Volume 46
Public Law 71–408
To authorize the acquisition for military purposes of land in Orange County, New York, for use as an addition to the West Point Military Reservation.
Approved March 3, 1931
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the acquisition for military purposes of land in Orange County, New York, for use as an addition to the West Point Military Reservation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
West Point Military Reservation, N. Y.
Acquisition of land for addition to, authorized.
of War is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, additional land in the vicinity of, and for use by, the United States Military Academy, in connection with the present military reservation at West Point, New York, such land being fifteen thousand one hundred and thirty-five acres, more or less, and including land surrounding Popolopen Lake, land bordering on the River Hudson, and other interlocking plots of land, all located in Orange County, New York; and the sum of $1,500,000 is hereby
Appropriation authorized.
authorized to be appropriated, from any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which sum shall remain available until expended: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall adversely
Proviso.
Highlands, N. Y., water supply.
affect the existing water supply, its sources, or pipe lines of the town of Highlands, New York.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of War shall, by due advertisements in such
Publication of in tention to purchase.
manner as he deems best and calculated to give the widest necessary publicity, call for offers of land for use in connection with said West Point, New York, and if after negotiation he is able to buy said land or any part or parcel or tract thereof, and at such price or prices as he shall deem to be the fair and reasonable market value of the land, then he is authorized to purchase said land for said purpose at such prices; and if any of said offers of land are at prices deemed by the Secretary of War to be above the reasonable
Condemnation proceedings.
market value of such parcel or tract of land, and if after the negotiation the Secretary of War is unable to purchase the same at fair and reasonable prices as herein defined, then in such case the Secretary of War is authorized to request the Attorney General of the United States to institute condemnation proceedings for the acquiring of such tracts or parcels of land as may be necessary for such purpose.
Approved, March 3, 1931.