United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 105
Chap. CV.—An Act to extend the limits of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.
Limits extended.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the limits of Georgetown, in the district of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, extended, so as to include the part of a tract of land called “Pretty Prospect,” recently purchased by the corporation of the said town, as a site for their poor’s-house; beginning, for the said piece of ground, at a stone marked number four, extending at the end of four hundred and seventy-six poles on the first line of a tract of land, called the “Rock of Dunbarton;” said stone also standing on the western boundary line of lot numbered two hundred and sixty, of Beatty and Hawkins’ addition to said town; and running thence, north, seventy-eight degrees, east thirty-eight poles; south eighty degrees, east three poles: south, eighteen poles, south twelve degrees, east nine poles; south eleven degrees, west twelve poles; south seventy-two degrees, west twenty-three poles, to the said first line of the “Rock of Dunbarton,” thence, with said line, to the beginning.
Powers of corporation extended.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the rights, powers, and privileges, heretofore granted by law to the said corporation, and which are at this time claimed and exercised by them, may and shall be exercised and enjoyed by them, within the bounds and limits set forth and described in the first section of this act.
Approved, May 25, 1832.