Volume 52 · 777
Public Law 75–522
To authorize an exchange of lands between the city of San Diego, California, and the United States.
Approved June 20, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize an exchange of lands between the city of San Diego, California, and the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer to the city of San Diego. California, free from all encumbrances and without cost to said city of San Diego, all right, title, and interest to the land contained within that part of the Naval Supply Depot described
Lands transferred by United States.
as follows:
All that portion of the former military reservation heretofore known as the San Diego Barracks, situated in the city of San Diego, State of California, comprising block 31 of New San Diego according to the map of New San Diego made by A. B. Gray and J. D. Johns, and on file in the office of the county recorder of San Diego County, said lot being also shown on P. W. drawing numbered NT4–4/31–13 (2), bearing the legend “Naval Operating Base, San Diego, California, Supply Depot, Block 31—New San Diego, Transferred from War Department to Navy Department by Executive Order 7451 dated September 17, 1936”,
Lands conveyed by city to United States.
in consideration of the transfer to the United States by said city of San Diego, free from all encumbrances and without cost to the United States except as hereinafter provided of all right, title, and interest to the lands contained within the following-described areas:
Parcel numbered 1.—
Beginning at the northeast corner of block 18, according to map of municipal tidelands subdivision tract numbered 1, filed in the office of the city clerk of the city of San Diego and numbered Document Numbered 100007; thence north eighty-nine degrees fifty-eight minutes twenty seconds west along the northerly boundary of said block 18, two hundred feet to its northwesterly corner; thence south no degree one minute forty seconds west on a line parallel to and distant two hundred feet easterly from the existing United States bulkhead line for the Bay of San Diego, a distance of three hundred and fifteen one-hundredths feet to a point; thence south eighty-nine degrees fifty-eight minutes twenty seconds east at right angles to last-described course a distance of two hundred feet to a point; thence north no degree one minute forty seconds east at right angles to the last-described course, a distance of three hundred and fifteen one-hundredths feet to the point or place of beginning, containing sixty thousand and thirty square feet or one and three thousand seven hundred and eighty-one ten-thousandths acres of land, more or less.
Parcel numbered 2.—
Beginning at the northwesterly corner of block 19, according to map of municipal tidelands subdivision tract numbered 1, filed in the office of the city clerk of the city of San Diego, and numbered document numbered 100007; thence south no degree one minute forty seconds west on a line parallel to and distant five hundred feet easterly from the existing United States bulkhead line for the Bay of San Diego a distance of three hundred and fifteen one-hundredths feet to a point; thence south eighty-nine degrees fifty-eight minutes twenty seconds east at right angles to the last-described course a distance of one hundred and eighty and sixteen one-hundredths feet to a point; thence north no degree one minute forty seconds east on a line parallel to and distant six hundred and eighty and sixteen one-hundredths feet easterly from the said United States bulkhead line a distance of three hundred and fifteen one-hundredths feet to a point; thence north eighty-nine degrees fifty-eight minutes twenty seconds west at right angles to the last-described course a distance of one hundred and eighty and sixteen one-hundredths feet to the point or place of beginning, containing fifty-four thousand and seventy-five square feet or one and two thousand four hundred and fourteen ten-thousandths acres of land, more or less: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may acquire by
Proviso.
Acquisition of leasehold interest in and improvements on block 19.
Appropriation authorized.
purchase the outstanding leasehold interest in and existing improvements on said block 19.
Sec. 2.
There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act, but not to exceed $18,000.
Approved, June 20, 1938.