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 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. III. CHs. 246, 247. 1931 . 1199 Provided, however, That an installment of any A such assessment not ~0DiS03 dditional if assess- paid within the time provided in said Act shall thereafter b ea r ment installment ,m - interest at the rate of 12 per centum per annum : And provided paid. vertisement of in. further, That the advertisement by publication of the intention of tendon, etc., to im- prove roadway, etc ., the Commissioners of the District of Col umbia to perform the work n ot r eq u i re d. and the formal hearing in respect thereto required by law as to alley and sidewalk improvements shall not be required as to roadway, curbing, and gutter improvements. SEC. 1 0 . Any property owner, aggrieved by any assessment levied Protest of aggrieved 1 hereunder, may, within sixty days after service of notice of such property owner. a ssessm ent, file w ith t he Co mmissi oners of t he Dis trict of Co lumbi a a protest in writing against such assessment, accompanied by affida- vits if he so desires, and if said commissioners find that the property of such owner so protesting is not benefited by the improvement for which said assessment is levied, or is benefited less than the amount of such assessment, or is unequally or inequitably assessed with relation to other property abutting such improvement, said commis- sioners shall abate reduce or ad j ust such assessment in accordance Assessment pai d I within sixty days. with such finding. In computing the sixty days provided in the Vol . 28, P. 248. said Act of Congress approved August 7, 1894, within which such Days excluded. assessment may be paid without interest, there shall be excluded therefrom the time between the date of the filing of any such protest and the date of action thereon by the commissioners. SEC. 11 . The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby C0 A ;ses smen`a can. directed to cancel all assessments for improvements completed within 3s`P h 7s,P of 524 three years prior to the date of the approval of this Act, levied under zso. the authority of the Acts of July 21, 1914 (38 Stat . 524), and September 1, 1916 (39 Stat . 716), relating to assessments for the paving of streets, avenues, and roads, or under the Act of August 7, rcottn~ssessments di- 1894 (28 Stat . 250), relating to assessments for laying curbs ; and the commissioners are further directed to reassess the cost of such im provements against the abutting property in accordance with the provisions of this Act, which assessments shall become a lien upon t he abutti ng propert y and be collected in the man ner provided h erein. Where assessments for such improvements have been paid Excess refunded. in whole or in part the commissioners shall refund, within the limits of appropriations by Congress therefor, to the persons paying the same, the excess, if any, of such payments over the amounts of the reassessments levied hereunder. Separability of Act. SEC. 12 . Should any section or provision of this Act be decided by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, the validity of the Act as a whole or of any part thereof other than the part decided to be unconstitutional shall not be affected. SEC. 13 . All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions peale~ns~stent laws re of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 20, 1931. February 20, 1931. CHAP . 247 .-An Act Authorizing an appropriation of the sum of $15,000 to 	[$.x .16159 .1 defray the expenses of the Pan American Commercial Conference, to be held in [Public, No. 70c) Washington, District of Columbia, in 1931 . Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the Pan A merican Com- United States o f America in Congress assembled, That there is m erc ial Con fere nce, hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treas- Washington, s an° ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $15,000 to enable the Pan thporpfor expenses. American Union to meet the expenses of the Pan American Com- mercial Conference to be held in Washington, District of Columbia,
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