Volume 52 · 592
Public Law 75–302
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce of the United States to grant and convey to the State of Delaware fee title to certain lands of the United States in Kent County, Delaware, for highway purposes.
Approved May 31, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce of the United States to grant and convey to the State of Delaware fee title to certain lands of the United States in Kent County, Delaware, for highway purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
State of Delaware.
Conveyance of certain lands in Kent County to, for highway purposes.
of Commerce is hereby authorized and directed to grant and convey for State highway purposes to the State of Delaware the fee title to the following strip of land, being a portion of the Mahon (Delaware) River Light Station Reservation, certain property of the United States in Kent County, State of Delaware:
Description.
An irregular piece of land, as hereinafter indicated, now a portion of the Mahon River Light Station Reservation, Delaware, beginning at a point on the Mahon River Lighthouse Reservation line which bears two hundred and seventy degrees one hundred and seventeen feet from granite monument C-2; thence sixteen degrees for a distance of four hundred feet; thence thirty degrees fifteen minutes for a dis-tance of four hundred and fifty feet to monument C-3; thence ninety degrees for a distance of fifteen feet; thence one hundred and ninety-seven degrees thirty minutes for a distance of eight hundred and eight feet; thence two hundred and seventy degrees for a distance of one hundred and seventeen feet. Granite monuments are shown on map of Mahon River Light Station, Delaware, 1907, Drawing Numbered 2975. All bearings are from the observed true meridian.
Sec. 2.
Such conveyance shall contain the express condition that if the State of Delaware shall at any time cease to use the property for highway purposes or shall alienate or attempt to alienate such property title thereto shall revert to the United States.
Approved, May 31, 1938.