Chapter 175. Granting certain property to the city of Newport, Kentucky
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CHAP. 175.— An Act Granting certain property to the city of Newport, Kentucky.July 31, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Newport, Ky.Lands granted for public park. That all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lots and parts of lots and the appurtenances and appendages thereunto belonging, comprising the old military post or barracks property situated at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers, in the city of Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, be, and is hereby, granted and conveyed to the said city of Newport, to have and to hold for a public park forever.
Sec. 2. That whenever said city shall cease to use the said propertyReversion on nonuser. for the purposes of a public park, or shall use the same or any part thereof for any other than for a public park, all the right, title, and interest hereby granted and conveyed to said city shall at once, and without any act whatever upon the part of the United States, revert to and become the property of the United States. Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect on January first, eighteen hundredEffect. and ninety five.
Approved, July 31, 1894.