United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 1
Chapter Ⅰ.—An Act concerning certain streets in Georgetown.[1]
Needwood Street to be opened. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of the ground to open a new street in the town of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, beginning at the termination of the three hundred and seventy-eight feet and six inches from the intersection of Washington and Bridge streets, on the east side of Washington street, on the east side of Washington street and South of Bridge street, and thence running parallel with Bridge street to Rock creek, of the width of sixty feet, to be called Needwood street.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,Greene and Montgomery streets to be opened and extended. That Greene street, in the said town, be opened and extended to Causeway street, in lines parallel with Washington street; and that Montgomery street, in the said town, be opened and extended from Bridge street to Needwood street, in lines parallel with Washington street.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,Certain parts of Wapping and Lovely streets vacated, and the ground reinvested in original proprietors. That the streets called and known by the names of Lovely and Wapping, and all that part of Montgomery street, south from Bridge streets to Causeway street, not embraced in lines parallel with Washington street, lying between Washington street and Rock creek, in the said town, upon the opening and establishment of the said streets, between Washington street and Rock creek, be, and the same are hereby vacated; and the title to the ground over which the same now runs, shall be vested in fee simple in the proprietors of the ground over which the streets to be opened and extended by virtue of this act, shall run, in proportion to the quantity owned by each proprietor.
Approved, June 14, 1813.
- ↑ An act to amend the charter of Georgetown, March 3, 1805, chap. 32.