[S. 2780]

AN ACT

To repeal the limitation on the sale price of the Federal building at Main and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Texas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso in the fifteenth paragraph under the caption "Projects outside the District of Columbia under section 5, Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926", of title 1 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes ", approved March 5, 1928, relating to the minimum price for which the Federal building and site at Main and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Texas, may be sold, is hereby repealed.

Approved, June 25, 1935.

[PUBLIC NO. 179-74TH CONGRESS]

[H. R. 7526]

AN ACT

To amend the Act approved February 20, 1931 (Public, Numbered 703, Seventyfirst Congress), entitled "An Act to provide for special assessments for the paving of roadways and the laying of curbs and gutters."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved February 20, 1931 (Public, Numbered 703, Seventy-first Congress), entitled "An Act to provide for special assessments for the paving of roadways and the laying of curbs and gutters", be amended by adding thereto a new section as follows:

"SEC. 14. (a) The provisions of sections 5, 6, and 7 hereof shall not preclude the levying of assessments hereunder if the improvement for which such prior assessment was levied, or, if the original paving, curbing, or curbing and guttering, laid at the whole cost of the owner, were completed prior to January 1, 1885.

"(b) The provision of section 8 hereof, relating to legal assessments heretofore levied, shall not be applicable where said prior assessments were levied for any improvement completed prior to January 1, 1885."

SEC. 2. The provisions herein contained shall not apply to assessments levied prior to the date of approval of this Act.

Approved, June 28, 1935.

[H. R. 7235]

AN ACT

To amend the Act entitled "An Act to make provision for suitable quarters for certain Government services at El Paso, Texas, and for other purposes."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act to make provision for suitable quarters for certain Government services at El Paso, Texas, and for other purposes ", approved June 19, 1934, is amended to read as follows:

"That when the owners of the tract of land situated in the city and county of El Paso and State of Texas, more fully described as follows, to wit

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Beginning at a point on the east line of South Santa Fe Street, which point is the intersection of the west line of block 21 of the Campbell Addition to the city of El Paso and the southerly line of the present levee now occupied as a right-of-way of the Rio Grande and El Paso Railroad; and which point of intersection is sixty-six and eighty-two one-hundredths feet northerly from the southwest corner of said block 21, the beginning point of this tract; thence southerly along the west line of said block 21, and the east line of South Santa Fe Street at sixty-six and eighty-two one hundredths feet past the southwest corner of said block 21 and at one hundred and thirty-six and eighty-two one-hundredths feet past the northwest corner of block 17 of the Campbell Addition and at one hundred and eighty-eight and eighty-two one-hundredths feet past the southwest corner of this tract; thence easterly at right angles to the center of an alley one hundred and thirty feet; thence northerly and parallel with the east line of South Santa Fe Street one hundred and twentyfour feet more or less to the south line of the above-mentioned levee; thence in a northwesterly direction along the south line of said levee one hundred and thirty-five feet more or less to the place of beginning being part of lots 18, 19, and 20 in block 21 of the Campbell Addition, and that part of Eleventh Street between blocks 21 and 17 having a width of seventy feet by one hundred and thirty feet, and all of lots 11 and 12 in block 17 above referred to and the west half of the alley adjoining the lots herein mentioned. The property herein described has a frontage of one hundred and eighty-eight and eighty-two one-hundredths feet on South Santa Fe Street, a width of one hundred and thirty feet on the south side, has approximately one hundred and twenty-four feet on the east side, and on the north side one hundred and thirty-five feet.”

"(hereafter called the owners'), have agreed to erect upon such premises, or upon an equivalent area which has been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, a building of such design, plan, and specifications as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as suitable for the use of the Bureau of Immigration, the Bureau of

Customs, the United States Public Health Service, and the Bureau of Plant Quarantine; the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to negotiate, and, subject to an appropriation therefor, lease such building and such premises from the owners for a term of twenty-five years after such building is ready for occupancy at a fair annual rental, subject to the limitations of section 322 of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, approved June 30, 1932. Such lease shall contain a provision for a cancellation of the lease in the event that the lots on which the building is to be constructed are determined, judicially or by agreement, to be lands subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of Mexico. In the event that such lands are so determined to be lands subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of Mexico and that as a result of such determination the owners or their assignees lose their title thereto and the lease is canceled, the United States shall pay to the owners or their assignees the fair value of the building at the completion of its construction (but not in excess of the actual cost of construction), less an amount equal to one-third of 1 per centum of such cost or value for each month that the lease was in effect prior to such determination.

SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to pay the installments of rent provided for in such lease."

Approved, July 3, 1935.

81504-51-5

[S. 2830]

AN ACT

To repeal sections 1, 2, and 3 of Public Law Numbered 203, Sixtieth Congress, approved February 3, 1909.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 1, 2, and 3 of Public Law Numbered 203, Sixtieth Congress, approved February 3, 1909, are hereby repealed; and, upon the completion by it of the substitute facilities authorized by section 2 hereof, the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company is authorized, without any further or other authority, to abandon and remove the Seventh Street substation built and maintained by it pursuant to the requirements of said Act of February 3, 1909, and to abandon the ticket agency and baggage accommodations maintained by it pursuant to the requirements of said Act.

SEC. 2. That in lieu of the said substation and facilities maintained at the intersection of the Seventh Street and C Street Southwest, in the city of Washington, the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company is authorized to construct and maintain on the train platform an enclosed waiting room for passengers, with convenient means of ingress and egress leading from and to the street level below.

SEC. 3. That the area in square south of 463 on the map of the city of Washington heretofore used for station purposes shall revert to the District of Columbia upon the completion of these improve. ments: Provided, That the said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company shall construct and maintain thereon, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, adequate walkways to the adjacent streets.

SEC. 4. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act.

Approved, July 25, 1935.

[H. R. 5920]

AN ACT

To authorize the conveyance of certain Government land to the Borough of Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, for street purposes and as a part of the approach to the Stroudsburg viaduct on State Highway Route Numbered 498.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered and authorized to convey, by the usual quitclaim deed, to the Borough of Strouds. burg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, for street purposes and as a part of the approach to the Stroudsburg viaduct on State Highway Route Numbered 498 and no other, that portion of the post-office site in said borough, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning at the southwest corner of the intersection of Seventh and Ann Streets, in the Borough of Stroudsburg, said corner being opposite ståtion 1244 plus 97 and sixteen feet from the center line of the said Seventh Street; thence along the west side of said Seventh Street, south twenty degrees thirty-six minutes east one hundred and twenty-four and forty-four one hundredths feet to a point; thence by land of United States Government, of which this parcel is a part along a curved line to the right having a radius of one hundred and eighty-six and six-tenths feet, a distance of fifty-seven and fifty-four one hundredths feet and subtended by a chord north twenty-nine degrees twenty-six minutes west fifty-seven and thirtyone one hundredths feet to a point on tangent; thence by the same, north twenty degrees thirty-six minutes west, sixty-seven and ninetysix one hundredths feet to a point on the south line of Ann Street; thence along the same, north seventy degrees twenty-four minutes east eight and eight-tenths feet to the beginning, containing twentyone one thousandths acre: Provided, That the land conveyed shall be used for street purposes and as a part of the approach to the Stroudsburg viaduct on State Highway Route Numbered 498 and no other, to be cared for and maintained as are other public streets in said borough; and in the event that the premises shall cease to be so used as herein stated, the right, title, and interest in the land herein authorized to be conveyed shall revert to the United States, and the deed or instrument of conveyance shall recite such limitation and reversiorary right.

Approved, August 5, 1935.

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