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Volume 71

Public Law 85–97

To amend section G of the Act approved July 10, 1800 (20 Stat. 222), relating to the admission into the Union of the State of Wyoming by providing for the use of public lands granted to said State for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, furnishing, equipment, or other permanent improvement of public buildings at the capital of said State.

Approved July 11, 1957

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section G of the Act approved July 10, 1800 (20 Stat. 222), relating to the admission into the Union of the State of Wyoming by providing for the use of public lands granted to said State for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, furnishing, equipment, or other permanent improvement of public buildings at the capital of said State.

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

That section 6 of the Act of July 10, 1890 (26 Stat. 222, 223), providing for the admission into the Union of the State of Wyoming, is amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 6.

That fifty sections of the unappropriated public lands within said State, to be selected and located in legal subdivisions

26 Stat. 222.

as provided in section 4 of this Act, shall be, and are hereby, granted to said State for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the capital of said State, including construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, furnishing, 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 10, 1890

Effective date.

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Approved July 11, 1957.

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