Volume 46

Public Law 71–502

To authorize the acquisition of additional land for enlarging the Capitol Grounds.

Approved March 4, 1931

Statutory text

An Act

To authorize the acquisition of additional land for enlarging the Capitol Grounds.

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

That paragraph (1) of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the

Vol. 45, p. 1694, amended.

enlarging of the Capitol Grounds,” approved March 4, 1929, as amended, is amended by adding after the first sentence thereof the

Acquisition of additional lands authorized.

Ante, p. 800.

following: “ The Architect of the Capitol is authorized to acquire in like manner for such purposes all or any part of the lands, including buildings or other structures, in lot 801 of square 574 and lot 821 of square 630 as such squares appear on the records of the office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia as of the date of the approval of this amendatory Act.

Approved, March 4, 1931.