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Volume 44

Public Law 69–127

Authorizing the sale of certain abandoned tracts of land and buildings.

Approved April 13, 1926

Statutory text

An Act

Authorizing the sale of certain abandoned tracts of land and buildings.

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, in his discretion, to sell or transfer to other branches of the Government service subject to provisions of existing law governing sales of public real property, as a whole or in parcels, at such times, in such manner, and upon such terms as he may deem to the best interests of the United States,

Tracts, etc., designated.

each of the following abandoned tracts of land and buildings: Various lots at Sitka, Alaska, taken over from the Russian Government; old customhouse, Wrangell, Alaska; abandoned boarding stations for the Customs Service at Pass a L’Outre, Southwest Pass, and The Jump, Louisiana; and old customhouse lot, Astoria, Oregon; to convey such property to the purchasers thereof by the usual quitclaim deeds; and to deposit, the proceeds of such sales in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.

Approved, April 13, 1926.

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