Chapter 82. Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange, in belief of the United States, deeds of land with the Pemaquid Land Company of Maine, in settlement of a disputed boundary of the Pemaquid Point, Maine, light station
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CHAP. 82.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange, in belief of the United States, deeds of land with the Pemaquid Land Company of Maine, in settlement of a disputed boundary of the Pemaquid Point, Maine, light station.May 28, 1894. Whereas there is a dispute between the Pemaquid Land CompanyPreamble. and the United States of America as to the true northeasterly boundary line of the land of the Pemaquid Point light station; and Whereas the directors of said land company have, for the purpose of settling said dispute, proposed to exchange deeds with the United States filing the said boundary line as hereinafter mentioned:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Pemaquid Point light station, Maine., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to execute and deliver to the Penaquid Land Company, of Bristol, in the county of Lincoln and State of Maine, such quitclaim deed from the United States to the Settlement of boundary.Pemaquid Land Company, and receive in exchange, therefor from said company such deed to the United States as will fix the northeasterly boundary line of the hind occupied by the Pemaquid Point, light station on a line identical with the stone wall and fence now on the northeasterly portion of said land and beginning at the intersection of said fence with the northwestern boundary line of said land, where a stone post is now standing, thence running south fifty-two degrees five minutes east, true bearing, and ending in the sea, in order to settle and adjust all questions in dispute as to the true boundary between the lands of said company and said light station.
Approved, May 28, 1894.