Chapter 7. Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to accept the bequest of the late Peter Von Essen for the use of the public white schools of that portion of said District formerly known as Georgetown, and distribute same among the heirs of Peter Von Essen, deceased
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CHAP. 7.— An Act Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to accept the bequest of the late Peter Von Essen for the use of the public white schools of that portion of said District formerly known as Georgetown, and distribute same among the heirs of Peter Von Essen, deceased. January 25, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Commissioners of theCommissioners of the District of Columbia to accept bequest of Peter Von Essen District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to accept the bequest of twelve thousand and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-four cents bequeathed by the will of the late Peter Von Essen to the late corporation of Georgetown for the use of the free white schools of said town, and which sum has been decreed to be turned over to said Commissioners, as the successors of the said corporation, by the supreme court of the District of Columbia in equity cause numbered fifty-two hundred and thirty-eight; and that said Commissioners—to distribute funds among the heirs. be, and they are hereby, required to distribute the said funds among the heirs of the said Peter Von Essen, deceased, share and share alike, upon satisfactory proof of such heirship.
Approved, January 25, 1898.