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to 2d or Front where the same [ca???ed] be
connected with existing drains
emptying in the Bay.

The firsrt plan is not advisable from
the fact that the fall per foot given
the drains on Pike St is so slight
that the existing drains in Pike St
are not almost entirely choked on
account of the sand and the othter matter
in there, that is to pay your surveyor
has been readily informed that
said drains are so choked.
Furthermore, the use of the wooden drains
is not advisable owing to its temp-
orary nature, and the fact that the
size of the drains in the street at present
to which the box drains would be joined
are but 8"x8" and their carrying capa-
city is not such as to justify any consid-
erable addional labor to be imposed upon
them. The final acreage to be drained