[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3703 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3703

 To validate and confirm a conveyance of certain real property by the 
   Southern Pacific Transportation Company, successor in interest to 
 Southern Pacific Railroad Company, to the Redevelopment Agency of the 
  city of Tulare, a public body, corporate and politic, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 22, 1993

   Mr. Thomas of California introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To validate and confirm a conveyance of certain real property by the 
   Southern Pacific Transportation Company, successor in interest to 
 Southern Pacific Railroad Company, to the Redevelopment Agency of the 
  city of Tulare, a public body, corporate and politic, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. VALIDATION AND CONFIRMATION OF LAND CONVEYANCE.

    The conveyance described in section 2(a) involving certain real 
property in Tulare County, California, forming a part of the right-of-
way granted by the United States to the Southern Pacific Railroad under 
the Act entitled ``An Act granting Lands to aid in the Construction of 
a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas 
to the Pacific Coast'', approved July 27, 1866 (14 Stat. 292), is 
legalized, validated, and confirmed in the Redevelopment Agency of the 
city of Tulare, the grantee in such conveyance, and their successors in 
interest, with respect to all interests of the United States in the 
rights to the real property described in section 2(b).

SEC. 2. CONVEYANCE AND REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED.

    (a) Conveyance.--The conveyance referred to in section 1 was made 
by a Judgment in Condemnation and Final Order of Condemnation of the 
Superior Court in and for the county of Tulare, State of California in 
Action No. 150298 entitled ``Redevelopment Agency of the City of Tulare 
v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company'' filed and entered March 
10, 1992, by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company to the 
Redevelopment Agency of the city of Tulare.
    (b) Real Property Described.--The real property referred to in 
section 1 is a parcel of land in the northwest quarter of section 11, 
township 20 south, range 24 east, Mount Diablo Base and meridian of the 
city of Tulare, county of Tulare, State of California, more 
particularly described as follows:
    Commencing at the intersection of the centerlines of Tulare Avenue 
and ``J'' Street;
    Thence north 10 degrees 20 minutes 00 seconds west 208.54 feet 
along the centerline of ``J'' Street;
    Thence south 79 degrees 39 minutes 36 seconds west 40.00 feet to 
the westerly right-of-way line of ``J'' Street and the TRUE POINT OF 
BEGINNING;
    Thence south 10 degrees 20 minutes 00 seconds east 148.54 feet 
along said westerly right-of-way line to the beginning of a tangent 
curve concave to the northwest having a radius of 20.00 feet, a radial 
line through which bears north 79 degrees 40 minutes 00 seconds east;
    Thence south, southwesterly and westerly along said curve and 
right-of-way line through a central angle of 89 degrees 59 minutes 36 
seconds to the northerly right-of-way line of Tulare Avenue;
    Thence south 79 degrees 39 minutes 36 seconds west 160.89 feet 
along last said right-of-way line;
    Thence leaving said right-of-way line north 10 degrees 20 minutes 
00 seconds west 168.54 feet parallel with the centerline of ``J'' 
Street;
    Thence north 79 degrees 39 minutes 36 seconds east 180.82 feet to 
the POINT OF BEGINNING.
    Containing 0.70 acres.

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