Chapter 500. To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into a contract to purchase, upon completion, a suitable building for customs and other governmental purposes in the city of New York
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CHAP. 500.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into a contract to purchase, upon completion, a suitable building for customs and other governmental purposes in the city of New York.March 4, 1927.[[S. 5339](/us/bill/69/s/5339).][[Public, No. 794](/us/pl/69/794).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,New York, N. Y.Purchase authorized of building for customs service, etc., in. That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into a contract, on behalf of the United States, to purchase, upon completion, a building to be erected (in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and containing not less than nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand square feet) upon the plot ofLocation. ground known as block 581, bounded by Varick, King, Hudson, and West Houston Streets, as shown on the land map of the Borough of Manhattan, city of New York, together with such plot of ground.
The total cost to the United States of such building and plot of groundPrice, etc. shall not exceed $8,000,000. Such building shall be for the use of the United States appraiser of merchandise, United States Customs Court, and other governmental officers in the city of New York; and the Secretary of the Treasury may, if he deems it to theDisposal of building now occupied. best interests of the Government, lease or sell, upon such terms and conditions as he deems advisable, the premises located at 641 Washington Street, New York City, now occupied by customs officers and other officers of the United States.
Sec. 2. In the event that the Secretary of the Treasury is unableAcquiring site by condemnation if contract for purchase not made. to enter into such contract, he is authorized to acquire such plot by condemnation, as a site for a building for such purposes. Approved, March 4, 1927.