Chapter 124. Granting certain rights and privileges to the department of fisheries of the State of Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 124.— An Act Granting certain rights and privileges to the department of fisheries of the State of Pennsylvania. March 24, 1910.[[H. R. 12397](/us/bill/61/hr/12397).][[Public, No. 104](/us/pl/61/104).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Presque Isle peninsula, Pa.State fish hatchery permitted on. That the department of fisheries of the State of Pennsylvania is hereby granted the right to enter upon and occupy the following-described land of the United States, known as “Presque Isle peninsula,” in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, to wit, all that part of said peninsula lying and being between the east line of the Erie waterworks lands and a line substantially parallel with and adjacent to the west line of the lands of the Presque Isle light-house, on the north shore of said peninsula, and the line of the present walk leading from said light-house to the north shore of Misery Bay, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining thereon a hatchery for the propagation of game and food fishes, and in pursuance thereof to improve the lands and ponds and reclaim marsh lands thereon; to construct buildings, houses, and sheds, and docks and approaches from Presque Isle Bay to said lands and to the ponds and hatchery buildings on said lands; to lay out, build, and maintain roads and walks in connection therewith, and plant trees and shrubs *Proviso*.Title, etc., not affected.thereon for the preservation thereof: *Provided*, That the occupation and use of the said lands for the aforesaid purposes shall in no manner affect the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to said lands, nor the government right of passage over and across the lands so occupied; and the said department of fisheries of the State of Pennsylvania shall do nothing on said lands that may injuriously affect the harbor of Erie or the peninsula of Presque Isle as a protection for Nonliability for damages.the harbor: *Provided further*, That the United States shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever that may at any time occur to the improvements of the department of fisheries of Pennsylvania on said Approval of plans, etc.lands: *And provided further*, That the exercise of the rights hereby granted and the execution of any work on said lands hereby authorized shall be in accordance with such plans and specifications as may be approved by the Secretary of War and subject to such further stipulations and conditions as he may prescribe.
Sec. 2. Amendment, etc. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 24, 1910.