FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 725-727. 1888.
August 1,1888 CHAP. 725.—An act to provide for the closing of parts of two alleys in squareone hundred and thirty-two. in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for the relief of Charles Early and Corbin Warwick.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America. in Congress assembled;
Alleys, square 132, Washington, D. C.
May be closed.
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. are hereby authorized and instructed, on the petition of all the owners of property abutting on
those parts of the two ten feet wide alleys running east and west
through square one hundred and thirty-two, in the city of Washington,
District of Columbia. for a distance of ninety-six and four hundredths
feet beginning at, and running east, from the east side of Nineteenth
street being that portion lying between lots one hundred and sixty-one and one hundred and sixty-two, and one hundred and sixty-nine
and one hundred and seventy, in the subdivision placed on record in
the surveyor’s office in the District of Columbia, in book fifteen, page
twenty-seven), to declare said parts of said ten feet wide alleys closed:
Proviso
Other land to be dedicated for alley.
Provided, That the owners of the land abutting on that portion of
said alleys to be closed in said square shall, as a condition precedent
to such action on the part of the Commissioners, file in the office of
the surveyor of the District of Columbia a plat to be approved by the
Commissioners, dedicating to the use of the public, as a public alley,
an area of ground equal to the area of the parts of alley ways declared
to be closed, and sufficient for the purpose of connecting said alleys
with, and making an outlet to, T street and S street at least ten feet
W1 e.
Conveyance Sec. 2. That the owners of the property abutting on the portion of said alleys which may be closed as aforesaid shall be held to have acquired all the right and title of the District of Columbia, or the city of Washington, in and to the rtion of the alleys which may be closed under the provisions of the first section of this act, and which may be included within the extension of their several bounds to the lines of the new alley.
Approved, August 1, 1888.
August 1, 1888. CHAP. 726.-An act to correct the records of the District of Columbia relative to certain real estate therein.
District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Taxes on lots in square 226, Washington remitted.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to remove from the records of the Distrct all evidence of indebtedness against lot G and part of lot F, in square two hundred and twenty-six, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, so far as the said indebtedness relates to special assessment against said lots levied in the ear eighteen hundred and seventy for special improvements along gennsylvania avenue northwest; the owners of the said lots to give bond in double the sum of said assessment to indemnify the District against any loss in consequence of the operations of this act.
Approved, August 1, 1888.
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CHAP. 727.— An act to perfect the quarantine service of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any Qurantine.Punishment for trespass and other violations of law. person shall trespass upon the grounds belonging to any quarantine reservation, or whenever any person, master, pilot, or owner of a vessel entering any port of the United States, shall so enter in v1olation of section one of the act entitled Vol 20. p. 37."An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States,"
