Chapter 176. authorizing and directing the sale of the real estate and riparian rights now owned by the United States at Harper’s Ferry, in the State of West Virginia
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CHAP. 176.— An Act authorizing and directing the sale of the real estate and riparian rights now owned by the United States at Harper’s Ferry, in the State of West Virginia.July 4, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sale of real estate and riparian rights of U. S. at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. That the Solicitor of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to make sale of all the real estate and riparian rights now owned by the Government of the United States at Harper’s Ferry, in the State of West Virginia, such sale to be at public auction, without reservation, except as hereinafter provided, to the highest bidder, and after not less than four weeks,-public advertisement of the same, in such newspapers as the Solicitor, with the consent of the Secretary of the *Proviso.*Treasury, may select for such publication : *Provided,* That the property shall not be sold for a less sum than twenty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That said real estate and riparian rights shall be sold eitherConditions and terms of sale. as an entirety or in such parcels and divisions as in the judgment of the said Solicitor shall be most promotive of the interests of the United States, and upon such terms as to cash payment and credits as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, but so that at least one third of the purchase-money shall be paid in cash, and the credit portion shall bear interest tthe rate of six per centum per annum.
Sec. 3. That upon the compliance of any purchaser or purchasers of the whole of any parcel purchasedConveyance of title. as aforesaid with the terms of sale, such purchaser or purchasers shall be let into possession of the premises so purchased; and upon full payment of the purchase-money and interest (if any be due), the Solicitor of the Treasury,for and in behalf of the United States, shall make, seal, and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers good and sufficient deed or deeds, conveying all the right, title, interest, and estate of the United States in said property or parcel thereof, as the case may be, in fee simple.
Sec. 4. That this act shall be in force from its passage. Approved, July 4, 1884.