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Public Law 75–689

Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Commerce to transfer to the Government of Puerto Rico a portion of land within the Catano Range Rear Lighthouse Reservation, Puerto Rico, and for other purposes.

Approved August 17, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Commerce to transfer to the Government of Puerto Rico a portion of land within the Catano Range Rear Lighthouse Reservation, Puerto Rico, and for other purposes.

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

That the Secretary of Commerce be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer to the Government of Puerto Rico for roadway purposes a portion of land within the Catano Range Rear Lighthouse Reservation, Puerto Rico, as shown on the drawing numbered 2309 filed in the Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia, described more particularly as follows:

Description.

From a point lettered A, Ninth Lighthouse District Drawing numbered 2309, which is the initial point of the metes and bounds of Lighthouse Reservation at Catano Range Rear Light as per survey dated October 27, 1904, this point being located north eighty-nine degrees sixteen minutes west fifty-six and thirty one-hundredths feet from center of original wooden tower now removed and south eighty-five degrees fifty-two minutes west and fifty-seven and ninety one-hundredths feet from center of present steel rear range tower, thence by metes and bounds as follows: south sixty-two degrees five minutes east one hundred feet along south boundary of Lighthouse Reservation to a point lettered B; thence north twenty-seven degrees fifty-five minutes east eighteen feet along east boundary of said reservation to a point lettered C; thence north sixty-two degrees five minutes west fifty-nine and ninety-three one-hundredths feet to a point lettered D; thence north thirty-one degrees fifteen minutes west seventeen and sixty-eight one-hundredths feet to a point lettered E; thence north twenty-six degrees nine minutes west thirty and thirty-one one-hundredths feet to a point lettered F on west boundary of said reservation; thence along this boundary south twenty-seven degrees fifty-five minutes west forty-five feet to point of beginning; enclosing an area of two hundred and forty-nine and fifty one-hundredths square yards.

All bearings given are true, calculated from magnetic bearings from survey of October 27, 1904, corrected by one degree forty-six minutes west variation.

Sec. 2.

The deed of conveyance shall contain a provision that

Reversionary provision.

should the Government of Puerto Rico cease to use the property for the purpose for which it is conveyed, title thereto shall revert to the United States.

Approved, August 17, 1937.

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