Public Buildings and Grounds: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, House of Representatives, Seventy-Second Congress, First Session, on ... June 24, 25, 29, 1932U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932 - 69 pages |
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30 per cent acquired acquisition ALMON appropriation approved Architect ARTHUR CAPPER assessor authorized award bill bought Buildings and Grounds Capitol Grounds Captain CHISOLM CARTER Census Building census office building census office property cent above assessed CHAIRMAN CHARLES CURTIS Christine Nelson Colonel GRANT commission Committee on Public condemnation proceedings Congress Constitution Avenue COOPER course court DALLINGER District of Columbia Driscoll Hotel erty Fritz G gentlemen GLASSIE going Government hearing HENRY H House of Representatives Jersey Avenue June June 22 jury land legislation Louisiana Avenue LYNN marginal avenue MCSWAIN MOUSER municipal center numbered old census office paid parcel piece of property playground prop property owners Public Buildings purchase question quitclaim deed REED referred RICHARDS Rock Creek Rock Creek Park Scheme sell Senate Shea square feet Standard Oil Standard Oil Co statement Street tion Total assessed value Union Station Washington widening
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Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments in 1975".
Page 3 - Without objection, it will be incorporated in the record. (The letter referred to is as follows :) COLUMBUS, NEBR., February 20, I960.
Page 17 - I offer this summary for the record. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it will be made a part of the record. (The summary referred to is as follows:) Summary of sales 1 Assessment, 1931.
Page 21 - I ask that the document be made a part of the record. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The document referred to is as follows :) DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, Washington.
Page 29 - Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. That the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital be, and...
Page 2 - An act to provide for the enlarging of the Capitol Grounds," approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat.
Page 29 - Grounds, the chairman and ranking minority member of the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, the minority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol.
Page 18 - The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it will be made a part of the record. (The paper referred to is as follows :) Relationship of assessments and sales in area between Seventh and Sixteenth Streets, NW, Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street for years 1929, 1S30, 19S1
Page 1 - ... Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any authority heretofore granted for the purchase of that lot of land in the District of Columbia immediately west of First Street Northwest and opposite the Driscoll Hotel, and known as the old Census Building property, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that any condemnation proceedings now pending for the purchase of said lot of land be, and the same are hereby, terminated and ended, for the reason that it appears...
Page 32 - ... experience, knowing the plan has once been adopted, and believing, as I believe everybody in Washington believes, that the plan will ultimately be put through, I think they would be inclined to stand pat and wait until the Government came in and paid them the price that they demanded. Mr. McSwAiN. But in the meantime, as to those properties that had been doubled in their assessments, they would be paying double taxes for a good while. Mr. Chairman, that is all I have, and I thank the committee...