Chapter 253. To regulate water-main assessments in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 253.— An Act To regulate water-main assessments in the District of Columbia.August 9, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Assessments for laying water mains. That hereafter assessments levied for laying water mains in the District of Columbia shall be at the 276 rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per linear front foot against all[R. S., D.C., sec. 201, p. 23.](/us/rs/t/s201/p23). lots or land abutting upon the street, road, or alley in which a water *Proviso*.Corner lots.main shall be laid: *Provided*, That corner lots shall be taxed only on their front, with a depth of not exceeding one hundred feet; any excess of the other front over one hundred feet shall be subject to above rate Payment of pending assessments.of assessment: *And provided further*, That in all cases now pending where assessments have been regularly made and the installments paid as they become due and payable, and the taxpayer is not in default or in arrears in any manner, and where there has not been paid a sum equal to one dollar and twenty-five cents per linear foot, as estimated above, then only so much shall be collected as will make the whole sum No refund of excess.paid equal to one dollar and twenty-five cents per linear foot.
But this Act is not intended to give any ground of action for the refunding of any sum already paid in excess of one dollar and twenty-five cents per linear foot, nor for relieving any taxpayer who is in arrears for water main assessments. Approved, August 9, 1894.