Chapter 132. Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States title in fee simple to a certain strip of land and the construction of a bridge across Archers Creek in South Carolina
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CHAP. 132.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States title in fee simple to a certain strip of land and the construction of a bridge across Archers Creek in South Carolina.February 14, 1927.[[H. R. 12852](/us/bill/69/hr/12852).][[Public, No. 614](/us/pl/69/814).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Parris Island, S. C. That the Secretary 1096Acceptance of strip of land on bank of Archers Creek for road from Jericho Point to.of the Navy is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the United States, free from encumbrances and without cost to the United States, the title in fee simple to the following described parcel of land, to be used as right of way for a road from Jericho Point to the Description.Marine Corps reservation on Parris Island, South Carolina:
Starting at a point on the north bunk of Archers Creek, north sixty-four degrees, twenty-nine minutes west, six thousand five hundred and sixty-three feet from monument numbered 31 at the marine barracks, Parris Island, South Carolina, thence north, thirteen degrees, forty minutes west, four thousand six hundred and five feet to a point at the mean high water line near Jericho Point; thence north, eighty-seven degrees, thirty-nine minutes east, two hundred and four feet to a point also at the mean high water line near Jericho Point: thence south, thirteen degrees and forty minutes east, four thousand five hundred and sixty-five feet to a point on the north bank of Archers Creek; thence south seventy-six degrees and twenty minutes west, two hundred feet to the point of beginning.
Sec. 2. Archers Creek.Bridge authorized across, connecting Marine Corps reservation, Parris Island, with Port Royal Island.Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.That the Secretary of the Navy is further authorized and directed to cause to be constructed, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 84), a steel bridge across Archers Creek in Beaufort County, State of South Carolina, to connect the Marine Corps reservation on Parris Island with Port Royal Island at Jericho Point, in said county, at a cost to the Government of the United States not to exceed $30,000, which sum, or so much thereof Sum authorized.as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense and cost of constructing said bridge.
Sec. 3. Execution of deeds, etc.The Secretary of the Navy is further authorized to execute on behalf of the United States all instruments necessary to accomplish the purposes aforesaid. Approved, February 14, 1927.