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 PUBLIC LAW 98-195—DEC. 1, 1983 97 STAT. 1349 Public Law 98-195 98th Congress An Act To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United States a reversionary interest in certain land in the State of Delaware. Dec. 1, 1983 [S. 1503] State of Delaware, release of reversionary land interest. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subject to section 2, the Secretary of Agriculture shall release, on behalf of the United States, with respect to the land described in section 3, the condition contained in the deed dated September 24, 1954, recorded June 30, 1955, in deed book 447, page 595, in the Office of the Sussex County Recorder of Deeds, Georgetown, Delaware, between the United States of America and the State of Delaware, conveying certain tracts of land to the State of Delaware, which condition requires that the land conveyed be used for public purposes and if at any time such land ceases to be so used, it shall immediately revert to and become revested in the United States. SEC. 2. The condition referred to in section 1, with respect to the Certification land described in section 3, shall be released only upon certification by the Secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to the Secretary of Agriculture that an area of wetlands, marsh, or shore lands within the State of Dela- ware containing at least 6.21 acres has been dedicated to public purposes. Such certification shall specify the location and set forth a legal description of the dedicated area, and shall be accompanied by a legal opinion establishing that title to the dedicated property is vested in the State of Delaware and that a restriction of public purpose applies to the dedicated property. SEC. 3. The land referred to in section 1 is a tract of land, being a portion of tract numbered 24 of those lands conveyed by James Leslie Ford, marshal of the United States for the District of Delaware, to the United States of America in the deed dated September 16, 1939, recorded November 20, 1939, in deed book 322, page 125, in the Office of the Sussex County Recorder of Deeds, Georgetown, Delaware, containing 6.21 acres of land, more or less, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the northeasterly side of Hassell Street (at 30 feet wide) with the northeasterly side of a 50-foot wide right-of-way known as Assawoman Street, thence with said point of beginning and along the said north- easterly side of Hassell Street^ and crossing the said 50-foot wide right-of-way known as Assawoman Street, south 05 degrees 20 minutes 55 seconds east, 297.80 feet to a point in the low water line of Little Bay; thence by the various meanderings thereof, generally in a northwesterly and northeasterly direction, and the westerly limits of lands known as Bay View Park and Bay View Park first addition, 1,666 feet, more or less, to a point, said point being distant by the seventeen following tie lines connecting

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