“The Supreme Court.” says the
Coldren opinion, "elaborately dis
cussed every feature of this case and
held that by the agreement made be
tween George Washington and the 19
original proprietors, by which the or
iginal proprietors were to absolutely
convey complete title to their property
to the United States, represented by
trustees, the United States was to re
tain title to all streets, without com
pensation: that proprietors were to
receive 25 pounds per acre for the
tracts indicated as public reservations,
and that all the balance of the prop
erty was to he equally divided be
tween the original proprietors and
the United States.
“The Supreme Court says: ‘The
grants were made for the foundation
of the Federal City, and the public
faith was necessarily pledged when
the grants were accepted to found
haul for these trucks as compared
with the haul to Water street, it is
argued, so that, counting the return
movement, each truck would have
four additional miles haul, or about
38,000 truck miles a year.
IF your Labor Day
Outing is to be via
Motor Coach, consult
the advertisements In
The Star’s Motor
Coach Lines classifica
tion. Convenient sched
ules are listed to many
popular sections in va
rious directions.
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such city. The very agreement to
found a city was of itself a most val
uable consideration for these grants.
