Chapter 7.
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CHAP. 7.— An act authorizing the board of commissioners of the Soldier’s Home to sell certain property at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, belonging to the Soldier’s Home. Dec. 23, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Sale of property of Soldiers’ Home at Harrodsburg, Ky. That the board of commissioners of the Soldier’s Home be, and they are hereby, authorized to sell the property belonging to the Soldier’s Home situated at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and known as the Harrodsburg Springs property.
Sec. 2. Time, terms, etc , to be advertised. That said property shall be sold on the premises, and to the highest and best bidder, on a day to be fixed by the board of commissioners, after they shall have advertised the time, terms, and place of sale for thirty days in the Louisville Commercial, the Louisville Courier-Journal, and two other papers published in the vicinity of the property: *Proviso*.*Provided,* That the commissioners shall be, and hereby are, authorized to withdraw said property after it shall have been offered on the day of sale if a satisfactory bid shall not be received, and to readvertise said property for sale as above designated should there be a failure of sale from any cause.
Sec. 3. Title. That the said board of commissioners shall sell said property for cash in hand, and that an immediate payment of five hundred dollars shall be paid by the purchaser at said sale, to be deducted from the cash payment to be made by him on delivery of the deed, from which sum all the expenses of the sale shall be deducted in case said purchaser fails to comply with the full terms of the sale within thirty days from its date, the balance, if any, to be returned to the person making such payment; and when the purchase-money shall have been paid to said board of commissioners they are directed to make to the purchaser a deed of conveyance for said property; and when said deed shall have been made and properly acknowledged the United States shall be divested of the title to said property, and the purchaser shall be invested with the full title to the same.
Approved, December 23, 1882.