An Act to provide for the establishment of the Frederick Douglass home as a part of the park system in the National Capital, and for other purposes
PL 87-633 (S.2399), enacted 09/05/1962

76 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC L
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W 87-634-SEPT. 5, 1962 
435 
Public Law 87-633 
A N A C T 
September 5, 1962 
To provide for the establishment of the Frederick Douglass home as a part of 
[S.2399] 
the park system in the National Capital, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to desi^ate, for preservation as a part of 
the park system in the National Capital, the former home of Frederick 
Douglass located at 1411 W Street Southeast, Washington, District of 
Columbia, and known as "Cedar Hill", to be described by metes and 
bounds, so as to exclude that part of the original fourteen acres which 
is presently leased to the Glen Garden as a housing development, 
together with such land, interests in land, and improvements thereon 
as he may deem necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act: 
Provided^ That the area so designated shall not exceed fourteen acres. 
SEC. 2. When the land, the Frederick Douglass home, and such 
objects therein of historical significance as the Secretary of the 
Interior may designate have been donated to the United States, 
establishment of the Frederick Douglass home as a part of the park 
system in the National Capital shall be effected by publication of 
notice in the Federal Register. 
SEC. 3. Upon the establishment of the Frederick Douglass home as 
a part of the park system in the National Capital, the home shall be 
administered by the Secretary of the Interior and shall be subject to 
the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a National Park 
Service and for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 
535), as amended and supplemented, and the Act entitled "An Act to 
provide for the preservation of American sites, buildings, objects, and 
antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes", approved 
August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666), as amended. 
SEC. 4. There are authorized to be appropriated not more than 
$25,000 for repairing and refurbishing Cedar Hill in order to 
accomplish the purposes of this Act. 
Approved September 5, 1962, 9:50 a. m. 
Frederick Doug-
lass home. 
Establishment 
as part of Nation-
al Capital park 
system. 
Publication In 
F. R. 
16 use 1. 
16 u s e 461. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 87-634 
AN ACT 
To make eligible for assistance und6r the public facility loan program certain 
areas where research or development installations of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration are located. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph (4) 
of section 202(b) of the Housing Amendments of 1955 is amended by 
inserting immediately after "Act" the following: ", or in the case of 
a community in or near which is located a research or development 
installation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration". 
Approved September 5, 1962. 
September 5, 1962 
[S. 3.327] 
Federally af-
fected areas. 
Assistance. 
75 Stat. 174. 
42 u s e 1492.