Volume 45 · 1556
Public Law 70–694
Transferring a portion of the lighthouse reservation, Ship Island, Mississippi, to the jurisdiction and control of the War Department.
Approved March 4, 1929
Statutory text
An Act
Transferring a portion of the lighthouse reservation, Ship Island, Mississippi, to the jurisdiction and control of the War Department.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That so much of the lighthouse reservation, Ship Island, Mississippi, as the Secretary
Portion transferred to Ship Island Military Reservation.
of Commerce deems unnecessary for lighthouse purposes is transferred to and made a part of Ship Island Military Reservation under the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of War. Such Ship
Military reservation to be appraised and sold.
Vol. 44, p. 205.
Island Military Reservation, with the portion of the Ship Island lighthouse reservation hereby made a part of it, shall be reappraised and disposed of subject to all the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the use for permanent construction at military posts of the proceeds from the sale of surplus War Department real property, and authorizing the sale of certain military reservations, and for other purposes,” approved March 12, 1926.
Approved, March 4, 1929.