Public Law 75–35

That title 20

District of Columbia,

of the Code of the District of Columbia (to March 4, 1921) be amended by adding to such title a paragraph numbered ( )¹¹[So in original.] as follows:

“The property situated in square numbered 67, in the city of

Society of the Cincinnati; certain property exempted from taxation.

Description.

Washington, District of Columbia, described as lot numbered 42, as per plat recorded in the office of the surveyor for the District of Columbia in liber 27 at folio 135; lot numbered 43, as per plat recorded in said surveyor’s office in liber 28 at folio 25; lot numbered 49 as per plat recorded in said surveyor’s office in liber 40 at folio 15; and part of original lot numbered 5 described as follows: Beginning for the same at the northeast corner of said lot and running thence west along the south line of a public alley thirty feet wide forty-seven and seventeen one-hundredths feet to the east line of another public alley, thirty feet wide; thence south along the east line of said alley seventy-four feet; thence east forty-seven and seventeen one-hundredths feet to the west line of a public alley fifteen feet wide; thence north along the west line of said alley seventy-four feet to the place of beginning, occupied by the Society of the Cincinnati, a corporation of the District of Columbia, with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and the contents thereof are hereby exempt from all taxes so long as the same is so

19 Stat. 399.

20 D. C. Code § 712.

occupied and used, subject to the provisions of section 712 of this title, providing for the exemption of church and school property,

Maintenance of national museum.

subject, to the proviso that said society shall maintain therein a national museum for the custody and preservation of historical documents, relics, and archives, especially those pertaining to the American Revolution, which museum shall be accessible to the public at such reasonable hours and under such regulations as may, from time to time, be prescribed by said society; and subject to the further proviso that if any part of said property is sold, then the exemption as to said part and said part only shall determine and if any part of said property is leased then the exemption shall

Effective date.

cease for so long and so long only as said part is so leased. This exemption to become effective on the date of the passage of this Act.”