Chapter 45.
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CHAP. 45.— An act to release the American Baptist Home Mission Society from the conditions of the sale of the Marine hospital building and grounds at Natchez Mississippi.May 13, 1884. Whereas, the Marine hospital building and grounds at Natchez, MississippiPreamble. were sold under and in pursuance of Jaw, at public auction, on the fifteenth of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to the American Baptist Home Mission Society for the sum of five thousand dollars it being the highest bidder at said sale: and Whereas, pursuant to act of Congress approved August fifteenth,19 Stat., 202. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, said sale was authorized and confirmed and by deed dated January fourth eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, said building and grounds were conveyed by the Secretary of the Treasury to said society, for and in consideration of the sum of five thousand dollars, upon the express condition and covenant nevertheless in said deed contained that the building on said grounds should be reconstructed and devoted, under responsible auspices, to purposes of instruction for the benefit, of the colored people of the United States in accordance with said act authorizing and confirming said conveyance; and Whereas the said society has faithfully fulfilled the conditions and covenants in said deed contained, and now desires to sell said buildings and grounds to the city of Natchez tor the purposes of a city hospital, and to devote the proceeds of such sale to the construction of a school-building at Jackson, Mississippi, to be used for the purposes of education for the, benefit of the colored people Therefore. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,American Baptist Homo Society released from conditions of sale of Marine hospital building at Natchez, Miss. *Proviso*.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to quit claim and release the said Marine-hospital building and grounds to the said American Baptist Home Mission Society, free and clear of the aforesaid conditions and covenants in said died contained. *Provided*, That by proper covenant, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, such society secures the appropriation of the proceeds of such sale to the construction of a school building at Jackson, Mississippi, to be used for the purposes of education for the benefit of the colored people.
Approved, May 13, 1884.