Chapter CCCVIII. *donating certain Lots in the City of Washington for Schools for Colored Children in the District of Columbia.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the commissioner of publicGrant of certain lots of la
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CHAP. CCCVIII.— An Act *donating certain Lots in the City of Washington for Schools for Colored Children in the District of Columbia.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the commissioner of publicGrant of certain lots of land in Washington for the sole use of schools for colored children. buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to grant and convey to the trustees of colored schools for the cities of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, for the sole use of schools for colored children in said District of Columbia, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to lots numbered one, two, and eighteen in square nine hundred and eighty-five, in the said city of Washington, said lots having been designated and set apart by the Secretary of the Interior to be used for colored schools.
And whenever the same shall beTo revert, if &c. converted to other uses, they shall revert to the United States. Approved, July 28, 1866.