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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS. II. CHs. 29, 30 . 1928 . property necessary therefor, and the actual financing and promotion Examination by Sec- Costs. The Secretary of War may, and upon request of the highway retary of war. department of either of such States shall, at any time within three years after the completion of such bridge investigate such costs and determine the accuracy and the reasonableness of the costs alleged in the statement of such costs so filed and shall make a finding of the actual and reasonable costs of constructing, financing, and promoting such bridge ; for the purpose of such investigation the said L . L. Montague, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, shall make avail able all of h is records in connection wi th the constr uction, financing, and promotion thereof . The findings of the Secretary of War as to the reasonable costs of the construction, financing, and promo tion of the b ridge shall be conclusive f or the purpos es men- tioned in section 4 of this Act, subject only to review in a court of equity for fraud or gross mistake . Right to sell, etc., SEC. 7. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to L . L. Montague, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, and any corporation to which, or any person to whom, such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or who shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise, is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation or person . SEc. 8. The rig ht to alter, amend, or repe al this Act i s hereby expressly reserved . Approved, December 15, 1928 . conferred. Findings of tary conclusive . Amend ment. December 15, 1928 . [H . R. 12533.1 [Public, No . 637.] Secre- Lig htho uses . Portion of Dutch Gap reservation, Va ., transferred to Colonial Dames of America . Description . Use restricted . Reversion for non- user . CHAP. 30 .-An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of certain lighthouse reservations and to acquire certain lands for lighthouse purpose s . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to transfer to the Colonial Dames of America in Virginia the following-described portion of the Dutch Gap Lighthouse Reservation, Virginia : Beginning at a stone marked "A" on blueprint numbered 5624, on file in the office of the Superin- tendent of Lighthouses, Baltimore, Maryland, which is designated as the point of beginning in deed dated November 12, 1889, from the city of Richmond t o the United S tates and rec orded among t he land records of Henrico County, Virginia, in deed book numbered 128-A, page 301, and so forth, running thence south forty degrees west one hundr ed and twenty -two and ninet y-eight one-h undredths fee t to B, thenc e south fifty degrees east two hundred a nd twenty-eig ht fe et to C, thence north forty degrees east one hundred and sixty feet to D, thence north fifty degrees west sixty feet to E, thence north forty degrees east one hundred and sixty-two and ninety-eight one- hundr edths feet to F, thence nor th fifty degr ees west one hundred and eighteen feet to G, thence south eighty degrees west seventy-eight feet to H, thence south forty degrees west one hundred and forty feet to A, the point of beginning, containing one and forty-three one- hundredths acres, which includes all of the land conveyed from the city of Richmond to the United States by aforementioned deed, and all of first parcel described in deed of May 30, 1873, from city of Richmond, Virginia, to the United States recorded in deed book numbered 92, page 72, and so forth, except plots D, E, F, J, which is retained by the Lighthouse Service . The property shall be used and maintained by the Colonial Dames of America in Virginia for historical purposes only, If at any time for a period of one year