Chapter 144. To authorize the occupation and use of certain lands in Alaska by Ketchikan Post Numbered Three, American Legion, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 144.— An Act To authorize the occupation and use of certain lands in Alaska by Ketchikan Post Numbered Three, American Legion, and for other purposes. April 25, 1922. [[H. R. 8460](/us/bill/67/hr/8460).] [[Private, No. 45](/us/pvtl/67/45).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theKetchikan Post, American Legion. Granted use of lands, in Ketchikan, Alaska. Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to permit Ketchikan Post Numbered Three, American Legion, to erect a building upon and use and occupy, for post purposes, so much of that certain tract of land adjacent to Tongass Narrows, Alaska, described as follows:
Beginning at corner numbered one, within the corporate limits of the town or city of Ketchikan, Alaska, from which a stone marking the intersection of Mission and Stedman Streets bears north sixteen degrees sixteen minutes east twenty-two feet distant, and United States locating monument numbered four bears south thirty-seven degrees fifteen minutes east twelve hundred and eighty-nine and twentyseven one-hundredths feet distant; thence south forty-nine degrees seven minutes east one hundred feet along the southwest side of Stedman Street to corner numbered two; thence south eighty-one degrees thirty-nine minutes west one hundred and sixty-five and thirty one-hundredths feet to corner numbered three; thence north eight degrees twenty-one minutes west seventy-five and seventy-four one-hundredths feet to corner numbered four, on the south side of Stedman Street; thence north eighty-one degrees thirty-nine minutes east one hundred feet along the southerly side of Stedman Street to corner numbered one, the place of beginning; containing ten thousand and forty-six and ninety one-hundredths square feet: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.
Conditions. the permit hereby authorized may not be assigned, shall be subject to such terms and conditions as to occupancy and use as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be revocable the Secretary of the Interior, after due notice to the permittee, 1584Title to buildings, etc.when, in his opinion, the public interests so require: *Provided further*, That the title to all buildings erected on said lands by the permittees shall remain in them at all times, and said permittees may remove said buildings at any time; and if the permit be lawfully revoked, a period not exceeding one year shall be allowed for removal of buildings or improvements.
Approved, April 25, 1922.