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FIFIY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 992. 1903.981 For fuel, repairs to boilers, machiner , and um in stations i F"°l·°*°· distribution to high and low service, matberial fog high aliid low seiwgidii including public hydrants and iire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, layin new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing tire plugs and purchase and maintenance of horses, wagpns, carts, an harness necessary for the proper execution of this wor , one hundred thousand dollars. For continuing the extension of the high—service system of water dis- H’¥h‘“'"°° °”*°“‘~ tribution, and for laying necessary trunk mains for low service, to include all necessary lan , machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appro riated. - Sec. 2. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not m};}g¤*° °¤ ’°¤¤l¤· make requisitions u n the appropriations from the Treasury of the ` United States for anger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hun- l dred and four than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District, except as otherwise piqlvide herein. Sec. 3. t until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred TrQjs';,‘;°“ *’°”*‘“*° and four, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to ` advance, on the requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, made in the manner now prescribed by law, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary from time to time to meet the general expenses of said District, as authorized by Congress, and to reimburse the Treasury for the portion of said advances payable by the District of Columbia out of the taxes and revenues collected for the sup rt of _ the government thereof: Provided, That all advances made undldii this Q‘f,'};’;,,,, ,,],,,,,,8,, Act and under the Acts of February eleventh. nineteen hundred and ugiilvgid- ,66 one, and June first, nineteen hundred and two, not reimbursed to the °' 'p' I ` Treasurv of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen A"'=’·¥··*“°- hundred and four, shall be reimbursed to said Treasury out of the revenues of the District of Columbia from time to time, within tive years, beginning J \1l{ iirst, nineteen hundred and four, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum until so _ reimbursed: P>·0vided_further, That interest on a vances made rior "°“‘“"“"““"*"°“" to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, in the accounts oi) the District of Columbia with the United States, shall be computed for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and paid immediately after the close thereof from the revenues of the District of Columbia, and the same rule of computation and payment of interest shall apply to all advances made for the fiscal (yeear nineteen hundred and three, and subsequent fiscal years: Pr·0z·i rl further, That the Auditor for the “°¤°*'°· State and other Departments and the auditor of the District of Columbia shall each annually re rt the amount of such advances, stating the account for each tiscalmyear separately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any, due to the United States: Ami pr0•vz`ded fin·the1·. That nothing beS;’f({ f,’j},j,“§§Q;j,;‘{ contained herein shall be so construed as to require the United States revenues. to bear any part of the cost of street extensions, and all advances heretofore or hereafter made for this purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be repaid in full from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act R°P°°·l· are repealed. Approved, March 3, 1903.