Chapter 1316. For the purchase of real estate, for revenue and customs purposes, at Wilmington, North Carolina
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CHAP. 1316.— An Act For the purchase of real estate, for revenue and customs purposes, at Wilmington, North Carolina. June 28, 1902.[[Public, No. 197](/us/pl/57/197).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Wilmington, N. C.Purchase of real estate for revenue, etc., purposes, directed. Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered and directed to cause an examination to be made of the wharf in front of the custom-house, and other property, at the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, known *Post*, p. 1037. as the O.
G. Parsley estate, offered by George D. Parsley and others of said city, namely, the following real estate: Lot five, block one Location. hundred and sixty-four, and all that part of lot six, block one hundred and sixty-four, not now owned by the United States, and the two-story brick fireproof storehouse on said lot six, fronting west thirty-nine feet on Water street, running thence east seventy-seven and five-tenths feet on Ewing’s alley, abutting the United States bonded warehouse on the east and the United States custom-house on the south; the wharf front of said lots fronting on the Cape Fear River one hundred and four feet, and also the easement of said Parsleys in the wharf front of lot four, block one hundred and sixty-four, fronting the Cape Fear River thirty-four feet, and abutting said lot five on the north.
And on inquiry as to their necessity for use for the Revenue-Cutter Service and other customs purposes at that port, and if it shall be found advantageous and necessary for such purposes, to purchase the same at a reasonable price: *Provided*, That it shall not exceed sixteen thousand *Provisos*.Limit of cost. dollars, which amount shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *And provided further*, That the Rights, easements, etc. owners of said property shall accept such sum as may be agreed upon for the same in full of all rights, easements, and so forth, belonging thereto, including any claims and demands, legal or equitable, and all causes of action, legal or equitable, which they may have against the United States growing out of the use by the United States of said wharf or any part thereof, and all claims of every character, whether from tort, trespass, use, and occupation, or otherwise.
Approved, June 28, 1902.