An Act to authorize certain easements, and for other purposes
PL 82-143 (H.R.4024), enacted 09/13/1951

65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 143—SEPT. 13, 1951 
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Approved September 13, 1951. 
Public Law 143 
CHAPTER 382 
AN ACT 
To authorize certain easements, and for other purposes. 
September 13,1951 
[H. R. 4024] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Navy is authorized to grant and convey without reimbursement 
and on such terms and conditions as he determines to be in the public 
interest, to the following grantees the following easements in and over 
land, description by metes and bounds in eacli case being on file in 
the Navy Department: 
(a) l o the county of Kleberg, Texas, a permanent easement for 
public highway purposes over a strip of land ten feet wide and approx-
imately three thousand seven hundred and sixty feet long on the south 
side of the outlying field of the naval auxiliary air station, Kingsville, 
Texas; 
(b) To the city and county of San Francisco, California, a per-
manent easement for the construction and maintenance of two 10-inch 
sludge force mains in and under two strips of land eight feet wide, 
and twenty-five and one hundred and twenty-five feet long, respec-
tively, within the lands of the United States Marine Corps Depot 
of Supplies, Islais Creek, San Francisco, California; 
(c) To the city of San Diego, California, a permanent easement for 
public highway purposes over a strip of land fifteen feet wide and 
approximately nine hundred and sixty-two feet long adjacent to the 
east boundary of San Pasqual Street and on the west side of the Sachem 
housing project (No. Cal-4037-N), San Diego, California; and 
(d) To the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, a perma-
nent easement for telephone line purposes over two strips of land 
ten feet wide and aggregating approximately six hundred and six 
feet in length over and across the lands of the naval training and 
distribution center at Camp Elliott, San Diego County, California. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to grant and convey 
to the Kansas City Power and Light Company a permanent easement 
for the erection and maintenance of overhead transmission lines across 
and over an irregular shaped parcel of land within the boundaries of 
the Naval Industrial Reserve Aircraft Plant, Kansas City, Missouri, 
containing approximately two and sixty-seven one-hundredths acres, 
a metes and bounds description of which is on file in the Department 
of the Navy, the terms and conditions of the grant and conveyance 
to include the payment therefor of the fair market value thereof as 
determined by the Secretary of the Navy. 
Approved September 13, 1951. 
Navy Department. 
Granting of certain 
easements. 
Kleberg County, 
Tex. 
San Francisco, Calif. 
San Diego, Calif. 
Pacific Telephone 
and Telegraph Co. 
Kansas City Power 
and Light Co.