Chapter 396. To authorize the transfer of the United States Weather Bureau site and buildings at East Lansing, Michigan, to the State of Michigan in exchange for another Weather Bureau site on the grounds of the Michigan State Board of Agriculture and other considerations
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CHAP. 396.— An Act To authorize the transfer of the United States Weather Bureau site and buildings at East Lansing, Michigan, to the State of Michigan in exchange for another Weather Bureau site on the grounds of the Michigan State Board of Agriculture and other considerations. March 2, 1925.[[H. R. 12086](/us/bill/68/hr/12086).][[Public, No. 527](/us/pl/68/527).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary East Lansing, Mich.Weather Bureau site at, transferred to Michigan.of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer and convey to the State of Michigan all the right and title of the United States in and to all that piece and parcel of land situate in the city of East Lansing, county of Ingham, State of Michigan, now occupied and used by the Weather Bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture, more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the south boundary of Description.1098the Lansing and Howell plank road forty feet westerly from the intersection of south line of said road with the township line between town 4 north, range 1 west, and town 4 north, range 2 west; thence north, seventy degrees three minutes west, one hundred and thirty-eight feet; thence south, seven degrees twenty-one minutes east, two hundred and twenty and sixty-eight one-hundredths feet; thence south, sixty-five degrees forty-three minutes east, seventy-seven and sixty-eight one-hundredths feet; thence north, eight degrees thirty-three minutes east, two hundred and six feet to the point of beginning; the tract of land so described containing forty-nine one-hundredths of an acre, more or less; including all the buildings and improvements thereon and all rights, easements, and appurtenances thereunto appertaining, and to execute and deliver in the name of the United States and in its behalf any and all Lands to be conveyed in exchangeconveyances or other instruments necessary to effectuate such transfer, upon the conditions
(a)that the State of Michigan shall, in consideration thereof, transfer and convey to the United States a good title in fee simple to a parcel of ground located on the lands of the Michigan State Board of Agriculture at East Lansing, Michigan, approximately equal in area to that hereinbefore described, which shall be acceptable to the Secretary of Agriculture as a site suitable for the erection and maintenance thereon of buildings and other structures for Weather Bureau purposes, and
(b)that said State of Michigan shall, in addition, pay to the United States the Payment in addition.sum of $25,000. After deducting from said amount the necessary expenses of making such transfers the balance thereof shall be deposited by the Secretary of Agriculture in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. Erection of building, etc., on acquired site.The Secretary of Agriculture is further authorized to erect on the site so acquired a building for the use of the Weather Bureau and to pay for all necessary labor, materials, and expenses, plans and specifications to be prepared by the Secretary of Agriculture, and the work to be done under the supervision of the Chief of the Amount authorized.Weather Bureau, at a cost not to exceed $38,000, from funds to be appropriated. Approved, March 2, 1925.