FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1889-1891. 13805 
Columbia specially benefited by reason of the location and improve- 
ment of said park, as nearly as may be, in proportion to the benefits 
resulting to such real estate. 
If said commission shall find that the real estate in said District 
directly benefited by reason of the location of the park is not benefited 
to the full extent of the estimated cost and expenses, then they shall 
assess each tract or parcel of land specially benefited to the extent of 
such benefits as they shall deem the said real estate specially benefited. 
The commission shall give at least ten days’ notice, in one daily news- 
paper published in the city of Washington, of the time and place of 
their meeting for the purpose of making such assessment and may 
adjourn from time to time till the same be completed. In making the 
assessment the real estate benefited shall be assessed by the description 
as appears of record in the District on the day of the first meeting; 
but no error in description shall vitiate the assessment: Provided, That 
the premises are described with substantial accuracy. The commission 
shall estimate the value of the different parcels of real estate benefited 
as aforesaid and the amount assessed against each tract or parcel, and 
enter all in an assessment book. All persons interested may appear 
and be heard. When the assessment shall be completed it shall be 
signed by the commission or a majority (which majority shall have 
power always to act) and be filed in the office of the clerk of the 
supreme court of the District of Columbia. The commission shall 
apply to the court for a confirmation of said assessment, giving at 
least ten days’ notice of the time thereof by publication in one daily 
newspaper published in the city of Washington, which notice shall 
state in general terms the subject and the object of the application. 
The said court shall have power, after said notice shall have been 
duly given, to hear and determine all matters connected with said 
assessment; and may revise, correct, amend, and confirm said assess- 
ment, in whole or in part, or order a new assessment, in whole or in 
part, with or without further notice or on such notice as it shall pre- 
scribe; but no order for a new assessment in part, or any partial 
adverse action, shall hinder or delay confirmation of the residue, or col- 
lection of the assessment thereon. Confirmation of any part of the 
assessment shall make the same a lien on the real estate assessed. 
The assessment, when confirmed, shall be divided into four equal 
installments, and may be paid by any party interested in full or in one, 
two, three, and four years, on or before which times all shall be paya- 
ble, with 6 per centum annual interest on all deferred payments. All 
payments shall be made to the Treasurer of the United States, who 
shall keep the account as a separate fund. The orders of the court 
shall be conclusive evidence of the regularity of all previous proceed- 
ings necessary to the validity thereof, and of all matters recited in said 
orders. The clerk of said court shall keep a record of all proceedings 
