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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., IsT SESS.-CHS. 388, 389-JULY 27, 1939 District of Columbia, the specific tract of land to be more fully described by metes and bounds at the time of transfer. SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and empowered to lease for a period not to exceed twenty-five years to the New York Central Railroad Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New York and other States, its successors and assigns, for railroad track purposes, that portion of the Rochester Harbor Lighthouse property at Charlotte, New York, now occupied by wye track of said railroad company under the terms and provisions of a revocable license granted by the Department of Commerce, which license expires by limitation during 1939, or such modification thereof as may be deemed to be in the public interest. The New York Central Railroad Company for such use of the property in question shall pay the same yearly rental as stipulated in stated existing revocable license or such yearly rental as may be hereafter determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, at his discretion: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall grant or convey or be held to grant or convey to said railroad company, its successors or assigns, during such time as it or they may hold, said land under the lease hereby authorized, nor any right or privilege to take or remove any of such land or structures other than the property of the said railroad company: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury may at any time during the said lease period of twenty-five years, at his discretion, terminate and cancel said lease, in case said company shall fail to comply with the stipu- lated terms or conditions. It shall also be stipulated in the lease hereby authorized that upon termination or expiration the said rail- road company shall promptly remove from the land all of its property and restore the same to the condition when first taken or condition otherwise satisfactory to the Government. SEC. 6. Section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secre- tary of Commerce to convey to the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park, a body politic of the State of New York, certain portions of the Stony Point Light Station Reservation, Rockland County, New York, including certain appurtenant structures, and for other purposes", approved July 30, 1937 (50 Stat. 549), is amended by striking out "the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park" and inserting in lieu thereof "the Palisades Interstate Park Commis- sion, a body corporate and politic established by compact between the States of New York and New Jersey, authorized by joint resolution of Congress approved August 19, 1937 (50 Stat. 719)"; and section 2 of such Act of July 30,1937, is amended by striking out "In exchange for the property to be transferred the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park shall transfer title to the United States to" and inserting in lieu thereof "The Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to accept on behalf of the United States". Approved, July 27, 1939. [CHAPTER 389] AN ACT For the protection of the water supply of the city of Ketchikan, Alaska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the two tracts of public lands within the areas hereinafter described, situated in the Territory of Alaska, are hereby reserved from all forms of location, entry, or appropriation, whether under the mineral or nonmineral land laws of the United States, and set aside as municipal water-supply reserves for the use and benefit 98907°-39--PT 2-40 1131 Rochester Harbor Lighthouse property, Charlotte, N. Y. License for right-of- way across, granted the N. Y. Central R. R. Co. Yearly rental. Provisos. Restrictions. Termination of lease upon failure to com- ply. Restoration of prop- erty. Stony Point Light Station Reservation, N. Y .. exchange of properties. 50 Stat. 549 . 50 Stat. 719. July 27, 1939 [H. R. 2413] [Public, No. 240] Ketchikan, Alaska. Designated lands set aside as municipal water-supply reserves.

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