Chapter 622. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to set aside certain described lands in San Juan County, Colorado, as a legal subdivision or lot, and authorizing the mayor of Silverton to enter said land for cemetery purposes
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CHAP. 622.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to set aside certain described lands in San Juan County, Colorado, as a legal subdivision or lot, and authorizing the mayor of Silverton to enter said land for cemetery purposes. June 4, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theSubdivision of land near Silverton, San Juan County, Colo., for cemetery authorized.Boundaries.
Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to set aside the following-described land as a legal subdivision or lot. namely: Beginning at corner numbered one. a post which is also the corner post of the fence of old cemetery, and marked “Cor. No. 1, Cemetery,” whence United States locating monument “Silverton ” bears north seventy-nine degrees twenty-four minutes west two thousand nine hundred and eighteen and nine-tenths feet. Bear Mountain bears south sixty-nine degrees fifty-seven minutes west.
Sultan Mountain bears south fifty-one degrees fifty-six minutes west. Galena Mountain bears north seventy-nine degrees twenty-four minutes east: thence north fifty-seven degrees six minutes east five hundred and sixty-two feet to corner post of old cemetery, one thousand and ninety-one and three-tenths feet to corner numbered two. a post six inches in diameter, four and one-half feet long, scribed “2 X” and marked “Cemetery,” and set in ground with mound of stones; thence north eighteen degrees forty minutes west five hundred and sixty-three and seven-tenths feet to corner numbered three, a post six inches in diameter, four and one-half feet long, scribed “3 X” and marked “Cemetery,” and Set in ground with mound of stones; whence a cross “X” and “B.
T. 3 X,” scribed on a small pine tree six inches in diameter, bears south forty-seven degrees fifty-nine minutes east eleven and five-tenths feet. Galena Mountain bears north eighty-two degrees seven minutes east, and Sultan Mountain bears south fifty-one degrees three minutes west; thence south seventy-two degrees thirteen minutes west six hundred and eighty-three feet to corner numbered four, a corner post of the fence of old cemetery, marked “Cor. No. 4, Cemetery;” thence south seventy-four degrees west five hundred and eighty-nine and eight-tenths feet to corner num-266bered five, a corner post of the fence of old cemetery, marked “Cor.
No. 5, Cemetery;” thence south eight degrees four minutes east three hundred and seventy-six and one-tenth feet to corner numbered six, a corner post of the fence of old cemetery, marked “Cor. No. 6. Cemetery;” thence south forty-eight, degrees thirteen minutes east five hundred and seventy-five feet to corner numbered one, the place of beginning. Magnetic variation fourteen degrees and two minutes east. All courses deflected from a true meridian, the above-described tract of land containing twenty and eight hundred and forty-one one-thousandths acres, all in San Juan County, Colorado, and near the town of Silverton in said county.
Sec. 2. Payment, etc.That the mayor of the town of Silverton, Colorado, is hereby authorized to enter the above-described land at the proper land office, for cemetery purposes, subject to any legal, valid, and existing claims, by paying to the receiver of the proper land office one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre therefor, and all legal fees. Approved, June 4, 1900.