Chapter 856. Authorizing the sale of all of the interest and rights of the United States of America in the Columbia Arsenal property, situated in the ninth civil district of Maury County, Tennessee, and providing that the net fund be deposited in the military post construction fund, and for the repeal of Public
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CHAP. 856.— An Act Authorizing the sale of all of the interest and rights of the United States of America in the Columbia Arsenal property, situated in the ninth civil district of Maury County, Tennessee, and providing that the net fund be deposited in the military post construction fund, and for the repeal of Public Law Numbered 542 (H. R. 12479), Seventieth Congress. July 3, 1930.[[H. R. 2156](/us/bill/71/hr/2156).][[Public, No. 529](/us/pl/71/529).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryColumbia Arsenal, Tenn.Sale of, to Columbia Military Academy, Tenn. of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell to and to make proper deed of conveyance to The Columbia Military Academy, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Tennessee, all of the title, interest, limitations, conditions, restrictions, reservations, and rights owned and held by the United States of America as defined in Public Act Numbered 152 of the second session of the Fifty-eighthVol. 33, p. 296, amended.
Congress and in the deed of the United States of America to the lands conveyed therein to The Columbia Military Academy, of record in book numbered 105, volume 4, page 495, in the register’s office of Maury County, Tennessee. Said limitations, conditions, restrictions,Restrictions, etc. reservations, and rights are defined in said public Act and deed as follows: " “That the Secretary of War shall be a visitor to said school, andAuthority of Secretary of War. have and exercise full rights of visitation, and he shall have the right and authority in his discretion, as the public interest requires, to prescribe the military curriculum of said school, and to enforce compliance therewith, and upon refusal or failure of the authorities of said school to comply with the rules and regulations so prescribed by the Secretary of War, or the terms of the Act, he is authorized to declare that the estate of the grantee has terminated and the property shall revert to the United States, and the Secretary of War is authorized thereupon to take possession of said property in behalf of the United States, and shall further reserve to the United States the 1010right to use such lands for military purposes at any time upon demand of the President of the United States.
” " Description.Said lands to which said limitations, conditions, restrictions, reservations, and rights attach are described as situated in the ninth civil district of Maury County, Tennessee, and were formerly used as an arsenal and known as the Columbia Arsenal property, the same comprising about sixty-seven acres, more or less, and generally bounded by the Hampshire Pike, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Mount Pleasant Pike, and a public road connecting the two pikes above named.
Rights, etc., transferred to grantee.All of said limitations, conditions, restrictions, reservations, and rights of the United States of America, whether legal or equitable, vested or contingent, in and to said lands as specified and defined in said public law and deed and belonging to the United States of America will pass to the purchaser under the sale herein authorized. Sec. 2. Payment. The Secretary of War shall accept the bid of The Columbia Military Academy, a body corporate, to purchase the rights of the United States of America in and to said property hereinabove defined, said bid being for the sum of $10,000, and to be paid in cash.
Sec. 3. Disposition of. That the said sum of $10,000 shall be deposited in the Treasury to the fund known as the military post construction fund. Sec. 4. Vol. 45, p. 766, repealed. Public Law Numbered 542, Seventieth Congress (H. R. 12479), is hereby repealed. Approved, July 3, 1930.