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Public Law 85–83
To eliminate the financial limitation on real and personal estate holdings of the American Historical Association and to exempt from taxation certain property of such association in the District of Columbia.
Approved July 3, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To eliminate the financial limitation on real and personal estate holdings of the American Historical Association and to exempt from taxation certain property of such association 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 Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the American Historical Association”, approved January 4, 1889 (25 Stat. 640), is amended by striking out m the second sentence thereof “only as may be necessary to its lawful ends to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars” and inserting in lieu thereof: “as may be necessary to its lawful ends”.
Sec. 2.
The real property situated in Square 817, in the city of
Tax exemption.
Washington, District of Columbia, described as lot 23, owned, occupied, and used by the American Historical Association, is exempt from all taxation so long as the same is so owned and occupied, and not used for commercial purposes, subject to the provisions of sections 2, 3, and 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to define the real property exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia”, approved December 24, 1942 (56 Stat. 1089; D. C. Code, secs. 47–801 b, 47–801c, and 47–801e).
Approved July 3, 1957.