Chapter 26. Increasing the limit of cost for the acquisition of a public building site at Yonkers, New York
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CHAP. 26.— An Act Increasing the limit of cost for the acquisition of a public building site at Yonkers, New York. February 25, 1919. [[H. R. 8828](/us/bill/65/hr/8828).] [[Public, No. 262](/us/pl/65/262).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the existing legislationYonkers, N. Y. Limit of cost in increased, for public building site. authorizing the acquisition of a public building site at Yonkers, New York, at a limit of cost of $250,000, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to fix a limit of cost of $338,500 for the said site, andAppropriations available.
Vol. 37, p. 867. Vol. 38, pp. 615, 829. the appropriations heretofore made under separate limits of cost are hereby made available for the acquisition of said site within the limit of cost hereby prescribed. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized,Sale of portion to city, for widening streets. in his discretion, when said site shall have been acquired, to sell to the city of Yonkers, New York, for such price, at such time and upon such terms as he may deem for the best interests of the United States, such portions of said site fronting on Buena Vista Avenue and Market Place as he may deem it advisable to spare for the purpose of widening the abutting streets, to convey said land to the city by the usual 1156quitclaim deed, and to deposit the proceeds of said sale in the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt.
Approved, February 25, 1919.