Chapter 81. To provide for the widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street southeast
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CHAP. 81.— An Act To provide for the widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street southeast. January 15, 1925.[[S. 1782](/us/bill/68/s/1782).][[Public. No. 323](/us/pl/68/323).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.Nichols Avenue SE.Acceptance of strip for widening. That within ninety days after the dedication to the District of Columbia by the owners of lots numbered 29 to 35, both inclusive, in square numbered 5601, of a strip of land seven feet in width for widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street southeast, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and Purchase or condemnation of additional land.Vol. 34, p. 151.are hereby, authorized to acquire by purchase, at a price deemed by them to be reasonable and fair, otherwise by condemnation, under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter 1 of chapter 15 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, all of those pieces or parcels of land taxed as lots numbered 816 and Description.821 and the following-described part of that parcel of land taxed as lot numbered 827, in square numbered 5601, beginning for the same at the southwest corner of lot taxed as lot numbered 827, in square numbered 5601, said corner being at the intersection of the eastern line of Nichols Avenue and the northern line of Good Hope Road; thence running with the northern line of Good Hope Road south fifty-nine degrees forty minutes thirty seconds east fourteen and ninety-three one-hundredths feet to the southwest corner of lot taxed as lot numbered 803, in square numbered 5601; thence leaving Good Hope Road and running with the dividing line between said lots numbered 827 and 803 north thirteen degrees twenty-three minutes thirty seconds east seventy-five feet to the northwest corner of said lot numbered 803; thence leaving said lot numbered 803 and running in a parallel line to the eastern line to Nichols Avenue and seven feet southeasterly therefrom north nineteen degrees fifteen minutes fifteen seconds east twenty-five and thirteen one-hundredths feet to the northern line of said lot numbered 827; thence with the northern line thereof north seventy-six degrees thirty-six minutes thirty seconds west ninety-one one-hundredths feet to the most eastern corners of lots taxed as lots numbered 816 and 821; thence with the dividing line between said lots numbered 821 and 827 south thirty-nine degrees twenty-eight minutes west seventeen and thirty-nine one-hundredths feet to the eastern line of Nichols Avenue; thence with the eastern line thereof south nineteen degrees fifteen minutes fifteen seconds west eighty and forty one-hundredths feet to the beginning, containing nine hundred and twelve and sixty one-hundredths square feet, more or less, as shown on the plat books of the surveyor’s office of the District of Columbia, for the widening of the said Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road *Proviso*.Damages assessed as benefits.and S Street southeast: *Provided. however*, That the entire cost of the property if acquired by condemnation under and in accordance with this Act plus the cost of court proceedings incident thereto shall be assessed as benefits against any property in the District of Columbia which in the judgment of the condemnation jury is benefited. 751 Sec. 2.
That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated out Amount authorized for purchase, or condemnation expenses and award.of the revenues of the District of Columbia, if acquired by purchase, the sum of $4,500 to pay the purchase price plus any expenses incident thereto, or in case of condemnation an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment Repayment.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, January 15, 1925.