Volume 47
Public Law 72–474
To provide for the conveyance of the Portage Entry Lighthouse Reservation and buildings to the State of Michigan for public-park purposes.
Approved July 13, 1932
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the conveyance of the Portage Entry Lighthouse Reservation and buildings to the State of Michigan for public-park purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the State of Michigan the following-described parcels of land and buildings comprising the property of the abandoned Portage River
Description.
Light Station, situated in the county of Houghton, State of Michigan, and located on Keweenaw Bay, Lake Superior, about one mile northeasterly from the southern entrance to Keweenaw Waterway: The southwesterly corner of lot 1, section 19, township 53 north, range 32 west, principal meridian of Michigan, beginning at the shore of Keweenaw Bay, Lake Superior, at the southeasterly corner of lot 2, and running northerly along the quarter section line to a point one thousand two hundred and fifty feet south of the quarter section corner; thence south forty-one degrees east to the shore of Keweenaw Bay; thence southwesterly along the shore line of said bay to place of beginning, containing about one and five one-hundredths acres, and adjacent parcel of land described as lot 2, section 19, township 53 north, range 32 west, beginning on the shore of Keweenaw Bay, Lake Superior, at the southeasterly corner of lot 2, section 19, and running northerly along the quarter section line one thousand six hundred and twenty-six feet, more or less, to the quarter section corner between sections 18 and 19, township 53 north, range 32 west, principal meridian of Michigan; thence westerly along the boundary between sections 18 and 19, one thousand three hundred and twenty feet to a point; thence south one thousand eight hundred feet, more or less, to the shore of Keweenaw Bay; thence northeasterly along the shore line of said bay to the place of beginning, comprising fifty-seven and five-tenths acres, more or less; the same to be held and made available permanently by said State
Provisos.
Reversionary rights.
for public-park purposes: Provided, That should the State of Michigan fail to keep and hold the described parcels of land and buildings for public-park purposes or devote same to any use inconsistent with said purpose, then title to said land shall revert to and be reinvested
To be recited in conveyance.
in the United States: Provided further, That the instrument of conveyance shall recite said condition and reversionary right.
Approved, July 13, 1932.