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Public Law 75–51

To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to accept title for the United States to certain real property to be donated by Mr. Henry Ford and wife for Veterans’ Administration facility purposes.

Approved March 24, 1937

Statutory text

JOINT RESOLUTION

To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to accept title for the United States to certain real property to be donated by Mr. Henry Ford and wife for Veterans’ Administration facility purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to accept on behalf of the United States title to a triangular tract of land bounded by Southfield Road, Snow or Pepper Road and Outer Drive, in Ecorse Township, Wayne County, State of Michigan, containing approximately thirty-eight acres, to be

Use as a Veterans’ Administration facility.

donated by Mr. Henry Ford and Clara J. Ford, his wife, upon the condition that such property be used for the purpose of constructing, operating, and maintaining what is now designated as a Veterans’ Administration facility or which may hereafter be so designated or similarly designated by or in accordance with law, which may include domiciliary, hospital, regional office, and such

Reversionary provision.

other activities essential to the functioning of the facility, and when no longer used for this purpose the property donated to revert to the grantors, their heirs, executors or assigns, the said tract of land being described as follows:

Description.

Lands lying in private claim 31, Ecorse Township, Wayne County, Michigan, and described more particularly as follows:

Commencing at the point of intersection of the easterly line of Southfield (formerly known as Town Line) Road, of two hundred and four foot width and the northerly line of Outer Drive of one hundred and fifty foot width; thence easterly along the northerly line of said Outer Drive one hundred and ninety-three and forty-eight one-hundredths feet along the arc of a curve of radius two hundred and seventy-four and twenty one-hundredths feet to a point which is south seventy-eight degrees nineteen minutes thirty seconds east one hundred and eighty-nine and forty-five one-hundredths feet from the last previously mentioned point; thence north eighty-one degrees twenty-seven minutes fifty seconds east one thousand seven hundred and ninety and sixty-four one-hundredths feet along the said northerly line of Outer Drive; thence easterly one hundred and fifty-six and eighty-nine one-hundredths feet measured along the arc of a curve of five hundred and seventy-five and fifty-four one-hundredths feet radius to a point on the center line of Snow (formerly Pepper) Road, which bears north eighty-nine degrees sixteen minutes twenty seconds east one hundred and fifty-six and fourteen one-hundredths feet from the last previously mentioned point; thence northwesterly along the center line of said Snow Road, north thirty-seven degrees four minutes no seconds west one thousand five hundred and sixty-six and ninety-six one-hundredths feet and north twenty-seven degrees three minutes ten seconds west two hundred and fifty-three and sixty one-hundredths feet to the point of intersection with the said easterly line of Southfield Road; thence southerly along the said easterly line of Southfield Road south thirty-one degrees forty-four minutes no seconds west two thousand and three and sixty-nine one-hundredths feet to the point of commencement, containing thirty-eight and nine hundred and thirty one-thousands11So in original. acres, more or less.

Approved, March 24, 1937.

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