Chapter 21. authorizing the sale of land in the vicinity of Fort Mifflin on the river Delaware
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CHAP. 21.— An Act authorizing the sale of land in the vicinity of Fort Mifflin on the river Delaware.January 6, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Mifflin. Pa.Sale of land near, authorized. That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy for the time being are authorized to sell, at such price as may be agreed upon by the Attorney-General and themselves, and convey to the International Navigation Company, a corporation created under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, subject to such conditions as they shall deem proper for the public interest, the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to so much of the land described in deed by John W.
Ashmead and wife to the United States, dated the twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, being in the vicinity of Fort Mifflin on the river Delaware, lying outside the dike or river bank and eastward of the fort, as will, in the judgment of said Secretary of War, the Secretary 415 of the Navy and the Attorney-General, not be prejudicial to the interests of the United States: *Provided*, That the right, title, and interest*Proviso*.Dikes, etc. to so much of this laud as may be needed as sites for dikes, shall be retained by the United States, together with the right to maintain and control said dikes.
Approved, January 6, 1893.