Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 47 Part 2.djvu/882

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2484 October 27, 1931. PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 6" day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary of State. HERBERT HOOVER [No. 1971] TRANSFERRING TO THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII TITLE TO CERTAIN PUBLIC PROPERTY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION ~-:~~le. WHE~EAS section 91 of the 8;ct of Congress approved Ap~ 30, . Stst.utory suthorizs- 1900, entItled "AN ACT To proVIde a government for the TerrItory hO~ol. 31, p. 159; Vol. of Hawaii" (31 Stat. 141 -159), as amended by section 7 of the act 36,p .447 . approved May 27, 1910 (36 Stat. 447), authorizes the transfer to the Yol. 30, p. 750. Vol 36, p. 447. Description of trans- ferred ares. Vol. 45 . p. 2941. Territory of Hawaii of the title to all such public property ceded and transferred to the United States by the Republic of Hawaii under the joint resolution of annexation, approved July 71 1898 (30 Stat. 750), and in the possession and use of said Territory tor public purposes or re1V~ed for any such purposes; and EREAS certain lands of the United States within the area hereinafter described are re~uired for certain public purposes; NOW, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by section 7 of the act of Congress approved May 27, 1910 (36 Stat. 447), do hereby transfer to the Territory of Hawaii the title to all lands owned by the United States in the Territory of Hawaii lying within the area described as follows: That certain area of land situate at Nawiliwili, in the district of Puna, island of Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, thus bounded and de- scribed: Beginning at an iron bolt in solid rock at the north corner of this parcel of land, said iron bolt in solid rock being also the initial point of the tract described in Presidential Proclamation No. 1830, dated February 27, 1928, and the coordinates of said point of be~g referred to Government survey triangulation station "Nawiliwili" being 1,604.58 feet south and 627.86 feet west, as shown on Govern- ment Survey Registered Map No. 2856, and running by true azi- muths: 1. 327 0 36' 00"- 309.00 feet along said tract described in Presi- dential Proclamation No. 1830, dated February 27, 1928; 2. 74 0 17' 50"-1,044.45 feet; 3. 209 0 00' 00"- 22.70 feet along low-water mark, as described in deed of Henry Waterhouse Trust Co., Ltd., trustees under the will and of the estate of Kaleipua Kanoa, et al. (Final Order of Condemnation), dated December 15, 1920, recorded in book 581, page 171;