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Volume 49

Public Law 74–48

To grant to the State of California a retrocession of jurisdiction over certain rights-of-way granted to the State of California over certain roads about to be constructed in the Presidio of San Francisco Military Reservation and Fort Baker Military Reservation.

Approved February 11, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To grant to the State of California a retrocession of jurisdiction over certain rights-of-way granted to the State of California over certain roads about to be constructed in the Presidio of San Francisco Military Reservation and Fort Baker Military Reservation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That there is hereby granted to the State of California a retrocession of jurisdiction over the rights-of-way covered by a certain grant from the Secretary of War to the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, of California, dated February 13, 1931, to extend, maintain, and operate State roads across the Presidio of San Francisco Military Reservation and the Fort Baker Military Reservation, as heretofore or hereafter amended by the Secretray 1 1So in original. of War, subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said permit as so granted and any amendments thereof as aforesaid. The land and premises over which such retrocession of jurisdiction is hereby granted shall be the whole of the rights-of-way so granted by said permit and any amendments thereof, throughout their entire length and width, and for the entire distance granted therein, together with the land crossed by any toll bridge that may be erected by such Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District to connect the Presidio of San Francisco Military Reservation with the Fort Baker Military Reservation, and embracing the said toll bridge with its approach roads over the rights-of-way so granted by said permit and any amendments thereof.

Sec. 2.

Should the United States assume exclusive control and management of said bridge and roads, as provided in said permit and any amendments thereof, the jurisdiction herein retroceded shall be suspended and revest in the United States for the duration of such control and management. Whenever the State of California shall cease to occupy said rights-of-way and land for the purpose authorized in said permit and any amendments thereof, then the same, including all jurisdiction thereover, shall revert to the United States.

Sec. 3.

The retrocession of jurisdiction herein granted shall not take effect until the same is accepted by the Legislature of the State of California.

Approved, February 11, 1936.

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