Chapter 151. Granting to the University of Utah a site off the public domain
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CHAP. 151.— An Act Granting to the University of Utah a site off the public domain.July 23, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Utah.Lands granted for University.*Ante*, p. 109. That there is hereby granted to the Territory of Utah, and to any State formed from the same, the following tract of land: Commencing on the west boundary line of the Fort Douglas military reservation at a point where it is intersected by the north line of Fourth South street, in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and running thence north on said line one hundred and thirty-six rods, more or less, to a point where the south line of First South street, in said city, according to the plat thereof, intersects the said boundary 118 line; thence running east seventy and eighty-one one-hundred-and-thirty-sixths rods; thence south parallel with said west boundary line one hundred and thirty six rods, more or less, to a point due east of the point of beginning; thence running west seventy and eighty-six one hundred and-thirty sixths rods, to the point of beginning, containing sixty acres, for a site and campus for the University of Utah, and Condition.upon the condition that such tract shall be occupied by the said university within five years after the passage of this Act, and perpetually thereafter; and in ease it is not so occupied and used it shall revert to the United States.
Approved, July 23, 1894.