Chapter 47. Providing for the appraisal and sale of the Vashon Island Military Reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes
695 words·~3 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-42/chapter-47-703435·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 47.— An Act Providing for the appraisal and sale of the Vashon Island Military Reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes. July 15, 1921. [[H. R. 5022](/us/bill/67/hr/5022).] [[Public, No. 38](/us/pl/67/38).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Vashon Island, Wash. Survey, etc., directed of abandoned military reservation. That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the land in the Vashon Island abandoned military reservation in sections one, two, and three, all in township twenty- one north, range two east, Willamette meridian, in the county of King, in the State of Washington, 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 as lessees or sublessees on May 1, 1920.
Sec. 2. Occupants under former lease may purchase a surveyed tract at appraised value. That after said survey and the approval thereof by the 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 person who as lessee or sublessee was in actual occupation of any portion of the lands described in section 1 hereof on the 1st day of May, 1920, who made actual settlement thereon in good faith under the terms of a certain lease held of the War Department by one James Bachelor, or a sublease thereunder, or anyone who has since said date succeeded to the occupation and interest of any such prior settler, his heirs or assigns, shall be entitled to purchase for the appraised value one of such surveyed tracts so occupied, no right of purchase to exceed the tract actually occupied Limitation.and improved by a lawful lessee or sublessee on May 1, 1920, and in no case exceeding twenty 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 appraised value thereof, such *Provisos.* Appraisal restriction.appraisement to be made as provided by law: *Provided*, That in making such appraisement the appraisers shall not include the improvements thereon made by the occupants of such lands: *Provided further*, Installment payments allowed.That payment to the Government may be made in one sum, or not less than one-tenth cash and the balance in nine or less number of143 equal annual installments, with interest at 5 per centum per annum, payable annually, as the purchaser may elect, and with the option in the purchaser, his heirs and assigns, to pay the remaining installments on any date when installment becomes due.
Sec. 3. That if any tract of the lands described in section 1 hereofTracts not purchased to be sold at public sale. be not purchased by the lessee or sublessee, his heirs or assigns, as provided in section 2 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 the Act ofVol. 23, p. 103. Congress of July 5, 1884, entitled “An Act to provide for the disposalRemoval of buildings by lessees, etc. of abandoned and useless military reservations,” and the said lessees, sublessees, heirs or assigns, who do not purchase such tracts shall have the privilege within a period to be fixed by the Secretary 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 5, 1884.
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior in making the surveyReservations for lighthouse or roadway uses. provided for by this Act shall ascertain what part of said lands, if any, are needed for lighthouse or roadway purposes, and any lands needed for such purposes shall be segregated or reserved for such use, and the lands so segregated or reserved shall not be subject to disposal hereunder. Approved, July 15, 1921.