FIFTYSECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 72-74. 1892. 37 For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the heating appa- r¤¤1,ew. ratus, iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, forty-three dollars and two cents. For purchase of furniture, fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty rumiem. dollars: Provided, That the rooms in the Maltby building shall be rama. hereafter controlled and from time to time assigned for public uses by M*§f§{,§,”,‘}},‘}§‘§§',;Y°“* the Committee on Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, three _R¤v¤iri¤g.m..f¤r~ hundred dollars. “‘°“"‘ For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons Horses mi www · for carrying the mails, one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, eight thousand nine Misccumwun. hundred dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. utlfggfe ·>fR<=1>¤=¤¤¤¢ For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select com- wsceuaueousitems mittees, ten thousand dollars · °°“‘ Approved, May 13, 1892. CHAP. 73.-An act to authorize the construction of a telephone line on the coast May B 189% of Virginia from Cape Charles to Assateague Island, in aid of the preservation of —-—; lifean property. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in 0'ongrees assembled, That the Secretary of the Laresaviuasewiee. Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to establish a tele- Cfj},f_{]_h;]}*g_s;'g°f;Qg phone line upon the coast of Virginia hom Cape Charles to Assateague Island, va. Island, providing telephonic communication between the lifesaving stations upon said coast and connecting said line from some convenient point with a locality where telegraphic communication may be had with the principal seaports of the Atlantic coast. SEc. 2. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Am,,.,p,,,,,,,,,_ act the sum of ilfteen thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available. Approved, May 13, 11892. CHAP. 74.-An act to amend an act entitled "Au act relating to tax sales and May 1g_15oz_ taxes in the District of Columbia." —————-g--—-— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprc·senlatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That an act entitled “An act rama or ctim relating to tax sales and taxes in the District of Columbia," approved "‘;;i_ f February sixth, eighteen and seventy-nine, be, and the same is hereby, ,,0;;, ;_“,,;°°”‘ amended so as to read as follows: *·That it shall be the duty of the Am,;,,`,,, ,,,,k,,_ assessor for the District of Columbia to prepare and keep in his office, for public inspection, a list of all real estate in the District of Columbia heretofore sold, or which may hereafter be sold, for the non-payment of any general or special tax or asessment levied or assessed upon the same, said list to show the date of sale and for what taxes sold ; in whose name assessed at the time of sale; the amount for which the same was sold; when and to whom conveyed if deeded, or, if redeemed from said sale, the date of redemption. And it shall be the duty of said assessor, whenever ealledupon, tofurnish, in addition to the regular tax bills, a certified state- ceruneims unpaid ment, over his hand and oincial seal, of all taxes and assessments, gen- ‘“°“‘ eral and special, that may be due and unpaid at the time of making said certincate; and for each and every certificate so furnished by said assessor, the party requesting the same shall pay into the Treasury of I-,,,_ said District a fee of fifty cents ; and said certificate when furnished shall
