Chapter 225. To authorize the opening of a road along the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 225.— An Act To authorize the opening of a road along the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia. May 10, 1910.[[H. R. 19038](/us/bill/61/hr/19038).][[Public, No. 170](/us/pl/61/170).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That under and in accordance District of Columbia. Road along Anacostia River. Condemning land for. Vol. 34, pp. 151, 930. with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,’ regulating proceedings for condemnation of land for streets,” approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, known as subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law of the District of Columbia, except section four hundred and ninety-one g of said subchapter, which section shall not be applicable to 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 and acquire the fee simple and absolute title, including all riparian rights and all other rights pertaining thereto, to a strip of land for a public highway and for park Location. purposes along the Anacostia River and bounded by said river, from Monroe street extended to the right of way of the outfall sewer at and near Poplar Point and from the southwest corner of the grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane along said Anacostia River to Giesboro Point, near the western terminus of Memphis street, as shown on the permanent system of highway plans for the District of Columbia.
The northern and western boundary of said strip of land shall be coincident with the high-water line of the said Anacostia River, and the southern and eastern boundary of the said strip of land shall be not more than one hundred and sixty feet therefrom: *Provided*, *Provisos*. One-half of damages assessed as benefits. That of the amount found due and awarded as damages for and in respect of the land condemned under this Act for the said public highway and park not less than one-half thereof, together with all the costs and expenses of the proceeding or proceedings taken pursuant hereto, shall be assessed as benefits by the jury in said proceeding against the lots, pieces, or parcels of ground lying on the side or sides of the extension of the said public highway and park and also on all or any adjacent-pieces or parcels of land which will be benefited by the said public highway and park as herein provided: *And provided further*, Determination of benefits.
That the sums to be assessed against each lot, piece, or parcel of ground shall be determined and designated by the jury, and in determining what amount shall be assessed against any particular lot, piece, 354 or parcel of ground the jury shall take into consideration the situation of the said lot, piece, or parcel of ground and the benefits they may severally receive from the opening of the said public highway and park. Sec. 2. Appropriation for benefits, etc. That there is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of the District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and Repayment. for the payment of amounts awarded as damages, one-half of the said amount 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, May 10, 1910.