Chapter 661. for the removal of the United States courthouse building at Baltimore, Maryland
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CHAP. 661.— An Act for the removal of the United States courthouse building at Baltimore, Maryland.July 9, 1890. Whereas, By reason of the completion of the new public buildingPreamble. at the city of Baltimore, in which ample accommodations are provided for the United States courts and the offices of the clerks of said courts and the United States district attorney and marshal, the present United States courthouse building is of no further use, and will shortly be entirely unoccupied; and Whereas, The said last named building is not only about to be unnecessary for the dispatch of Federal business, but a positive obstruction to the proper conduct of business at the building just completed;
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Baltimore, Md.United States courthouse building to be sold and removed., That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby, authorized, as soon as he shall deem practicable, and after due notice by advertisement, to sell the said building by public auction, the same to be removed by the purchaser thereof, subject to such provisions as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and the proceeds of such sale shall beProceeds of sale. covered into the Treasury of the United States.
Sec. 2. That this act take effect from the date of its passage. Approved, July 9, 1890.