Chapter 126. To provide for the widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street Southeast in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 126.— An Act To provide for the widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street Southeast in the District of Columbia. February 14, 1927.[[S. 4727](/us/bill/69/s/4727).][[Public, No. 608](/us/pl/69/608).] *Be it it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Nichols Avenue SE.Condemnation of land for widening.Vol. 34, p. 151. That under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter 1 of Chapter XV 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 all of those pieces or parcels of land Description.taxed as lots numbered 816, 821, and 834, and the following described part of that parcel of land taxed as lot numbered 833, in square rm inhered 5601, beginning for the same at the southwest corner of said lot numbered 833 in square 5601, said point of beginning being 1091in the easterly line of Nichols Avenue, sixty feet-wide, as now publicly owned, and running thence with said easterly line of Nichols Avenue, north nineteen degrees fifteen minutes fifteen seconds east nine and thirty-nine one-hundredths feet; thence leaving said easterly line of Nichols Avenue, and running with the northwesterly line of said lot numbered 833, north thirty-nine degrees twenty-eight minutes east seventeen and thirty-nine one-hundredths feet; thence with the northerly line of said lot numbered 833 south seventy-six degrees thirty-six minutes thirty seconds east one and no one-hundredths feet; thence leaving said northerly line of said lot numbered 833, and running south nineteen degrees fifteen minutes fifteen seconds west twenty-five and thirteen one-hundredths feet to the southerly line of lot numbered 833; thence with said southerly line, north seventy-six degrees thirty-six minutes thirty seconds west seven and four one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning as shown on the plat books of the surveyor’s office of the District of Columbia, for the widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street Southeast.
If the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the juryPayment from District revenues of excess of damages over assessed benefits. in such proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land condemned for the widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street Southeast, plus the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder, is greater than the amount of benefits assessed, then the amount of such excess shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, but it shall be optional with the CommissionersOptional right of Commissioners as to verdict of jury, of the District of Columbia to abide by the verdict of the jury, or at any time before the final ratification and confirmation of the verdict, to enter a voluntary dismissal of the cause.
Sec. 2. That the benefits, when collected, shall be covered intoCollection of benefits. the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia. That theAppropriation authorized. money necessary to carry out this Act that is in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated is hereby authorized to be appropriated. Sec. 3. That the Act approved January 15, 1925, entitled “AnFormer Act repealed, and proceedings abandoned.Vol. 48, p. 750, repealed. Act to provide for the widening of Nichols Avenue between Good Hope Road and S Street Southeast,” be and the same is hereby repealed, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to discontinue and abandon the proceeding heretofore instituted by them under this Act, known as District court cause numbered 1721.
Approved, February 14, 1927.