Chapter 239.
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CHAP. 239.— An act authorizing and directing the sale of certain property belonging to the United States, situate in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.July 23, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pittsburg. Pa. Sale of land authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to sell and convey to the purchaser or purchasers, all the right, title, and interest of the United States of, in, and to all that certain parcel of land situate in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, at the northwest corner of Fifth avenue and Smithfield street, extending one hundred and twenty feet from said corner along Smithfield street towards Virginia alley, and being in depth one hundred and twenty feet towards Wood street; fronting one hundred and twenty feet on Smithfield street, and one hundred and twenty feet on Fifth avenue.
Sec. 2. That said sale shall be by public auction, after due advertisementAuction. daily, for three weeks, in three newspapers of the city of Pittsburg, and after publication of notice by printed hand bills 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 Terms.or in parts, for cash, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury may best subserve the interest of the United States and secure the best price for said entire property: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained*Proviso*.
Time allowed to complete payment. shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury, in making sale as herein provided, from giving to the purchaser of said property an allowance of not to exceed sixty days from the date of bid within which to pay the purchase money, said purchaser, however, to pay ten per centum of the amount of his bid at the time of the acceptance thereof. Approved, July 23, 1892.