Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-07
THE DISTRICT BILL
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a contract for such extension at total
cost Of $135, 900.
joining Armstrong Manual Training School.
as a site for the erection Of an addition to
said school, S, $685.
For purchase Of lot adjoining Brent
For additional amount for reconstructing
building at 7th and G streets southeast,
10000; and the appropriation of $4,000
made by the District Of Columbia appro-
prtatton act for the fiscal year 1902 Is con-
tinued available for the same purpose.
For twelve medical inspectors Of public
schools, four of whom shall be OF the col
ored race. at $500 each, $4,000 Provided.
That said inspectors shall be appointed by
the Commissioners only after competitive
examination, and shall have had at least
five years experience in the practice OF
medicine in the District of Columbia and
shall perform their duties under the dfrec-
ton of the health officer and according to
rules formulated from time to time by him.
which shall be subject to the approval of
the board of educat ion and the Commits
sicners.
Sewage Disposal System.
For completing construction Of sewage
disposal system, s125,OO0 instead of $4,000
for continuing work. For section C of B
street and New Jersey avenue trunk sewer,
100000. Toward constructing outfall
sewer and siphor, 100000.
FOR continuing the construction or the
bridge across Rock creek on the line of
Connecticut avenue extended. $4,000 The
bridge shall be constructed of concrete on
the general plan for a concrete bridge made
by George S. Morrison, and found in Sem
ate document No. 90, Fifty-ifth Congress,
second session, and shall cost complete, ex-
elusive of appropriations herein and hereto
fore made, not to exceed $4,000 and shall
be completed within four years from July
l, 1903; and the Commissioners are author
for the construction of the bridge within
the time specified and within the limit of
cost authorized to be paid for from time
to time as appropriations may be made by
law.
Street Improvements.
Rhode Island avenue northeast 4th to
18th street, grade and macadam, provided
that all the necessary land within the limits
OF this portion Of Rhode Island avenue as
projected be dedicated to public use, $4,000.
Rhode Island avenue, Florida avenue to
LIST street, pave, $4,000.
Sixteenth street, Columbia road to Spring
road, grade and improve. $4,000
Sixteenth street. Morris street to Column
bia road. pave, $4,000.
Twenty-second street. to Decatur
streets, pave, 81, 500.
Twenty-second street. Decatur to
streets. Improvement, $500.
California avenue, Columbia road to
Phelps place, pave, $4,000.
Clifton street, 18th to 18th. grade $500.
Yale street. 18th to 14th. pave $1,000.
~. Phlladelphia street, Brightwood avenue to
Sth street, grade and macadam. 81 200
Woodley road. Wisconsin avenue to Idaho
avenue, grade and regulate, $3.50.
Kansas avenue, in Petworth subdivision,
from trenton to Utica streets, grading. reg
uiatlng and macadamiZng $1,000
twentieth street. Queens Chapel to
$1,000 ' ~" '''1~e'
That upon the dedication of Milwaukee
street through the subdivision of Fairview
heights, District of Columbia the Com
mlssloners are authorized to abandon the
portion of Massachusetts, avenue bounded
by docks q, and of Fairview Heights,
except where said avenue is included with.
in the plan for permanent system of high
ways in that part of the District of Column
bia lying outside of cities, and the portions
OF SAID avenue SO abandoned shall revert to
the owners of the lots AUDITING thereon.
That in order to provide better grades and
10 save in the cost of grading and improv-
ing streets in Herman D. Walbridge's sub
olVision OF lngleside, the Commission ers are
authorized and directed to make the follow,
ing change in the location of stree IS in said
SUBDIVISION without cost to the District of
Columbia or to the United States. namely
nrst, TO shift the location Of 10Th street
south of Grant street, so that it shall RIM
in a southeasterly direction from the in
tersectlon OF 18th and Grant streets to
Kenyon street, and, secondly to abandon
Grant street west of 10Th street the old
location of 10Th street south of Grant street
s.na Jollet street west of the new position
OF 18TH street. the land in such abandoned
streets to revert to the adjacent owners of
the property; va
For grading and matchmaking 18th street
1 ON us present terminus to the northern
unit OF the Saul tract Cor it's junction with
Plney branch road and for paving for such
Ia nj as may be condemned hereunder for
lne use OF the District of Columbia and the
$4,000: Provided. That no portion of the
sum shall be expended until at least So per
centum of all the land for the extension of
said street to the north line of the Soul
tract according to the highway extension
plans, be dedicated to the District
Conoemnatlon proceedings shall be insti-
tuted by the Commissioners to condemn
such portions or pieces of land as NAV not
be donated, in accordance with sections ara
and to 491, both inclusive, of the code of the
District of Columbia, and as herein set
forth: Provided, That upon the acceptance
OF any dedication by the Commissioners the
remaining portion of any parcel of land of
any party or parties defeating or who
may have heretofore dedicated a portion
for the widening or opening Of 18th street,
shall be exempt and exempted from assess
ment in respect to the cost of condemnfng
any portion of said street and from any as
sessment or tax for benefits to such re-
naming land, or any portion, for the con-
demning or opening, grading or macadam-
izing of such highway, as hereby provided
for.
And the commissioners or Jury to an
praise and so forth, shall assess upon own
ers not donating benefits as provided in
said sections of the code, and including If
said sections do not, benefits to arise from
the physical improvements provided for in
this amendment; and in making their deci-
sion the commi ssioners or Jury shall take
into consideration whenever a part ONLY is
taken the benefit to the remainder of the
tract, and shall give verdict accordingly:
and wherever their decision is that the
benefits exceed the damages. the amount of
such excess shall be assessed against the
remaining portion of the tract in the same
manner that other special assessments are
now made in the District of Columbia: And
provided further, That the cost of securing
the land necessary to complete said right of
way shall be charged entirely to the reye-
nues of the District Of Columbia and If the
same shall exceed $1,000, the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia may in their
discretion, reject the award or awards to
that effect, and this appropriation shall
revert to the treasury of the United States
except $500. which shall be chargeable with
the costs of the proceedings herein author
lied.
Paving S street, from North CapitoI tn
ID street northwest $1,000. The limit Of
price for asphalt pavement is increased from
81. 50 to 81 per square yard in cases where
heavy foundations are needed and cost of
relaying asphalt is increased from $17O to
81 80.
For purchase and repair Of carts. &c
from $1,000 to $4,000. For purchase and
condemnation of streets, roads and alleys