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Volume 44

Public Law 69–114

Providing for a grant of land to the county of San Juan, in the State of Washington, for recreational and public-park purposes.

Approved February 12, 1927

Statutory text

An Act

Providing for a grant of land to the county of San Juan, in the State of Washington, for recreational and public-park purposes.

Be it it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the title and fee to lots 1 and 3, section 34, township 36 north, range 2 west, Willamette meridian, in San Juan County, in the State of Washington, being situate within an abandoned military reservation on Shaw Island in said county, said lots containing fifty-nine and seventy-five one-hundredths acres, be, and the same are hereby, granted to the said

Payment, etc.

county of San Juan, on the payment to the United States of $1.25 per acre subject to the condition and reversion hereinafter provided for, to the said county for recreational and public-park purposes:

Provisos.

Reversion for nonuse.

Provided, That if said lands shall not be used for the purposes hereinabove mentioned, the same or such part thereof not used shall revert

Mineral deposits reserved.

to the United States: And provided further, That there shall be reserved to the United States all gas, oil, coal, or other mineral deposits found at any time in the said lands and the right to prospect

County roads.

Vol. 43, p. 957.

for, mine, and remove the same: And provided further, That such tracts be subject to the right of way for county roads granted to the county authorities of San Juan County, State of Washington, by the Act of Congress of February 21, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 967).

Approved, February 12, 1927.

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