Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-01

District of Columbia on the 31st day Of Au-
gust. 1895, under the provisions of said act
of Congress, be, and the same is hereby,
annulled, and the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia are hereby authorized
and directed to forthwith withdraw the
same from the office of the said surveyor
and to discontinue all pending condemna-
ton proceedings relating to subdivisions in
cluded within said map.
Sec. 3. That in order to provide grounds
for educational, religious or similar inst-
buttons or for large estates the Commits
sioners of the District of Columbia be, and
they are hereby, authorized to abandon or
readjust streets or proposed streets affect
ing localities that may be or that have
been purchased for such purposes: Proyid-
ed That under the authority hereby con-
ferred no changes shall be made in exist
ing subdivisions or in avenues or in impor-
tant lines of travel.
1.-The plat Of such readjustment, after be-
ing duly certified by said Commissioners,
shall be forwarded to the commission con-
s;sting of the Secretary of War, the Secre-
tary of the Interior and the chief of engi-
neerS of the United States army, and when
approved by said commission or a majority
thereof the change shall be recorded in tho
office of the surveyor of the District Of
Columbia and become a part of the perma-
nent system of highways and take the
place of any part inconsistent Herewith.
Sec. 4. That no subdivision subdi-
visions made and recorded in section one
of the highway plans prior to the date of
the approval of this act shall be affected
or in any way changed by any map here
tofore approved and recorded or that may
be hereafter approved and recorded under
the provisions of this act or of the act
hereby amended; and no highways shall be
located in section one through any unsub-
divided or subdivided lands south Of the
Spring road that borders Holmead Manor,
except such as are necessary to continue
or connect existing streets abutting such
lands.
Sec ;. That the owner or owners of land
over or upon which any highway or reser-
walton shall be projected upon any map
filed under said act Of Congress shall have
the free right to the use and enjoyment of
the same for building OF any other lawful
purpose and the free right to transfer the
title thereof until proceedings looking to the
condemnation of such land shall have been
authorized and actually begun. And as to
any highway or part Of highway which by
any such map Is to be abandoned neither
the right of those occupying or owning
land abutting thereon or adjacent thereto,
nor the right of the public to use such
highway or part of highway. shall be af-
fected by the filing of such map until con-
demnation proceedings looking to the as
certainment Of the damages resulting from
such proposed abandonment shall have
been authorized and actually begun: nor
shall the obligation of the municipal au-
thorities to keep the same in repair be af-
fected until they rendered useless by
the opening and improvement of new high
the Commissioners of the District Of Co
lumbia. =.
Sec. g. That said Commissioners shall
| not submit for approval to the highway
commission created by section two of said
act any map or plan hereunder until the
owners Of the land within the territory en-
braced within such map shall have been
given an opportunity to be heard In regard
| thereto by said Commissioners after pub
| lie notice to that effect for not less than
fourteen consecutive days, excluding Sun
days" =.
Effect of the House Bill,
The repeal bill as passed by the House
| is sweeping one. which would nulIify all
the laborious work looking toward a final
| settlen ent of the street extension prob
lem In the District of Columbia, and which,
Is embedded in the maps prepared and APP
| proved by the Commissioners. The plan
| for the exter sion of streets SIS laid out on
| these maps retains the general uniformity
| of streets throughout the District of Co
| lumbia. while ii makes certain changes
from strict uniformity ia order to conform
| to the topography Of the country, which
| Will result In more economical system of
| grading the land to the great advantage Of
/ its owners. =
1t is believed the Senate will pass the bill
| as amt nded BY the Senate committee On
/ the District of Columbia, and by doing so
| settle for all time the uncertainties regard
i Ing the extensions of streets over "a 5OO