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Volume 62 · 200

Public Law 80–232

To provide for the conveyance to the State of Maryland, for the use of the University of Maryland, of the northern portion of a parcel of land previously constituting a part of the campus of the university and previously conveyed by the State of Maryland to the United States for the use of the Bureau of Mines.

Approved April 27, 1948

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for the conveyance to the State of Maryland, for the use of the University of Maryland, of the northern portion of a parcel of land previously constituting a part of the campus of the university and previously conveyed by the State of Maryland to the United States for the use of the Bureau of Mines.

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

That the

University of Maryland.

Conveyance.

Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the State of Maryland, for the use of the University of Maryland, a tract of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, described as follows: Beginning at the stone monument that marks the corner formed by the intersection of boundary lines of the lands now or formerly owned by John and Rachel Keiley (liber S. D. H. 332, folio 113); Sam and — Buckley (liber 47, folio 325); Charles E., Harry W., James E. and Mary E. McNamee; and the University of Maryland (Maryland Agricultural College, liber C. S. M. 2, folio 294) ; near College Park, Prince Georges County, Maryland, and running thence with the line formerly owned by McNamee on the one side and the Bureau of Mines on the other side, south forty degrees forty–seven minutes, four seconds west nine hundred and thirty–nine and forty–six one–hundredths feet to an iron pipe marking what was formerly the Engle-McNamee corner (being part of the north forty–four degrees east two hundred and sixty–two and twenty twenty–fifths perches line of Maryland Agricultural College, liber C. S. M. 2, folio 294) ; thence north eighty–nine degrees thirty minutes no seconds east until it intersects the east line of the Bureau of Mines property seven hundred and one and eighty–eight one–hundredths feet; thence north no degrees thirty minutes west six hundred and sixty–six and thirty–nine one–hundredths feet to an iron pipe marking the northeast corner of the Bureau of Mines property; thence north sixty–four degrees forty–five minutes twenty–four seconds west ninety–one and seven one–hundredths feet along the University of Maryland (formerly Keiley) line to the point of beginning and containing six and three thousand one hundred and forty–eight ten–thousandths acres.

Approved April 27, 1948.

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