Private Law 86–479

That, subject to

Auburn University.

Conveyance.

the provisions of section 2 of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to convey by quitclaim deed to Auburn University, a land-grant college located at Auburn, Alabama, all right, title, and interest in and to the following described tract of land which constitutes a portion of a forty-acre tract of land donated in 1939 to the United States by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University), and which is essential to the planned immediate expansion of such university: Beginning at a point 336.1 feet north 0 degrees 57 minutes west of the southeast corner of section 25, township 19 north, range 25 east, Saint Stephens meridian in the city of Auburn, county of Lee, State of Alabama; thence continuing north 0 degrees 57 minutes west along the east boundary line of said section 25,1,144.2 feet; thence south 89 degrees 40 minutes west 1,164.0 feet to the southeasterly margin of the Wire Road; thence south 36 degrees 15 minutes west along said margin of the Wire Road 126.8 feet; thence south 24 degrees 26 minutes east 780.0 feet; thence south 10 degrees 06 minutes west 328.0 feet; thence south 89 degrees 50 minutes east 938.9 feet to the point of beginning, containing 27 acres more or less.

Sec. 2.

In consideration of the conveyance authorized by the first section of this Act, Auburn University shall lease to the Department of Agriculture forty-two acres of land, more or less, in the vicinity of such university suitable (as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture) for carrying on the same or similar type research now engaged in by the Department of Agriculture on lands to be conveyed pursuant to the first section of this Act. Any lease entered into pursuant to the provisions of this section shall run for a period of one year from the date of its execution by Auburn University, and shall contain an option in favor of the Department of Agriculture for its renewal for one or more periods, the total leasing period not to exceed 99 years.