Chapter 74. To authorize the extension of Twenty-third and R streets southeast, in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 74.— An Act To authorize the extension of Twenty-third and R streets southeast, in the District of Columbia. March 2, 1910.[[H. R. 17514](/us/bill/61/hr/17514).][[Public, No. 74](/us/pl/61/74).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Twenty-third, and R streets southeast.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, 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 R street southeast from its present eastern terminus near Twenty-third street to Naylor street, and Twenty-third street southeast from its present southern terminus near Naylor street to R street, each with a uniform *Proviso*.Damages assessed as benefits.width of ninety feet: *Provided*, That the total amount found to be due and awarded as damages, plus the cost and expenses of the proceedings, shall be assessed by the said jury as benefits.
Sec. 2. Appropriation for expenses, etc. That there is hereby appropriated 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, Payment of awards.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 2, 1910.