Chapter 353. Authorizing the Secretary of War to sell a portion of the Carlisle Barracks Reservation
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CHAP. 353.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to sell a portion of the Carlisle Barracks Reservation. June 7, 1924.[[H. R. 7731](/us/bill/68/hr/7731).][[Public, No. 275](/us/68/pl/275).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the transferCarlisle Barracks, Pa.Portion of, transterred from the Interior to War Department. from the Department of the Interior to the War Department of the control and jurisdiction over the parcels known as farm numbered 1, farm numbered 2, and the Sanno tract, now constituting a part of the Government reservation at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, is ratified and confirmed. 658 Sec. 2.
Sale of part of transferred portion authorized. The Secretary of War is authorized to sell at public sale, upon terms and conditions deemed advisable by him, the land lying north of the Carlisle-Harrisburg Highway, being part of the tract of land known as farm numbered 2, constituting a part of the Carlisle Barracks Reservation, the land to be sold as a whole or in parcels as the Secretary of War may determine, and to execute and deliver in the name of the United States and in its behalf any and all deeds or other instruments necessary to effect such sale.
Sec. 3. Acquisition of tracts for Medical Field Service School. The Secretary of War is authorized to acquire by negotiation or appropriate condemnation proceedings additional land needed at the post of Carlisle Barracks for the use of the Medical Field Description.Service School, to wit: The so-called Alexander tract, being a triangular parcel of ground lying to the southeastward of the original reservation and between said original reservation, the said farm numbered 1, and the Cumberland Valley Railway, comprising nineteen and six-tenths acres, more or less; and the so-called Henderson tract, being an irregular parcel of ground lying northwestward of the original reservation and the said farm numbered 1, and southeast-ward of the Carlisle-Harrisburg Highway, comprising thirty-four *Proviso*.Use of proceeds of sale for purchase.acres, more or less: *Provided*, That the proceeds realized from the sale authorized by section 2 of this Act of the part of farm numbered 2 therein described may be applied toward the acquisition of the said Alexander and Henderson tracts: *And provided further*, Residue to be covered into the Treasury.That any residue of the proceeds of the said sale not required to pay for the acquisition of the said tracts under the provisions of this Act shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
Approved, June 7, 1924.