Chapter 398. To authorize the city of Fernandina, Florida, under certain conditions, to dispose of a portion of the Amelia Island Lighthouse Reservation
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CHAP. 398.— An Act To authorize the city of Fernandina, Florida, under certain conditions, to dispose of a portion of the Amelia Island Lighthouse Reservation. March 3, 1931.[[S. 3404](/us/bill/71/s/3404).][[Public, No. 785](/us/pl/71/785).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That upon the Amelia Island Lighthouse Reservation.Fernandina, Fla., may convey portion of, upon payment.Vol. 44, p. 624.payment of $4,762.50 by the city of Fernandina, Florida, to the Secretary of Commerce such city is authorized to convey, without regard to the conditions and limitations of paragraph
(6)of section 1 and of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of certain lighthouse reservations, and to increase the efficiency of the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1926, the lands conveyed to Portion excepted.such city pursuant to paragraph
(6)or section 1 of such Act, except a tract bounded on the south by so much of the shell road as crosses section 12, on the east by the eastern boundary of section 12 with a water front of not less than nine hundred and sixty feet, on the north by a straight line extending from such eastern boundary for one thousand feet, more or less to the western boundary of section 12, and on the west by the western boundary of section 12 extending 1486To be devoted to public park purposes.one thousand feet, more or less to the shell road. Such tract shall contain not less than twenty acres and shall, together with the ocean beach and water front abutting on the eastern boundary thereof (including all easements and rights of ingress and egress), be devoted Rights reserved.exclusively, to public-park purposes. Any conveyance made by such city shall contain express conditions reserving to the United States
(1)a perpetual easement for beams of light from the Amelia Island Lighthouse, and
(2)the right to trim any trees and to limit the height of any structures erected on such property that may obstruct the beams of such light. Approved, March 3, 1931.