54STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 123-APR . 22, 1940 tion under a lease that expires on March 31, 1948: Provided, That Provtso. ar the areas held under said leases, upon the expiration of the terms der leases. thereof, become the property of the United States in fee simple. Parcel 4. A parcel of land between the United States bulkhead line and the United States pierhead line, lying southerly and adja- cent to the present Navy pier in the city of San Diego, California, containing an area of two and seventy-seven one-hundredths acres, more or less: Provided, That said parcels 1 to 4, inclusive, shall be ses and purposes, used for military purposes, and particularly for the purpose of parcels 1to 4. establishing and maintaining thereon piers, landings, buildings, and structures to be used by the United States and reserving to the said city of San Diego perpetual easements in said parcels for the laying and maintaining of underground public utilities, such as sewers, drains, water mains, gas, electric, and power lines across said parcels wherever necessary or convenient. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Navy is further authorized, on behalf of the United States, to accept from the city of San Diego, Cali- fornia, without cost to the United States, all right, title, and interest of the said city in and to the following-described parcels of land situated in the city of San Diego, California: Parcel 1. A strip of municipal tidelands four hundred and thirty and five-tenths feet in width and containing fourteen and fifty-one one-hundredths acres, more or less, in the city of San Diego, Cali- fornia, lying northerly of and adjacent to the northerly line of the United States destroyer base for military uses of the United States and particularly to be used by the Navy Department in connection with and as part of the naval destroyer base in the city of San Diego; Parcel 2. All land lying between the high-water mark and the westerly line of proposed Harbor Drive adjacent to the easterly boundary of the destroyer base, in the city of San Diego, California, excluding that portion of the destroyer base embraced within the pro- posed Harbor Drive on the northerly and southerly sides of Bay Front Street and to the east of proposed Harbor Drive, containing an area of eight acres, more or less; Parcel 3. All that portion of Balboa Park, in the city of San Diego, California, in pueblo lots 1136 and 1143 of the pueblo lands of the city of San Diego, California, adjoining the southeasterly, south- erly, and southwesterly boundaries of the Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, containing an area of thirty-two and ninety-three one- hundredths acres, more or less; Parcel 4. A triangular area embracing portions of lots 2 to 11, inclusive, in West Atlantic Street Addition and a triangular area embracing the unnumbered block in Middletown, lots 7 to 12, inclu- sive, of block 231; and lots 7 to 12, inclusive, of block 236, in the city of San Diego, California, adjoining the northerly and easterly portions of the athletic field of the Marine Corps base, San Diego, California, containing an area of two acres, more or less. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Navy is further authorized, on behalf of the United States, to accept from the city of San Diego, California, without cost to the United States, all right, title, and interest of the said city in and to such other areas abutting the naval properties at San Diego, California, as will bring the exterior boundaries thereof to the adjoining boundary of the proposed Harbor Drive as now or hereafter may be located. SEC. 4 . The acceptance by the Secretary of the Navy of the transfer Federa rights re or quitclaim by the city of San Diego of any of the lands herein men- tioned shall not be construed as a relinquishment by the United 147
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