D.C. Code § 38-2302

The title to all that parcel of land lying between the west boundary of West Virginia Avenue, as said avenue was laid on July 1, 1916, with a width of 66 feet, and the east boundary of the grounds of Gallaudet University, said parcel of land fronting on Florida Avenue about ten and one-half feet and containing one-tenth of an acre, more or less, and being formerly part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad right-of-way, shall be vested in Gallaudet University, United States of America, trustee, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue a patent for the said parcel of land to the said Gallaudet College.