Chapter 17. To amend section four of the Act of Congress approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, granting to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, certain lands as a city park, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 17.— An Act To amend section four of the Act of Congress approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, granting to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, certain lands as a city park, and for other purposes. February 10, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Hot Springs, Ark. Relinquishment of certain land granted to, etc. Vol. 21, p. 289. That section four of the Act of Congress approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, granting to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, a parcel of land known as the cemetery lot for a city park only, be amended so as to read as follows:
" “That whenever the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, shall relinquish to the United States of America all its right, title, and interest in and to the following-described lot or parcel of land, being a part of said cemetery lot, but which is now described in the plats and surveys of said city as lot sixteen, block seventy-eight, to wit: Commencing at the southwest corner of the said city park, in block seventy-eight of the Hot Springs Reservation, and formerly known as cemetery lot, and running thence easterly along the north line of Benton street one hundred and fifty feet; thence northerly two hundred and thirty-five feet to a point on the north line of said park one hundred and fifty feet easterly of the northwest corner thereof; thence to said northeast corner; thence along the west boundary line of said park two hundred and sixty-two and seven-tenths feet to the point of beginning, the same being a part of said lot sixteen, in block seventy-eight aforesaid, which is hereby reserved by the United States as a site for the public building provided Vol. 30, p. 983. for by Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the right and title of the United States to all the remaining part of said cemetery lot, now known as lot sixteen, in block seventy-eight, shall vest absolutely in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, for city park, city building, auditorium, or other public purposes.
” " Approved, February 10, 1900.