Chapter IV. to repeal part of an Act passed by the State of Maryland, in the year 1784, and note in force in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, entitled “An Act for an addition to Georgetown, in Montgomery county.” Jan. 14, 1823. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stat
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Chap. IV.— An Act to repeal part of an Act passed by the State of Maryland, in the year 1784, and note in force in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, entitled “An Act for an addition to Georgetown, in Montgomery county.” Jan. 14, 1823. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Part of the third section of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, respecting certain lots in Georgetown, repealed. That so much of the third section of an act of the General Assembly of the state of Maryland, entitled “An Act for an addition to Georgetown in Montgomery county,” as prohibits the proprietors of lots fronting on the north side of Water street, from selling or erecting buildings on the south side of said street, or on wharves made on the south side of the Proviso.aforesaid street, be, and the same is hereby repealed: *Provided,* That the proprietors aforesaid shall not have power to erect any building or buildings on the south side of said street, not authorized by an ordinance Proviso.of the corporation of Georgetown: *And provided, also,* That, after being thus authorized by said Corporation, the proprietors aforesaid may sell and dispose of their property on either side of the said street, without affecting the title to that on the other side, as effectually as they could have done before the passage of the aforesaid act of Maryland.
Approved, January 14, 1823.