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requests was from a consumer supplied by a private plant, which does not come under the jurisdiction of this commission as an electrical corporation.

TABLE 30.-Summary of tests of watthour meters made under the supervision of the commission.

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Total number of meters tested, 27; number of meters found creeping, 2.

TAXICAB INSPECTION.

The electrical inspection bureau has been investigating the subject of the regulation of taxicabs and the testing of taximeters in other cities. The inspector of electric meters visited New York and made a thorough study of the municipal regulations of taxicabs in that city. A draft of regulations for the District of Columbia is now being prepared.

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APPENDICES.

APPENDIX A.

ORDERS AND OPINIONS OF THE COMMISSION.

The following are the orders and opinions of the commission issued during the year. In the case of orders and opinions which form part of a formal case, and opinions of the general counsel adopted by the commission, and which, therefore, appear in full in Appendix C or Appendix D, respectively, a summary only is given. Personnel orders are given in summary form also.

ORDER No. 44.-FORMAL CASE NO. 7.

JANUARY 5, 1914.

Deciding that the Terminal Taxicab Co. and the Federal Taxicab Co. are utilities within the jurisdiction of the commission and directing those companies to furnish certain information; deciding also that the Blue Line Transfer Co. and the Merchants' Transfer & Storage Co. are not utilities within the jurisdiction of the commission.

ORDER No. 45.-FORMAL CASE NO. 26.

JANUARY 6, 1914.

Denying the petition of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of New York to purchase bonds of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia.

ORDER No. 46.

Appointing William A. Gebicke, clerk.

ORDER No. 47.

JANUARY 19, 1914.

FEBRUARY 12, 1914.

In the matter of the revocation of District Electric Rail

way Order No. 114 of the Interstate Commerce Com-P. U. C. No. 204/16. mission.

The commission having before it the application of The Capital Traction Co. for the approval of a change of the headway between the eastbound cars on its Pennsylvania Avenue line between Seventh Street west and Eighth Street east, between the hours of 6.03 o'clock and 6.20 o'clock p. m., on all days except Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, as prescribed in District Electric Railway Order No. 114 of the Interstate Commerce Commission, dated September 23, 1912, it is

Ordered, That said District Electric Railway Order No. 114 of the Interstate Commerce Commission, prescribing headway between eastbound cars on the Pennsylvania Avenue line of The Capital Traction Co. between Seventh Street west and Eighth Street east between the hours of 6.03 o'clock and 6.20 o'clock p. m., on all days except Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, is hereby revoked.

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ORDER NO. 48.

FEBRUARY 12, 1914.

In the matter of the revocation of a portion of Order No. 123 of the Interstate Commerce Commission in re service on the Anacostia line of the Washington Railway & Electric Co.

P. U. C. No. 32/5.

The commission having before it the application of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. for the modification of the headway of the Anacostia line of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., as prescribed in District Electric Railway Order No. 123 of the Interstate Commerce Commission, dated January 18, 1913, it is

Ordered, That so much of said Order No. 123 as prescribes the headway of cars leaving Ninth and F Streets NW., over the Center Market route of said line between the hours of 6 o'clock p. m. and 6.30 o'clock p. m., and which reads as follows: “and on a headway of not more than five minutes leaving Ninth and F Streets, NW. over the Center Market route between the hours of 6 p. m. and 6.30 p. m.," is hereby revoked.

ORDER NO. 49.

In the matter of the revocation of a portion of Order No. 129 of the Interstate Commerce Commission in re service on the Brightwood-Ninth Street line of the Washington Railway & Electric Co.

FEBRUARY 12, 1914.

P. U. C. No. 638/1.

The commission having before it the application of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. for the modification of the headway on the Brightwood-Ninth Street line of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., as prescribed in District Electric Railway Order No. 129 of the Interstate Commerce Commission, dated February 4, 1913, it is

Ordered, That so much of said Order No. 129 of the Interstate Commerce Commission as prescribes the headway between northbound cars on the Brightwood-Ninth Street line of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. between 6 and 6.10 o'clock p. m., and which reads as follows: "and on a headway of not more than one minute, leaving Pennsylvania Avenue beginning at the hour of 6 p. m. and continuing until 6.10 p. m.," is hereby revoked.

ORDER No. 50.

FEBRUARY 18, 1914.

}P. U. C. No. 379/7.

In the matter of the erection of warning signs at the entrances to certain car barns. Believing that the public safety and interest require that signs be erected at certain car barns so as to warn drivers of vehicles passing such barns and thereby reduce the possibility of accidents at those points; and

Having prepared a design for such a sign and furnished copies thereof to The Capital Traction Co. and to the Washington Railway & Electric Co., a copy of which design is also on file in the office of the Public Utilities Commission, District of Columbia, and is designated as P. U. C. No. 379/2, it is

Ordered, (1) That The Capital Traction Co., be, and the same is hereby, directed to erect one such sign near each of the following car barns of the said company: Thirtysixth and M Streets NW. and Fourteenth and Decatur Streets NW., the exact location of the signs to be designated and the completed sign approved by the engineer of the commission.

(2) That the Washington Railway & Electric Co. be, and the same is hereby, directed to erect one such sign near each of the following car barns of the said company: Fourteenth and East Capitol Streets and Fifteenth and H Streets NE., the exact location of the signs to be designated and the completed sign approved by the engineer of the commission.

ORDER No. 51.

FEBRUARY 18, 1914.

In the matter of the authorization of the sale of $360,500 P. U. C. No. 523/5. of the bonds of The Capital Traction Co.

Application having been made to the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia by The Capital Traction Co., under the provisions of law creating the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia, for the certificate of authority of the commission for the sale by said company of bonds to the amount of $360,500 face value, said bonds being the total remainder unsold of the $6,000,000 issue of bonds of June 1, 1907, authorized by an act of Congress approved March 3, 1891, and entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Rock Creek Railway Co. of the District of Columbia"; and it being now the opinion of the commission

First. That the money to be procured by the sale of bonds of the said Capital Traction Co. to the amount of $360,500 face value is necessary to and reasonably required by said company for the acquisition of property, and the construction, completion, extension, or improvement of its plant or equipment, and particularly for the purposes which are hereinafter stated in this order; and

Second. That the expenditure of money for said purposes is not in whole or in part reasonably chargeable to operating expenses or to income; it is

Ordered, (1) That the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia does hereby authorize the sale by The Capital Traction Co. of $360,500 face value of principal of the aforesaid issue of bonds of June 1, 1907, of the said company; and

(2) That said sale of bonds is authorized upon the conditions following and not otherwise, to wit:

First. That the said Capital Traction Co. shall sell the said bonds hereby authorized at the highest obtainable price under such details of sale as may be approved by the commission.

Second. That the proceeds thereof shall be used only for aquisition of property and for the construction, completion, extension, or improvement of the company's plant or equipment as specified by the said company in papers marked "Schedule A " and "Schedule B," properly sworn to and submitted to this commission with the application of the said company, except that the items specified in Schedule B may be altered upon application of the said company and approval by this commission.

Third. That said company shall keep separate, true, and accurate accounts showing the receipt and application in detail of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds hereby authorized to be issued, and on or before the 15th day of January and the 15th day of July the company shall make verified reports to the commission until the bonds shall have been sold and the proceeds thereof expended, stating the sales of bonds during the previous period of six months, the terms and conditions of sale, the moneys realized therefrom, and the use and application of such moneys.

Fourth. That none of the proceeds of the aforementioned bonds hereby authorized for the purposes specified shall be expended by the said company until a properly itemized bill for each proposed expenditure shall have been submitted to this commission by the company with the certificate of one of its officers that such expenditure represents a real increase in its fixed capital as defined in the accounting rules of the Interstate Commerce Commission and not a replacement of any part of such fixed capital or a substitution for wasted capital or other loss properly chargeable to income, and until such bill shall have been approved by this commission.

(3) That the item "Estimated loss on old building in connection with rebuilding car barn at Water and P Streets SW., $36,994" of Schedule A be credited to capital account, "Cost of road," by a corresponding charge to operating expense account No. 25, "Buildings and structures"; provided, however, that the company may apply to the commission for authority to charge the said amount to a deferred asset account to be amortized through a period of years.

(4) That this certificate of authority for the sale of the said bonds is not a guaranty of the payment of any bonds nor a guaranty of any existing security therefor, and is to be understood to mean that the purposes for which the company intends to apply the proceeds from the sale of these bonds are proper capital expenditures and that the company is required under the penalties prescribed in the organic act of the commission to expend the proceeds from the sale of said bonds for no other purposes than those mentioned.

(5) That this order take effect immediately and continue in force until otherwise ordered by the commission.

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