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Volume 71 · A109

Private Law 85–280

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a certain tract of land owned by the United States to the Perkins Chapel Methodist Church, Bowie, Maryland.

Approved August 31, 1957

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a certain tract of land owned by the United States to the Perkins Chapel Methodist Church, Bowie, Maryland.

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

That the Secretary

Perkins Chapel Methodist Church.

Conveyance.

of Agriculture is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the Perkins Chapel Methodist Church, Bowie, Maryland, any right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain tract of land situated in Bowie, Maryland, Prince Georges County, described as follows:

Beginning at an iron pipe set on the south side of Fairland-Springfield Road, formerly known as the Springfield Hill Road, being at the northeast corner of the land now owned by the Perkins Chapel Methodist Church, running south 36 degrees 30 minutes west 328.75 feet; thence south 53 degrees thirty minutes east to the north boundary of Telegraph Road; thence northeasterly to the intersection of the north side of Telegraph Road and the south side of Fairland-Springfield Road; thence continuing in a northwesterly direction following the south side of Fairland-Springfield Road to the point of beginning, containing 5.5 acres more or less.

Sec. 2.

The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be subject to the

Condition.

condition that the Perkins Chapel Methodist Church pay to the Secretary of Agriculture as consideration for the land conveyed the fair market value of such land as determined by the Secretary after appraisal of such land.

Approved August 31, 1957.

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