Chapter 547. To authorize the conveyance to the town of Winthrop, Massachusetts, for perpetual use as a public road, of a certain tract of land
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CHAP. 547.— An Act To authorize the conveyance to the town of Winthrop, Massachusetts, for perpetual use as a public road, of a certain tract of land. March 15, 1904. [[H. R. 1909](/us/bill/58/hr/1909).] [[Public, No. 52](/us/pl/58/52).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Winthrop, Mass. Land for public road conveyed to. That the Secretary of War he, and he is hereby, authorized to convey to the town of Winthrop, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, for perpetual use as a public road, the following-described tract of land:
A strip of landDescription. twenty-five feet wide, extending along the northerly side of the United States Military reservation at Fort Banks, from the easterly side of Elm avenue to the easterly side of Winthrop street, town of Winthrop, in the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts; and more particularly described as follows: ” Beginning at the point of intersection of the northeasterly side of Winthrop street with the southeasterly side of the location of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad Company’s right of way. and running thence northeasterly along the southeasterly side of said right of way for a distance of six him tired feet, more or less, to the northeasterly side of Elm avenue; thence southeasterly along the northeasterly side of Elm avenue for a distance of twenty-five feet; thence southwesterly along a line parallel to and twenty-five feet distant from the southeasterly line of the location of the Boston, Revere83 Beach and Lynn Railroad Compass right of way to the northeasterly side of Winthrop street; thence northwesterly along the northeasterly side of Winthrop street to the point of beginning.” the said land being so conveyed to the town of Winthrop in exchange for the land and easements comprised in Elm avenue, in said town of Winthrop, which was conveyed to the United States in eighteen hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred and ninety-two as a site for the construction of fortifications.
Approved, March 15, 1904.