Volume 52
Public Law 75–394
To authorize the conveyance to the Lane S. Anderson Post Numbered 297, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, of a parcel of land at lock numbered 6, Kanawha River, South Charleston, West Virginia.
Approved June 15, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the conveyance to the Lane S. Anderson Post Numbered 297, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, of a parcel of land at lock numbered 6, Kanawha River, South Charleston, West Virginia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the Lane S. Anderson Post, Numbered 297, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, South Charleston, West Virginia, for the sum of $2,250, a tract of land, together with the improvements thereon, situated on the left or south bank of the Kanawha River at lock numbered 6, city of South Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, and more specifically described as follows:
Description.
Beginning at a stone monument at the southwestern corner of the tract of Land, said point of beginning also being the intersection of the northeastern boundary line of F Street and the northwestern boundary line of Eleventh Avenue of said city; thence from the said point of beginning along the said F Street boundary line north twenty-two degrees forty-five minutes west three hundred and twelve feet to a point in the shore line of the Kanawha River; thence upstream along the shore line approximately one hundred and two feet; thence south twenty-three degrees thirty minutes east exactly three hundred and twelve feet to a point in the aforesaid northwestern boundary line of Eleventh Avenue; thence along this boundary line south sixty-six degrees thirty minutes west one hundred and four and eight-tenths feet to the point of beginning; containing seventy-four one-hundredths acre, more or less, subject to the perpetual right of the United States of America to flood such part of said land as may be necessary from time to time in the interest of navigation or flood control.
The land hereinbefore described was acquired by the United States of America by condemnation, recorded in the Kanawha County Circuit Court record book numbered 4, pages 300 and 509, of the records of said county.
Sec. 2.
The deed of conveyance of the property shall contain the following conditions:
Reversionary provision.
“That in the event the grantee shall cease to use the property for the purposes of the organization, or shall alienate or attempt to alienate such property, title thereto shall revert to the United States.
Sewer connection with city system.
“That the grantee shall at its own expense provide sewer connections with the municipal sewer system.
Payment of expenses.
“That the grantee shall bear any expenses (other than the preparation of the deed of conveyance) necessary to accomplish the conveyance.”
Approved, June 15, 1938.