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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 113. 1832.
Collection tocease 5 &c.
Width of land-ing.
Street on southside of canal.
Map of DeKrafft.
Owners oflotson B. street, en-titled to ex-change them,&c.
shall have been so completed; and upon obtaining such certificate, anddepositing the same with the clerk of the circuit court for the Districtof Columbia, in the county of Washington , to be by him recorded, itshall and may be lawful, to and for the said mayor, aldermen, and com-mon council, to commence the collection of the said wharfage and tolls.And such right to collect the said rates of toll and wharfage shall cease,whenever the said canal shall be so out of repair as to impede the freeand convenient use thereof by vessels or craft drawing four feet water,so long as the same shall so remain out of repair or obstructed.
Sec. 8. And in order to aid the said mayor, aldermen, and commoncouncil, in fulfilling the objects and requirements of this act, Be itfurther enacted, That all the right, title, property, interest, and estate, inlaw or equity, of the United States , of, in, and to, that part of the pub-lic reservation in the city of Washington , known and designated as theMall, which is bounded as follows; lying between Sixth and Fifteenthstreets west, and extending from Canal street two hundred and fifteenfeet south to the continuation of A street north, and all that part of thesaid reservation on the south side of the said Mall extending from B streetsouth, three hundred and sixty-six feet, to A street south, and lying be-tween Sixth and Fifteenth streets west, and all the right, title, interest, andestate, which is now, or ought to be, vested in any trustees, commission-ers, or other person, for, and on behalf, and in trust, for the benefit of theUnited States , be, and the same are hereby, vested in the said mayor,aldermen, and common council, in fee, for the purpose, and to be bythem sold and applied for the purposes aforesaid, or so much thereof asthey shall deem it advisable to sell for the said purposes, and the saidresidue to hold and use for the benefit and convenience of the said city.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the said mayor, aldermen, andcommon council, shall not be authorized to occupy, nor permit others tooccupy, more than forty feet for the purpose of landing on either side ofthe said canal, extending from the Eastern branch to Seventeenth streetwest upon the plan of the city.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That a street be laid out along theentire length of said canal, on the south side thereof, of the width ofeighty feet, between said Sixth arid Fifteenth streets west, which shall bekept open for ever as a public street, and subjected to the same rules,regulations, and ordinances, as shall and may affect the other streets andavenues in said city; and that all the streets of said city running northand south, and all the avenues which, by continuing the same, shallextend through said Mall, and such as running westwardly and east-wardly would in like manner intersect the same, shall, in like manner,be opened and kept open, and subject as aforesaid.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That a map or plat of the saidland, squares, streets, and avenues, made and prepared by F. C. DeKrafft, United States’ surveyor of the city of Washington , dated Decem-ber twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, markedA, be, and the same is hereby, ordered and directed to be recorded inthe office of the commissioner of public buildings, and also in the officeof said surveyor of the said city of Washington , and shall be held anddeemed as indicating correctly the said lands and squares, streets andavenues, and be of full authority as designating and exhibiting the same.
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any proprietor or proprie-tors of any lots now fronting north on B street south, between said Sixthand Fifteenth streets, shall signify his, her, or their desire and intention toexchange said lots for an equal quantity of the lands herein and herebyconveyed to the said mayor, board of aldermen, and board of commoncouncil, situated on the south side of A street south, and immediatelynorth of his, her, or their, said lots, it shall be the duty of the said mayor,board of aldermen, and board of common council, on such intention and
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