United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 57
Chap. LVII.—An Act providing for ceding to the state of South Carolina the jurisdiction over, and the title to, a certain tract of land, called Mount Dearborn, in the said state.
United States commissioner to be appointed to assess, with S. Carolina commissioner, the value of Mount Dearborn, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to appoint a commissioner, to meet such commissioner as may be appointed on the part of the state of South Carolina, to assess the value of a tract of land on the Catawba river, at or near Rocky Mount, (and commonly known as Mount Dearborn,) or so much thereof as in the opinion of the superintendent of public works in South Carolina may be important or necessary for the completion or preservation of the public works of said state: And if said commissioners shall disagree as to the value of said land, they are hereby authorized to choose, jointly, a third commissioner, the assessment and valuation of any two of whom, when certified under their hands and seals, shall be conclusive.
South Carolina to pay the valuation, and the land to be retroceded to her.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the state of South Carolina shall pay into the treasury of the United States the amount of such valuation, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to convey to the state of South Carolina, all the right and title of the United States in or to said land so assessed: and from and after the execution of said conveyance, the jurisdiction of the United States over the soil so conveyed, be, and the same is hereby, retroceded to the state of South Carolina.
Approved, March 3, 1829.