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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · February 26, 1885 · Chapter 163

Chapter 163.

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CHAP. 163.— AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to increase the water-supply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes."February 26, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Act to increase water supply oi the city of Washington, etc.1882, vol. 22, ch. 2 2 4, p. 168, amended.Time for accepting appraised value of lands or suing in Court, of Claims extended one year. That the time fixed by the act entitled “An act to increase the water-supply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes,” approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, within which owners of or parties interested in lands condemned or taken under the provisions of said act may accept the appraised value made or to be hereafter made under said act, or owners or persons interested in such lauds who have declined or may hereafter decline to accept the appraised value of such lands, and have elected or may elect to file a petition in the Court of Claims under the provisions of said act, be, and the same is hereby, extended for one year from the passage of this act, notwithstanding the limitation provided by said act.
Approved, February 26, 1885.
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