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Public Law 74–289

To authorize an exchange of lands between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the United States at Quantico, Virginia.

Approved June 24, 1935

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize an exchange of lands between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the United States at Quantico, Virginia.

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

That the

Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company.

Exchange of lands with, authorized.

Secretary of the Navy is authorized on behalf of the United States to accept from the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Virginia, free from all encumbrances and without cost to the United States, all right, title, and interest in fee simple in and to the following lands, together with all the right, title, and interest in and to the platted streets and riparian rights in Quantico Creek as may attach to the lots conveyed in subsection (a):

(a)

Lots numbered 21, 22, 23, 38, 39, 51, 58, 59, 72, and 85 in the

Conveyances by railroad company.

town of Carborough, county of Prince William, State of Virginia, as shown on the original plat filed with the condemnation of the abovelots by the Potomac Railroad Company, that lie to the east of a line drawn one hundred feet east from and parallel to the present center line of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company, purchased from the Potomac and Manassas Railroad Company by deed dated August 15, 1871, recorded January 1, 1872, in the clerk’s office of Prince William County in deed book numbered 28, page 452, excepting therefrom that portion of lot numbered 22, sold by the Potomac Railroad Company to J. W. Norton by deed dated November 24, 1883, recorded in the clerk’s office, Prince William County, on December 8, 1883, in deed book numbered 34, page 424, which portion is more, particularly designated and described as lot numbered 22—A on plan marked “V. D. 41–4, R. F. & P. R. R. Co. Proposed exchange of lands at Quantico, Scale 1’=100 feet dated Oct. 1, 1932, revised Sept. 14, 1933”, beginning at the United States Marine Corps Reservation corner numbered 154 along the boundary between the United States Marine Corps Reservation and lot numbered 23. south fifty-five degrees sixteen minutes east, a distance of thirty-eight and three-tenths feet to the corner of lot numbered 23, the place of beginning; thence along boundary line of United States Marine Corps Reservation south fifty-five degrees sixteen minutes east one hundred and thirty-one and seven-tenths feet to boundary monument numbered 153 of United States Marine Corps Reservation; thence on said boundary line north thirty-four degrees forty-four minutes east one hundred and forty-one and six-tenths feet to a point; thence leaving said boundary line north sixty-four degrees forty-six minutes west sixty feet to a point; thence north seventy-eight degrees forty-six minutes west forty-eight and five-tenths feet to a point; thence south fifty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes west sixty-four and five-tenths feet to a point; thence south thirty-four degrees forty-three minutes west fifty-three and eight-tenths feet to the point of beginning, containing three hundred and forty-eight thousandths of an acre.

(b)

That certain parcel of land lying on the west side of the right-of-way north of Potomac Avenue, town of Quantico, county of Prince William, Virginia, beginning at a point where the western right-of-way line of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company intersects the northern curb line of Potomac Avenue; thence along said western right-of-way line in a northerly direction three hundred and sixteen and three-tenths feet to a point; thence at right angles in an easterly direction twenty feet to a point; thence by a line parallel to the present western right-of-way line and twenty feet east from it in a southerly direction one hundred and seventy-five and three-tenths feet to a point; thence at right angles in a westerly direction seven and five-tenths feet to a point; thence in a southerly direction by a line parallel to and twelve and five-tenths feet east from the present western right-of-way line, one hundred and thirty-nine feet to a point on the northern curb line of Potomac Avenue; thence in a westerly direction along said northern curb line of Potomac Avenue thirteen and two-tenths feet to the point of beginning, containing five thousand, two hundred and fifty-six square feet, subject however, to the easement for a right-of-way for ingress and egress to the rear of the building leased to the Mutual Ice Company over and through the above-described lot; said parcel being more particularly shown outlined in red on the map marked “R. F. & P. R. R. Co.,—Location Plan Buildings, Tracks, etc., Potomac Avenue; Quantico, Va., dated Nov. 13, 1931, No. 10–D–27”.

Properties to become part of Marine Corps Reservations.

The above properties, when transferred to the United States shall become a part of the Marine Corps Reservation. Quantico, Virginia.

Sec. 2.

In exchange for the above-described lands, the Secretary

Lands transferred to railroad company, in exchange.

of the Navy is authorized to transfer by appropriate conveyance to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company, free from all encumbrances, and without cost to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands contained within the Marine Corps Reservation at Quantico, Virginia, described generally as follows:

(1)

Those two small parcels of land, part of what is known as the “Shipping Board Tract” as shown on the map of the United States Marine Corps Reservation, Prince William County, Virginia, dated June 25, 1920, signed Thomas J. Brady, Junior, Public Works officer, that lies to the west of a line drawn parallel to and one hundred feet east from the present center line of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company, and lying within the right-of-way of said railroad company, such land being shown more particularly in yellow on the map marked “V. D. 41–4—R. F. & P. R. R. Co.—Proposed exchange of land at Quantico, Scale l”=100 feet dated Oct. 1, 1932, revised Sept. 14, 1933.”

(2)

That parcel of land adjoining the present eastern right-of-way line of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company between Fifth and Sixth Streets in the town of Quantico, Prince William County, Virginia, beginning at a point where the present southern line of Fifth Street intersects the present eastern right-of-way line of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad; thence in an easterly direction along said southern line of Fifth Street ten and thirteen one-hundredths feet to a point; thence in a southerly direction by a line parallel to and ten and thirteen one-hundredths feet east from the present eastern right-of-way line of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad fifty-six and fifty-eight one-hundredths feet to a point; thence bearing to the east by a line that is at right angles to the northern line of Sixth Street one hundred and eighty and seventeen one-hundredths feet to a point in said northern line of Sixth Street; thence in a westerly direction thirty-nine and fifty-seven one-hundredths feet to the eastern right-of-way line of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad; thence in a northerly direction along said right-of-way line two hundred and thirty-nine and fourteen one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning; containing five thousand and forty-seven square feet, all as more particularly shown in yellow on the map marked “V. D. 41–101—R. F. & P. R. R. Co. Easement desired from U. S. Govt. of Quantico, Va., dated Sept. 12, 1932”.

Approved, June 24, 1935.

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