Chapter 92.
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CHAP. 92.— An act to provide the assessor of the District of Columbia with plats of subdivisions outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown.January 24, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. Plats of subdivisions outside Washington, etc. Appropriation for providing. Half from District revenues. That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, one half to be charged against the revenues of the District of Columbia, to enable the Commissioners thereof to provide the office of the assessor of taxes with plats or maps of all subdivisions of land in said District outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown.
Sec. 2. That said plats or maps shall show the subdivided tracts ofPlat data. land by courses and distances: they shall show the areas of the lots and squares therein, and the dimensions of the streets and avenues, and such other data as may be necessary to enable the assessor to locate and assess such land and the improvements thereon. Such Plats to be bound, etc.plats shall be conveniently arranged, indexed, and bound in volumes of convenient size; and the Commissioners are hereby authorized to Sale of copies of plat book.sell copies of said plats at the cost of the paper, press-work, and binding, and ten per centum additional, the proceeds of sales thereof to be turned into the Treasury, as other District revenues are, and applied towards reimbursing this appropriation.
Approved, January 24, 1891.