Chapter 619. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell a certain lot in the District of Columbia at public auction
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CHAP. 619.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell a certain lot in the District of Columbia at public auction. February 28, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Secretary of Interior authorized to sell lot 10, square 1041. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to forthwith offer at public auction, upon such terms as are usual in sales of real estate made by trustees appointed by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, all the right, title, interest, and estate of the United States in and to a certain lot of land in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, known upon the plat or plan of said city as lot numbered ten. in square numbered one thousand and forty-one.
And upon the full compliance of the purchaser or purchasers with the terms of said sale, to execute and deliver to such purchaser or purchasers a deed of said lot, conveying the aforesaid interest of the United States therein. And out of the proceeds of such sale the Secretary of theDisposition of proceeds of sale.Payment to J. H. Gause, etc. Interior shall pay, or caused to be paid, to John H. Gause and Charles E. Gause such sum or sums as they, or either of them, have expended, laid out, and become liable for in the purchase of such title to the aforesaid lot as they have, including such amounts as they have paid to the District of Columbia for general and special taxes levied upon said lot, the cost of examinations of its title and the cost of attempting to perfect same.
And the Secretary of the Interior shall, out of the proceeds of sale, also pay, or cause to be paid, to Charles G. Stott, such sum or sums as he or his predecessors in title have expended, laid out, and become liable for in the purchase of such title to the aforesaid lot as he acquired, including such amounts as he or his predecessors in the title that he has have paid to the District of Columbia for general and special taxes levied upon said lot, the cost of examinations of such title, and the cost of attempting to perfect same,817 if any.
The balance of said proceeds of sale shall be covered into the Treasury by the Secretary of the Interior, to the credit of the United States. Approved, February 28, 1901.