SENATE 72D CONGRESS 1st Session } { REPORT No. 248 INCOME OF RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FEBRUARY 5 (calendar day, FEBRUARY 16), 1932.-Ordered to be printed Mr. KEAN, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 3634] The Committee on the D'strict of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3634) to amend section 600 of the act of March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. 1284; D. C. Code, title 5, sec. 122), having considered the same, reports favorably thereon and recommends that the bill do pass. The bill simply strikes from the provisions of the District of Columbia Code an unduly harsh and restrictive passage, which provides at present that educational and benevolent societies, incorporated under the laws of the District, may "take, receive, hold, and convey real and personal estate necessary for the purposes of the society as stated in their certificate, and other real and personal property the clear annual income from which shall not exceed in value $25,000." The bill proposes to strike out the words "clear annual income from which shall not exceed in value $25,000" and insert in lieu thereof, "income from which shall be applied to the purposes of the society." Inasmuch as the section to be amended covers only organizations dedicated to benevolent, charitable, educational, literary, and similar purposes, the committee feels the bill will be of benefit to such worthy associations, while not weakening in any way the force and effect of present general provisions of the incorporation laws of the District. the O Highway Commission to maintain, as constructed, a free highway bridge across Secretary of War. Hon. SAM RAYBURN, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Chairman Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives. DEAR MR. RAYBURN: Careful consideration has been given to the bill H. R. 8250, transmitted with your letter of January 23, 1932, with request for a report thereon and such views relative thereto as the department might desire to communicate. This bill would authorize the Texas Highway Commission, their successors and assigns, to maintain and operate the free bridge and approaches thereto, as constructed, across Trinity River, between the counties of Navarro and Henderson, State of Texas. The bridge in question is located on the system of Federal-aid highways approved for Texas and is a part of section C of Texas Federal-aid project No. 375. Favorable action on the bill is recommended. 72D CONGRESS 1st Session } SENATE { REPORT No. 248 INCOME OF RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FEBRUARY 5 (calendar day, FEBRUARY 16), 1932.-Ordered to be printed Mr. KEAN, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 3634] The Committee on the D'strict of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3634) to amend section 600 of the act of March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. 1284; D. C. Code, title 5, sec. 122), having considered the same, reports favorably thereon and recommends that the bill do pass. The bill simply strikes from the provisions of the District of Columbia Code an unduly harsh and restrictive passage, which provides at present that educational and benevolent societies, incorporated under the laws of the District, may "take, receive, hold, and convey real and personal estate necessary for the purposes of the society as stated in their certificate, and other real and personal property the clear annual income from which shall not exceed in value $25,000." The bill proposes to strike out the words "clear annual income from which shall not exceed in value $25,000" and insert in lieu thereof, "income from which shall be applied to the purposes of the society." Inasmuch as the section to be amended covers only organizations dedicated to benevolent, charitable, educational, literary, and similar purposes, the committee feels the bill will be of benefit to such worthy associations, while not weakening in any way the force and effect of the SENATE 72D CONGRESS 1st Session } { REPORT No. 254 PIPE LINES FOR OIL AND OIL PRODUCTS IN THE FEBRUARY 17, 1932.-Ordered to be printed Mr. TYDIN GS, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 2496] The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2496) to permit construction, maintenance, and use of certain pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products in the District of Columbia, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon and recommends that the bill do pass. The bill would authorize the District Commissioners to grant permission to the Griffith-Consumers Co. to lay down and use not more than 10 oil pipe lines in southeast Washington, running under property owned by the company and under adjacent public streets and other public land, to the pierhead line of the Anacostia River. Enactment of the legislation is necessary to allow the company to convey oil and oil products from barges at the Anacostia docks through pipe lines to the storage tanks of the company a short distance from the water front. The interests of the District of Columbia and of the United States are fully safeguarded by the bill, which is similar in most respects to pipe-line bills enacted in the Fifty-fourth and Sixty-ninth Congresses. There is appended hereto, as part of this report, the favorable report of the District Commissioners on the bill. There are also attached letters from the commissioners and from the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, commenting favorably on the bill prior to its introduction in the present Congress. The bill has not been changed in any particular since the letters were written. Hon. ARTHUR CAPPER, WASHINGTON, January 19, 1932. Chairman Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate. MY DEAR SENATOR CAPPER: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have no objection to the enactment of S. 2496, Seventy-second Congress, first |