Volume 19 · 41
Public Law 44–86
To protect the public property, turf and grass of the Capitol Grounds from injury.
Approved April 29, 1876
Statutory text
An act
To protect the public property, turf and grass of the Capitol Grounds from injury.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That it shall be the duty of the
Use of Capitol grounds as playgrounds.
Capitol police hereafter to prevent any portion of the Capitol grounds and terraces from being used as play-grounds or otherwise, so far as may be necessary to protect the public property, turf and grass from destruction or injury.
Approved, April 29, 1876.