580
PUBLIC LAW 85-258-SEPT. 2, 1957
[71
ST A T.
Public Law 85-258 September 2, 1957 [H. R. 499]
Tarrant and Wise Counties, T e x. Conveyance.
AN ACT
To direct the Secretary of the Navy or his designee to convey a two thousand four hundred seventy-seven and forty-three one-hundredths acre tract of land, avigation, and sewer easements in Tarrant and Wise Counties, Texas, situated about twenty miles northwest of the city of Fort Worth, Texas, to the State of Texas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy or his designee is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, without consideration, to the State of Texas all right, title, and interest of the United States, except as retained in this Act, together with all buildings, improvements thereon with related personal property, all appurtenances, runways, and utilities belonging or appertaining thereto, of the former United States Marine Corps Air Station, Eagle Mountain Lake, Texas, as shown on maps on file with the Department of the Navy, Bureau of Yards and Docks, in and to a 2,235-acre tract of land out of and comprising lands acquired by the United States in condemnation proceedings in civil actions numbered 432, and numbered 461, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth division, and judgments rendered therein by said court as recorded in the deed records of Tarrant County, Texas, on January 21, 1943, in volume 1548, page 452; February 11, 1943, in volume 1552, page 348; May 10, 1943, m volume 1566, page 347; and May 11, 1943, in volume 1567, page 73; also judgment rendered and deed recorded on March 1, 1956, in volume 204, page 107, in the deed records of Wise County, Texas; plus an additional 241.46 acres of land with avigation easements conveyed to the United States by the Tarrant County Control and Improvement District 1, through exchange of lands made December 21, 1954, the deeds being recorded on March 16, 1955, in volume 2837, page 195; volume 2836, page'581, and volume 2837, page 183, of the deed records of Tarrant County, Texas. The complete 2,477.43-acre tract of land, the avigation easements, and a sewer easement, to be conveyed to the State of Texas are more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a concrete monument which is the southeast corner of the former United States Marine Corps Air Station, Eagle Mountain Lake, Texas, which monument is south 0 degrees 18 minutes east 3900 feet from the southeast corner of the P. H. Pope survey; thence north 0 degrees 18 minutes west 10,407.4 feet to a corner in the south right-of-way line of the C. R. I. and P. Railroad for the most easterly northeast corner of this tract; thence north 63 degrees 15 minutes west 1990.9 feet to the Wise and Tarrant County line, for the northerly corner of this tract; thence north 89 degrees 20 minutes west 4766.3 feet along the boundary of Wise and Tarrant Counties, to the west line of the Dewees and the east line of the C. R. Huff survey; thence north 0 degre'es 30 minutes west, along the east line of the C. R. Huff survey, a distance of 646 feet to a point; thence north 38 degrees 16 minutes east, 1338 feet to a point; thence along the arc of a curve, concave to the right, having a radius of 930.34 feet, a distance of 1196 feet to the west right-of-way line of the C. R. L and P. Railroad; thence north 54 degrees 17 minutes west, 185 feet along said right-of-way line to a point; thence south 89 degrees 20 minutes west 654 feet to a point; thence south 38 degrees 16 minutes west 1741 feet to a point on the east line of the C. R. Huff survey; thence north 0 degrees 30 minutes west, along said east line of the Huff survey, 40 feet to a point; thence south 38 degrees 16 minutes west 967
�
