Public Law 40–CXLIV

That so much of the third section of the act providing for the sale of the arsenal grounds at Saint Louis and Liberty, Missouri, and for other purposes, approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, as grants to the city of Saint Louis the westernmost six acres of the tract of ground occupied by the Saint Louis arsenal, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as it designates the part of said tract so granted; and in lieu of said western-most six acres there shall be granted to said city, for the purposes and upon the conditions expressed in said act, other six acres of said tract, to be designated by the Secretary of War; and that the period limited

Time limited for erection of monument, when to commence to run.

in said act for the erection of the monument therein contemplated to be erected shall be considered as commencing at the time when the Secretary of War shall have designated the six acres of said tract to be granted to said city: Provided, however, That no part of the said six acres shall

Selection not to be made east of, &c.

be selected east of the western line of the ground occupied by the Saint Louis and Iron Mountain railroad.