Public Law 72–477

That, upon the

Buffalo, N. Y.

Consent to name United States party defendant to quiet title, etc., to certain lands in.

conditions herein prescribed for the protection of the United States, the consent of the United States be, and it is hereby, given to be named a party in any suit which may hereafter be brought in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York, for the purpose of quieting the title to, determining conflicting claims to, or removing clouds from the title to the following-described

Description.

real property:

All that tract or parcel of land situate in the city of Buffalo, county of Erie and State of New York, being part of the parish tract, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the center line of Amherst Street extended with the United States harbor line, established in 1907; thence east along the center line of Amherst Street two hundred and fifty-five feet, more or less, to a point which is thirty-four feet west from the inner line of the west wall of the Erie Canal, measuring along the center line of Amherst Street; thence south twenty-three degrees twenty minutes east parallel to said canal wall, two hundred and seven and thirty-seven one-hundredths feet, more or less, to the southerly line of lot 7, as shown on map recorded in Erie County clerk’s office in liber numbered 242 of deeds, page 298; thence west along the south line of said lot 7 and extension thereof to the United States harbor line, 1907; thence northwesterly along the said United States harbor line two hundred and twenty-two and twenty-three one-hundredths feet, more or less, to the point or place of beginning; excepting and reserving therefrom a strip of land twenty-two feet wide lying south of and adjacent to said center line of Amherst Street extending from Erie Canal to the present dock front, for street purposes.

Sec. 2.

Service upon the United States shall be made by serving the process of the court with a copy of the bill of complaint upon the United States attorney for the western district of. New York,

Copies to Attorney General.

and by sending copies of the process and bill of complaint by registered mail to the Attorney General of the United States at Washington, District of Columbia. The United States shall have thirty days after service as above provided, or such further time as the court may allow, within which to appear and answer, plead, or otherwise proceed.

Sec. 3.

Except as herein otherwise provided, such judgment may be rendered in any such suit as might under like circumstances be rendered under the laws of the State of New York, if the suit were between private persons, and such judgment may determine the right, title, and interest of the parties to said suit, in and to the above-described real property.

Sec. 4.

No judgment for costs or other money judgment shall be rendered against the United States in any suit or proceeding which may be instituted under the provisions of this Act. The United States shall not be nor become liable for the payment of the costs of any such suit or proceeding, or any part thereof.