Chapter 35. To authorize the sale of school property in the city of Denver, Colorado, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 35.— An Act To authorize the sale of school property in the city of Denver, Colorado, and for other purposes. February 8, 1917.[[H. R. 217](/us/bill/64/hr/217).][[Public, No. 306](/us/pl/64/306).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Denver, Colo. That the board of education of school district numbered one, in the city and county of Denver, 901State of Colorado, be, and is hereby, authorized to sell and dispose ofMay sell school property.Vol. 20, p. 317. and to execute a deed of conveyance for block numbered one hundred and forty-three in the east division of the city of Denver, State of Colorado, donated and set apart for educational purposes by the Act of Congress approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (Twentieth Statutes at Large, pages three hundred and seventeen and three hundred and eighteen), together with the improvements thereon, so much of said Act of Congress as prohibited alienation or other use of the property, upon penalty of reversion to the United States, being hereby repealed: *Provided,* That all proceeds*Provisos*.Proceeds for school purposes. of sale or disposition of said block and the improvements thereon, less reasonable brokerage, if any, shall be set apart, appropriated, and expended by said board of education for the purchase of other land in said school district for school purposes, and the erection of school buildings thereupon: *And provided further,* That before suchAppraisement, etc. sale the said block shall be appraised by a board composed of three members to be appointed by the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado, upon petition therefor by the State superintendent of public instruction, which board shall duly report such appraisement, after the making thereof, to said court and there recorded; and no sale shall be made of said block and the improvements thereon for a sum less than the amount of such appraisement: *And provided further,* That such sale when made shall be approvedApproval before conveyance. by the said State superintendent of public instruction before any conveyance thereof shall be made and delivered.
Approved, February 8, 1917.