Volume 52 · 696
Public Law 75–404
To provide for the transfer of the Cape Henry Memorial site in Fort Story, Virginia, to the Department of the Interior.
Approved June 15, 1938
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To provide for the transfer of the Cape Henry Memorial site in Fort Story, Virginia, to the Department of the Interior.
Whereas the Colonial
Cape Henry Memorial, Fort Story, Va.
Preamble.
16 U. S. C. § 443; Supp. III, § 443.
National Historical Park (formerly the Colonial National Monument) established under the Act of Congress approved July 3, 1930, includes Jamestown, Yorktown, and Williamsburg; and
Whereas the Jamestown colonists who established the first permanent English settlement in America first landed and set up a cross on April 26, 1607, at the First Landing Dune in Fort Story, Cape Henry, Virginia, which is now a shrine marked by a cross memorial: Therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War
Transfer of proposed site to Secretary of the Interior.
is authorized in his discretion, subject to such terms and conditions as he may deem essential for the protection of military interests, to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior such part of the Fort Story Military Reservation, Cape Henry, Virginia, as the Secretary of War may select, but not to exceed an area of one hundred feet square, as a proposed site for the Cape Henry Memorial (First Landing Dune), including the site on which the Daughters of the American Colonies have heretofore erected a monument under authority of
Jurisdiction, etc.
the War Department. The Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service, shall exercise jurisdiction over and maintain such site and memorial as a part of the Colonial National Historical
Park, under the provisions of the Act establishing the National Park Service, approved August 25, 1916, as amended and supplemented:
Proviso.
Use of transferred property.
Provided, That the use of any property transferred under the provisions of this Act shall be subject to the paramount needs of national defense.
Approved, June 15, 1938.