Volume 50 · 652
Public Law 75–655
To provide for the conveyance by the United States to the county of Beaufort, South Carolina, of the Hunting Island Lighthouse Reservation.
Approved August 16, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the conveyance by the United States to the county of Beaufort, South Carolina, of the Hunting Island Lighthouse Reservation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, subject to
Hunting Island Lighthouse Reservation, S. C.
Conveyance of, to Beaufort County, S. C., authorized.
the condition hereinafter specified, the Director of Procurement, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized and directed to convey to the county of Beaufort, South Carolina, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the two parcels of land (together with all improvements thereon) constituting the Hunting Island Lighthouse Reservation, situated on the island known as Hunting Island, in the county of Beaufort, South
Reversionary provision.
Carolina. Such conveyance shall contain the express condition that if the county of Beaufort, South Carolina, shall at any time cease to use the property as a public park for public recreation or as a game sanctuary, or both, or shall alienate or attempt to alienate such property in any manner other than that authorized by section 1 of the joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, approved June 2, 1936, authorizing the development of Hunting Island, title thereto shall revert to the United States.
Approved, August 16, 1937.