APPENDIX L L L. LAWS AFFECTING THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY. SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION, AND SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, 1910-1911. CHAP. 5.-An Act To provide for the extension of Reno road, Dec. 20. 1910. in the District of Columbia. [S. 6910.] [Public, No. 326.] Dist. Colum- bia. Condemning land for ex Vol. 34, p. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within six months after the passage of this Act, the Commissioners of the District tending. of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and 151. directed to institute in the supreme court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the extension of Reno road, as laid down on the permanent system of highway plans, from Fessenden street to Chesapeake street, with a width of one hundred feet. sessed as bene Proviso. SEC. 2. That the entire amount found to be due and Damages asawarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages for fits. 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: Provided, That nothing in said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said sessment. code shall be construed to authorize the jury to assess less than the aggregate amount of the damages awarded for and in respect of the land to be condemned and the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder. tion for ex SEC. 3. That there is hereby appropriated from the Appropria revenues of the District of Columbia an amount sufficient penses, etc. to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the pay- Payment of ment of amounts awarded as damages, to be repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Approved, December 20, 1910. awards. Dec. 21, 1910. CHAP. 6.-An Act For the purchase of land for widening Park [H. R. 21331.] Road, in the District of Columbia. [Public, No. 327.] bia. NW. Purchase of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemDist. Colum- bled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia Park Road be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to purchase, for widening Park road, the triangular lot desig land for widen- nated as Lot A," in Chapin Brown's subdivision of parts of Mount Pleasant and Pleasant Plains, called " Ingleside," as recorded in liber county numbered eight, folio thirty-seven, of the records of the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia, at a price deemed by them to be reasonable, not exceeding the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars. ing. tion. District nues. reve Appropria- SEC. 2. That the sum of three thousand six hundred Half from dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purchase of said lot, payable one half from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of any moneys in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Jan. 12, 1911. Approved, December 21, 1910. CHAP. 11.-An Act To authorize the city of Sturgis, Michigan, [H. R. 6867.] to construct a dam across the Saint Joseph River. [Public, No. Mich., may dam. 332.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemSt. Joseph bled, That the city of Sturgis, a corporation organized River, Sturgis, under the laws of the State of Michigan, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Saint Joseph River, at or near its intersection with the section line between sections one and two, township six south, range eleven west, Saint Joseph County, in the State of Michigan, in accordance with the provisions of the Act Vol. 34, P. approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, 386. Amendment. Jan. 12, 1911. entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this CHAP. 12.-An Act To authorize the Great Northern Develop[H. R. 25775.] ment Company to construct a dam across the Mississippi River [Public, No. from a point in Hennepin County to a point in Anoka County, 333.] Mississippi River. Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Great Northern Development Company, a ! |