Chapter CCXI. *to provide for the Disposition of that Portion of the military Reservation at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, which lies east of the Mississippi River*
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CHAP. CCXI.— An Act *to provide for the Disposition of that Portion of the military Reservation at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, which lies east of the Mississippi River*. Feb. 28, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Portion of military reservation That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to sell at public auction the482FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 213. 1873. of Fort Ripley to be sold at public auction.Appraisement.whole or so much of the military reservation at Fort Ripley, in the State of Minnesota, as may no longer be required for military purposes.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty Of the Secretary of War to appoint a board of three army officers, which board shall appraise, each piece or parcel of land with the buildings thereon, before the same is offered for sale, and no sale shall be made at a price less than two-thirds of the appraised value. Sec. 3. Notice of sale to be published.And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to cause notice of said sale to be published in one of the principal newspapers in the city of Washington, in two of the principal newspapers in the State of Minnesota, and in one paper, if any there be, in the county where said lands to be sold are situated, or any county adjoining thereto, for the space of sixty days prior to sale.
Approved, February 28, 1873.