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Volume 22 · 796

Private Law 47–65

authorizing the trustees of the Isherwood estate to amend a certain plan of subdivision of said estate recorded in the land-records of the District of Columbia.

Approved March 2, 1883

Statutory text

An act

authorizing the trustees of the Isherwood estate to amend a certain plan of subdivision of said estate recorded in the land-records of the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the trustees of the Isherwood estate are hereby authorized to withdraw or annul so much of the plat or subdivision of said estate which has been approved and placed on tile in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia as relates to squares thereon numbered

District of Columbia.

Resubdivision authorized.

seven and thirteen, and the street between said squares, and are permitted to resubdivide the said squares, and lines of street running through and between the same, and to place the new subdivision of the squares above named on tile in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia; and upon filing said new subdivision the present street between said squares seven and thirteen is

Damages.

Provisos.

hereby vacated; Provided, That if the vested rights of any person or persons who have purchased land in said Isherwood estate from the trustees or their beneficiaries shall be injuriously affected by the change as herein provided, the said trustees shall be liable in damages therefor; And provided further, That any action for damages hereunder shall be brought within one year from the date of the passage of this act.

Approved, March 2, 1883.

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