Volume 45
Public Law 70–883
Declaring certain designated purposes with respect to certain parts of Santa Rosa Island in Florida to be “public purposes” within the meaning of the proviso in section 7 of the Act approved March 12, 1926, 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 May 29, 1928
Statutory text
An Act
Declaring certain designated purposes with respect to certain parts of Santa Rosa Island in Florida to be “public purposes” within the meaning of the proviso in section 7 of the Act approved March 12, 1926, 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.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the words “public purposes” in the proviso in section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the use for permanent construction at militaryposts 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, shall be so construed as to include and permit any lands being a part of Santa Rosa Island in the State of Florida, acquired by said State or by a county or municipality thereof under the provisions of that Act to be used for recreational, amusement, and bathing purposes by said State, county, or municipality, provided no charge for admission to the grounds shall ever be made.
Approved, May 29, 1928.