Chapter 341. To authorize the sale of lands in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 341.— An Act To authorize the sale of lands in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. February 26, 1925.[[H. R. 2720](/us/bill/68/hr/2720).][[Public, No. 480](/us/pl/68/480).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the SecretaryPittsburgh. Pa.Sale of tract of Government land in. of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell after due advertisement at competitive sale, with the right reserved to reject any and all bids, at not less than its appraised value as fixed by three disinterested landowners to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and at a sum not less than its original cost to the United States, and convey by his deed as such Secretary that certain parcel of land belonging to the United States situate in the fourteenth ward of the city of Pittsburgh, county of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, and particularly described as follows:
Description. Beginning at a stone monument on the line of land of the United States and land of the National Tube Company, being south two degrees twenty-three minutes fifteen seconds east, a distance of ninety-one feet from Forbes Street and the northeast corner of the said property of the United States; thence south two degrees twenty-three minutes fifteen seconds east fifty-eight and eighty-nine one-hundredths feet to a stone monument, being a corner common to land of the United States and the tract now being described; thence north eighty-seven degrees thirty-six minutes forty-five seconds east sixty-six and seventy-one one-hundredths feet to a point on the line of land of the United States and land of the National Tube986 Company; thence north fifty degrees forty-one minutes fifteen seconds west seventy feet to a concrete monument, being a corner common to the land of the National Tube Company and the tract as now being described; thence north fifty-two degrees twenty-six minutes fifteen seconds west twenty and eighty one-hundredths feet to a stone monument, being the point of beginning, containing one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six and four one-hundredths square feet: *Provided*, That such sale shall be made on such terms and conditions as will protect the uses of the Government to property adjacent thereto as to light and other easements.
Approved, February 26, 1925.