Chapter 223. To relinquish the title of the United States to certain property in the city and county of San Francisco, California
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CHAP. 223.— An Act To relinquish the title of the United States to certain property in the city and county of San Francisco, California. July 9, 1912.[[S. 6252](/us/bill/62/s/6252).][[Public, No. 219](/us/pl/62/219).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, San Francisco. Cal.Old marine hospital grounds.Vol. 19, p. 127, amended. That the Act entitled “An Act to relinquish the title of the United States to certain property in the city and county of San Francisco, California,” approved August eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows:
Strike out the words “to be used by the city and county of SanSailors’ home.Former use. Francisco solely for the purpose of a sailors’ homo: *Provided*, That if the same shall at any time be used for any other than the purpose aforesaid, or if said home shall not be opened within one year from the passage of this Act, in each such case all right and title hereby relinquished shall revert back to and again vest in the United States,” and insert in lieu thereof the following: to be used by the city and county of San Francisco for such charitable purposes as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That if the same shall at any time be used for any other than such charitable purposes, all right and title thereby relinquished shall revert back to and again vest in the United States, so that the Act will read as follows:
" “That all the right and title of the United States to the following-describedUse for other charitable purposes authorized. property is hereby relinquished to the city and county of San Francisco, the same being the two fifty vara lots on which the old marine-hospital building now stands, fronting two hundred and seventy-five feet on the north side of Harrison Street between Spear and Main Streets, with a uniform depth of one hundred and thirty-seven feet and six inches, as laid down on the official map of the said city, to be used by the city and county of San Francisco for such charitable purposes as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That if the same shall at any time be used for*Proviso*.Reversion. any other than such charitable purposes all right and title hereby relinquished shall revert back to and again vest in the United States.
” " Sec. 2. That Congress reserves the right at any time to amend,Amendment. alter, or repeal this Act. Approved, July 9, 1912.