Chapter 3611. Amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for payment of damages on account of changes of grade due to the construction of the Union Station, District of Columbia,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four
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CHAP. 3611.— An Act Amendatory of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for payment of damages on account of changes of grade due to the construction of the Union Station, District of Columbia,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four. June 29, 1906. [[H. R. 14511](/us/bill/59/hr/14511).] [[Public, No. 357](/us/pl/59/357).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section live and section District of Columbia.
Payment of damages on account of changes of grade for Union Station. Vol. 33, p. 251. seven of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for payment of damages on account of changes of grade due to construction of the Union Station, District of Columbia,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, be, and the same are hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 5. That if any of the parties interested, their personal representatives, Jury to consider appeals. Vol. 33, p. 251, amended. or the guardians ad litem who may be appointed for any such parties who may be under legal disability, or the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, shall be dissatisfied with any appraisement of said commission, the court shall, on the motion of the party so dissatisfied, direct the United States marshal to summon a jury of seven disinterested men, not related to any person in interest, to meet and view the property alleged to have been damaged as aforesaid, giving the parties interested at least six days’ notice of the time and place of meeting.
The said marshal shall summon a jury and administer an Duty of jury. oath to them that they will, without favor or partiality to anyone, to the best of their judgment, appraise and determine the amount of damages to which each owner of any such property so affected by change of grade may be entitled; and in every Appraisement of damages Determining benefits and advantages accruing from elimination of grade crossings, etc. the commission, or jury, as the case may be, shall take into consideration any and all benefits and advantages that may have accrued to such property by reason of the elimination of grade crossings, the establishment of the Union Railroad Station and terminals, and all works, buildings, and improvements authorized by the Act of Congress approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled Vol. 31, p. 767. ‘An Act to provide for the elimination of certain grade crossings of railroads in the District of Columbia, to require and authorize the construction of new terminals and tracks for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in the city of Washington, and for other purposes,’ and the Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen Vol. 32, p. 912. hundred and three, entitled ‘An Act to provide for a Union Railroad Station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.’” “Sec. 7.
That the members of said commission appointed under the Compensation of commissioners increased. Vol. 33, p. 251, amended. provisions of this Act shall receive for their services when actually employed such compensation as shall be determined upon by the supreme court of the District of Columbia as equitable and commensurate with the services rendered, not exceeding the sum of ten dollars per day, and the jurors summoned by the marshal under the provisions of this Pay of jurors.
Act shall receive for their services when actually employed the sum of five dollars per day. A sufficient sum to pay the compensation and expenses Appropriation from District revenues. of said commission and the compensation of said jurors and the amount of such appraisements or awards of damages is hereby appro-620priated Refund. out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, and fifty per centum thereof shall be refunded to said District of Columbia by the United States.” " Approved, June 29, 1906.