Public Law 53–150

That there is hereby granted to the State of Alabama, for public uses, all the lands belonging to the Mount Vernon Barracks Military Reservation, and now the property of the United States, together with all the improvements thereon, and that the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to convey to said State all right, title, and interest of the United States in said lands and improvements, to be held and used by said State for public purposes.