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Volume 62 · 1101

Public Law 80–720

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey a certain parcel of land in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, to the University of Minnesota.

Approved June 29, 1948

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey a certain parcel of land in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, to the University of Minnesota.

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

That the Secretary

University of Minnesota.

Conveyance.

of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, without consideration, to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, a body corporate, organized and existing by virtue of the constitution and laws of the State of Minnesota, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to those parcels of real property located in the County of Saint Louis, Minnesota, which were formerly operated as a Federal fish-cultural station, and more particularly described as follows:

All that part of sections 5 and 8 in township 50 north, range 13 west, fourth principal meridian, which is bounded as follows: Beginning at a point in the westerly shore of Lester River, three hundred feet southeasterly from the center line of the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway track measured on a line at right angles to the line of said railroad track, thence southwesterly parallel with said railroad track six hundred and fifty-six feet, thence southeasterly at right angles with the line of said railroad track to the shore of Lake Superior, thence northeasterly along the shore line of Lake Superior to the mouth of the Lester River, thence along the westerly shore of Lester River to the place of beginning, containing six acres of land, more or less, together therewith all of lots 9 and 10 in block 7 in Lester Park first subdivision, according to the recorded plat thereof, but subject, to the right-of-way for highway purposes as conveyed by deed dated February 7, 1945, recorded on March 13, 1945, at 3:30 o’clock postmeridian, in book 765, page 47, in the offices of the register of deeds in and for Saint Louis County, Minnesota: Provided, That the State of Minnesota

Payment by State.

shall pay 50 per centum of the appraised value of the property as determined by the United States Department of the Interior.

Approved June 29, 1948.

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