Chapter 267.
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CHAP. 267.— Ac Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, a certain tract of land in the District of Columbia for the enlargement of the present site of the Bureau of Standards. February 19, 1925.[[H. R. 4548](/us/bill/68/hr/4548).][[Public, No. 426](/us/pl/68/426).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.Bureau of Standards. That the Secretary of Commerce be, and he is hereby, authorized to acquire,951 by condemnation or otherwise, that certain parcel of land hereinafter more fully described, aggregating approximately three hundredAdditional lands to be acquired for. and forty-six thousand two hundred and thirty-four square feet, for the enlargement of the present site of the Bureau of Standards, at a price or cost not to exceed $173,117, the said land beingPrice. that lying to the east of the main site of the Bureau of Standards, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, including the landLocation. situated and lying between Tilden and Van Ness Streets, and extending along Connecticut Avenue, bounded and described approximately as follows:
Beginning at the southwest corner of Van Ness Street, sixty feetDescription. wide, and Connecticut Avenue, one hundred and thirty feet wide, south twenty-four degrees twenty-six minutes east, eight hundred and forty-five and eighty-two one-hundredths feet to the center line of Tilden Street, one hundred and twenty feet wide, as proposed by District of Columbia highway plan; thence with the arc of a circle whose radius is one thousand two hundred and twenty-six and six-tenths feet, a distance of three hundred and eighty-six and thirty-seven one-hundredths feet, deflecting to the left; thence with the arc of a circle whose radius is one thousand nine hundred feet, a distance of two hundred and seventeen and nineteen one-hundredths feet, deflecting to the right, to the southeast corner of the land of the Bureau of Standards; thence with the east line of the Bureau of Standards’ land north four minutes east, eight hundred and ninety and seventy-seven one-hundredths feet to the south line of Van Ness Street, sixty feet wide; thence with the south line of Van Ness Street, south eighty-nine degrees fifty-six minutes east, two hundred and thirty-eight and six one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning, containing approximately three hundred and forty-six thousand two hundred and thirty-four square feet, or seven and nine-thousand-four-hundred-and-eighty-four ten-thousandths acres.
Approved, February 19, 1925.