Volume 65 · 130
Public Law 82–91
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain land to the village of Highland Falls, New York.
Approved July 30, 1951
Statutory text
AN ACT
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain land to the village of Highland Falls, New York.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to convey, without consideration, to the village of Highland Falls, New York, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to that tract or parcel of land in the town of Highlands, Orange County, New York, described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the southerly boundary of State Highway Numbered 5328 (Old Route 9W) approximately twenty-three feet west of the Stoney Lonesome Creek, and running thence on a line which produced will be twenty feet from the center of the south concrete culvert wall through which Stoney Lonesome Brook flows, south twenty-three degrees west passing through an iron pipe on the northerly bank of the Highland Falls Brook, ninety-eight feet, more or less, to the center of the Highland Falls Brook (also known as Buttermilk Falls Brook); thence in an easterly direction along the center line of said brook two hundred and twenty feet, more or less, to a point; thence north twenty-three degrees east passing through an iron pipe on the northerly bank of the Highland Falls Brook seventy-five feet, more or less, to the southerly boundary of State Highway Numbered 5328; thence along the southerly boundary of State Highway Numbered 5328 north fifty-one degrees fifty-seven minutes thirteen seconds west twenty-three feet, more or less, to an angle in the southerly boundary of said highway; thence north fifty-eight degrees thirteen minutes forty-nine seconds west one hundred nineteen and sixty one-hundredths feet; thence north seventy degrees twenty-six minutes eleven seconds west seventy-nine feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.
Sec. 2.
The deed effecting the conveyance provided for in section 1 shall contain (a) such provisions as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Army to insure that the property is used for the con- struction of a filtration plant or other similar purpose; (b) a provision that the construction shall be performed and the property used in such manner as not to interfere with the Government’s use of its property in the vicinity; (c) a provision that the filtration plant or other similar improvement shall be completed not later than ten years from the date of enactment of this Act. In the event of failure on the part of the village of Highland Falls to make such improvements within the period specified, title to the property shall thereupon revert to the United States.
Approved July 30, 1951.