Chapter 96. To extend and widen Western Avenue northwest, in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 96.— An Act To extend and widen Western Avenue northwest, in the District of Columbia.March 2, 1913.[[H. R. 16819](/us/bill/62/hr/16819).][[Public, No. 404](/us/pl/62/404).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Western avenue northwest.Condemning land for extending, etc.Vol. 34, 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 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 of Western Avenue northwest from its present terminus at Beech Street northeastward along the northwestern boundary line of the District of Columbia, with a uniform width of one hundred and *Proviso*.Damages assessed as benefits.twenty feet, to Rock Creek Park: *Provided, however*, That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceedings as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension, plus the costs and expenses of the proceedings hereunder, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits.
Sec. 2. Appropriation for expenses. That there is hereby appropriated, out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings herein Payment of awards.provided for and for the payment of the amounts awarded by the jury 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, 1913.