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 1008 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I1. Ch. 2115. 1907. F€b1’¤¤¤'! ?$»1907· CHAP. 21 15.-An Act Authorizing the extension of W and Adams streets north- [$.0119.] ww; {1>¤¤ne,>z¤.14v. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRqm·esentatives of the United ”,§f§,‘ffS§§n°§}“v‘§§},§, States of America in Cbngress assembled, That upon the conveyance A<1¤·¤¤¤ streets in proper form to the United States by the president and secretary of the Pros act Hill Cemetery, incorporated under the Act of Congress approved) June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty (Twelfth `tatutes, page thirty-two), of the land necessary for the extension of W and Adams streets northwest, east to North Capitol street, said W street to be eighty feet wide and said Adams street to be ninety feet wide, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to draw their warrant upon the Treasury of Pgyggjf {mm the United States, payable to the order of the Prospect Hill Cemetery gmc. for the sum of four thousand dollars, in payment in full for the land ¥§’§;,,u’I§’§§ct mv. necessar for the extension of said streets as above provided. Said °¤“‘=~ sum shall be payable wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia. m;}¤¢¤¤¤¤*°*b¤¤¢· Sec. 2. That all of said amount of four thousand dollars, as herein ' provided, shall beassessed by the jury hereinafter provided for as enefits, and to the extent of such benefits, on any or all pieces or parcels of land which will be benefited by the extension of said streets, as said  may find said pieces or parce s of land will be benefited, except the n s, of the Prospect Hill - Cemetery, and in determining the amounts to be assessed against said pieces or parcels of land the jury shall take into consideration the respective situations of such pieces or parcels of land and the benefits they may severally receive from the _ extension of said streets as aforesaid. '° ”° Sec. 3. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be,and they are hereby, authorized and directed, as soon as practicable after the payment of the said sum of four thousand dollars, to institute proceedings in the proper court in the District of Columbia for the purpose of the assessment of said benefits upon the pieces or parcels of ’*d"°’““°'“°’“· land which may be benefited by the extension of said streets. Said court shall cause public notice of not less than ten days to be given of the filing of said proceedings by advertisement in such manner as the court may prescribe, which notice shall warn all persons having any interest in the proceedings to attend court at a day to he named in said notice and to continue in attendance until the court shall have made its final order ratifging and confirming the assessments of benefits by the ?¤¤¤¤•l•¤¤'i¤•· jury; and in ad ition to such public notice said court, whenever in its judgment it is practicable to do so, may cause a copy of said notice to be served by the marshal of the District of Columbia or his deputies upon such owners of the land to be so benefited by the opening of said streets as mav be found by said marshal or his deputies within the ` District of Columbia. . “*”‘“*’°i“’Y· Sec. 4. That after the return of the marshal and the filing of proof of_ publication of the notice above provided for, said court shall cause a jury of seven judicious,·disinterested men, not related to any person interested in the proceedings and not in the seryice or employment of the District of Co umbia or of the United States, to be summoned by D““°¤· the marshal of the District of Columbia, to which jurors said court shall administer an oath or affirmation that they are not interested in any manner in the land to be condemned nor are in any way related to the parties interested therein, and that they will, without favor or par-· tiality, to the best of their judgment assess the benefits resulting from ,,f,'jf'“’¤“ °’ °"l°"‘ the opening of said streets. The court before accepting the jury shall hear any objections that may be made to any member thereof, and shall have full power to decide upon all such objections, and to excuse any juror or cause any vacancy in the jury, when impaneled, to be filled;