Chapter 725. to provide for the closing of parts of two alleys in square one hundred and thirty-two. in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for the relief of Charles Early and Corbin Warwick
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CHAP. 725.— An Act to provide for the closing of parts of two alleys in square one hundred and thirty-two. in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for the relief of Charles Early and Corbin Warwick.August 1, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alleys, square 132, Washington, D. C.May 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 those parts of the two ten feet wide alleys running east and west through square one hundred and thirty-two. in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, for a distance of ninety-six and four hundredths feet beginning at, and running east, from the east side of Nineteenth street (being that portion lying between lots one hundred and sixty-one and one hundred and sixty-two, and one hundred and sixty-nine and one hundred and seventy, in the subdivision placed on record in the surveyor’s office in the District of Columbia, in book fifteen, page twenty-seven), to declare said parts of said ten feet wide alleys closed: *Provided*, That the owners of the land abutting on that portion of said alleys to be closed in said square shall, as a condition*Proviso*.Other land to be dedicated for alley. 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 lie 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 parts of alley ways declared to be closed, and sufficient for the purpose of connecting said alleys with, and making an outlet to, T street and S street at least ten feet wide.
Sec. 2. That the owners of the property abutting on the portion ofConveyance. said alleys 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 alleys 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 1, 1888.