New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-22
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Market company, the said company
shall pay, yearly, every year during
the said term of ninety-nine
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 under
the direction of the city government O,
said city for the support and relief of the
poor of said city and of the District oil
Columbia; and said city may enforce the
payment of said sum from time to time az
the same shall become due, either by an
action at law or by the same proceedings
now authorized by law for the collection Of
taxes by said city.
Sec. Is And be it further enacted, That
if the corporators named in this act, or a
major part of them, shall refuse or neglect
for sixty days from and after the passage
OF this act, to accept the franchise hereby
created, or if, having accepted the same,
they shall have forfeited the same within
two years from and after the passage of this
act, then and in that case it shall and mey
be lawful for any citizens of the city OF
Washington, to the number of twenty OF
more, to associate themselves together by
articles in writing subscribed by them,
whereby they shall undertake and 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 this act
upon the corporators named therein.
SEC. 16. 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
iaSa avenues with Tenth and Twelfth
streets as a market for the purchase
and sale Of the following articles,
to wit 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 and 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 a 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 10 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 elevational view in perspective
2. Ground plans OF first story 3. Ground
plans of second story; 4. Ground
plans of third story; 5. Ground
plans of fourth and fifth sto-
ries, and sectional views, showing
the interior arrangement Of the main
building, as well as the open structures
for market purposes, to wit: 6. By a line
running due east and west through center
Of square; Z. By a line running due north
and south through center Of the square: S. |
BY line 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 |
in order to give full artistic effect to mos. |
substantial and permanent structures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPROVEMENTS.
A. Main building on the northern 'front.'
The northern or avenue front will be ap- |
propriated to an ediice which consists, as |
per design, of projecting pavilions, with |
deep returns on Seventh and Ninth |
streets. These are five stories in height |
above the ground, exclusive of the promi-
nent Mansard roofs; further, it consists of |
wings, four stories high above
ground, and having also Mansard roofs.
The main part of this building will be
eighty feet in depth, exclusive Of wide pro-
iections at center and at ends, toward
the south, and of light, ornamental pro-
jections to the north.
The first story Of this building is occu-
pied by stores, and the upper stories will
contain all the Necessary and useful &C
for offices, rooms, or other
lawful purposes, the servants department
of which is located in basem ent, which
has also cellars for the stores, and the
necessary cold air ducts, hot air iues,
coils of steam pipes, chambers and
fixtures for heating all the rooms
and corridors of the whole build
ing with low pressure steam generated in
non explosive boilers, walled in fire proof.
Among the modern accommodations are
prominent separate elevators, with best
mechanical appliances for the conveyance
Of persons and baggage to the different
stories. liberal allowances for lobbies,
public and private parlors, reading rooms,
large and well ventilated modern public
and private halls, suites of rooms and
single rooms, with communicating bath
looms and alcoves, good-sized plain
looms, spacious corridors, twelve feet IN
width, easy and wide stairways in sufficient
number, which afford easy egress in case
IT alarms; further, large dust shafts
through the house also, speaking
ubes in all directions, electric bells and
docks.
The whole avenue front, as we'll as the
ronts Of the partitions, returned around
heir northern corners on Seventh and