Chapter 654. providing for the sale of navy-yard and United States naval hospital lands in the city of Brooklyn, New York
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CHAP. 654.— An Act providing for the sale of navy-yard and United States naval hospital lands in the city of Brooklyn, New York.July 2, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Brooklyn. N.Y.Sale of navy yard and naval hospital lands in. That the Secretary of the Navy shall, as speedily as convenient, cause surveys and true maps to be made of the following plats of ground belonging to theSurveys, etc.
United States, and included in the present limits of the navy-yard at Brooklyn, New York, and of the United States naval hospital at the same place: All that plat of land included in the present limits of said navy-yard,Description.Navy-yard land. lying on the easterly side of Washington avenue, between said Washington avenue and the United States naval hospital land; Flushing avenue and the Kent avenue basin; and in addition thereto 214FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 654, 655. 1890.
Naval hospital land.so much of the said United States naval hospital land as lies northerly and westerly of the following bounds, namely, a line extending from the hospital boundary wall on Kent avenue Basin parallel with that portion of Flushing avenue west of Ryerson street, and distant therefrom one thousand and sixty feet, to its intersection with the fence on the westerly borders of said land; also a line extending thence in a southerly direction along said fence and a brick wall to the intersection of the latter with Flushing avenue.
Sec. 2. Authority to sell, etc. That the Secretary of the Navy be. and is hereby, authorized to sell and convey the property hereinbefore described, or To city of Brooklyn.so much thereof as may be required, to the city of Brooklyn, for the Purposes.Price.purposes of a. market and the business thereto appertaining. Sec. 3. That the price at which the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to sell said land, or any part thereof, to the city of Brooklyn for the purposes above mentioned, shall be fixed and determined Board of appraisers.by a board of three appraisers, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy Sec. 4.
Report on valuation. That within ninety days from their appointment the said appraisers, or a majority thereof, shall report in writing to the Secretary of the Navy and the Mayor of Brooklyn the value agreed upon by them of the plats of land heretofore described, or so much thereof as may be required by the city of Brooklyn for market Limitation on purchase time.purposes and the business thereto appertaining; anti that if within one year from the filing of such report the mayor of the city of Brooklyn shall notify the Secretary of the Navy that the city of Brooklyn will purchase said property, or so much thereof as may be required for market purposes and the business thereto appertaining, the Execution of deed.Secretary of the Navy shall, upon receipt of the purchase-money, execute and deliver to the city of Brooklyn a full and sufficient deed of *Proviso*.Legislative action.such property: *Provided, however*, That should legislative action by the State of New York be required to enable the city of Brooklyn to complete the purchase, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby Extension of time-limit.authorized and directed to extend the time for the execution of the deed beyond the year fixed upon as the limit by this act.
Sec. 5. Disposition of net purchase money. That the Secretary of the Navy, after deducting the expenses of survey and appraisal, shall pay into the Treasury of the United States for the fund for naval hospitals the net amount Of naval hospital lauds.received from the sale of any portion of the United States naval hospital lands; and that the Secretary of the Navy, after deducting the expenses of survey and appraisal, shall pay into the Treasury of the Of other lands.United States the net proceeds of the sale of all the remaining portions of the above-mentioned property. the same to remain there subject to the draft of the Secretary of the Navy for the purpose of Improvements, etc.erecting a suitable wall on the easterly side of the navy-yard, along the westerly boundary line of said navy-yard, or for the purchase of additional land on the westerly side of said navy-yard, or for improvements in said navy-yard.
Approved, July 2, 1890.