16 U.S.C. § 439: Land for use of Secretary of…

Summary

The Secretary of the Treasury may permanently use a 60-foot-wide strip of fort land. It begins at the fort’s north corner and runs south 63 degrees 30 minutes east for 680 feet to the south corner of the Baltimore immigration station site. That strip lies along the northwest edge of land given to the Baltimore Dry Dock Company. The Secretary may use it instead of buying Dry Dock land so he can connect the station and nearby land (including land from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company) to city streets and rail lines. He has the same power to build and arrange railroad and other facilities as allowed by the Act approved March 4, 1913 (chapter 147, Thirty-seventh Statutes 889). The Interior Department gets equal use of any track or roads built there to reach city streets and railroads from the rest of the fort grounds.

Title 16, §439

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Permission is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to use permanently a strip of land sixty feet wide belonging to said fort grounds, beginning at the north corner of the grounds of the fort and extending south sixty-three degrees thirty minutes east, six hundred and eighty feet to the south corner of the site set aside for the immigration station at Baltimore, said strip of land being located along the northwest boundary of the land ceded to the Baltimore Dry Dock Company and the land of the said immigration station, the same to be used, if so desired, in lieu of acquiring, by purchase or condemnation, any of the lands of the dry dock company so that the Secretary of the Treasury may, in connection with land acquired from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, have access to and from said immigration station and grounds over the right-of-way so acquired to the city streets and railroads beyond, the Secretary of the Treasury to have the same power to construct, contract for, and arrange for railroad and other facilities upon said outlet as fully as provided in the Act approved March 4, 1913, chapter 147, Thirty-seventh Statutes 889, setting aside a site for an immigration station and providing for an outlet therefrom, but the Interior Department shall have equal use of the railroad track and other roads so constructed, over which to reach the city streets and railroads beyond from the other part of the fort grounds.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Act approved March 4, 1913, chapter 147, Thirty-seventh Statutes 889, referred to in text, was a building authorization statute. The portion of the Act covering the Fort McHenry work was section 29, which section was not classified to the Code. Codification This section and section 437, 438, and 440 of this title were derived from act Mar. 3, 1925. See Codification note set out under section 437 of this title.

Amendments

1936—Act June 5, 1936, substituted “six hundred and eighty feet” for “six hundred and fifty feet”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Termination of War and EmergenciesTermination of state of war and national emergencies, see note set out under section 437 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 437 of this title.

§439 Land for Use of Secretary of the Treasury