Chapter 48. To authorize the extension of Lamont Street northwest, in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 48.— An Act To authorize the extension of Lamont Street northwest, in the District of Columbia.March 1, 1912.[[S. 238](/us/bill/62/hr/288).][[Public, No. 93](/us/pl/62/93).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Lamont Street northwest.Condemning land for extending.Vol. 84, p. 151. That under and in accordance 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 to extend Lamont Street northwest through squares numbered twenty-six hundred and four and twenty-six hundred and five, with a width of ninety feet, said extension to be a direct prolongation of Lamont Street as now existing*Proviso*.Damages assessed as benefits. east of Nineteenth Street: *Provided, however*, That the entire 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, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits.
Sec. 2. That there is hereby appropriated, out of the revenues ofAppropriation for expenses. the District of Columbia, an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the said condemnation proceeding taken pursuant hereto, and for the payments of the amounts awarded as damages,Payment of awards. 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 1, 1912.