Chapter 88. To authorize the Secretary of War to make and receive conveyances effecting an exchange of title to the railroad rights of way at Camp Henry Knox, Kentucky, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 88.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to make and receive conveyances effecting an exchange of title to the railroad rights of way at Camp Henry Knox, Kentucky, and for other purposes. March 1, 1922.[[S. 2072](/us/bill/67/s/2072).][[Public, No. 159](/us/67/pl/159).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of WarCamp Knox, Ky.Right of way granted Chicago, Saint Louis and New Orleans Railroad Company through. be, and he is hereby, authorized to execute and deliver a conveyance of title to the Chicago, Saint Louis and New Orleans Railroad Company to that certain strip of land in the military reservation at Camp Inox, Kentucky, upon which the line of said railroad was relocated and the new depots and transportation structures were erected atDescription.
Camp Knox, described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the present westerly right of way line of the Chicago, Saint Louis and New Orleans Railroad Company, with the southerly line of a highway which crosses said railroad under Bridge J–29–8, said point being seven hundred and eighty feet northerly from mile post thirty from Louisville, Kentucky, and running thence westerly along said southerly line seventeen feet more or less to a point fifty feet distant westerly from the center line of the main track of said rail-road measured at a right angle thereto; thence southerly parallel to the center line of the relocated main track of said railroad and fifty feet westerly therefrom, a distance of seven hundred and eighty feet to a point opposite mile post thirty from Louisville; thence westerly perpendicular to said relocated main track ninety feet; thence southerly parallel to said main track one thousand seven hundred and one feet more or less to the northerly line of the highway which crosses said railroad under Bridge J–30–3; thence easterly along the line of said highway fifty feet more or less to a point which is ninety400feet distant westerly from the center line of the aforesaid relocated main track measured perpendicularly thereto; thence southerly in a direct line nine hundred and sixty-four feet to a point which is fifty feet distant westerly from the center line of said relocated track; thence southerly parallel to the center line of said relocated track and fifty feet distant therefrom, four thousand four hundred and fifty-seven feet more or less to a point in the westerly line of the fire sent right of way of said railroad about one thousand eight hundred set southerly from mile post thirty-one from Louisville, Kentucky; thence northerly along the westerly line of the present right of way of said railroad six hundred and ten feet more or less to a point fifty feet distant easterly from the center line of said relocated main track measured perpendicularly thereto; thence northerly parallel to said center line three thousand seven hundred feet; thence easterly at a right angle to said line fifty feet; thence northerly parallel to said center line and one hundred feet distant therefrom one thousand one hundred and twenty-five feet; thence westerly perpendicularly to said center line twenty-five feet; thence northerly parallel to said center line one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one feet, more or less to a point in the westerly line of the present right of way of said railroad; thence northerly along said right-of-way line six hundred and fifty-five feet more or less to the point of beginning; reserving to the Government the perpetual right to use and have kept open the underpasses now in use under and across said railroad.
Sec. 2. Lands to be received in exchange. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to receive, on behalf of the United States, deed or deeds of conveyance, with covenants of general warranty, and release from the mortgage obligations of said railroad companies, to the old right of way of said Description.companies, described as follows: All that part of the original right of way of the Chicago, Saint Louis and New Orleans Railroad Company, which lies south of a line drawn parallel to the center line of the relocated main track of said railroad, and fifty feet distant easterly from said center line, measured perpendicularly thereto, near mile post thirty from Louisville, Kentucky, and north of a line drawn Parallel to said relocated main track, and fifty feet distant easterly 'rom the center line thereof, near a point about one thousand six hundred feet southerly from mile post thirty-one from Louisville, Kentucky, said original right of way herein conveyed, consisting of a strip of land sixty-six feet wide and approximately seven thousand two hundred feet long, and also a tract of land five hundred and seventy-five feet long, seventy-seven feet wide at the southerly end, twenty-three feet at the northerly end, lying on the easterly side of the aforesaid sixty-six-foot strip, and containing eighty-five one-hundredths of an acre, more or loss, and being the tract of land acquired by the railroad company from P.
A. Jones and wife, recorded in book twenty, page fifty-nine, in the deed records of Hardin County, Kentucky. Sec. 3. Conveyances to be made. That the description of the metes and bounds of said property above stated shall be inserted in said conveyances and in addition thereto proper specifications and reference to the next immediate source from which the grantors therein derived title thereto as required by the statute of Kentucky on the subject of recording conveyances of real estate in that State, as set forth in Carroll Statutes, 1915, volume 1, section 495.
Sec. 4. Conflicting laws repealed. That all laws in conflict herewith be, and they are hereby, repealed. Approved, March 1, 1922.