Volume 72 · 1725
Public Law 85–898
To authorize an exchange of lands at the Rochester Fish-Cultural Station, Indiana.
Approved September 2, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize an exchange of lands at the Rochester Fish-Cultural Station, Indiana.
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 to convey to the city of Rochester, Indiana, all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in the following-described lands that are a part of the Rochester Fish-Cultural Station:
Beginning at the corner of sections 4, 9, 31 and 32 of township 30 north, range 3 east, second principal meridian; thence south 89 degrees 41 minutes east, 974.2 feet; thence north 26 degrees 34 minutes west, 684.4 feet; thence south 74 degrees 54 minutes east, 1,723.8 feet; thence south 0 degrees 02 minutes west, 170.2 feet; thence south 0 degrees 02 minutes west, 990.5 feet; thence north 76 degrees 24 minutes west, 2,399.4 feet; thence north 0 degrees 03 minutes east, 438.8 feet to point of beginning, containing 51.03 acres, more or less;
in exchange for a conveyance by the city of Rochester, Indiana, to the United States of title to the following-described lands:
Two (2) parcels of land located in Indiana, Fulton County, city of Rochester, adjacent to State Highway Numbered 14, in township 30 north, range 3 west, second principal meridian, part in section 9 and part in section 32 of Michigan road lands, and described by metes and bounds as follows:
parcel 1
Beginning at a point north 62 degrees 43 minutes west, 577.1 feet from the center quarter corner of section 9, in the north right-of-way line of State Highway Numbered 14, 40 feet from and normal to the centerline thereof, thence with said north right-of-way line, north 67 degrees 53 minutes west. 1898.0 feet to a right-of-way monument; thence continuing north 67 degrees 53 minutes west, 160.0 feet to a point: thence north 29 degrees 46 minutes west, 174.8 feet to a point m the boundary of the land of the Rochester Fish-Cultural Station; thence with said boundary south 68 degrees 27 minutes east, 1640.9 feet: south 55 degrees 16 minutes east, 568.4 feet to the place of beginning: containing 4.99 acres, be the same more or less.
parcel 1
Beginning at the center quarter corner of section 9, a point in the boundary of land of the Rochester Fish-Cultural Station, thence with said boundary south 89 degrees 06 minutes west, 50.1 feet; south 33 degrees 10 minutes west, 91.6 feet; south 55 degrees 25 seconds east, 849.1 feet; south 85 degrees 24 minutes east, 90.0 feet; north 71 degrees 14 minutes east, 49.0 feet to a point on the southeast corner of the dam at the west end of the wing wall at Lake Manitou; thence with the shore of said lake south 7 degrees 07 minutes west, 134.6 feet to the northeast end of a wire fence around the raceway; thence south 37 degrees 19 minutes west, 47.0 feet to a point 7.4 feet southwest of the southeast fence corner: thence north 54 degrees 33 minutes west, 1,654.0 feet in part with the northeast right-of-way of Lake Shore Drive to a point at the intersection of said northeast right-of-way line with the south right-of-way line of Highway Numbered 14; thence with said south right-of-way line, south 67 degrees 54 minutes east, 321.4 feet; south 68 degrees 52 minutes east, 67.0 feet: south 71 degrees 21 minutes east, 77.38 feet to a point in the boundary line of land of the Rochester Fish-Cultural Station; thence with said boundary line, south 55 degrees 21 minutes east, 35.47 feet; south 66 degrees 10 minutes east, 53.64 feet; south 83 degrees 18 minutes east, 53.64 feet; north 89 degrees 06 minutes east, 43.59 feet to a point in the south right-of-way line of Highway Numbered 14; thence with said right-of-way line south 77 degrees 21 minutes east, 47.2 feet; south 80 degrees 21 minutes east, 54.4 feet to a point in the boundary lines of land of the Rochester Fish-Cultural Station; thence with said boundary line east 89 degrees 06 minutes west, 50.8 feet to the place of beginning; containing 3.01 acres, be the same more or less.
The above-described two parcels of land contain in the aggregate 8.00 acres, more or less.
When such lands are conveyed to the United States they shall become a part of the Rochester Fish-Cultural Station and shall be administered under the laws and regulations applicable thereto.
Approved September 2, 1958.