LIST OF PARK IMPROVEMENT PAPERS. No. 1. Action of the Washington Board of Trade in relation to the park system of the District of Columbia. 2. Action toward the establishment of an arboretum. 3. The need of additional playgrounds, parks, and reservations. 4. Fort Stevens, where Lincoln was under fire. 5. Informal hearing before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate. 6. Notes on the parks and their connections. 7. Notes on the establishment of a national park in the District of Columbia and the acquirement and improvement of the valley of Rock Creek for park purposes. 8. "Men on horseback." 9. Essay on the city of Washington. 10. Informal conference of the Park Improvement Commission of the District of Columbia, held in the room of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, October 21, 1901. 11. Extract from a paper on the commercial value of beauty by Daniel H. Burnham. 12. Centennial avenue. 13. The making of a plan for Washington City. 14. Abstract of laws and ordinances relative to the Washington Market Company. 8 SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. PARK IMPROVEMENT PAPERS.-NO. 14. ABSTRACT OF LAWS AND ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO THE WASHINGTON MARKET COMPANY. MARCH 14, 1902.-Printed for the use of the committee. An act to incorporate the Washington Market Company, approved May 20, 1870. (16th Stats., p. 124 et seq.) Joint resolution relative to the Center Market in Washington, approved December 20, 1870. (16th Stats., p. 589.) The deficiency appropriation law for the fiscal year 1873 (see paragraph authorizing arrangements for transfer of part of the market-house site for a District building), approved March 3, 1873. (17th Stats., p. 540.) The memorandum of agreement making arrangements under the above provision is published on page 27 of Papers Relating to the Washington Market Company, Submitted to accompany Act H. R. 4426, entitled "An Act relative to the Washington Market Company," published in 1878, under House resolution of December 4, 1877. A copy of this memorandum of agreement is hereby transmitted. Under this agreement the annual franchise rental of the Washington Market Company, applicable to the relief of the poor, was reduced from $20,000 to $7,500. It had previously been reduced from $25,000 per annum to $20,000, under the following act of the legislative assembly: A RESOLUTION in relation to the Washington Market Company. Be it resolved by the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, That the Governor be authorized and required to act as one of the commissioners of the Washington Market Company, under the resolution of Congress approved December twenty, eighteen hundred and seventy; and that he be requested to procure such alterations in the plan of the buildings to be erected by said company as shall transfer the proposed hall from the Ninth street wing to the main building on Pennsylvania avenue, and also to secure a reduction from twenty-five thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars of the annual rental required to be paid by said company, and which is now assessed by the company upon the stall-holders. Approved August 23, 1871. 2 PARK SYSTEM OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT. Governor and board of public works with the Washington Market Company. In pursuance of the act of Congress of March 3, 1873, authorizing the governor and board of public works, if they deem it advisable for the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable building for District offices, to make arrangements to secure sufficient land fronting on Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues between Seventh and Ninth streets, it is hereby agreed that 1. The Washington Market Company shall by good and sufficient quit claim deed release and convey to the District of Columbia all the right, title, and interest of said company acquired under act of Congress of May 20, 1870, incorporating said company, in and to so much of the land within said District described in section 2 of said act, and fronting Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues, as is contained within the following limits: Beginning at the southwest corner of Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue, thence westerly along the southerly side of Pennsylvania avenue to its intersection with the southerly side of Louisiana avenue; thence westerly along the southerly side of Louisiana avenue to the east side of Ninth street; thence along the east line of Ninth street eighty-six feet; thence easterly on a line parallel with the aforesaid southerly line of Louisiana avenue to a point eighty-six feet south of said intersection of the southerly lines of Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues, and thence on a line parallel with the aforesaid southerly side of Pennsylvania avenue to the westerly line of Seventh street, at a point eighty-six feet from the corner began at; thence northerly along the west line of Seventh street eighty-six feet to the corner began at. The Washington Market Company shall also in said deed convey to said District the right to use, in common with said market company, as a passageway and court yard all the land between the lot conveyed in said deed and a line drawn westerly from Seventh to Ninth street ten feet north of the north walls of the present Seventh and Ninth street buildings of said market company. 2. In consideration of the aforesaid release and conveyance by the Washington Market Company to the District of Columbia, the District will assume and fulfill all obligations imposed upon the company by section 14 of said act of May 20, 1870 (as modified by act of the legislative assembly of the District of August 23, 1871), except as follows: The market company shall pay annually to the District of Columbia, during the term and for the purposes mentioned in said section 14, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, payable quarterly, which sum shall, during said term, be in the place of all rental for the ground occupied by the market buildings of said company; and in case in any year the general District taxes upon said ground and market buildings PARK SYSTEM OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 3 shall exceed five thousand five hundred dollars, the excess above that amount shall be deducted from said rental of seven thousand five hundred dollars, so that the total annual payments for rental and taxes .shall not exceed thirteen thousand dollars; the District, however, not hereby releasing, but expressly reserving, and the market company hereby confirming the right of the District, given by section 2 of the act of May 20, 1870, of fixing and controlling, for the protection of the market dealers and of the public, the amount of rentals of the stalls and stands in said market buildings; and it is also hereby agreed that the annual rental of stalls and stands in the other markets in the city of Washington shall not be fixed by the District authorities at a lower rate per square foot of area than seventy per cent of the rate fixed under said section for stalls and stands in the market buildings of said company, and the District shall not use the land released and conveyed as aforesaid for the purposes of a market. This agreement shall take effect April 1, 1873, and the market company shall at once settle its past rental account to that time at the rate since August 23, 1871, fixed by the resolution of the legislative assembly of that date, and shall immediately pay the balance due to the, treasurer of the District. Possession of the land conveyed shall be given the District upon the day of executing this agreement. Dated at Washington, March 18, 1873. WASHINGTON MARKET COMPANY, H. D. COOKE, Governor. JAMES A. MAGRUDER, ADOLF CLUSS, |