National Republican., 1883-10-30
THE COMMISSIONERS.
Current transactions at the various Dis
trIct O1Ices.

trIot OhIces.
Mr. James L. Arnold, of Anacostia, will
donate ground to widen Nicholas avenue
when IL is macadamized
The following applications for liquor
licenses were disapproved by the commits
sioners yesterday: Catherine Ollie, Henry
Koch, William Bergman, George i. Kozel,
and John Leonard. They also approved the
applications of Rudolph Bleifus, William
Bundi, Magdelona Burns, S. Christian Bau-
man, II. c. Christman, Annie Dunn, Christian
G. Gockelor, Michael Halinau, james Hayes,
Frank McKnew, Merrinelli IL Masini, Chris
tian Platz, John Brady, George Scherger,
Alfred Wandell, Maria Broderecht, Bernard
Bryan, August Dohrer, August Long, John J.
Mcmahon, and Mary Reuth.
The commissioners advise O. p. Thatcher,
of No 1107 Eighteenth street, to seek q
remedy before the courts against n saw MILL
President Hurt, of the Washington and
Georgetown Railroad company, has protested
against the permit to the Underground Cable
company to lay wires between the tracks of
his road. The question will he tested.
A building permit was issued yesterday to
r. T.. Smith to build one brick dwelling on
Sixth street, between Pennsylvania avenue
and ID street southeast, to cost $1,000
The following order was issued by the COM
missioners yesterday: That the Postal Toe-
graph company is authorized to make tenn
porary overground connections between the
terminus Of the underground route defined in
the agreement executed the twenty-fifth day
of October 1888, and the capitol and eXecu-
tive departments, by such routes aud in such
manner as shall bc approved by the commits
sionors, provided that this temporary privi-
lcge shall terminate on the first day of De-
cember, 1884
The agreement between the commissioners
and the Postal Telegraph company, of New
| York, gives the company permission to lay
| electrical conductors under the streets from
the northeast corner of Boundary and Nine
teenth streets, along Nineteenth street to T
street; thence along L to Fourteenth street;
thence along Fourteenth to street; along +
or G, Fourteenth or Fifteenth Streets in
| order to reach the offices of the company.
| Tho company agrees to lay the electrical
conductors according TO such plans and speci-
fications as may be approved by the engineer
commissioner. The privilege of constructing
cOnduits for electrical conductors is exclu-
sivc rs to the streets and within the limits
above stated, so long as the company shall
fully perform its obligations. When. how
ever, the commissioners shall give rerms-
| sion to any electrical company to lay
| conductors on the route herein indicated or
any portion thereof, the company shall allow
such conductors to be laid III its conduits on
reasonable terms, to be agreed upon, and
in case of failure to agree uDon terms, the
company shall submit the matter to the com.
missionors, and shall except such terms as the
commissioners may decide. The conduit:
shall be ut all times kept in proper repair by
| the company, the commissioners to have
| supervision over all the repairs, but at the
expense of the company. As a guarantee oi
the good faith the company is to deposit with
the commissioners the sum of 5000 in regis.
tered bonds of the District of Columbia or Of
the United States. The conduit is to be in
working order within ninety days from the
date of this agreement.
Ex-Commissioner Dent has written to the
| levied on house which has not been tenanted
for the year charged.