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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 456 -JUNE 12, 1948 [CHAPTER 456] AN ACT To amend an Act of Congress approved February 9, 1881, which granted a right-of-way for railroad purposes through certain lands of the United States in Richmond County, New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of Congress approved February 9, 1881, entitled "An act to grant the right of way for railroad purposes through certain lands of the United States in Richmond County, New York", being chapter 41 of the Public Acts of the Forty-sixth Congress of the United States passed at the third session thereof be, and it hereby is, altered or amended to read: "That a right-of-way by tunnel through the lands of the United States, now occupied by the Coast Guard in the Department of the Treasury and by the Post Office Department, in the vicinity of the municipal ferry terminal at Saint George, in the Borough and County of Richmond, in the City and State of New York, is hereby granted to The Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company, its successors and assigns, for the purpose of widening, to facilitate the reconstruction of said municipal ferry terminal, the existing tunnel constructed pursu- ant to the grant contained in the Act hereby amended, and for the purpose of continuing the operation of its railroad through the same, in, through, and beneath the surface of all that plot, piece, or parcel of land, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point where the prolongation southerly of the easterly side of Richmond Terrace intercepts the south line of South Street, said point having coordinates south five thousand eight hundred fifteen and six hundred forty-four one-thousandths, west eight thousand eight hundred eighty-six and eight hundred fifty one-thousandths in the City of New York coordi- nate system established by the United States Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey for the Borough of Richmond, and running thence in an easterly direction along said south side of South Street by a curve to the right with a radius of three hundred five and sixty-five one-hundredths feet, a distance of twenty-one and three one-hundredths feet, to a point; thence continuing along said south line of South Street north eighty degrees twelve minutes twenty-six and five-tenths seconds east, thirty- six and forty-nine one-hundredths feet to a point; thence south four- teen degrees two minutes eighteen seconds west, twenty-seven and seventy-three one-hundredths feet to a point; thence south thirty-three degrees thirty-seven minutes forty-five seconds west, twenty-five and twenty-six one-hundredths feet to a point; thence south ten degrees fourteen minutes twenty-seven seconds west, four hundred forty-four and sixty-two one-hundredths feet to a point in the dividing line between the lands of the United States of America and lands of The Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company; thence along said dividing line north eighty degrees forty-five minutes twenty-two seconds west, forty-nine and one one-hundredths feet to a point; thence north ten degrees fourteen minutes twenty-seven seconds east, four hundred fifty-six and sixty-four one-hundredths feet to a point; thence north twenty-three degrees fifty-three minutes twenty-four seconds west, fourteen and fifty-three one-hundredths feet to a point in the aforesaid south line of South Street; thence in an easterly direction along said south line of South Street by a curve to the right with a radius of three hundred five and sixty-five one-hundredths feet, a distance of sixteen and ninety one-hundredths feet, to the point or place of beginning; together with the right to construct and maintain said tunnel for the purposes aforesaid m, upon, across, and beneath the surface of lands of the United States lying in the bed of South 68706--49 --pt. 1-25 385 June 12,1948 [H. R. 60561 [Public Law 6321 Richmond County, N.Y. Railroad right-of- way. 21 Stat. 324.

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