Volume 46 · 1549
Public Law 71–519
To authorize the Secretary of War to lease to the city of Little Rock portions of the Little Rock air depot, Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Approved March 4, 1931
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the Secretary of War to lease to the city of Little Rock portions of the Little Rock air depot, Arkansas, 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 Secretary
Little Rock Air De pot, Ark.
Lease of portions of, authorized.
of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to lease to the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, for an indeterminate number of years, upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of War deems advisable, such portions of the Little Rock air depot, Arkansas, as are now or may
Rights reserved.
hereafter become available for leasing, reserving to the United States, however, the right to resume possession and occupy said tract, or any portion thereof, whenever in the judgment of the President an emergency exists that requires the use and appropriation of the same for the public defense.
Sec. 2.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized
Boiling Field Military Reservation, Washington, D. C.
Exchange of rights of way across, authorized.
and empowered to grant to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company a right of way, for railroad purposes, in such location as the Secretary of War may approve, across the Bolling Field Military Reservation, District of Columbia, as now and to be
Vol. 45, p. 1303.
enlarged under authority of the Act approved February 25, 1929 (45 Stat. 1303), in exchange, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of War deems necessary, for the right, title, and interest of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in the right of way occupied by it as now located and constructed across said property:
Proviso.
Payment of expenses.
Provided, That the expense incident to effecting said exchange, including grading and relocation on the new right of way of existing tracks and facilities, shall be payable from funds heretofore appropriated or those authorized to be appropriated, when available, for improvement of the landing field at Bolling Field.
Approved, March 4, 1931.