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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 676. 1888. 319 GRADING STREETS, Annnvs, AND ROADS z For grading streets, al- era-Img. leys, and roads not otherwise provided for, at a price not to exceed ten ceI1ts per cubic yard, fifteen thousand dollars. REPAIRS ro PAVEMENTS z For repairs to concrete avements, with Remirs to pave - the same or other not inferior material, ninety-five tliousand dollars z mms' Provided, That hereafter contracts for repairs to avements mav be made for periods not exceeding five years, and suhject to annual appropriation therefor by Congress. PERMIT WORK: For the improvement and repair of alleys and Permit work. sidewalks and the construction of sewers under the permit system, ninety thousand dollars: Provided, That the roperty owners re- Hvvism. questing such improvements shall pay one-half of the total cost: Ownerwmyhm. And provided further, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized in their discretion to order such of the above enumerated work as in their opinion is necessary for the pub- Necessary work. lic health, safety, or comfort, and to pay the total cost of such work from said appropriation, one-half of the cost of such work to char ed against an become alien upon the abutting roperty, and its collection to be enforced in the same manner as the collection of general taxes, and when so collected to be credited to said appropriation; and the material purchased under this appro riation shall be bought after due advertisement therefor, as required) by existing law. REPAIRS STREETS, AVENUES, AND ALLEYS: or current work of Repub-=,s¤~ec¤¤. repéxirs of streets, avenues, and alleys, thirty-ive thousand dollars. EPAIRS COUNTY ROADS : For current work of -repairs on county ¤<>¤¤fyr¤¤d¤- roads and suburban streets, forty-five thousand dollars. CONSTRITCTING COUNTY ROADS: For constructing county roads and suburban streets, as follows: To grade and regulate Howard avenue middle section, seven thousand seven hundred dollars; To grade J eiferson street, Jackson street, and Washington street, eastern section, four thousand dollars. To grade and macadamize Harrison street and Good Hope road from the Navy-Yard Bridge to the Bowen road, eastern section, thirteen thousand one hundre and forty dollars; To pave Nichols avenue from Harrison street southward, eastern section, thirteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars; For work on Fourth street northeast extended toward the Bunker Hill road and on First street extended to Michigan avenue, and from thence along said avenue to Lincoln road, fifteen thousand dollars. To ade Thirteenth street, from Clifton avenue north, one thousand dollars; For the grading and paving of Fourteenth street northward from the Boundary, for the grading and paving of Stoxughton street and of Chapin street from Fourteenth street extended to alyland Seminary, and the paving of Pomeroy street in front of the reedmen’s H_ospital, thirty-tive thousand ollars; in all, eighty-eight thousand nine undred and eighty dollars. For condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, ten thousand dollars. SURVEYS or THE DISTRIGT: For continuation of surveys of the Dis- Surveys. trict of Columbia with reference to the extension of various avenues to the District line. ten thousand dollars. _ _ CARE or BRIDGES: For ordinary care of bridges, including keepers, Bridges. oil, lamps, and matches, two thousand five hundred dollars; for construction and repairs of bridges, including retaining wall on M street at the ap roach to the new free bridge across the Potomac, which bridge is liereby placed under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand dollars.