Chapter 232. To authorize the widening of First Street northeast, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 232.— An Act To authorize the widening of First Street northeast, and for other purposes. March 3, 1923.[[H. R. 5018](/us/bill/67/hr/5018).][[Public, No. 493](/us/67/pl/493).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.First Street NE.Condemning land to widen.Vol. 34, p, 151. That under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter 1 of chapter 15 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 widening1443 of First Street northeast, along the eastern boundaries of squares numbered six hundred and seventy-five, six hundred and seventy-six, and six hundred and seventy-seven, to a width of sixty feet, as shown on plan on file in the office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia: *Provided, however*, That of the amount found*Proviso*.Two-thirds of damages assessed as benefits. 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 widening, plus the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder, not less than two-thirds thereof shall be assessed by the jury as benefits.
Sec. 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, outAmount authorized for expenses and award. of the revenues of the District of Columbia, an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceeding taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages. The amounts assessed as benefits when collected shallAssessment, etc., of benefits. be repaid to the District of Columbia and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 3. That the Act approved June 11, 1910, entitled “An ActFormer Act repealed and proceedings under discontinued.Vol. 36, p. 466. authorizing the widening of First Street northeast, in the District of Columbia,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to discontinue and abandon the proceeding heretofore instituted by them under said Act for the widening of said First Street, now pending in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and known as District court cause numbered nine hundred and twenty-two.
Approved, March 3, 1923.