Chapter 290. To convey to the Big Rock Stone and Construction Company a portion of the military reservation of Fort Logan H
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CHAP. 290.— An Act To convey to the Big Rock Stone and Construction Company a portion of the military reservation of Fort Logan H. Roots, in the State of Arkansas.August 14, 1912.[[S. 6926](/us/bill/62/s/6926).][[Public, No. 267](/us/pl/62/267).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Logan H. Roots, Ark.Sale of portion of reservation authorized. That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized and directed, upon the payment by the Big Rock Stone and Construction Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Arkansas, of such sum as he may determine to be the reasonable value of the premises, to convey to the said company the following-described portion of the military reservation of Fort Logan H.
Roots, near the city of Little Rock, State of Arkansas, to wit: Description.Beginning at the intersection of section line between sections twenty and twenty-nine, township two north, range twelve west, with the left bank of the Arkansas River; thence east along section line to the northeast comer of section twenty-nine; thence south, along east line of section twenty-nine, one thousand and fifty feet; thence south thirty-one degrees five minutes east, one thousand and twenty-five feet; thence south thirty-three degrees thirty-four minutes east, one thousand and thirty-six feet; thence south fifty-four degrees thirty minutes west, two hundred and fifty feet to southeast comer of the Big Rock Stone and Construction Company’s property; thence following the east and north boundaries of said company’s property to intersection with left bank of river; thence north along left bank of river to place of beginning; containing eighteen and seventy-five one-hundredths acres.
Also the following-described tract of said reservation, to wit: Beginning at the said southeast comer of the Big Rock Stone and Construction Company’s property; thence south thirty-three degrees thirty-four minutes east, three hundred and fifty feet; thence south fifty-four degrees thirty minutes west to left bank of river; thence north along the river bank to the southwest comer of said company’s property; thence north fifty-four degrees thirty minutes east along said company’s property to the point of beginning; containing two acres.
Sec. 2. Indemnity bond.The Secretary of War is hereby further empowered to require, as one of the conditions of the sale herein authorized, that the grantee shall execute a bond to the United States, in such amount and with such sureties as the said Secretary shall prescribe, conditioned that the said grantee shall hold the United States harmless as against any damage that may be done to the part of the premises retained by the United States by any use to which the said grantee Restrictions.may devote that part hereby authorized to be conveyed; and that whenever, in the judgment of the said Secretary, the use to which the said part is being devoted shall interfere with the proper use by the United States of the said remaining part for any of the purposes to which the same is now being devoted, the said Secretary may direct a suspension of such interfering use for such time or with such restrictions as to him shall seem proper.
Sec. 3. Effect.That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved, August 14, 1912.