Chapter 309.
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CHAP. 309.— AN ACT to provide for the revision and correction of assessments for special improvements in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.June 19, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Special-improvement taxes to be enforced. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, directed to enforce the collection, according to existing laws, of all assessments for special improvements prepared under an act of the legislative assembly of August tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as charges upon the property benefitted by the improvements in respect to which said assessments wereRevision of assessments. made: *Provided*, That upon complaint being made to the Commissioners, within thirty days from the passage of this act, of erroneous or excessive charges in respect to any of said assessments which remain unpaid, said Commissioners are hereby authorized to revise such assessments so complained of, and to correct the same; and where certificates of assessment Drawback-certificates.have been issued, they shall issue to the holder of such certificate a drawback-certificate for the amount of such erroneous or excessive charges, which certificates shall be received at any time in payment of assessments for special improvements, and they shall be redeemed in the manner prescribed for the redemption and purchase of certificates, as provided by an act of the legislative assembly of May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled “An act for extending the time of payment of special assessments, and for other purposes”, after the provisions for the purchase and redemption of certificates named in said act shall have been fully carried out.
Approved, June 19, 1878.