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... thing to do would be to terrace this [ indicating on map ] and extend the terrace right over the central part and let the street cars pass underneath . So they leave New Jersey Avenue at grade and come in between the trees and the wall ...
... thing to do would be to terrace this [ indicating on map ] and extend the terrace right over the central part and let the street cars pass underneath . So they leave New Jersey Avenue at grade and come in between the trees and the wall ...
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... thing , would it ? Mr. PARSONS . It is quite feasible , and I think that would improve Delaware Avenue . Senator SMOOT . Would it not look rather peculiar there unless the street was graded gradually ? Mr. PARSONS . The grade will have ...
... thing , would it ? Mr. PARSONS . It is quite feasible , and I think that would improve Delaware Avenue . Senator SMOOT . Would it not look rather peculiar there unless the street was graded gradually ? Mr. PARSONS . The grade will have ...
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... thing out of it at all , either in value of property or in financial results from an operating standpoint . I would like to leave that thought with you just as earnestly as I am able to express it . The CHAIRMAN . Colonel Grant is here ...
... thing out of it at all , either in value of property or in financial results from an operating standpoint . I would like to leave that thought with you just as earnestly as I am able to express it . The CHAIRMAN . Colonel Grant is here ...
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... thing and require extra legislation to take care of new projects . I should say to the committee that Mr. Coldren , who is secretary of the commission and who was quite well known here as a lawyer before he accepted employment by the ...
... thing and require extra legislation to take care of new projects . I should say to the committee that Mr. Coldren , who is secretary of the commission and who was quite well known here as a lawyer before he accepted employment by the ...
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... thing to require of him , Senator , he would find that this law only gives authority to the commission to establish reasonable requirements , and he would have recourse to the courts , of course , to upset the requirements if they are ...
... thing to require of him , Senator , he would find that this law only gives authority to the commission to establish reasonable requirements , and he would have recourse to the courts , of course , to upset the requirements if they are ...
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Page 53 - ... and who has not been paid in full therefor before the expiration of a period of ninety days after the day on which the last of the labor was done or performed by him or material was furnished or supplied by him for which such claim is made, shall have the right to sue on...
Page 3 - An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, and for other purposes," approved August 30, 1890, as amended.
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