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 536 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 197. 1893. maybe awarded as to any parcel of land. If any question shall arise asm whether any person claiming a. right to be heard is in fact interested in the proceedings, the court shall hear and determine the question in a, summary way, and in cases of doubt shall permit the partayto 0¤¤¢ntm¤M¤rs1i¤*- be heard. The verdict of the jury shall state as to each parcel of land involved in the proceeding only the amount of compensation, less the benefits, if amy, which it shall award in respect thereof, and shall not contain any finding as to the ownership of the land or the persons entitled to the compensation; Ccmpenmicn ctw- Sec. 14. That each of said jurors shall receive a. compensation of five ’°”‘ dollars per day for his servicesduring the time he shall be actually engaged in such services. · . ¤¤m¤z¤• M be S1:0. 15. That the amount awarded by said court as damages for each m:¤ {$a 1e:§°3: $.33 highway or reservation, or part thereof, condemned and established Di¤¤i¤*· ¤‘¤*¤¤¤°°·» under this act, shall be one half assessed against the land benefited thereby and the other half shall be charged up to the revenues of the · - District of Columbia; that one-half of the amount awarded by said court as damage for each highway or reservation or part thereoi, condemned and established under this act, shall be charged upon the lands · - beueiited by the laying out and opening of such highway or reservation or part thereof and the remainder of said amount shall be charged to Dnmngnnrl bow the revenues of the District of Columbia. The same jury which shall 2§,,°}',,,_,{,,°]‘"° =°y assess the damages caused by the opening of any highways or reserve tion or part thereof, or by the abandonment of an existing highway or part thereof, shall ascertain and determine what property is thereby benefited, and shall assess against each parcel which it shall find to be so benefited its proper proportional part of the whole of said one-half of mm. the damages: Provided, That in making such assessment for benefits m*:: { the jury shall, as to any tract a part of which shall have been taken for canine: u umu » such highway or reservation, or part thereof, make due allowance for •···*¤¢ °**°°¤°°· °‘°· the amount, if any, which shall have been deducted from the value of ¢· · ·‘ the part taken on account of the beneiit to the remainder of the tract. The proceedings of the court and the jury in making assessments for beneiits under this section shall conform as nearly as is practicable to the foregoing provisions of this act relating to the assessment of damages, and the verdict of the jury making an assessment under this section as to any parcel of land shall not be conclusive until the same cmmmauou Mm- shall have been confirmed by the court. When couiirmcd by the court “‘j,°,§°5j,‘}"§· lin the assessment so made shall be alien upon the land assessed, and ¤p¤¤1¤¤>¤- shall be collected as special improvement taxes in the District of Cocmumaqn. lumbiu have been collected since February twenty-first, eighteen hunp;.,,,m., ip h..;.u. drcd and seventy·0n¢·, and shall be payable in fave equal annual installmgflggm ments, with interest at the rate 01 four per centnm per annum from the date of the coutirmation of the assessment by the court. That no exxmpmumsqz or pense tbr the improvement of any street, circle, reservation or avenue °"‘*’· States, but such expense shall be paid solely out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. mmanunonurum- Sec. 16. That when said court shall have assessed the damages to "°“‘ be paid as to any parcel of land the use of which shall have been 0011- demned, 01- which shall have been injured by the abandonment of a. warm m eoqm previously existing highway. and there shall be 110 controversy as to u'$;{,j? ’*° "*°‘“"“‘ the persons who are entitled to receive the same or as to the distribution of the same among them, said court shall decree such payment to be made, and upon presentation of :1 duly certiiied copy of such decree to the Treasurer of the United States he shall report the same to Congress for consideration and action and shall make such payment to the person or persons appearing by such decree to be entitled thereto as h :$;=;¤;¤;1;;r¤ is c¤¤· Congress may provide; but where  such controversy shall exist or ‘where {share shall be any doubt as to the proper disposition of the com- . pensutwu awarded, the court shall order that the damages assessed by
 * §;*g;_;°·é;:r°;:’a§,f: lard out under the provisions of this act, outside the cities of Washingto mmm mmm ton and Georgetown, shall be chargeable to the Treasury of the United