Chapter 1179. Making provision for conveying in fee the piece or strip of ground in Saint Augustine, Florida, known as “The Lines,” for school purposes, to the board of public instruction of Saint Johns County, Florida
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CHAP. 1179.— An Act Making provision for conveying in fee the piece or strip of ground in Saint Augustine, Florida, known as “The Lines,” for school purposes, to the board of public instruction of Saint Johns County, Florida. February 21, 1907. [[S. 1726](/us/bill/59/s/1726).] [[Public, No. 102](/us/pl/59/102).] *Be it enacted by the, Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of War,Saint Augustine, Fla.“The Lines” deeded for school purposes to.
Condition. upon the condition that the board of public instruction of Saint Johns County, Florida, shall lay and maintain a suitable drain from a point on Fort Marion Reservation near the city gates to the Matanzas or San Sebastian River, said drain to be approved by the Secretary of War and the work to be executed under the supervision of the local engineer, and the United States to have perpetual use of the same 914for said reservation, be, and he is hereby, authorized to deed to the board of public instruction of Saint Johns County, Florida, and its successors in office so much of the following-described piece or strip of Government land of the city of Saint Augustine.
Florida, bounded Description.by lines as follows: Commencing at a point north sixty-three degrees nine minutes west one hundred and thirty-two and eighty-six hundredths feet from a stone monument on the boundary line of Fort Marion Reservation, distant twenty and eighty-three hundredths feet east of the city gates and on the production eastward of a line following the north face of said gates, running thence south eighty-two degrees twenty-nine minutes west two thousand three hundred and ninety-three and forty-nine hundredths feet, more or less, to a point north seven degrees thirty-one minutes west one hundred and twenty-one feet from the intersection of the south boundary line of the United States reservation known as “The Lines” with the west boundary of Malaga street; thence south seven degrees thirty-one minutes east seventy-live feet; thence north eighty-two degrees twenty-nine minutes east two thousand three hundred and ninety-three and forty-nine hundredths feet, more or less; thence north seven degrees thirty-one minutes west seventy-five feet to the point of commencement (courses magnetic, variation two degrees thirty minutes east), as the said Secretary*Proviso.*Reversion. of War may deem sufficient for school purposes: *Provided*, That said deed shall contain a clause to the effect that whenever said property, or any portion thereof, ceases to be used for school purposes, so much of the same as is not so used shall revert to and become the property of the United States.
Approved, February 21, 1907.