Chapter 249. To authorize the transfer of a portion of the Hospital Reservation of the United States Veterans’ Hospital Numbered 78, North Little Rock, Arkansas, to the Big Rock Stone and Material Company, and the transfer of certain land from the Big Rock Stone and Material Company to the United States
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Chap. 249: To authorize the transfer of a portion of the Hospital Reservation of the United States Veterans’ Hospital Numbered 78, North Little Rock, Arkansas, to the Big Rock Stone and Material Company, and the transfer of certain land from the Big Rock Stone and Material Company to the United States. Chapter 249 45 Stat. 369 1928-03-26 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 249.— An Act To authorize the transfer of a portion of the Hospital Reservation of the United States Veterans’ Hospital Numbered 78, North Little Rock, Arkansas, to the Big Rock Stone and Material Company, and the transfer of certain land from the Big Rock Stone and Material Company to the United States. March 26, 1928.[[H. R. 10027](/us/bill/70/hr/10027).][[Public, No. 188](/us/pl/70/188).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, North Little Rock, Ark.Exchange of lands of Veterans’ Hospital at, with Big Rock Stone and Material Company.
That the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed, upon the conveyance to the United States of certain property hereinafter described, to convey by deed containing restrictive covenants to run with the land and reservation to river front rights as described and provided for in section 3 of this Act to the Big Rock Stone and Material Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Arkansas, part of the hospital reservation of the United States Veterans’ Hospital Numbered 78, North Little Rock, Arkansas, described as follows:
Lands conveyed by United States. Beginning at a point five hundred and twenty-nine and two-tenths feet east of the northwest corner of section 28, township 2 north, range 12 west, which point is the northeast corner of the eighteen and nine one-hundredths acre tract of land purchased from the United States by the Big Rock Stone and Construction Company under Vol. 42, p. 1375. authority of an Act of Congress approved March 2, 1923. Thence south along the east boundary of said eighteen and nine one-hundredths acre tract, which is also the east boundary of the Big Rock Stone and Material Company’s property, a distance of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven and eight-tenths feet.
Thence south thirty-three degrees thirty-four minutes east, a distance of four hundred and fifty-seven and seven-tenths feet, thence north six degrees ten minutes west a distance of two thousand three hundred and twenty and eight-tenths feet to the point of beginning, comprising a total area of five and six-tenths acres, more or less. Sec. 2. Lands conveyed by Big Rock Stone and Material Company. The Big Rock Stone and Material Company shall convey to the United States in exchange for the above-described land the following:
A five-acre tract of land in section 20; also an adjoining one and eighty-two one-hundredths acre tract in section 21; all in township 2 north, range 12 west, and more specifically bounded as follows: Beginning at a point five hundred and twenty-nine and two-tenths feet east of the northwest corner of section 28, township 2 north, range 12 west, which point of beginning is the northeast corner of the eighteen and nine one-hundredths acre tract of land purchased from the United States by the Big Rock Stone and Construction Vol. 42, p. 1375.
Company under authority of an Act of Congress approved March 2, 1923. Thence north sixty degrees twenty-seven minutes west a distance of six hundred and eight and two-tenths feet, to a point three hundred feet north of aforesaid northwest corner of section 28, 370 township 2 north, range 12 west; thence approximately eight hundred and ten feet west to the east bank of the Arkansas River; thence in a southerly direction along the east bank of the Arkansas River to a point approximately six hundred and seventy feet due west of the aforesaid northwest corner of section 28, township 2 north, range 12 west; thence due east through the aforesaid section corner, a distance of one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine and two-tenths feet to the point of beginning, comprising a total area of six and eighty-two one-hundredths acres more or less.
Sec. 3. Restriction of blasting operations. Upon condition that the Big Rock Stone and Material Company will conduct no blasting operations nearer United States Veterans’ Hospital Numbered 78 than the extreme southern point of the five and six-tenths acre tract to be conveyed under the authority of this Act from the United States to the Big Rock Stone and Right of way to river front, etc., conveyed. Material Company, and upon the further condition that the United States shall have the privilege of using the Arkansas River front of the property heretofore conveyed by the United States to the Big Rock Stone and Construction Company and of the property conveyed under the authority of this Act for the construction of any revetments, piers, wharves, or similar structures along the banks of the Arkansas River abutting on the land and the free passage over the land to such revetments, piers, or wharves, which may be deemed necessary for the use of the said hospital reservations by the United States Government.
Approved, March 26, 1928.
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Chapter 249
To authorize the transfer of a portion of the Hospital Reservation of the United States Veterans’ Hospital Numbered 78, North Little Rock, Arkansas, to the Big Rock Stone and Material Company, and the transfer of certain land from the Big Rock Stone and Material Company to the United States
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