Chapter 7. authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to reconvey to Lucius U
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CHAP. 7.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to reconvey to Lucius U. Maltby and Louise W. Maltby, his wife, Margaret Elizabeth Lucas, and the Sea Girt Laud Improvement Company a piece of laud selected as a site for the Squan Inlet light station. New Jersey, but found to be unsuitable for the purpose of said station.December 22, 1892. Whereas on December tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, LuciusPreamble U. Maltby and Louise, his wife, of Philadelphia, in the State Penn sylvania, by their deed duly executed, conveyed to the United States for the consideration of one thousand five hundred dollars all their right, title, and interest in and to a certain lot of land situate at Sea Girt, in the township of Wall, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, selected as a site for the proposed light station at Squan Inlet, New Jersey, authorized by the act making appropriations for the Vol. 25, p. 942.sundry civil expenses for the Government approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and Whereas on February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, Margaret Elizabeth Lucas, of the same place, for a like consideration, by her deed duly executed, conveyed to the United States, for the purpose aforesaid, all her right, title, and interest in the same lot of land; and Whereas on December tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, the Sea Girt Land Improvement Company, a corporation duly chartered in compliance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, for the consideration of one dollar, by their deed duly executed, conveyed to the United States for the purposes aforesaid all their right, title, and interest in the same lot of land; and Whereas the considerations named in said deeds have never been paid, the lot of land conveyed having been found unsuitable for the site of the proposed light station; and Whereas the three deeds above named have been duly recorded in the clerk’s office of Monmouth County, on May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, all in book four hundred and eighty-three of deeds, the first on pages one hundred and seventeen, and so forth, the second on pages one hundred and twenty-three, and so forth, and the third on pages one hundred and twenty, and so forth; and Whereas the grantors in these deeds have consented to convey to the United States a lot of land suitable for the site of the proposed light station:
Therefore, 407 *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Squan Inlet light station, N. J., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to reconvey for a nominal consideration to the several grantors above named the land described inReconveyance of lands. their respective deeds, duly recorded as aforesaid, but for which the considerations named therein have not been paid. Approved, December 22, 1892.