Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, Year Ended June 30, 1911, Vol. 2: Engineer Department Reports The sum of was appropriated for resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavements. This was an increase of over the appropriation for the preceding year. The area of asphalt pavements in the District of Columbia is nearly square yards, which is probably a greater area than that in any other city in the world with the population of the District of Columbia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.