Chapter 113. To transfer the tract of land known as the Lighthouse Reservation at North Point, Maryland, from the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce to the jurisdiction of the War Department
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CHAP. 113.— An Act To transfer the tract of land known as the Lighthouse Reservation at North Point, Maryland, from the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce to the jurisdiction of the War Department. November 19, 1919. [[S. 2494](/us/bill/66/s/2494).] [[Public, No. 86](/us/pl/66/86).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following-describedNorth Point Lighthouse Reservation, Md. tract of land situated at North Point, Maryland, now under the control and jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce, andTransferred to War Department. known as the Lighthouse Reservation, at North Point, Maryland, be, and the same hereby is, transferred to and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the War Department for use for military purposes:
Beginning at a post now set in the ground north, eighty-two degreesDescription. east, one and a quarter perches from the center of a stump, and north sixty-five degrees west, fourteen perches from a large black oak tree 358now marked, and running thence south sixty-five degrees east, fourteen perches to the said black oak, thence still south sixty-five degrees east, twelve and a half perches to a post north, sixty-five and three-quarters degrees east, twelve perches to a post standing southwardly nine feet from a large white oak, thence south forty-seven degrees east, forty-eight perches to a marked sassafras, thence still south forty-seven degrees east, two perches to the water of Chesapeake Bay, thence bounding on the water on said Bay and Pataspco River south, seventy-four degrees west seven perches, south eighty and a half degrees west ten perches, north seventy-one degrees west fifteen perches, north fifty-seven and a half degrees west twelve perches, north forty-six and a half degrees west, twelve perches, north forty-six and a half degrees west, forty-four perches and eight-tenths of a perch, until it intersects a line drawn south forty-eight degrees west from the place of beginning, and thence to the beginning, containing seven acres and twenty-two square perches of land more or less.
Approved, November 19, 1919.