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Volume 71

Public Law 85–84

To amend section 6 of the Act approved July 3, 1800 (26 Stat. 215), relating to the admission into tile Union of the State of Idaho by providing for the use of public lands granted therein for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, furnishings, equipment, or other permanent improvements of public buildings at the capital.

Approved July 3, 1957

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 6 of the Act approved July 3, 1800 (26 Stat. 215), relating to the admission into tile Union of the State of Idaho by providing for the use of public lands granted therein for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, furnishings, equipment, or other permanent improvements of public buildings at the capital.

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

That section 6 of

Idaho.

Public buildings land grants.

the Act relating to the admission of the State of Idaho into the Union be amended to read as follows: “That fifty sections of the unappropriated public lands within said State, to be selected and located in legal subdivisions as provided in section 4 of the Act, shall be, and

26 Stat. 215.

are hereby, granted to said State for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the capital of said State for legislative, executive, and judicial purposes, including construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, furnishings, equipment, and any other permanent improvement of such buildings and the acquisition of necessary land for such buildings, and the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued for any of the above purposes.”

Sec. 2.

This Act shall take effect as of July 3, 1890.

Effective date.

Approved July 3, 1957.

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