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 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 42. 1848. 229 lic buildings, or other officer having charge and authority over the piissginfjofpublands and property of the United States lying within the city of Wash- t:’,h€“;u,;{:§jm:‘§ mgton, shall from time to time cause to be opened and improved such in vvashmgmn, avenues and streets, or parts or portions thereof, as the President of and °P°"*“€ the United States, upon application of the corporation of the said 25m' °mm°s’ city, shall deem necessary for the public convenience, and direct to be done; and he shall defray the expenses thereof out of any money arising, or which shall have arisen, from the sale of lots in the city of Washington, belonging, or which may have belonged, to the United States, and from no other fund. And it shall be the duty of the said commissioner, or other United States officer, as aforesaid, upon the application of the mayor, to repair and keep in repair the pavements, watergutters, water-ways and flag foot-ways which have been made or shall be made opposite or along the public squares, reservations, or other property belonging to the United States; as also, on like application, to repair and keep in repair such streets and avenues, or parts thereofj as may have been, or shall hereafter be, opened and improved by the United States; the expense of all such repairs to be paid out of the fund before mentioned. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner of commrssiauar public buildings be, and he is hereby, required to perform the duties of Public b“*ld· , . . . . ings to perform required of the city commissioner by the fourteenth section of the act the duties Pm_ of the twenty-sixth of Mayjeighteen hundred and twenty-four, supple- scribed in ngt of mentary to the act of the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred and 1m*°h" 19* twenty, incorporating the inhabitants of the city of Washington. And it shall be the duty of the commissioner of public buildings, within ninety days after the sale of any lots or squares belonging to the United States in the city of Washington, to report the fact to the cor- ·1»(,,,,,pm,,,m poration of Washington, giving the date of sale, the number of the lot of public lands and square, the name of the purchaser or purchasers, and the said lots  bshfu pon eliaor squares shall be liable to taxation by the said corporation from the ble to mason date of such sale. And no open space, public reservation, or other public ground in the said city, shall be occupied by any private person, or for any private purposes whatever. Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the peace, Jurisdiction 0;- whether they be members of the Boardof Aldermen or Board of'Com-justices of the mon Council or not, who may be selected from time to time by the nm P€a°6' said corporation, to enforce the police regulations and penal laws of ' the said city, as also to issue warrants and to hear and determine cases within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, in which the mayor, Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of the said city shall be plaintilfs, shall have power to issue all such warrants, and all other warrants or processes deemed necessary and proper in cases of violations of the police regulations and penal laws of the corporation, and to hear and determine all such cases, and under the orders of the corporation to issue execution or other final process thereon; and the said justices shall also have power to compel the attendance of witnesses by attachment, and to punish them by line not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding ten days, for refusing obedience to a summons. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the justices of Tam, Oy Omg the peace for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, 9¤d_ *<>m°*;¤l ty? shall be appointed for three years; and upon indictment and convic-  ° t C tion of any justice of the peace, before any court of competent jurist diction, of incompetency, habitual drunkenness, corruption in office, or t of any other wilful misconduct in the discharge of his duties as justice _ of the peace, his commission shall be void, and he shall cease to exer- C cise the office and powers of justice of the peace; and for all -criminal § process or business issued or tried by or before any justice of the