Chapter 303. To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to compromise and settle certain suits at law resulting from the subsidence of First Street east, in the District of Columbia, occasioned by the construction of a railroad tunnel under said street

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Chap. 303: To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to compromise and settle certain suits at law resulting from the subsidence of First Street east, in the District of Columbia, occasioned by the construction of a railroad tunnel under said street. Chapter 303 45 Stat. 398 1928-03-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 303.— An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to compromise and settle certain suits at law resulting from the subsidence of First Street east, in the District of Columbia, occasioned by the construction of a railroad tunnel under said street. March 30, 1928.[[S. 1279](/us/bill/70/s/1279).][[Public, No. 230](/us/pl/70/230).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Suits to recover sum paid for work of First Street east, discontinued.

That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered to discontinue the prosecution of all claims and suits pending in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and entitled suits at law numbered 63579, 63580, 63581, and 63582, to recover the sum of $58,198.80 expended from public funds in resurfacing, repairing, and restoring to grade First Street east, between B Street south and B Street north, which work was rendered necessary by the subsidence of said street occasioned by the construction of a railroad tunnel under the said street incident to the project of elimination of grade crossings and the establishment of a union Vol. 31, p. 774;

Vol. 32, p. 9001. railroad station in the District of Columbia, authorized by Acts of Congress approved February 12, 1901, and February 28, 1903: *Proviso*.Acceptance of amount from railroad companies, in compromise. *Provided*, That the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and the Washington Terminal Company, jointly or severally, pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia a sum not less than 399 $30,000 in compromise and settlement of said claim or claims:

Credited equally to United States and the District. *Provided further*, That said sum shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia in equal parts. Approved, March 30, 1928.

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