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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 419. 1896. 397 property due the District of Columbia, including the payment of necessary clerical force, two thousand dollars. i,.g'§§`°r°I °”°°"“°”° To enable the assessor to transcribe the general assessment and pre- ` pare the numerical book, three thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available: Provided, That the employees in the office of the Pwviev. assessor may be assigned to duty in the preparation of said numerical ,e5${,,,;°' “'1‘lm°““1 books in addition to their regular duties, and may be allowed a reasonable compensation for said additional services from said appropriation. To enable the Commissioners to have plats of subdivisions of the _G¤<>¤z¤¤<>w¤ subdisquares in that portion of Washington formerly known as Georgetown ""“"”“' photolithographed, three hundred and forty-six dollars, to be immediately available. d Eur special repairs to market houses, one thousand five hundred M¤k¤'= h¤¤¤···¤· o ars. PLATS or SUBDIVISIONS OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON AND GEORGE- m§Q{('{f,°g’j,j,;Q*},,1;ljf*s°‘ TOWN: To pay the expenses of such surveys as may be necessary to ` . enable the Commissioners of the District to determine whether plats of subdivisions of land within said District sacred for record have been made in conformity to the “Act to regulate subdivision of land within Vol-25.p.4s1. the District of Columbia/’ approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen _ hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars. EXTENSION OF HIGHWAYS: To pay the expenses of completing a FK¤¤¤¤i<>¤ of highplan for the extension of a permanent system of highways in conformity WWL 27, p. azz. with the “Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities," approved March _ _ second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ten thousand dollars, to be ,,fjf"“ D’“*“°* ""'°‘ paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: Provided, Proven. That of this sum so much as may be necessary may be expended by the P1“"“’ °°°‘ Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the preparation of plans, in part, and for reports by Frederick Law Olmstead, or other eminent landscape architect, on the said extension of a permanent system of highways. For advertising and court expenses necessary for the execution of the cd:-YQ gy ¤¤i¤z =¤·* Act entitled “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in p°°°°°' that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ten thousand dollars. Pxmumr ron Lors, Poroxvmc Rrvnn FLATS: For payment of the {,3g*·;;·;·m.g;g;m owners of the lots and parts of lots referred to in the decrees passed y ` by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in the case of the United States versus Morris and others, and located in squares sixty- three, eighty-nine, one hundred and twenty-nine, and one hundred and forty-eight, in the city of ¥Vashiugton, in said District, which lots and parts of lots have been included within the limits of the improvement of the Potomac River and its flats, in charge of the Secretary of War, twenty-six thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars and nine cents; which payment shall be made to and received by the respective owners of such lots and parts of lots in full discharge, acquittance, and release by such owners to the United States of all their right, title, interest, and claim of every description, as well in the soil of such lots and parts of lots, as of all claim of such owners on account of impairment or injury to any rights whatsoever therein claimed or sniiered by such owners from the filling in of such lots and parts of lots and their inclusion within the limits of said improvement; and which payment shall be made upon orders of the said court to the persons who have already been determined by the said court to be the owners of some of the said lots and parts of lots, and also to the persons who shall hereafter be determined by said court to be the owners of the residue of said lots and parts of lots; such orders to be passed from time to time upon application to the court therefor, by the several persons so determined, or who may be hereafter determined to be such owners; the appropriation herein made to be immediately available for the purposes specified.