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ONTAI~IO <br />DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS <br /> <br />Mr. C.A. Keeley, <br />Clerk, County of Essex, <br />County Buildings, <br />Windsor, Ontario. <br /> <br />Toronto 2, April 9th, 1952. <br /> <br />Dear Sir: <br /> <br />~ - 1952 County Road Expenditure By-laws - <br /> <br /> Please be advised that the Department has carefully con- <br />sidered the by-law to provide for expenditures under The Highway <br />Improvement Act in the year 1952 as submitted by your municipality, <br />and the Yiinister of Highways, the Honourable Geo. H. Doucett, has <br />approved of a maximum total expenditure of $ 542,000.00 on which <br />subsidy may be payable under the said Act. <br /> <br /> This overall approval is given subject to approval of each <br />individual work of road construction and bridge construction and of <br />the purchase of each unit of machinery or equipment. In all such <br />cases the District Engineer must be advised and approval obtained <br />before the proposed work or purchase is advertised and tenders called, <br />or any commitment made by the municipality. <br /> <br /> It must be distinctly understood that if the appropriations <br />for roads, bridges and culverts, and machinery as shown in the by-law <br />are expended for any other purpose than that for which they ~ere <br />respectively appropriated, subsidy will not apply on the expenditure <br />unless the written approval of the Department is obtained before the <br />expenditure is made in each case. <br /> <br /> The Department requests your co-operation so that the <br />amount of the expenditure in 1952 submitted for subsidy will not <br />exceed the approved by-law amount as stated above and shown for the <br />different work classifications on the copy of the by-law returned to <br />you herewith. <br /> Yours very truly, <br /> <br /> J .~,.~. MacInne s, <br /> Chief Municipal Engineer. <br /> <br />J~.~/DD <br />Attach, <br /> <br /> <br />