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 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 134. 1881. 467 Sino. 3. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and Sale of property they are hereby, authorized and empowered to sellto the highest bidder °f Dl“'i°'° °f 0** at public auction, the following-named property belonging to the said lumbm District of Columbia in Washingtorn City: Lot three, square three hundred and eighty-two, part of lot three, square four hundred and ninety; and also the following-named property in the city of Georgetown belonging to said District: Fish-wharf on square six ;, part of lots forty-seven, v forty-eight, and forty-nine in square thirty ; and part of lot two hundred and forty-five in square ninety-nine: Provided, That if, in the opinion pm,a,,_ of said Commissioners, the highest bid made at said sale for any or all of said lots is not a full and fair price for the same, the said Commissioners shall have the right to reject such bid or bids and annul said sale or sales ; and that the proceeds of the sale of the said lots situate Proceeds of me in Washington shall be applied to the erection and furnishing of two applied to l>¤i1<1— new police-station houses in Washington ; and the proceeds of the sale Eg Q`";. “°Y" P°(i of the said lots situate in Georgetown, or so much thereof as may be  ,133;;  necessary, shall be applied to the purchase of a lot and the erection and 5, in Georgetbwn. furnishing of a new engine-house for engine company number five of the District of Columbia fire department, at present located in said city of Georgetown. Sec. 4. That the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, in charge _Sa1e or lands in of puplic buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, be, and is mY_ of Wmgllugg hereby, authorized to sell and convey, by good and sufficient deed, to ggiy mP{;°°,;1,;H§d each of the owners of lot one, square one hundred and eighty-four, lot to erection or five, square one hundred andeighty-ive, lots ive, six, and seven, square high—¤<>h<><>1 buildone hundred and ninety-eight; lot twelve, square one hundred and mgninety-nine, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, such portion of the ground immediately adjoining the front of said lots, or either of them, as will make the angles at the four corners of Sixteenth and K streets, northwest, right angles, upon payment into the Treasury of the United States by said owners, or each of them, of an amount for the number of feet in each lot so to be conveyed at the rate the same may be appraised by three disinterested freeholders resident of the city of Washington, to be selected and sworn by said Chief of Engineers impartially to appraise said real estate at the true value thereof in money; and upon said sale, the owners of said lots respectively shall pay into the Treasury of the United States, for the erection of a highschool building in the city of Washington, one-third of said purchase money, and the remainder thereof, with interest, in one year from the date of sale. No conveyance shall be made until all the purchase-money is paid: Provided, That said Chief of Engineers shall not sell or convey Promo. one portion or any part of said real estate unless all the same is sold and conveyed. Sec. 5. That section seven of the act entitled "An act to incorporate $6;. cg the Joint Stock Company of the Young Men’s Christian Association of “ ·# > · Washington/’ approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty- seven, which reads “That the buildings and grounds, the rents and revenues of the same, and the stock issued to erect such buildings shall be forever exempt from taxation," is hereby repealed. _ _ _ Sec. 6. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are au- 0%*10 f°$;;*lgn¤f thorized to sell to the highest bidder at public auction and under the ,,;,3 ° g provisions of section three, of this act, the following, namely, all the right title and interest of the United States in and to, a certain parcel of land in the square south of square one hundred and eightybne, in said city of Washiington, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point on the north side of N street north west, forty-eight feet two inches west of the west line of Sixteenth street, running thence along N street westerly, eighteen feet thence northerly sixty-two and fourteen hundredths feet to Massachusetts avenue, thence south easterly along said avenue nineteen and sixty~nine hundredths feet, thence ’dfty-four and twenty seven hundredths feet south to the point of beginning on N