UNCOMPLETED PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC WORKS, MAY 1, 1875. TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR EACH. The following table shows the total amount of appropriations made from time to time by the City Council, and the objects for which they were made, the amount expended, and balance unexpended, including the July draft. OBJECT OF APPROPRIATIONS. Primary School-house, Newbury Street (loan and appropriation) Primary School-house, Gibson District (appro'ation) Primary School-house, Lawrence Dis- Building, trict (appropriation). Beach Street (loans). Broadway Bridge Foundations (loan) Broadway Extension (loans) Burnt District (loans) Canton Street Grading (loan) Church Street District (loans and transfer) Commerce Street (transfer). Eastern Avenue and Bridge (loan) Engine House, Bristol Street (appropriations) Engine House, Dartmouth Street (appropriation) Grammar School-house, Winthrop District, Charles- Harrison Avenue Extension (loan) Home for Poor, Deer Island (transfer) Memorial Monument, Boston Common (transfer) 116,933 80 1,066 20 27,665 00 98,783 30 45,335 00 101.216 70 4,275 88 15,532 97 1,561,127 93 13,872 07 CITY OF BOSTON. IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, July 19, 1875. The Committee on Paving, to whom was recommitted the petition of the Metropolitan Railroad Company for a double track in Columbus avenue and Park square, respectfully report the accompanying order of location. For the Committee, JAMES POWER, Chairman. Ordered, That, in addition to the rights heretofore granted to the Metropolitan Railroad Company to lay down tracks in several of the streets of the City of Boston, said company shall have the right to lay down two tracks in Columbus avenue, from Berkeley street to Park square, and in Park square, from Columbus avenue to Boylston street, with suitable curves and connections to connect said tracks with the tracks as now laid down in Berkeley and Boylston streets. Said company shall also have the right to lay down a single track in Park square, and across Boylston street, to connect the tracks located by this order on Park square with the tracks now laid down in Charles street. The tracks, curves and connections located by this order being shown on two plans drawn by Barbour & Hodges, Civil Engineers, dated June 11, 1875, and deposited in the office of the Superintendent of Streets. The right to lay down the tracks located by this order is upon the condition that the whole work of laying down said tracks, and the form of rail to be used, shall be under the direction and to the satisfaction of the Committee on Paving and the Superintendent of Streets, and shall be approved by them; also, upon the condition that the space occupied by said tracks shall be paved with small granite blocks to the satisfaction of said Superintendent of Streets; also, upon the condition that said Metropolitan Railroad Company shall accept this order of location, and shall agree in writing to comply with the conditions therein contained, and shall file said acceptance and agreement with the City Clerk within thirty days of the date of its passage; otherwise it shall be null and void. |