Chapter 79. Changing the name of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 79.— An Act Changing the name of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.February 11, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Georgetown to be a part of Washington. That from and after the passage of this act all that part of the District of Columbia embraced within the bounds and now constituting the city of Georgetown, as referred to in said acts of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four, shall no longer be known by the name and title in law of the city of Georgetown, but the same shall be known as and shall constitute a part of Laws extended.the city of Washington, the Federal Capital; and all general laws, ordinances, and regulations of the city of Washington be, and the same are hereby, extended and made applicable to that part of the District of Columbia formerly known as the city of Georgetown; and all Corporation laws, etc., repealed.general laws, regulations, and ordinances of the city of Georgetown be, and the same are hereby, repealed; that the title and existence of said Georgetown as a separate and independent city by law is hereby abolished, and that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, directed to cause the nomenclature of the streets and avenues of Georgetown to conform to those of Washington so far as Renumbering squares.practicable.
And the said Commissioners are also directed to have the squares in Georgetown renumbered, so that no square shall hereafter bear a like number to any square in the city of Washington: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Port of entry.That nothing in this Act shall operate to affect or repeal existing law making Georgetown a port of entry, except as to its name. Approved, February 11, 1895. Chapter 80: To establish a national military park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Chapter 80 28 Stat. 651 1895-02-11 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.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-15 53 3 public FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 80. 1895.651
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