Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 1.djvu/1035

 SIXTY·FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 192, 193. 1911. 1011 with any responsible person, firm, company, or corporation for the ,,,§;"“”·°” “““*°‘· maintenance of napht a or oil lamps, equipped with mantle burners ' of not less than sixty candlepower, at a price not to exceed twenty- two dollars and eighty cents per lamp per annum, which price shall include the entire cost of furnishing, installing, and maintaining all necessary ppsts, lanterns, burners, street designations, and fixtures. Sec. 8. ereafter each and eve public gas, naphtha, or oil lamp mg;lmg*¤“* °°"*°° in the District V of Columbia shrill [burn each mght from twenty ` minutes after sunset until forty minutes before sunrise, and each and I every electric lamp shall burn from fifteen minutes after sunset until forty-five minutes before sunrise, in accordance with schedules to be Iprepared by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. ereafter no public electric lamp shall be maintained by means of ,u’f,*;e*]{I$E3‘;,$¤;‘,c”‘*°¤ overhead wires within either the city limits of Washington or the ` existing fire limits of the District of Columbia. Hereafter proportionate deductions shall be made from the amounts d‘};'ggg;°}g§§;§,ng°g due lighting com anies for failure to furnish the illumination required rprnisnneznlsrandurd by law for pubfic lighting in the District of Columbia, and each hglm com any shall furnis, at 1ts own expense, when and as required by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, all prolper and necessary facilities, testing places, and apparatus at its p ant, and such help at points on its mains or circuits as to enable the said commissioners to determine whether the required illumination is bei _ furnished. For each and every lam which shall be extinguishldd I lpduction gw pm or not lighted during any portion of are schedule time of lighting, a °' “”"’°"°t um ““‘ pro rata deduction, based upon the period of nonillumination and the price per lamp: shall be made from said amounts. Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not q,§°,;‘,§f"°" “°° "* be required to execute contracts for gas and electric l` hting. H6Y6&ft€I 8.Ily gasllgllt COH1p8.I1y 01* any Glectldclilght company t Eeualtg joinreiusiug doing business in the District of Columbia, which shall fail or refuse to ° mms ° ps’°°°' furnish, erect, maintain, move, or discontinue any street lamp in com liance with the foregoin provisions as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may direct, shall be subject to a enalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every day’s failure or refiisal so to do, to be recovered at law in the name of the District of Columbia in anydzourt of competent jurisdiction. ien ordered the commissioners to do so, lightin companies ,ag'*¢¤gtQ¤“¤¤°•= ¤* in the District of Cblumbia shall discontinue an public Iam s main- pl ` tained by them without further payment therefbr, and shal.l)remove from the streets, at their own expense, all posts, lanterns, and fixtures connected therewith. _ Sec. 9. The Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds C,,",§{*§’,§‘j'“‘§{§,‘?_°“°,,,,§" may transfer apparatus, appliances, equipments, and suppllies of ;=¤¤;;{§{ugi;¢;g¤**¤¤¢5 any kind, discontinued or ermanentg out of service, to suc other pp ’ ' branches of the service of the United tates, or District of Columbia, whenever, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in his jud ment the interests of the Government service may reguire it. A ditailed statement of all such transfers shall be submitte in the S°"‘°“‘°“"°"““°"· annual report to Congress of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds. Sec. 10. That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are m{)¤;$>é¤;*¤*°¤° *¤W¤ inconsistent with this act are repealed. ` Approved, March 2, 1911. CHAP. 193.-An Act To authorize the Sheridan Railway and Light Company to March 2. M1- construct and operate railway, telegraph, telephone, electric power, and trolley lines [s· wml through the Fort Mackenzie Military Reservation, and for other purposes. [Public, :%.442.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 Re esentatives 0 the United States of America in Congress a.ssembled{Thisil>` the Sheridiin Railway·Mfli’¤;twMlf¤g¤ii’•liii>i¤l and Light Company, a corporation created under and by virtue of the W"'