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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Suss. II. Ch. 546. 1898. 643 and ten feet three inches of lot seventeen of the said J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of the said square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, _ being lot eighty-three as per plat of Thomas Donnelly and Joseph Anthony’s subdivision of the said lot seventeen, as recorded in book eleven, iblio one hundred and fifty-four, in the office of the surveyor ot said District, and a sum sufficient, not to exceed two hundred and ‘““‘“ °’ °°“** twenty-five thousand dollars, to pay for said real estate in the manner hereinafter provided is hereby appropriated. - The Attorney-General, upon request of the said Public Printer, is P¤¤¤¤¤ for ¤¤¤¤¤s· authorized and directed to make application to the supreme court of  °"°l°° °f’"°" the District of Columbia, by petition, at a general or special term of said court, for an assessment of the value of said parcels of real estate, _,,,,.,,, M and said petition shall contain a particular description of the property required, with the name of the owner or owners thereof, and his, her, or their residence, as far as the same can be ascertained, and the said court is hereby authorized and required, upon such application, without delay, to notify the owners and occupants of each such parcel, and to ascertain and assess the value of the same by appointing three com- (:,..,;,,1.,,.,, ,,, missioners to appraise the values thereof and to return the assessment •PP'*‘•°- to the court, and when the values of such parcel  are thus ascertained, and the said Public Printer shall deem the same reasonable, the sum or sums so ascertained shall be paid into said court for their use. That the fee simple of all premises so appropriated for public use UF¤•=¤i¤¤p1¤wve¤ti¤ under the provisions hereof, and of which an appraisement shall have "im S""'" been made under the order and by direction of said court, shall, upon payment into the said court as aforesaid of the amount so ascertained and assessed as to each parcel, be thereupon vested fully in the United States and the right of possession thereof. That the said court may direct the time and manner in which posses- rtsmsion of prop sion of the property condemned shall be taken or delivered, and may, my °°""°'“°‘L if necessary, enforce any order or issue any process for giving possession. The cost occasioned by the inquiry and assessment shall be paid com by the United States; and as to other costs which may arise, they shall be charged or taxed as the court may direct. That whenever, and as, title to the several parcels of such real estate Payment for propshall beacquired as aforesaid, and the same shall be ready for delivery, §'[f;’§,,T“ °‘"° ’“ “°‘ and the sufficiency thereof shall be certified by the Attorney-General of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed, upon the requisition of the said Public Printer, to pay into court the condemnation price of such property, parcel by parcel. That the alley, fourteen feet wide, running north from the north side ¤1¤¤i¤z of alley. of G street, for a distance of one hundred and seventy-five feet three inches (being the alley in the rear of lots A, B, one, two, three, four, five, and six, and running parallel with lot seven, in J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, city of Washington, District of Columbia, as recorded in book B, folio ninety- seven, in the office of the surveyor of said District) be, and the same is hereby, closed and made a part of the land which the said Public Printer is herein directed to acquire for a site for a building for the Government Printing Office. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers sum for annum and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for "° ”""“- the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and all laws or parts 1;,,,,.,,,; of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Srzc. 3. That section one of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred com of cmm. and eighty-seven, chapter three hundred and fifty-nine, second session 5,,g’Q_‘§,’;,,*f,*];_{f°‘· “‘· *’· of the Forty-ninth Congress, be amended by adding thereto the following proviso, to wit: Provided further, That no suit against the Govern- S srissutydvqgtsg ment of the United States, brought by any officer of the United States ,,§$,§°;.,‘§,§,,Z,.g,,, to recover fees for services alleged to have been performed for the ;;·;;···* =¤°°°¤¤* United States, shall be allowed under this Act unless an account for v¤i.ze,g,.z¤c.