James Madison Papers

Presidential Proclamation, 1 January 1816 (Abstract)

Presidential Proclamation, 1 January 1816 (Abstract)

§ Presidential Proclamation. 1 January 1816. Revises building terms and conditions for the city of Washington. Suspends the first and third articles of the 17 Oct. 1791 building regulations until 1 Jan. 1817.1 Adds an exception that “no wooden house covering more than three hundred and twenty square feet, or higher than twelve feet from the sill to the eve [sic] shall be erected, nor shall any such house be placed within twenty-four feet of a brick or stone house.”

Printed copy (Daily National Intelligencer, 14 May 1816).

1See JM’s Presidential Proclamations of 1 Jan. 1810, 1 Jan. 1813, and 2 Jan. 1815, PJM-PS, description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (7 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984–). description ends 2:157 and n. 1, 5:545, 8:484).

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