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 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. III. CHs. 245, 246. 1931. CHAP. 245 .-An Act To provide for the appointment of an addit ional dis- trict judge for the eastern district of Michigan. Be it en act ed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unit ed St ates o f A meric a in Congr ess a ssemb led, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an additional judge of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. Approved, February 20, 1931. 1197 February 20, 1931. [H. R. 12350.] [Public, No. 702.1 United States courts. Michigan Eastern District. Additional judge for. Vol. 36, p. 1114, amended. U.S. C.,p. 883. February 20, 1931. CHAP. 246 .-An Act To provide for sp ec ial assessments for the paving of 	111. R. 14049.1 roadways and the laying of curbs and gutters. [Public, No. 703 .1 Be it enacted by the Senat e and Hous e of Repre senta tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter, whenever under the appropriations made by Congress, the roadway of any street, avenue, or road in the District of Columbia is paved or repaved with sheet asphalt, asphalt block, asphaltic or bituminous concrete (except penetration macadam), cement concrete, granite block, vitrified brick, or other form of permanent pavement, one-half of the total cost thereof shall be charged against and become a lien upon the abutting property, and assessments therefor shall be levied pro rata acc ording to the linear front age of said pr operty on the street, avenue, or road, or portion thereof, upon the roadway of which said new pavement or repaving is laid : Provided, however, That Proviso. if only one-half when such new pavement or repaving is laid solely on one side of roadway improved. the center line of such roadway, the one-half cost thereof shall be assessed, as herein provided, against the property abutting the side of the street, avenue, or road, or portion thereof, so improved. SEC. 2 . For the purposes of computing the assessments under this Roadway construed. Act, the term " roadway " shall be construed to include the gutters and curbings : Provided, however, That where any permanent and Pro vis o. Assessment for per- new construction of curb, or curb and gutter, is laid, and the roadway manent curb, etc , con. of the street is not paved or repaved, or is not paved or repaved with stru,tlon. a pavement of the character specified in section 1 hereof, the half cost of such curb, or curb and gutter, shall be assessed against the abutting property in the manner provided herein. Roadways excepted SEC. 3 . There shall be excepted from such assessments the cost of from asse ssmen ts. paving the roa dway in exces s of forty fe et in width wh ere the new pavement or repaving is laid on both sides of the center line of such roadway ; the cost of paving the roadway in excess of twenty feet in wid th whe re th e new paveme nt or repav ing is laid solely on one side of the center line of such roadway ; the cost of paving the roadway space included within the intersection of streets, avenues, and roads, as said intersections are limited by lines normally projected from the building lines of the street, avenue, or road being improved at its point of intersection with the building lines of the intersecting streets, avenues, or roads and also the cost of paving or repaving the space within such roadways for which street-railway companies are responsible under their charters or under law, on streets, avenues, or roads where such railways have been or shall be cons truc ted. Maximum linear SEC . 4. The maximum linear front foot assessment levied here- front foot as sessment. under shall not exceed $3 .50 per linear front foot. The total Total limited . asse ssme nt l evie d he reun der agai nst any abut ting pro pert y sh all not exceed the number of square feet of area of said property multiplied by 1 per centum of the linear front foot assessment, and shall not exceed 20 per centum of the value of the said abutting property, District of Columbia. As ses sm ent to be made against abutting property owner for paving the roadway of streets, etc ., in. Pro rata levy . of

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