An Act to make provision for suitable accommodations for the Bureau of Customs and certain other Government services at El Paso, Tex., and for other purposes
PL 82-350 (H.R.6863), enacted 05/21/1952

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Public Law 350 
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To make provision for suitable accommodations for the Bureau of Customs and 
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certain other Government services at El Paso, Texas, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) when the 
owners of tracts of land (more or less described in subsection (b)) ertVT 
situated in the city and county of El Paso and the State of Texas, 
having a frontage on South Santa Fe Street of five hundred and ninety 
feet, a width of two hundred and seventy-four feet, and containing 
approximately three and seventy-one one-hundredths acres (herein-
after referred to as the "ow^ners") have agreed to erect upon such 
premises, or upon an equivalent area which has been approved by the 
Administrator of General Services, a building or buildings of such 
design, plan, and specifications as may be approved by the Adminis-
trator of General Services as suitable for the use of the Bureau of 
Customs, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Public 
Health Service, and the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
the Administrator of General Services is authorized, subject to an 
appropriation therefor, to enter into one or more leases at a fair 
annual rental for the use of such building or buildings and such 
premises, or such parts thereof as are necessary, for a term of twenty 
years after such building or buildings are ready for occupancy. 
(b) Such tracts of land in the city and county of El Paso are 
described more or less as f 
ollow^s: 
TRACT 1 
Beginning at a point in the easterly line of block 21 in Campbell 
Addition to the city of El Paso, Texas, and in the westerly line of 
South El Paso Street one hundred and sixty feet southerly from the 
northeast corner of the said block 21; 
Thence southerly along the easterly line of block 21 and the westerly 
line of South El Paso Street seventy-three and eight-tenths feet to the 
northerly line of right-of-way of the E. P. & S. W. Railroad; 
Thence westerly, parallel with and twenty-five feet from the center 
line of the said right-of-way one hundred fifty and twenty-seven 
one-hundredths feet more or less to the north-south center line of a 
closed alley in block 21; 
Thence northerly along the said alley center line thirty and seven-
tenths feet more or less to a point four feet southerly from the south 
line of lot 5 projected; 
Thence easterly along a line four feet southerly from and parallel 
with the south line of the said lot 5, one hundred and forty-four feet 
to the point of beginning; 
Being parts of lots 2, 3, and 4, in the block 21 afore-mentioned, and 
easterly one-half of closed alley adjacent to the afore-mentioned 
property. 
TRACT 2 
Beginning at a point in the easterly line of South Santa Fe Street 
and the southerly line of the right-of'-w^ay of the E. P. & S. W. Rail-
road, which point is sixty-six and eighty-two one-hundredths feet 
northerly from the southw^est corner of block 21 of the Campbell 
Addition to the city of El Paso, Texas; 
Thence easterly along a line twenty-five feet southerly from and 
parallel with the center line of the right-of-way of the E. P. & S. W. 
Railroad two hundred eighty-nine and six-tenths feet more or less to a 
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point in the westerly line of South El Paso Street, which point is 
forty-four and four one-hundredths feet northerly from the northeast 
corner of block 17 of the Campbell Addition; 
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Thence southerly along the west line of South El Paso Street and 
the east line of block 17, Campbell Addition, projected three hundred 
four and four one-hundredths feet to the southeast corner of said 
block 17; 
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Thence westerly two hundred and seventy-four feet along the 
' southerly line of block 17 to the southwest corner of the said block and 
the easterly line of South Santa Fe Street ; 
Thence northerly along the westerly line of block 17 projected and 
the easterly line of South Santa Fe Street three hundrejl ninety-six 
and eighty-two one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning; 
Being all of block 17, part of what was formerly Eleventh Street 
between blocks 17 and 21, and that part of block 21 lying south of the 
right-of-way of the E. P. & S. W. Railroad. 
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Beginning at a point in the west line of South El Paso Street and 
the east line of block 21, Campbell Addition projected twenty-five and 
ninety-six one-hundredths feet southerly from the southeast corner of 
the said block 21; 
Thence westerly at an angle of seventy-three degrees twenty-six 
minutes with the east line of block 21, one hundred fifty and forty-
four one-hundredths feet to the P. C, thence westerly along a curve 
to the right one hundred thirty-nine and eighteen one-hundredths 
feet more or less to a point on the east line of South Santa Fe Street 
and the west line of block 21 sixty-six and eighty-two one-hundredths 
feet northerly from the southwest corner of said block 21; 
Thence northerly along the west line of block 21 and the east line of 
South Santa Fe Street fiftj-six and forty-four one-hundredths feet 
to a point one hundred thirty-six and seventy-four one-hundredths 
feet southerly from the northwest corner of said block 21; 
Thence easterly along a curve to the left one hundred fifty-four and 
forty-six one-hundredths feet more or less to the P. C., thence easterly 
along the tangent one hundred thirty-five and fifty-six one-hundredths 
feet to a point on the west line of South El Paso Street twenty-six 
and two-tenths feet northerly from the southeast corner of said block 
21; 
Thence southerly along the west line of South El Paso Street fifty-
two and sixteen one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning; 
Being a strip of land fifty feet wide in block 21, Campbell Addition, 
and in a part of Eleventh Street which has been closed. 
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Beginning at the northeast corner of block 21 of the Campbell Addi-
tion to the city of El Paso, Texas, which is also the southwesterly 
corner of the intersection of West Tenth and South El Paso Streets; 
Thence southerly along the easterly line of the said block 21 and 
the westerly line of South El Paso Street one hundred and sixty feet 
to a point four feet south of the south line of lot 5 in the said block 21; 
Thence westerly four feet from and parallel with the south line of 
the said lot 5, one hundred and forty-four feet to a point in the north-
south center line of an alley which has been closed; 
Thence northerly along the said center line one hundred and sixty 
feet to a point in the northerly line of block 21 and the southerly line 
of West Tenth Street; 
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Thence easterly along the northerly line of block 21, one hundred and 
forty-four feet to the point of beginning; 
Being lots 5-10, inclusive, and the northerly four feet of lot 4, and 
half of the alley adjoining the said lots in the block 21 afore-mentioned. 
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TRACT 5 
Beginning at the northwest corner of block 21, Campbell Addition of 
the city of El Paso, Texas, which is at the southeast corner of the 
intersection of South Santa Fe and West Tenth Streets; 
Thence easterly along the northerly line of the said block 21 and the 
southerly line of West Tenth Street, one hundred and thirty feet to 
the north-south center line of a closed alley in the said block 21; 
Thence southerly along the north-south center line of the closed 
alley in block 21, one hundred ninety and seven-tenths feet more or less 
to the northerly line of a fifty-foot right-of-way of the E. P. & 
S . W . E . R . ; 
Thence westerly along a curve to the right twenty-five feet from and 
parallel to the center line of the said right-of-way one hundred thirty-
nine and seventy-five one-hundredths feet more or less to a point in 
the easterly line of South Santa Fe Street, which is one hundred 
thirty-six and seventy-four one-hundredths feet southerly from the 
northwest corner of block 21 ; 
Thence northerly along the westerly line of block 21 and the 
easterly line of South Santa Fe Street one hundred thirty-six and 
seventy-four one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning, being lots 
11-15 and part of lots 16,17, and 18, and one-half of the alley adjoining 
the said lots in the block 21 aforementioned. 
SEC. 2. The Act entitled "An Act to make provision for suitable 
quarters for certain Government services at El Paso, Texas, and for 
other purposes", approved June 19, 1934, as amended, is hereby re-
pealed. 
SEC. 3. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
Approved May 21, 1952. 
4 S.Stat. 1119. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 351 
CHAPTER 318 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition 
at the Washington State-Far East International Trade Fair, Seattle, Wash-
ington, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That all articles which shall 
be imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition 
at the Washington State-Far East International Trade Fair, to be 
held at Seattle, Washington, from September 6 to September 14, 1952, 
inclusive, by the Washington State-Far East International Trade 
Fair, Incorporated, a corporation, or for use in constructing, installing, 
or maintaining foreign exhibits at the said trade fair, upon which 
articles there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted 
without payment of such tariff, customs duty, fees, or charges under 
such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but 
it shall be lawful at any time during or within three months after the 
close of the said trade fair to sell within the area of the trade fair 
any articles provided for herein, subject to such regulations for the 
security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the 
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Trade Fair. 
I m p o r t a t i o n of 
articles. 
Sale.