Volume 53
Public Law 76–192
Authorizing the President of the United States to accept on behalf of the United States a conveyance of certain lands on Government Island from the city of Alameda, California, and for other purposes.
Approved June 7, 1939
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Authorizing the President of the United States to accept on behalf of the United States a conveyance of certain lands on Government Island from the city of Alameda, California, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President of
Alameda, Calif.
Acceptance of certain lands from, authorized.
the United States is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the United States, without cost to the United States other than a nominal consideration of $1 and expenses incident to procuring abstract of title, the examination of title, and the preparation, execution, and recording of necessary transfer papers, all of which expenses are hereby authorized to be paid out of administrative funds available from the Federal Highway Act, as amended or supplemented, but
23 U. S. C. §§ 1–25; Supp. IV, ch. 1.
R. S. § 355.
subject otherwise to the provisions of section 355 of the Revised Statutes, title in fee simple to thirty-five acres, more or less, of lands above the low-water mark, forming a part of what is known as Government Island, as described and proposed by ordinance numbered 681, new series, to be conveyed to the United States by the city of Alameda, California, to be used for public purposes of the Government of the United States.
Sec. 2.
The President of the United States is authorized to permit
Use of conveyed lands.
the lands conveyed to the United States pursuant to this resolution to be used for such Government purposes as he may deem advisable.
Approved, June 7, 1939.