Chapter 99. To donate to the city of Saint Augustine, Florida, for park purposes, the tract of land known as the powder-house lot
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CHAP. 99.— An Act To donate to the city of Saint Augustine, Florida, for park purposes, the tract of land known as the powder-house lot. February 20, 1917.[[S. 3699](/us/bill/64/s/3699).][[Public, No. 338](/us/pl/64/338).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Saint Augustine, Fla.Powder-house lot donated to. That the tract of land situate in the city of Saint Augustine, Florida, known as the powder-house lot, heretofore set aside as a military reservation of the United States, and lately abandoned as such military reservation, be, and same is hereby, donated to the municipality of the said city of Saint Augustine, in the State of Florida, to be used by said municipality for public park purposes.
Sec. 2. Conveyance for public park. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to execute and deliver to the duly constituted authorities of the said city of Saint Augustine, Florida, such conveyances as may be necessary to vest the fee-simple title to said powder-house lot in the said city of Saint Augustine, Florida, attaching to such conveyances Reversion on nonuser, etc.the condition that whenever the said powder-house lot shall cease to be used by the city for public park purposes, or whenever the Secretary of War may determine that the use of said grounds is necessary for Government purposes, then and in that event title to the said powder-house lot shall revert to the Government of the United States.
Approved, February 20, 1917.