Volume 2
Public Law 8–VII
authorizing the corporation of Georgetown to make a dam or causeway from Mason’s island to the western shore of the river Potomac.
Approved January 19, 1805
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the corporation of Georgetown to make a dam or causeway from Mason’s island to the western shore of the river Potomac.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Corporation of Georgetown empowered to levy a tax on the real property within its jurisdiction for erecting a causeway.
States of America in Congress assembled,
That the corporation of Georgetown have power to levy a tax, not exceeding one per cent. per annum, on the real property in said town, and its additions within the jurisdiction of the said corporation, for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting a dam or causeway across that arm of the river Potomac which passes between Mason’s island and the western shore of the said river: that the same shall not be erected until the consent of the proprietor or proprietors of the island and of the western shore of the river opposite thereto, shall be first obtained. The power hereby granted to the said
Power to cease when the object is effected.
corporation of levying an extra tax, to cease and determine when the object for which it is granted, shall be completely effected.
Approved, .