New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-25
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Market Company, the said compan
the SAID SAID term Of ninety.nin
years, unto the city of Washington
the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars
which sum shall be received by said city
and set apart and expended by and unde
the direction of the city government o
said city for the support and relief of tn
poor of said city and of the District o
Columbia; and said city may enforce tn
payment of said sum from time to time a
the same shall become due, either by al
action at law or by the same proceeding
now authorized by law for the collection o
taxes by said city.
Sec. Is And be it further enacted, Tha
if the corporators named in this act, or
major part of them, shall refuse or neglect
for sixty days from and after the passag
of this act, to accept the franchise hereb,
created, or if, having accepted the same
they shall have forfeited the same within
two years from and after the passage of thi
act, then and in that case it shall and MAY
be lawful for any citizens of the city O
Washington, to the number of twenty o.
more, to associate themselves together BY
articles in writing subscribed by them
whereby they shall undertake aud agree
to accept the franchise conferred by this
act and to perform all the conditions
therein imposed; said articles shall be re.
corded in the Office of the register for the
| city of Washington, and thereupon such
associates shall become body corporate
| and be invested with all the rights, privil.
eyes, and immunities conferred by tbs act
II hn oknr IL,
SEC. 1G. And be it further enacted,
That the city government of Washington
| shall have the right to hold and use, under
such rules and regulations as the said cor
poration may prescribe, the open space
at the intersection of Ohio and Louis
lana avenues with Tenth and Twelfth
streets as a market for the PURCHASE
and sale of the following articles,
to wit i: Hay, straw, oats, corn. corn-meal
seed of all kinds, wood for sale from the
wagon, cattle on the hoof, swine on the
hoof, country produce. sold in quantities
from the wagon, and such other bulky
and coarse articles as the said corporation
may designate. And from and after sixty
days from the passage of this act market
ing o. the products named herein shall be
excluded from Pennsylvania and Louisi-
ana avenues, and the sidewalks aud pave
ments thereon.
SEC. II. And be it further enacted,
That all acts and parts of acts of the
Board of Aldermen and Board Of Common
Council, and OF Congress, Inconsistent
with this act are hereby repealed, end that
this act shall be deemed public act, and
shall take effect from and after its passage.
But Congress hereby reserves the right to
legislate in respect to said property
hereby granted, and to amend or repeal
this act.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR WASHINGTON
CITY MARKET BUILDING.
SCHEDULE.
Specifications of materials and workman
ship required IN carrying out and complet-
ing the improvements proposed to be
made by the Washington City Market
Company, on Center Market Space, at
Washington, District of Columbia, and
more particularly within the metes and
bounds prescribed and enumerated in the
accompanying act.
The work to be executed according to
the annexed drawings. which are hereby
made part of these specifications, and
which consist Of
l. An educational view in perspective
2. Ground plans OF first story 3. Ground
plans of second story; 4. Ground
plans Of fourth and fifth sto-
the interior arrangement of the main
building, as well as the open structures
for market purposes. to wit: g. By line
due east aud west through center
Of square; Z. By line running due north
and south through center of the square; s. |
BY lire running transversely through !
wings of main building.
The work must be done also in accord |
ance with all working plans and detail |
sheets in explanation OF the above designs, |
such as the architect may find necessary
n order to give full artistic effect to most |
and permanent structures. |
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPROVEMENTS.
A. Main building on the northern 'front.'
The northern or avenue front will be ap-
to an edifce which consists, as
Der design, Of projecting pavilious, with
leep returns on Seventh and Ninth |
lbove the ground, exclusive of the promi-
lent Mansard roofs; further, it consists of
wings, four stories high above
yround, and having also Mansard roofs.
The main part of this building will be
eighty feet in depth, exclusive of wide pro-
ections at center and at ends, toward
he south, and of Light, ornamental pro-
ections to the north.
The first story of this building is occu-
lied by stores, and theupper stories will
ontsin all the Necessary and useful ac-
for Offices, rooms, or other
awful purposes, the servants department
# which is located in basem ent, which
las also cellars for the stores, and the
necessary cold air ducts, hot air fues,
oils of steam pipes, chambers and
Xtures for heating all the rooms
nd corridors of the whole build
ng with low pressure steam generated in
On-explosive boilers, walled in fire proof
Imong the modern accommodations are
'romlnent separate elevators, with best
Mechanical appliances for the conveyance
# persons and baggage to the different
tories, liberal allowances for lobbies,
ublic and private parlors, reading rooms, {
arge and well ventilated modern public
nd private halls, suites of rooms and
ingle rooms, with communicating bath
ooms and alooves, good-sized plain
ooms, spacious corridors, twelve feet in
'idth, easy and wide stairwavs in sufficient
lumber, which afford easy egress in case
t alarms; further, large dust shafts {
trough the house; also. speaking
lbes in all directions, electric bells and 8
locks.
The whole avenue front, as well as the i
onts Of the pavilions, returned around