Chapter 121. Granting certain rights over Lime Point military reservation in the State of California
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CHAP. 121.— An Act Granting certain rights over Lime Point military reservation in the State of California.July 2, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Lime Point military reservation, Cal. That there is hereby granted to the citizens of the town or city of Sausalito, Marin County, California,Right of way to Sausalito. the right to occupy and improve for the purposes of a road only for the use and benefit of the citizens of the United States, and for no other purposes whatever, a portion of the tract of land owned by the United States in the State of California, known as the Lime Point military reservation, upon the following conditions and provisions, namely:
First. That no use of said land for the purposes of said road shallPlans to be approved by Secretary of War. be begun by the said citizens of Sausalito as aforesaid until after general plans of said improvement shall have been submitted to the Secretary of War and shall have been approved by him and the portion of said tract of laud owned by the United States to be used for such stated purposes shall have been specially designated by him, and that no changes of the natural surface of the ground shall be made, nor improvements of any sort begun until the extent and plans of such proposed work shall have been described in detail to the Secretary of War and shall have received his approval.
Second. That the United States reserves the power to make andRegulations. enforce regulations concerning the occupation and use of the portion of the Lime Point military reservation covered by this grant and concerning the use of the road thereon. Third. That the United States reserves to itself the fee in said tractReversion. and the right to resume immediate and entire possession and use whenever the first of the above provisions shall have been violated, and also to resume possession of and occupy any portion thereof, or to 99 suspend the use of said road whenever, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, the exigency arises that should require such action for public defense, or otherwise, or whenever Congress may determine other disposition of said tract, without any claim for compensation to said citizens of Sausalito for improvement thereon or damage on account thereof.
Approved, July 2, 1894.