Chapter 51. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General to deliver to the governor of the State of New Mexico, for the use of the State, certain furniture and furnishings, law books, and typewriters
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CHAP. 51.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General to deliver to the governor of the State of New Mexico, for the use of the State, certain furniture and furnishings, law books, and typewriters.March 4, 1912.[[H. R. 18794](/us/bill/62/hr/18791).][[Public, No. 96](/us/pl/62/96).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,New Mexico.Furniture, etc., purchased under enabling Act, to be delivered to State.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver to the governor of the State or New Mexico, for and in behalf of said State, all the furniture and furnishings now the property of the United States and at the present in the capitol building at Santa Fe, in the State of New Mexico, and which have been purchased from time to Vol. 36, p. 568.time under the authority of an Act (II. R. 18166) entitled “An Act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and ten.
Sec. 2. Territorial furniture, etc., at capitol, Santa Fe, to be delivered to State.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver to the governor of the State of New Mexico, for and in behalf of said State, all of the furniture and furnishings in the capitol building at Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, and now the property of the United States, and which have been purchased under the authority of the several congressional Acts which have had for their purpose the direction and control of the affairs of the Territory of New Mexico.
Sec. 3. Furniture, etc., of Territorial courts to be delivered to State.That the Attorney General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, in so far as the property hereinafter described is, in his judgment, not needed for the present use of United States courts and judicial officers within the State of New Mexico, to deliver to the governor of the State of New Mexico, for and in behalf of said State, all law books, typewriters, typewriter desks, letter presses, and other furniture and furnishings now the property of the United States, and, on January sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, in possession of the judges and clerks of court in the several judicial districts of the then Territory of New Mexico.
Approved, March 4, 1912.