Chapter 60. Providing for the reappraisement and sale of certain lands in the town site of Port Angeles, Washington, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 60.— An Act Providing for the reappraisement and sale of certain lands in the town site of Port Angeles, Washington, and for other purposes.March 16, 1912.[[S. 339](/us/bill/62/s/339).][[Public, No. 104](/us/pl/62/104).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Port Angeles, Wash.Reappraisementand sale of certain townsite lands. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the reappraisement at their actual cash value of blocks numbered thirty-two and fifty-three, and the west four hundred and fifty feet of suburban lot numbered twenty-six in the Government town site of Port Angeles, or any subdivisions thereof, in the State of Washington, and all of said lands, not required for the use of the Government, so reappraised to be subject to sale at not less than the reappraised price, under 75 such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe:*Provisos*.Right of present occupants. *Provided, however*, That any settler who, prior to January first, nineteen hundred and ten, was in actual occupation of any portion or sub-division of such lands in good faith for town-site purposes shall be entitled to a patent for the lands so occupied and to own the buildings and improvements thereon upon payment to the Government of the appraised value of the land, not taking into consideration the value of any buildings and improvements thereon: *And provided further*,Limitation.
That the right of any such actual settler must be exercised within ninety days after the reappraisement herein provided for shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior: *And provided further*,Removal of buildings. That any such settler not exercising the right herein granted shall have the right for a period of thirty days after the expiration of said ninety days to remove his buildings from said premises occupied by him. Approved, March 16, 1912.