Public Law 75–656

That the Territory of Alaska, through the Governor of Alaska, is hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the Sitka Cold Storage Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Territory of Alaska, that certain portion of the land granted to the Territory by the provisions of Public Law Numbered 134, Seventy-third Congress,

48 Stat. 502.

approved March 27, 1934 (48 Stat. 502), entitled “An Act granting abandoned public buildings and grounds at Sitka, Alaska, to the

Reservation of minerals, etc.

Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes”, subject to the reservation of all oil, coal, or other minerals in the land, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same contained in said Act of March 27, 1934, said portion of the land described in said Act of March 27, 1934, being described as follows, to wit:

Description.

Beginning at corner numbered 1, identical with corner numbered 1 United States Forest Service reserve, and also with corner numbered 4, United States reserve for public common, as shown on the plat of Sitka Townsite, Alaska, United States survey numbered 1474, tract A, from which point USRLM numbered 1, established in connection with the Sitka Townsite United States survey numbered 1474, marked by a cross “x” and “USRLM No. 1” chiseled on a large bedrock face in the Indian schoolyard, bears north eleven degrees two minutes east two hundred and ninety-three and eight-tenths feet distant, and the southeast corner of the Sitka Cold Storage Company building A bears north twenty-nine degrees thirty-five minutes west three and five-tenths feet, thence north 1 degree four minutes west four and two-tenths feet to corner numbered 2 on the west-side line of an unnamed street, called hereinafter “Waterfront Street”, from which corner the southeast corner of said Sitka Cold Storage Company building A bears south exactly sixty degrees west one and five-tenths feet, thence north twenty-nine degrees thirty-five minutes west exactly ninety feet along the west-side line of said Waterfront Street and parallel to and one and five-tenths feet east therefrom the east end of said Sitka Cold Storage Company building A to corner numbered 3 from which corner the northeast corner of said building bears south exactly sixty degrees west one and five-tenths feet distant, thence north thirty-eight degrees fifty-one minutes west fifty and twenty-two one-hundredths feet along the west-side line of said Waterfront Street to corner numbered 4, a point on the northwest boundary line of said United States survey numbered 1474, tract A, identical with the northwest boundary line of said United States reserve for public common and the northwest boundary line of said Pioneers Home tract; from which corner the northeast corner of the Harbor Store Building, same being property of the Sitka Cold Storage Company, bears south thirty-one degrees six minutes east sixteen and five-tenths feet distant, thence south exactly thirty- five degrees west thirty-six and fifty one-hundredths feet along and identical with said northwest boundary (13–14) line of said United States survey numbered 1474, tract A; northwest boundary (7–6) line United States reserve for public common and northwest boundary line Pioneers Home tract to corner numbered 5, meander corner, at line of mean high tide on east shore of Sitka Harbor identical with corner numbered 14, meander corner said United States survey numbered 1474, tract A, and corner numbered 6, meander corner, said United States reserve for public common, and with a meander corner of said Pioneers Home tract, thence with meanders, along the east shore of Sitka Harbor, identical with the meander line of said United States survey numbered 1474, tract A, of said United States reserve for public common and of said Pioneers Home tract, under the said Harbor Store Building and the Sitka Cold Storage Company building A, south thirty-seven degrees nineteen minutes east fifty-seven and nine one-hundredths feet, south twenty degrees twenty-three minutes west forty-three and forty-three one-hundredths feet, south eighty-two degrees fifty-six minutes west thirty-one and fifty-six one-hundredths feet, south seventy degrees seven minutes west exactly twenty-nine feet, south fifteen degrees fifty-one minutes east nineteen and thirty-seven one-hundredths feet, south two degrees fifty-one minutes east thirty-six and seventeen one-hundredths feet, south seventy-six degrees fifty-one minutes east fourteen and fifty-nine one-hundredths feet, to corner numbered 6, meander corner, identical with corner numbered 5, meander corner of said United States reserve for public common, and with corner numbered 5, meander corner, of said United States Forest Service reserve, and with corner of the said Pioneers Home tract; thence north exactly sixty degrees east one hundred and thirty-two and forty-four one-hundredths feet along the 5–1 boundary line of the said United States Forest. Service reserve, identical with the 5–4 boundary line of the said United States reserve for public common, and a boundary of the said Pioneers Home tract, and parallel to, and three and five-tenths feet south of the south side of, the Sitka Cold Storage Company building A to corner numbered 1, the place of beginning, containing four-hundred-and-seventy-two one-thousandths acre.