United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 152
Chap. CLII.—An Act making provision for the sale and disposition of the public grounds in the cities of St. Augustine and Pensacola, and to reserve certain lots and buildings for public purposes, and to provide for their repair and preservation.
Lots and buildings to be selected for the use of the United States.
Public and private lots, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, required to cause to be selected such of the lots and buildings in the city of St. Augustine and of Pensacola, as may, in his opinion, be needed for public purposes; which, when so selected, shall be kept for the use of the United States; and when the selection shall have been made of such lots or buildings, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be surveyed all the public and private lots and commons in and about the said cities;Copies of surveys. one copy of which survey shall be lodged in the land offices in which the respective places are situated, and the other copy delivered to the city authorities, to be there kept and preserved as other records pertaining to the corporations of said cities.
Sale of certain lots, buildings, and commons authorized.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lots, buildings, and commons, not so set apart or needed for public purposes, shall at such time, and in such proportions or sizes as may be deemed most advisable and conducive to the interest of the United States and the said cities, be sold at public auction as other public lands, and the money arising from the sales paid into the Treasury of the United States:Proviso. Provided, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize the sale of any lot or parts of lots, or other grounds which have been by the laws of Spain or the United States vested in the corporations of said towns, or which have been set apart for churches or burying grounds by the laws aforesaid, or by any ordinance of the corporate authorities of the said cities.
Grant of lot whereon to erect buildings for the purposes of education.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the title to the lot of ground in St. Augustine, known as the Old or Burnt Hospital lot, with all its appurtenances, be, and the same is hereby, vested, in the mayor of St. Augustine, and his successor for ever, in trust, for the purpose of erecting thereon, by the local authorities of St. Augustine, buildings necessary for the education of free white children of both sexes.
Buildings selected for public purposes to be repaired, &c.
Appropriation.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President shall cause the buildings which may be selected for public purposes under this act, to be refitted and repaired fit for use, and the better to preserve them from ruin and dilapidation, for which purpose, the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Part of certain military reservations to be sold, and the proceeds to be vested in the purchase or erection of a store-house, wharf, and arsenal.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to dispose of such part of the military reservations in the city of Detroit, and upon the river Rouge, in the territory of Michigan, as in his opinion may not be wanted for the public service, and to vest the proceeds in the purchase or erection of a store-house and wharf in the said city of Detroit, and in the erection of an arsenal in the vicinity thereof, either upon the public lands or upon a site to be procured for that purpose.
Approved, June 28, 1832.