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 474 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cris. 222, 223. 1908. nepssn. Sec. 3. That within sixty days from the approval of this Act the com n shall de it one thousand dollars with the collector of taxes of th: gistrict otpagolumbia to guarantee the construction of its railway within the prescribed time. If this sum is not so deposited, this Forfvitvre- charter shall be void. If the sumis so deposited and the road is not ` in 0 ration as herein prescribed, said one thousand dollars shall be · forfgigted to the District of Columbia and this charter shall be void. Penalty. Sec. 4. That failure or neglect to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, except as hereinbefore provided for, shall render the said corporation liable to a fine of twentyfive dollars for each and every day during which such failure or neg act shall continue, which penalty may be recovered in the name of the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of the said District in any court of competent jurisdiction: mm. Provided, however, That unless the line of the said railway shall be _,,§*‘“"°*°°"‘*"°‘*°“· completed, with cars running regularly thereon for the accommodation of passen ers, within two years from the date of the passage of this Act this charter shall be null and void. Fm- Sec. 5. That the said company, in conjunction with the Capital Traction Company, may receive a rate of fare not exceeding live cents for each passenger for one continuous ride over the route aforesaid and the route of the said Capital Traction Com ny within the District of Columbia, or any part thereof, and shall seflntrckets at the rate of · six for twenty-five cents. umuuom, em., of Sec. 6. That all the powers, rights, duties, and limitations imposed
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· Tzansit Company to enter the District of Columbia, approved une eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall be app icable to the ,.;,0,,,,,,,, extension of the line of said company as proposed erein except as said Act may be amended by the provisions ereof, it being the intent that said original Act shall be a plied to this extension in the same manner as if said extension had been included in the original Act. negmaucns. Sec. 7. That the privileges herein granted are granted on the express condition that cars shall be run under such rules as may from time to time be made by the District Commissioners, and any violation rensny me mm. of which shall be a misdemeanor, and for any such violation said cor- “°“· poration shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not to exceed two hundred dollars. Amendment. Sec. 8. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act. Approved, May 29, 1908. Mné 32, CHAP. 228.-An Act To establish an assay office at Salt Lake City, State of Utah. {Public, No. 163.] Be it enacted by the Senate and [{0use of Representatives of the United ssnmk»o1¢y,omn. States of America in Cbngreas assembled, That the Secretary of the u;},;'jf{,_°m“° °”"“’° Treasur is hereby authorized and required to establish an assay office V¤i.17.p·424· of the Uyhited States at Salt Lake City, in the State of Utah; said assay ' office to be conducted under the provisions of the Act entitled "An ,,,,{‘·8Y;,;,;,‘§‘,a_3‘“’* l’· Act revising and amending the laws relating to the mints and assay y offices and the coinage of the United States,” approved February. °¤"w<·¤· twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; that the officers of the assay office shall be an assayer in char e, at a salary of two thousand tive hundred dollars per annum, who iall also perform the duties of melter; chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars mm. per annum; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to _ _ rent a suitable building for the use of said assay office, and there is A”'°*’“°°°”‘ hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise . appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars for salary of assayer in charge, chief clerk, and wages of workmen, rent, and contingent expenses. Approved, May 30, 1908.