Public Law 74–741

That in order to

District of Columbia.

Exchange of certain park lands in, authorized.

extend Beach Parkway northward to Western Avenue as provided for by the plans of the National Capital Park and Planning Com-mission for the park system of the District of Columbia and to preserve the flow of water in Rock Creek Park and to extend West Beach Drive to connect Beach Drive and Rock Creek Park with Western Avenue, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to convey by and on behalf of the United States of America to the owners of parcel 78/5, or to such party or parties as said owner or owners shall designate, the title of the United States in and to a piece of land containing approximately fifty-five thousand square feet at and near the intersection of Western Avenue and West Beach Drive as pro-posed in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of high-ways of the District of Columbia, being a part of reservation 339: Provided, That the owners of said parcel 78/5 shall furnish the

Provisos.

Condition.

United States of America with a good and sufficient title in fee simple, free of all encumbrances, to that piece of land lying along and east of the center line of West Beach Drive as proposed in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways of the District of Columbia, and extending east to the creek immediately north of the present north line of United States reservation 432 and extending north to United States reservation 339 and containing approximately fifty-eight thousand five hundred square feet: Provided

Private property owners to dedicate strip for street purposes.

further, That the owners of parcel 78/5 dedicate to the District of Columbia for street purposes the west half, forty-five feet in width, of West Beach Drive as proposed in accordance with the plan of the permanent system or highways of the District of Columbia, along their property immediately north of the north line of reservation 432.

Sec. 2.

The dedication and transfers provided for in section 1 are

Parcels designated.

designated approximately upon plat file numbered 3.9–97 in the files of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The dedication

Deed, etc.

and conveyances shall be by proper deed and other instruments containing full legal description by exact survey of the land exchanged and dedicated as provided for by law.

Sec. 3.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as curtailing the power of the Secretary of the Interior to sell the remainder of parcel

Vol. 47, p. 707.

4 as provided for in Public Law Numbered 299, Seventy-second Congress, and should the exchange and dedication as provided for in section 1 fail to become effective the Secretary of the Interior is still authorized to sell the entire area of parcel 4 as provided for in that Act.