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 59STAT.] 79TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CHS. 89, 90-APR. 23, 1945 for highway purposes, and when no longer so required and used, all interests herei authorized to be conveyed in said lands shall cease and determine. Approved April 23, 1945. [CHAPTER 90] AN ACT To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to transfer by quitclaim deed to the city of Los Angeles, California, for fire-station purposes, the title to cer- tain land located at Veterans' Administration facility, Los Angeles, California. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Admin- istrator of Veterans' Affairs be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer by quitclaim deed to the city of Los Angeles, State of California, the property hereinafter described and located at the Veterans' Administration facility, Los Angeles, California, subject to the conditions that the property shall be used for fire- station purposes and that twenty-four hours' fire protection be fur- nished to all accessible parts of the Veterans' Administration facility, Los Angeles. California, without charge: That portion of lot 2, block 23, subdivision of Rancho San Jose De Buenos Ayres, as per map recorded in book 26, pages 19 to 25, inclu- sive, Miscellaneous Records of Los Angeles County, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the northeasterly line of Veteran Avenue, formerly Lookout Avenue, as described in deed recorded in book 5162, page 231, of deeds, records of said county, distant thereon eighteen feet northwesterly from the northerly line of that certain twenty- foot strip of land conveyed to the county of Los Angeles for drainage purposes, described in parcel 1 of deed recorded in book 7376, page 225, Official Records of said county, said point of beginning being distant along said northeasterly line of Veteran Avenue northwest- erly seven hundred and thirty-three and eighty-five one-hundredths feet from the northwesterly line of Wilshire Boulevard, one hundred feet wide; thence northwesterly along said northeasterly line one hundred feet; thence northeasterly at right angles to said north- easterly line one hundred and fifty feet; thence southeasterly parallel with said northeasterly line of Veteran Avenue one hundred feet; thence southwesterly in a direct line one hundred and fifty feet to the point of beginning; containing three hundred and forty-four one-thousandths acre, more or less. The deed authorized by this Act shall contain the express reser- vation that should the city of Los Angeles, California, either fail to use the property for fire-station purposes or furnish twenty-four hours' fire protection to all accessible parts of the Veterans' Admin- istration facility, Los Angeles California, then all right, title, and interest in such property shall revert to and revest in and become the property of the United States, except in the event that such failure to so furnish fire protection is temporary and is due to con- ditions beyond the control of the city of Los Angeles. The deed shall further provide that in the event that all right, title, and interest in such property so revert to and revest in the United States, the city of Los Angeles may remove the buildings and structures then existing on such property upon condition that said city of Los Angeles restore the land as nearly as possible to its former condition without expense to the United States. Approved April 23, 1945. 55 April 23, 1945 [S. 531] [Public Law 37] Los Angeles, Calif. Transfer of certain property to city for fire-station purposes. Reservation.

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