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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 232. 1894. 247 necessary supplies for the morgue, and holding inquests, and photographing unidentified bodies, one thousand dollars. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax Advertisingand school notices and notices of changes in regulations, one thousand nine hundred dollars. · For advertising notice of taxes in arrear July iirst, eighteen hundred N°¤·=¤¤ ¤f ¤¤¤¤¤<>f and ninety-four, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, mv`$Z2u,p.z4. eighteen hundred and ninety, twelve thou and dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of one dollar and twenty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised. To enable the assessor to continue account of arrears of taxes on real c0§,§{°“'“ °*` *“‘°“ “°‘ property due the District of Columbia, including the payment of neces- ' sary clerical force, two thousand dollars. For additions aud repairs to Georgetown market house, six thousand ,,§§§Tg°‘°“'“ “""k°“ tive hundred dollars. _ Pnxcrs or Sunnivisiorzs onrsrnn or WASHINGTON Arm Gnonen- mS;§,‘L°§j,j‘(f,'{,§f;,§{_°‘ TOWN: To pay the expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to ` enable the Commissioners of the District to determine whether plats of subdivisions of land within said District offered for record have been_ made in conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within v°l· *5-1*-*5*- the District of Columbia," approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand five hundred dollars. Exrnrzsiou or Hrenwnrsz To pay the expenses of preparing a plan ,,,}'Q§f°"“*°" f" "‘¥*" for the extension of a permanent system of highways in conformity with 9 the “Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the V°l‘ '7‘ ?‘ 5s?' · District of Columbia lying outside of cities," approved March second, ,,,£§{"“ D‘“"'°° ""°` eighteen hundred and ninety-three, six thousand dollars; to be paid _ wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: Provided, That ]{°Q,’,§§,§‘f;,,c__,,y Fwd_ of the above-named sum three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as Mick Mw 01¤¤¤¤•=•1· may be necessary, shall be expended by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the preparation of sketch-plans and report by Frederick Law Olmsted, on the extension of the streets and avenues of the District of Columbia. ASSESSMENT AND PERMIT WORK. For assessment and permit work, one hundred and sixty-tive thou- m;§‘Q$§§;‘f‘°“‘““"l""‘ sand dollars, and a sufficient amount of this appropriation may be applied to and expended for the immediate removal of the parking, except trees, and paving the space in the center of New York avenue, NW YM *·*’·‘*·"·‘· between Ninth and Tenth streets, and one-half the cost thereof shall be assessed against the abutting property and collected as herein provided _ for assessment and permit work: Provided, That hereafter the Com- €-’_;’§,Q‘",;m_sm, ,0 missioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and empowered, heg¤h.·>r•=. M whenever in their judgment the public health, safety, or comfort require °l` 2G' “ ` it, or whenever application shall be made therefor, accompanied by a APPl*==**·>¤¤— deposit equal to one-half the estimated cost of the work, to improve and repair alleys and sidewalks, and to construct sewers and sidewalks in the District of Columbia of such form and materials as they may determine, and to pay the total cost of such work from appropriations for assessment and permit work. V Said Commissioners shall give notice by advertisement, twice a week ,j}§‘;’,'§P§$s‘§§f"“ °* for two weeks in some newspaper published in the city of Washington, of any assessment work proposed to be done by them under this Act, designating the location and the kind of work to be done, specifying the kind of materials to be used, the estimated cost of the improvement, and _ fixing a time and place when and where property-owners to_be assessed H°°"“g“· can appear and present objections thereto, and for hearing thereof. One-half of the total cost of the assessment work herein provided A**¤¤¤·*=¤*°*°°•'- for, including the expenses of the assessment, shall be charged against and become a lien upon abutting property, and an assessment therefor