Chapter 270. To grant certain lands to the city of Skagway, Alaska, for a public park
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CHAP. 270.— An Act To grant certain lands to the city of Skagway, Alaska, for a public park. March 4, 1923.[[H. R. 12171](/us/bill/67/hr/12171).][[Public, No. 521](/us/67/pl/521).] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Granted Skagway, Alaska, for a public nark. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to convey to the city of Skagway, Alaska, for use as a public park, that 1501certain portion of unsurveyed public land adjacent to the city of Description.Skagway, Alaska, which is bounded on the east by the Skagway River, on the south by Lynn Canal, on the west by Lynn Canal and Long Bay, an arm of Lynn Canal, and on the north by a line running from a point approximately four hundred feet north of Alpine Bridge, on the west bank of the Skagway River, in an approximately westerly direction to Long Bay, on Lynn Canal, the land embraced in these boundaries containing approximately two hundred and fifty acres: *Provided*, That the grant hereby made *Provisos*.Prior legal rights protected.is, and the patent issued thereunder shall be, subject to all legal rights heretofore acquired by any person or persons in or to the above-described premises or any part thereof and now existing under and by virtue of the laws of the United States: *Provided further*, That there shall be reserved to the United States all coal, Minerals reserved.oil, or other mineral deposits that may be found in the lands so granted and all necessary use of the lands for extracting the same: *And provided further*, That the lands hereby authorized to be Reversion lor non-use.conveyed, as hereinbefore set forth, and all portions thereof, shall be held and used by or for the said grantee for the purpose herein specified, and if the lands shall cease to be so used for a period of three years at any one time, they shall revert to the United States, and this condition shall be expressed in the patent to be issued under the terms of this Act: *And provided further*, That the land Payment required.to be conveyed to the city of Skagway, Alaska, shall be paid for at the rate of $1.25 per acre.
Approved, March 4, 1923.