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As was common for New Deal-era post offices, three murals – also commissioned by the Federal Government, through the Treasury Relief Art Project – were installed in the post office. [2] [3] [6] [7] Titled Lighthouse, Sailing, and Landscape, these three murals were installed in the lobby and were created by artist Harry S. Lane. [1] [2] [6]
When Congress passed the General Mining Act of 1872, the wording was changed to "or other valuable deposits," giving greater scope to the law. The 1872 law was codified as 30 U.S.C. §§ 22-42 [14] The 1872 act also granted extralateral rights to lode claims, and fixed the maximum size of lode claims as 1500 feet (457m) long and 600 feet (183m ...
Brooklyn Park is located at (39.224857, −76.612655) [4] on the northern edge of Anne Arundel County and borders the city of Baltimore along its southern boundary of The CDP is bordered as well by Interstate 695 (the Baltimore Beltway) to the south, by Maryland Route 648 (Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard) to the west, and by the Patapsco River, which forms the Anne Arundel County/Baltimore ...
Construction of the New Post Office Building was completed in 1934. The Post Office headquarters was a central feature of the redevelopment. The neoclassical building was designed by architects William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich, who took as their inspiration the Place Vendôme in Paris. The central section of the tri-unit building ...
Congress created the Office of Surface Mining with the passage of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, and this agency inherited USBM's surface mining activities. [5] The Department of Energy (DOE), also established in 1977, took over the USBM Coal Productivity Research division. [6]
The Mineral Resources Act 1989 established a centralised Mining Wardens Court as a court of record, with regional offices under the supervision of mining registrars. However, the Land and Resources Tribunal Act 1999 abolished the Mining Wardens Court with effect from 2001 and transferred its jurisdiction to the Land and Resources Tribunal. [3]
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced a bill to designate the post office on Bastrop's Main Street as “Sergeant Major Billy D. Waugh Post Office.”
Early maps called the local post office "College Lawn". [10] The area remained undeveloped and was re-platted in 1889 by John O. Johnson and Samuel Curriden, Washington real estate developers. The original 125-acre (0.51 km 2 ) tract was divided into a grid-street pattern with long, narrow building lots, with a standard lot size of 50 feet (15 ...