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Public Law 64–342

To exempt from taxation certain property of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, District of Columbia.

Approved August 15, 1916

Statutory text

An Act

To exempt from taxation certain property of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, District of Columbia.

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

That the property situated in square one hundred and seventy-three in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, described as lots twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, and twenty-eight, inclusive, occupied by the Daughters of the American Revolution, be, and the same is hereby, exempt from and after May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and fourteen, from all taxation so long as the same is so occupied and used, subject to the provisions of section eight of the

Vol. 19, p. 399.

Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, providing for exemptions of church and school property, and Acts amendatory thereof. So, also, shall every rectory, parsonage, glebe

Church rectories,, etc., exempted.

house, and pastoral residence which is occupied as a residence by the pastor, rector, minister, or rabbi be so exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia: Provided, That such rectory, parsonage, glebe

Provisos.

Ownership.

house, or pastoral residence be owned by the church or congregation for which the said pastor, rector, minister, or rabbi officiates: And provided further, That not more than one such rectory, parsonage,

Limitation.

glebe house, or pastoral residence shall be so exempt for any one congregation.

Approved, August 15, 1916.

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