Chapter 136. To provide for the condemnation of streets or parts of streets under the plan for the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 136.— An Act To provide for the condemnation of streets or parts of streets under the plan for the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia. March 30, 1910.[[H. R. 16332](/us/bill/61/hr/16332).][[Public, No. 112](/us/pl/61/112).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Permanent system of highways.Extending streets through reserved subdivisions. That whenever in the subdivision of a tract of land in the District of Columbia the owner or owners of such tract shall reserve from subdivision any portion thereof, and shall fail to or refuse to dedicate the streets or highways within the reserved portion as shown on the plan of permanent system of highways, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized, in their discretion, to institute condemnation proceedings to acquire for street purposes in accordance with the highway plans any or all land comprised in the said streets within the limits of any portion reserved from subdivision, which the said Commissioners may deem desirable for the purpose of extending existing or proposed streets or of connecting streets already of record according to the said highway plan.
Sec. 2. Condemnation.Vol. 34, p. 151. That the said condemnation proceedings shall be instituted under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia: *Proviso*.Damages assessed as benefits. *Provided*, That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages for and in respect of the land condemned for such streets or highways, plus the cost and expenses 269of said proceedings, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits, under the provisions of said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said code.
And there is hereby appropriated, out of the revenues of the DistrictPermanent appropriation from District revenues. of Columbia, such amount or amounts as may be necessary to pay the cost and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages, to be 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. Approved, March 30, 1910.