Chapter 167. To provide for the closing of part of an alley in square one hundred and sixty-nine, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for the sale thereof to the Young Men’s Christian Association of the city of Washington
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CHAP. 167.— An Act To provide for the closing of part of an alley in square one hundred and sixty-nine, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for the sale thereof to the Young Men’s Christian Association of the city of Washington. January 25, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Closing of alley in square 169 authorized. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed, on the petition of the Young Men’s Christian Association of the city of Washington, the owner of all the property abutting on that part or portion of an alley thirty feet wide in square numbered one hundred and sixty-nine, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and running east and west through said square for a distance of eighty-nine and eighty-three one-hundredths feet, to declare said part or portion of said alley to be closed, and to convey the title thereof to the said Young Men’s Christian Association of the city of Washington by deed in fee simple in the name of the United States (the said Commissioners being hereby vested with power and authority so to do) upon payment to said Commissioners by said association of a price per square foot in current money of the United States equal to the assessed valuation per square foot of sublot numbered fifty-nine in said square numbered one hundred and sixty-nine, according to the most recent assessment of said last-mentioned lot, which said deed of conveyance, upon its execution and delivery and the payment of such purchase price aforesaid, shall operate to divest the United States of their title in the land so conveyed and vest the same in the said Young Men’s Christian Association of the city of Washington.
And it is further enacted that said Commissioners, upon receipt of the purchase money, shall cover same into the Treasury of the United States. Approved, January 25, 1901.