Chapter 890. Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to sell at private sale a portion of the Pointe Aux Herbes Lighthouse Reservation, Louisiana
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Chap. 890: Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to sell at private sale a portion of the Pointe Aux Herbes Lighthouse Reservation, Louisiana. Chapter 890 45 Stat. 977 1928-05-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 890.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to sell at private sale a portion of the Pointe Aux Herbes Lighthouse Reservation, Louisiana.
May 29, 1928.[[H. R. 13644](/us/bill/70/hr/13644).][[Public, No. 600](/us/pl/70/600).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Pointe Aux Herbes Lighthouse Reservation, La. That the Secretary of Commerce be, and is hereby, authorized to convey by quitclaim deed to the Louisiana Highway Commission the following-described property: A portion of the Pointe Aux Herbes Lighthouse Reservation, Louisiana, bounded on the south by the southern boundary ofDescription. the reservation and on the north by Lake Pontchartrain, and extending two hundred feet on each side of a line running north thirteen degrees twenty-two minutes twenty seconds east, passing through a point on the southern boundary line of the reservation three hundred and ninety-three and thirty-six hundredths feet from its westerly end, approximately six and five-tenths acres.
Sec. 2. In consideration of the conveyance herein authorized, theSum to be paid.Free passage over New Orleans Ponchartrain Bridge, etc., to United States employees. Louisiana Highway Commission shall pay to the United States the sum of $500, and all employees and officers of the United States, in the performance of their official duties, shall be allowed free passage across the New Orleans Pontchartrain Bridge and its approaches and over the property herein described, in accordance with the right retained by the United States in an agreement of September 21, 1926, between the United States and the New Orleans Pontchartrain Bridge Company, authorizing the said bridge company to occupy that portion of the tract hereinbefore described, extending one hundred feet on each side of a line running north thirteen degrees twenty-two minutes twenty seconds east, through a point on the southern boundary line of the reservation three hundred and ninetythree and thirty-six hundredths feet from its westerly end; and any agreement entered into between the Louisiana Highway Commission and the New Orleans Pontchartrain Bridge Company or its successors or assigns authorizing the said bridge company or its successors or assigns to occupy the land to be conveyed under authority of this Act shall provide for this right of passage.
Sec. 3. The New Orleans Pontchartrain Bridge Company and itsNew Orleans Ponchartrain Bridge Company to use tract without charge. successors and assigns shall have use for highway purposes and toll houses in connection with the operation of its bridge, of the tract to be conveyed under authority of this Act, without charge from the Louisiana Highway Commission. If, within sixty days from theSale to Bridge Company if Highway Commission fails to purchase. passage of this Act, the Louisiana Highway Commission does not avail itself of the privilege of purchasing the said property, the con-978veyance shall be made by the Secretary of Commerce to the New Orleans Pontchartrain Bridge Company or its successors or assigns, for the consideration in section 2 of this Act and the New Orleans Pontchartrain Bridge Company or its successors or assigns shall notSale by Bridge Company restricted. sell the said property to the Louisiana Highway Commission or to the State of Louisiana, for more than $500.
Sec. 4. The grantee in any conveyance made under authority ofRight of way from tract to bridge to be provided. this Act, and the successors and assigns of such grantee, shall provide a right of way one hundred feet wide from either side of the tract so conveyed to the road leading to the bridge for the purpose of giving to the present or future owners or occupants of land lying adjacent to either side of the said tract, access to the road from both its east and west sides; the southerly boundary of the said right of way to be at a distance of three hundred feet north of the south line of the present lighthouse reservation.
Sec. 5. The proceeds of the sale authorized by this Act shall beDeposit of proceeds. deposited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Sec. 6. The property conveyed under the authority of this ActUse of property restricted. shall be used solely for highway purposes and for toll houses in connection with the operation of the Pontchartrain Bridge. Approved, May 29, 1928.
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