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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 387. 1897. 669 For advertising notice of taxes in arrear July first, eighteen hundred ,,,£,‘}*'°°' °' """“"°’ and ninety-seven, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, V¤1Z26. p-24. eighteen hundred and ninety, seven thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of one dollar and twenty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised: Provided, That all penalties on taxes due mn 0, ,,,m,_ and payable on or before the iirst day of July, eighteen hundred and *i¤¤· ninety-tive, be, and the same are hereby, remitted, provided that the taxes due and payable on or prior to aid date are paid with six per centum interest on or before the iirst day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. To enable the assessor to continue account of arrears of taxes on MQ',';}" °‘ *”°’ real property, due the District of Columbia, including the payment of ` necessary clerical iorce, two thousand dollars. _ ` To enable the Commissioners to have the numerical books for the City ,c§°§{§,‘f§f‘“¥"“m°" of Washington and County photolithographed, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars, to be immediately available. For special repairs to market houses, one thousand five hundred dol- {,‘{§§,?,,'fT,Q“§{?*,;,,,d lars. That the Act approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred 0;, r¤\»1i¤ w<>rk¤ and ninety-five, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled *Au Act ° v:i'§°'z€i°°{{.'¤2°l`§°i?°.'ii_ to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims against the Dis- Zh P- 2** trict of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes,’ approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty," be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and all proceedings pending shall be vacated and no judgment heretofore rendered in pursuance of said Act shall be paid. PLATS OF SUBDIVISIONS OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON. To pay the expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to enable ¤¤§¤'i:1`:Ii¤i6·•i.i'i·il:ii"·ii·°¤`it · the Commissioners of the District to determine whether plats of sub- v°"°·*"‘5‘· divisions of land within said District oiiered for record have been made in conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within the District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand dollars. PERMANENT SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS. To pay the expenses of completing a plan for the extension of a per- ,,P§f"""°“ °' "'¥"‘ manent system of highways in conformity with the "Act to provide a ‘i<>¤·2'¢.v·¤¢¤¤. permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety~three, six thousand dollars, to be paid w nolly out of the, _ revenues of the District of Columbia: Provided, That of this sum so §{,'3,,,"‘;§,_ much as may be necessary may be expended by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for consultation services by Frederick Law Olmsted, or other eminent landscape architect, on the said extension of a permanent system of highways. _ _ - For advertising and court expenses necessary for the execution of ,,,,{;,‘}§§,§,f,},§,Q'f¥ ""' the Act entitled "An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. ten thousand dollars, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. ASSESSMENT AND PERMIT WORK. For assessment and permit work, one hundred and fifty thousand m§:j§{T°“’““ P"' dollars. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. mP¤;;r_gj·*¤¤¢¤¤· ¤¤·i For work on streets and avenues named in Appendix “Bb," Book of s‘“’°‘“““"“"°“"°'· Estimates, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and sixty- five thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in