Chapter 15.
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CHAP. 15.— An act for the relief of the devisees of the late Daniel Carroll.Mar. 22, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, deceased.Relief of devisees, etc., of. That the devisees under the will of the late Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, deceased, their heirs or assigns, may prosecute a suit in the Court of Claims, according to the rules of practice and proceedings in said court, against the District of Columbia, to recover such damages, if any, as they have sustained by reason of the change of grade and the regrading of the streets around square numbered seven hundred and thirty six in the city of Washing ton; and the said court, if it shall appear that said claim for damages has not heretofore been presented or prosecuted before any board of audit established by the provisions of the act of Congress approved18 Stat., 118.
(525)526 FORTY-EIGHTH COMGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 15, 22, 29, 30. 1884. June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby authorized to hear and determine the said suit; and in ascertaining the damages sustained by the plaintiffs, the court is directed to take into consideration the advantages, if any, to the said square numbered seven hundred and thirty-six, resulting from the change of grade and regrading aforesaid. It shall be the duty of the attorney for the District to defend the said suit, and each party shall have the right to appeal for a final decision in such case to the Supreme Court of the United States, according to the existing rules of practice in said court. Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury,Appropriation out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the said plaintiffs such sum as the Court of Claims may adjudge to be due them, or any or either of them, one-half of which sum shall be chargeable to the revenue derived from taxation within the District of Columbia. Approved, March 22d, 1884.