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Volume 50

Public Law 75–658

Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to accept title to a certain parcel of land at Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Approved August 16, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to accept title to a certain parcel of land at Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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

That the Secretary

Gaithersburg, Md.

Acceptance of title to certain land in, authorized.

of Commerce is hereby authorized and empowered to accept, on behalf of the United States, title, by deed from the heirs at law of Ignatius T. and Elizabeth M. Fulks (pursuant to the leasehold interest created by a contract of April 1, 1899, between the said Ignatius T. and Elizabeth M. Fulks and the Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey), to the following-described property situated and lying in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, Maryland, to wit: Beginning at a stone planted in the ground at

Description.

the intersection of the lines of the lands of the said Ignatius T. Fulks, Vandelia Owen, and Philemon M. Smith, and running thence south forty-six degrees thirty minutes west three hundred feet; thence south forty-three degrees thirty minutes east two hundred and seventy feet; thence north forty-six degrees thirty minutes east four hundred and forty-four and six-tenths feet; thence north seventy-one degrees forty minutes west fifty-three and five-tenths feet to a stone; still north seventy-one degrees forty minutes west two hundred and fifty-two and eight-tenths feet to the place of beginning, containing two and three hundred and seven one-thousandths acres of land, more or less; together with all the improvements thereon, and the rights and appurtenances thereto belonging or appertaining, including the present right-of-way from the entrance of the property to the Frederick Road.

Acquisition of the title to said property under this Act shall be

Restriction on expense.

without expense to the United States, except the expense of conveyancing and the expense of making an abstract of title to said property.

Approved, August 16, 1937.

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