Chapter 249.
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CHAP. 249.— AN ACT To authorize the extension of Seventeenth Street northeast. March 4, 1911.[[S. 8300](/us/bill/36/s/8300).][[Public, No. 489](/us/bill/36/pl/489).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.District of Columbia, within six months after the passage of this Act, the Commissioners of the District of ColumbiaSeventeenth Street northeast.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 the landCondemning land for extending.that may be necessary for the extension of Seventeenth street northeast from Brentwood road to Rhode Island avenue, Vol. 34, p. 151.according to the permanent system of highway plans adopted in and for the District of Columbia: *Provided, however,**Provisos.,*That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages Damages assessed as benefits.for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension shall be 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 Minimum assessment.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 proceedings hereunder.
Sec.2.That there is hereby appropriatedAppropriation for expenses, etc.from the revenues of the 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 repaidAwards.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 4, 1911.