Chapter 1397. Providing for the donation of lots A, B, K, and L, in block thirty-nine, in Fort Dalles military addition to The Dalles, Oregon, as shown on the plat of the city of The Dalles, and surroundings, and filed in the local land office at The Dalles, Oregon, to the Oregon Historical Society
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CHAP. 1397.— An Act Providing for the donation of lots A, B, K, and L, in block thirty-nine, in Fort Dalles military addition to The Dalles, Oregon, as shown on the plat of the city of The Dalles, and surroundings, and filed in the local land office at The Dalles, Oregon, to the Oregon Historical Society. April 19, 1904. [[H. R. 9985](/us/bill/58/hr/9985).] [[Public, No. 121](/us/pl/58/121).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Public lands.
Lots in The Dalles, Oreg., granted to Oregon Historical Society. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to the Oregon Historical Society, an organization duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Oregon, December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, a patent in the name of the United States for lots marked “A,” “B,” “K,” and “L,” in block thirty-nine, in Fort Dalles military addition to The Dalles, in the State of Oregon, as shown on the plat of the city of The Dalles and surroundings, now on file in The Dalles land office, such patent to issue only after the said Oregon Historical Society shall have filed with the Secretary of the 186 Conditions.
Interior proper and satisfactory proofs of its incorporation. And such patent to be conditioned that the said lots and buildings thereon shall be held and maintained solely for historical purposes, with a reservation that the Secretary of the Interior shall be empowered to declare a forfeiture to the United States whenever he shall find the same has been converted to other purposes. Approved, April 19, 1904.