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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cris. 2068, 2070. 1906. 15]. States in said State, in the same manner, for the same purpose, and subject to the same limitations and conditions under which the land so reconveyed was selected and held. Sec. 2. That subject to rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Rf,§§.’,,,§§f; L“k°“ Secretary of the Interior, the owner in fee simple or a claimant under tgistpf <>f ?»w¤9¤·¤. any general or special law of the United States, of any land included ° "° °°d° mum" within the limits of the Red Rock Lakes Reservoir site in the State of Montana, as the said reservoir is now or may hereafter be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the lands described in the preceding section being a part of said reservoir site, may at the o tion of the owner or claimant, relinquish or convey such land included) in said reservoir site to the United States and personally select in lieu thereof an equal area of the nontimbered public lands of the United States subject to homestead entry and situated)in the State of Montana, and such owner or claimant shall be placed in the same relation as to the United States, to the title, possession, and right of possession of the lieu land thus selected as such owner or claimant sustained to the land relinquished at the time the relinquishment was made. Sec. 3. That the land so reconveyed shall be restored to and become L.,,.;, mmm N, a part of the public domain and be subject to disposal by the Govern- P“b“° "°"'”““· ment in the same manner in which other public lands of a like character ’ are disposed of. Approved, April 28, 1906. CHAP. 2070.-Au Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a code of AEA] sn, moe, pewsiqgetge District of Columbia," regulating proceedings for condemnation of land [ - R-17217-l °" - [Public, No. 185.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofR¥v·esentatiazesqft/ae United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of Congress nydriceorcgimbga. entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of C0 um- vm? *§°°,f°°ilm, bia," approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, be, and the “'”°“°°"· same is hereby, amended by incorporating therein the following, to be wéggcljzptgl ·¤d¢d known as subchapter one of chapter fifteen: P ` OONDEMNATION OF LAND Fon STREETS. Sec. 491a. Whenever land is needed for the opening, extension, I ggqggqmgn oi widening, or straightening of any street, avenue, road, or highway in E S ' the District of Columbia, authorized by Congress, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may institute, in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, sitting as a district court, by petition, a proceeding in rem for the condemnation of the land needed. Sec. 491b. Such petition shall contain a particular description of the ¤¤¤¤¤¤v¤o¤- land to be condemned and the names of the ownersof the fee of said land and their residences, so far as the same may be ascertained, to ether with a plan of the land to be taken. - Sec. 491c. The said court shall cause public notice of not less than i Notice or proceedtwenty days to be given of the institution of such proceeding, by ad- ns savmssemem. vertisement in three daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia, which notice shall warn and require all persons having any interest in the roceeding to appear in court at a day to be named in said notice, and) to continue in attendance until the court shall have . made its iinal order ratifying and confirming the award of dama es and the assessment of benefits by the jury herein provided for; andg in P<>¤¤¤¤¤¤¢¤*i¤¢- addition to such public notice said court s all cause a copy of said notice to be served by the United States marshal for the District of Columbia, or his deputies, upon such owners of the land to be condemned as can be found by said marshal, or his deputies, within the District of