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during the whole period of the occupation and possession of the same 

 by the Government of the UDited States, and all the just compensation 

 which may be due from the United States for the public use of the same, 

 hereby authorizing and empowering the said parties of the second part, 

 or a majority of them, either by themselves or by any substituted 

 attorney or attorneys, to be named and appointed by them, or a majority 

 of them, to acquit and release and receipt for the same in any sufficient 

 legal form of acquittance which may be according to law, as fully as he, 

 the said party of the first part, could personally release and acquit the 

 same. 



Which rents, issues, and profits, and just compensation for the public 

 use of the said property shall be received and held by the said parties 

 of .the second part for the same uses, intents, and purposes hereinbefore 

 declared ; but shall, as far as may be necessary, be applied, before all 

 other objects, to the completion of the interior of said building, and to 

 putting it in a condition to be immediately applied to the primary in- 

 tents and purposes of this trust, as expressed in the recital in the 

 premises of this deed. 



In testimony whereof the said party of the first part hath hereunto set 

 his hand and affixed his seal, the day and year first hereinbefore 

 written. 



W. W. CORCORAN. 

 Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of — 



John Hunter. 



A. T. Brice. 

 We jointly and severally accept the trusts of the aforegoing deed. 

 Wituess our hands and seals the said tenth day of May, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-nine. 



James M. Carlisle. Geo. W. Riggs. 



James G. Berret. Henry D. Cooke. 



W. T. Walters. J. C. Hall. 



Anthony Hyde. Jas. C. Kennedy. 



Jas. C. McGuire. 



District of Columbia, County of Washington : 



I, Whitman C. Bestor, a notary public in and for Washington County 

 aforesaid, do hereby certify that William W. Corcoran, the party of the 

 first part to a certain deed, bearing date the tenth day of May, A. D. 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and hereto annexed, personally 

 appeared before me, in the county aforesaid, on the day of the date 

 hereof, the said William W. Corcoran being personally well known to 

 me to be the person who executed the said deed, and acknowledged the 

 same to be his act. 



Given under my hand and notarial seal this tenth day of May, eighteen 



hundred and sixty-nine. 



WHITMAN C. BESTOR, 



Notary Public. 



