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Public Law 70–303
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.
Approved March 30, 1928
Statutory text
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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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 $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.