Volume 49
Public Law 74–620
To permit construction, maintenance, and use of certain pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products in the District of Columbia.
Approved June 20, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To permit construction, maintenance, and use of certain pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the
District of Columbia.
Steuart Brothers, Incorporated, may construct pipe lines at designated points.
Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and are hereby, authorized and empowered to grant permission to the Steuart Brothers, Incorporated, a corporation organized in the State of Delaware, owner of that part of square 1024, bounded by L Street Southeast on the north, Twelfth Street Southeast on the west, Thirteenth Street Southeast on the east, and the right-of-way of the Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington Railroad on the south, in the city or Washington, in the District of Columbia, its successors and assigns, to lay down, construct, maintain, and use not more than five pipe lines for the carriage of petroleum and petroleum products from a point or points north of said railroad right-of-way within the square 1024, in and through Thirteenth Street Southeast due south to the Anacostia River.
Sec. 2.
That all the construction and use provided for herein shall
Supervision of construction, etc.
be under such regulations and rentals as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may make and establish in connection therewith and all plans and specifications for such construction shall be subject to their approval. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have full authority to designate the location and to cause such repairs or relocation of said pipe lines as the public necessity may require, any such repairs or relocation to be at the expense of the Steuart Brothers, Incorporated, its successors or assigns.
Sec. 3.
That no permission granted or enjoyed hereunder shall vest
No property rights to vest.
any title or interest in or to the land within Thirteenth Street Southeast.
Sec. 4.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby
Amendment.
expressly reserved.
Approved, June 20, 1936.