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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 228, 229-JUNE 20, 1939 [CHAPTER 228] ANT AfT 849 d YJune 20, 1939 To provide for the widening of Wisconsin Avenue in the District of Columbia, [H. R. 5488] and for other purposes. [Public, No. 142] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to institute in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia under subchapter 1 of chapter XV of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, and amendments thereto, such proceed- ings in rem as may be necessary to condemn the land necessary for the widening of Wisconsin Avenue, in the District of Columbia, from R Street to approximately the southerly line of the Mount Alto Hos- pital property, the condemnation proceedings for the acquisition of the land necessary for said widening to be instituted on such lines and to be acquired to such width or widths as the said Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall deem expedient: Provided, That the width of said Wisconsin Avenue at any point south of the south line of Calvert Street shall not be increased by reason of the con- demnation proceedings authorized herein to a greater width than seventy-eight feet. SEc. 2. All laws now in force and effect for the condemnation of streets as laid down on the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia shall be applicable to the condemnation of land for the widening of Wisconsin Avenue as authorized in this Act: Provided, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of the special fund entitled "Highway fund, gasoline tax, and motor-vehicle fees, District of Columbia", such amount or amounts as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of the amounts awarded as damages, and the jury or juries under said con- demnation proceedings shall award such damages as may be found to be due, and levy assessments upon such land as they may find benefited by reason of the acquisition of said land for the widening of Wis- consin Avenue as provided herein, all in accordance with subchapter 1 of chapter XV of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia and amendments thereto, and the amounts collected as benefits shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the special fund entitled "Highway fund, gasoline tax, and motor-vehicle fees, District of Columbia." Approved, June 20, 1939. [CHAPTER 229] AN ACT To amend section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company to extend its present track connection with the United States navy yard so as to provide adequate railroad facilities in connection with the development of Buzzards Point as an industrial area in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved June 18, 1932 (Public, Numbered 187, Seventy-second Congress). Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize The Philadelphia, Baltijore and Washington Railroad Company to extend its present track con- nection with the United States navy yard so as to provide adequate railroad facilities in connection with the development of Buzzards Point as an industrial area in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved June 18, 1932 (Public, Numbered 187, Seventy- District of Colum- bia. Widening of Wis- consin Avenue au- thorized. 45 Stat. 1437. 25D.C. ode,ch.5; Supp. IV, ch. 5. Condemnation pro. ceedings. Proviso. Limitation. Laws applicable. Proviso. Appropriation au- thorized for costs, ex- penses, and damages. Award of damages and levy of assessments upon land benefited. Disposition of amounts collected as benefits. June 20, 1939 [H. R . 5680] [Public, No. 143] District of Colum- bia. Buzzards Point, ex- tension of railroad facilities. 47 Stat. 322.

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