Chapter 529. To provide for acquiring and disposition of certain properties for use or formerly used by the Lighthouse Service
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CHAP. 529.— An Act To provide for acquiring and disposition of certain properties for use or formerly used by the Lighthouse Service. June 18, 1930.[[H. R. 11679](/us/usc/46/11679).][[Public, No. 388](/us/pl/46/388).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Lighthouses Bureau.Acquisition of additional sites for, authorized.*Post*, p. 874. That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise— 783
(1)A suitable site for a lighthouse depot at or in the vicinity of At Seattle, Wash.Seattle, Washington; and
(2)Such additional land contiguous to the present site of the At Chelsea, Mass.lighthouse depot at Chelsea, Massachusetts, as may be necessary to care for the increased activities of such depot. Sec. 2. Section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to improve the efficiency Vol. 45, p. 1261, amended.of the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes,” approved February 25, 1929, is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 4. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to purchase New sites to be purchased.the necessary land to be used as sites for lighthouse depots
(1)at Newport, Rhode Island, or elsewhere on Narragansett Bay;
(2)at Portland, Maine; and
(3)at or in the vicinity of Rockland, Maine.” " Sec. 3. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to Old Light Tower, Cape Henry, Va., to be conveyed to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.convey by quitclaim deed to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, subject to the conditions hereinafter specified, the land constituting the site for the Old Light Tower at Cape Henry, Virginia, described by metes and bounds as follows, shown on blue print of drawing numbered 306, dated January 31, 1925, on file in the office of the Superintendent of Lighthouses, Baltimore, Maryland: Beginning for the same at Point A, which Point A is Description.south twenty degrees west fifty-five and seventy-five one-hundredths feet from the center of Old Light Tower and running thence north seventy degrees west one hundred and thirty-five feet to B; thence north twenty degrees east two hundred and sixty-five feet more or less to C; thence along the south side of the ten-foot concrete road to the intersection at D; thence along the south side of eighteen-foot military road to E; thence south twenty degrees west nineteen feet more or less to F; thence north seventy degrees west three hundred and eighty-five feet to A, the point of beginning, containing approximately one and seventy-seven one-hundredths acres of land, together with the abandoned lighthouse tower thereon, reserving to the United States a right of way for the water main now running Rights of way retained.through such site, together with the right of ingress and egress to the valve on such water main and for the purpose of maintaining and making repairs to such water main. The property herein authorized to be conveyed shall be preserved Preservation and use of property.by such association solely for its historic interest, and shall be open to the public at reasonable times and on reasonable terms. The deed executed by the Secretary under the provisions of this section shall contain the express condition that if such association shall at any time cease to carry out the provisions of this section, or shall at Reversion, if conditions herein unfulfilled.any time use such property or permit its use for other purposes, or shall attempt to alienate such property, title thereto shall revert to the United States. Approved, June 18, 1930.