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 264 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 239, 240. 1892. July 23, 1892. CHAP. 239.—An act authorizing and directing the sale of certain property ——··—?-———- belonging to the United States, situate in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Pittsburg. ra. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ms,j‘}° °*' la'"] °“*"°" Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to sell and convey to the purchaser or purchasers, all the right, title, and interest of the United States of, in, and to all that certain parcel of land situate in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, at the northwest corner of Fifth avenue and Smithfield street, extending one hundred and twenty feet from said corner along Smithfield street towards Virginia alley, and being in depth one hundred and twenty feet towards Wood street; fronting one hundred and twenty feet on Smithfield street, and one hundred and twenty feet on Fifth avenue. Auction Sec. 2. That said sale shall be by public auction, after due advertisement daily, for three weeks, in three newspapers of the city of Pittsburg, and after publication of notice by printed hand bills posted for that length of time on said property and in ten of the most con- Tmm. spicuous places in the said city, and shall be of the property as a whole or in parts, for cash, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasmy may best subserve the interest of the United States and secure the _ best price for said entire property: Provided, That nothing herein con- 1·I,*,,,°°,,' °;,m,.,-.,.1 to tained shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury, in ·=<¤¤P'°'¤ P**Y¤¤°¤”· making sale as herein provided, from giving to the purchaser of said property an allowance of not to exceed sixty days from the date of bid within which to pay the purchase money, said purchaser, however, to pay ten per centum of the amount of his bid at the time of the acceptance thereof Approved, July 23, 1892. Ju lm. CKAP2 240.-An act to establish a division line between land of the United States L and the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company. Pmmmm Whereas a conflict has arisen between the United States and the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company as to the true location of the division line between land owned by them respectively on the north shore of Ohio River adjacent to the Davis Island Dam, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; and Whereas the following described compromise line of division between said properties is satisfactoryto the United States, to-wit: Beginning ata stone monument A in the western boundary line of property acquired by the United States of America from Williani Jackman, said property line being the former division line between properties of YVilliam Jackman and Alexander Taylor, said monument being located sixteen and eight-hundreths feet from the south rail of · the present south main track of said Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, measured on the boundary line, said stone monument being also ten feet (measured at right angles) from the future south rail offuture south main track ofPittsburg, Fort Wayiie and Chicago Railway as located; thence south forty-four degrees and forty minutes cast, five hundred eighty-one and three-tenths feet to a stone monument B located thirty-one and eight-tenths feet northeast from the inner-face wall of the western gate recess, Davis Island Dam; thence continuing south forty-four degrees and forty minutes east, to a point south-east ward] y from said stone monument B seven and six-tenths feet; thence north forty-five degrees and thirty minutes east, five and ninetytwo hundreths feet to a point; thence south forty-four degrees and forty minutes east, fifty four and eightrtenths feet to a point; thence south forty-five degrees and thirty minutes west five and ninety-two hundreths feet to a point on the compromise (or dividing) line; thence south forty-four degrees and forty minutes east two hundred