Chapter 228.
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CHAP. 228.— An act regulating the construction of buildings along alleyways in the District of Columbia.July 22, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alleys. District of Columbia. Regulation of dwellings in. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to erect or place a dwelling house on or along any alley in the District of Columbia where such alley is less than thirty feet wide and is not supplied with sewerage, *Proviso*.
Width of roadway, etc.watermains, and light: *Provided*, That no dwelling house hereafter erected or placed in any alley shall in any case be located less than twenty feet back clear of the center line of such alley, so as to give at least a thirty-foot roadway and five feet on each side of such roadway clear for a walk 255 or footway, and that it shall be unlawful to erect or place a dwelling-house on or along any alley which does not run straight to, and open at right angles upon, one of the public streets bordering the square in which such alley is located, with at least one exit fifteen feet in the clear.
Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions ofRepeal. this act are hereby repealed. Approved, July 22, 1892.