Chapter 184. Authorizing the sale of the lighthouse reservation at Scituate, Massachusetts
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CHAP. 184.— An Act Authorizing the sale of the lighthouse reservation at Scituate, Massachusetts. June 28, 1916. [[S. 5910](/us/bill/64/s/5910).] [[Public, No. 120](/us/pl/64/120).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Cedar Point light station, Mass. Sale of reservation to Scituate, Mass. That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized and directed, in his discretion, to sell and convey to the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, for the sum of $1,000, that certain piece or parcel of land pertaining to the Lighthouse Service situate and lying on Cedar Point, Scituate, county of Plymouth, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, described April fourth,Description. eighteen hundred and eleven, by Seth Sprague, Joshua Thomas, and Nathan Rice, a committee appointed under the act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ceding jurisdiction and242 authorizing the appraisement of land at Scituate Harbor, and recorded in Plymouth register of deeds, book one hundred and sixteen, pages one hundred and eighty-two and one hundred and eighty-three, as follows:
All the land and beach that lies southeasterly of a line beginning on the easterly side of Cedar Point at a place that bears south forty-nine and a half degrees west from the Old Sow, so called, and that bears north four degrees east from the willow tree on the first cliff, so called, and from said place running south seventy-four degrees west across said Cedar Point to the harbor, together with the right of way and shore privilege, including the improvements thereon, no longer required for lighthouse purposes: *Provided, *That said town*Proviso.*Maintenance as historic landmark. of Scituate shall maintain the site and structure thereon as an historic landmark.
Approved, June 28, 1916.