Chapter 172. For the widening of Benning road, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 172.— An Act For the widening of Benning road, and for other purposes. May 16, 1908.[[H. R. 4063.]](/us/bill/70/hr/4063)[[Public, No. 119](/us/pl/70/119).] *Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That under and in accordanceDistrict of Columbia, Benning road.Condemning laud for widening. with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within ninety days after the dedication to the District of Columbia of fifty per centum of the land necessary for the widening of Benning road in the District 164 of Columbia from Fifteenth street northeast to Oklahoma avenue, exclusive of the strip of land thirty feet in width acquired by the Columbia Railway Company under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved JuneVol. 34, p. 151.Vol. 30. p. 445. thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act to authorize the, extension eastwardly of the Columbia Railway, according to the street extension plans of said District, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia he, 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 to complete the widening of said road to a width of one hundred and ten feet between the limits named: *Provided, however*, That the entire*Provisos.*Damages, etc., assessed as benefits. amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages, for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension plus the costs and expenses of said proceeding, shall beRestriction. assessed by the jury as benefits: *And provided further*, That nothing in said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said Code shall be construed to authorize the jury to assess less than the aggregate amount of the damages awarded for and in respect of the land to be condemned and the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder: *And provided farther*,Removal of tracks.
That the said Columbia Railway Company, its successors or assigns, shall remove its tracks to the center of the street when widened when required so to do by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Sec. 2. That there is hereby appropriated from the revenues of theAppropriation for expenses. District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages; to lie repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 3. That section eight hundred and sixty-nine of an Act. ofPool selling, etc.Vol. 31, p. 1331, amended. Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law’ for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen bund ret Land one, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: “It shall be unlawful for any person or association of persons toGambling, etc., prohibited in the District. bet, gamble, or make books or pools on the result of any trotting or running race of horses, or boat race, or race of any kind, or on any election, or any contest of any kind, or game of baseball.
Any personPenalty. or association of persons violating the provisions of this section shall be lined not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both,” Approved, May 16, 1908.