Chapter 203. To provide for the extension of Rittenhouse street, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 203.— An Act To provide for the extension of Rittenhouse street, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. February 25, 1909.[[H. R. 20472](/us/bill/70/hr/20472).][[Public, No. 272.](/us/pl/70/272)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That within ninety days afterDistrict of Columbia.Kitten house street northwest.Condemning land for extending.Vol. 34, p. 151. 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, sitting as a district court, under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the extension of Rittenhouse street on a straight extension of the lines thereof, as now established on the highway extension plan in the District of Columbia, from its present terminus at Broad Branch road eastwardly to the Daniel road, with a uniform width of ninety feet: *Provided*, That the total amount found to be due and awarded as*Proviso.*Damages, etc., assessed as benefits. damages, plus the cost and expenses of the proceedings, shall be assessed by the said jury as benefits.
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 be repaid toPayment of awards. the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefitsand covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Approved, February 25, 1909.