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[first column] SCHEDULE OF WATER RENTS.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, March 17, 1891.

AN ACT to confer upon the Commissioners of the District of Columbia certain powers, duties, and limitations contained in chapter eight (Water Service) of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have all powers and be subject to all the duties and limitations provided in chapter eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, excepting such powers and duties as belong to the Chief of Engineers: Provided, That water-main taxes and water rents shall be uniform in said District: And provided further, That the rate of interest specified in section two hundred and two of said Revised Statutes shall be increased to ten per centum per annum from and after the passage of this act.

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Approved June 10, 1879.

Ordered, That under the authority invested in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia by the above-recited act the following schedule of annual water rents is adopted, to take effect on the first day of July, 1891, and will continue in force until otherwise ordered:

DOMESTIC RATES.

The rates for domestic purposes will be charged according stories and front feet.

On all tenements two stories high, with a front width of sixteen (16) feet or less, three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) per annum.

For each additional front foot, or fraction thereof, twenty-five (25) cents.

For each additional story or part thereof, one-third of the charges as computed above.

SPECIAL BUSINESS AND MISCELLANEOUS RATES.

In every case where dwelling-houses or tenements are occupied also for business purposes according to the above rates will be made, and addition thereto, the special business rates as hereinafter specified.

Special and miscellaneous business will be charged at the following rates, viz:

Armories, according to fixtures.

Bakeries, from three to thirty dollars per annum.

Barber shops, first chair, three dollars; each additional chair, one dollar and fifty cents per annum.

Bar-rooms and Restaurants, from fifteen to fifty dollars per annum.

Billiard-rooms from five to twenty dollars per annum.

Boarding and Tenement-Houses will be charged at a rate in accordance with the stories and front feet, and in addition thereto fifty cents per annum for each and every room over and above the number of three rooms in said boarding-house or tenement.

Boarding-Schools and School-Houses, from five to ten dollars per annum.

Brick-Yards, ten to fifty dollars per annum, according to production. Machinery and horse power extra, at regular rates.

Building purposes, for each one thousand bricks laid, three cents per thousand. Machinery used for hoisting will be for at rate for stationary engines. Special rates will be charged for public works.

Clubs and Club-rooms, according to fixtures.

Colleges, (Law, Medical, and Business, etc.), according to fixtures.

Cows, twenty-five (25) cents each.

Depots, Locomotive engines taking water once per day, seventy-five dollars; twice per day, one hundred and fifty dollars. The building extra, according to number of offices, bars, and refreshment rooms; fixtures extra.

Dye-Houses, five to thirty dollars per annum. Machinery taking water, extra.

Eating-Houses and Lunch-Rooms, from five to twenty dollars per annum.

Fixtures in Business Establishments, as follows: Wash basins, sinks,water closets, and urinals, three dollars per annum.

Florists will be charged at the rate of from five to twenty dollars per annum, according to the size of the premises.

Fountains will be charged as follows: One-sixteenth of an inch jet, five dollars per annum; for a one-eighth of an inch jet, ten dollars per annum; for one-quarter of an inch jet, twenty dollars per annum; for one-half inch jet, fifty dollars per annum; for three-quarters of an inch jet, seventy-five dollars per annum; and for an inch jet, one hundred and fify dollars per annum. Fountains will be used only between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 a.m., from April 1 to December 1.

Fountains in stores, according to size of jet as above.

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