Public Law 70–154

That the Secretary

Public lands.

Grant to Imperial County, Calif., right of way for highway.

of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized, subject to valid existing adverse rights, to grant to the county of Imperial, State of California, for use as a public highway all the right, title, and interest of the United States of America in and to all or any of the following described property, situated in the county of Imperial, State of California, being eighty feet in width and lying forty feet northerly and southerly of and parallel with the following described center line:

Beginning at the common corner of sections 1, 2, 11, and 12, of

Description.

township 17 south, range 16 east, San Bernardino base and meridian; thence easterly along the section line between sections 1 and 12 of township 17 south, range 16 east, and between sections 6 and 7, 5 and 8, 4 and 9, 3 and 10, 2 and 11, and 1 and 12, of township 17 south, range 17 east, and along the southerly line of sections 6, 5, and 4 of township 17 south, range 18 east, San Bernardino base and meridian, to a point in the southerly line of the last-mentioned section 4, which point is eight hundred and twenty-eight and forty-two one-hundredths feet westerly of the southeast corner of said section; thence northeasterly around a circular curve having a radius of two thousand feet concave to the northwest, a distance of one thousand five hundred and seventy and eighty one-hundredths feet to a point; thence north forty-five degrees east, five thousand eight hundred and ten and seventeen one-hundredths feet to a point; thence northeasterly around a circular curve having a radius of twothousand feet concave to the southeast, a distance of one thousand five hundred and seventy and eighty one-hundredths feet to a point in the northerly line of section 2, township 17 south, range 18 east, San Bernardino base and meridian, which point is eight hundred and twenty-eight and forty-two one-hundredths feet easterly of the northwest corner of the last-mentioned section 2; thence easterly along the northerly line of sections 1 and 2, township 17 south, range 18 east, San Bernardino base and meridian, to its intersection with the center line of the California State highway extending

Provisos.

Protection of existing rights.

from Holtville, California, to Yuma, Arizona: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized, as a condition precedent to the granting of said parcels of land for the purposes herein specified, to prescribe such conditions, to impose such limitations and reservations and to require such bonds or undertakings as he may deem necessary in order to protect valid existing rights in and to said lands, including reclamation and

Lands excluded.

public water reserve purposes: Provided further, That the grant herein made shall not apply to the southwest quarter, section 1, township 17 south, range 16 east, San Bernardino meridian.

Sec. 2.

That the land herein ceded shall revert back to the United States when same shall cease to be used as a public highway.