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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 Pa-
cific Railroad Company, to the Redevelopment Agency of the city of
Tulare, a public body, corporate and politic, and for other purposes.
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
A BILL
To validate and confirm a conveyance of certain real property
by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, suc-
cessor 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 Representa-
tives 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, form-
ing a part of the right-of-way granted by the United
States to the Southern Pacific Railroad under the Act en-
titled ‘‘An Act granting Lands to aid in the Construction
of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the States of Mis-
souri and Arkansas to the Pacific Coast’’, approved July
27, 1866 (14 Stat. 292), is legalized, validated, and con-
firmed 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 prop-
erty 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 par-
ticularly 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 de-
grees 20 minutes 00 seconds west 168.54 feet parallel with
the centerline of ‘‘J’’ Street;