Volume 44 · 698
Public Law 69–481
To authorize the widening of Harvard Street in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Approved June 7, 1926
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the widening of Harvard Street in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That under and
District of Columbia.
Harvard Street and Adams Mill Road NW.
Condemning land to widen.
Vol. 34, p. 151.
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 that may be necessary for the widening of those portions of Harvard Street northwest and Adams Mill Road, described as follows: A strip of land thirty feet wide lying immediately southerly of the northerly line of square 2589, between Lanier Place and Eighteenth Street, and a strip of land thirty feet wide lying immediately southerly of the northerly line of square 2587, between Quarry Road and Adams Mill Road; all of lot 1 and parts of lot 807, square 2588, parts of lots 802, 803, and 804, square west of square 2588; all of the above described property being in accordance with map number 1209 on file in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia, upon such lines as the said commissioners may deem to be in the public interests.
If damages exceed benefits, excess pity able from District revenues.
If the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in such proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land condemned for such widening, 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.
Sec. 2.
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 proceedings
Benefits credited to the District.
hereunder, and for the amount awarded as damages; and the amounts assessed as benefits, when collected shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Approved, June 7, 1926.