Chapter 430. Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey by revocable lease to the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, a certain parcel of land within the Springfield Military Armory Reservation, Massachusetts
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CHAP. 430.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey by revocable lease to the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, a certain parcel of land within the Springfield Military Armory Reservation, Massachusetts. March 3, 1925.[[H. R. 11355](/us/bill/68/hr/11355).][[Public, No. 548](/us/pl/68/548).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary Springfield, Mass,Lease of portion of Armory reservation to, for highway purposes.of War be, and hereby is, authorized and empowerd to convey by a proper revocable lease to the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, for public highway purposes, and for no other purpose, a strip of land within the Springfield Military Armory Reservation, Massachusetts, fifty-five feet wide lying southerly of and adjacent to the southerly line of Pearl Street as established by a deed of the Secretary of War bearing date December 1, 1922, and extending easterly from Byers Street to F ederal Street as shown on four sheets 1114of blue prints bearing the inscription “Springfield, Massachusetts, department of streets and engineering plan showing proposed widening Pearl Street from Byers Street to Federal Street.
Scale one inch equals twenty feet February, 1924,” and filed in the office of *Provisos*.Street improvements, etc., by the city required.the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That the conveyance herein authorized shall be upon the condition that the said city of Springfield shall within a reasonable time lay out and improve and thereafter maintain upon said land a public street with roadway, tree belts, and sidewalks substantially as shown upon said blue prints or with such variations therefrom as may be directed by the Secretary of War; shall preserve all trees now standing upon said land except such as stand within said new roadway; shall set the iron fence, now standing within said land, over to the southerly line thereof; shall construct upon the adjacent portion of said reservation a new drainage system to take the place of that now existing upon said land; all of said things to be done by said city at its own expense and without cost to the United States and to the satisfaction of the Rights of way, etc., reserved.Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That there shall be reserved in the conveyance herein authorized the right to construct and maintain over, under, and across said new street water, gas, and sewer mains, electric light and power and telephone wires and cables, and any other utility which the operation and use by the United States No other use permitted.of the said armory may require: *Provided further*, That the said city shall not sell or assign the right and interest herein authorized to be conveyed or devote said premises to any other purpose than Termination on violating conditions.street purposes: *And provided further*, That in the event that said premises shall be used for any other purpose or shall not be cared for and maintained as are other public streets of the said city, or that any of the foregoing conditions shall be violated by the said city, said right and interest shall cease and said lease shall thereby be terminated.
Approved, March 3, 1925.