Chapter 1. To authorize the extension and widening of Colorado Avenue northwest from Longfellow Street to Sixteenth Street, and of Kennedy Street northwest through lot numbered eight hundred, square numbered twenty-seven hundred and eighteen
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CHAP. 1.— An Act To authorize the extension and widening of Colorado Avenue northwest from Longfellow Street to Sixteenth Street, and of Kennedy Street northwest through lot numbered eight hundred, square numbered twenty-seven hundred and eighteen. June 30, 1911.[[H. R. 8649](/us/bill/62/hr/8649).][[Public, No. 1](/us/pl/62/1).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That under and in accordanceDistrict of Columbia.Colorado Avenue and Kennedy Street.Condemning land for extending, etc.Vol. 34, p. 151. with the provisions of subchapter one, of chapter fifteen, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, 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 a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the extension and widening of Colorado Avenue northwest from Longfellow Street to Sixteenth Street with a width of one hundred and twenty feet, according to the plan for the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, and of Kennedy Street northwest through lot numbered eight hundred, square twenty-seven hundred and eighteen, with a width of ninety feet: *Provided, however,* That the entire amount found to be due and*Proviso*.Damages assessed as benefits. awarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages for, and in respect of, the land to be condemned for said extension and widening, plus the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits.
Sec. 2. That there is hereby appropriated, out of the revenues ofAppropriation for expenses, etc. the District of Columbia, an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings herein provided for and for the payment of the amounts awarded by the jury asPayment of awards. 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, June 30, 1911.