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 SIXTY-NINTHK CONGRESS. Sass. I;) CH. 448. 1926. 685 Those `tracts or ,p2mu§ of land in the county of Pender, and ugljfjg °'*°°° °° *’• Stateof __N0rth Carolina, more particularly described as follows: ` Firsttract: Beginningat a stone at the run of Moores Creek, on F’¤*°*¤°*· the east bf sanie, a  twenty poles (in a straightovlingg above the new ironbridgé    thence parallel to William alker’s line, south aixty- `o and one-half  west eleven chains to a stake; thence *south seven and one-ha f degrees east three and six- tenths chains, to a stone at the south edge of theold stage road; thence alongythe south ofsaid road south forty-six degrees east about five t niagara cig  to ca stone; thence sout thixiyg seven and one-fourth  westfourteen chains and twelve li to a stone; thence"nort sixtygtwoiand one-half degrees west ten chains and seventiyifive   astone, a,_corne*r` (4) `of an eight- acre tract which,. e parties of ·the‘first part wnve cd to Governor D. L; Russell, for the   aforesaid, byia deed, dated January, 1898, and recorded in ea er  thence with the,   ofsaid tract north thirtyinine and che-ha f   east   chains and twenty-seven links to a stake, the third corner of the said eight- acre tract; thence, north”iifty-one degreeswest four chains toa stake abouttwenty feet, from the old entrenchment (the creme corner of the eight-a@ tract) ; theneet with the first linereversed north forty- four evreéé- west two chainsto a  gum at" the   of Moores Creek (ihe"iirst‘corner”of the sight-acre tract) {thence np and; with the run ofsaid creek to thelirst station, containing twengfacres Second  Begini1in€`at‘a swcetggum onthe caste ’_ `··edge of S°°°¤d ¤¤°*· Moores Creelqnruntiing t ence   orty-four,deg1*ees‘east, two poles to a stake; thence south fifty-ohci degrees east four polesoiivei inks to a stake; thence south thirty-nine degrees west thirteen poles twenty-seven links to a stakefthence nort fifty-onedegrees west nine poles thirty-one   to aietakelin the edge of MooresyCreek; thence northerly with the creek to the beginning,'containing eight acres more or ess. ‘_ _“ 4 ‘ _ S ‘ N { Tm dmct _ Third tract: Beginning at a cypress on the edge of the run of r ‘ ’ `Moores Creek about twenty feet from 1 the west end of the old entrenchments and running thence in a line parallel to and ten feet distance from the outside or east edge of the old lineof entrench- ments in all the various courses of the same to a stake ten feet distant on the east side of the north end of said entrenchments; thence a direct line to the run of said Moores Creek; thence down said creek to the beginning, containing two acres, be the same more or less (the intention is to include all lands now known and desi - nated as Moores Creek battlefield and now so recognized as swig} and owned bg the State of North Carolina), together with all the privileges an appurtenances thereunto belongin. The aforesaid tracts of land containing in the a gregate thirt M‘i$•T’$`•id¤i°•?xkzl·i°iis'•i°£ acres, more or less, and being the ropertpmof the State of Nortli mm Pw- Carolina, and the area thus inclosed) shall known as the Moores Creek National Military Park. ‘ Sno. 2. The establishmentof the Moores Creek National Military ,,,$‘,{,°;§‘§'n{,§_§%W°;0{,€ Park shall be carried forward under the control and direction of the gtggcgg) lanrinrrom Secretaryq of War, who is hereby authorized to receive from the Hm" State of orth Carolina adeed of conveyance to the United States of all the lands belong;1:ig to the said State, embracing thirty acres, more or less, and descri i ‘more particularly in the preceding section; Sno. 3. That the affairs of the Moores Creek National Military M¤¢¤¢¤¤¤¤¤¢. ew- Park shall be subject to the supervision and direction of the Score- P°“""87°‘ tary of War,$and it shall bethe duty of the War Department, under) the direction of the Secretary of War, to open or repair such roads aemay be necessary to the purposes of the park, and to ascertain and imlfgggg ****1 h*¤‘·¤>¢· mark with historical tablets or otherwise, as the Secretary ·-of Wait '