Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Washington Electrical Hand-Book: Being a Guide for Visitors From Abroad Attending the International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, Mo;, September, 1904
In all the original city site 'there were acres. The original owners donated to the United States for streets and alleys acres, and 982 additional acres, divided into building lots. The United States then purchased for its own uses 541 acres more, its. Total holding amounting then to acres. All that the original owners received were 982 acres, sub divided into lots. It was provided that the. 541 acres purchased for public building sites and reser vations should be paid for out of the first proceeds of the lots donated to the Government. This was done; so the Government did not pay even one cent for the vast quantity of soil it owns in the District of Columbia.
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