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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · September 26, 1890 · Chapter 949

Chapter 949.

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CHAP. 949.— An act establishing a free public bathing beach on the Potomac River near Washington Monument.September 26, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Bathing beach established on Potomac River, Washington, D. C. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and permitted to construct a beach and dressing houses upon the east Location.Purpose, etc.shore of the tidal reservoir against the Washington Monument grounds, and to maintain the same for the purpose of free public bathing, under such regulations as they shall deem to be for the public Permission to use.welfare; and the Secretary of War is requested to permit such use of the public domain as may be required to accomplish the objects above set forth.
Sec. 2. That the sum of three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated,Appropriation, available. from the revenues of the District of Columbia, to be immediately available for the purposes of this act. Approved, September 26, 1890. Chapter 950: for the relief of certain property owners in the City of Washington, District of Columbia. Chapter 950 26 Stat. 490 1890-09-26 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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