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 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 53, 54, 56. 1910. 201 and are hereby, authorized and directed to institute in the supreme court of the District of Columbia. a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary to extend Newton place northwest from its present eastern terminus near New Hamphsire avenue to Georgia avenue, with a width of fifty feet, and to connect Newton place east of Georgia avenue in Gass subdivision with Newton place in Whitney Close subdivision, upon such lines as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may deem best for the public interest: Provided, f.,“;‘g*_§'g;,s em H Iaowever, That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the semd as béueméi jury in said proceedin as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension, plus the costs and expenses of said proceeding, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits. Sec. 2. That there is hereby appropriated, out of the revenues of €xA¤g;gg*;§§°¤ for " the District of Columbia, an amount sufficient to pay the necessary Pe ` costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages, to be P¤Y¤=¢¤* ¤*¤W¤¤*¤- repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for beneiits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Approved, February 21, 1910. CHAP. 54.-An Act Authorizing certain changes in the plan for the permanent F°j’£,'Y12g,j,g%1°· system of highways for that portion of the District of Columbia lying west of Rock Creek Park, north of Klingle road, east of Connecticut avenue, and south of Ellicott [P¤bli¢. N<>· 58-1 street northwest. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rq2resentatives of t/ae United States of America in Oongreas assembled, That the Commissioners of the Dg,{§;§°,§,*;;h‘f§;';*‘;,l}§,§ District of Columbia. be, and they are hereby, authorized to prepare a for northwest Section. new hi hway plan for that portion of the District of Columbia lying west og Rock Creek Park, north of Klin le road, east of Connecticut avenue, and south of Ellicott street nortdiwest, under the provisions contained in the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen vox. 21, nm hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia l ing outside of cities,’ and an amendment to said Act approved .l7une vm. ao. p. nw. twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; that upon the completion and recording of said new highway plan it shall take the ch*;;;e°'d» °*°·· °* lace of and stand for any previous pan for said portion of the ` District of Columbia. Approved, February 21, 1910. CHAP. 56.-An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional district F°l’*"*i§’§2%*1 1910- judge in and for the district of Maryland. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRgm·esentat¢Pves of the United States of America in Lbngress assembled, That the President of the dig{g*({l¤¤d iudiciél United States shall appoint an additional district judge for the district _ Additional_ district of Maryland, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who ’°§l€§f§§}§?§`fdg,_ 93_ shall reside in said district and Shall possess the same qualifications Postr-1087. and have the same power and jurisdiction now prescribed by law in respect to the present district judge therein. Sec. 2. That no vacancy in the office of the existing district judge _ gc succgsvr for grof said district of Maryland shall be filled by appointment, and in case EEE, Ju g° ° ° of such vacancy there shall be thereafter one district judge only for said ` district.