Public Law 72–99

That the Commissioners

District of Columbia.

Griffith Consumers Company pipe line construction in certain streets, authorized.

of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to grant permission to the Griffith-Consumers Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, the owner of square 661 in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, said square being bounded on the north by R Street, on the south by S Street, on the east by Half Street, and on the west by First Street, its successors and assigns, to lay down, construct, maintain, and use not more than ten pipe lines for the carriage of petroleum and petroleum products from a point or points within said square 661, in and through R Street, due east to Half Street, east, and thence north on Half Street, east, to a point opposite lots 12 or 13 in square east of square 708 (through which said lots the said Griffith-Consumers Company now has an easement to run said pipe lines), thence through said lots or any other lots in said square east or square 708 which may hereafter be acquired by the said Griffith-Consumers Company or through which it may secure an easement, and to the pierhead line of the Anacostia River.

Sec. 2.

That all the construction and use provided for herein

Regulations and rentals.

shall be under such regulations and rentals as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may make and establish in connection therewith.

Sec. 3.

That no permission granted or enjoyed hereunder shall conditions, vest any title or interest in or to the land within the above-mentioned streets or affect any right, title, or interest of the United States in or to land within square east of square 708.

Sec. 4.

That the Congress reserves the right to amend, alter,

Amendment.

or repeal this Act at any time.