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PUBLIC LAW 85.260-SEPT. 2, 1957

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Public Law 85-260 September 2, 1957 [H. R. 4609]

U. S. M i l i t a r y Reservation, Ft. Schuyler, N. Y. Conveyance. 64 Stat. 591. 66 Stat. 727.

AN ACT To further amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the conveyance of a portion of the United States military reservation at Fort Schuyler, New York, to the State of New York for use as a maritime school, and for other purposes", approved September 5, 1950, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the conveyance of a portion of the United States military reservation at Fort Schuyler, New York, to the State of New York for use as a maritime school, and for other purposes", approved September 5, 1950 (Public Law 755, Eighty-first Congress), as amended July 16, 1952 (Public Law 559, Eighty-second Congress), is hereby amended to read as follows: "That the Secretary of the Army is authorized to convey to the people of the State of New York all that portion of the United States military reservation at Fort Schuyler, in the borough and county of Bronx m the city of New York, State of New York, together with all improvements thereon, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Commencing at a point (latitude 40 degrees 48 minutes 23 seconds north; longitude 73 degrees 47 minutes 52 seconds west) fixed on the south sea wall which is approximately 25.5 feet westerly from an angle in said sea wall and running thence in a northeasterly direction 592.5 feet, more or less, to a point on the north sea wall which is approximately 196.5 feet westerly from an angle in the north sea wall (said line running along the easterly edge of a concrete curb for an 18-foot concrete road running in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction); thence continuing in the same course to the point where said line intersects the northerly exterior line of a grant of lands under water made by the State of New York to the United States of America by letters patent dated May 26, 1880, and recorded in the office of the secretary of state of the State of New York in book 44 of patents at page 604; thence running easterly, southerly, and westerly along the exterior northerly, easterly, and southerly line of said grant to a point in the exterior southerly line thereof which is in range with the course first above described; thence running in a northeasterly direction to the point and place of beginning, intending to include within said bounds a portion of the uplands which were conveyed by William Bayard, Junior, and Charles Henry Hammond to the United States of America by deed dated July 26, 1826, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester, New York, on November 30, 1826, in liber 28 of deeds at page 225, and by Charles H. Hammond and Thomas Bolton, one of the masters in chancery of the State of New York, to the United States of America by deed dated August 25, 1828, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester, New York, on December 11, 1828, in liber 33 of deeds at page 296, together'with a portion of contiguous lands under water which were granted by the State of New York to the United States of America by letters patent dated May 26, 1880, and recorded in the office of the secretary of state of the State of New York in book 44 of patents at page 604; together with docks, piers, and other appurtenances; together with such easements for highway or other purposes, over that portion of such reservation which is not herein authorized to be conveyed to the people of the State of New York, as may be necessary for the proper use and enjoyment of the portion so conveyed as may be determined by agreement between the Secretary of the Navy and the appropriate officials of the State of New York."

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