American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-10-08
CITY ORDINANCES.

AN ACT to provide for building iron foobridge
the canal at 10th street west.
Be enacted de-, That the Mayor be and he is hereby
authorized to accept the proposition Of George Rider
Co., dated the twcnthnnh Of August eighteen hundred
and tyone build iron bridge for foot passengers
the Washington city canal at 10th street west agree
ably TO the plan and specifications submitted by them,
and to enter into contract for the building OF the
IL upon examination Mayor should satisfied that
the will the purpose intended and that the
price a reasonable and the of two thousand
dollars or SO much thereof may be necessary be
the same hereby appropriated out Of the general fund
TO enable the Mayor TO carry this act into effect iori
ded That money shall be paid account Of the said
bridge until the shall have been completed to the
entire satisfaction Of the Mayor, and until II shall have
been submitted to such test will prove TO the salts
the weight IL will be subjected to when in Ind pro
rie further, That the wing-walls each side Of the
bridge shall not extend than twenty feet from the
said bridge.
President ofhe Board IF Common Cbuncd
b. b. FRENCH,
President efUte Board Of Aldermen
WALTER LENox, Mayor.
AN ACT to repair the stone on 9TH street west
Be enacted de- That the Mayor be and he is hereby
authorized the stone paying to be repaired
7th street west, from Pennsylvania TO street
north the necessary expenses, equally divided TO be
paid out of any money to the credit Of the Third and
Fourth Wards not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, October ., 1851.
AN ACT authorizing the curbstones to be set and the
footway paved on the west front of square numbered
four hundred and eighty-four.
Be enacted, de- That the Mayor be and he il hereby
authorized and required the curbsones TO be
and the ooway paved the west front Of square
bered four hundred and eighty -four, and for deraying
the expense thereof tax is hereby imposed and assessed
the lots fronting said square TO the amount Of such
expense Prorde The tax hereby imposed and assessed
shall not exceed three dollars per front foot Of said los
the work to be done agreeab to the provisions Of the act
of the fourth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty
nine, concerning paved footways.
Approved, October 3, 1851.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Mayor to offer
reward for the arrest of incendiaries.
Whereas within the past three weeks three several fires
have occurred between 81 and 4h streets east the
Eastern Branch in the Fifth Ward, and also the
Smithsonian buildings under circumstances which leave
doubt whatever that they all the work of the in
cendiary: Therefore
Resolved De- That the Mayor be and he is hereby
thorzed and requested to offer Of not exceeding
two hundred dollars for the arrest conviction of the
person persons who maliciously fred the premises
above mentioned. lApproved, October 8, 1851
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the grades at the
tersection of @ street north and I'd street west
Resolved, d, That, with the consent Of the Of
the ground fronting thereon such alteration may be
made in the grades at the intersection of street north
and I'd street west may be recommended by the Eng
for completing the grades of this city, who hereby
respectfully requested TO examine and give proper grades
for the and in the execution Of the laws for the
improvement Of said streets the grades thus given shall
be conormed to- Provde That the Commissioner Of the
Fifth and Sixth Wards shall first obtain in writing the
consent Of the parties above referred to- be filed in the
Registers office. Approved, October 3, 1851