National Republican., 1883-08-04
TIE COMMISSIONERS.
Current Transactions Mt the Various Dls-
trIct Offices.

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Tho board Of assessors yesterday trans
acted q largo amount Of business, there be-
ing but to-day TO complete the work. On
Monday n report will be made to the COM
missioncrs, and will only require the transfer
of the assessments to the books prescribed for
their preservation. The lot Mt the southeast
corner of square 1l5, in Georgetown, was
changed to 90 cents per foot, and the 60 foot
lot north of it TO 10 cents, and the lot north
of that to IL cents. Tho ground in lot 222,
square "a, in Georgetown, was changed from
81 to 80 cents, and the improvements from
$i,500 to $1,000.
The total figures of the assessment, with
the reductions or increases from the past
one, will not be definitely known for some
time 1t is hardly supposed that all tho
pending appeals can be acted upon, hut the
boards are required to continue to receive ap-
peals up to tho last moment. Mr.. Cottreil,
assessor for the district bounded by Fifteenth
and Nineteenth streets, introduced n resolu-
tion in the board meeting this afternoon re-
ducing tho assessment on ground along several
streets in his district. The resolution was
adopted. The reductions are about fifty in
number, but not very large in amount.
The committee on examinations recon-
mended, among other things, that the assess.
mcnt of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad be
5000.
The commissioners yesterday awarded the
contract for furnishing fuel to johnson
Brothers, John Miller and o. u. Muncaster,
they being the lowest bidders.
Residents have petitoncd to have curbing
and sidewalks laid ON Clifton street. Colum-
biu heights.
Permission is asked by the citizens of
South Carolina avenue southeast to lay
sewer along that avenue, between Eleventh
and Twelfth streets.
Mai. Dye has called the attention of the
building inspector to the south wall of the
third precinct station, which is in bad condi-
tion.
Three insane persons were sent TO the in
sane asylum yesterday
Mr. Hurt president of the Washington and
Georgetown railway company, had n consuta-
tion with the commissioners yesterday in re-
gBrd TO extending the line to Mt. Pleasant.
Mr.. wilkins, representing the Baltimore
and Potomac Railway company, had an inter-
view with the commissioners yesterday con-
cernng the proposition from the railway
company to lay railway tracks for sidings on
the line of the old canal, to relieve the
crowded condition of the avenues in South
Washington now occupied for these purposes.
The building inspector in his monthly re.
port SHOWS that during July 1O1 new build
ings were erected, 81 repairs made, and ~
| lineal feet OF vaulting were completed in that
month.
permit was issued yesterday to L. H.
Parks to repair house SOB Twentieth street
northwest, to cost $500.
Deaths reported Aug. 3.-Charles Williams,
senile debility; Mary Phillips phthisis is; Kate
b. Graney, phthisis; Thomas Brown, enter
tits; Robert c. Poist, pertonitis; Jennie
Rutherford, phthisis; John II. Guy, cholera
infantum; William V. Cox. ontero colitis;
Joseph #. w. Ourand; albuminuria; Harry lie
Count, tuberculosis; Joseph jackson, phthsis
pulmonalis; Tyler Smith, aortc regurgitation.