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iiotthwest quarter southwest quarter, north half southwest quarter southwest quarter, southwest quarter southwest quarter southwest quarter. Section 18: North half northwest quarter northwest quarter, and in lieu thereof to include in said project those lands in the same county and State which are situate in section 33, township 9 south, range 23 west, and in sections 4 and 9, township 10 south, range 23 west, and which lie between the east boundary of the project as limited by said Act and the east boundary of the right-of-way of the project's existing B-Main (^anal and containing two hundred eighty-five and five onehundredths irrigable acres more or less. SEC. 2. This Act shall become effective upon acceptance by the Unit B Irrigation and Drainage District of an amendment to its contract dated December 22, 1952, with the United States whereby the description of the Yuma auxiliary project therein contained or incorporated by reference is revised to conform to the modification of the boundaries of said project as hereinbefore provided. Approved February 15, 1956. Public Law 410

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AN ACT To direct the Secretary of the Army or his designee to convey a six and eightynine one-hundredths acre tract of land out of a one hundred ninety-nine and nine hundred fifty-nine one-thousandths acre tract of land situated in the vicinity of Houston, Harris County, Texas, to the State of Texas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army or his designee is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, without consideration, to the State of Texas all right, title, and interest of the United States, except as retained in this Act, in and to six and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres of land out of the P. W. Rose siirvey, abstract numbered 645 situated in Harris Count}, Texas, and being a part of and out of the northwest corner of a one hundred ninety-nine and nine hundred fifty-nine one-thousandtlis acre tract of land out of the D. W. C. Harris survey, abstract numbered 325, and the P. W. Rose survey, abstract numbered 645, being known as the Veterans Hospital site and having been acquired by the United States of America in condemnation proceedings in civil action numbered 2430 in the cause entitled United States of America against 209.01 acres of land situated in Harris County, Texas, and R. S. Sterling, et al., in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. The six and eightynine one-hundredths acre tract of land to be conveyed to the State of Texas is more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the southerly right-of-way line of United States Highway Numbered 59 (Old Spanish Trail) with the easterly right-of-way line of Knight Road (sometimes called old Main Street Road), said intersection being marked by a Texas Highway Department concrete monument, and being the northwest corner of the one hundred ninety-nine and nine hundred and fifty-nine onethousandths acre tract above referred to, and running thence with the present southerly right-of-way line of United States Highway Numbered 59 (Old Spanish Trail) north 74 degrees fifty-seven minutes east 477 feet; thence south 15 degrees 03 minutes east 600 feet; thence south 74 degrees 57 minutes west 523.55 feet to the easterly right-ofway line of Knight Road (Old Main Street); thence along easterly

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Effective date.

February 15, 19S6 [S. 1959]

Houston, Texas. Conveyance.

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