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Volume 69 · 49

Public Law 84–36

To enable the State of Arizona and the town of Tempe, Arizona, to convey to the Salt. River Agricultural Improvement and Power District, for use by such district, a portion of certain property heretofore transferred under certain restrictions to such State and town by the United States.

Approved May 13, 1955

Statutory text

AN ACT

To enable the State of Arizona and the town of Tempe, Arizona, to convey to the Salt. River Agricultural Improvement and Power District, for use by such district, a portion of certain property heretofore transferred under certain restrictions to such State and town by the United States.

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

That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to transfer by quitclaim deed or other appropriate means to the State of Arizona and to the town of Tempe, Arizona, so much of the right, title, and interest remaining in the United States in and to the following described property, formerly constituting a part of the Papago Saguaro National Monument in Arizona, which was transferred in part to such State and in part to such town pursuant to the Act of April 7, 1930 (46 Stat. 142), as supplemented by the Act of July 7, 1932 (47 Stat. 646), on the condition that it be used for park, recreation, public convenience, or municipal purposes, as may be necessary to enable such State and town to convey to the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, a political subdivision of such State, such property as a site for an office building (including facilities and improvements related thereto) to be used by such district:

All that portion of the north half of section 9, township 1 north, range east, Gila and Salt River base and meridian, Arizona, bounded on the north by the south right-of-way line of Van Buren Street, on the east by the right-of-way of the State of Arizona at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Van Buren Street, on the south by the north right-of-way line of Washington Boulevard and on the west by a line parallel to and fifty feet east of a line described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the center line of East Washington Boulevard from which point the north and south midsection line of said section 9 bears south 81 degrees 52 minutes 31) seconds east a distance of 554.5 feet; thence north 21 degrees 37 minutes 30 seconds east a distance of 1,116.12 feet to u point: thence on a curve to the right, having a radius of 655.73 feet, a distance of 198.57 feet, as measured along the arc of said curve, to a point; thence north 38 degrees 58 minutes east a distance of 96.74 feet to a point; thence on a curve to the left having a radius of 221.5 feet a distance of 153.51 feet, as measured along the are of said curve, to a point; thence north 00 degrees 44 minutes 30 seconds west a distance of 210.2 feet to a point on the center line of East Van Buren Street from which the point of intersection of said center line of East Van Buren Street and the north-south midsection line of said section 9 bears north 33 degrees 51 minutes west a distance of 160.98 feet.

Approved May 13, 1955.

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