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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS. II. CIT. 30. 1928 .

1025 it should not be so used and maintained, it shall revert to the United States without notice, demand, or other suit or proceeding . The Rights reserved . United States reserves the right to locate and maintain upon the property so transferred any aids to navigation and in any locations thereon the Secretary of Commerce may deem necessary, and to enter and leave the property by the most convenient routes for this purpose .

Frankfort, Mich . SEC . 2 . The Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to convey Quitclaim to Ann byuitcl aim .

deed to the Ann Arbor Railroad Company, having havi ng its pa ng Arbor of ti tract con- ,q

of land principal place of business at Toledo, Ohio, a tract of land lying at. south of the harbor entrance connecting Lak e Michigan and Lake Aux Bocs Sues, at Frankfort, Michigan, deeded to the United States by warranty deed on August 1, 1908, from Charles T . Parker, administrator de bonis non cum testamento a nnexo of Henry Day, deceased, said deed being recorded February 23, 1909, in the reg- ister's office of Benzie County, Michigan, in Liber 39 of Deeds, pages 57 and 58, described therein by metes and bounds, as follows "Beginning at a point on the fence situated on the west side of the Description . buildings of the life-saving station seventy feet measured on said fence from the southerly boundary of the life-saving station reserva- tion ; running westerly one hundred and fifty feet parallel with the south boundary of the reservation ; thence true north one hundred and fifty feet, more or less, to the face of the revetment ; thence easterly along the face of the revetment to its intersection with the fence aforesaid ; thence in a southerly direction along the line of said fence one hundred and fifty feet, more or less, to the place of beginning, being an area of land approximately one hundred and fifty feet square, which land is situated in the southeast quarter northeast quarter section 28, township 26 north, range 16 west, Benzie County, Michigan ; excepting perpetual easements for life- saving purposes granted to the United States of America in certain conveyances bearing dates, respectively, November 4, 1883, and June 3, 1889." The said tract of land to be given in exchange for and dependent Tract fr om Company upon the Ann Arbor Railroad Company conveying to the United to be given in eachange . States the fee-simple title, as evidenced by a warranty deed and abstracts acceptable to the Attorney General of the United States, to the following tract of land lying northerly of the said harbor entrance and described by metes and bounds, as follows :

Descr ipti on. "Starting at the common corner between sections 21, 22, 27, and 28, tow nship 26 nor th, ra nge 16 west, State of Mic higan, runni ng due west along the section line a distance of six hundred and ninety feet ; thence running due south a distance of one thousand one hundred and sixty and thirty-eight one-hundredths feet, to a stake, thence north eighty-six degrees thirty-six minutes west, a distance of two hundred and ninety-one feet to the place of beginning . "Thence running south three degrees twenty-four minutes west, a distance of eighty feet to a stake ; thence north eighty-six degrees thirty-six minutes west, for a distance of two hundred and eighty-one feet to a stake ; thence north three degrees twenty-four minutes east, for a distance of eighty feet to a stake ; thence south eighty- six degrees thirty-six minutes east for a distance of two hundred and eight-one feet to the place of beginning of the land hereby conveyed, containing one-half acre, more or less ."

Parris Island, S .C. SEC . 3 . The Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to trans- Tract s tra nsfe rred to fer to the control of the Secretary of the Navy the parcels of land Secretary of the Navy . hereinafter described and forming portions of the Parris Island Lighthouse Reservation, South Carolina :

Parcel No . 1. Parcel Numbered 1 . The tract of land, together with all buildings and appurtenances, which was formerly the site of the Parris Island