Chapter CCCXLV. to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Disposition of useless military Reservations,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one
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CHAP. CCCXLV.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Disposition of useless military Reservations,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.June 8, 1872.1871, ch. 68.Vol. xvi. p. 431. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, andThe United States military reservation at Fort Walla-Walla, Washington Territory, to be sold; he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer to the custody and control of the Secretary of the Interior, for disposition for cash, according to the336FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 345–347. 1872. existing laws of the United States relating to the public lands, after appraisement, to the highest bidder, and at not less than the appraised value, nor at less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the United States militarymode of sale;may be subdivided into, &c.; reservation at Fort Walla-Walla, in the Territory of Washington: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Interior shall, whenever in his opinion the public interests may require it, cause the foregoing reservation, or part or parts thereof, to be subdivided into tracts of less than forty acres each, or into town-lots, with the necessary street or streets to make the same accessible: *And provided further,* That each subdivision, together with the buildings,each subdivision to be sold separately at public auction. building materials, or other property which may be thereon, shall be appraised and offered separately at public outcry, to the highest bidder, as hereinbefore provided, but not in subdivisions of more than forty acres each, after which any unsold land or lot shall be subject to sale at privateUnsold lots to be subject to sale at private entry, &c. entry for the appraised value at the proper land-office.
Approved, June 8, 1872.