SIXTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 160. 1917t\ 1041 nection with the said reclamation and development of the Anacostiaf··~ R1ver_and Flats, the fee simple and absolute title to all lands required \ for said oliglcts and not new owned by the United States, in and " along the acostia River m the section thereof rumiing from the centerlme of East Capitol Street to the northeast boundary line of the District of Columbia, embraced within the limits designated h "tal¤ng l1ne," one on each bank of the river in said section as indicated on the map entitled "Reclamation Anacostia River Flats, District of Columbia, land map," a proved by the Chief of Engineers United States Army, and the Secretary of War, as attested and authenticated by their respective signatures and the seal of the War Department bearing date the twenty-fourth day of Ma , nineteen hundred and sixteen, recorded and filled in the Office of &e Chief of Engineers, United States Army, under Engineer Department file Us,°,wpw mmm numbered 12968-525- and the aplpropriation herein made for the f¤=<>¤¤¤¤m¤¤¤ii>¤¤»m· reclamation and development of the Anacostia River and Flats from °g°°’°°°' the Anacostia Bridge northeast to the District line, and all appropriations heretofore made for said purpose are hereb made availgblld for the purchase or condemnation of all of the lands hereinbefore authorized to be and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages for said_ ands and the costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings in the event that it is necessary to institute such P, condemnation proceedings: Provided That if said lands or any part Ceqlemnatiou pm. thereof can not be acquired by purchase from the owners thereof at °°°‘“"“‘· a price satisfactory to the Secretary of War, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon request of the Secretary of War, shall institute condemnatiorptifproceedings to acquire such lands under the ' ggpvisgns of chapter teen of the Code of Law for the District of ‘°'·“*·P·‘·”· um ia. . The Secretary of War is authorized to effect an adjustment of ttélli}iisii°iii¤'iis'5i»W3§ boundaries and an exchange of lands in the District of Columbia with §,;',§,‘{,“§’,',§n,‘{¥,‘f,_ “"‘ the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washinéton Railroad, in accordance with the plat or drawing on file in the office of the Chief of Engineers and designated E. D. 12968-531, whereby on the left bank of the mhwb numd Anacostia River said railroad company shall release, quitclaim, and Y ' convey to the United States the certain lands alonlg the Anacostia River riverward of the line shown on said plat an needed for the reclamation and develplpment of the Anacostia River and Flats, and ny umu, Sm the United States sh release and quitclaim to said railroad com- ` pany any right, title, interest, or claim in or to certain lands shoreward of saidiine, as shown on said plat, and will permit the extension of said com any’s right of way to include the triangle of land two hundred and) sixty-two and ten onehundredths feet on the hypothenuse l ing at the junction of the railroad bridge and the original Omsmdmon N shore fine of said river, as shown on sa1d_plat, and whereby, on the rights ofway. right bank of the Anacostia River, the United States shall permit the rights of way of the said railroad company for its entrance mto the cit of Washington to be consolidated, between the bulkhead of the railroad bridge at the Anacostia River the south line of L Street south, into one right of way of equal top width, to the lines of said plat, and the United States and the sand, railroad company shall reciprocally release, quitclaun, and convey to each other the Om ¤¤¤**¤v¤¤=¤~ portions of square south o ten hundred and eighty, so called, and the accretions to the same lying respectively northward and southward of the division line shown on said plat, and the said railroad company shall release, quitclaim,_ and confirm to the United States the title to all land along and ad]acent_to the Anacostia River from the bulkhead of the present railroad bridge to Fifteenth Street east, exterior to the portion of square south of ten hundred and eighty to be released to said railroad company as shown on said plat, together 91890°-—vor. 39--1-r 1--66
