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 576 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 302. 1924. ¤£*¤““’°°i°¤ •**°¤‘ For extension of the water department distribution system, laying ' of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment system, $150,000. m; f$Je°§ The rates of assessment for laying or constructing water mains '°*‘V§,§°*;‘,_Y;°*,,“ and service sewers in the District of Columbia under the provisions ' ` of the Act entitled: “An Act authorizing the laying of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of assessments therefor, and for other purposes," approved Apri 22, 1904, are hereby increased from $1.25 to $2 and $1 to $1.50, respectively, per linear front foot for any water mains and service sewers constructed wm in m_,_ or laid during the tisca year 1925. veereeiawuene. For installing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations, as may be directed by the commissioners; said iéiggeis at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, ,000. H’d'“"“‘ For installing fire and public hydrants, machinery, and appur- _ tenances required for necessary extensions, $20,000. N"' “"““‘ For laying seven thousand eight hundred feet of sixteen·inch water main from Eighteenth Street and Minnesota Avenue southeast through Minnesota Avenue to Good Hope Road, to Railroad Avenue, _ and south in Railroad Avenue to Stevens Road southeast, $66,300. For laying four thousand five hundred feet of thirty-inch water main in Rhode Island Avenue northeast from a point between Seventh and Ninth Streets to Sixteenth Street, $90,000. For la five thousand one hundred feet of sixteen-inch main in Fourth Street northeast from the proposed thirty-inch main in Rhode Island Avenue to S Street, west in S Street to Second Street, south in Second Street to R Street, west in R Street to Eckington Place, and south in Eckinmn Place to connect with the twelve-inch main in Florida Avenue, ,000. For laying five thousand six hundred_and fifty feet of sixteeninch water main, beginning at Wisconsin Avenue and Jewett Street, there to connect wit twelve—inch fourth high-service main, west in Jewett Street to Forty-fifth Street, and north in Forty-fifth Street to a point midway between Lowell and Macomb Streets northwest, C nst ·uction work $48’O00' undgr c'e¤imse1p¤m. Sec. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, level- ,,,§f“Q$°Q,,,,,{,‘}*,j.’§‘§ ers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, employed- and ins ectors temporarily required in connection with sewer street, street—cll;anin or road work, or construction and repair of bridges and repair og buildingxs, or any general or special en `neering or construction work authorized by appropriations ma gd employed exclusively to cargy into effect said appropriations wlien specifically and in writing or ered by the commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and eqpitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the commissioners in their budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their ,,,,,,,0 work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: 1.s¤ae.' Provided, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed $125,000 T I Mm during the fiscal year 1925. ,,,_"‘“’°""’ “The commissioners are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, drivers, hostlers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street cleaning, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, furniture and equipments, or any general or special engineering or construction or repair work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the