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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 27 STAT. · March 25, 1892 · Chapter 22

Chapter 22. to set apart a tract of land in the State of California for the use of the Lick Observatory of the astronomical department of the University of California

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CHAP. 22.— An Act to set apart a tract of land in the State of California for the use of the Lick Observatory of the astronomical department of the University of California.March 25, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands. Reservation of lands for Lick Observatory, Cal. That the following described land in township numbered seven south and range three east, Mount Diablo meridian, is hereby reserved from sale or disposal under the general laws of the United States, to wit, the northwest quarter of section three, the east half of section four, the northwest quarter of section four, the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section four.
Sec. 2. That in addition to any lands heretofore granted to the LickDescription. Observatory of the astronomical department of the University of California, so much of said land as is not already granted or disposed of by the United States, to wit, the northwest quarter of section three, the east half of section four, the northwest quarter of section four, the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section four, be, and the same is hereby, granted to the regents of the University of California, and their successors, in trust, for the use and benefit of the astronomical department of the University of California: *Provided*, That if the*Proviso*. land herein granted shall be used for any other purpose than the site ofReversion. said observatory and the necessary purposes in connection therewith, the same shall revert to the United States.
Approved, March 25, 1892.
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