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 290 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 141, 142. 1910. Arid! 4. 1910- CHAP. 141.-An Act To authdrize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia S· *52*] to accept donations of money and land for the establishment of a branch library in the District of Columbia, to establish a commission to supervise the erection oi a branch Ilibraghy building in said District, and to provide for the suitable maintenance of said ran. Be it enacted by the Senate and House cfRepresentattves oftbe United ijyggcgggccglgplgg; States of America in Ucngress assembled, That the Commissioners of mm Indrew came the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to accept {-ifk§,'§§, {>§¥{'§{,§,§; from Andrew Carnegie a donation not less than thirty thopsand md- dollars for the purpose of erecting a suitable branch l1brary building Pm P' 12% in Takoma Park, subject to the approval of the commissioners an . the public library trustees, and to accept conveyance of unencumbered landp considered suitable by the said commissioners and library trustees s,_?;*“*“¤¤ °°”“°“‘ as a site for a branch library for Takoma Park. And authority IS hereby conferred upon a commission, to consist of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the chairman of- the committee on branch libraries of the library trustees, and the librarian of the public library of the District of Columbia, to supervise the erection of said branc d°,m¤,_ library building: Prmnfded, That such branch library building shall not be opened or public use until Congress shall hereafter provide for the necessar expenses of maintaining said branch library when the same shall lie completed and ready or such use: And provided kv°¤•<*~ further, That the appropriation for suc expenses shall not exceed in any one year the sum of ten per centum of the total cost of such building. Approved, April 4, 1910. _ April 4. 1910. CHAP. 142.-An Act To enable the city of Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona lH· R- 13*0]-] Territory, to issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring and constructing a waterworks [Pub]ic_ N0_ ]]5_] plant in and fol‘ said City. , Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United g';‘;g}g';§;é‘,§;g’,;ds,0, States of America in Congress assembled, That the city of Douglas, wacerwcrks. Cochise County, Arizona Territory, a municipal corporation duly . organized and existing as a city un er the general laws of said Territory, be, and it is hereby, authorized to incur and contract an indebtedness to the amount of three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the acquisition of an adequate system of waterworks in and for said city by the purchase of the existing Waterworks plant therein at a price not to exceed the sum of two hundred and twenty-tive thousand dollars, and by the construction of additional waterworks by the way of the enlargement and extension of said plant at a cost not to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; and to issue its negotiable - coupon bonds to said aggregate amount of three hundred and twenty- ` five thousand dollars. w§§,‘:;;d°' °l°°“°“ Sec. 2. That the acts and proceedings of the mayor and common ` council of said city of Douglas in and about the calling, holding, ascertaining, and declaring the result of a special election in said city on October sixteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, on the following ‘ proposition: “Shall the city of Douglas, Cochise County, Territory of Arizona, borrow the sum of three hundred and twenty-tive thousand dollars and issue its negotiable coupon bonds therefor for the purpose of acquiring the existing waterwor s plant and constructing additional waterworks in and for said city, of which sum two hundred and twenty- five thousand dollars is to be expended for the purchase of said existing waterworks plant, and not exceeding the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is to be expended for said additional waterworks construction," and in and about the passage on December sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, of ordinance numbered ninety-three, entitled "An ordinance roviding for the issuance of negotiable coupon bonds of the city of Douglas, Arizona Territory, to the amount of