Chapter 272. Authorizing the Secretary of War to lease to the Kansas Electric Power Company, its successors and assigns, a certain tract of land in the military reservation of Fort Leavenworth
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CHAP. 272.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to lease to the Kansas Electric Power Company, its successors and assigns, a certain tract of land in the military reservation of Fort Leavenworth. March 4, 1923.[[H. R. 13004](/us/bill/67/hr/13004).][[Public, No. 523](/us/67/pl/523).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation, Kans.Kansas Electric Power Company may lease tract in.
That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to lease for a term of fifty years with the privilege, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of renewal for a like term to the Kansas Electric Power Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, for a consideration and under terms and conditions to be determined by said Secretary of War, the following-described tract of real estate in the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth in the State of Kansas:
Description.Beginning at a point which is located as follows: Starting from the northeast corner of the east coping of concrete bridge on Grant Avenue over the Leavenworth, Kansas and Western Railroad; thence north seventy-one degrees six minutes east, a distance of one thousand and severity-three and eight-tenths feet, to the northwest corner of the United States Government Motor Transport Building; thence north seventy-two degrees east along the line parallel to the north side of said United States Government Motor Transport Building, a distance of one thousand and twenty-three and three-tenths feet to the aforesaid point of beginning; thence south eighteen degrees east, a distance of eight hundred and forty-seven feet; thence north seventy-two degrees east, a distance of four hundred and thirty-three feet more or less, to a point located on the west right-of-way line of the said Leavenworth, Kansas and Western Railroad.
Returning to the original point of beginning; thence north eighteen degrees west, a distance of eight hundred and fifty feet, to a point; thence north seventy-two degrees east, a distance of five hundred and forty-three feet more or less, to a point located on the west right-of-way line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad; thence in a southerly direction along the west boundary of the Missouri Pacific Railroad right-of-way to said point above mentioned on the west right-of-way line of the said Leavenworth, Kansas and Western Railroad; exclusive of the rights-of-way granted to said Leaven-worth, Kansas and Western Railroad and said Missouri Pacific Rail-road, and containing, exclusive of said railroad rights of way, fifteen and five-tenths acres, more or less; reserving, however, to the United States, or its assigns, the coal and other minerals, or royalty on the Use for electric power plant.same, underlying said lands; for the purpose of constructing and maintaining thereon an electric power plant and such other works as may be necessary or proper to enable said corporation, its successors or assigns, to furnish Fort Leavenworth, the Disciplinary Barracks, the Federal Prison, the Soldiers’ Home, and the Motor Transport shops, together with the city of Leavenworth and such other communities and patrons as may be served by said plant, with an adequate supply of electrical energy.
Sec. 2.Lease continuous while tract used for specified purposes. That said corporation, the Kansas Electric Power Company, its successors and assigns, shall have the continuous and uninterrupted use of said real estate for the uses and purposes herein above set out, under the direction and control of the Secretary of War and subject to the terms and conditions of the lease to be executed by said Secretary of War as herein provided, so long as said *Proviso*.Termination when use, etc., ceases.tract shall be used for the purposes herein specified: *Provided, however*, That if said corporation, its successors or assigns, shall cease to use and occupy said premises for such purposes, then and in that event said lease shall become null and void.
Sec. 3. In effect immediately. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, March 4, 1923.