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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 382, 388. 1890. 123 payable, or said corporation may sue and collect the same from any e inréuent subscriber in any court of competent jurisdiction. An the time in which the work and construction of the road c0C°¤{¤g¤¤¢¤m¢¤¢¤¤d shall begin and be completed is hereby extended so that the work mw mn °m°d“ shall be commenced within thirty days and the entire road completed within eighteen months from the passage of this act. Sec. 4. That when the property owners shall have dedicated for the nemcsunn, pn. purposes of a public highway tive-sixths in quantity of the land nec- §’{f,{,“f,;“,§§d°§'}§$@Q{ essary to opzen a street of such width as the Commissioners of the lic biehww- District of olumbia may prescribe from Columbia road to Connecticut avenue extended and also to prolong said Connecticut avenue extended from the point of meeting of said street therewith to the boundary of the District of Colum ia for the full width of one hundred an thirty feet, if any of the remaining owners of roperty lying within the path of such street or said avenue extendbd shall refuse or neglect to dedicate their land or lands for the pur oses of said street or said avenue, or to sell and convey the same to the District of Columbia at a rice to be agreed upon by and between such -owners and the said) District, then in that event it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and they are hereby authorized, empowered, and directed, to condemn, in accordance wit the provisions of sections two hundred and fifty-seven to two hundred NB-8-gégbscw 257- and sixty-seven, both inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of the United “’p°° ‘ A States relating to the District of Columbia, the remainingkone-sixth of said lands so as aforesaid lying within the path of suc street or said avenue extended, or so much thereof as may not have been dedicated or sold, as hereinbefore provided, and to open such street as aforesaid for the width aforesaid, and to open said Connecticut avenue extended for the width of one hundred and thirty feet as a public hjghwa ; Provided, That the said company shall furnish the money Preview. ·to pay {Xu- the purchase or condemnation of said lands and to com- tgost of pmebase, pensate the owners therefor: And prolvidedfurther, That the track ° ` or tracks of said company shall be laid in such portions of such avenues as will least interfere with public travel, the location of the lglggrfgawnfetwirh same to be settled by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. ° "’ ’ ° °‘ Sec. 5. That the said company shall continue, subject to all the ongmi cuimrw conditions and limitations of its original charter; and that Congress "'”'"‘°*’· °'“· reserves the right to amend, alter, orrepeal the original charter, and M¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤. ewthis act. Approved, May 28, 1890. cl;?. 388.-An act to provide for the erection of a public building in the city June 2. 1890. of Canton, Ohio. , Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatwes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary canton. om of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to Public mmmns, em. ac uire, by urchase, condemnationnor otherwise, a site and cause sm. to(l>e erected) thereon a suitable building, including iire-proof vaults, eunuuig. heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other Government offices, in the city of Canton, and State of Ohio, the cost of said site and building, including said vaults, heating and ven- cost. tilating ap aratus, elevators, and approaches, complete, not to exceed the sum oip one hundred thousand dollars. Pro sis for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited v9Pn__¤gg_3¤;)_ m be ndb_y publ); advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said ` city of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said lproposals. P'[O Rl3dB in r8$P0ns6 to 8·dV9I`l7lS9D10Db shal be addressed Ram; and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause I