FORT CASWELL.

This reservation is situated about 2 miles from Southport and 22 miles from Wilmington, in Brunswick County, and includes a portion of Oak Island, with metes and bounds as announced in G. O. 124, W. D., July 7, 1906. Area, about 2,750 acres.
Title.¾Deed from P. R. Dickinson and I. M. Van Cleef, dated October 12, 1825, conveying tract by metes and bounds.
On June 23, 1888, two small tracts on this reservation were transferred to the Treasury Department for a life-saving station and boat house, subject to the condition that when needed for military purposes the same shall be surrendered to the War Department.
By letter of June 9, 1891, a change in the location of one of these tracts was authorized.
Revocable license.¾October 25, 1905, to the Department of Agriculture to erect steel tower on the site occupied by flag staff used by Life-Saving Service officials for display of storm warnings.
Jurisdiction.¾Ceded to the United States by an act of the State legislature, ratified December 26, 1825, which provides as follows:
Whereas the Congress of the United States have passed an act to provide for the defence  of the River Cape Fear, by the erections of proper fortifications on Oak Island, at the mouth of said river; and whereas it is expedient that the United States should have the exclusive jurisdiction of said Island, on which said fortifications shall be erected:
Be it enacted, etc., That the exclusive jurisdiction of the Island, called Oak Island, lying and being at the mouth of Cape Fear River, or of so much thereof as shall be purchased by the United States for the purpose of erecting a fortification, shall be ceded to and stand vested in the United States, as soon as the proprietors of said Island shall convey the same, or any part thereof to the United States for the purpose aforesaid.
II. And be it further enacted, That the above-mentioned Island, or such part thereof  as shall be purchased as aforesaid, is and shall be ceded to the United States upon the express condition, that the fortifications for which said land is ceded, shall be erected within ten years, and be continued and kept up forever thereafter for the public use.