Chapter 2463. Granting additional lands from the Fort Douglas Military Reservation to the University of Utah
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CHAP. 2463.— An Act Granting additional lands from the Fort Douglas Military Reservation to the University of Utah. May 16, 1906. [[S. 5498](/us/bill/34/s/5498).] [[Public, No. 167](/us/pl/34/167).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there is hereby grantedUniversity of Utah.Part of Fort Douglas Military Reservation granted to.Description. to the University of Utah the following-described land lying within the Fort Douglas Military Reservation and adjacent to the site of said university in the State of Utah, namely:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the west boundary line of Fort Douglas Reservation and north boundary line of Fourth South street, of Salt Lake City, which point is ten and twenty-three one-hundredths rods east and one hundred and ninety-two and fourteen one-hundredths rods south of the northeast corner of section five, township one south, range one 196east, Salt Lake meridian, and which marks the southwest corner of the present campus of the University of Utah, and running thence south forty-eight rods, thence east eighty rods, thence north one hundred and eighty-four rods to the intersection of the prolongation of the north boundary of the campus of the University of Utah, thence west nine and four-tenths rods to the northeast corner of the university campus, thence south one hundred and thirty-six rods along the east boundary of the campus to the southeast corner of same, thence *Provisos.*Reversion.west seventy and six-tenths rods to point of beginning: *Provided. *That the State of Utah shall improve the said property and maintain the same for university purposes and not otherwise, and that in case said land shall be abandoned by the State for said purposes the said land and all improvements thereon shall revert to the United States:
Restriction. *Provided further,* That the grant of said land shall in no manner carry with it any right or title in or to any portion of the waters of the Red Sewage rights reserved.Butte Canyon Creek: *And provided further,* That there is reserved to the United States the perpetual right to maintain, alter, rebuild, and enlarge the sewer which runs from the Fort Douglas Military Post across said tract of land, or to construct and maintain a new sewer system across the same should it be desirable so to do.
Approved, May 16, 1906.