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Volume 49 · 1203

Public Law 74–209

To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of certain public buildings, and for other purposes”, approved May 25, 1926.

Approved April 11, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of certain public buildings, and for other purposes”, approved May 25, 1926.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of certain public buildings, and for other purposes”, approved May 25, 1926, is amended by adding the following:

“That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, as soon as he advantageously can do so, to sell, alter, remodel, demolish, or otherwise dispose of the old post-office building at Oakland, California, the cost of demolition or other disposition, if any, to be paid fromany unallocated moneys available for public building construction. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized to sell all of the old post-office site situated at Broadway, Seventeenth, and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California, at such time, for such price, and upon such terms and conditions as he may deem to be to the best interests of the United States, and to convey such property to the purchaser thereof by the usual quitclaim deed, the proceeds of said sale to be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.”

Approved, April 11, 1936.

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