Convey Certain Lands in Brevard County, Fla: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...

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Page 12 - STATEMENT OF HON. LAWTON CHILES, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA Senator CHILES. Thank you, Mr.
Page 49 - Temple Sinai, 3100 Military Road, NW, Washington, DC The Reverend James L. Doom, Consultant, Church Architecture, Board of National Ministries, Presbyterian Church in the US, 341 Ponce de Leon Avenue, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Organ Consultants Clyde F.
Page 4 - Incorporated, a non-profit Florida corporation, up to seven acres of unimproved land adjacent to the Visitor Information Center at the Kennedy Space Center. This conveyance would enable the Corporation, to construct, operate, and maintain on the land a nondenominational, nonsectarian, nonprofit public facility for worship or meditation and a memorial to the astronauts, open at all times to any individual or corporation without dicrimination as to race, creed, color or national origin.
Page 8 - dispose of" vest in Congress the power not only to sell but also to lease the lands of the United States. The disposal must be left to the discretion of Congress. They contend the giving of a lease on this property is not disposing of the land. But under this decision of the court obviously it is a part of the land itself. The UJS. v.
Page 4 - Res. 42, a bill to authorize the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to convey certain lands in Brevard County, Florida.
Page 8 - Congress exclusive jurisdiction to dispose of the land of other property of the United States and that there is no power in the head of an executive department of the Government to take such action without specific legislative authority. See 22 Comp. Gen. 563 (1942) and references therein cited. See particularly 14 Comp. Gen. 169 (1934) as to leases. It is a sound rule of statutory construction that the intent of Congress as expressed in any part of a statute must be gathered from the reading of...
Page 15 - ... Corporation, we consulted interested Members of Congress. At that time, however, the Congress did not take up the Chapel Corporation's requests. Later, the Corporation renewed its request to NASA, and we agreed to consider the matter further. NASA was then actively engaged in the defense of a law suit arising from the reading of portions of the Bible by the crew of Apollo 8 while in space.
Page 14 - ... Chapel of the Astronauts, Incorporated, up to seven acres of unimproved land situated adjacent to the Visitor Information Center at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA. This conveyance is authorized in order to enable that nonprofit Florida corporation to construct, operate, and maintain on said land a nondenominational, nonsectarian, nonprofit public facility for worship or meditation and a memorial to the astronauts...
Page 8 - Center, together with a copy of a memorandum offering your General Counsel's comments with respect to the proposed lease. The Constitution of the United States provides in Article 4, section 3, clause 2, that : The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all Needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; * * * The words "dispose of" vest in Congress the power to lease as well as to sell the lands of the United States.
Page 8 - The disposal must be left to the discretion of of Congress." United Stales v. Oraliot, 14 Pet. 526, 39 US 526. In other decisions it also has been uniformly held that the provision confers upon the Congress exclusive jurisdiction to dispose of the land or other property of the United States and that there is no power in the head of an executive department of the Government to take such action without specific legislative authority. See 22 Comp. Gen. 563 (1942) arid references therein cited.

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