Chapter 698. To authorize the transfer to the jurisdiction of the United States Botanic Garden of a certain portion of the Anacostia Park for use as a tree nursery
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CHAP. 698.— An Act To authorize the transfer to the jurisdiction of the United States Botanic Garden of a certain portion of the Anacostia Park for use as a tree nursery. June 26, 1926.[[H. R. 11802](/us/bill/69/hr/11802).][[Public, No. 435](/us/69/pl/435).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Part of Anacostia Park transferred to Botanic Garden for a tree nursery. That the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the jurisdiction of the United States Botanic Garden the following-described land, being a part of the Anacostia Park, for use as a tree nursery, viz:
Description.Beginning for the same at the intersection of the west line of the Stickfoot Branch sewer with the bulkhead line of the Anacostia River, and running thence with the west line of the Stick foot Branch sewer south one thousand five hundred and sixty feet, more or less, to the original high-water line of the Anacostia River as shown on map numbered 303 in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia; thence with said high-water line the following courses and distances:
South eighty-five degrees thirty-two minutes west sixty-two feet, more or less to an angle; north seventy-six degrees thirty-five minutes west two hundred and ninety-two and fifty-one one-hundredths feet; north sixty-three degrees eleven minutes west eighty-two and eighty-three one-hundredths feet to the east line of the District of Columbia Nursery; thence north with said east line, and parallel to the Stickfoot Branch trunk sewer, one thousand five hundred and ninety-eight feet, more or less, to the bulkhead line of the Anacostia River; thence with said bulkhead line south seventy-one degrees fifty minutes fifty-four seconds east four hundred and thirty-five feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, containing approximately fourteen and seventy-five one-hundredths acres, all as shown on map numbered 1212 in the office of the surveyor of *Proviso*.Right of way for roadway retained.the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That a right of way along the river wall extending inland for a width of two hundred feet from the outer edge of the river wall shall be retained under the jurisdiction of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital for development as a park roadway.
Approved, June 26, 1926.