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Volume 50 · 26

Public Law 75–27

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 March 4, 1937

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

San Diego, Calif.

Exchange of certain lands 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, free from all encumbrances and without cost to the United States, all right, title, and interest in and to the lands contained within the following-described area: Beginning at the intersection of the southeasterly line

Tract ceded by city.

of Harasthy Street with mean high-tide line of the Bay of San Diego, as said mean high-tide line was established by that certain superior court action numbered 35473; thence southwesterly along the southwesterly prolongation of the southeasterly line of Harasthy Street a distance of one hundred and fifty-nine and sixty-six one-hundredths feet to an intersection with the northeasterly Marine Base boundary line; thence north sixty degrees thirty-four minutes fifty-nine seconds west along the said Marine Base boundary line a distance of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine and eleven one-hundredths feet to its intersection with the said mean high-tide line of the Bay of San Diego; thence in a general southeasterly direction, following along the said mean high-tide line to the point or place of beginning, containing five and twenty-four-hundred-and-seventy-four ten-thousandths acres of land; also approximately five hundred and forty-four acres of pueblo lands, owned by the city of San Diego, more particularly described as follows: The easterly half of pueblo lot 1300; all of pueblo lot 1309 ; all of pueblo lot 1310; all of that portion of pueblo lot 1311 lying easterly of Pacific Highway and southerly of Miramar Road; all of that portion of pueblo lot 1314 lying southerly of Miramar Road; all of that portion of pueblo lot 1315 lying southerly of Miramar Road; all of that portion of the westerly half of pueblo lot 1316 lying southerly of Miramar Road; said pueblo lands being according to the map thereof made by James Pascoe in 1870, a certified copy of which map is filed as miscellaneous map numbered 36 in the office of the county recorder of San Diego County, California; said lands being desired by the Navy Department for national defense, and particularly for the purpose of establishing and maintaining thereon a rifle range, together with barracks and other structures incident thereto.

Lands transferred to city.

The said Secretary of the Navy is also authorized hereby to transfer to the city of San Diego, California, free from all encumbrances and without cost to said city of San Diego, all rights, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands contained within that part of the Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California, containing sixty and sixteen-hundred-and-five ten-thousandths acres, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the southwesterly prolongation of the northwesterly line of Bean Street with the combined United States pierhead and bulkhead line, as said combined United States pierhead and bulkhead line was established in 1928; thence north eighty-three degrees west a distance of seven hundred and twenty-nine and sixty-two one-hundredths feet along the said combined pierhead and bulkhead line to an intersection with the southwesterly prolongation of the southeasterly line of Harasthy Street; thence north twenty-eight degrees forty-nine minutes forty seconds east along the southwesterly prolongation of the southeasterly line of Harasthy Street, a distance of four thousand and eight and twenty-seven one-hundredths feet to an intersection with the existing Marine Base boundary line; thence south sixty degrees thirty-four minutes fifty-nine seconds east along the said Marine Base boundary line a distance of six hundred and seventy-seven and eighty-eight one-hundredths feet to an intersection with the southwesterly prolongation of the northwesterly line of Bean Street; thence south twenty-eight degrees fifty minutes ten seconds west along the southwesterly prolongation of the northwesterly line of Bean Street a distance of three thousand seven hundred and thirty and two one-hundredths feet to the point or place of beginning, containing sixty and sixteen-hundred-and-five ten-thousandths acres of bay area.

Approved, March 4, 1937.

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