Chapter 61. to provide for the closing of an alloy in square one hundred and ninety-five in the city of Washington, District of Columbia
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CHAP. 61.— An Act to provide for the closing of an alloy in square one hundred and ninety-five in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.Apr. 1, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alley, square 195, Washington City, to be closed. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and instructed, on the petition of all the owners of property abutting on a certain alley running north and south between Rhode Island avenue and O street, about one hundred feet east of Sixteenth street, in square one hundred and ninety-five, in the city of Washington, to declare said alley, or such portion *Proviso*.thereof as may be included in said petition, closed: *Provided*, That the owners of the land abutting on that portion of said alley to be closed in square one hundred and ninety-five shall, as a condition precedent to such action on the part of the Commissioners, file 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 alley way declared to be closed.
Sec. 2. That the owners of the property abutting on the portion of 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 of 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, April 1, 1882.