Chapter 109. To provide for a grant to the city of Boise, in the State of Idaho, of the use of a certain part of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation, under certain conditions
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CHAP. 109.— An Act To provide for a grant to the city of Boise, in the State of Idaho, of the use of a certain part of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation, under certain conditions. February 24, 1923.[[S. 3332](/us/bill/67/s/3332).][[Public, No. 437](/us/pl/67/437).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary Boise Barracks Military Reservation, Idaho.Part of, granted Boise, for public park.of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant permission to the city of Boise, in the county of Ada, State of Idaho, to occupy and use a certain parcel of land constituting a part of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation, the property of the United States, situated in the said county of Ada, in the State of Idaho, described as follows:
Beginning at the most westerly corner of the Description.1286 United States Military Reservation, thence north sixty-nine degrees thirty-five minutes east one thousand three hundred and nineteen and sixty-four one-hundredths feet to the center of the Capitol Water Company ditch; thence up said ditch south twenty-six degrees twenty-nine minutes west fifty-seven and thirty-two one-hundredths feet; thence south sixty-nine degrees forty-one minutes west five hundred and thirty and fifty-six one-hundredths feet; thence south thirty-five degrees forty-two minutes west eight hundred and sixty-two and two-tenths feet ; thence south seventy degrees three minutes west thirty-five and eighty-one one-hundredths feet; thence north twenty degrees west five hundred and eighteen and eighty-nine one-hundredths feet to the place of beginning, excepting therefrom any rights of said Capitol Water Company; such occupative grant to be as and for a public park, and upon the agreement of said city of Boise to repair, maintain, and protect above-described part of the reservation and the public property thereon during the continuance *Provisos*.Conditions.of its occupancy at its own expense: *Provided*, That the said permission shall be subject to such conditions, restrictions, rules, and regulations as the Secretary of War may from time to time prescribe:
Termination reserved.*Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may terminate the said permission to use said grounds whenever and at such time as he may deem it expedient to do so. Sec. 2. Buildings, etc., to be approved by Secretary of War. That any and all repair’s, improvements, changes, and alterations in the grounds, buildings, and other appurtenances to above-described part of the reservation, made by the municipal authorities at Boise, shall be made only according to detailed plans submitted to and approved by, the Secretary of War in each case, prior to the commencement of any work under such plans, and all such repairs, improvements, changes, or alterations made by said city of Boise, shall be made without expense to the United States, and in the event of the withdrawal of said permission, such improvements as the Secretary of War may deem valuable to the military service shall become the property of the United States without cost Removal, etc.to the Government; and such structures as may have been placed upon above-described part of the reservation by said city of Boise, which are directed to be removed therefrom by the Secretary of War, shall be removed forthwith and the grounds placed in a condition entirely satisfactory to him, at the expense of the city, and no claim of any character whatever incident to the occupation by said city of such part of the reservation shall ever be made by it against the United States.
Approved, February 24, 1923.