Chapter 278. Granting certain property to the county of Gloucester, New Jersey
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CHAP. 278.— An Act Granting certain property to the county of Gloucester, New Jersey. January 27, 1905.[[S. 5763](/us/bill/33/s/5763).][[Public, No. 27](/us/pl/33/27).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Abandoned Red-bank Military Reservation, N.J.Gloucester county, granted use of part of, for memorial park. That the Secretare of the Interior is hereby directed to convey, by proper patent, to the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Gloucester, in the State of New Jersey, to and for the use and benefit of said county, as it public park, such part of the abandoned Redbank Military Reservation in said county, not to exceed twenty acres, including the monument site twenty feet square, as may be designated by said board, after the same has been properly surveyed under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sec. 2. Reversion in case of nonuse.That the ownership, fee. and title conveyed by said patent shall revert to and reinvest in the United States, without any formal declaration of forfeiture thereof, at any time when said county shall tail to establish and maintain thereon a public park as a memorial to the battle fought thereon on October twenty-second, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, or when said county shall use, or permit any part of said lands to be used, for any purpose not necessarily incident to the maintenance of such park.
Approved, January 27, 1905.