§ 42-2-1 Consent to acquisition of land.– The consent of the state of Rhode Island is given to the purchase by thegovernment of the United States, or under the authority of the government ofthe United States, of any tract, piece, or parcel of land from any personwithin the limits of the state for the purpose of erecting thereon postoffices, lighthouses, beacon lights, range lights, lifesaving stations, andlight keepers' dwellings, and other needful public buildings or for thelocation, construction, or prosecution of forts, fortifications, coastdefenses, and appurtenances thereto, or for the location and maintenance of anycable lines, landing places, terminal stations, and other needful buildingsconnected therewith for weather bureau purposes, or for the establishment ofnaval stations or coal depots, or the erection of buildings, piers, wharves, orother structures for naval uses, or for the establishment of fish or lobstercultural stations or hatcheries, or the erection or construction of otherneedful buildings connected therewith or for the erection or construction ofpiers, wharves, dams, or other structures for use in connection with the fishor lobster cultural stations or hatcheries; and all deeds, conveyances, ortitle papers for the purchases shall be recorded, as in other cases, upon theland records of the town in which the land so conveyed may lie; the consentherein given being in accordance with U.S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 17,and with the acts of Congress in such cases made and provided.
§ 42-2-1 Consent to acquisition of land.– The consent of the state of Rhode Island is given to the purchase by thegovernment of the United States, or under the authority of the government ofthe United States, of any tract, piece, or parcel of land from any personwithin the limits of the state for the purpose of erecting thereon postoffices, lighthouses, beacon lights, range lights, lifesaving stations, andlight keepers' dwellings, and other needful public buildings or for thelocation, construction, or prosecution of forts, fortifications, coastdefenses, and appurtenances thereto, or for the location and maintenance of anycable lines, landing places, terminal stations, and other needful buildingsconnected therewith for weather bureau purposes, or for the establishment ofnaval stations or coal depots, or the erection of buildings, piers, wharves, orother structures for naval uses, or for the establishment of fish or lobstercultural stations or hatcheries, or the erection or construction of otherneedful buildings connected therewith or for the erection or construction ofpiers, wharves, dams, or other structures for use in connection with the fishor lobster cultural stations or hatcheries; and all deeds, conveyances, ortitle papers for the purchases shall be recorded, as in other cases, upon theland records of the town in which the land so conveyed may lie; the consentherein given being in accordance with U.S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 17,and with the acts of Congress in such cases made and provided.
§ 42-2-1 Consent to acquisition of land.– The consent of the state of Rhode Island is given to the purchase by thegovernment of the United States, or under the authority of the government ofthe United States, of any tract, piece, or parcel of land from any personwithin the limits of the state for the purpose of erecting thereon postoffices, lighthouses, beacon lights, range lights, lifesaving stations, andlight keepers' dwellings, and other needful public buildings or for thelocation, construction, or prosecution of forts, fortifications, coastdefenses, and appurtenances thereto, or for the location and maintenance of anycable lines, landing places, terminal stations, and other needful buildingsconnected therewith for weather bureau purposes, or for the establishment ofnaval stations or coal depots, or the erection of buildings, piers, wharves, orother structures for naval uses, or for the establishment of fish or lobstercultural stations or hatcheries, or the erection or construction of otherneedful buildings connected therewith or for the erection or construction ofpiers, wharves, dams, or other structures for use in connection with the fishor lobster cultural stations or hatcheries; and all deeds, conveyances, ortitle papers for the purchases shall be recorded, as in other cases, upon theland records of the town in which the land so conveyed may lie; the consentherein given being in accordance with U.S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 17,and with the acts of Congress in such cases made and provided.
