Chapter 102. To authorize the widening of Georgia Avenue between Fairmont Street and Gresham Place northwest
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CHAP. 102.— An Act To authorize the widening of Georgia Avenue between Fairmont Street and Gresham Place northwest. April 14, 1924.[[S. 1339](/us/bill/68/s/1339).][[Public, No. 83](/us/pl/68/83).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That underDistrict of Columbia.Georgia Avenue NW.Condemning land to widen.Vol. 34, p. 151. and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter 1 of chapter 15 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within six 96months 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 widening of Georgia Avenue between Fairmont Street and Gresham Place northwest, with a width of not less than ninety feet, in accordance with maps on file in the office of the surveyor of the District*Proviso*.Damages assessed as benefits. of Columbia: *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 widening, plus the costs and expenses of the proceedings hereunder, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits against the property which the jury shall find to be benefited.
Sec. 2. Amount authorized for expenses and award. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceeding Repayment.taken pursuant hereto, and for the payment of the 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, April 14, 1924.