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Volume 49

Public Law 74–94

To authorize the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Commerce to exchange a portion of the naval station and a portion of the lighthouse reservation at Key West, Florida.

Approved May 8, 1935

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Commerce to exchange a portion of the naval station and a portion of the lighthouse reservation at Key West, Florida.

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

That the Secretary

Key West, Fla.

Portion of naval station transferred to Secretary of Commerce.

of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the Secretary of Commerce buildings numbered 1 and 39, coal sheds numbered 29 and 29X, store shed numbered 29A, and coal wharf A, together with the lands under and around these structures, including a strip thirteen feet in width along the south side of building numbered 1, containing, in all, an area of approximately one hundred and thirteen thousand square feet.

Sec 2.

The Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized and

Portion of lighthouse reservation transferred to Secretary of the Navy.

directed to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy in exchange for the land and buildings referred to in section 1 hereof the old post-office building with land under and surrounding it and extending west to the road on the quay wall. The area to be transferred is approximately fifty-one thousand square feet.

Sec 3.

The boundaries of the foregoing premises are to be in

Boundaries defined.

accordance with plat identified as drawing numbered 643, Office of Superintendent of Lighthouses, Seventh District, Key West, Florida, dated July 1, 1932, on which plat the areas are shown in colors.

Approved, May 8, 1935.

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