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ACT JUNE 3. 1902, c. 985. (32 Stat. 286.) 



Construction of act setting apart portion of Arlington estate for experimental 

 agricultural purposes. 



Arlington Experimental Farm : To enable the Secretary of Api- 

 culture to continue the necessary improvements to establish and main- 

 tain a general experimental farm and agricultural station on the 

 Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, including employment of 

 labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere, in accordance with tiie 

 provisions of the Act of Congress approved April eighteenth, nineteen 

 hundred, entitled "An Act to .set apart a portion of the Arlington es- 

 tate for exjierimental agricultural purposes, and to place .<aid portion 

 under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture and his suc- 

 cessors in office," which Act shall be construed to confer upon the 

 Secretary of Agriculture and his successors jurisdiction over so much 

 of the Government land in Alexandria County, Virginia, known as 

 the Arlington estate, as lies east of the public road leading from the 

 Aqueduct Bridge to Alexandria, Virginia, otherwise called the George- 

 town and Alexandria road, and between said road and the Potomac 

 River, containing about four hundred acres, with the exception, how- 

 ever, of a strip of land as follows: Commencing at the point where 

 the Georgetown and Alexandria road enters the Arlington estate on 

 the north side, thence along said road six hundred and twenty-five 

 yards, thence in a line perpendicular to said road to the Chesapeake 

 and Ohio Canal, thence along said canal to the north line of the 

 reservation, * * * 



Act June 3, 1902, c. 985, 32 Stat. 293. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1903, cited above. The provisions are repeated in the same 

 words in the similar appropriation acts for the fiscal years thereafter 

 to an including 1906. 



The act mentioned above, act April 18, 1900, c. 243, is set forth above. 



ACT FEBRUARY 9, 1903, c. 528. An act for the erection of a building for the 

 use and accommodation of the Department of Agriculture. (.32 Stat. 806.) 



Construction of a building for Department of Agriculture; plans; contracts. 



That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, authorized 

 and directed to cause a suitable and commodious fireproof building, 

 for the use and accommodation of the Department of Agriculture, 

 including all of its Bureaus and offices now occupying rented quarters 

 in the District of Columbia, to be erected on such portion of the 

 grounds of the Department of Agriculture belonging to the United 

 "states as he may deem expedient, immediately in the vicmity of the 

 present building, said building to be constructed in accordance with 

 plans, to be procured, based on accurate estimates, providing for the 

 erection of said building, complete in all of its details, as herein 

 described, and within a total cost of not exceeding the sum herein 

 stipulated, and he is hereby authorized, after procuring .'^uch plans, 

 and after due advertisement for proposals, to enter into contracts 

 within the limit of cost hereby fixed and subject to appropriations to 

 be made bv Congress, for the erection of said building complete, 

 including heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and ap- 

 proachestand the removal of the present building or buildings of the 

 Department of Agriculture on said grounds. 



Act February 9, 1903, c. 528, s. 1, 32 Stat. 806. 



