Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 47 Part 2.djvu/897

PROCLAMATIONS, 1931, 1932. five feet high, with an open cement or iron fence constructed thereon to an additional height of 4 feet z along the entire western boundary of the Weather Bureau reservation as such boundary is detennined after the proposed transfer has been effected; and (3) That the construction of the thoroughfare between Ponce de Le6n Avenue and Salvador Brau Boulevard is further contingent upon the construction by the people of Porto Rico, without expense to the United States, of a galvanized steel fence of cyclone or similar type, 7 feet high, on the eastern boundag of military reservation (Service Company), said fence to be continuous along the eastern boundary from Ponce de Le6n Avenue to Salvador Brau Boulevard and to include no gates or openings of any kind. In the event that the above-described land shall cease to be used for street purposes, or be devoted to any other than highway purposes, the same shall revert to the United States. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 30th day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. [No. 1983] TRANSFERRING TO THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII TITLE TO CERTAIN PUBLIC PROPERTY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 2497 lanuary 8, 1l1li2 . WHEREAS section 91 of the act of Congress approved April 30, 1900, =tie. entitled "AN ACT To provide 0. government for the Territory of talco::~ o~... Hawaii" (31 Stat. 141 -159), as amended by section 7 of the act .qOl.31,:.14~': . approved May 27, 1910 (36 Stat. 443, 447), authorizes the transfer of Vol.34 ,p.447. the title to certain public property ceded and transferred to the United States by the RepublIc of Hawaii under the ioint resolution of annexation, approved July 7, 1898 (30 Stat. 750), and in the possession Vol. 30, p.780. and use of the Territory of Hawaii, to said Territory'; and . WHEREAS on the 18th day of June, 1903, Sanford B. Dole, Governor of Hawaii, acting pursuant to the authority contained in section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, issued 0. proclamation setting_aside certain lands therein described for the uses and purposes of the United States, to wit: Additional reservation of land for customs purposes at the port of Kahului, on the island of Maui; and WHEREAS the lands and buildings at Kahului, Territory of Hawaii, described in said proclamation are no longer needed for the uses and purposes of the United States; and WHEREAS such lands and buildings are desired by the government of the Territory of Hawaii to be used for public purposes by the people of the Territory of Hawaii; Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by section 7 of the act of Congress approved May 27, 1910 (36 Stat. 443, 447), do