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SOO F IFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 461,462%-465. 1901. _ writing) and filed in the office of the Commissioners of the District of agg3{%%$c_wh°"° °° Colum ia. If there be no agent or tenant known to said Commis- . sioners, notice of such assessment shall be iven by the officer designated by the Commissioners to perform tgat duty under authority V°‘· 3°· P· m vested in them by an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the reassess- ` ment of water-main taxes in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-e·ight, - by advertisement once a weei for two successive weeks in some newspaI;g,‘;e§¤S°¤¤m°¤*¤ paper published in said_District. Water-main assessments or taxes shall be payable in three equal installments, the first of which shall be payable without interest within thirty days from the date of such service or of the last publication of said notice, as the case may be; the second within one year, and the third within two years from the date of such service or of the last publication of said notice; and interest at the rate of six per centum per annum shall be charged on all amounts. which shall remain unpaid at the ex iration of thirty days from the date _ of such service or of the last publication of said notice.

  • °“"“°°“°“- In said publication of said notice each several piece of property shall

be described in a separate paragraph. The cost of publication of the notice herein provided for shall be added to the amount of said assessment and collected in the same manner that said assessment is collected. Repeais. Sec. 2. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, February 21, 1901. February 23, 1901. GHAP. 468.-An Act For the establishment of a light-house and fog signal at "’"""`_`;' Point No Point, in Chesapeake Bay, between Cove Point and Smiths Point. Be it enacted by tbe Senate and House of Re resentatilves of the United C,}°e§,{;,§,k‘{,°Ba1;?*““* States 0_fAmerica in Congress assembled, Tlipat a light-house and fog Ihiglgflgiggrgg. etc-. signal be established at Point No Point, in the Chesapeake Bay, °° between Cove Point and Smiths Point. at a cost not to exceed the sum · of sixty-ve thousand dollars. _ Approved, February 23, 1901. February 23,1901. CHAP. 464.-An Act To provide an American register for the steamer Enterprise. _ - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R esentattoes of the United §§‘;§,"‘,§,§ EX*§,‘e`§,?j‘§; States of America in Congress assembled, gt the Commissioner of register- . Navigation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steamer St. Georg, wrecked in Cuban waters, and purchased and wholly owned by the Merritt and Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company, of New York City, incorporated under the laws of ·West Virginia, and now under repair by said company, to be registered as a vessel of the United States under the name of Enterprise, whenever it shall be shown to the Commissioner of Navigation that the repairs and salva e on the vessel amount to three times the actual cost of the > wreck to ger owners. Approved, February 23, 1901. February 23.1901-CHAP. 465.-—An Act To amend section forty-four hundred and twenty-seven, "`;""' title nity-two, of the Revised Statutes, relating to mspectors of hulls and boilers. Be it enacted by the Senate and Housl;;,fReprese¢ztatives of the United m§;°°c’g°mE°(‘]{h§r°;;,§ States of America in Congress assemb , , That the amendment to secsons tm crew. tion forty-four hundred and twenty-seven, approved July ninth, v,,I§§]§°1§§??,§.75§hi5§j eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An Act relating to the