An Act to authorize the conveyance of certain lands within Caven Point Terminal and Ammunition Loading Pier, New Jersey, to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
PL 84-412 (S.1261), enacted 02/18/1956

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and subsections (a) and (b) of section 6, of the Poliomyelitis Vaccina-
tion Assistance Act of 1955 (Public Law 377, Eighty-fourth Con- 
l^^l^c^jj^'^note. 
gress) are each amended by striking out "February 15, 1956" and 
inserting in lieu thereof "tlie close of June 30, 1957". 
Approved February 15, 1956. 
Public Law 412 
CHAPTER 59 
A N A C T 
February 18, 1956 
To authorize the conveyance of certain lands within Caveii Point Terminal 3nd 
[S. 1261] 
Ammunition Loading Pier, New Jersey, to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Ho'me of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress tissemhled^ That the Secretary pike^kLthorftJ."'"" 
of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim 
conveyance." 
deed to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, a body corporate and 
politic organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the 
State of New Jersey, for street or road purposes and other purposes 
connected therewith, or related thereto, including restaurants, gasoline 
stations, rest rooms, parking areas, maintenance shops, and storage 
areas for maintenance equipment, whether operated by the New Jersey 
Turnpike Authority or others, all right, title, and interest of the 
United States, except as otherwise reserved in this Act, in and to a 
certain parcel of land within Caven Point Terminal and Ammunition 
Loading Pier, New Jersey, situated in the city of Jersey (^ity, county 
of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, and more particularly described 
as follows: 
Parcel K-30A-2 as designated on a map filed or about to be filed in 
the Office of the Kegister of Deeds of said county, entitled: "New Jer-
sey Turnpike Authority, New Jersey Turnjjike, Newark l^ay-Hudson 
County Extension, Parcel Property Map". 
Said Parcel R-3()A-2 including specifically all the land and prem-
ises lying within the proposed lines of the New Jersey Turnpike, 
Newark Bay-Hudson County extension, and described as follows: 
Beginning at a point in the division line of lands now or formerly 
of the United States Army, and lands now or formerly of Lehigh 
Valley Railroad Company,' said point being a point common to lots 
IB and lA; thence (1) north 37 degrees 13 minutes 52 seconds east 
continuing along last-mentioned division line 195.43 feet to a point; 
thence (2) north 79 degrees 24 minutes 23 seconds east continuing 
along aforesaid last-mentioned division line 440.75 feet to an angle 
point in said division line; thence (3) north 71 degrees 17 minutes 
52 seconds east, continuing along said division line 444.40 feet to a 
point in the northwesterly boundary of lands now or formerly of 
Tankport Terminals, Incorporated; thence (4) southerly along the 
division line between lands of the United States Army, and lands now 
or formerly of Tankport Terminals, Incorporated, said division line 
being a curve to the left having a ratlins of 441.68 feet, an arc distance 
of 384.72 feet to a point; thence (5) running along the proposed 
right-of-way line of the Newark Bay-Hudson County Extension of 
the New Jersey Turnpike, the following courses and distances, said 
right-of-way line being a curve to the left having a radius of 374.27 
feet, an arc distance of 120.27 feet to a point; thence (6) south 21 
degrees 13 minutes 47 seconds west, a distance of 134.93 feet to a point; 
thence (7) following a curve to the right having a radius of 531.44 
feet, an arc distance of 578.18 feet to a point; thence (8) south 83 
degrees 33 minutes 52 seconds west, distant 136.69 feet to a point; 
thence (9) along the arc of a curve to the left having a radius of 
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493.34 feet, an arc distance of 54.39 feet to a point in the line dividing 
lot 4C and lot l A ; thence (10) nortli 33 degrees 13 minutes 08 seconds 
west, a distance of 273.59 feet to the point of beginning, containing 
396,913.0 square feet more or less, or 9.11 acres more or less, being 
also designated as part of lots lA, ID, 2, 3C in block 1500, and part 
of Jot ID in block 1494 on the tax map of the city of Jersey City, 
together with any and all right of direct access to and from the afore-
mentioned extension of the New Jersey Turnpike constructed or to be 
constructed on land hereinabove described. 
SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be made subject 
to (a) the condition that the New Jersey Turnpike Authority pay 
into the Treasury of the United States, in return for the land conveyed, 
an amount equal to the fair market value of such land to be determined 
by the Secretary of the Army after appraisal of such land, and (b) 
such other conditions, limitations, or reservations as the Secretary 
may deem necessary to assure that the use of such land by the New 
Jersey Turnpike Authority, its successors, contractors, lessees, or 
assigns, shall not interfere with the operation of the aforementioned 
installation and to assure that the interest of the United States shall 
be protected. 
SEC. 3. All mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the lands 
authorized to be conveyed by this Act shall be reserved to the United 
States. 
SEC. 4. There shall be further reserved to the United States in the 
conveyance of the above-described lands, rights-of-way for water lines, 
sewer lines, telephone and telegraph lines, power lines, and such other 
utilities which may now exist or which may become necessary to the 
operation of the Caven Point Terminal and Ammunition Loading 
Pier. Any such utility crossings required by the United States subse-
quent to the opening of the Newark Bay-Hudson County extension 
of the New Jersey Turnpike to traffic shall be installed underground 
and at the expense of the United States. 
SEC. 5. In executing the deed of conveyance authorized by this Act, 
the Secretary of the Army shall include specific provisions covering 
the reservations contained in sections 3 and 4 of this Act. 
SEC. 6. In the event actual construction of such street or road and 
other construction connected therewith or related thereto is not com-
menced within two years from the date of enactment of this Act, or 
in the event such property shall cease to be used for street or road 
purposes and other purposes connected therewith or related thereto 
for a period of two consecutive years, then title to such land, including 
all improvements made by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, shall 
immediately revert to the United States without any payment by the 
United States of compensation therefor. 
SEC. 7. The provisions of section 601 of the Act of Congress 
approved September 28, 1951 (Public Law 155, Eighty-second Con-
gress), shall not apply to the conveyance authorized by this Act. 
Approved February 18, 1956. 
Public Law 413 
February 18, 1956 
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CHAPTER 60 
AN ACT 
To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the sale of the Port Newark 
Army Base to the city of Newark, New Jersey, and for other purposes" 
approved June 20, 1936, as amended. 
P o r t 
N e w a r k 
Army Base. 
Sale to* Newark, 
N . J . 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That in view of the