§ 439. — Land for use of Secretary of the Treasury.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC439]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXI--NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
Sec. 439. Land for use of Secretary of the Treasury
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.
(May 26, 1914, ch. 100, 38 Stat. 382; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 425, 43 Stat.
1109; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228,
Sec. 1, July 28, 1933; June 5, 1936, ch. 528, 49 Stat. 1484.)
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 sections 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''.
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under
section 437 of this title.
Termination of War and Emergencies
Termination of state of war and national emergencies, see note set
out under section 437 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 437, 440a of this title.
