Chapter 189. Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to accept on behalf of the United States the donation by Sedgwick Post Numbered Ten, Grand Army of the Republic, of its memorial hall property in Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, for Federal building purposes
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CHAP. 189.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to accept on behalf of the United States the donation by Sedgwick Post Numbered Ten, Grand Army of the Republic, of its memorial hall property in Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, for Federal building purposes. May 18, 1920. [[H. R. 9944](/us/bill/66/hr/9944).] [[Public, No. 209](/us/pl/66/209).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of theBedford, Iowa.Acceptance from Sedgwick Post, Grand Army, of building at, authorized Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to accept on behalf of the United States the donation by Sedgwick Post Numbered Ten, Grand Army of the Republic, of its memorial hall property in Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, for Federal building purposes; being the east twenty-nine feet of lot eight, block eleven, original town of Bedford, at the southwest corner of Main and Water Streets, together with the two-story and basement building, twenty-nine by eighty-one feet, outside measurement, now situated thereon; that saidUse for public building purposes. property shall be used and operated as are other public buildings, and that the annual appropriations for the general maintenance of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department shall be construed to be available for use in connection with said property as for other buildings under said department.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to permit said postOccupancy permitted and the Sedgwick Post Women’s Relief Corps Numbered Eighty-two, to continue to occupy the second floor of said building until such time as said post dissolves; such occupancy to be without charge for rent, water, heat, or light, which are to be included in such free use. And that a suitable bronze tablet commemorative of this gift shallCommemorative tablet. be furnished and placed on the exterior bf said building at the expense of the United States.
Approved, May 18, 1920.