Chapter 389. for the relief of holders of District of Columbia special assessment certificates, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 389.— An Act for the relief of holders of District of Columbia special assessment certificates, and for other purposes.June 2, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. That the commissioners of the District of Columbia and their successors are hereby authorized and directed to receive and audit ail claims that may be Special assessment lien certificate claims, etc., to be audited.presented to them by holders of special assessment lien certificates, scrip, or stock issued by the government of the District of Columbia or former municipal corporations in said District, whether on account of paving or other special or local improvements or general taxes, in cases where the security for the payment of such certificates, scrip, or stock has been impaired or destroyed by action of Congress, the courts, the government of the District of Columbia, or former municipal corporations in said District, or where such certificates, scrip, or stock has been issued upon property exempt by law from tax, or are or hereafter may become, from such or any cause, not enforceable against the property in respect of which they Commissioners to determine claims.were issued.
And said Commissioners and their successors are hereby authorized to hear and determine all Such claims, and to issue to the person or persons found entitled to the relief thereon Drawback certificates to issue.drawback certificates for the amounts respectively found to be due them on such certificates, scrip, or stock, including interest thereon as therein specified, to the date of this act. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 389, 390. 1890.125 Sec. 2. That the drawback certificates herein provided for shall be receivable for all arrears of general taxes due and unpaid on andReceivable for general tax arrears. prior to the thirtieth day of June next preceding the issue thereof.
Approved, June 2, 1890.