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 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 1628. 1904. 371 - For Q street between Twent -second and Twenty-third streets northwest, pave, five thousand dollars; For Seventh street northeast, from Bunker Hill· road to Rhode Island avenue, grade and improve, five thousand dollars. For Rhode Is and avenue northeast from Fourth street to Brentwood road, grade and improve, twenty thousand dollars; d Eor Wisconsin avenue northwest, grade and improve, five thousand o ars; _. For Rhode Island avenue northwest from First to Second streets, pave, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; d {·;:lr8Benning and Anacostia roads, grade and improve, five thousand ° 9 d ger Harrison street, Anacostia, grade and improve, five thousand o ars; And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized Gr¤¤¢¤¤<>~>*. ew to straighten and adjust the lines of the north side of Grant street and the east side of Mount Pleasant street at the northeast corner of the intersection of said streets; and the part of Pine Branch road abandoned by such straightening shall l'CV0l'lC to the adjoining property in exchange for the area donated within the lines of Grant street; in all, one hundred and six thousand seven hundred dollars. ‘ For grading and macadamizing according to the plans of the first eggggggum •"°¢* section permanent ?stem of highways, - Fourteenth street from its ` present terminus at iydecker avenue, with the same width of roadway now open immediate y south of said avenue to the junction, near Brightwood, of said street extended with Piney Branch road, including connecting line of avenue where Fourteenth street is shifted from its direct extension, and for the removal, with the assent of owners, of houses and barns or other improvements which may be within the lines of said street to adjacent sites of present owners, twenty thousand dollars, the whole cost of said work under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, not to exceed fifty-nine thousand dollars. To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to purchase S¤¤¤ri¤s1¤¤¤¤= ` the pieces or parcels of ground necessary for the right of way of said street, which they are here by authorized to do, or for paying in condemnation plroceedings hereby authorized pursuant to sections four hundred v01. s1, p. was and eig ty-three to four hundred and ninety-one, inclusive, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, any damages or excess of damages over benefits that ma be allowed to the owner or owners of land to be taken, should there he any damages found in such proceedings or any damages found in excess of benefits, seven thousand five hundred dollars: Andprovided_fu¢·t}1e1·, That if the Commissioners of the mam. District of Colmnbia, in the1r discretion, pursuant to said section four ,,,§‘§{,i°,l§’_" °' °"“‘ hundred and ninety-one, reject the award or awards in such condemnation proceedings, or if the benefits exceed the damages to an amount over seven thousand dollars, the a propriations aforesaid of twenty thousand dollars and seven thousand five hundred dollars shall revert to the Treasury of the United States, except five hundred dollars of the latter a propriation, which shall be chargeable with the costs of the proceedlings in respect to said condemnations. Rmums srnmrrs, Av1¤NU1=:s, AND ALLEYS: For current work of Repairs. repairs of streets, avenues, and alle s, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, two hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall S¢¤=•=¢¤¤w¤v¤ be available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such rail- VM- 20. 1>· 106- road company as provided by section five of "An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columb1a," approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and