Chapter 43. to authorize the Secretary of War to convey to school district, numbered twelve, of Kittery, Maine, a portion of Fort McClary military reservation, in exchange for other land
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CHAP. 43.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to convey to school district, numbered twelve, of Kittery, Maine, a portion of Fort McClary military reservation, in exchange for other land.January 23, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort McClary, Me.Portion of reservation conveyed to Kittery, for school purposes. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to convey, by proper deed, to school district numbered twelve, of Kittery, Maine, for school purposes, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following described part of the military reservation of Fort McClary, Maine:
Beginning at a point on the westerly side of the new road fromDescription. Portsmouth through the said military reservation two hundred and five feet from the intersection of the said new road with the westerly boundary line of said military reservation, and running thence in a northwesterly direction, at right angles to the said new road, one hundred and ninety-five feet, more or less, to the westerly boundary line of said military reservation; thence along said westerly boundary line in a northerly direction eighty-two and one-half feet, more or less, to high-water line of Barters Creek; thence along high-water line of Barters Creek, in a northeasterly direction, seventeen feet, more or less, to a point at right angles to the said new road at a point seventy-five feet from the place of beginning; thence in a southeasterly direction, at right angles to the said new road, two hundred and forty-seven feet, more or less, to a point on the westerly side of the said new road seventy-five feet from the place of beginning; thence along the westerly side of said new road, in the southwesterly direction, seventy-five feet to the place of beginning; in exchangeLot to be conveyed in exchange. for a certain lot of ground about sixty-four feet by sixty-two feet in size, situated on the north side of the line of the old road from Portsmouth, within the limits of the said Fort McClary military reservation, 422 which was conveyed to the said school district numbered twelve by Robert G.
Safford by deed dated the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-three, which said deed was duly recorded on the twelfth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-four, in the York County, Maine, registry of deeds. Sec. 2. That the sum of nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as mayAppropriation for moving school house, etc. be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of fitting the new site hereby authorized to be conveyed for the accommodation of the school house of said school district numbered twelve, and of moving the school house from its present location to, and of putting up the same on, the said new site, and for the payment of the expenses attending the preparation, execution, and recording of the title papers necessary to comply with this act, to be expended under the direction *Proviso*.Deeds.of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall not execute the deed hereby authorized to be executed, and that no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended for the purposes indicated until the said school district numbered twelve, of Kittery, by its proper officials, shall have executed a sufficient deed conveying to the United States the title to the lot hereinbefore mentioned.
Approved, January 23, 1893.