Chapter 201.
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CHAP. 201.— An act to vest the title of public square eleven hundred and two. in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in the trustees of the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and for other purposes.July 18, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Square 1102, District of Columbia. Title to vest in trustees Fourth Street Methodist Church. That whenever there shall have been a full compliance with the provisions of section two of this act, as evidenced by the certificate of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, all that tract of land situate in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and mentioned and described as public square numbered eleven hundred and two in the deed of conveyance bearing date December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, in liber W B, numbered thirteen, folio one hundred and ninety-two, and those that follow of the same date, from J.
Elgar, United States commissioner of public buildings, by authority conferred upon him under the act of Congress approved April twenty-ninth,Vol. 3, p. 325. eighteen hundred and sixteen, to Israel Little. James Friend, Nathaniel Brady, Ambrose White, Patrick Kain, William Speiden, and George Adams, trustees of the Methodist Society at the Ebenezar Station, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, granted in fee simple to Theodore Sniffin, Robert W.
Dunn, Edward F. Casey, Francis A. Belt. Thomas E. Trazzare, James T. Harrison, Maurice Otterback, Robert E. Cook, and Arthur A. Chapin, and their successors and assigns, trustees of the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, the successor of and the same church organization as the Methodist Society at the Ebenezar Station in the said city, as and for the benefit of the said Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, freed from all the conditions and limitations mentioned inConditions repealed. said deed of conveyance.
Sec. 2. That the said trustees last above mentioned, and their successorsRemoval of dead, and assigns, are hereby authorized and required, under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to remove, within twelve months from the approval of this act, the dead heretofore interred in any part of the said public square to some suitable public cemetery within the District of Columbia, at the expense of the said Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church Society.
Approved, July 18, 1892.