Chapter 32. authorizing and directing the purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the public use, of the property known as the Freedman’s Bank, and the real estate and parcels of ground adjacent thereto, belonging to the Freedman’s Savings andTrust Company, and located on Pennsylvania avenue, between Fif
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CHAP. 32.— An Act authorizing and directing the purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the public use, of the property known as the Freedman’s Bank, and the real estate and parcels of ground adjacent thereto, belonging to the Freedman’s Savings andTrust Company, and located on Pennsylvania avenue, between Fifteenth and Fifteenth-and-a-half streets, Washington, District of Columbia.Mar. 11, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Purchase by Secretary of the Treasury of Freedman’s Bank, etc.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and ho hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase, for the use of the United States, all those lots and parcels of ground, with the improvements thereon, situated in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, on Pennsylvania avenue, between Fifteenth and Fifteenth-and-a half streets, and belonging to the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, known and described in the original deeds of conveyance to the said Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company as the west half ofDescription of property. lot numbered three, all of lots numbered four, five, six, and seven, and the south half of lot numbered eight, in square numbered two hundred and twenty-one, as laid out and recorded in the original plat or plan of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, at a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid and by him placed to the credit of the commissioners of the said Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, or their successors, on the books of the Treasurer of the United States, for distribution among its creditors, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon proofAppropriation. of a perfect title and the execution to the United States of a deed good and sufficient in law, and in form approved by the Attorney-General;Title. and said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for that purpose.
Approved, March 11, 1882.