Chapter 435. to provide for the closing of an alley in square seven hundred and fifty-one in the city of Washington District of Columbia and for the relief of the Little Sisters of the Poor
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CHAP. 435.— An Act to provide for the closing of an alley in square seven hundred and fifty-one in the city of Washington District of Columbia and for the relief of the Little Sisters of the Poor.August 7, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Closing alley, etc., in square751, Washington, D. C. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby’ authorized and instructed, on the petition of all the owners of property abutting on that part of the fifteen-feet-wide alley in square seven hundred and fifty-one in the city of Washington, running north and south, between North H street and a wider alley in the center of said square, to declare said part of said fifteen-feet-wide alley closed: *Provided*, That the owners of the land *Proviso.*abutting on that portion of said alley to be closed in said square shall, as a condition precedent to such action on the part of the Commissioners, filo 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 alleyway declared to be closed, or sufficient for the purpose of connecting said alley in the center of the square with East Second street.
Sec. 2. That the owners of the property abutting on the portion ofArea of land, equal to that of alleyway closed, dedicated to public use as an alley, etc.Title. said alley 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 portion of the alley’ 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 7, 1882.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 436, 437. 1882.