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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · Feb. 24, 1879 · Chapter 96

Chapter 96.

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CHAP. 96.— An act donating to the board of education of school district number one, Arapahoe County, Colorado, block numbered one hundred and forty-three, in the east division of the city of Denver, Colorado, for common-school purposes. Feb. 24, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled.*, That block numbered one hundredDenver, Col.Donation of land for school in. and forty-three, in the east division of the city of Denver, in the county of Arapahoe anti State of Colorado, be, and the same is hereby, donated and set apart to the board of education of school district number one, Arapahoe County, in the State of Colorado, upon the following conditions, namely:
The said board of education shall cause to be erected and maintained thereon a public school building or buildings, to be used solely for educational purposes, and attendance at which, with full and equal rights and privileges, shall be free to all the residents of the city of Denver, in said county, with restrictions only as to the number and age of attendants and the grade of scholarship, under such rules and regulations as may be legally adopted for the control and management of said school or schools; and the above conditions shall be binding forever, under the penalty of the reversion of said block to the United States.
Sec. 2. That the said board of education shall cause to be erectedCost of building. upon said real estate a superstructure for the purpose aforesaid, which shall cost not less than twenty-five thousand dollars; and the donation 318 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, Sess. III, Ch. 96, 97. 1879. of said block provided for in the preceding section shall take effect and be binding only from the time the said board shall in good faith commence the erection of said superstructure. Approved, February 24, 1879.
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