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CITY OF BOSTON.

SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS OFFICE,

City Hall, January 5, 1857.

TO THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL.

In pursuance of the requirements of the fifth section of the ordinance in relation to Streets, the Superintendent of Streets has the honor to submit to the City Council his annual report of the expenditures of the Paving Department, during the year 1856. This period embraces a part of each of the financial years 1855-56, and 1856-57.

The amount expended during the three months of the financial year 1855-56, was $33,296.98.

The amount expended during the nine months of the present financial year 1856-57, was $159,161.50.

The total amount expended and charged to the Paving Appropriations, during the municipal year 1856, was $192,458.48.

This amount ($192,458.48) was expended for paving,

grading, and repairs of streets, and for grade damages, in detail, as follows:

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Union Park, grading, paving granite block gutters, and macadamizing,

3,231 03

Tremont street, from Dover street to the Roxbury line,

grading, paving gutters, building cesspools, constructing

crossings and setting edgestone, .

8,969 53

Albany street, from Beach to Kneeland street, paving,

1,592 05

Chapman strect, from Washington street to Suffolk street,

paving gutters and grading,

Sudbury street, from Court to Portland street, repaving,

Friend street, (new) grading,

755 97

2,339 16

309 62

Fleet strect, repaving,

1,115 05

Common street, repaving,

683 97

Pleasant street, from Tremont street to Park square, repaving,

1,691 60

Harrison avenue, from Brookline to Malden st., grading,
Chauncy street, from Bedford to Summer street, in part,

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Mt. Washington avenue, from Federal street to the bridge, paving,

3,797 39

Congress street, from Post Office avenue to Milk street,

repaving,

661 93

Beach street, from Washington street to Harrison avenue,

repaving,

793 65

Custom House street, repaving,

1,675 99

Broad street, at the head of Custom House street, and from

Purchase street to India street, repaving,

2,086 24

India st., from Custom House st. to Broad st., repaving,

2,548 92

Amount carried forward,

$51,507 97

Amount brought forward,

Kilby street, from Doane st. to Central st. repaving,

Sun Court street, repaving,

Beach st., from Federal st. to Cove st., repaving,
Laying brick sidewalks and relaying the gutters in Blossom
and Allen streets, around the Mass. General Hospital,
Parker street, grading and opening,

Federal street, (late Sea street,) from North Free Bridge to
East street, repaving, .

Rutland street, from Washington street to Shawmut avenue,

paving gutters, .

Kneeland st., from Federal st. to Cove st., repaving,

$51,507 97

228 17

344 74

692 35

765 95

76 00

3,437 03

501 11

542 33

Cotting street, from Leverett street to Wall street, paving,

719 41

Richmond street, from Fulton street to Commercial street,

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Fruit street and North Grove street, paving gutters and

laying sidewalks,

632 07

Poplar street, extending the same, and building sea wall,

261 43

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Marion street, from Pleasant street to Church st., paving, 1,016 88

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Leverett street, from Green street to Brighton street, repav

ing, and paving the new part of Leverett street, near the Cragie Bridge, accepted by the City last fall,

Mt. Vernon street, below Charles street, grading,

Church street, paving,

Change avenue, paving with brick, part,

Albion street, grading,

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Fayette street, raising the grade between Pleasant street and
Church street, and houses thereon, to the established grade, 8,814 69
Commercial street, from Clinton street to Eastern Packet

pier, repaving,.

3,406 43

$87,607 09

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Dorchester avenue, from Sixth street to Boston and N. Y.

Central R. R. Bridge, repaving,

791 70

Crossings,

189 32

*First street, from C street to B street, constructing a sea

wall, and filling,

6,360 81

Dorchester street, grading,

292 50

F street, from Fourth street to Quincy street, paving gutters, 1,395 06

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Granite street, from First to Second street, grading,

+ Eighth street, from Dorchester st. to Mercer st., grading, A street, from Third street to Dorchester Avenue and Third street, from Second street to A street, paving,

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EAST BOSTON.

Repairing streets,

$808 35

Orleans street, grading,

316 95

Maverick street, from Maverick square to Bremen street,

paving,

1,249 88

2,116 40

2,355 18

$6,846 76

Sidewalks, in Paris, Sumner, and Webster streets,

Trenton street, paving gutters and grading,

Amount carried forward,

* Not completed. The sea wall has been built, but the filling will not be done before the end of the present month.

† The grading of the portions of these streets ordered by the Board of Aldermen, has not been completed. The work will be finished the coming spring.

Amount brought forward,

$6,846 76

Lexington street, paving gutters and grading,

1,846 91

Orleans street, from Webster st. to Sumner st., paving,

1,756 82

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Marginal street, from Orleans st. to the sea wall, paving, .

13,776 28

Meridian street, grading,

275 00

$36,048 38

INCIDENTALS.

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* The expense of the grading of White street is small, as the dirt removed from White street was taken to fill up Havre street; and the earth so used is charged to Havre street, at the contract price for filling said Havre street.

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