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: 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, 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, Federal street, (late Sea street,) from North Free Bridge to 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, Fruit street and North Grove street, paving gutters and laying sidewalks, 632 07 Poplar street, extending the same, and building sea wall, 261 43 Marion street, from Pleasant street to Church st., paving, 1,016 88 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, Fayette street, raising the grade between Pleasant street and pier, repaving,. 3,406 43 $87,607 09 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 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, 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 Marginal street, from Orleans st. to the sea wall, paving, . 13,776 28 Meridian street, grading, 275 00 $36,048 38 INCIDENTALS. * 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. |