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 668 SIXTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cus. 247, 249. 1922. T°"”’$· eastern division of said middle judicial district. Terms of the district court for the northern division shall be held at Montgomery on the first Tuesdays in May and December; for the southern division, at Dothan on the first Mondays in June and December; and for the Promlso. eastern division, at Opelika on the first Mondays in April and Novem- R°°’¤“°°P“l“‘°· ber: Provided, That suitable rooms and accommodations for holding court at Opelika shall be furnished free of ex ense to the Governomoos. ment. The clerk of the court for the middle district shall maintain an office in charge oil himself hp; safdeputy at Dotl3in,h1z;nd sihlag maintainanofiiceinc ar eof ° se ora e utyat pe` a,w `c _ _ said offices at Dothan anill Opelika shall be liept open at all times §{{,‘§,“,}§$§§‘§f,;_ for the transaction of the business of said divisions. The southern district shall include the territory embraced on the lst dag of July, _ _ _ _ 1910, in the counties of Baldwin, Choctaw,Clarke, Conecuh, scambia, i‘°'”‘°'“ d“"“°“‘ Mobile, Monroe, and Washington, which shall constitute the southern division of said district; also the territory embraced in the date last mentioned in the counties of Dallas, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Terms and Wilcox, which shall constitute the northern division of said ' district. Terms of the district court for the southern division shall be held at Mobile on the fourth Mondays in May and November; and for the northern division, at Selma on the second Mondays in January and JuIy." Approved, June 27, 1922. hum ”» mz CHAP. 249.-An Act Mak1ng` appropriations for the vernment of the District of Columbia and other activities charigliabxle in whole or ingogart against the revenues of ' such District for the Hscal year ending June 30, 1923, an for other purposes. I _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re resentatives of the United i)i;g$iii2irC°iiimi22£ States of America in Congress assembled, 'llltnat, annually, from and gsxgiespegebfndfrgg after July _1, 1922, 60 per centum of s_uch expenses of the District uoaodsmés. of Columbia as Congress may a ropriate for shall be paid out of the revenues of the istrict of Cibliumbia derived from taxation and privileges, and the remaining 40 per centum by the United States, excepting such_items of expense as Congress may direct shall be paid Vx: Ulejggeagg  on another basis; and that in order that the District of Columbia may soosxpogponvzoensmi be able annually to comply with the provisions hereof, and also in ’“"‘” ‘°*"”'?" order that the said District may be put upon a cash basis as to pay- ment of expenses, there hereby is levied or each of the iiscal years ending June 30, 1923, 19*24, 1925, 1926, and 1927, a tax at such rate on the full value, and no less, of all real estate and tangible ersonal prplperty subject to taxation in the District of Columbia as will, when ad ed to the revenues derived from privileges and from the tax on N gm) U lfranclnses, corporations, and public utilities, as fixed by law, and ,,,,:{,§‘,‘§;‘,,§_ "“" ‘“ also from the tax, which hereby is levied, on such intangible personal property as is subject to taxation in the District of Columbia, at the rate of five-tenths of 1 per centum on the full market value thereof, produce money enough to pay such annual expenses as may be imposed on the District of Columbia by Congress, and in addition to S“’P*‘“"¤“‘· such annual expenses a. surplus fund sufficient to enable the District Pa me qwmmb of Columbia to ggt upon a cash—payirli‘g basis by the end of the fiscal ,,uy,y “ year 1927; and t at beginning with J y 1, 1922, and annually thereafter, one·half of the tax levied u on taxable real and personal pro erty in the District of Columbia sliall become due and payable on tliie first day of November of each year and the other half of such tax shall become du_e and payable on the first day of Ma of each year; an_d if either said installment of such tax shall not be Hglid within _ thirty days of the date it is due and payable, said insta ent shall P°“"“Y’°' ‘°"“’*°· thereupon be in arrears and delinquent; and there shall then be added, to be collected with such tax, a penalty at the rate of 1 per centum