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Volume 49 · 1903

Public Law 74–752

Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to lease land on the Fort Moultrie (South Carolina) Military Reservation to the owners of certain cottages thereon.

Approved June 24, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to lease land on the Fort Moultrie (South Carolina) Military Reservation to the owners of certain cottages thereon.

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

That the Secretary

Fort Moultrie Military Reservation, S. C.

Lease of land to owners of certain cottages on, authorized.

of War is authorized and directed to lease for a period of twenty years to the owners of the six cottages erected on land reclaimed from the ocean and now determined to be part of the military reservation of Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, the land upon which such homes were erected by the owners in the belief that title was vested in the commissioners of Sullivans Island, from whom it was secured by the owners: Provided, however, That such leases shall contain the provision

Proviso.

Conditions.

that if at any time said property is needed for military purposes the buildings thereon must, upon notice, be immediately removed and the leases canceled, and the further provision that such buildings shall be removed without expense to the United States Government and that the lessee shall have no claim against the United States Government by reason of any damage whatsoever to said buildings or person from any cause.

Approved, June 24, 1936.

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