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Public Law 75–664

To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to grant and convey to the State of Washington fee title to certain lands of the United States in Jefferson County, Washington, for highway purposes.

Approved August 16, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to grant and convey to the State of Washington fee title to certain lands of the United States in Jefferson County, Washington, for highway purposes.

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

That the Secretary

State of Washington.

Conveyance of certain lands to, authorized.

of Commerce is hereby authorized and directed to grant and convey to the State of Washington the fee title to the following strip of land, being a small portion of the Quilcene (Washington) Fisheries Station, certain property of the United States in Jefferson County, State of Washington, same being granted and conveyed to the State of Washington for State highway purposes:

A strip of land containing thirty-six one-hundredths acre, more

Description.

or less, in the southwest quarter southwest quarter southeast quarter section 22, township 27 north, range 2 west, Washington meridian, having widths as hereinafter set forth on each side of the following-described center line of a “road connection”, to wit:

Commence at the south one-quarter corner of said section 22 and run easterly along the south line of said section 22 a distance of exactly seven hundred and two feet to an intersection with the center line of State Road Numbered 9 (Olympic Highway) as now located and of record in the office of the Director of Highways, Olympia, Washington; thence along said center line, north thirty-six degrees forty-three minutes east, seven hundred and forty-five and nine-tenths feet to the point of beginning of said “road connection”; thence south seventy-six degrees thirteen minutes west, along the center line of said “road connection”, three hundred and forty-eight and one-tenth feet; thence on the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is exactly nine hundred and fifty-five feet, a distance of one hundred and fifty-eight feet, more or less, to an intersection with the easterly line of the southwest quarter southwest quarter south east quarter, said section 22, and the true point of beginning of strip of land being herein described:

Thence continuing on the arc of said curve to the left a distance of eighty-eight and four-tenths feet, more or less, having a width of fifty feet on each side of said center line; thence south sixty-one degrees twenty-six minutes west, twenty-three and four-tenths feet, having a width of fifty feet on each side of said center line; thence on the arc of a curve to the right whose radius is exactly one thousand one hundred and forty-six feet a distance of thirty-two and one-tenth feet, having a width of fifty feet on each side of said center line; thence continuing on the arc of said curve to the right a distance of one hundred and seventy-six and six-tenths feet having a width of fifty feet on the northwesterly side and thirty feet on the southeasterly side of said center line; thence south seventy-one degrees fifty-two minutes west, sixty-one and eight-tenths feet, to an intersection with the existing road, having a width of fifty feet on the northwesterly side and thirty feet on the southeasterly side of said center line, excepting therefrom the right-of-way of existing road contained therein.

Also all that portion of the southwest quarter southwest quarter southeast quarter, said section 22, lying southeasterly of a line drawn parallel to and distant fifty feet northwesterly from the center line of said State Road Numbered 9, said tract of land being of triangular shape and existing in the extreme southeast corner of the above-described legal subdivision.

Approved, August 16, 1937.

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