Directory of Points of Interest in Our Capital City How many have you visited? What do you remember of the places visited? Union Station (Washington Terminal Co.) 50 Massachusetts Avenue NE. U. S. Capitol Between Independence and Constitution Avenues at First Street. Senate Office Buildings (North of the Capitol) Delaware and Constitution Avenues NE. Library of Congress First Street, between East Capitol and Independence Avenue SE. House Office Buildings (South of Capitol) New Jersey and Independence Avenues SE. The Botanic Garden First and Canal Streets SW. (Foot of Capitol, SW. side). The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. The Blair House (The President's Guest House) 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Mount Vernon, Virginia 16.1 miles from Washington D. C. by way of George Washington Memorial Highway. The Treasury Department SW. corner Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th Street NW. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing 14th Street at C Street SW. The (Old) Department of State (Executive Offices of the President) New Department of State 21st Street and Virginia Avenue NW. The Department of Defense-The Pentagon Building West Bank of the Potomac River in Arlington, Va. directly across from the city of Washington. Matomic Building 1717 H Street NW. Winder Building 604 17th Street NW. The Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Constitution Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets NW. The Post Office Department Pennsylvania Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets NW. The Department of the Interior C Street between 18th and 19th Streets NW. The Department of Agriculture Independence Avenue, between 12th and 14th Streets NW. The Departments of Labor and Commerce The Department of Labor Section-Constitution Avenue and 14th The Department of Commerce Section-14th Street between E Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 330 Independence Avenue SW. The Voice of America (The Radio and TV Arm of the U. S. Information Agency) 2d Floor-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, North Building. Interstate Commerce Commission 12th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. The Civil Service Commission F Street at 8th Street NW. The National Archives Building 7th and Constitution Avenue NW. The U. S. Supreme Court Number 1 First Street NE. The Smithsonian Institution Near 10th Street and Constitution Avenue SW. The National Zoological Park Adams Mill Road, near Ontario Place NW. National Gallery of Art Constitution Avenue at 6th Street NW. The Freer Gallery NE. Corner 12th Street and Independence Avenue SW. The Corcoran Art Gallery 17th Street and New York Avenue NW. The Washington Monument Monument Grounds Between 14th and 17th Streets and Constitution Avenue. Lincoln Memorial Foot of 23d Street NW. Jefferson Memorial Foot of 14th Street NW. Bridge by Tidal Basin, West Potomac Park. Iwo Jima-The U. S. Marine Corps War Memorial Near western end of Memorial Bridge, end of Arlington National Tombs of the Unknown Servicemen Arlington National Cemetery. Pan American Union 17th Street, between Constitution Avenue and C Street NW. The National American Red Cross Building 17th Street, between D and E Streets NW. District of Columbia Recreation Department 3149 16th Street NW. Metropolitan Memorial, The National Methodist Church Nebraska and New Mexico Avenues NW. The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul (Washington Cathedral) Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenues NW. The Catholic National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception 4th and Michigan Avenues NE. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the National Park Service for photographs of Washington Monument, National Archives, White House, Iwo Jima Memorial, and the U. S. Capitol, and to the U. S. Army for the photograph of the Tombs of the Unknown Servicemen. 89TH CONGRESS 1st Session } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { REPORT No. 957 AUTHORIZING THE RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO MAKE KNOWN THEIR PREFERENCE ON THE QUESTION OF HOME RULE AND, IF THEY WISH, TO ELECT A BOARD FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREPARING A MUNICIPAL CHARTER FOR SUBMISSION TO THE VOTERS AND TO CONGRESS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES SEPTEMBER 3, 1965.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. MCMILLAN, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 10115] The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 10115), authorizing the residents of the District of Columbia to make known their preference on the question of home rule and, if they wish, to elect a board for the purpose of preparing a municipal charter for submission to the voters and to Congress, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill do pass. The amendments are as follows: 1. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following: TITLE I SEC. 101. All of that portion of the District of Columbia ceded to the United States by the State of Maryland and not included within the Federal area described in section 103 of this title, and all the rights and jurisdiction ceded to the United States by the State of Maryland in connection therewith, are hereby retroceded and relinquished to the State of Maryland effective as of the date of the acceptance thereof by the State of Maryland. SEC. 102. (a) Nothing in this title shall be construed to vest in the State of Maryland any property right in any real or personal property situated in that portion of the District of Columbia retroceded to the State of Maryland under section 101 of this title and held by the United States or by any person, except as such property may be transferred to the State of Maryland by the United States or by such person, as the case may be. (b) The jurisdiction of the United States and of the government of the District of Columbia, and the laws in effect in the District of Columbia as of the date of acceptance by the State of Maryland of the retrocession provided for by section 101 of this title, shall remain in full force and effect until the State of Maryland shall provide by law for the extension of its jurisdiction and judicial system over that portion of the District of Columbia retroceded to the State of Maryland under section 101 of this title. (c) The United States shall retain jurisdiction over the real and personal : property held by it, and situated within that portion of the District of Columbia retroceded to the State of Maryland under section 101 of this title, in the same manner and to the same extent as the United States exercises jurisdiction over property held by it situated within the various States. SEC. 103. (a) The Federal area referred to in section 101 of this title is more particularly described as that portion of the District of Columbia situated within the boundary line described as follows: Beginning on the east side of Rock Creek where it meets the Potomac River and running generally north and east to a point where P Street Northwest intersects Rock Creek; thence east on P Street Northwest to Florida Avenue; thence following Florida Avenue to Fifteenth Street Northeast; thence south on Fifteenth Street Northeast to C Street Northeast; thence east on C Street Northeast to the East Capitol Street Bridge; thence east on the East Capitol Street Bridge to the point where it intersects the middle of the Anacostia River channel; thence generally south and west down the midchannel of the Anacostia River to that point in the channel that is due south of Hains Point; thence due west to the present Virginia-District of Columbia boundary at the shoreline of Washington National Airport; thence generally north and east up the Potomac River along the VirginiaDistrict of Columbia boundary to a point parallel to the northernmost projection of Theodore Roosevelt Island; thence east to the confluence of Rock Creek and the Potomac River; (b) Where the Federal area described in subsection (a) is bounded by streets such streets shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal City and the Federal jurisdiction shall extend to the sidewalks of the distant side of the street. SEC. 104. Effective as of the date of the acceptance by the State of Maryland of the Federal area retroceded to it under this title, the State of Maryland shall be entitled to one Representative in addition to the number of Representatives to which it is otherwise entitled, until the taking effect of the next reapportionment, and such Representative shall be in addition to the membership of the House of Representatives, as now prescribed by law. Until otherwise provided by the State of Maryland, such additional Representative shall be elected from the Federal area retroceded under this title. Such temporary increase in the membership shall not operate to either increase or decrease the permanent membership of the House of Representatives as prescribed in the Act of August 8, 1911 (37 Stat. 13) nor shall such temporary increase affect the basis of apportionment established by the Act of November 15, 1941 (55 Stat. 761; 2 U.S.C. 2a), for the Eighty-third Congress and each Congress thereafter. SEC. 105. The authorization provided by section 101 for the retrocession of a portion of the District of Columbia shall terminate on the day after the end of the first regular session of the legislature of the State of Maryland which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. TITLE II SEC. 201. This title may be cited as the "District of Columbia Charter Act". SEC. 202. This title shall take effect on the day after the day on which the authorization provided by section 101 of title I terminates, but only if the State of Maryland has not accepted the retrocession authorized by that section. SEC. 203. (a) (1) The Board of Elections shall conduct a referendum, on a day specified by it, not later than one hundred days after the effective date of this title to determine if the residents of the District of Columbia want self-government for the District of Columbia. The following proposition shall be submitted to the voters in the referendum: "The voters of the District of Columbia are being asked in this election whether they want a District of Columbia Charter Board created whose purpose would be to write a charter for the District of Columbia. The charter, if approved in accordance with the District of Columbia Charter Act, would establish local self-government for the District of Columbia. Do you approve the creation of a District of Columbia Charter Board? -no." .--yes |