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Volume 49 · 1537

Public Law 74–607

To authorize the transfer of a certain piece of land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, to the State of Kentucky.

Approved June 19, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the transfer of a certain piece of land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, to the State of Kentucky.

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

That the Secretary of War is authorized to convey to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for State road purposes, without expense to the United States, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain piece of land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, described as follows:

Description.

Beginning at a point in the property line between the United States and R. V. Hammers and wife, the said point of beginning being thirty feet left and opposite station 905 + 40 in the center line of survey made by the Kentucky State Highway Commission; thence running with the said property line south thirty-one degrees east two hundred and ninety-five feet, more or less, to a point in the property line between the United States and J. S. Bowles and wife, the said point being twenty-three feet left and opposite station 908 + 23 in the center line of survey; thence running with the last-named property line south sixty degrees east twenty-one feet, more or less, to a point thirty feet left and opposite station 908 + 40 in the center line of survey; thence running thirty feet from and parallel with the center line of two-degree-forty-one minute curve in a northwesterly direction one hundred and eighty-two feet, more or less, to a point thirty feet left and opposite station 906 + 58.7 in the center line of survey; thence continuing thirty feet from and parallel with the center line of sixteen-degree curve one hundred and eighty-two feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, as shown by plans on file at the office of the State Highway Department, Frankfort, Kentucky.

Such conveyance shall contain the express condition that if the

Reversionary provision.

State of Kentucky shall at any time cease to use said land for road or highway purposes, or shall alienate or attempt to alienate such land, title thereto shall revert to the United States.

Approved, June 19, 1936.

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