Chapter 329. To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the United States marine hospital reservation and improvements thereon at Detroit, Michigan, and to acquire a suitable site in the same locality and to erect thereon a modern hospital for the treatment of the benefici
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CHAP. 329.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the United States marine hospital reservation and improvements thereon at Detroit, Michigan, and to acquire a suitable site in the same locality and to erect thereon a modern hospital for the treatment of the beneficiaries of the United States Public Health Service, and for other purposes,” approved June 7, 1924.May 18, 1926.[[H. R. 9875](/us/bill/69/hr/9875).][[Public, No. 244](/us/pl/69/244).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Detroit, Mich.Vol. 43, p. 660, amended.
That the “Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the United States marine hospital reservation and improvements thereon at Detroit, Michigan, and to acquire a suitable site in the same locality and to erect thereon a modern hospital for the treatment of the beneficiaries of the United States Public Health Service, and for other purposes,” approved June 7, 1924, be amended to read as follows: " That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorizedMarine hospital at.Part of site transferred for light house purposes. and directed to transfer to the Department of Commerce for lighthouse purposes that portion of the United States marine hospital reservation at Detroit, Michigan, together with the improvements thereon, described as follows:
Beginning at the northwest cornerDescription. of the present marine hospital reservation, on Jefferson Avenue, and running thence in a northeasterly direction along the southerly side of said Jefferson Avenue, fifty-five feet to a point; thence in a southeasterly direction one hundred and fifty feet to a point; thence southwesterly a distance of fifty-five feet to a point in the westerly boundary line of said marine hospital site, and thence with said westerly boundary line in a northwesterly direction a distance of one hundred and fifty feet to the place of beginning.
" Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized andKey West, Fla.Part of public building site transferred for lighthouse purposes. directed to transfer from the Treasury Department to the Department of Commerce, for a lighthouse depot, all of the unused portion of the United States post-office and courthouse property at Key West, Florida, now in use for lighthouse purposes. And the SecretaryOn completion of new Federal building, old building, etc., transferred to Lighthouse Service. of the Treasury is further authorized and directed, upon completion and occupancy of the new Federal building upon the site heretofore acquired for the purpose at Key West, Florida, to transfer the old Federal building and site thereof to the DepartmentDescription. of Commerce for the use of the Lighthouse Service, which site is described as follows:
Commencing at the corner of the post-office site at the intersection of Front Street and the projection of the northerly line of Greene Street; running thence in a northerly direction with the west line of Front Street a distance of approximately one hundred and one and five-tenths feet to a point; thence in a northwesterly direction a distance of approximately seventy-seven feet, to the corner of the Treasury Department iron fence between the said post-office site and the navy depot; thence with a line of said iron fence in a southwesterly direction a distance of approximately forty-four feet to the north wall of said post-office building; thence with the line of said north wall of the post-office building in a westerly direction a distance of approximately twenty-two feet to the Treasury Department iron fence; thence in a northwesterly direction along the line of said fence, following a curve having a radius of approximately twenty-three and two-tenths feet, a distance of approximately twenty-four and two-tenths feet to a point; thence following the line of said iron fence in a westerly direction a distance of approximately seventeen feet to a point; thence along the line of said fence in a northwesterly direction a distance of approximately five feet to a point; thence along the line of said fence in a westerly direction a distance of approximately fifty-five feet to a point; thence in a southerly direction following a line parallel with the west line of Front Street, a distance of one 564hundred and fifty feet to a point; thence in an easterly direction following a line parallel to and approximately fifteen feet distant from the north line of the lighthouse blacksmith shop, a distance of fifteen feet to a point; thence in a southerly direction along a line parallel with the west line of Front Street, a distance of approximately ninety-five feet to a point in the projection of the north line of Greene Street; thence in a northeasterly direction along the said projected north line of Greene Street a distance of approximately two hundred and three feet to the point of beginning.
Sec. 3. New Marine hospital site at Detroit, authorized in exchange for the Key West and Detroit properties.That the Secretary of Commerce be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to transfer to the Treasury Department, in exchange for the unused portion of the United States post-office and courthouse property at Key West, Florida, and that portion of the marine hospital reservation at Detroit, Michigan, hereinbefore inferred to, for a new marine hospital site, a tract of approximately Location.five and one-half acres at Windmill Point, Detroit, Michigan, including submerged land, now being used for lighthouse purposes, reserving sites for aids to navigation and the necessary rights of way in such locations as the Commissioner of Lighthouses may select.
Sec. 4. Proceeds from sale at Detroit available for construction of new building.The proceeds derived from the sale of the remainder of the present United States marine hospital reservation at Detroit, Michigan, is hereby made available for the construction of buildings on the so-called Windmill Point site when transferred as above provided. Approved, May 18, 1926.