Chapter 32. Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to lease to the city of Port Angeles, Washington, certain property
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CHAP. 32.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to lease to the city of Port Angeles, Washington, certain property. March 9, 1914.[[S. 3454](/us/bill/63/s/3454).][[Public, No. 64](/us/pl/63/64).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of CommercePort Angeles, Wash.Lands of Ediz Hook lighthouse reservation leased to. is hereby authorized, directed, and empowered to lease to the city of Port Angeles, State of Washington, all of that tract of land reserved for lighthouse purposes by Presidential Order of February tenth, nineteen hundred and eight, and bounded on the southwest by suburban lots numbered one hundred and thirty-five and oneDescription. hundred and forty-seven, as shown by the plats of Port Angeles town site, State of Washington, approved by the United States surveyor general of the State of Washington on November fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and September twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, together without lots numbered one, two, three, four, five, six, and such portion of out lot number seven (all in township thirty-one north, range six west, Willamette meridian), of the Ediz Hook or False Dungeness Lighthouse Reservation, Washington, as may be required to give a frontage of two statute miles measured in a northerly and easterly direction along the westerly and northerly boundary of said reservation, beginning from a point on high-water mark opposite the northwesterly comer of lot one hundred and forty-seven of the said Port Angeles town site; also the tide lands on the Strait of Fuca and on Port Angeles Harbor abutting on those portions of the Ediz Hook Lighthouse Reservation heretofore described, for and during the full period of ninety-nine years, for its use, except as hereinafter specified: *Provided*, That in*Provisos*.Aids to navigation allowed, etc. said lease it shall be stipulated that the Government of the United294 States may at any time during the term thereof go upon said reservation and establish and maintain post lights or such other aids to navigation as it may deem proper at any points on the reservation affected by this lease, and shall have access thereto and a sufficient right of way thereon at all times and that the said city of Port Angeles shall not sublet any portion of the said property without first having obtained the consent of the Secretary of Commerce and his approval of all the terms and conditions in any such subleases: *Provided further*,Excavations, etc., restricted.
That no excavations, other than excavations for foundations for building purposes, shall be made, and no soil or other material forming the spit shall be removed from the lighthouse reservation; and that the buildings to be erected on the said premises shall not obstruct or interfere with any lights serving as aids to navigation. Sec. 2. Roadway to be maintained. That said lease shall contain a provision that, in consideration of said lease, the said city of Port Angeles will construct and maintain in good condition at all times a roadway, paved with macadam or other material approved by the Secretary of Commerce, thirty feet in width, and extending from a public highway on the mainland to Ediz Hook Light Station, over the portion of the reservation so leased, as well as over the remaining portion which the Lighthouse Service will continue to use for lighthouse purposes, the said roadway to be above the limits of high-water mark.
The lease shall further provide that the line of said roadway which traverses such portion of the Ediz Hook Lighthouse Reservation not covered by this lease may be laid out as may be directed by the Secretary ofRental. Commerce. In addition to the aforesaid consideration, the said city of Port Angeles shall pay to the Government of the United States such annual rental for the aforesaid property as may be decided upon*Proviso*.Revaluation of leased premises. by the Secretary of Commerce: *Provided*, That there shall be a stipulation in the said lease that at the end of every ten years during the existence thereof the Secretary of Commerce shall cause a revaluation of the leased premises to be made, and that the said Secretary shall thereupon be authorized to determine and fix the annual rental of the premises for the ensuing period of ten years in accordance with such revaluation.
Sec. 3. Charges. That there shall be a stipulation in said lease that all charges levied or to be levied on said premises during such term shall be at the expense of the city of Port Angeles, and no claim shall arise against the United States because of this lease or the termination thereof. Sec. 4. Cancellation of lease if terms violated. That the said lease shall further provide that the Secretary of Commerce may at any time during the said period of ninety-nine years, at his discretion, terminate and cancel said lease, in case said city of Port Angeles shall fail to construct and maintain in good condition the roadway herein provided for or neglect to pave same as hereinbefore provided for, or shall excavate on said lighthouse reservation for any purposes other than for building purposes, or shall take or remove therefrom soil or other material belonging to the lighthouse reservation, or shall, in any way, interfere with the right of the United States to establish and maintain post lights as specified above or fail to observe other provisions stipulated in said lease onImprovements on termination of lease. its part to be kept and performed.
It shall also be stipulated in said lease that all improvements made upon said lighthouse reservation by the said city of Port Angeles, and all buildings and other structures erected thereon by said city of Port Angeles, under the terms of said lease, shall, upon the termination of said lease, in natural term or by cancellation of the same, be and become the property of the Government of the United States, unless said improvements and buildings and other structures erected thereon shall be removed within six months from the date of the expiration of the lease; and that in event said structures shall be removed by said295 lessee, the premises shall be restored to the same condition as before their erection.
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of Commerce may include in said leaseOther requirements. any other provisions or stipulations which in his judgment may be deemed necessary to protect the interests of the United States. Sec. 6. That said lease shall stipulate that the said roadway to beConstruction of roadways. constructed and maintained by said city of Port Angeles, hereinbefore provided for, shall be built and completed on that portion of Ediz Hook Lighthouse Reservation to be leased to the said city of Port Angeles, and also on that portion of said reservation reserved for lighthouse purposes, within one year from date thereof.
Sec. 7. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, March 9, 1914.