Volume 46
Public Law 71–495
Authorizing the establishment of a mining experiment station of the Bureau of Mines at College Park, Maryland.
Approved March 4, 1931
Statutory text
An Act
Authorizing the establishment of a mining experiment station of the Bureau of Mines at College Park, Maryland.
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 directed to enter into a contract or contracts for the erection and completion of a building or buildings on the campus of the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, suitable for use as an experiment station by the Bureau of Mines, at a cost not to exceed $350,000, including plumbing, lighting, heating, and other general-service equipment and necessary road, walks, and ground improvement:
Proviso.
Site to be donated.
Provided, That a site of not less than twenty acres on said campus, acceptable to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Commerce, is donated and conveyed by deed conveying absolute title to the United States Government for said purpose.
Sec. 2.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $350,000 for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
Approved, March 4, 1931.