The Washington times., 1911-09-15
LEGAL NOTICES
z H. THOMAS and JAS. FRANCIS SMITH,
Attorneys

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA Holding District
Court. IN RE: The condemnation OF land land
Sixteenth Street and Columbia Road, in the
District Of Columbia. District Court, No. $40
Notice is hereby given that the commission.
err of the District Of Columbia, pursuant
to the provisions Of an Act OF Congress
approved March 2nd, 1911. entitled, An Act
making appropriations to provide for the
of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June
3Oth 1872 and for other purposes, have filed
q petition in this Court praying the con-
demnation of the land Necessary to open a
connecting street between the intersection OF
Sixteenth Street and Columbia Road and the
Quarry Road entrance to the ZoOrogicai Park
and to extend Lanier Place and Eighteenth
Street with a minimum width of forty feet
in that portion Of the District Of Columbia
lying between Mount Pleasant Street, Irving
Street, Adams Mill Road, Quarry Road, and
Columbia Road. as shown on map or plat
filed with the said petition, as part thereof,
and praying that a Jury Of hve judictous,
experienced, disinterested men. who shall be
freeholders within the District Of Columbia,
not related to any person interested in these
proceedings and not in the service or en-
pIoyment of the District Of Columbia or
Of the United States. be summoned by the
Columbia to assess the damages each owner
Of the land to be taken may sustain by
reason of the opening and extension of the
Aforesaid streets, and the condemnation OF
the land necessary for the purposes thereof,
and to assess as benefits resulting therefrom
two-thirds of the entire amount Of said dam
ages, plus the costs Of this proceeding upon
the land abutting upon the said street to be
opened and extended. and also upon all other
pieces and parcels OF land which the jury
may find will be benefited by the said OPEN
ing and extension Of said streets, as pro-
vided for by the aforesaid Act Of Congress.
1t Is, by the Court, this 18th day of Sep
tember, A. d. 1911, ORDERED: That all
persons having any interest in these pro-
ceedingS be, and they are hereby, warned
and commanded to appear in this Court
on before the 9th day OF October A. ID.
1911, at Ten O'clock, A NJ, and continue in
attendance until the Court shall have made
its final order ratifying and confirming the
award OF damages and the assessment of
benefits of the jury to be empaneled and
sworn herein, and IL In further Ordered that
a copy of this notice and order be published
once in the Washington Law Reporter and
on six secular days in the Washington Even
ing Star, The washington Times and the
Washington Post, newspapers published in
the said District, commencing at least twenty
days before the said 9Th day of October
A. D. 1911. 1t Is further Ordered, that a COPY
of this notice and order be served by the
United States Marshal, or his deputies, upon
such owners of the land to be condemned
herein as may be found by the said Marshal
or his deputies within the District of Co.
lumbia, and upon the tenants and occupants
of the same before the said 9th day of
October, A. d. 1911. BY the Court ASHLEY
NJ GOULD, Justice (Seal) True Copy.
Test: ]. R. YOUNG, Clerk. BY F. W.
SMITH, Asst. Clerk. se15-st. .exSu