Volume 52 · 291
Public Law 75–186
To authorize the sale, under the provisions of the Act of March 12, 1926 (44 Stat. 203), of surplus War Department real property.
Approved April 29, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the sale, under the provisions of the Act of March 12, 1926 (44 Stat. 203), of surplus War Department real property.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell or cause to be sold, under the provisions of the Act of March 12, 1926 (44 Stat. 203), the several tracts or parcels of real property hereinafter designated, or any portion thereof, upon determination by him that said tracts or parcels are no longer needed for military purposes, and to execute and deliver in the name of the United States and in its behalf any and all contracts, conveyances, or other instruments necessary to effectuate such sale and conveyance.
Description.
Name of reservation with approximate amount of land involved in each instance: Calf Island, including Little Calf Island, Massachusetts, eighteen and five one-hundredths acres; Great Brewster Island, Massachusetts, twenty-one and seven-tenths acres; Fort Ward, Washington, three hundred and twenty and thirty-three one hundredths acres; Boca Grande (Cayo Costa) Military Reservation, Florida, thirty-seven acres (portion excepted and reserved by Act of
Proviso.
Deposit of net proceeds.
March 12, 1926): Provided, That the net proceeds from the sale of the above properties shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of “Miscellaneous receipts.”
Sec. 2.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized
Camp Taylor, Ky.
Sale of remaining portion.
and directed, after due advertisement, to sell or cause to be sold upon such terms and conditions as he deems advisable, but at not less than the appraised value, the remaining portion of Camp Taylor, Kentucky, approximately thirty acres, which was not sold under the Act of February 20, 1931 (46 Stat. 1191), together with any other
portion of Camp Taylor which was sold prior to the passage of the Act of February 20, 1931, and title to which may revert to the United States because of default; and he is further authorized, if he deems
Appraisal and payment of costs.
it advisable, to have said land appraised again, the cost of each appraisal and all other expenses incident to the sale to be paid from the proceeds of sale and the net proceeds of such sale shall be
Deposit of net proceeds.
deposited in the Treasury to the credit of “Miscellaneous receipts.”
Approved, April 29, 1938.