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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 495, 496-JULY 8, 9, 1942 seventy-four and eighty-eight one-hundredths feet, to a point in the right-of-way boundary line between the said Charleston Interurban Railroad Company and the West Virginia State Highway Route Numbered 61, said point being eighty-nine and seven one-hundredths feet distant, in a northwesterly direction, from the southerly bound- ary line of the A. J. Baker land; thence, running with and along said right-of-way boundary line, north twenty-seven degrees west seventy-seven and forty-five one-hundredths feet, to a point in said boundary line; thence, continuing with said right-of-way boundary line, north twenty-four degrees thirty-two minutes west two hundred and sixteen and seventy-five one-hundredths feet to the point of begin- ning, containing three and three hundred seventeen one-thousandths acres, more or less, and being a, part of the portion of the nine-acre Baker tract designated on said United States Army Engineers' plat as "3-A" Eforarghm t-o -way and There is expressly excepted and reserved to the United States of flood-control pur- America an easement of way for all right-of-way purposes whenever posss. the same may be required, on, over, in, and across each of the two tracts hereinabove described, for the use and benefit of the United States of America, its assigns and permittees, and there is likewise hereby excepted and reserved to the United States of America the perpetual easement and right to flood such part or parts of each of the two tracts of land hereinabove described as may be necessary so to do from time to time in the interests of navigation and flood control. Desption of con- (b) The two tracts of land described in subsection (a) of this section are parts, and come out of, that certain lot, piece, and parcel of land containing nine and fifty-one one-hundredths acres, more or less, which was acquired by the United States through a condemnation proceeding had in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting in the city of Charleston, West Virginia, on November 9, 1933, and styled United States of America against A. J. Baker and others, a copy of the final decree in such proceeding being recorded on November 18, 1933, in the office of the clerk of the county court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, in deed book numbered 390, at page 527 thereof, to which reference is made for a more complete description. Consideration. SEC. 2. The consideration to be paid by such town of Marmet for the two tracts of land, the conveyance of which is authorized by the first section of this Act, shall be the sum of $3,300, being 50 per Use of lands. centum of the current appraised value thereof. Such two tracts of land shall be held and used by the grantee for the purposes of a public park and recreational site and for similar and related munici- veisersionary pro- pal purposes. The deed of conveyance of such tracts of land to be executed by the Secretary of War shall contain appropriate provisions to provide for a reversion of such tracts of land to the United States in the event the grantee shall fail to use or shall cease using them for such purposes or shall alienate or attempt to alienate any part of them. Approved, July 8, 1942. [CHAPTER 496] July 9, 1942 AN ACT [H. R. 7349] Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the month of July [Public Law 661] 1942. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the rtmentoAgri- United States of America in Congress assembled, That all purposes and Appropriationsfor objects of expenditure under the Department of Agriculture for the w, p. i6. fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, which are provided for in the bill (H. R. 6709 of the Seventy-seventh Congress) entitled "A bill making 652 [56 STAT.

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