of the Thirty-sixth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to stretch suitable conductors, with sufficient supports wherever necessarv, for _ the purpose of effecting] the said illumination within the District of gmmmym Columbia: Prmridecl, That the said Conductors shall not be used for the conveying of electrical currents after· October fifteenth, nineteen _ hundred and two, and shall, with their sup rts, be fully and entirely removed from the streets and avenues of th); said city of Washington Plmmaudmmovul on or- before October twentieth, nineteen hundred and two; Provided ,,,w,,,,,_ jin-Me]-, That the stretching and removing of the said wires shall be under the supervision of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia who shall see that the provisions of this resolution are enforced, that all needful precautions are taken for the protection of the public, and that the pavement of any street, avenue, or alley disturbed is replaced in as good condition as before entering upon the work herein