The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized, under conditions and regulations to be prescribed by the Council of the District of Columbia, to permit the erection of poles and the stringing of overhead wires thereon outside of the fire limits and east of Rock Creek for electric lighting purposes only.
D.C. Code § 34-1405
Electric lighting wires east of Rock Creek
July 1, 1902, 32 Stat. 602, ch. 1352, § 1
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