Chapter 33. To provide for the extension of Geneseo place and Summit place, District of Columbia
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CHAP. 33.— An Act To provide for the extension of Geneseo place and Summit place, District of Columbia. January 9, 1907. [[S. 5246](/us/bill/59/s/5246).] [[Public, No. 9](/us/pl/59/9).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Geneseo place and Summit place northwest.Condemning land for extending.*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 a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the extension of Geneseo place, Lanier Heights northwest, in said District, in a southwesterly direction in prolongation of its present lines and to extend Summit place in an easterly direction with a width of forty feet to connect with said extension of Geneseo place, said extension of Summit place to be north of the northerly line of lot one hundred and ninety-eight of Lanier Heights and said line extended, the name of Name changed.Geneseo place to be changed to Summit place.
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. Appropriation for 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 847hereto, to be repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessment for benefits when the same are collected, and a sufficient sum to pay Payment of awards.the amounts of all judgments and awards is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Approved, January 9, 1907.