Public Law 445.
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(/us/pl/73/444).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Yaquina Bay Light-house Reservation, Oreg.Disposal of portion of, authorized. That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to convey to the State of Oregon (State Highway Commission), for public-highway and park purposes, the unused portion of Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Reservation, Description.Oregon, containing an area of approximately thirty-two acres, more or less, excepting that part of lot 1, section 17 ; part of lot 1, section 18; and part of lot 5, section 8, all in township 11 south, of range 11 west, bordering on Yaquina Bay which is required for jetty purposes by the War Department, and reserving to the Commerce, Treasury, and War Departments the rights of ingress and egress over the land so transferred and to maintain thereon such facilities as these Departments may at any time require.
The deed of conveyance shall describe by metes and bounds the land so transferred Reversionary provision.to the State of Oregon and contain the express condition that the grantee assumes the obligation of carrying out the purposes of the grant; and provide that the Secretary of Commerce may at any time by letter addressed to the Oregon State Highway Commission notify the grantee in the event it has not begun to perform, or has ceased to perform, any such obligations that the property so conveyed will revert to the United States; and if the grantee does not begin or resume the performance of such obligations within a period of six months from date of such notice, such property shall upon the expiration of such period revert to the United States without further notice of demand or any suit or proceeding.
Approved, June 21, 1934. To establish a national military park at the battlefield of Monocacy, Maryland. 1934-06-21 48 Stat. 1198 694 Chapter 73 2 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 2024-12-11 public [CHAPTER 694.] AN ACT To establish a national military park at the battlefield of Monocacy, Maryland.June 21, 1934.[[H.R. 7982](/us/bill/73/hr/7982).][[Public, No. 445](/us/pl/73/445).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Monocacy National Military Park, Md.Establishment, when title to land, etc., acquired.
That in order to commemorate the Battle of Monocacy, Maryland, and to preserve for historical purposes the breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelters used by the armies therein, the battlefield at Monocacy, in the State of Maryland, is hereby declared a national military park to be known as the “ Monocacy National Military Park ”, whenever the title to the lands deemed necessary by the 1199Secretary of the Interior shall have been acquired by the United States and the usual jurisdiction over the lands and roads of the same shall have been granted to the United States by the State of Maryland.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized toCondemnation proceedings to acquire lands.Vol. 25, p. 357. cause condemnation proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888, entitled “An Act to authorize condemnation of lands for sites for public buildings and for other purposes” (25 Stat.L. 357), to acquire title to the lands, interests therein, or rights pertaining thereto within the said Monocacy National Military Park, and the United States shall be entitled to immediate possession upon the filing of the petition in condemnation in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland: *Provided*, That when the owner of such*Provisos*.Purchase from owners. lands, interests therein, or rights pertaining thereto shall fix a price for the same, which, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be reasonable, the Secretary may purchase the same without further delay: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the InteriorAcceptance of donations. is authorized to accept, on behalf of the United States, donations of lands, interests therein, or rights pertaining thereto required for the Monocacy National Military Park: *And provided further*, ThatTitle. title and evidence of title to lands and interests therein acquired for said park shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to enterLeases with owners for lands unnecessary to purchase. into leases with the owners of such of the lands, works, defenses, and buildings thereon within the Monocacy National Military Park, as in his discretion it is unnecessary to forthwith acquire title to, and such leases shall be on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and may contain options to purchase, subject to later acceptance, if, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, it is as economical to purchase as condemn title to the property: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior may enter*Provisos*.Cultivation of holdings. into agreements upon such nominal terms as he may prescribe, permitting the present owners or their tenants to occupy or cultivate their present holdings, upon condition that they will preserve the present breastworks, earthworks, walls, defenses, shelters, buildings and roads, and the present outlines of the battlefields, and that theyCondition. will only cut trees or underbrush or disturb or remove the soil, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and that they will assist in protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as may from time to time be erected by proper authority.
Sec. 4. The affairs of the Monocacy National Military Park shall,Supervision of National Parks, etc., office. subject to the supervision and direction of the Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations of the Interior Department, be in charge of a superintendent, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the superintendent, under theDuties prescribed. direction of the Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations of the Interior Department, to superintend the opening or repair of such roads as may be necessary to the purposes of the park, and to ascertain and mark with historical tablets or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, all breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelters, lines of battle, location of troops, buildings, and other historical points of interest within the park or in its vicinity.
Sec. 6. The said Office of National Parks, Buildings, andAcceptance of gifts, etc., authorized. Reservations, acting through the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to receive gifts and contributions from States, Territories, societies, organizations, and individuals for the Monocacy National Military1200*Proviso*.Contributions to be deposited to credit of special fund.Park: *Provided*, That all contributions of money received shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and credited to a fund to be designated “ Monocacy National Military Park fund ”, which fund shall be applied to and expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 7. States may mark lines of battle of their troops. It shall be lawful for the authorities of any State having had troops at the Battle of Monocacy to enter upon the lands and approaches of the Monocacy National Military Park for the purpose of ascertaining and marking the line of battle of troops engaged *Proviso*.Approval of marking, etc.therein: *Provided*, That before any such lines are permanently designated the position of the lines and the proposed methods of marking them by monuments, tablets, or otherwise, including the design and inscription for the same, shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Interior and shall first receive written approval of the Secretary, which approval shall be based upon formal written reports to be made to him in each case by the Office of National No discrimination in designating lines.Parks, Buildings, and Reservations: *Provided*, That no discrimination shall be made against any State as to the manner of designating lines, but any grant made to any State by the Secretary of the Interior may be used by any other State.
Sec. 8. Penalty for destroying, injuring, etc., property. If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the Interior, destroy, mutilate., deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statue, memorial structure, or work of art that shall be erected or placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, enclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees growing or being upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, or shall remove or destroy any breast-works, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelter or any part thereof constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the lands or approaches to the park, any person so offending and found guilty thereof, before any United States commissioner or court, of the jurisdiction in which the offense may be committed, shall for each and every such offense forfeit and pay a fine, in the discretion of the United States commissioner or court, according to the aggravation of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $500.
Sec. 9. Rules, etc., to be prescribed. The Secretary of the Interior shall have the power to make all needful rules and regulations for the care of the park, and for the establishment and marking of lines of battle and other historical features of the park. Sec. 10. Appropriation authorized. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act, the sum of $50,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 21, 1934.
To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Colony of Connecticut. 1934-06-21 48 Stat. 1200 695 Chapter 73 2 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 2024-12-11 public [CHAPTER 695.] AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Colony of Connecticut.June 21, 1934.[[H.R. 8833](/us/bill/73/hr/8833).][
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