Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 105 Part 3.djvu/344

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105 STAT. 2228 PUBLIC LAW 102-241 —DEC. 19, 1991 33 USC 59ff. SEC. 52. DECLARATION OF NONNAVIGABILITY FOR PORTIONS OF PELI- CAN ISLAND, TEXAS. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section, those portions of Pehcan Island, Texas, which are not submerged and which are within the following property descriptions, are declared to be nonnavigable waters of the United States: (1) A 1,903.6655 acre tract of land situated in Galveston County, Texas, within the Galveston City Limits and on Pelican Island and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows, with all control referred to the Texas State Plane Coordinate System, Lambert Projection, South Central Zone: Beginning at a United States Corps of Engineers concrete monument with a brass cap, being Corps of Engineers station 40+00 and being located on the southwesterly line of a United States Government Reservation and having Texas State Plane Coordinate Value of X=3,340,636.67, ¥=568,271.91; thence south 57 degrees 00 minutes 04 seconds east, 501.68 feet to a point for corner; thence north 37 degrees 18 minutes 11 seconds east, 2,802.65 feet to a point for corner; thence north 79 degrees 03 minutes 47 seconds east, 798.87 feet to a point for corner; thence north 15 degrees 34 minutes 53 seconds east, 2,200.00 feet to a point for corner located on the north harbor line of Pelican Island; thence along said north harbor line south 63 degrees 00 minutes 45 seconds east 306.04 feet to a point for corner; thence leaving said harbor line south 15 degrees 34 minutes 53 seconds west, at 1,946.05 feet past the northwesterly corner of Seawolf Park, in all a total distance of 2,285.87 feet to the southwesterly corner of Seawolf Park; thence along the southeasterly line of said Seawolf Park, south 74 degrees 25 minutes 07 seconds east, 421.01 feet to a point for corner; thence continuing along said line south 65 degrees 12 minutes 37 seconds east, 93.74 feet to a point for corner; thence south 63 degrees 00 minutes 45 seconds east, 800.02 feet to a point for corner on Galveston Channel Harbor Line; thence along said Galveston Channel Harbor Line as follows: south 15 degrees 14 minutes 01 second west, 965.95 feet to a point, south 74 degrees 26 minutes 20 seconds east, 37.64 feet to a point, south 15 degrees 33 minutes 40 seconds west, 2,779.13 feet to a point, south 36 degrees 18 minutes 31 seconds west, 1,809.93 feet to a point, south 36 degrees 24 minutes 57 seconds west, 190.98 feet to a point, south 40 degrees 37 minutes 46 seconds west, 558.04 feet to a point.