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Volume 48 · 1300

Private Law 73–54

To authorize the acceptance of certain lands in the city of San Diego, California, by the United States, and the transfer by the Secretary of the Navy of certain other lands to said city of San Diego.

Approved June 9, 1933

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the acceptance of certain lands in the city of San Diego, California, by the United States, and the transfer by the Secretary of the Navy of certain other lands to said city of San Diego.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary

Public lands.

Exchange with San Diego, Calif., authorized.

of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized on behalf of the United States to accept from the city of San Diego, California, when said city has been duly authorized to make such transfer by the State of California, free from all encumbrances and without cost to the United States, all right, title, and interest in and to the lands contained

Lands transferred by city.

within the following-described area: Beginning at the intersection of the prolongation of the northwesterly line of Bean Street with the United States bulkhead line as established in February, 1912; thence southwesterly along the prolongation of the northwesterly line of Bean Street to the pierhead line as the same has been or may hereafter be established by the United States; thence northwesterly and southwesterly along the said pierhead line to its intersection with the prolongation of the northeasterly line of Lowell Street; thence northwesterly along the prolongation of the northeasterly line of Lowell Street to the United States bulkhead line as established in February, 1912; thence northeasterly, easterly, and southeasterly along the United States bulkhead line as established in February, 1912, to the point of beginning containing approximately 242 acres; and also, all of block 16, municipal tide lands subdivision, tract numbered 1; said lands being desired by the Navy Department for national defense and for use in connection with existing naval activities at San Diego, California.

The said Secretary of the Navy is also authorized hereby to transfer

Lands transferred by United States.

to the city of San Diego, California, free from all encumbrances and without cost to said city of San Diego, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands contained within that part of the Marine Corps base, San Diego, California, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the United States bulkhead line as established in February, 1912, distant three hundred feet northwesterly from station numbered 104 on said bulkhead line; thence north seven degrees east a distance of two thousand one hundred and sixty feet; thence north sixty degrees thirty-four minutes fifty-nine seconds west to an intersection with the prolongation of the northwesterly line of Bean Street; thence southwesterly along the prolongation of the northwesterly line of Bean Street to an intersection with the United States bulkhead line, as established in February, 1912; thence south eighty-three degrees east along said bulkhead line to the point of beginning, containing approximately 67 acres.

Approved, June 9, 1933.

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