Chapter LXXIV. to authorize Thomas Ginnatty to hold and transmit certain Real Estate
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Chap. LXXIV.— An Act to authorize Thomas Ginnatty to hold and transmit certain Real Estate. Sept. 26, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Thomas Ginnatty authorized to hold and convey certain real estate in the city of Washington. That Thomas Ginnatty, a native of Ireland, but now a resident in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, be, and he is hereby, authorized to hold, convey, and transmit certain real estate bounded as follows, to wit: “All that piece and parcel of ground situated in the city of Washington, and known and designated on the ground plan thereof, as part of lot numbered five
(5)in square numbered two hundred and fifty-seven, (257), being thirty-seven
(37)feet front on Fourteenth Street, and running back to the depth of seventy-five
(75)feet, being the north part of said lot number five, (5), together with the buildings and improvements, rights, privileges, and appurtenances to the same belonging,” as per deed of the same from Andrew J. Joice and wife, on record in said city—reference being had to said deed bearing date on the eighth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty, in the same manner as though he was a native citizen of the United States—and that if the said Thomas Ginnatty should die, leaving a widow, she shall be endowed thereof according to law. Approved, September 26, 1850.