Chapter 179. For a roadway in the District of Columbia from Brightwood avenue across Rock Creek Park
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CHAP. 179.— An Act For a roadway in the District of Columbia from Brightwood avenue across Rock Creek Park. February 21, 1899. Whereas by reason of the projecting of the northern angle of theDistrict of Columbia.Preamble. District of Columbia into Montgomery County, Maryland, and further, the existence of the Rock Creek Park in that part of the District, causing three different jurisdictions to join there; and Whereas about four square miles south of said angle in the District of Columbia and a similar amount of territory about said angle in Maryland (total, eight square miles) are without internal roads or facilities for cross travel, greatly to the inconvenience of a considerable number of persons within both the District of Columbia and Montgomery County, Maryland, and which can only be relieved by concurrent action of the District of Columbia and by said county; and further, to give an entrance into the upper and larger part of the Rock Creek Park available to the public from two lines of electric cars:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That a roadway be, and theConstruction of roadway authorized from Brightwood avenue across Rock Creek Park. same is hereby, authorized to be constructed in the District of Columbia from the upper or northern extremity of Brightwood avenue westwardly toward Rock Creek, across Rock Creek Park, with such bridge and approaches as may be necessary, and from the southern or western side of said park to the upper or northeastern bend of the Daniels road, the portion of said roadway outside of said park to be constructed by or under the authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the portion of the same within said park to be constructed by or under the authority of the board of control of the Rock Creek Park.
And further, that one branch may be constructed by said CommissionersBranches. from said main roadway, at a point to be selected by the said Commissioners north of Rock Creek, running northwesterly to the District line and to connect with a road or roads in Montgomery County, Maryland, connecting the neighborhood of Linden and Forest Glen, Maryland, with the said roadway; and further, that another branch, starting at a point south of Rock Creek, to be selected by the said Commissioners, and running west or westwardly, may be constructed to the District line to connect with a road or roads leading from the direction of Chevy Chase, Maryland: *Provided,* That said*Proviso.*Donation of ground.
Commissioners may construct any portion of said roadway or of either or both of said branches only upon the donation of the ground neces- 846 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 179, 186, 187. 1899. sary for said roadway and branch or branches to the United States by the present owners in such manner as may be satisfactory to the said Commissioners; that the said roadway commencing at the upper end of Brightwood avenue shall be laid off and constructed more particularly as follows, by or under the authority of the said Commissioners:
Location.Commencing at a point on Brightwood avenue on the line between the land of Van Riswick’s heirs and Lee and running upon and with said dividing line westwardly on the street, or a portion of the street, laid out on the street-extension plan of section one to about where said line or street crosses a tributary of Rock Creek known as Silver Spring Branch; from that point on or with the street immediately north of Rock Creek Park, as shown by said plan, westwardly through the land of the Van Ris wick heirs to or about a point one thousand feet from the District and Maryland boundary line; thence, by or under the authority of the board of control of Rock Creek Park, south and west across Rock Creek and through Rock Creek Park to the land of Mrs.
Alida Catherine Brown, following the easiest and most available grade; and thence, by or under the authority of said Commissioners, through the land of Mrs. Brown in a southwest direction to the northeastern bend of the Daniels road, and with power and discretion in the said Commissioners and board of control to alter or vary the line of said roadway as may seem to them advantageous, with a view to public convenience and economy Roadway across Rock Creek Park; bridge, etc.of construction.
That the board of control of the Rock Creek Park be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct a roadway across said park, to connect with the roadway hereinbefore provided for, and a bridge over Appropriation.Rock Creek, with the necessary approaches; and that the sum of sixteen thousand live hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, ten thousand five hundred dollars thereof to be expended by the said Commissioners, or under their authority, for the construction of the said roadway and culverts and branch or the branches hereinbefore provided for outside of said park and six thousand dollars thereof to be expended by said board of control, or under its authority, for the construction of the portion of said roadway, bridge, and approaches within said park.
Approved, February 21, 1899.