Chapter 3.
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CHAP. 3.— An act granting the use of certain lands in Pierce County, Washington Territory, to the city of Tacoma, for the purposes of a public park.December 17, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Tacoma, Washington Territory. Public land in Pierce County donated for public park. That there is hereby granted to the city of Tacoma, in the County of Pierce, in the Territory of Washington, a license to occupy, improve, and control, for the purposes of a public park for the use and benefit of the citizens of the United States, and for no other purposes whatever, the following described pieces or parcels of land, situate in the County of Pierce and Territory of Washington, and described as follows, namely:
Lots one, two, three, four, five, and six, and the east halfLocation. of the southeast quarter, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section fifteen, township twenty-one north, of range two east, and lots one, two, and three, and the south half of the southwest quarter of section fourteen, same township and range, and lots one. two, and three in section ten of the same township and range, containing six hundred and thirty-live acres, more or less *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.
United States to retain fee. United States reserves to itself the fee of all said lands, and that this license is granted upon the express condition that the United States may take possession of and occupy said lands or any part thereof for military or other purposes whenever its proper officials see lit to order the same, and without any claim for compensation or damage on the part of said City of Tacoma. Approved, December 17, 1888.