Chapter 2. To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of the marine biological station at Key West, Florida
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CHAP. 2.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of the marine biological station at Key West, Florida. April 29, 1929.[[S. 179](/us/bill/71/s/179).][[Public, No. 2](/us/pl/71/2).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Key West, Fla.Disposal of marine biological station at, and land reconveyed. That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to dispose of the marine biological station at Key West, Florida, and to reconvey by quitclaim deed to the Key West Realty Company, Florida, the land conveyed to the United States by said company in deed dated June 10, 1915, and particularly described as follows:
Description of land.In the city of Key West, county of Monroe and State of Florida, beginning at the southwest corner of a sea wall of concrete bearing north fifty-eight degrees thirty minutes east from a post one hundred and one and two-tenths feet distant, said post being on the north side of the county road and at the eastern end of same, East Martello Tower bearing south eleven degrees thirty minutes west, distant five thousand three hundred and fifty feet; thence running north twenty-three degrees west four hundred and sixty-five feet to an iron bolt bearing south sixty-three degrees thirty minutes east from a post and pile of stones one hundred and fifty-six feet distant; thence running north sixty-seven degrees east five hundred and twenty-seven and five-tenths feet to an iron bolt at mean high-water line; thence running southerly along said mean high-water line six hundred and forty feet to an iron bolt driven into rock; thence running south sixty-seven degrees west one hundred and twenty-one feet in line with said sea wall to the place of beginning, containing four acres, more or less, together with riparian rights, all courses and bearings herein being magnetic.
Approved, April 29, 1929.