Chapter 235. authorizing and directing the sale of certain property belonging to the United States, situate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 235.— An Act authorizing and directing the sale of certain property belonging to the United States, situate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.May 21, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pittsburgh, Pa.Certain United States property in, to be sold. That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to sell and convey to the purchaser or purchasers, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all that certain parcel of ground, belonging Description.to the United States, situate in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the northwest corner of Penn avenue and Garrison alley, in the fourth ward of said city, fronting one hundred feet on the west side of Penn avenue and extending northwardly along the west line of Garrison alley, preserving the same width, to low-water line of the Subject to existing easements.Allegheny River, subject, however, to such public easements as exist thereon and thereover.
Sec. 2. Manner and terms of sale, etc. That said sale shall be by public auction after due advertisement, daily, for three weeks in three newspapers of the city of Pittsburgh, and after publication of notice by printed handbills posted for that length of time on said property and in ten of the most conspicuous places in the said city, and shall be of the property as a whole or in parts, for cash, as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may best subserve the interest of the United States and secure the best price for said entire property.
Approved, May 21, 1890.