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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 72, 76-FEB. 13, 16, 1942 Provsos. Width of right-of. way. Mineral reserva- tion. February 16 1942 [S. 19451 [Public Law 454] District of Colum- bia Motor Vehicle Parking Facility Act of 1942. Necessity declared. County records; said point of commencement being at right angles northerly and distant ninety-seven and five-tenths feet from the center line of the Central Pacific Railway Company's originally located main track at engineer's station 770+95.0; thence easterly, parallel to and distant ninety-seven and five-tenths feet northerly at right angles, from said center line of main track along the south line of lots 1, 2, and 3 of said block "C", a distance of sixty and sixty-seven one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning of the parcel of land to be described; thence continuing along the south line of lots 3, 4, and 5 of said block "C", sixty-four and thirty-three one-hundredths feet to the southeast corner of said lot 5; thence at right angles, northerly from the last- described course along the east line of said lot 5, a distance of ninety feet to the northeast corner of said lot 5; thence, at right angles westerly from the last-described course along the north line of said lots 1,2, 3, 4, and 5 of said block "C", one hundred and twenty-five feet to the northwest corner of said lot 1; thence at right angles southerly from the last-described course along the west line of said lot 1, a distance of fifty-two and five-tenths feet to a point; thence at right angles easterly from the last-described course sixty and sixty-seven one-hundredths feet to a point; thence at right angles southerly from the last-described course thirty-seven and five-tenths feet to the point of beginning and containing an area of two hundred and six one- thousandths of an acre, more or less. Parcel numbered 3: A strip of land six and seven-tenths feet wide, lying easterly of and adjacent to said lot 5 of said block "C" and extending northerly from the easterly prolongation of the south line of said lot 5 of said block "C", eighty-seven and eight-tenths feet, con- taining an area of fourteen one-thousands of an acre, more or less. Provided,That such validation and confirmation shall not diminish the right-of-way to a width of less than fifty feet on either side of the center of the main track or tracks of the Central Pacific Railway Com- pany as now established and maintained: And provided further, That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other minerals in the land and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under the applicable mineral land laws. Approved, February 13, 1942. [CHAPTER 76] AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to acquire, operate, and regulate public off-street parking facilities, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it is hereby declared that the free circulation of traffic of all kinds through the highways of the District is necessary to the health, safety, and general welfare of the public, whether residing in said District, or traveling to, through, or from said District in the course of lawful pursuits; that in recent years the greatly increased use by the public of motor vehicles of all kinds has caused serious traffic congestion on the highways of the District; that the parking of motor vehicles on the highways of the District has contributed to this congestion to such an extent as to interfere seriously with the primary use of such high- ways for the movement of traffic; that such parking prevents the free circulation of traffic in, through, and from said District impedes rapid and effective fighting of fires and the disposition of police forces in the District, threatens irreparable loss in valuations of property in the District, which can no longer be readily reached by vehicular traffic, [56 STAT.

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