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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 271-JULY 1, 1941 Northwest: Harrison Street, Wisconsin Avenue to Western Avenue, $25,400; Northwest: Warren Street, Forty-sixth Street to Forty-eighth Street, and Forty-eighth Street, Warren Street to Massachusetts Avenue, $16,000; Northwest: Sherrier Place, Dana Place to Weaver Place, and Dana Place, Conduit Road to Sherrier Place, $20,700; Northwest: Hobart Street, south of Irving Street, $8,100; Northwest: Seventeenth Street, Crescent Place to Euclid Street, $14,000; Northeast: Third Street, M Street to Florida Avenue, $13,600; Northwest: Tunlaw Road, north of Calvert Street, $11,600; Northwest: Thirty-ninth Street, Calvert Street to Edmunds Street, $14,300; For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbs and gutters where necessary, such streets, avenues, and roads as may be selected for this purpose by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $150,000; For widening, altering, paving, and repaving roadways, in accord- ance with the plans and profiles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, including the necessary replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains, and fire-alarm and police-patrol boxes, as follows: Northwest: Sixth Street, D Street to M Street, $156,000; Northwest: Wisconsin Avenue, R Street to Thirty-seventh Street, $72,000: Provided, That in the widening and repaving of Wisconsin Portc. Streetcar tracks, re- Avenue between R Street and Thirty-seventh Street the Commis- location, etc. sioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to order such changes, relocation, and reconstruction of the tracks of the Capital Transit Company as may in their judgment be necessary and desirable: Provided further, That the expense of such changes, relocation, and reconstruction shall be borne by the Capital Transit Company, including the entire cost of paving the track area; For grading, paving, repaving, surfacing, and otherwise improving FeGradingetc, under streets, avenues, and roads, including curbing and gutters, drainage Act of1938. structures, retaining walls, the replacement and relocation of sewers, P' 823. water mains, and fire-alarm boxes and police-patrol boxes, and replacement of curb-line trees, when necessary, as Federal-aid high- way projects under section 1-b of the Federal Aid Highway Act 52 tt.633. of 1938 (Public Numbered 584, Seventy-fifth Congress), $565,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943: Provided,That in connection Pofnal serv with the highway-planning survey, involving surveys, plans, engi- ices. neering, and economic investigations of projects for future construc- tion in the District of Columbia, as provided for under section 10 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, this fund shall be avail- 53 Stat. 106. able to the extent authorized in said section for the employment of engineering or other professional services by contract or otherwise, and without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C . 5), the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil- 542Utt'CS.661 -64 . service requirements, and for engineering and incidental expenses: Pot, p.613. Providedfurther, That the Commissioners of the District of Colum- VpOvehia rinngof bia are authorized and directed to confer with the officials of the frence. United States Public Roads Administration, the State of Virginia, and the city of Alexandria, Virginia, as to the desirability, practica- bility, and feasibility of constructing a vehicular crossing of the Potomac River between a point in the general vicinity of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, and United States Route 1 and the southern portion of the District of Columbia in the vicinity of Shepherds Landing: Provided further, That the Commissioners of the District eport to congres. 531