Volume 13
Public Law 38–LVII
authorizing and requiring the Opening of Sixth Street West.
Approved February 25, 1865
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing and requiring the Opening of Sixth Street West.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the corporate authorities
Sixth Street west in Washington, D. C., to be opened.
of the city of Washington be, a n d they are hereby, authorized and required to open Sixth Street west, from the canal to Maine Avenue, under the direction of the commissioner of public buildings, in accordance with the plan approved in May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, by James Monroe, then President of the United States: Provided, however, That Sixth Street through the public grounds known as Armory Square shall not be opened until after the removal of the army hospital from such public ground, or until the consent of the surgeon-general of the United States army shall be first had and obtained.
Approved, .