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 73d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 665, 666. JUNE 19, 1934. of another of such offices, which shall have been inadvertently pre- paid at the drop or local letter rate of postage only, may be for- warded to its destination through the proper office, charged with the amount of the deficient postage, to be collected on delivery ." Approved, June 19, 1934 . (CHAPTER 666 .1 AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey a part of the post-office sit e in San Antonio, Texas, to the city of San A ntonio, T exas, for street p urposes, in exchange for land for the benefit of the Government property . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to permit the widening of North Alamo Street adjacent to the post- office site at San Antonio, Texas, and to make uniform the dimen- sions of the post-office site, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey by the usual quitclaim deed to the city of San Antonio, Texas, for street purposes only, a tract of land forming a part of the post-office site described as lying and being in the city of San Antonio, Texas- Beginning at the intersection of the east line of North Alamo Street fifty-five and six tenths feet wide with the south line of Travis Street fifty -five a nd six tenths feet w ide, sa id poi nt of b egin- ning being the northwest corner of the present post-office site, run- ning thence in an eastwardly direction a distance of ten and ten one-hundredths feet to a point in the line of Travis Street in a southwa rdly directio n a distance of three hundr ed and three and four-tenths feet to a point ; thence in an eastwardly direction a distance of twenty-three and ninety-three one-hundredths feet to a point in the present north line of East Houston Street ; thence in a southwesterly direction thirty-four and fifty-six one-hundredths feet to a point, being the intersection of the present north line of East Houston Street with the present east line of North Alamo Street ; thence in a northwardly direction with the present line of North Alamo Street fifty-five and six tenths feet wide a distance of three hundred and eight and five tenths feet to the point or place of beginning, in consideration of the conveyance by the city of San Antonio, Texas, to the United States of a valid title in and to the triangular parcel of land which is a part of East Houston Street as now laid out and described as Beginning at a point being the intersection of the north line of East Houston Street as now laid out with the westerly line of Avenue E as now laid out seventy-eight feet wide, said point of beginning also being the present southeasterly corner of the post-office site running thence in a northeastwardly direction with the line of Ave- nue E a distance of twenty-six and forty-three one-hundredths feet to a point ; thence in a southwestwardly direction a distance of one hundred and thirteen and seventeen one-hundredths feet to a point in the line of East Houston Street as now laid out eastwardly dir ection with t he line of Ea st Houston Str eet as now laid out a distance of ninety-five and seventy-five one-hundredths feet to the po int or place of begi nning. Approved, June 19, 1934. 86637'-34 -21 June 19, 1934. ]H.R. 8514 .] (Public, No . 430 .] San Antonio, Tex . Conveyance to, au- thorized . Description of tract . Consideration.
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