Chapter 1294. For the conveyance of public lands belonging to the United States, in the State of New York
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CHAP. 1294.— An Act For the conveyance of public lands belonging to the United States, in the State of New York. March 1, 1905. [[S. 4782](/us/bill/58/s/4782).] [[Public, No. 115](/us/pl/58/115).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, New York City.Conveyance of light-house land to Richmond for street, etc., purposes, authorized. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell and convey to the city of New York, for the purposes of a street, public place, or park, about one acre of the property of the United States known as the United States light-house property, in the Borough of Richmond, city of New York, and State of New York, for the purposes of widening Stuyvesant place and South street in said Borough of Richmond, and improving the grade of said streets, upon such terms and conditions as he shall deem best.
The land to be conveyed under this authority is more particularly described as follows: Description.Beginning at a point on the easterly line of Stuyvesant place, distant four hundred and twenty-one and forty-three one-hundredths feet northerly from the intersection of the, southerly line of Wiener place and the easterly line of Stuyvesant place; thence northerly along the last-mentioned line four hundred and seventeen and seventy-five one-hundredths feet to the southerly line of South street; thence easterly along the last-mentioned line three hundred and fifty-nine and forty-nine one-hundredths feet; thence westerly, curving to the left on the arc of a circle of three hundred and five and sixty-five one-hundredths feet radius, tangent to the last chord, four hundred and eighty-three and ninety-three one-hundredths feet; thence southerly, tangent to the last chord, one hundred and four and sixty-two one-hundredths feet to the southerly line of the United States light-house property; thence westerly along the last-mentioned line, fifty and ten one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning.
Containing forty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-five and seventy one-hundredths square feet. Together with all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to that part of Stuyvesant place and South street abutting and adjoining the property to be so conveyed and above described. Use of proceeds of sale.That the proceeds from the sale of the property, authorized by this Act to be sold, arc hereby appropriated as an additional sum to the amount to be appropriated for repairing, protecting, and improving light-houses and buddings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing day marks and pierhead and other beacon lights, including purchase of land for same; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; construction of necessary outbuildings, at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating to these various objects, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots to be made for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.
EffectThis Act shall take effect and be in force immediately. Approved, March 1, 1905.