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Public Law 75–135
To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey to the Board of Education of New Hanover County, North Carolina, portion of marine-hospital reservation not needed for marine-hospital purposes”, approved July 10, 1912 (37 Stat. 191).
Approved April 9, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey to the Board of Education of New Hanover County, North Carolina, portion of marine-hospital reservation not needed for marine-hospital purposes”, approved July 10, 1912 (37 Stat. 191).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to amend the quitclaim deed which was executed by the Secretary of the Treasury under date of July 24, 1912, pursuant to the authority contained in an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey to the Board of Education of New Hanover County, North Carolina, a portion of the marine-hospital reservation not needed for marine-hospital
purposes”, approved July 10, 1912 (37 Stat. 191), so as to provide, in lieu of the limitation that the land is to be “used exclusively for industrial-school purposes”, that it may be used for any public purpose or
Reversionary provision.
purposes, and to provide that the title to said land revert to the United States of America if at any time the land or any building erected thereon shall cease to be used for a public purpose.
Approved, April 9, 1938.