Volume 56
Public Law 77–820
To authorize the transfer of jurisdiction of a portion of the Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia, from the Department of the Interior to the Department of the Navy.
Approved December 24, 1942
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the transfer of jurisdiction of a portion of the Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia, from the Department of the Interior to the Department of the Navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Colonial National Historical Park, Va.
Transfer of Jurisdiction of portion to Navy Department.
of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer to the control and jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy a portion of the Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia, south of Ballards Creek and adjacent to the east boundary of the naval mine depot, containing approximately sixteen acres.
Sec. 2.
The President of the United States is authorized by Executive
Provision for retransfer.
order to retransfer jurisdiction over the property to the Secretary of the Interior upon his application when, in the judgment of the President, the property has become surplus to the needs of the Department of the Navy, in which event it again shall become a part of the Colonial National Historical Park.
Approved, December 24, 1942.