Chapter 2560. For the opening of Mills avenue northeast from Rhode Island avenue to Twenty-fourth street
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CHAP. 2560.— An Act For the opening of Mills avenue northeast from Rhode Island avenue to Twenty-fourth street. March 2, 1907. [[H. R. 9326](/us/bill/34/hr/9326).] [[Public, No. 219](/us/pl/34/219).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Mills avenue northeast.Condemning land for opening.*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 sixty 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 a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the opening of Mills avenue, with a width of fifty feet, from Rhode Island avenue to its intersection with Twenty-fourth street northeast; said condemnation to be wholly to the westerly of the present easterly side of the private road known as Mills avenue.
Sec. 2. Assessments.*Ante,* p. 152.That assessments shall be made by the jury as benefits as contemplated in section four hundred and ninety-one g of the subchapter *Proviso.*Damages, etc., assessed as benefits.of the Code hereinbefore referred to: *Provided*, That the total amount found to be due and awarded as damages, plus the cost and expenses of the proceedings, shall be assessed by the said jury as benefits. Sec. 3. Payment of expenses.That the sum of three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of the District of Columbia to provide the necessary funds for the costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto, to be repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessment for benefits Appropriation.when the same are collected, and a sufficient sum to pay the amounts of all judgments and awards is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 4. New highway plan for northeast section.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to prepare a new highway plan for that portion of the District of Columbia lying west of said Mills avenue, north of Frankfort street, east of Twentieth street, and south of Rhode Island Vol. 27, p.534.avenue northeast, under the provisions contained in the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that Vol. 30, p. 519.part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” and tin amendment to said Act approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; that upon the completion and recording of said new highway plan it shall take the place of and stand for any previous plan for said portion of the District of Columbia.
Approved, March 2, 1907.