Chapter 98. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes.”April 30, 1912.[[H
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CHAP. 98.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes.”April 30, 1912.[[H. R. 1647](/us/bill/62/hr/1647).][[Public, No. 140](/us/pl/62/140).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Houston, Tex.Authority to sell old public building and site repealed.Vol. 34, p. 787.
That the last proviso of section twenty, chapter thirty-nine hundred and sixteen, Thirty-fourth United States Statutes at Large, “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes,” and which proviso reads as follows: “ *Provided further*, That upon the completion of the 105 building herein authorized to be constructed, the Secretary of the Treasury shall proceed by due and proper advertisement, and under such regulations, conditions, and stipulations as he may prescribe, or as Congress may hereafter direct, to sell to the highest bidder the present building and site upon which it is located, in Houston, Texas, now owned by the United States Government and now used and occupied as a post office, courthouse, customhouse, and for other governmental purposes, and deposit the proceeds thereof into the Treasury of the United States, ” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, April 30, 1912.