Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-05-21
THE NEW LIBRARY SITE.
Proceedings i'm Court TO.siay-The
Marshal Ordered to Summon n Jury.

The petition of L. @. G. Lamar. Secretary OF
the Interior; Edward Clark. architect of the
Capitol, and A. r. Spofford, librarian of Con-
gress, composing the commission to purchase a
site for the new library, was filed to-day in the
United States District Court for the District OF
Columbia, Chief Justice Cartier presiding. This
petition sets forth that the petitioners are en-
powered by law to purchase q site for the new
library in the squares just east of the Capt.
toll that more than thirty days have elapsed
since the passage of the library act, and the pc
tt1oners have been unable TO purchase within
the limitations prescribed by the act either of
the designated tracts of land by agreement
with the respective owners; and that as be-
tween the two tracts OF land to which their
choice by said act Is confined the petitioners
have decided that it will be to the interest OF
the United States to take the tract which lies
south OF East Capitol street, and which in
ciudeS within its boundaries the whole of each
or the three squares of land which, on the
ground plan of the city, are numbered respec-
lively 729, 80 and 731, and they therefore
hereby certify to the court that the whole of
said squares is required by the United States for
the purposes expressed in said act of Congress
The petitioners pray the court "to ascertain and
assess the damages that may be occasioned by
the taking OF said squares number 123, $50 and
!31 TO each owner thereof or TO any person hav-
Ing legal claim to such damages in the man.
ner provided with reference TO the taking Of
land Tor highways in this District" And your
petitioners further pray that this court Will take
such further action as may be necessary or
proper to carry into complete effect the objects
Tor which said act OF Congress was passed.
THE ORDER OF THE COURT.
The court, in answer to the petition, passed
the following order:
upon consideration of the petition this day
filed in this case, and upon the motion of the
attorney for said petitioners it is this 21St day
of May, 1886, ordered that the marshal of this
District be and he is hereby directed to sum-
mon jury of seven judicious, disnterested
men, not related to any party interested in the
result of this proceeding, TO be and appear on
prp,ic iha1 thr
7th day OF June, 1886, and from day to day
thereafter SO long as may be necessary, to assess
the DAMAGES. If any, which S each owner of land
city of Washington, in the District OF Column
bia, may sustain by reason OF the
Building ' for the library of CONGRESS nGr q
under the act OF Congress referred to in said
petition.
receiving this order,, shall give the owners of
said land, or of any part thereof, ten days
notice of the time and place of the meeting of
the jury to assess their damages, and that this
notice, so far as is practicable shall be given by
serving the same in writing upon the respective
owners, and where that is not practicable it
shall be given by publishing a notice, addressed
to all whom 1t may concern. and not 10 any
particular person or persons, in THE EVENING
STAR, a newspaper published in the said city
of Washington, ten times prior to the day on
which the jury is to meet, and also twice prior
to said date in the Washington La,o Reporter.
1t is further ordered that at the time and place
mentioned in such notices the marshal shall
administer to the Jurors summoned an oath
or affirmation that they will without favor or
Partially to any One to the best of their knowl-
edge, decide what damage, II any, each owner
of land in said squares or in any of them may
eustain, by reason of said squares being con-
demned and taken as site tor a building for
the Library of Congress; and ii is further order
ed that the jury SO summoned and sworn, hav-
ing been upon the premises and assessed
the damages, shall make out written ver-
dict, to be signed by them, or ma
Jority OF them, and attested by the marshal,
I,0 ,o1
at It's next meeting after the verdict shall have
been prepared, and which snail be recorded
upon the minutes of this court.
Leave is hereby given the petitioners to apply
at the footot this order for such further order as
may be required to carry into effect the provi-
sions of said act of Congress"
THE OWNERS.
Filed with the petition as exhibits were a
copy of the new library act, approved April Is,
1886, and lists Of the owners in each of the
three squares to be condemned. The owners in
square 729 are Francis A. Wood, John Grinder,
Olyer d Reed, Alexander c. Washburn, Ellen
NJ Washburn, Samuel Bieber. Henry G. Tracy,
Hannah NJ. Tracy, Geo. W. Gist, Mary S. Gist,
Joseph Hoban, National Life Insurance Co. U.
ner, Sarah Price. Lorenzo b. Merchant, Aaron
IL. Craein, Elizabeth Hoeke, William
Hreunnss wson Barbara a, Lehm haIn; Louisa
Lynch, E Rosina sargent a B ne B" Frs saas
Stella A. Kent, William E. Edmonston, William
T. Bradley, jeremiah c. Lott, Albian +. Howe,
Katherine S. Olds, Mary T.. French,
The owners in square 73O are: Fannie L..
Berry, Sarah Burnett, Sophia q. Chew, Edmund
Hudson, Mary ID. COllamer, Matthew u. Emery
and Seymour w. Tullock, trustees; j. +. Bueh-
Ter, Agnes Mclaughlin, Dominic McMenamin,
X. c. Darling, National Metropolitan Fire Ins.
Co., George +. Appleby, William II. Miller and
Mary NJ. Wilmer.
The owners in square 731 are Ella Chelini, D.
A. Watterston, Josephine ID. Hicks, Rebecca A
Matthew q. Emery, Seymour W. Tullock, ST.
Nincents Orphan Asylum, William Rothwell,
Sarah Rothwell, Lavinia u. Connolly and Bal
dassarre Maranglu.
The case was aocketed as No. 333 about noon
to-day, and Chief Justice Cartier, as OF the Dis
trict Court, signed the decree.