§215. Supervision of Botanical Garden

The supervision of the Capitol police shall extend over the Botanical Garden.

(R.S. §1826.)

Codification

R.S. §1826 derived from Res. July 15, 1870, No. 131, 16 Stat. 391.

Relocation of Poplar Point Greenhouse and Nursery of United States Botanic Garden and District of Columbia Lanham Tree Nursery to New Site

Pub. L. 98–340, July 3, 1984, 98 Stat. 308 , directed the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library and the District of Columbia government to enter into an agreement under which the Architect and the District would determine a site of not less than twenty-five contiguous acres under the jurisdiction of the District upon which the facilities existing on July 3, 1984, being operated and maintained by the United States Botanic Garden at the Poplar Point Greenhouse and Nursery, would be relocated. The agreement would also provide that the District convey without consideration to the Architect on behalf of the United States all right, title, and interest of the District in the replacement site and that the District convey without consideration to the Secretary of the Interior on behalf of the United States all right, title, and interest of the District in the real property known as the Lanham Tree Nursery. Within sixty days of July 3, 1984, the Botanic Garden Greenhouse and Nursery at Poplar Point would come within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and within sixty days after the Secretary assumed jurisdiction for such real property the Secretary would enter into an agreement with the District and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority under which the District and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority would be authorized to construct, maintain, and operate certain facilities designed to improve transportation in the Washington metropolitan area.