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Volume 53 · 1178

Public Law 76–412

Providing for the exchange of certain park lands at the northern boundary of Piney Branch Parkway, near Argyle Terrace, for other lands more suitable for the use and development of Piney Branch Parkway.

Approved August 3, 1939

Statutory text

AN ACT

Providing for the exchange of certain park lands at the northern boundary of Piney Branch Parkway, near Argyle Terrace, for other lands more suitable for the use and development of Piney Branch Parkway.

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

That in order to better adjust the boundaries of Piney Branch Parkway and to make

Exchange of certain park lands in, authorized.

said parkway more usable and more readily developed, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to convey, by and on behalf of the United States of America, to the owners of parcel 69/47, or to such

Location.

party or parties as said owners shall designate, the title of the United States in and to a triangular piece of land containing approximately twenty-two thousand square feet at the northern boundary of Piney Branch Parkway near Argyle Terrace and abutting parcel 69/47: Provided, That the owners of said parcel 69/47 shall furnish the

Proviso. Condition.

United States of America with a good and sufficient title in fee simple, free of all encumbrances, to a triangular piece of land containing approximately twenty-six thousand square feet, abutting the northern boundary of Piney Branch Parkway at its intersection with the eastern boundary of Rock Creek Park. The transfers provided for herein are designated approximately upon plat file numbered 3.6–114 in the files of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The conveyances shall be by proper deed and other instruments containing full legal description by exact survey of the land exchanged, as provided by law.

Approved, August 3, 1939.

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