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BRIDGE ACROSS THE COOSA RIVER, ALABAMA.

JANUARY 25, 1907.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. ADAMSON, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 24603.]

The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 24603) authorizing the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Coosa River, in the State of Alabama, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it pass.

The bill has the approval of the War Department, as will appear by the indorsements attached and which are made a part of this report.

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Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War.

The accompanying bill (H. R. 24603, 59th Cong., 2d sess.), to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Coosa River near Talladega, Ala., makes sufficient provison for the protection of navigation interests, and I see no objection to its favorable consideration. by Congress, so far as those interests are concerned.

A. MACKENZIE,
Brig. Gen., Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army.

[Third indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT,
January 24, 1907.

Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, inviting attention to the foregoing report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army.

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WASHINGTON MARKET COMPANY.

JANUARY 25, 1907.-Committed to the Committe of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SAMUEL W. SMITH, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. 6470.]

The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 6470) in relation to the Washington Market Company, report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it do pass when amended as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That the Washington Market Company be, and it is hereby, authorized to procure by purchase or lease all or part of square numbered three hundred and twenty-eight in the city of Washington, and thereon conduct a cold-storage business and manufacture ice for use in Center Market and for sale: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be held to limit or affect in any way any of the provisions of an "Act to incorporate the Washington Market Company, approved May 20, 1870."

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act, without any liability therefor, is hereby expressly reserved.

The amendment recommended by your committee specifically designates square No. 328 in the city of Washington, upon which the Washington Market Company is authorized to conduct a cold-storage business and manufacture ice. This square is located in the southwest part of the city, near the Southern Railway freight yards, and separated only from the Potomac River by River street. This portion of the city is not a place of residence, but is used for commercial purposes.

The general purpose of the proposed legislation is to permit the Washington Market Company to conduct a cold storage business and manufacture ice on square 328.

There is some doubt as to whether the company has authority to do this under the powers granted in the act approved May 20, 1870, incorporating the Washington Market Company, and your committee can see no objection to allowing the company the privilege of manufacturing ice at some place away from the present grounds and

buildings. The quantity of produce now stored in the market buildings is very large and constantly increasing, and the space now used for making ice is wanted for the storage of produce, while the ice needed can be more advantageously manufactured elsewhere.

This measure has the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, as will be seen by the following communication:

OFFICE COMMISSIONERS OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

Washington, June 18, 1906.

DEAR SIR: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to submit the following on House bill 20178, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, "In relation to the Washington Market Company," which you referred to them for examination and report.

The object of the bill is to authorize the Washington Market Company, in addition to its other corporate powers, to manufacture ice in connection with its market busi

ness.

The Washington Market Company was incorporated by an act of Congress approved May 20, 1870, to carry on a market business, and the powers granted in the act of incorporation are generally those pertaining to market companies. The Commissioners are informed that there being some doubt as to the right of the company under its present charter to manufacture ice this legislation is desired. It is stated that a great deal of ice is needed for market purposes, which can be more adequately and economically furnished to dealers by the market company than could otherwise be obtained.

The Commissioners know of no objection to the granting of the additional privilege contemplated in the bill to the market company.

Very respectfully,

Hon. J. W. BABCOCK,

HENRY B. F. MACFARLAND, President Board of Commissioners District of Columbia.

Chairman Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives

SERVICE ON FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.

JANUARY 25, 1907.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. OLCOTT, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. 7170.]

The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 7170) to amend an act relating to service on foreign corporations, approved June 30, 1902, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,"" report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it do pass when amended as follows:

Page 1, strike out all of lines 3, 4, 5, and 6, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That the second paragraph of section fifteen hundred and thirty-seven of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall.

The proposed amendment simply adds the words "or employee" to the list of persons upon whom service can be made on foreign corporations which have no place of business in the District.

Section 1537, when amended as proposed in the legislation herewith reported, will read as follows:

SEC. 1537. Service on foreign corporations: In actions against foreign corporations doing business in the District all process may be served on the agent of such corporation or person conducting its business, or, in case he is absent and can not be found, by leaving a copy at the principal place of business in the District, or, if there be no such place of business, by leaving the same at the place of business or residence of such agent in said District, and such service shall be effectual to bring the corporation before the court.

When a foreign corporation shall transact business in the District without having any place of business or resident agent therein, service upon any officer or agent or employee of such corporation in the District shall be effectual as to suits growing out of contracts entered into or to be performed, in whole or in part, in the District of Columbia or growing out of any tort heretofore or hereafter committed in the said District.

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