Volume 21
Public Law 46–16
to confer upon the Commissioners of the District of Columbia certain powers, duties, and limitations contained in chapter eight (Water Service) of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Approved June 10, 1879
Statutory text
An Act
to confer upon the Commissioners of the District of Columbia certain powers, duties, and limitations contained in chapter eight (Water Service) of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have all the powers and be subject to all the duties and limitations provided in chapter eight of the Devised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, excepting such powers and duties as belong to the Chief of Engineers: Provided, That water-main taxes and water rents shall be uniform in said District: And provided further, That the rate of interest specified in section two hundred and two of said Revised Statutes shall be increased to ten per centum per annum from and after the passage of this act.
Sec. 2.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is,
Advances for improvements.
directed to advance to said Commissioners the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by payment into the Treasury of the United States, until said sum is paid in full, of all collections of water main taxes now due said District; and the money so advanced shall be expended to improve the water supply on Capitol Hill.
Approved, June 10, 1879.