[H. R. 7899] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate and to enter into an agreement regarding the south boundary of the post-office site at Plattsburg, New York. 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 is hereby authorized and empowered to negotiate with the owners of the property south of and adjoining the Federal building site at Plattsburg, New York, and to enter into such agreement or agreements with the owners as in his discretion may be deemed necessary definitely to establish the south boundary line of said Federal building site. Approved, March 16, 1932. (38) [H. R. 6739] AN ACT To amend the authorization contained in the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1929, for the acquisition of site and construction of building in Jackson, Mississippi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authorization contained in the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1929, for the acquisition of site and construction of a building in Jackson, Mississippi, under an estimated total cost of $825,000, be, and the same is hereby, amended to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into contracts for the demolition of the present building in Jackson, Mississippi, and for the construction of a new post office, courthouse, and so forth, building on the present site as enlarged by the land acquired under the authorization in said Act of March 4, 1929, and the unexpended balance of the amounts appropriated under the authority of such Act is hereby made available for the purposes herein. Approved, March 19, 1932. (39) [H. R. 8779] AN ACT Granting certain lands to the board of commissioners of the Orleans levee district in the city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, for levee and street purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingdescribed land, to wit: A strip of land two hundred and ten and two one-hundredths feet in length and thirty feet in depth, fronting on North Peters Street, between Barracks Street and Esplanade Avenue, being a part of the Old Mint Site, transferred to the control and custody of the Department of Justice by the Secretary of the Treasury on May 15, 1931, and shown on a plan made by the chief engineer of the Board of Levee Commissioners, dated January 2, 1932, be, and the same is hereby, granted to the board of commissioners of the Orleans levee district, of New Orleans, Louisiana, for levee and street purposes; and the Attorney General is, upon the passage of this Act, authorized to execute a proper quit-claim deed upon due proof of the organization and legal existence of the board of commissioners of the Orleans levee district. SEC. 2. That the said lands are granted solely for levee and street purposes, and shall revert to and become the property of the United States of America, if used for any purpose whatsoever other than or foreign to those for which this donation is made. SEC. 3. The transfer of this property and its use for the purposes mentioned shall be without expense to the United States of America. Approved, April 22, 1932. [S. 3086] AN ACT Relating to the construction of a Federal building at Ponca City, Oklahoma. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the construction of the Federal building at Ponca City, Oklahoma, authorized by an Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations (Public, Numbered 519, Seventy-first Congress), the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to provide facilities for the holding of terms of the District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, provided that the total cost of said building, including the site, shall not exceed the sum of $250,000 heretofore appropriated and now available for such construction. Approved, April 25, 1932. (41) [H. R. 11337] AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange the Federal building site in Dover, New Jersey, for another site. 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, authorized and empowered to exchange by the usual quit-claim deed, without expense to the United States (when title becomes vested in the Government) the Federal building site located on the northwest corner of Dickerson and Warren Streets at Dover, New Jersey, now under contract to be purchased by the United States, for a site offered by the city of Dover, located on Sussex Street and Morris Street extended: Provided, That the exchange herein set forth shall be subject to such conditions as to the improvements on the Sussex Street site to be made by the city of Dover as may be required by the Secretary of the Treasury, and free rental to the Government of the present postoffice quarters located on the Dickerson Street site until the new post-office building is completed and occupied. These conditions to be assented to by the city of Dover in order to equalize the price of the Sussex Street site. In the event that the exchange as herein set forth is consummated it is further provided that the unexpended balance of the appropriation authorized in the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1931, for a site and building at Dover, New Jersey, is hereby made available for the construction of the new building on said Sussex Street site. Approved, June 14, 1932. |