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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 102-104. 1910. 239 purposes in said square, but for the purposes of said overhead track no present grades of Twelfth street shall be disturbed, and said overhead track shall have a clearance of at least eighteen feet above the curb of said street, and said overhead track and the underground conduit and pipes hereby authorized shall be located and from time to time moved as may be directed by the said Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and be laid and maintained under their inspection in such locations as they may prescribe, and the cost of such inspection and of replacing the pavements, curbs, and sidewalks distur ed by said Work shall be aid by the parties to whom the permits shall be granted: Promkted, 'llghat the Washington Market Company, §'u‘f,”§§f· franchise its successors or assigns, to whom under authority of this Act per- mx. ` mission may be granted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to construct or maintain the overhead track and line of conduit hereinbefore authorized shall pay for the privilege of the construction and maintenance in public space of the said overhead track conduit and pi es an annual franchise tax of one hundred dollars, which sum shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia duringthe month of May of each ear subsequent to the grantirgg by the commissioners of the originalypermit for the work: rovid further, That failure to pay to the collector of taxes the said p,’},,‘§,‘},‘}}§?‘°““f°'“°“' sum annually within the period named shall operate to annul and render void the privileges herein authorized in respect to the overhead track conduit and pipes referred to: And provided further, That DlSP°“m°” °“¤· any sumspaid to the co ector of taxes in accordance with this measure shall be ieredited as are other taxes of the District of Columbia: .A¤d¤ , That the franchise tax of one hundred dollars uegthq *¤°='· °°¤¤¤· above a to shall be in addition to any and all other taxes now ' or hereafter imposed by law} Sec. 2. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal ·““°”‘*m€“‘· this Act. Approved, March 23, 1910. ‘ CHAP. 103.-Au Act To amend an Act to incorporate the Masonic Temple Asso- l‘*{gh3@9*;’1°· ciation of the District of Columbia. . Be it enacted by t/we Senate and House O_fR€§I‘6887t¢d¢?:068 of the United States of America in (jbngress assemtzled, That the Act entitled "An {,*:*;§’;§g°,gL“:`°l§*fé Act to incorporate the Masonic Temple Association of the District of Aswcmmn. Colun1bia,” approved the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and d,,%{,’§§l‘“ l"Ml“g"“ ninety-eight, be, and the same hereby is, amende% by adding to and a¤¥>x;hed$°· P· 358- as a part of section three of the said Act the following: ` "At the annual election of the board of managers and at all other stockholders’ meetings of the said Masonic Temple Association, each body owning capital stock of the said corporation shall be entitled to one vote for eac share of stock held by it." Approved, March 23, 1910. CHAP. 104.-An Act To authorize the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway M‘{§h6?%,_§91°· Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Missouri River in the neigh— ____..Lj._.. borhood of Sibley, Missouri, and to remove the existing structure. [Public, No. 91.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Atchison, Topeka §§§1°,;*0’j1R*§,Yg§;ekB and Santa Fe Railway Company is hereby authorized to construct, nm sued Fe remmaintain, and operate, in connection with its railway, and in accord- §§§,{a?°§`{’§?;§i£y,!§°°’: ance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the V°·$*·P·“· construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty~third, nineteen hundred and six, a new bridge across the Missouri River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in the