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said list. Heretofore it has been the
custom merely to insert a newspaper
advertisement telling that the pam
phlet is available at the District Build
ing.
Under the old system many property
owners have had their land sold for
taxes through an over sight because
they did not learn of the sale until it
was over.
Water Main Approved,
The Senate committee inserted the
item Of S42, 500 for water main in
Ala bama avenue southeast. from
Branch avenue to the District line
to serve IA community in which it was
shown that many families are using
unsafe wells. This item had been left
ont by the House
The bill was reported by Senator
Plipps of Colorado. chairman of the
District subcommittee that spent more
than a week carefully ScrutinlzinS
every detail of the bill and making
frequent tours Of The city to observe
building projects and the condition
Of highways.
The gross amount added to the bill
by the siena to committee Is SS,o,1Io.
but there also were few docreaS SEES
made which amounted To $215,340,
thus making the net increase only
$640, 400.
In the highways division the com
mittee added $4,000 under the head
ing of street improvements but re-
duced by $211.700 the amount of work
to bc done out of the gasoline tax
street funds. In connection with the
school buildings program the Sen
ATE committee added S101. 500. which
will so toward the purchase of sites
for three graded schools and provides
for the drawing OF plans for new
building at Nineteenth and Columbia
road.
The committee was generous in con.
siderin2 the needs of the District re-
formatoIy. allowing $4,000 more than
the House for construction OF pcrma
nent buildings at Lawton. Va, and
S. 500 increase for maintenance of
that institution.
Another increase is an item of
SO. 900 for continuing construction
OF the &eawall along the Potomac
River.
Besides the cut In the gasoline tax
fund. the only other decrease was
3,640 In tho salary list for the cor
poration counSeIS office.
Senator phipps will offer only one
in the Senate that is not shown In
the report. namely. for the Meridian
Hill Park Improvement, but the
amount of increase is. not yet known.
Street Work Added.
Under the heading of street improve
mcnt, the committee added:
Forty-fourth place, Hawthorn street
to Cathedral avenue. $4,000.
Northeast. for paving Twelfth place.
TAYLOR to IfpShur street, $500.
Under this same heading the com
mittee eliminated paving of Fifty
seventh street. Blaine avenue to Dix
street. northeast, $4,000. These
changes made the total for street i'm
provement $1S91oo, in place of the
House total of s1S4.100.
Streets eliminated in connection
with the cutting down of the gasoline
tax fund We're:
Thirty eighth street Alabama ave
nue. to Suitland road and Suitland
road, Thirty eighth to the District
line, $4,000.
Against Pincy Branch Road.
Piney Branch road. Van Buren, to
Butternut streets. 100000.
On r street the House had pro-
vided $4,000 to pave from Thirty
fifth to Thirty seventh. which the
Senate committee changed to apply
only from Thirty sixth &c thirty
seventh. at $500.
On Thirty sixth street the House
provided $4,000 to pave from Res
ervoir road to r street. which the
Senate committee altered to end at
:, reducing the figures to $500
ogden street. Fourteenth street to
Spring place, $4,000.
S street, Thirty fifth to Thirty
sixth, ST.. 1000.
Cleveland avenue, Twenty-ninth to
Thirty third place. s50,0
Forty second street Garrison to
Jenfer street. $4,000.