Chapter 34.
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CHAP. 34.— An act to authorize the establishment of a free public highway in the District of Columbia. Jan. 19, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Free public highway, District of Columbia. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to locate, construct, and maintain a free public highway on and over that part of the turnpike road of the company incorporated by the name of “The President, Managers, and Company of the Washington Turnpike Company” which leads from the boundary of the city of Georgetown to the boundary of the District of Columbia, towards Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland; said company being the same described in the act of Congress, approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and thirteen (volume[2 Stat., 808](/us/stat/2/808). two of the Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and eight), authorizing said company to construct and maintain said turnpike road from the boundary of Georgetown to the boundary of the District of Columbia; and for the purpose aforesaid the said Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have power to purchase, at the price of three thousand dollars, all real estate and franchises of said turnpike company necessary for the construction and maintenance of a free public highway.
Sec. 2.—Appropriation. That the said purchase-money shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the order of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and such payment shall be in full of all the real estate, rights and franchises of the said company within the District of Columbia, and shall operate as a surrender and release of said real estate, rights, and franchises*Provisos.* to the Government of the United States: *Provided,* That the toll-house at Tennallytown is not to be included in said purchase, and the said company shall remove the same after reasonable notice: *And provided further,* That one-half of the said three thousand dollars shall be paid out of revenues derived from taxation in the District of Columbia.
Approved, January 19, 1883.