Chapter 737. Authorizing the closing of part of an alley in square numbered seven hundred and thirty-three, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia
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CHAP. 737.— An Act Authorizing the closing of part of an alley in square numbered seven hundred and thirty-three, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. February 23, 1905. [[S. 6088](/us/bill/58/s/6088).] [[Public, No. 91](/us/pl/58/91).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the CommissionersDistrict of Columbia.Closing part of alley in square 733. of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed, on the petition of James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore, the owner of original lots twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven, and sublot forty-four, in square numbered seven hundred and thirty-three, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, being all the property abutting on that part or portion of an alley twenty-five feet wide in the eastern part of square numbered seven hundred and thirty-three, in said city of Washington.
District of Columbia, and running north and south for a distance of seventy-one and eighty-three one-hundredths feet, to declare said part or portion ofVacated land conveyed to James Cardinal Gibbons. said alley to be closed and to convey the title thereof to the said James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore, 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 the said James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore, conveyingPart of lot 3, square 733, conveyed for alley purposes. or causing to be conveyed in fee simple to the United States for alley purposes the following part of original lot numbered three, in said square numbered seven hundred and thirty-three, to wit:
BeginningDescription. at the northeast corner of said lot three and running thence west twenty-three feet, thence south forty-one and eighty-three one hundredths feet, thence cast twenty-three feet, and thence north forty-one and eighty-three one-hundredths feet to the place of beginning, and upon the payment to the said Commissioners by said James CardinalPayment. Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore, of a price per square foot in current money of the United States for the excess in the number of square feet of said part of said alley hereinbefore authorized and directed to be closed, and that part of said original lot three herein-before mentioned, equal to the true value per square foot of said original lot numbered three, in said square numbered seven hundred and thirty-three, as determined by the board of assistant assessors of the District of Columbia, which said deed of conveyance by said Commissioners upon its execution and delivery and the conveyance aforesaid of said hereinbefore first-mentioned part of said original lot numbered three and the payment of the purchase money aforesaid shall operate to divest the United States of their title to the land com-posing said part of said alley so conveyed and vest the same in the said James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore.
Sec. 2. That said part, of said original lot three, when conveyed toDeposit of receipts. the United States, shall be forever used as an alley, and that the said Commissioners upon receipt of the purchase money aforesaid shall cover the same into the Treasury of the United States. Approved, February 23, 1905.