Chapter LXXXI. *to amend “An Act to incorporate the Inhabitants of the City of Washington,” passed May fifteen, eighteen hundred and twenty.* May 5, 1864.1820, ch. 104, § 8. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Vol. iii. p. 587
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Chap. LXXXI.— An Act *to amend “An Act to incorporate the Inhabitants of the City of Washington,” passed May fifteen, eighteen hundred and twenty.* May 5, 1864.1820, ch. 104, § 8. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Vol. iii. p. 587.Section eight of former act amended. That the first paragraph of section eight of “An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington,” passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, be 1865. ch. 48.*Post,* p. 434.amended so as to read as follows:
That the said corporation shall have full power and authority to lay taxes on particular wards, parts, or sections of Taxes for local improvements, streets, sewerage, drainage.the city, for their particular local improvements, and to cause the curb-stones to be set, the foot and carriage ways to be graded and paved, or so much thereof as they may deem best, and the necessary sewerage and drainage facilities to be introduced under and upon the whole or any portion of any avenue, street, or alley, and also to cause the same to be suitably paved and repaired, and to be at all times properly cleaned and watered, and also to cause lamps to be erected therein, and to light the same, and to pay the cost thereof out of the funds of the ward in which such improvement shall be made; this provision not to be construed as repealing, but being intended as auxiliary to the power they already possess to make local improvements on the application of the owners of property benefited thereby.
Sec. 2. Person to be appointed to see that streets are cleaned, watered, kept in repair, *And be it further enacted,* That immediately upon the approval of this act the said corporation shall designate some proper officer thereof whose duty it shall be to see that the provisions of this act are properly executed, and that the principal avenues and streets of the said city are so cleaned and watered as to be at all times reasonably clean and free from, dust; and also to keep the pavements and side-walks upon said avenues and streets at all times in suitable and proper repair; and it shall further be the duty of the said corporation to take such measures as they shall deem wise to promote some uniform and general system of drainage for said city. 69 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 82, 83. 1864. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That in all cases in which the streets,The United States to pay its proportion for improvements in certain streets. avenues, or alleys of the said city pass through or by any of the property of the United Stares, the commissioner of the public buildings shall pay to the duly authorized officer of the corporation the just proportion of the expense incurred in improving such avenue, street, or alley, which the said property bears to the whole cost thereof, to be ascertained in the same manner as the same is apportioned among the individual proprietors of the property improved thereby.
Approved, May 5, 1864. Chapter LXXXII: for the Relief of the Settlers upon certain Lands in California. 13 Stat. 69 1864-05-05 Chapter LXXXII Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-01-27 38 2 public
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- Chapter LXXXI*to amend “An Act to incorporate the Inhabitants of the City of Washington,” passed May fifteen, eighteen hundred and twenty.* May 5, 1864.1820, ch. 104, § 8. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Vol. iii. p. 587
- Chapter LXXXII*for the Relief of the Settlers upon certain Lands in California.* May 5, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That any and all persons claiming,Claimants of certain lands within a grant for the rancho San Ramon, may
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*to amend “An Act to incorporate the Inhabitants of the City of Washington,” passed May fifteen, eighteen hundred and twenty.* May 5, 1864.1820, ch. 104, § 8. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Vol. iii. p. 587
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