Chapter LXXV. to authorize the President of the United States to exchange certain lands belonging to the navy yard at Brooklyn, for other lands contiguous thereto
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Chap. LXXV.— An Act to authorize the President of the United States to exchange certain lands belonging to the navy yard at Brooklyn, for other lands contiguous thereto. March 2, 1833. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, President to execute conveyance. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to execute a conveyance to the corporation of the village of Brooklyn, in the state of New York, of the interest of the United States in certain lands forming a part of the navy yard at said village of Brooklyn, and designated in a petition from Condition.said corporation to Congress, on condition that said corporation convey a good title to the United States of such other property contiguous to said yard, and obtain releases to the United States of certain parts of said yard now in controversy, so that, in his opinion, the conveyances from said corporation shall be equally beneficial to the United States as the property granted to said corporation.
Approved, [March] 2, 1833.