Chapter 871. To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of a certain lighthouse reservation and to acquire certain land for lighthouse purposes
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Chap. 871: To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of a certain lighthouse reservation and to acquire certain land for lighthouse purposes. Chapter 871 45 Stat. 959 1928-05-29 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 871.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of a certain lighthouse reservation and to acquire certain land for lighthouse purposes.
May 29, 1928.[[S. 4309](/us/bill/70/s/4309).][[Public, No. 581](/us/pl/70/581).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Chicago, Ill.Conveyance authorized to, of lighthouse reservation therein. That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to convey by quitclaim deed to the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, all right, title, and interest of the United States of America in and to lots 17, 18, and 19 in original water lot 35 in Chicago Dock and Canal Company’s resubdivision of their subdivision of original water lot 35 and the accretion thereto, all of block 8 and accretion and of that part of block 19 lying east of subblock 2, all in Kinzie’s addition to Chicago, according to the plat thereof recorded March 17, 1885, as document 610129, in book 19 of plats, page 77, situated in the city of Chicago, in theBuildings excepted.
State of Illinois; except the buildings placed on said lots 17, 18, and 19 by the United States, which buildings shall remain the property of the United States and shall be removed by the United States within six months after the exchange of lands herein authorized. 960 Sec. 2. The said conveyance of the aforesaid property to be givenTract to be given exchange therefor. in exchange for and dependent upon the city of Chicago conveying to the United States of America the fee simple title, as evidenced by a quitclaim deed and abstracts acceptable to the Attorney General of the United States, to the following tract of land, described by metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the west side of the dock on the east side of the Ogden Slip with the north line of the tract of land conveyed by the city of Chicago to the United States of America by deed dated August 10, 1920, and recorded December 8, 1921, as document 7347325 in book 16850, page 532; running thence east on the north line of said tract a distance of eighty feet; thence north at right angles to the north line of said tract two hundred and seventeen feet; thence west on a line parallel to and two hundred and seventeen feet north of the north line of said tract one hundred feet, more or less, to the west side of said dock on the east side of the Ogden Slip; thence south and southeasterly on the west side of said dock to the place of beginning, the said tract of land conveyed by the city of Chicago to the United States of America, being described as follows:
A parcel of land adjacent to the north Government pier, and bounded on the east by Lake Michigan, approximately five hundred feet long in an easterly and westerly direction and one hundred feet wide, described as commencing at the junction of the north side of the United States Government pier (running east from the Ogden Slip) with the east side of the north and south municipal pier for place of beginning, said place of beginning being seven hundred feet, more or less, south measured at right angles from a point in north line of East Illinois Street extended one thousand five hundred feet, more or less, east of the east line of Peshtigo Court; thence northerly along the said north and south pier one hundred and eight feet; thence westerly at an angle from the south to west of ninetyone degrees, a distance of five hundred and six feet, more or less, to the west side of the dock on east side of the Ogden Slip; thence southerly at an angle from east to south seventy-four degrees thirty minutes along the concrete dock one hundred and three feet, more or less, to the United States Government pier; thence easterly at an angle from north to east one hundred and six degrees forty minutes along the United States Government pier for a distance of four hundred and eighty feet, more or less, to place of beginning.
Sec. 3. That in the exchange herein provided the city of ChicagoRight of way to be given. shall provide suitable access or right of way to the property to be conveyed to the United States. Approved, May 29, 1928.
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