Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 55 Part 2.djvu/715

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1589 55 STAT.] GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA-NAVAL AND AIR BASES-MAR. 27,1941 of ninety-nine years commencing on the date hereof, for the purposes specified in the aforesaid Notes and with the rights, powers and authority and on the terms and conditions contained in the afore- said Agreement (except such parts thereof as relate specifically to territory other than British Guiana), which Agreement (except as aforesaid) shall be regarded as incorporated in and made part of this lease. 2. The exact metes and bounds of the property generally described in the Schedule hereto shall with all convenient speed be established by Survey conducted by the United States of America, and shall then be described and delineated in a document or documents and a plan or plans in duplicate, which, when agreed and signed on behalf of the parties hereto, shall supersede the description contained in the Sched- ule hereto and the plan[s] annexed hereto. One copy of each such document and plan shall be retained by the United States of America and the other shall be deposited with the Governor of British Guiana. 3. The Government of the United States will not use the said property, or permit the use thereof, except for the purposes specified in the aforesaid Notes and Agreement. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF the parties have hereto set their hands the day and the year first above written. SCHEDULE. (1) Beginning at a point on the right (east) bank of the Demerara River one thousand yards southwest of the road junction at Hyde Park; thence about one and one-half miles along the meandering line generally parallel to, and about one thousand yards southwest of, the unimproved road running generally southeast from Hyde Park; thence northeast about ninety-five hundred feet; thence northwest about eight thousand feet to a point fifteen-hundred feet east of the Demerara River; thence generally southwest about forty-five hundred feet to the said unimproved road; thence northwest along (but ex- cluding) the said road to the right (east) bank of the Demerara River; thence southwest along the bank of the river to the point of beginning, the entire tract containing approximately two and one-half square miles. (Reference: Plan of the Sea Coast of British Guiana, in two sheets, 1925.) (2) Beginning at the intersection of the shoreline of the east bank of the Essequibo River with latitude 6° 29' 14" north at a point marked "Quarry End" as shown on British Admiralty chart No. 2783 published the 26th September, 1929, and entitled "Essequibo River Amarikuru Island to Bartica," proceed in a due east direction approximately 8,000 feet; thence due south a distance of approx- imately 8,000 feet; thence due west a distance of approximately 5,800 feet to the north bank of Makauria Creek; thence in a northwesterly direction along the north bank of Makauria Creek to the intersection of the said north bank with the shoreline of the east bank of the Es- sequibo River; thence in a generally northerly direction along the shoreline of the east bank of the Essequibo River to the point of be- ginning, the entire tract containing approximately 1,400 acres. 278941o-42-PT . 11 -45