Chapter 2075. For the opening of a connecting parkway along Piney Branch, between Sixteenth street and Rock Creek Park, District of Columbia
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CHAP. 2075.— An Act For the opening of a connecting parkway along Piney Branch, between Sixteenth street and Rock Creek Park, District of Columbia. February 27, 1907. [[H. R. 129](/us/bill/59/hr/129).] [[Public, No. 135](/us/pl/59/135).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Parkway along Piney Branch.Condemning land for, between Sixteenth street and Rock Creek Park.*Ante,* p. 151.
That under and in accordance with the provisions of sections four hundred and ninety-one a to four hundred and ninety-one n, both inclusive, of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within ninety days after the passage of this Act the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to institute in the supreme court of the District of Columbia 1001a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for connecting Sixteenth street with Rock Creek Park by a parkway of not more than an average of four hundred feet in width extending along or in the valley of Piney Branch, District of Columbia.
Sec. 2. That the sum of six hundred dollars, or so much thereof asAppropriation for expenses etc.One-half from District revenues. may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, one half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to provide the necessaryReimbursement. funds for the costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto to be reimbursed to the revenues of the District of Columbia and the United States in equal parts from assessments for benefits when the same are collected, and a sufficient sum toPayment of awards, etc. pay the amounts of all judgments and awards is hereby appropriated, one half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 27, 1907.