Chapter 301. To provide for the widening of C Street northeast, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 301.— An Act To provide for the widening of C Street northeast, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.March 3, 1927.[[S. 5435](/us/bill/69/s/5435).][[Public, No. 704](/us/pl/69/704).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.C Street NE.Condemning land to widen.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 the land necessary for the widening of C Street between North Carolina Avenue and Twenty-first Street northeast., to provide for an addition to the width of said street of forty feet on the south side of said street, the land to be condemned for the said widening being a strip of land forty feet wide through squares 1082,1093,1107, 1118, and 1125, lying immediately south of the present south line of C Street: *Provided*, That if the amount found to be due and awarded by the*Proviso*.If damages exceed benefits, excess payable from District revenues. jury in such proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land condemned for said widening of C Street, plus the costs and expenses of the proceeding, 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 CommissionersOption of commissioners. 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 appropriation contained in the District of ColumbiaIndefinite highways appropriation available for awards and expenses.*Ante*, p. 427. Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927 (Public, Numbered 205, Sixty-ninth Congress), for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of streets, avenues, roads, or highways, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways in that portion of the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, is hereby made available to pay the awards and expenses under this Act, and the amountsBenefit assessments credited to the District. assessed as benefits, when collected, shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia.
Approved, March 3, 1927.