Chapter 213. Conveying to the State of Delaware certain land in the county of Sussex, in that State
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CHAP. 213.— An Act Conveying to the State of Delaware certain land in the county of Sussex, in that State. May 31, 1924.[[S. 2431](/us/bill/68/s/2431).][[Public, No. 160](/us/pl/68/160).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the United Delaware.Lands in Sussex County conveyed to.Description.States hereby grants, quitclaims, and reconveys to the State of Delaware all that certain piece or parcel of land situate in Lewes and Broadkill Hundred, Sussex County, and State of Delaware, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stone, marked “U. S. 1,” on the beach opposite the town of Lewes, Delaware, and located as follows: Bearing to Henlopen Light south eighty degrees forty minutes east; angle between Henlopen Light and Saint Peter’s spire one hundred and fourteen degrees twenty-three minutes and fifteen seconds; angle between Saint Peter’s spire and Greenhill Light eighty degrees thirty-three minutes and fifty-five seconds; angle between Greenhill Light and Upper Breakwater Light one hundred and twenty-two degrees thirty-two minutes and thirteen seconds; angle between Upper and Lower Breakwater Light nine degrees twenty-eight minutes and seventeen seconds; angle between Lower Breakwater Light and Henlopen Light thirty-three degrees two minutes and twenty seconds.
Thence southerly one thousand six hundred and thirty feet, more or less, along the arc of a circle of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two and forty-one one-hundredths feet radius to the north side of South Street, the center of said circle, bearing south fifty-nine degrees thirteen minutes east from said stone; thence south forty-five degrees west two hundred and thirty feet, more or less, along said north side of South Street to lands of the United States of America; thence with said lands in a northwesterly direction one hundred and eighty feet, more or less, to a point; thence leaving said lands, northerly along the arc of a circle of two thousand one hundred and seventy-two and forty-one one-hundredths feet radius having the aforementioned center, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight feet, more or less, to a point which is three hundred feet distant from the place of beginning; thence north thirty degrees forty-seven minutes east five hundred and seventy-five feet, more or less, to the low-water line of the Delaware Breakwater Harbor; thence easterly along said low-water line three hundred and twenty feet, more or less; thence south thirty degrees forty-seven minutes west six hundred and fifty feet, more or less, to the place of beginning; containing sixteen and seven-tenths acres, more or less.
Approved, May 31, 1924.