Chapter 434. Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey to the University of Oregon certain lands forming a part of the Coos Head River and Harbor Reservation
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CHAP. 434.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey to the University of Oregon certain lands forming a part of the Coos Head River and Harbor Reservation. March 3, 1931.[[S. 3360](/us/bill/71/s/3360).][[Public, No. 821](/us/pl/71/821).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Coos Head River and Harbor Reservation, Oreg.Part of, conveyed to University of Oregon. That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the University of Oregon, State of Oregon, subject to the conditions hereinafter specified, the following described part of the Coos Head River and Harbor Reservation situated on the south shore of the entrance to Coos Bay in Coos County, Oregon:
Description.All of lot 2, the westerly seven hundred and fifty feet of lot 3, all of lot 1 except the west three hundred feet thereof, and all of the southwest quarter northwest quarter, except the west three hundred feet thereof, all in section 2, township 26 south, range 14 west, Willamette meridian, in the county of Coos, Oregon; excepting therefrom the parcels of land released to the Treasury Department by letter from the Assistant Secretary of War, dated April 24, 1913, and more particularly described as follows:
Site for station buildings beginning at a point north forty-one degrees thirty minutes west one thousand three hundred and seven feet from the southeast corner northwest quarter of section 2, township 26 south, range 14 west, Willamette meridian; thence north thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes west four hundred feet; thence west thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes south four hundred feet; thence south thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes east four hundred feet; thence east thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes north four hundred feet to the point of beginning, and containing three and six hundred and seventy-three one-thousandths acres; also a site for lifeboat house commencing at a point seven hundred and seventy-five feet north thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes west from the starting point of site and the station grounds; thence running west thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes south one hundred and fifty feet; thence south thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes east two hundred and twenty-five feet; thence east thirty1507three degrees fifteen minutes north one hundred and fifty feet; thence north thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes west two hundred and twenty-five feet to the point of beginning, and containing seven hundred and seventy-four one-thousandths of an acre.
Sec. 2. The lands herein authorized to be conveyed shall be used Lands limited to scientific and educational purposes.by the University of Oregon solely for scientific and educational purposes subject, however, to the right of the United States, in case of war or other emergency, to assume control of, hold, use, and Rights reserved.occupy said lands or any part thereof for any and all military, naval, or other governmental purposes, and subject at all times to the rights of the United States stated in section 4 hereof.
The deed executed Reversion for non user.by the Secretary of War under the provisions of section 1 of this Act shall contain the express condition that if the University of Oregon shall at any time attempt to alienate said lands that same shall revert to the United States. Sec. 3. The provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing Former grants not applicable herein.the Secretary of War to grant the use of the Coos Head Military Reservation, in the State of Oregon, to the cities of Marshfield and Vol. 39, p. 516.North Bend, Oregon, both being municipal corporations, for park purposes,” approved August 21, 1916, and of any permit granted by the Secretary of War under such Act, shall not apply to the lands herein authorized to be conveyed, after the date of such conveyance, nor shall such Act or permit apply to the unconveyed part of lot 3 after the date of this Act.
Sec. 4. The lands herein authorized to be conveyed to the University Prior rights, etc.of Oregon shall at all times be subject to the right of the United States to occupy and use such part thereof as are now or may hereafter be needed for jetty site or sites, for rights of way for tramways from the unconveyed part of lot 3 to such jetty site or sites, and for ingress and egress by persons engaged in river and harbor work; and the United States shall at all times have prior right to three-fourths of the natural flow of streams draining lots 2 and 3.
Approved, March 3, 1931.