Chapter CCV. to restore certain Property to Phineas Banning and Beniamin D
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CHAP. CCV.— An Act to restore certain Property to Phineas Banning and Beniamin D. Wilson. Feb. 25, 1873. Whereas Phineas Banning conveyed to the United States of America,Preamble. by deeds dated October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, certain lands in the town of Wilmington, or New San Pedro, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, and said Phineas Banning and Benjamin D. Wilson conveyed to the United States, by deed dated February twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, certain other lands in said town for the sole and only consideration of one dollar; and whereas said premises are not devoted or at all necessary to any public use:
Now therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That there be, and there isCertain land in California to be reconveyed to Phineas Banning. hereby, reconveyed and quitclaimed to Phineas Banning those three certain pieces of land situate in the town of Wilmington, county of Los Angeles, State of California, heretofore donated by the said Phineas Banning to the United States of America, two of said pieces on the thirty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by deed of that date, recorded in book six of deeds, page two hundred and eighty-six, records 738 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 206, 209, 212. 1873. of said Los Angeles county, and the third of said pieces on the twenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, by deed of that date, recorded in book seven of deeds, page one hundred and twenty-two, records of said Los Angeles county. Sec. 2. Certain land in California to be reconveyed to Phineas Banning and Benjamin D. Wilson. That there be, and there is hereby, reconveyed and quitclaimed to Phineas Banning and Benjamin D.
Wilson, as tenants in common, that certain piece of land situate in the town of Wilmington, county of Los Angeles, State of California, donated by the said Phineas Banning and Benjamin D. Wilson to the United States of America on the twelfth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by deed of that date, recorded in book six of deeds, page three hundred and eighty-seven, records of said Los Angeles county. Sec. 3. When act takes effect. That this act shall not take effect and the surrender of said premises shall not be made by the United States to Phineas Banning and Benjamin D.
Wilson, until the Secretary of War shall have disposed of Buildings.the buildings thereon; and the Secretary of War is authorized to remove said buildings, or to sell the same, as shall be most for the interest of the United States. Approved, February 25, 1873.