Volume 39
Public Law 64–262
Authorizing the acceptance of the gift of the Berkshire Trout Hatchery, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
Approved July 28, 1916
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
Authorizing the acceptance of the gift of the Berkshire Trout Hatchery, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the United States of
Berkshire Trout Hatchery, Mass.
Gift of Mrs. Mary E. Scully accepted.
America hereby accepts from Mrs. Mary E. Scully, as a memorial to her husband, title to the lands known and to be known as the Berkshire Trout Hatchery, located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, together with the buildings, ponds, and other improvements located thereon and the water and other rights pertaining thereto, and the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to receive from Mrs. Mary E. Scully a deed for the said property. The title to said property is accepted upon the terms and conditions prescribed by the donor, namely, that it shall be used by the United States Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce, as a fish hatchery and for experimental work in fish culture.
Approved, July 28, 1916.