Public Law 73–83

Ship Island Military Reservation, Miss.

Sales of lands within, to Joe Graham Post, American Legion.

Vol. 45, p. 1556.

That notwithstanding the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act transferring a portion of the lighthouse reservation, Ship Island, Mississippi, to the jurisdiction and control of the War Department”, approved March 4, 1929, the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to Joe Graham Post Numbered 119, of the American Legion, Incorporated, a corporation organized under the

Payment.

laws of the State of Mississippi, all the lands lying within the Ship Island Military Reservation in such State, in consideration of the payment to the United States by such corporation of $15,000; but payment of such sum may be made in equal annual installments over a period of ten years from the date of such conveyance with interest

Receipts credited to military construction fund.

on such deferred payments at the rate of 5 per centum per annum, all interest due to be paid annually. All sums paid to the United States for such land shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the

Terms and conditions.

military post construction fund. It shall be made a condition of the deed of conveyance herein provided for (1) that the lands so conveyed shall be maintained by such corporation as a national recreational park, (2) that such corporation shall erect and maintain on such lands a suitable monument or other memorial to the veterans of the World War, and (3) that such corporation shall set aside such parcel of land not exceeding one acre in area within such lands as may be selected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy for

Reversionary provisions.

the sole use of that organization for the erection and maintenance of a memorial to veterans of the Civil War. If the corporation fails to use such lands for the purposes herein provided, or violates any of the conditions of the deed of conveyance or attempts to alienate such lands, title thereto shall revert to the United States.