Chapter 557. To amend an Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 557.— An Act To amend an Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia. February 8, 1905. [[S. 5939](/us/bill/58/s/5939).] [[Public, No. 59](/us/pl/58/59).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section two of the Act District of Columbia. Height of business houses. Vol. 30, p. 922, amended. of Congress entitled “An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following:
“*Provided*, That all buildings hereafter erected to front or abut on *Proviso*. Union Station plaza. Vol. 32, p. 913. the plaza in front of the new Union Station, provided for by Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, shall be fireproof and shall not be of a height greater than eighty feet.” Approved, February 8, 1905.