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 FIFTY-SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 201, 205. 1892. 235 _  201.-An act to vest the title of public square eleven hundred and two, July 1g_ 1g9g_ in the city of iVashington, District of Columbia, in the trustees of the Fourth Street L Methodist Episcopal Church, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall ,Q€l*{==*¢{J!°?~Di¤¤i¤° have been a full compliance with the provisions of section two of this 0 riiiglt iistiiumis. act, as evidenced by the certificate of the Commissioners of the Dis- §°jj;hf,‘{;'{%’h,,'f,;{1°°* trict of Columbia, all that tract of land situate in the city of Wash- ` ington, District of Columbia, and mentioned and described as public square numbered eleven hundred and two in the deed of conveyance bearing date December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and twenty four, and recorded in the office of the recorder or deeds for the District of Columbia, in liber W B, numbered thirteen, folio one hundred and ninety-two, and those that follow of the same date, from J. Elgar, United States commissioner of public buildings, by authority conferred upon him under the act of Congress approved April twenty-ninth, Vol- 3. p. 325· eighteen hundred and sixteen, to Israel Little, James Friend, Nathaniel Brady, Ambrose White, Patrick Kain, William Speiden, and George Adams, trustees of the Methodist Society at the Ebenezar Station, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, granted in tee simple to Theodore Sniinn, Robert W. Dunn, Edward F. Casey, Francis A. Belt, Thomas E. Trzzare, James T. Harrison, Maurice Otterback, Robert E. Cook, and Arthur A. Chapin, and their successors and assigns, trustees of the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, the successor of and the same church organization as the Methodist Society at the Ebenezar Station in the said city, as and for the benefit of the said Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, freed from all the conditions and limitations mentioned in C°'““‘*°“°“’P°“°"- said deed of conveyance. Sec. 2. That the said trustees last above mentioned, and their suc- R*=¤¤¤*¤~l <·*d¤¤¤· cessors and assigns, are hereby authorized and required, under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to remove, within twelve months irom the approval of this act, the dead heretofore interred in any part of the said public square to some suitable public cemetery within the District of Columbia, at the expense of the said Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church Society. Approved, July 18, 1892. CHAP. 205.-An act granting to the County of Mariposa, in the Stateof California, July 19, 1892. theright of way for a free wagon road or turnpike across the Yosemite National Park, *"*"*i in said State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted Yosemite P¤rk.C¤.1. to the County of Mariposa, in the State of California, a right of way, Rgiéglyfuwgmmfi not exceeding one hundred feet in width, on that portion of the Yosemite biitnry. W National Park, in said State, commencing near the southwest corner ot said national park as now established and running from thence to the Merced River, thence across same to the western boundary line of the Yosemite Valley grant to a junction with the Coulterville road, for the FM w¤s¤¤ r<>¤<1· purpose of constructing a free wagon road or turnpike leading trom the town of Mariposa, in said County and State, to the Yosemite Valley, upon the express condition that the said road shall be completed in five completion. years from the passage of this act. Sec. 2. That the United States shall in nowise be liable for any ex- UNt<;3g;:tl;i1i¢y of pcnse, at any time, on account of the building of said free wagon road '" °‘ or turnpike, or for keeping the same in repair, and if the said road should be forfeited or abandoned, or cease to be tree of toll, the land covered by the right of way shall revert to the United States if tho R¤i‘¤¤i¤¤·