Chapter 267. To extend North Capitol street northward through the property of the Prospect Hill Cemetery, to pay for hind to be taken for such purpose, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 267.— An Act To extend North Capitol street northward through the property of the Prospect Hill Cemetery, to pay for hind to be taken for such purpose, and for other purposes. February 20, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Extension of North Capitol street.Payment for land taken.Vol. 28, pp. 20, 251. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to proceed with the opening of North Capitol street northward through the prop erty of the Prospect Hill Cemetery, and to pay the owners of the land necessary to be taken for public use in the extension of said North Capitol street according to the report of the appraisers appointed byFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 267, 268. 1897.579 the supreme court of the District of Columbia March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to appraise the land necessary for the extension of said North Capitol street, as said report was confirmed by the supreme court of the District of Columbia June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and finally adjudged by the court of appeals of the District of Columbia March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, so far as the same relates to the land of said Prospect Hill Cemetery.
That the following sum is hereby appropriated, out ofAppropriation. the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the purposes following, namely: Fifty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars to pay the award of said appraisers, confirmed and adjudged as aforesaid. Sec. 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, February 20, 1897.