Chapter 159. To name streets, avenues, alleys, highways, and reservations in that part of the District of Columbia outside of the city of Washington, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 159.— An Act To name streets, avenues, alleys, highways, and reservations in that part of the District of Columbia outside of the city of Washington, and for other purposes. February 16, 1904. [[H. R. 7024](/us/bill/58/hr/7024).] [[Public, No. 21](/us/pl/58/21).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia. Commissioners to name streets outside of city limits. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to name or rename streets, avenues, alleys, highways, and reservations in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of the city of Washington, under such system of naming as they shall see tit to adopt, and such names when recorded in the office, of the surveyor of the District of Columbia shall thereafter be the official names of such streets, avenues, alleys, highways, and reservations.
Sec. 2. That upon the abandonment of any street, avenue, road, or highway, orAbandoned streets, etc., revert to owners of abutting land.Vol. 27, p. 532. part thereof, under the provisions of “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities” approved March second, eighteen hundredVol. 30, p. 520. and ninety-three, and the amendment thereto, approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the title to the land contained in such abandoned portion shall revert to the owners of the land abutting thereon.
Sec. 3. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisionsRepeal. hereof are hereby repealed. Approved, February 16, 1904.