Chapter 247. To provide for the extension of Nineteenth street from Belmont road to Biltmore street, in the District of Columbia, with a uniform width of fifty feet, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 247.— An Act To provide for the extension of Nineteenth street from Belmont road to Biltmore street, in the District of Columbia, with a uniform width of fifty feet, and for other purposes. May 18, 1910.[[S. 2781](/us/bill/61/s/2781).][[Public, No. 184](/us/pl/61/184).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. Nineteenth street northwest. Condemning land for extending. Vol. 34, p. 151.
That within six months after 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 terms and 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 necessary for the extension of Nineteenth street from Belmont road, formerly Woodley road, to Biltmore street, formerly Baltimore street, in the District of Columbia, with a uniform width of fifty feet: *Provided, however*, That the entire *Provisos*.
Damages 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 and the costs and expenses of the proceeding heretofore taken by said commissioners for the extension of said street, under the Act approved March third, Vol. 33, p. 1007. nineteen hundred and five, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits against those lots, pieces, or parcels of land situate, lying, and being within the zone bounded as follows:
Beginning on the north side of Lots affected. Calvert street, Cliffbourne, at the dividing line between lots numbered thirty-one and thirty-two, square numbered twenty-five hundred and forty-seven; thence north one hundred and ten and five-tenths feet; thence south eighty-seven degrees thirty-three minutes west along the north line of Cliffbourne to Rock Creek; thence westerly to the southeast corner of square numbered twenty-two hundred and five (block numbered twenty-one, Woodley Park); thence north eighty-four degrees fifty-one minutes west forty-five feet; thence north twenty-four degrees twenty-six minutes west to the north side of said square numbered twenty-two hundred and five; thence north eighty degrees thirty-four minutes west to the east line of Connecticut avenue; thence south twenty-four degrees twenty-six minutes east to the northwest corner of lot numbered two, square numbered twenty-two hundred and two (block numbered twenty-two, Woodley Park); thence easterly to the north corner of lot numbered seven, in said square numbered twenty-two hundred and two; thence southeasterly along the north line of said lot numbered seven, square numbered twenty-two hundred and two, to Cathedral avenue; thence southeasterly to the north corner of lot numbered forty-three, square numbered twenty-five hundred and forty-two; thence easterly along Belmont road to the northwest corner of square numbered twenty-five hundred and thirty-nine; thence southeasterly along the west side of square numbered twenty-five hundred and thirty-nine to Kalorama road; thence easterly along Kalorama road to Columbia road, and northward along Columbia road to Biltmore street; thence west along Biltmore street to Cliffbourne place, and along Cliffbourne place and across Calvert street to the place of beginning: *Provided, however*, That nothing in said subchapter Restriction. 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 cost and expenses of the proceedings hereunder and the aforesaid proceeding heretofore instituted for the extension of said Nineteenth street against said lots, pieces, or parcels of land as benefits.
Sec. 2. That there is hereby appropriated, one-half from the revenues Appropriation for expenses, etc. of the District of Columbia and one-half from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 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, Payment of award. 374 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 and the United States in equal parts.
Sec. 3. Former act repealed. Vol. 33, p. 1007. That the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An Act for the extension of Nineteenth street from Woodley road to Baltimore street,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby Proceedings discontinued. authorized and directed to discontinue and abandon the proceeding heretofore instituted by them under said Act for the extension of said Nineteenth street, now pending in the supreme court of the District of Columbia and known as district court cause numbered six hundred and fifty-three.
Approved, May 18, 1910.