Chapter 747. To authorize an exchange of sites for the public buildings of Garland County, Arkansas
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CHAP. 747.— An Act To authorize an exchange of sites for the public buildings of Garland County, Arkansas. March 22, 1904. [[H. R. 1956](/us/bill/58/hr/1956).] [[Public, No. 63](/us/pl/58/63).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Hot Springs, Ark. Grant of lands to Garland County for buildings, repealed. Vol. 19, p. 380. That so much of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as grants to the county of Garland a tract of land not exceeding five acres as a site for the public buildings of said county, under authority144 of which Act a tract of land in the city of Hot Springs, in said county, known and described as block one hundred and fourteen, consisting of three and sixty-two one-hundredths acres, has been selected, and dedicated under said grant, be, and the same is hereby, repealed and said hinds restored to the United States, to be disposed of as other Government lands in said city.
Sec. 2. That there is hereby granted to the said county of Garland,Lands granted in exchange. as a site for the public buildings of said county, the following lots or parcels of land in said county and city, described in the plats and surveys of said city as follows, to wit: Lots numbered one, two, nine, and ten, in block numbered ninety-four: *Provided, however,* That a public*Proviso*.Conditions. building to cost not less than seventy-five thousand dollars be constructed upon the lands herein donated within a period of three years from the date of the passage of this Act, and that before the grant herein made shall take effect the title to block numbered one hundred and fourteen shall be reconveyed to the United States.
Each of theseForfeiture. conditions shall be construed as a condition precedent to the grant herein made to the county of Garland, and a failure on its part to com-ply with either of them shall of itself work a forfeiture of the rights hereby conferred on said county. Approved, March 22, 1904.