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 2 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CH. 2-4. 1900. Mare Island. California, and League Island, Pennsylvania, is so far modified that the total additional increased cost for the two dry docks gforesaid shall not in the aggregate exceed seven hundred thousand ollars. ' Approved, January 25, 1900. January 27,1900. CHAP. 3.-A.n Act Extending the time for the completion of a wagon and ‘*"_"""" motor bridge across the Missomi River at Saint Charles, M1SSOuI'l, as provided by an Act approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 0 f the United brfggig °X“”?d°d *°’ States of America in Congress assembled That the time for completing g Missouri . ’ . . . River ¤zst.c1m1e¤. the construction of a wagon and motor bridge across the MISSOUPI V°1‘2°* °‘1°5‘ River at Saint Charles, M1ssouri, as fixed by an Act approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be extended to`June third, nineteen hundred and two. Approved, January 27, 1900. January 30,1900. C§§E’.t4.TA1é1}ct Eelative to the widening and extension of Sixteenth street j—·1·‘·_‘-‘inteisrico oum ia. · Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _Dé¤¢;i¤t9fnG¤1¤t;¤¤¤i States of America in Congress assanbled, That the Commissioners of sixi(e$ixl]£s1i°¤zie§¢." ° the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and _ directed, within thirty days after the dedication to said District of seventy-five per centum of the lands lying within the lines of Sixteenth street northwest, as extended according. to the highway plans, between the Piney Branch and the Blagden Mill road, and also between the Militaigr road and the District of Columbia boundary line, to institute procee ings to condemn the land necessary for the extension of Sixteenth street from Morris street to the District of Columbia boundary line with a uniform width of one hundred and sixty feet, under the terms V<>l·30»P·1344- and provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to extend S street in the fsggggeuma District of Columbia, and for other purposes:” Provided, That of gainst . abutting pmpmy. the amount found due and awarded as damages for and in respect of the land condemned for the extension of Sixteenth street, as in this section provided, not less than one-half thereof shall be assessed by said jury in said proceedingls against those ieces or parcels of ground situated and lying on eac side of said Sixteenth street northwest between Morris street and the Blagden subdivision, and between the Blagden Mill road and the Rock Creek or Milkhouse Ford road, and between lots seven, four, and eleven of A. R. Shepherd’s subdivision, to the depth of two hundred and fifty feet, or to such greater depths as the benefits may be found by said jury to extend, measured on each '  side thereof from the building lines of said Sixteenth street as extended. Dedication of land Sec. 2. That the supreme court of the District of Columbia, sitting bY*“‘““‘S·°‘°· _ as an equity court, shall have authority to em ower, order, and decree the committee or guardian of any person oi) unsound mind, and the guardian or trustee of any infant, owni_n or having an interest or estate in any land within the limits above described, to dedicate to the District of Columbia for and as a part of said Sixteenth street any land or part thereof owned by such person of unsound mind or by such infant, or in which they may have an interest or estate, if, upon the application of such committee, guardian, or trustee, and after the testimony of witnesses shall be taken and such other proceedings had as the court may deem proper, the court shall determine that such