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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 105 -FEB . 21, 1942 [CHAPTER 105] February 21, 1942 [S. 1133] [Public Law 460] Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion. Conveyance to. AN ACT To authorize the transfer of lands from the United States to the Maryland- National Capital Park and Planning Commission under certain conditions, and to accept title to another tract to be transferred to the United States. 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer and convey to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, a body corporate, created by chapter 448 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1927, as amended, under such conditions as may be approved by the said Secretary, without cost to the United States, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following parcels of land, situated in Montgomery County, Maryland, metes and bounds, descriptions of which are on file in the Navy Department and with the said Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission: Parcels designated "A" and "B" of a plat entitled "Plan Showing Park Lands To Be Required For Rock Creek Park, Unit No. 3, Mont- gomery County, Maryland (Part of U. S. Naval Medical Center)" as filed among the records of said Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, plan 2217-R 2, said parcels being more par- ticularly described as follows: Parcel "A": Eighteen and three hundred and eighty-seven thou- sandths acres, more or less, acquired by the United States of America from Paul Henderson and wife by deed dated November 8, 1938, recorded among the land records of Montgomery County, Maryland, in liber 719, folio 49. Parcel "B": One thousand two hundred and seventy-four ten-thou- sandths of an acre, more or less, being part of a tract containing forty-two and five-tenths acres, conveyed to the United States of America by the Columbia Park Company by deed dated December 14, 1938, recorded among the land records of Montgomery County, Mary- land, in liber 721, folio 331. Parcels designated "A", "B", and "C" as shown on plan 2269-1, entitled "Right-of-Way Plan of Jones Bridge Road (United States Naval Medical Center, Montgomery County, Maryland)" of the rec- ords of said commission, said parcels being more particularly described as follows: Parcel "A": Three and five one-thousandths acres, more or less, being a strip of land fifty feet wide at the southern edge of the parcel acquired by the United States of America from George E. Hamilton and wife by deed dated November 9, 1938, recorded among the land records of Montgomery County, Maryland, in liber 719, folio 53. Parcel "B": One and five hundred and twenty-seven one-thou- sandths acres, more or less, being a strip of land comprising the southern edges of the parcels acquired by the United States of Amer- ica. from the Columbia Park Company and Ellen MacPherson Legg by deeds dated December 14, 1938, and January 27, 1939, recorded among the land records of Montgomery County, Maryland, in liber 721, folio 331, and liber 723, folio 477, respectively. Parcel "C": Nine hundred and ninety-five one-thousandths of an acre, more or less, being an irregular strip of land near the southern edges of the lands acquired by the United States of America from George E. Hamilton and wife, Margaret Coolidge, and Ellen Mac- Pherson Legg by deeds dated November 9, 1938, December 8, 1938, and January 27, 1939, recorded among the land records of Montgomery County, Maryland, in liber 719, folio 53, liber 724, folio 404, and liber 723, folio 477, respectively; [56 STAT.