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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · February 27, 1917 · Chapter 140

Chapter 140.

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CHAP. 140.— AN ACT To amend the public-building Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, authorizing the acquisition of a suitable site for a public building at Pittston, Pennsylvania. February 27, 1917.[[H. R. 18894](/us/bill/64/hr/18894).][[Public, No. 365](/us/pl/64/365).] *Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the provision of the Pittston, Pa. Site for public building. Vol. 37, p. 876, amended.public-building Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (thirty-seventh Statutes, page eight hundred and seventy-six), which authorizes the acquisition of a suitable site, and so forth, at Pittston, Pennsylvania, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to add the following proviso, namely:
"*“Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion Title reserving minerals may be accepted.accept a title which reserves or excepts all ores or minerals on the lands with the right of mining the same.”" Approved, February 27, 1917.
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