Volume 49 · 1375
Public Law 74–454
To authorize the transfer of the customhouse at Salem, Massachusetts, from the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department to the Department of the Interior.
Approved May 26, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the transfer of the customhouse at Salem, Massachusetts, from the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department to the Department of the Interior.
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 transfer to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior the customhouse at Salem, Massachusetts, and such adjoining property, both real and personal, as may now be under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 2.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,
Preservation of, as an historic site.
authorized to acquire the above property for the purpose of establishing same as an historic site or otherwise preserving the buildings and grounds in connection therewith: Provided, That the Secretary
Proviso.
Space for Customs Bureau.
of the Treasury may retain sufficient space in the building for the necessary operation of the Bureau of Customs.
Approved, May 26, 1936.