Chapter 109. to provide for the sale of certain property owned by the United States in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 109.— An Act to provide for the sale of certain property owned by the United States in the District of Columbia.March 2, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Land of United States in District of Columbia authorized to be sold.Terms of sale. That the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, in charge of public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, be, and is hereby, authorized to sell and convey, by good and sufficient deed, to each of the owners of lot one, square one hundred and eighty-four; lot five, square one hundred and eighty five; lots five, six, and seven, square one hundred and ninety-eight; lot twelve, square one hundred and ninety-nine, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, such portion of the ground immediately adjoining the front of said lots, or either of them, as will make the angles at the four corners of Sixteenth and K streets, northwest, right angles, upon payment into the Treasury of the United States by said owners, or each of them, of an amount for the number of feet in each lot so to be conveyed at the rate the same may be appraised by three disinterested freeholders resident of the city of Washington, to be selected and sworn to said Chief of Engineers impartially to appraise said real estate at the true value thereof in money; and upon said sale the owners of said lots respectively shall pay into the Treasury of the United States, for the erection of school-buildings in the city of Washington, one-third of said purchase- money, and the remainder thereof, with interest, in one year from the date of sale.
No conveyance shall be made until all the purchase-money *Proviso.*is paid: *Provided,* That said Chief of Engineers shall not sell or convey one portion or any part of said real estate unless all the same is sold and conveyed. Approved, March 2, 1881.