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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 130-MAR. 4, 1942 [CHAPTER 130] JOINT RESOLUTION March 4, 1942 [H. J. Res. 260] To authorize the United States Maritime Commission to acquire certain lands [Public Law 472] in Nassau County, New York. Nassau County, N.Y. Acquisition of lands. Description. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States Maritime Commission is hereby authorized, with funds in the con- struction fund of the Commission, to acquire on behalf of the United States by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, and pay all costs incident to the examination, transfer, and perfecting of title to cer- tain tracts, lots, or parcels of land situated and being in the county of Nassau, State of New York, together with the structures thereon, described as follows: All that lot or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate at Great Neck, in the county of Nassau, State of New York, and more particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point at the intersection of the southerly side of Steamboat Road and the easterly side of First Street, and running thence south thirty-six degrees thirty-one minutes thirty seconds west along the easterly side of First Street, three hundred and forty- one and five one-hundredths feet to the southerly termination of said street; thence north fifty-three degrees thirty minutes west two hun- dred and twenty-four and ninety one-hundredths feet to a point on the high water line of Long Island Sound; thence south twenty-seven degrees twenty-four minutes west one hundred and eight-tenths feet along the line of high water; thence south twelve degrees thirty minutes west three hundred and forty-nine and two-tenths feet still along the line of high water; thence south sixty-four degrees twenty- two minutes east seven hundred and fifty feet; thence north eleven degrees eighteen minutes thirty seconds east three hundred and twenty-three and sixty-seven one-hundredths feet to a point on the northerly boundary line of land formerly belonging to the Whitehead Hewlett Estate, said point being distant along said northerly bound- ary line of said Whitehead Hewlett Estate seven hundred and fifty feet from a point on high water line; thence north thirty-six degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds east three hundred and thirty- four and seventy-five one-hundredths feet to a point on the southerly side of Steamboat Road; thence along the southerly side of Steamboat Road, north fifty-three degrees thirty-one minutes thirty seconds west one hundred and eighty and eleven one-hundredths feet; thence still along the southerly side of Steamboat Road, north fifty-four degrees fifty-nine minutes twenty seconds west three hundred and fifty-one and two-tenths feet to the point and place of beginning. Being the same premises conveyed to Walter P. Chrysler and Della V. Chrysler, his wife, by Henri W. Bendel by deed dated February 16, 1923, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on March 5, 1923, in Liber 770 of Conveyances, at page 216, and there- after conveyed by Walter 'P. Chrysler to Della V. Chrysler by deed dated May 12, 1932, and recorded in the aforesaid clerk's office on May 13, 1932, in Liber 1669 of Conveyances, at page 260. And also all that parcel of land now or formerly under the waters of Long Island Sound, in the village of Kings Point, county of Nassau and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the high water line of Long Island Sound and the boundary line between the property of the town of North Hempstead and the property formerly of Della V. Chrysler, deceased, said point being north sixty-five degrees thirteen minutes thirty seconds west two hundred and twenty-six and fifty- eight one-hundredths feet from a point at the southerly end of the [56 STAT.

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