Volume 65
Public Law 82–86
To increase the fee of jurors in condemnation proceedings instituted by the District of Columbia.
Approved July 30, 1951
Statutory text
AN ACT
To increase the fee of jurors in condemnation proceedings instituted by the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 491L of subchapter 1 of chapter 15 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1901
D. C. Code §§ 7–213, 7–322.
(31 Stat. 1189), as added by the Act approved April 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 151), and section 1609 of chapter 55 of such Act approved March 3, 1901, as amended by the Act approved February 23, 1905 (33 Stat. 733), be and hereby are repealed.
Sec. 2.
In all eminent domain cases instituted by or on behalf of the District of Columbia, each juror shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of $10 per day for every day necessarily employed in the performance of his duties.
Approved July 30, 1951.