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 490 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3553. 1906. _ bia shall be done with book typewriters, except in those cases where, on account of the character of the work, the use of a pen shall be found by the recorder to be necessary. N{_¤;g;¤v¤¤¤¤¤ mi. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. mE$¤;¤;¤¢¤{,¤x{g01gr§j;$ EI4DHNAHON or oizsmn oaossmes: Toward carrying out the promm. g°’ visions of the Acts of Congress providing for the elimination of grade ¥§}j§12;f,;Q',§§; crossiqgagnd tlhe constructgoyivof a union raigoad stationhin the Disé PM. rp- 619. M trict o ‘ um ia approve ebruary twelft nineteen undred an one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, for purchase or condemnation of e land necessary for the plaza and new streets, and for reconstructing, grading, and paving, together with the necessary incidental work in connection therewith, the streets, avenues, and ways changed in_lme or grade or newly created under the provisions of sa1d_Acts, including the employment on the approval o this Act of special assistant counsel at a rate not to exceed t ree thousand dollars per annum, and one clerk, at a rate not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum, in connection with the settlement of claims for damages incident to changes of grade, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, fifty thousand dollars. P"` 0..‘3i.".;”SS°.°f.i“Z¤3”23..‘Z§5§T..'1‘£‘ST‘.§.F3$i“i?§“S“°“° ““d "'"‘“” `"'°'k’ - n o rs. ,,v',_,§,°{§,_°“ "'°°*""" Woax os smears imo Avmums: For work on streets and avenues named m Appendix W, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy thousand_dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Comméssioneiés upondstreetp andhavenues spepiiied ip the schedu es name in said appen ix an in the aggregate or eac scheduleas stated herein, namely: S¤¤¤d¤1·=¤- Grzoizearowx somezoumnz Three thousand dollars. Nonrnwmsr sucrrox sominunnz Eight thousand dollars. Soutruwnsr s20n0N scurcnnrmz Twelve thousand dollars. Somrnussr smcriou scanners: Twenty-three thousand dollars. ’ — Nonrixmsr srzcrrox scanners: Twenty-four thousand dollars: §’gj;P·1pMcd with Promded, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already neigmnnocks, em. paved with Belgian_ block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order & y as pract1:;b(he, phdshall hle paval, m tihe ihscretion of the ssioners ms a o eing gra e an re u ate . Nw2n,;?' •'P**°“ Under apprdpriations contained in this Ac% no contract shall be made for ma cing or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and sixtyhve cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base, nor more than one dollar and eighty cents per square yar for laying standard asphalt block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior }",,""""·"’m,,,,;, mowed_ to July hrst, nineteen hundred and tour: Pmvided, That these conditnohs as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on yvhhqh, in th? mdgnient of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy ra _ e, poor oun ation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinaryissrmingthiislrequired, in whichdcase the limit of price may be increase o wo dollars per square yar. GMM- (maniac smears, Amurs, Ayn norms; For (purchase and repair of cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, an horses, to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, ten thousand dollars.