From Public Law 755, 81st Congress, approved by the President of the United States, September 6, 1950:
"An Act To authorize the conveyance of a portion of the United States military reservation at Ft. Schuyler, New York to the State of New York for use as a maritime school and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army is authorized to convey to the State of New York all that portion of the United States Miliatary Reservation at Fort Schuyler, New York, together with all improvements thereon (herein follows a detailed description of the property).
Sec. 2. Such conveyance shall contain the express provison that if the State of New York shall fail to maintain so much of the military structures and appurtenances presently erected, which formerly constituted the old fort, as a historical monument reasonably available to the public, and if the State of New York shall at any time cease to use the property so conveyed as a maritime school, devoted EXCLUSIVELY to the purposes of nautical education, title thereto shall revert to the United States."
Sec. 3. (permits the Army or Navy to reoccupy and use the campus, or any part thereof, during time of war.)
Sec. 4. (clears up the relationship of the portion of the property to be tranfered to the State of New York to the portion of the property remaining in the hands of the U.S. Navy (i.e., the Naval Reserve Center))
Sec. 5. (permits the U.S. Coast Guard to continue to occupy and operate the Throgg's Neck Light Station on the property for as long as the Coast Guard deems necessary)"
Alumni Association's Notes:
a) An amendment to this law in the late 1950's, passed by Congress, during the height of the Interstate Highway Construction period, allowed the State of New York to build the Throgg's Neck Bridge across the property.
b) The list above, Sections 1 through 5, and note 'a', is a complete and accurate list of all the activities permitted to go on at Ft. Schulyer and on the surrounding property.
c) Emphasis, where shown, has been inserted by the Alumni Association.
