Private Law 83–784

That the Administrator of General Services is hereby authorized and directed to convey to the Americus and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce, a corporation, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the land described in section 2 in consideration of $1. The Americus and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce paid the owner of said land the reasonable value thereof in 1947, in return for the owner transferring said lands to the United States in consideration of $1, the intent of said Chamber of Commerce being that said land be donated to the United States for the construction thereon of a Veterans’ Administration hospital. Such hospital has not been constructed, and said land has been declared surplus by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs.

Sec. 2.

The land referred to in the first section of this Act is the land transferred to the United States on August 29, 1947, by a deed recorded in deed book numbered 36, pages 39–41, on August 29, 1947, in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Sumter County, Georgia. Said land is described in such deed as follows: All that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in land lot numbered 125 in the Twenty-seventh District of Sumter County, Georgia, and lying partly within the city limits of the city of Americus, said county, and more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at the northeast corner of the intersection of United States Highway Numbered 19 and Lester Avenue, thence east along the north Boundary of Lester Avenue eight hundred and thirty feet to a point, thence due north a distance of one thousand two hundred and twenty feet, thence due west nine hundred and seventy feet to the east boundary of United States Highway Numbered 19, thence in a southerly direction along the east boundary of United States Highway Numbered 19 to the point of beginning.