Chapter 108. Providing for the appraisal and sale of the Gig Harbor abandoned military reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 108.— An Act Providing for the appraisal and sale of the Gig Harbor abandoned military reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes. March 3, 1919.[[H. R. 11219](/us/bill/65/hr/11219).][[Public, No. 336](/us/65/pl/336).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Gig HarborGig Harbor Military Reservation, Wash.Survey, subdivision, etc., of abandoned. abandoned military reservation in sections five and eight, all in township twenty-one north, range two east, Willamette meridian, in the county of Pierce and in the State of Washington, be caused by the Department of the Interior to be surveyed and subdivided into tracts and lots to conform as far as practicable to the tracts and lots lawfully occupied by the tenants thereon on December fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Sec. 2. That after said survey and the approval thereof by theOccupants under leases entitled to purchase tracts at appraised value. Commissioner of the General Land Office the plat thereof shall be filed in the office of the register and receiver in the manner provided by law, and thereafter any lawful lessee in actual occupancy on December fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, of any portion of the lands described in section one hereof who made actual settlement thereon in good faith under the terms of a lease by the War Department, or a sublease thereunder on said date, or the heirs or assignees of such lessee or sublessee, shall be entitled to purchase for the appraised value one of such surveyed tracts so occupied, no right ofMaximum area. purchase of such lessee or sublessee to exceed the lands actually occupied and improved by him on December fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and in no case exceeding ten acres in a body, according to Government surveys and subdivisions thereof, upon the payment to the Government of a sum of money equal to the appraisal value thereof, such appraisement to be made as provided by law: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Improvements.
That in making such appraisement the appraisers shall not include the improvements thereon made by the occupants of such lands:Payment in installments. *Provided further*, That payment to the Government may be made in one sum, or one-tenth cash and the balance in nine equal annual installments,1320with interest at five per centum per annum, payable annually, as the purchaser may elect. Sec. 3. Disposal of 1ands not nought by lessees, etc. That if any tract of the lands described in section one hereof be not purchased by the lessee or sublessees, his heirs or assigns, as provided in section two of this Act, within ninety days after the same becomes subject to purchase under the provisions of this Act, then and in that event the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to dispose of the remaining lands under the provisions of Vol. 23, p. 103.the Act of Congress of July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled “An Act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless Removal of build tags, etc.military reservations,” and the said lessees, sublessees, heirs or assigns, in occupancy of lawfully leased tracts on December fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, who do not purchase such tracts shall have the privilege of removing from their tracts any buildings placed thereon, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to reappraise any unsold tracts from time to time before offering the same for sale under said Act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
Sec. 4. Segregation for lighthouses, etc. That any lands needed for lighthouse or roadway purposes may be segregated or reserved for such use, and the lands so segregated or reserved snail not be subject to disposal hereunder. Approved, March 3, 1919.