Volume 43
Public Law 68–215
To validate an agreement between the Secretary of War, acting on behalf of the United States, and the Washington Gas Light Company.
Approved February 12, 1925
Statutory text
An Act
To validate an agreement between the Secretary of War, acting on behalf of the United States, and the Washington Gas Light Company.
Whereas Congress has provided for the work of reclaiming and
District of Columbia.
Preamble.
improving the land along the Anacostia River, in the District of Columbia, and made and declared it a part of the park system of the District of Columbia, to be known as Anacostia Park, and it has become necessary in the prosecution of the said work to settle certain questions in dispute between the United States and the Washington Gas Light Company as to the ownership of land and to quiet title thereto: Therefore
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the agreement
Anacostia Park.
Agreement with Washington Gas Light Company as to title of of lands adjacent to, validated.
made between the Secretary of War, acting on behalf of the United States, and the Washington Gas Light Company, a corporation, for the purpose of effecting an adjustment and settlement of all the matters at issue between the United States and the said company respecting the title and ownership of certain parcels and lots of land adjacent to the Anacosta River, the terms of which agreement are embodied in a formal instrument on file in the War Department, bearing date of September 8, 1921. and signed by J. M. Wainwright, Assistant Secretary of War, and H. S. Reeside, president of the said Washington Gas Light Company, is hereby approved, and the consent of Congress is hereby given to the carrying out of said agreement in full accordance with the tenor and terms thereof.
Approved, February 12, 1925.