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522 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 786. 1900. CHAPTER TWENTY-Two. or EMINENT Domnm. Sec. Sec. 204. Purposes for which it may be exer- 213. ildppointment of commissioners, etc. cised. 214. eeting of commissioners. 205. What estates in land may be ac- 215. Date_with respect to which compenquired by condemnation. sation shal be assessed, and 206. Private property denned; classes measure of damages. enumerated. 216. Report of commissioners. 207. Facts necessary to be found before 217. Appeal. condemnation. _ 218. New proceedings to cure defective 208. Parties mav make location and en- title. ter to make surve s. 219. Payment of damages. 209. Jurisdiction of the clistrict court. 220. To whom paid. 210. The complaint and its contents. 221. Final order of condemnation. 211. Summons, what to contain; how 222. Putting plaintiff in possessiori issued and served. 223. Pa ment of costs. 212. Who may defend. 224. Rules of practice. n1;_}¤, ;gr!c;;1gjich Sec. 204. Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the right of Y ‘ eminent domain may be exercised in behalf of the following public uses: . S (1) All public uses authorized by the Government of the United tates.. (2) Public buildings and rounds for the use of the district, and all other public uses authorizedg by Congress or other legislative authority of the district. . . ’ (3) Public buildings and grounds for the use of any precinct, city, town, village, schoo district, or other municipal division, whether incorporated or unincorporated; canals, aqueducts, iiumes, ditches, or pipes conducting water., heat, or gas for the use of the inhabitants of any precinct, city, town, or other municipal division, whether incorporated or unincorporated; raising the banks of streams, removing obstructions therefrom, and widening,_ dee ening, or straightening their channels; roads, streets, and alleys, ang all other public uses for the benefit of any precinct, city, town, or· other municipal division, whether incorporated or unincorporated, or the inhabitants thereof, which may be authorized by Congress or other legislative authority of the district. - _ . (4) Wharves, docks, piers, chutes, booms, ferries, bridges of all kinds, private roads, plank and turnpike roads, railroads, canals, ditches, umes, aqueducts, and pipes or public transportation, supplying mines and farming neighborhoods with water, and draining and reclaiming! lands, and for iioating logs and lumber on streams not navigable, an sites for reservoirs necessary for collecting and storing water. (5) Roads, tunnels, ditches, ilumes, pipes, and dumpin places for workislg mines; also outlets, natural or otherwise, for the gow, deposit, or con act of tailings or refuse matter- from mines; also an occupancy in common by the owners or possessors of different mines of any place for the flow, deposit, or conduct of tailings or refuse matter from their several mines, and sites for reservoirs necessary for collecting and storin water. f (6) Private roads leading from highways to residences, mines, or arms. 7) Telephone or electric-light lines. ‘ (8) Telegraph lines. (9) Seweragp of any precinct, city, town, village, or other municipal village, w ether incorporated or unincorporated, or any subdivi- .sion thereof, or -of any settlement consisting of not less than ten families, or of any public buildings belonging to the district or to any college or university.