Chapter 333. To authorize a change in the location of Fourteenth Street northeast, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 333.— An Act To authorize a change in the location of Fourteenth Street northeast, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.August 22, 1912.[[H. R. 22648](/us/bill/62/hr/22648).][[Public, No. 288](/us/pl/62/288).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Fourteenth Street northeast.New highway plan to change location, etc. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to prepare a new highway plan for Fourteenth Street northeast, between Otis and Varnum Streets, and for such change in other streets so far as it may be necessary to connect said streets with the new location of Fourteenth Street, so as to avoid improvements lying in close proximity to said Fourteenth Street as now proposed, if extended, and so that the new location of said street will be in a straight line between the intersections of Otis and Fourteenth Streets and Varnum327 and Fourteenth Streets, under the provisions contained in the Act ofVol. 27, p. 532.
Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” and an amendment to said Act approved June twenty-eighth, eighteenVol. 30, p. 519. hundred and ninety-eight, and that upon the completion and recording of said new highway plan it shall take the place of and stand for any previous plan for said streets. Sec. 2. That whenever the owners of the land comprised in thatVacation of present highway on donation of other land by owners. portion of the new location of Fourteenth Street northeast authorized herein, lying south of Randolph Street, shall dedicate the same to the District of Columbia to be used as a public highway, in a manner approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the said commissioners be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to vacate and abandon as a public highway all of Fourteenth StreetDesignation. northeast now publicly owned lying between Otis and Randolph Streets, and not included in the new location of Fourteenth Street authorized herein; that part of Perry Street northeast lying between the easterly line of Fourteenth Street as now located and the westerly line of tract of land designated as parcel 146–2 in book of assessment and taxation in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia; and that part of Quincy Street northeast lying between the westerly line of Fourteenth Street as now located and the easterly lino of the new location of Fourteenth Street authorized herein; and the title toReversion to abutting owners. the land contained in said abandoned part of public highway shall revert to the owners of the land abutting thereon.
Approved, August 22, 1912.