Chapter 62. to provide for the conveyance of the low grounds in the city of Washington, under the provisions of the act of Congress, chapter ninety-six, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and twenty-two
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CHAP. 62.— An Act to provide for the conveyance of the low grounds in the city of Washington, under the provisions of the act of Congress, chapter ninety-six, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and twenty-two.July 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,1822, ch. 96,3 Stat., 691. That the powers and duties heretofore in and by the third section of the act of Congress, approved 48 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 62,63, 64. Res. 1. 1879. May seventh, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, to wit, chapter ninety- six, of the first session of the seventeenth congress, devolved upon and vested in “the mayor of the city of Washington for the time being”, be, and the same hereby are, vested in and devolved upon the Secretary of the Deeds for certain land in Washington. D. C.*Proviso.*Interior, who shall execute the deeds thereby required, under his hand and official seal, when it shall appear to him that the persons applying for such deeds are duly entitled to have the same: *Provided,* nevertheless, this act shall not be so construed as to create or revive any right lost by lapse of time.
Approved, July 1, 1879.