An Act to authorize the conveyance to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-In Asylum of certain parcels of land in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
PL 82-423 (H.R.7253), enacted 06/28/1952

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iiautics", approved June 23, 1938, as amended (sec. 485, title 49, 
U. S. C.), is hereby further amended to read as follows: 
" (j) Air carriers transporting or handling United States mail shall 
submit, under signature of a duly authorized official, when and in such 
form as may be required by the Postmaster General, evidence of the 
performance of mail service; and air carriers transporting or handling 
mails of foreign countries shall submit, under signature of a duly 
authorized official, when and in such form as may be required by the 
Postmaster General, evidence of the amount of such mails transported 
or handled, and the compensation payable and received therefor." 
Approved June 28, 1962. 
52 Stat. 994. 
Air carriers. 
Public Law 423 
CHAPTER 486 
AN ACT 
To authorize the conveyance to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in 
Asylum of certain parcels of land in the District of Columbia, and for other 
purjwses. 
June 28, 1952 
[H.R. 7253] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, subject to the 
provisions of section 2 of this Act, the Administrator of General 
Services and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are 
directed to convey, without monetary consideration, to the Columbia 
Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, Washington, District of 
Columbia, a corporation created by the Act of June 1, 1866 (14 Stat. 
55), all right, title, and interest of the United States and of the District 
of Columbia in and to those pieces or parcels of land in the District 
of Columbia, described as follows, together with all improvements 
thereon and appurtenances thereto: 
(a) All that piece or parcel of land situate and lying in the city 
of Washington in the District of Columbia and known as part of 
square numbered 25, as laid down and distinguished on the plat or 
plan of said city, as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of 
said square and running thence north with Twenty-fourth Street 
two hundred and thirty-one feet and seven inches; thence west two 
hundred and thirty feet and six inches; thence north to M Street two 
hundred and thirty-one feet and ten inches; thence west with M Street 
two hundred and fifteen feet and six inches to Twenty-fifth Street; 
thence south with Twenty-fifth Street two hundred and sixty-three 
feet and five inches; thence east two hundred feet; thence south to L 
Street two hundred feet; thence east with L Street two hundred and 
forty-six feet to the beginning; and being the property conveyed to 
the United States of America by deed dated October 17, 1876, from 
the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, recorded 
in liber 836, folio 159, of the land records of the District of Columbia. 
(b) All that piece or parcel of land situate and lying in the city of 
Washington in the District of Columbia on the northeast corner of L 
and Twenty-fifth Streets Northwest, being a part of original square 
numbered 25, as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of said 
square and running thence east with the line of said L Street two 
hundred feet for a corner; thence north two hundred feet for a corner; 
thence west two hundred feet for a corner; and thence south two 
hundred feet to the place of beginning; containing forty thousand 
square feet of ground, more or less, and being the property conveyed 
to the United States of America by deed dated July 6, 1872, from the 
Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum and Edward 
Maynard, recorded in liber 811, folio 481 of the land records of the 
District of Columbia. 
C olumbia H o s -
p i t a l f o r Women 
and Lying-in Asy-
lum, D . C . 
Conveyance. 
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Deed. 
Lien. 
Repeals. 
SEC. 2. The deed conveying the property described in the first 
section of this Act shall provide that no part of said property shall, 
without the consent of the United States, be devoted to any other 
purpose than a hospital for women. 
SEC. 3. The provisions of the paragraph following the appropriation 
for the Washington Hospital for Foundlings in the Act of March 3, 
1893 (27 Stat. 552, 553, D. C. Code, title 32, sec. 1003), creating a lien 
in favor of the United States with respect to the appropriations 
referred to therein, shall also apply to the appropriations in the 
aggregate amount of $50,000, granted in the Act of June 10, 1872 (17 
Stat. 360), and in the Act of March 3, 1875 (18 Stat. 386), for the 
purchase by the United States of the property described in the first 
section of this Act, and the acceptance by the Columbia Hospital for 
Women and Lying-in Asylum of the conveyance of said property shall 
be deemed an acceptance of and agreement to this provision. 
SEC. 4. (a) The following provisions of law are hereby repealed: 
(1) So much of the second paragraph under the heading "Columbia 
Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, and Other Charities," in 
the Act of June 10, 1872 (17 Stat. 360), as reads: "; and that in addi-
tion to the directors, whose appointments are now provided for by law, 
there shall be three other directors appointed in the following manner: 
One Senator by the President of the Senate, and two Representatives 
by the Speaker of the House; these directors shall hold their office for 
the ternl of a single Congress, and be eligible to a reappointment"; 
(2) The provisos which immediately follow the appropriations for 
the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, in the Acts 
of June 4,1880 (21 Stat. 157), July 14,1892 (27 Stat. 164), and March 
3, 1893 (27 Stat. 551, D. C. Code, title 32, sec. 315); and 
(3) The proviso under the heading "Columbia Hospital for Women 
and Lying-in Asylum", in the Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1147, 
D. C. Code, title 32, section 314), as amended. 
(b) The repeals effected by paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection 
(a) of this section shall not affect the current term of office of any 
trustee or director of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in 
Asylum appointed prior to the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
the existing directors and their successors shall have all the powers and 
authority of the original incorporators named in the Act of Incor-
poration of said hospital (Act of June 1, 1866, 14 Stat. 55) and the 
power to fill vacancies on the board of directors. 
Approved June 28, 1952. 
June 28, 1952 
[H.R. 7496] 
Public Law 424 
CHAPTER 487 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of August 7,1946, providing for the establishment of a modern, 
adequate, and efficient hospital center in the District of Columbia, as amended, 
so as to extend to June 30,1955, the period for authorization for appropriations 
for carrying out the purposes of the Act as amended. 
D. c. 
center. 
h o s p i t a l 
60 Stat. 897. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 6 of the 
Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a modern, 
adequate, and efficient hospital center in the District of Columbia", 
approved August 7, 1946, as amended, is hereby amended by striking 
out "June 30,1952" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30,1955". 
Approved June 28, 1952.