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458 F IFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 3532, 3533. 1906. by certain monuments, and to pay for the same not to exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from funds heretofore apropriated for purchase of sites for fortifications and seacoast defenses: gfgfémeum em %rm;ided, That the city of Boston shall build a masonry wall, which required." shall be approved by the Secretary of Wa1·, at least ten feet in height above the ground level, extending across said Deer Island, to separate the portion of said island hereby authorized to be acquired from the remaining portion of said island; and shall remove the piggery from the portion of the island hereby authorized to be acquired, and discontinue interments in the cemetery within said area, and shall permit the United States Government to connect its water mains with the city’s water-supply mains on said island, and furnish water to the Govern- Action by Boston. ment at current rates: Provided jitrthe1·, That before making payment for the said land the Secretary of War may require the city of Boston to execute such valid agreement or obligation as he may consider nec essary to insure full compliance with all the requirements of the foregoing proviso. 9_gI;§’*%Q;Y6j,g*éé‘l{,Q;j Sec. 2. That the United States shall be liable for any damage to the property of the city of Boston or to the works of the North Metropol- 1tan Sewerage System located on said island that may be caused by the firing of guns in time of peace from batteries erected within the area that may be acquired as aforesaid; and the Secretary of War is authorized an directed, whenever any such damage occurs, to ascertain and determine what would be a reasonable and proper compensation to pay tlhe city of Boston and shall certify the same to Congress for consi eration. Approved, June 25, 1906. i -T¤¤¢> 25. 1906- CHAP. 3533.-—An Act To amend sections seven hundred and thirteen and seven

 hundred and fourteen of "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of

[Public, No. 285.] Columbia," approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the gsésfgppiglgid gangtgy thirty-first and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, l` O P Pp S S. Dmmmcommm Be it enacted by tee Senate and House of Repreeentatvhies of the United Coda_ States af America uz Lbngress assembled, That sections seven hundred §,j>{fg§¤[*;¤1¤§g;; V0, and thirteen and seven hundred and fourteen of an Actentitled ‘ ‘An Act sz, p. m4.' ’to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia," approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended b the Acts approved January thirty-tirst and June thirticth, nineteen iiundred and two, are Au Q vi t hereby amended so as, respectively, to read as follows: and bsigkiggxggefg; 'Sico. 715. All savings banks, or savings companies, or trust comggmigxggréatggrnép- panics, or other banking institutions, organized under authority of v.,,_ 3Q_ p MX; any Act of Congress to do business in the District of Columbia, or °m°"d°‘*· organized by virtue of the laws of any of the States of this Union, an having an office or banking house located within the District of Columbia where deposits or savings are received, shall be, and are hereby, required to make to the Comptroller of the Currcncv and to publish all the reports which national banking associations are required mni€Gs$33As211~ms, to make and publish under the provisions of sections fifty-two hundred ’ and eleven, hfty-two hundred and twelve, and fifty-two hundred and thirteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and shall be sub]ect to the same penalties for failure to make such reports as are therein provided, which penalties may be collected by suit before the h_y··¤~·er or C¢>mp!r<>1— supreme court of the District of Columbia. And the Comptroller shall have power, when in his opinion it is necessary, to take possession of any such bank or company, for the reasons and in the manner Primm and to the same extent as are provided in the laws of the United Foreign houses. States with'respect to national banks: Provided, hou-ever, That banking institutions having offices or banking houses in foreign countries