Volume 48
Public Law 73–693
Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of a portion of the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Reservation, Oregon.
Approved June 21, 1934
Statutory text
AN ACT
Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of a portion of the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Reservation, Oregon.
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 convey to the State of Oregon (State Highway Commission), for public-highway and park purposes, the unused portion of Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Reservation,
Description.
Oregon, containing an area of approximately thirty-two acres, more or less, excepting that part of lot 1, section 17 ; part of lot 1, section 18; and part of lot 5, section 8, all in township 11 south, of range 11 west, bordering on Yaquina Bay which is required for jetty purposes by the War Department, and reserving to the Commerce, Treasury, and War Departments the rights of ingress and egress over the land so transferred and to maintain thereon such facilities as these Departments may at any time require. The deed of conveyance shall describe by metes and bounds the land so transferred
Reversionary provision.
to the State of Oregon and contain the express condition that the grantee assumes the obligation of carrying out the purposes of the grant; and provide that the Secretary of Commerce may at any time by letter addressed to the Oregon State Highway Commission notify the grantee in the event it has not begun to perform, or has ceased to perform, any such obligations that the property so conveyed will revert to the United States; and if the grantee does not begin or resume the performance of such obligations within a period of six months from date of such notice, such property shall upon the expiration of such period revert to the United States without further notice of demand or any suit or proceeding.
Approved, June 21, 1934.