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PUBLIC LAW 87-750-(3CT. 5, 1962 P u b l i c Law 87-750

October 5, 1962 [S. 2429]

Virgin Islands National Pairk, Saint John, V.I. Boundary revision. 16 USC 398, 398 a.

[76 STAT.

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AN ACT To revise the boundaries of the Virgin Islands National Park, Saint John, Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in furtherance of the purposes of the Act of August 2, 1956 (70 Stat. 940), as amended, providing for the establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park, and in order to preserve for the benefit of the public significant coral gardens, marine life, and seascapes in the vicinity thereof, the boundaries of such park, subject to valid existing rights, are hereby revised to include the adjoining lands, submerged lands, and waters described as follows: NORTH OFFSHORE AREA

25 F. R. 6 4 0 8.

Beginning at the hereinafter lettered point A on the shore of Cruz Bay, a corner in the Virgin Islands National Park boundary, being also a corner of lot F, Cruz Bay, added to the park by order of designation signed June 29, 1960, by the Assistant Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the Act of August 2, 1956 (70 Stat. 940), and published in the Federal Register of July 7, 1960, the said comer being the terminus of the course recited therein as "north 58 degrees 50 minutes west a distance of 20.0 feet, more or less, along Government land to a point;" for the third call in the metes and bounds description lot F, Cruz Bay. From the initial point A, distances in nautical miles, along direct courses between the hereinafter lettered points at geographic positions (latitudes north, longitudes west): Northwestward approximately 0.13 mile to point B, latitude 18 degrees 20 minutes 08 seconds, longitude 64 degrees 47 minutes 43 seconds in Cruz Bay; 0.43 mile to point C, latitude 18 degrees 20 minutes 08 seconds, longitude 64 degrees 48 minutes 10 seconds in Pillsbury Sound; 1.36 miles to point D, latitude 18 degrees 21 minutes 30 seconds, longitude 64 degrees 48 minutes 10 seconds in Windward Passage; 1.64 miles to point E, latitude 18 degrees 22 minutes 10 seconds, longitude 64 degrees 46 minutes 35 seconds in the Atlantic Ocean; 1.99 miles to point F, latitude 18 degrees 22 minutes 45 seconds, longitude 64 degrees 44 minutes 35 seconds in the Narrows; 3.18 miles to point G, latitude 18 degrees 22 minutes 00 seconds, longitude 64 degrees 41 minutes 20 seconds in Sir Francis Drake Channel; 1.04 miles to point H, latitude 18 degrees 21 minutes 10 seconds, longitude 64 degrees 40 minutes 40 seconds in Haulover Bay; Southwestward approximately 0.22 mile to point I, a bound post on the shore of Haulover Bay marking a comer of the Virgin Islands National Park boundary as shown on drawing numbered NP-VI-7000 entitled "Acquisition Area Virgin Islands National Park", approved November 15, 1956, by the Acting Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 2, 1956, supra, being also the southeasterly corner of estate Haulover 5a and 5c east end quarter as delineated on the municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John drawing P W file numbered 9-24-T51 dated October 26, 1950; Thence running generally westward along the Virgin Islands National Park northerly boundary as it follows the northerly shore of the island of Saint John as shown on the said drawing numbered NP-VI-7000 and on drawing numbered NP-VI-7003

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