Chapter 380. To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to convey certain land in Cook County, Illinois, to the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company, its successors or assigns, under certain conditions
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Chap. 380: To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to convey certain land in Cook County, Illinois, to the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company, its successors or assigns, under certain conditions. Chapter 380 45 Stat. 432 1928-04-19 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 380.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to convey certain land in Cook County, Illinois, to the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company, its successors or assigns, under certain conditions.
April 19, 1928.[[H. R. 7191](/us/bill/70/hr/7191).][[Public, No. 281](/us/pl/70/281).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary Bureau of Standards.Site of master-track scale, etc., depot, in Cook County, Ill., conveyed to Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company.of Commerce be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey by the usual quitclaim deed to the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, its successors or assigns, the present site of the master-track scale and test-car depot of the Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, in the clearing yard of the Belt Railway Company, of Chicago, more particularly described as follows:
Location. " “A tract of land in the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 20, township 38 north, range 13 east of the third principal meridian, Cook County, Illinois, bounded and described as follows: Description. “Beginning at a point seven hundred and seven and forty-six one hundredths feet south of, measured at right angles to the east and west center line of said section 20, from a point therein nine hundred and seventy and eight one-hundredths feet west of the northeast comer of said northeast quarter of the southeast quarter, measured along said east and west center line, thence southeasterly a distance of ninety-four feet to a point seven hundred and thirty-four and twenty-two one-hundredths feet south of said east and west center line, measured at right angles thereto from a point therein eight hundred and seventy-nine and ninety-seven one-hundredths 433feet west of said northeast corner, measured along said east and west center line, thence at right angles to last-described course southwesterly a distance of forty-two feet, thence northwesterly forty-two feet from and parallel to first-described course a distance of ninety-four feet, thence northeasterly ninety-four feet from and parallel to second-described course, a distance of twenty-three feet, thence northwesterly nineteen feet southwesterly from and parallel to first-described course, extended a distance of fifty feet, thence at right angles to last-described course, northeasterly ten feet, thence southeasterly nine feet southwesterly from and parallel to first-described course extended fifty feet, thence at right angles northeasterly to point of beginning, containing four thousand four hundred and forty-eight square feet or one-tenth acre, more or less”: *Provided, however,* That the above-described lands shall be conveyed *Proviso.*Conditions.to the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company, its successors or assigns, only in the event
(1)that the United States, for reasons of its own, shall discontinue or abandon the use of the land for the purpose of a master-track scale and test-car depot, or
(2)that the above-described property shall, in the opinion of the Belt Railway Company, of Chicago, become necessary for its own purposes, in which event the said Belt Railway Company, of Chicago, shall furnish to the United States of America, Department of Commerce, in lieu thereof, a suitable site elsewhere, the location thereof to be mutually agreed upon by the said Belt Railway Company, of Chicago, and the Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce; Belt Railway Company to convey site in lieu, and erect, etc., new building thereon.and the Belt Railway Company, of Chicago, shall then, at its own sole cost and expense, erect upon the site so chosen a building and a foundation for the master-track scale equivalent to the master-track scale and test-car depot and foundation for the said master-track scale erected upon the above-described property, and shall move to said new building and install therein the master-track scale and all machinery appurtenant thereto, and shall deliver Deed in fee to be delivered.or cause to be delivered a deed conveying such land and building in fee simple to the United States of America, Department of Commerce, without cost to the United States, together with evidence of title to said land satisfactory to the United States. " Approved, April 19, 1928.
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