Volume 29
Public Law 54–181
To permit Rene C. Banghman to lay pipes in a certain street in the city of Washington.
Approved May 15, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To permit Rene C. Banghman to lay pipes in a certain street in the city of Washington.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia.
Petroleum pipe line permitted.
District of Columbia are hereby authorized to grant to Rene C. Banghman permission to lay pipes for the transmission of petroleum and its products in the following-named streets in said city of Washington, to wit: From north block numbered six hundred and ninety-seven along
Location.
the unpaved portion of Half street southeast, a distance of three thousand feet in a southerly direction to the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River; the said pipe line shall be laid under such regulations and rentals as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may make in relation thereto.
Sec. 2.
That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal
Amendment.
this Act.
Approved, May 15, 1896.